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This also appears in [[Easter Egg|Easter eggs]] in various media, where a creator or studio will hide their own number somewhere in a work, {{spoiler|such as the number on a control panel in Monsters Inc, which is Pixar's telephone number.}}
As with domain names, there is the risk that any real phone numbers will be reassigned to someone else once the studio stops renewing the subscription. If the number is in a non-geographic or freephone prefix, it also risks not working at all for international calls. For a video game where a prerecorded clue is [[Break the Fourth Wall|stored on a real telephone number]]? When that number goes dead, the whole game is that little bit less playable:
:{{quote|"It is shocking the way some neighborhoods are getting. You practically can't walk anywhere without running into stray dogs, cats, and other animals. It makes you wish you carried a piece of meat, a fish bone, or a piece of cheese around with you. The weasel that is guarding Judge Doom's warehouse is the one called Stupid. I've heard that the only thing that'll get him to leave is a quick game of softball. Know anyplace where you could get a baseball in a hurry?"▼
|A clue on [https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/the-last-of-us-video-game-has-a-real-phone-sex-number-in-it-6389009 +1-800-232-3324] before it
Some motion pictures have used telephone numbers starting with '1' as, in North America, real telephone numbers ''cannot'' start with a 1 or a 0, due to technical requirements.<ref>('1' is a common prefix for long-distance calls and '0' is the operator)</ref> Sony Pictures Legal Department permits its TV shows to use any area code (except 800 or 888) followed by a "1" or "0" as the first digit of the seven-digit phone number. (e.g., [310] 074-2566, [213] 177-4305) Many major studios share this policy on advice from their lawyers. In contrast, almost ''all'' numbers in many European countries start with 0, which is omitted when one dials internationally.<ref>(This is because in these countries, all area codes start with a 0, allowing the phone system to recognize non-local calls and make the appropriate connections for them.)</ref>
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** If someone were to try calling decades later however, you'll find that the number connects {{spoiler|to a phone sex line instead.}}
*** When you consider {{spoiler|her secret in [[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?|the book]]}}, this becomes [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].
▲:{{quote|"It is shocking the way some neighborhoods are getting. You practically can't walk anywhere without running into stray dogs, cats, and other animals. It makes you wish you carried a piece of meat, a fish bone, or a piece of cheese around with you. The weasel that is guarding Judge Doom's warehouse is the one called Stupid. I've heard that the only thing that'll get him to leave is a quick game of softball. Know anyplace where you could get a baseball in a hurry?"
▲|A clue on [https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/the-last-of-us-video-game-has-a-real-phone-sex-number-in-it-6389009 +1-800-232-3324] before it and millions of disconnected numbers were [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/porn-company-buys-up-a-quarter-of-1-800-numbers/ cybersquatted by Primetel] for advertising}}
* In the ''[[Nancy Drew (video game)|Nancy Drew]]'' computer games, all of the numbers you can call from Nancy's cell phone start with 555. Even the alphanumeric numbers for the 1930s telephone in ''Secret of the Old Clock'' convert to 555.
** Dial 1-555-MYSTICO and prepare to [[Easter Egg|be amazed]]!
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