If you've ever wanted to talk to your favorite fictional cyborg or Hawkins pizza joint, you'll be happy to hear that your wish has been granted. But please, don't annoy random office workers with prank calls.
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00:00If you've ever wanted to talk to your favorite fictional cyborg or pizza joint employee,
00:04you'll be happy to hear that your wishes have been granted. But please don't annoy random
00:08office workers with prank calls.
00:11In Season 3 of Stranger Things, it's revealed that 618-625-8313 is the home phone number
00:16of Brett Gellman's Murray. And if viewers actually called it, they would be treated
00:20to a fairly long, though not exactly friendly, message.
00:24Do me a favor. Hang up. And never call here again. You are a parasite.
00:31Season 4 followed suit with the Surfer Boy pizza number, 805-45-PIZZA, which led to the
00:37same rambling message Argyle answers the phone with in the show.
00:41We make everything fresh here at Surfer Boy except for our pineapple, which comes from
00:44a can. But I still highly recommend slapping some juicy pineapple on your pie.
00:49Another marketing stunt from Stranger Things included the number for Hawkins Power & Light,
00:53which revealed hints about the show.
00:55Here at Hawkins Power & Light, we are committed to cultivating a perception of excellence.
01:01That number is no longer associated with Stranger Things, though, as it's now connected to a
01:05medical supply company.
01:072019's Terminator Dark Fate altered the franchise's timeline to kill off John Connor, leaving
01:12his mother Sarah to pick up the pieces. Sarah eventually finds the Terminator that killed
01:16her son, but he's no longer a mindless killing machine. Instead, he goes by the name Carl
01:21and lives with a woman and her son in Laredo, Texas, where he owns a drapery business.
01:25In one scene, we clearly see Carl's van and phone number emblazoned on the side. And for
01:30a while, you could hear a message from the Terminator himself if you called it in the
01:33real world.
01:34Hi, this is Carl's Draperies. We have the best drapes and curtains anywhere in Texas.
01:40I can guarantee you that.
01:42After apologizing for not being there to take the call, the message concluded with a classic
01:46sign-off.
01:47Until then, hasta la vista.
01:51Unfortunately, the number is no longer assigned, but maybe it still exists in another timeline.
01:57The 2021 political satire Don't Look Up is about a massive comet hurtling towards Earth
02:02while feckless politicians pretend there is no imminent danger.
02:05One scene features a public service announcement in which Dr. Randall Mindy explains that the
02:09Federal Emergency Management Agency has established the phone number to offer peace of mind to
02:13anyone who calls, so long as their existing BASH cellular customers.
02:17If you call 25463-COMET, you'll get the BASH hotline, which opens with the following message.
02:22Thank you for calling the BASH hotline. Due to violent global destruction caused by the
02:28comet, we're experiencing a higher-than-normal call volume.
02:32It then continues,
02:33Please stay on the line and a live representative will be with you shortly. Live representative
02:37as in still living, so, you know, it may be a minute.
02:41That message is followed by 15 minutes of music and ads.
02:44On the Big Bang Theory prequel series Young Sheldon, the title character revealed his
02:48home phone number on multiple occasions. And as it turned out, that number, 409-356-6049,
02:55was entirely real.
02:56When the show was on, fans could call it and hear a message from the main cast members
03:00on the Cooper family answering machine. Mary, George, Georgie, and Missy all offer typical
03:04answering machine banter, while Sheldon has a more unique preoccupation.
03:08I will not be calling you back. Unless you're Professor Proton, in which case I cannot believe
03:13I missed your call.
03:15The number stopped working for a period when the show ended in 2024, but now that the spinoff
03:19series Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage is on the air, the Cooper family number is
03:23active once again.
03:25The Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul revealed the backstory of attorney Jimmy McGill,
03:29who changes his name to Saul Goodman partly because it's catchier for advertising.
03:33Throughout the show, Saul produces several commercials and park bench ads, with his phone
03:36number clearly visible in many of them. And in the real world, a billboard was erected
03:40in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the phone number 505-842-5662 as part of a marketing
03:46campaign for the show. As of 2025, the number is still active, and it features a message
03:50from Saul promoting his law services, and asking you to leave your information at the
03:54beat.
03:55I'm the law guy, your law guy. That's right, Saul Goodman, attorney at law.
04:01Originally, the message was from Jimmy McGill as Jimmy McGill, but it eventually changed
04:06to reflect the character's evolution into Saul. And that wasn't the only number from
04:09the show that fans could call, as there were also ones for the character of Nacho, the
04:13law firm Davis & Main, and the salon where Saul kept a backroom office.
04:18In the Season 3 episode of The Office, entitled Women's Appreciation, Phyllis is flashed in
04:22the office parking lot, which leads Pam to then draw the offender. Her sketch looks uncannily
04:26like Dwight without his glasses, and includes the header, This Man is a Pervert. Viewers
04:30were able to join in on the fun when it turned out that the number listed below the sketch
04:34was 100% legit.
04:36Women can't have fun if they don't feel safe.
04:41If you called the number while the show was still running, you would get a message from
04:44WB Jones Heating & Air Conditioning that included advice about how to set your thermostat for
04:48the winter and summer. This was followed by about 30 seconds of music before the call
04:52disconnected. As of 2025, though, the number now reaches a sex hotline that doesn't appear
04:57to have any connection with The Office.
