In the film Small Soldiers, the protagonist's love interest is trying to call the police to help with the army of killer toys.I'm hung over! My knees are killin' me and if you're going to pull this shit at least you could've said you were from the Yankees. Is that you, Tolbert?! This isn't very funny, you know. In Killer Klowns from Outer Space Officer Curtis Mooney dismisses a sudden barrage of calls from the entire town reporting Klown attacks and a radio call from his direct superior requesting him to call backup as the Terenzi Brothers (somehow) convincing the entire town to prank him so he will decide to quit being a police officer.Gilligan Cut to him interviewing one Mr Staker whose swan really did run away. Staker, Nicholas gets really angry and loses it ( "Piss taker? Come on!"). When the caller introduces himself as P.I. Moreover, Nicholas stays at a hotel called "Swan" and his room is called "Castle". To be honest, reporting a missing swan that ran away from a swan castle sounds ridiculous. He was ridiculed in a local newspaper and became a bit of a laughing stock. In Hot Fuzz, Angel thinks that a call from Peter Ian Staker (P.I.Staker, to explain why), is a prank call.When the police arrive, Rooney is gone, so they assume Jeannie was prank calling and arrest her. Played straight when Jeannie calls 911 after she finds Dean Rooney snooping around her house.So it's a prank call mistaken for Mistaken for Prank Call. Then, as Rooney stammers an apology to Sloane's father, a subversion occurs: we discover that it was Ferris' buddy Cameron who was making the phone call. So he insults the "father", demanding that he bring the grandmother's body up to the school for confirmation. Knowing that Sloane is Ferris Bueller's girlfriend, and that Ferris is skipping out on school, Rooney assumes that Ferris is pranking him. In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Rooney gets a phone call from Sloane Peterson's father saying that her grandmother has died.They had not believed the reports of the spiders but believed Harlarn's theory that the assailants were extraterrestrial in nature. Adding further insult to injury, at the end of the film the police finally arrive. Made all the more painful considering he had to fight past the spiders, climb on to the roof and ascend to the top of a radio tower in order to get a signal to make the call. In Eight Legged Freaks, Chris has this happening to him after he calls to report the town being overrun by the giant mutant spiders.The dispatcher doesn't believe him, especially after confirming that there had already been a "prank" fire alarm from the same location. In Die Hard, John McClane uses the radio he steals from the villains to contact the police on an emergency frequency and call for help.The police officer receiving the call dismisses this as a crank call. In Andhadhun, someone calls the police saying that Inspector Manohar was the one who dumped Mr.To resolve the issue, and verify his real identity, Shepherd calls her again, but tells her to immediately hang up and call the White House telephone operator to be put through to him.
This is directly followed by an Oh, Crap! moment.
Shepherd: Uh, this isn't Richard- This used to be easier. May involve a person with an unfortunate Real Joke Name. If it's a 911 call, it can overlap with Police Are Useless. Related to Cassandra Truth You Have to Believe Me!, Your Costume Needs Work, Funny Phone Misunderstanding, The Operators Must Be Crazy. Though if they are lucky, the caller will realize what went wrong and try again. They will either hang up without any further words, or will angrily snark at you, and then hang up.Ĭan result in an Oh, Crap! moment if the called persons notice their mistake afterwards, fearing that they may have insulted someone important, or that they screwed up the opportunity to accept an unique offer. They will think that you are just a prankster with a sick/unfunny sense of humour. Well, the persons called will simply refuse to believe you. And because of the same reason, the person at the other end has to take your word for it.īut what if your situation is a truly bizarre one? What if it is very hard to convince other people, that Ninja Pirate Zombie Robots really exist, and that a group of them is in your house right now? Or what if you are a celebrity, and the message you want to deliver is: "I want you for my next album/movie/whatever!"? Because the person on the other end of the line can't see you, it is often necessary to explain who you are and in which situation you are right now. Phone calls can often be quite tricky things. Gilligan's Island, "You've Been Disconnected"Ī Prank Call is a prank call.
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