Fictitious telephone number

In the I Love Lucy episode (And the Series premiere) "The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub" (1951), Lucy dials up Sam Zabaglione, at Plaza 52099 (755-2099). In 1963, Hawkshaw Hawkins recorded "Lonesome 7-7203", which would properly appear in a directory as LOnesome 7-7203. In 1966, Wilson Pickett recorded "634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)", which also appears in the soundtrack of the movie Blues Brothers 2000. It has been covered by multiple artists including Tina Turner and Ry Cooder. In the January 9, 1976 episode of Sanford and Son "Can You Chop This", Fred Sanford was promoting Whopper Choppers and asked callers to call the number 555-0179 in both the English and Spanish languages. In 1979, the B-52's recorded the song "6060-842." The fictional exchange prefix "606" had a 0 in the second position. So-called "interchangeable central office codes" with 0's or 1's in the second or third positions were rare at the time, but they had been allowable under the North American Numbering Plan since the mid-1970's. Tommy Tutone's hit 1982 song "867-5309/Jenny" identifies a working number in many area codes which continue to receive large numbers of calls asking for "Jenny" decades later. In the 1992 film Sneakers, the NSA agent Mary gives her telephone number as (415) 273-9164. The all-girl singing group The Marvelettes had an early Motown hit record in 1962 with "Beechwood 4-5789", written by Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson and George Gordy. The song became a hit again two decades later when it was covered by The Carpenters in 1982. The makers of 2003 film Bruce Almighty used 776-2323 as a telephone number for God (played by Morgan Freeman). This number remains unassigned in 1 (716) Buffalo (where the film is set). 776 is not a fictitious exchange in other area codes, where subscribers with the matching number were inundated with callers asking for "God". In Colorado the calls were misdirected to KDMN radio; in Sanford, North Carolina the number belongs to a church. 776-2323 was ultimately replaced with a 555 number for television airings of the movie and on most copies of the DVD. "777-9311" by The Time used Dez Dickerson's actual telephone number at the time the song was written, causing his telephone to ring incessantly until he had his number changed. In Germany, the 1981 Spider Murphy Gang song "Skandal im Sperrbezirk" ("Scandal in the Blocked Zone") contains a telephone number, zweiunddreißig, sechzehn, acht: 32 16 8. The number is that of a Munich prostitute who operates in the "blocked zone", the area of the city center where street prostitutes were forbidden. The band checked that the telephone number was not assigned in Munich, but it was assigned in some other cities. The song was a hit, topping the charts in Germany for 36 weeks; it was #1 in Austria (16 weeks) and Switzerland (11 weeks) as well. It has become an Oktoberfest staple. Singer Günther Sigl said in an interview that the song became "at one time, the most famous telephone number in Germany." He added: "As an apology, we paid for some number changes and sent numerous bouquets." In the song of Russian group "Aquarium(Аквариум)" ""(1985) from album "" the number 212-85-06 was used. Now the St. Petersburg Rector's Office is using this number. In 2004, the episode "My Malpractical Decision" of Scrubs gave the character Dr. Turk's telephone number as (916) CALL-TUR[K], i.e. (916) 225-5887, with an extraneous 5 at the end to make Turk's full name. (J.D. comments, "I'll always dial the 'K' for you.") This was for a time an active cellphone number, which would play a message urging fans to keep watching the show and to vote for it at the People's Choice Awards. Occasionally it was answered on-set by cast or crew. In 1994, the singer Anjan Dutt released his debut album Shunte Ki Chao? featuring a Bengali song named "2441139". In the song, Dutt calls his girlfriend Bela Bose at that number, repeating it multiple times in the song's chorus. Dutt says he picked the number because it rhymed well, not realizing that it was an actual residential number of the editor of a local newspaper, the Dainik Vishwamitra. The editor was inundated with calls, became a minor pop sensation himself, and sued Dutt but lost in court. In 1997, Brazilian singer and rapper Gabriel o Pensador released the single "2345meia78" from his album Quebra-Cabeça. The song tells the story of a man who decides to call all the women in his phonebook from a payphone. The song was in 11th place among the best Brazilian songs of 1997. Since the release of the song, several owners of the number 234-5678, mentioned in the chorus of the song, have frequently received several prank calls. The label Sony Music has offered to buy the telephone lines for the number. In the episode of Frasier titled "The Placeholder" which aired October 14, 2003, Roz left a voicemail that said "Frasier, this is Roz. Write down this number: 555-0179. Don't get mad, that's Ann's number. I talked to her, and she really thought you were cute and sweet and-" In 2010, in the movie High School, Psycho Ed's card had the number (310) 874-9015 presented as a pager number, but the number is the contact telephone number of the director of that movie. In 1998, Queens of the Stone Age released the song Regular John, which includes the number 86278-263789. In an interview with hiponline, frontman Josh Homme said: "It’s a number with one extra digit. It was just in there, but then I was thinking I can’t put a real number in the song. I don’t want someone calling it either, but I had to leave it. So it’s a whole phone number, with one extra digit stashed in there." In 2022, in the "Fly Me to the Moon" episode of Star Trek: Picard, Q's calling card displayed "323-634-5667", a working telephone number that played a message recorded by actor John de Lancie. ==By country==