05:00Throughout all 15 seasons of Supernatural, Dean Winchester maintained many cell phones,
05:04but his primary one always included a memorable voicemail note.
05:07This is Dean's other, other cell, so you must know what to do.
05:12In multiple episodes, Dean's number is clearly displayed as 866-907-3235. You can call that
05:19number today, but all you'll get is a sex hotline that happens to open with the exact
05:23same message as Dwight's number from The Office. But if you called it when Supernatural was
05:27on the air, you would be treated to audio clips of Dean from the show.
05:31This is Dean Winchester. This is an emergency. Leave a message. If you're calling about 11-283,
05:37please page me with your coordinates.
05:40Supernatural fans know November 22, 1983 to be quite the significant date, as it was the
05:45day that Dean's mother, Mary, was killed.
05:48With its famous catchphrase that asks, who you gonna call?, it makes perfect sense that
05:51Ghostbusters would have a phone number that fans could actually call. In the original
05:551984 film, the Busters make a commercial that features the number 216-555-2368, and,
06:01like most 555 numbers, it didn't work in the real world.
06:05But then, once the film became a hit, director Ivan Reitman decided to try out a marketing
06:09campaign that changed that number to 800-654-1984. That would lead to an audio message from Dan
06:15Aykroyd and Bill Murray.
06:16Alas, that number is now defunct, but a new one was incorporated into the 2016 female-led
06:21Ghostbusters film.
06:22The marketing campaign included the number for the Ghostbusters Hotline, which connected
06:26callers to Chris Hemsworth's Kevin. Another number was provided for the original film's
06:3030th anniversary Blu-ray release. It's now defunct as well, but calling it when it was
06:34active connected you to the Ghostbusters secretary, Janine.
06:38Ghostbusters, what do you want?
06:41In the first episode of Squid Game, Song Gi-hun receives a card from the salesman containing
06:45a phone number. If someone calls that number on the show, that means that they're opting
06:49into the game. When it turned out that that number was legitimate, thousands of viewers
06:53decided to get in on the fun.
06:55Alas, in the real world, that number wasn't associated with Squid Game. It led to an office
06:59worker in Seoul named Hannah Kim. Kim and others received thousands of calls and texts
07:03essentially asking them,
07:05"'Is this Squid Game?'
07:06To prevent that from happening anymore, Netflix went ahead and edited the scene to remove
07:09the real number.
07:11In the 2004 Scrubs episode, My Malpractical Decision, Dr. Turk gets a new phone number
07:16that he's incredibly proud of because it spells out 9-1-6-CALL-TURK.
07:19"'Baby, if you call Turk, you get Turk. You got Turk.'"
07:25When viewers called the number themselves, they weren't disappointed, as they were treated
07:28to a message from Donald Faison saying,
07:30"'I couldn't get to the phone right now, but you called Turk. And that's a great thing,
07:34I'll tell you that much.'"
07:35The message also revealed the show's new time slot and asked viewers to keep watching. The
07:39number no longer works, but when it was active, some callers were lucky enough to speak to
07:43a live member of the cast or crew. Including Ken Jenkins, as Dr. Kelso, who answered,
07:47"'You've called Turk. Dr. Kelso speaking.'"
07:50In the Gilmore Girls Season 5 premiere, Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller, Luke has a new phone
07:55number which viewers could call to hear a voice message recorded by Scott Patterson.
07:58He wasn't in character as Luke, though, as he instead encouraged callers to donate to
08:02the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino
08:07let Patterson decide what he would record, so he chose a charity that he supported.
08:11While Gilmore Girls ended its initial run in 2007, the phone number actually remains
08:15active and people continue to call. The person on the other end is a Connecticut electrician
08:20named Matt, who sometimes pretends to be Patterson for fun.
08:23"'Use your cell phone!'
08:24"'Uh, I don't have a cell phone.'"
08:27Early in the 2003 movie Bruce Almighty, Bruce gets several messages on his beeper asking
08:32him to call a number that he doesn't recognize. He does everything he can to avoid this annoying
08:36intrusion before finally calling and getting in touch with none other than God.
08:40"'So come on down, or we'll just keep vaping you.'"
08:44The phone number didn't include an area code, and as it turned out, you could pretty much
08:48add any area code into it and end up with a valid phone number, which resulted in real
08:52people fielding calls all over the country. One man in Florida received 20 calls an hour
08:56with people asking to speak to God. Similar stories popped up as the film's popularity
09:01grew, so Universal Pictures ended up issuing an apology and altered the number in subsequent
09:05home video and television releases.
09:08The 1999 movie Magnolia features a couple of phone numbers that were active when the film
09:12was out in theaters, and viewers could call them to hear some interesting messages.
09:16During one scene, Philip Seymour Hoffman's character calls 818-775-3993, and if you dialed
09:22those digits in real life, you would hear a woman asking you to leave a message at the tone.
09:26If you call it now, though, you'll just get a recording asking you to enter a number.
09:30Is this, um, 818-775-3993?
09:36The other number comes from Frank T.J. Mackie's infomercial and features digits whose corresponding
09:41letters spell out TAME HER. Calling that one led to a message recorded by Tom Cruise offering
09:45Mackie's Seduce and Destroy program details. The number is no longer connected to Magnolia,
09:50but instead, believe it or not, a sex chat line.
09:54Seduce and Destroy produces an instant, money-back-guaranteed
09:58trance-like state that will get you this naughty sauce.