555...

[big screen satellite]

Movie / Show: The Simpsons

Number: 555 0001

Where found: this is Mr Burns' number ...obviously....can't recall which episode its revealed in, maybe the autodialer episode with Homer...but i recall it being this number somewhere...

[Ally]

Originally Posted by chuck

Best use of the 555 is in "Last Action Hero" - when the kid's trying to convince Arnie that he's a movie character - and says something like "Well, how come all the number start with 555, you'd run out of numbers." Arnie's reply: "That's why we have area codes..."

Best line in the movie however is when Arnie gives it ".. just drive around the neighbourhood and point your finger at the house and say the bad guys are in there!"

[Tyler]

http://home.earthlink.net/~mthyen/

has an INSANELY comprehensive (which is par for the course for the internet, innit?) list of these numbers.

[b.miller]

yeah i would think it would make a better little game to list out all the non-555 numbers used in movies... like Magnolia, Bruce Almighty, etc.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by Tyler

http://home.earthlink.net/~mthyen/

has an INSANELY comprehensive (which is par for the course for the internet, innit?) list of these numbers.

what did i say on page one...its easy to trawl and find the list...isn't it more fun to spot rather than just churn up a whole page...thats sorta killed the thread now

[stimpee]

that list is too big anyway and its sorted by number not movie.

[ndrwrld]

way to go Tyler

[Animal Boything]

I just want to say that Last Action Hero is one of the best genre parodies ever made, if not THE best. Getting Arnold to star in that movie was a major coup for comedy. It lent the whole thing kind of a straight-faced quality that just made it that much better.

Speaking of the governor of my great state, the one 555 number I'll never forget is in The Terminator, because the second half of it (9175) is the same as my dad's phone number, and I was at my dad's house the first time I saw it. It boggled my young mind, at the time.

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by Animal Boything

I just want to say that Last Action Hero is one of the best genre parodies ever made, if not THE best. Getting Arnold to star in that movie was a major coup for comedy. It lent the whole thing kind of a straight-faced quality that just made it that much better.

Speaking of the governor of my great state, the one 555 number I'll never forget is in The Terminator, because the second half of it (9175) is the same as my dad's phone number, and I was at my dad's house the first time I saw it. It boggled my young mind, at the time.

ha...you're Dad's the terminator