Basic Trope: Fictional phone numbers have "555" at the beginning.
- Straight: Alice's number is 555-4673.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's number is 555-5555.
- Even phone numbers for companies that exist in Real Life begin with 555.
- Downplayed: 555 is only one of the phone number exchanges used in the show's universe.
- Justified: This only occurs in one particular town, and only happens to make it easier to remember phone numbers.
- Inverted: Everyone's phone number ends with 555 in the show's universe.
- Subverted:
- Alice's number is 552-4673.
- A character is given a 555 number, but it turns out that it's a fake number.
- Double Subverted:
- But, as it later turns out, Alice made a mistake when writing her number down.
- The real number also begins with 555.
- Parodied:
- Alice's number is 555-555-5555. And her extension is 555.
- Telephone keypads only have the number 5 on them.
- Zig Zagged: Some of the numbers in the show start with 555, while others don't.
- Averted:
- Nobody's phone number starts with 555 in the show.
- Telephones don't exist in the show.
- Enforced: The creators of the show don't wish to be held responsible for any prank calls resulting from the phone numbers given in the show.
- Lampshaded: "Mommy, why do phone numbers always start with 555?"
- Invoked: "We don't want to accidentally have someone's number on the show!"
- Exploited: "If this was a bad movie, everyone would have a 555 number... Oh, Wait!, everyone I know has one!"
- Defied: The producers buy phone numbers for the purpose of safely using them on the show.
- Discussed: "Do all the phone numbers in Canada start with 555, too?"
- Conversed: "Why do fictional phone numbers always start with 555?"
- Implied: When Bob calls Alice, his finger bounces in one spot and the phone only plays one note.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice tries to use a 555 number when making a Show Within a Show. Because 555 numbers are no longer reserved for fictional use, however, she soon gets a very angry call from the person who the number actually belongs to.
- Alice's phone number is 555-555-5555. She gets a lot of random calls from people who were just bored enough to dial a number that's all fives since her phone number is that simple.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice instead uses one of the 555 numbers reserved for fictional use.note
- Alice gets her number changed to another number that begins with 555, but the other numbers are random, preventing random calls.
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