
In Poor Mallory, the club prank call both of the two girls who have been picking on Mallory over her father's redundancy.They immediately realise it's their rival Tolour who was screwing with Danny just to be mean. When he knocks on Rusty's door he discovers it's only 11:30 PM. The night before the Fabergé egg heist in Ocean's Twelve, Danny Ocean receives a phone call claiming to be his 5 AM wake-up call.The kids then call the person again, and when the person picks up, they play a recording of Sherman screaming while the garbage disposal chews up an apple. In Kenny & Company, Kenny, Doug, and Sherman kill time on Halloween afternoon by calling random people, saying they're going to be working on the phone line for the next five minutes and if the person answers the phone during that time, they'll receive a horrible electric shock.Lee", who proceeds to torture and kill them to teach them a lesson about their prank calls. Don't Hang Up centers on a group of teenagers who become internet celebrities for their prank calls, until they receive a phone call from a "Mr.

Pennywise: Excuse me, sir! Do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? Well, you better let the poor guy out! WUHAH! WUHAH! WUHAH!
#OLD PRANK CALL JOKES MOVIE#
#OLD PRANK CALL JOKES CODE#
Hot flash, Cory: prank calls are a criminal offense prosecuted under penal code 653-M.Ĭory: Aw, shit. Sidney: ( looks at caller ID) Cory Gillis, 555-0176. May overlap with Anonymous Public Phone Call, when a character makes an anonymous call with a public phone. Not to be confused with Phoney Call which is where a character pretends that they are talking on the phone when the phone is off.Ĭontrast Mistaken for Prank Call (the Subverted Trope) when the character receiving the call thinks that they are being pranked. In some countries, making what are termed "nuisance calls" is illegal and can lead to either criminal or civil prosecution.

(The two most common prank calls, as implied above, are "Do you have Prince Albert in a Can?" and "Is your refrigerator running?")

The trope also lives on in the form of Prank Answers, usually directed at telemarketers and scammers. Though the trope does live on for call-in talk shows and similar, where the caller doesn't care if their ID is known and often prank callers are seen as All Part of the Show. Prank Calls are usually considered a form of Harassing Phone Call. The most popular joke used when prank calling someone is " Is your refrigerator running? You'd better catch it!" Punny Names are also popular, especially when calling a person who then has to ask for the punny-named person, leading to awkwardness such as " I'm looking for Amanda Huggenkiss."įor amateurs, at least, this has been made largely extinct in Real Life because of caller ID and call-blocking features that allow telephone users to block calls from "Private"/"Unavailable"/"Unknown"/"Restricted" phone numbers (and thus averting potential for a Prank Gone Too Far). These pranks are mostly just jokes and puns. The Prank Call trope is where a character decides to prank another by calling them on the telephone.
