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Laconic: Prank calls

A common staple in many comedy situations, though less often thanks to the introduction of a system such as caller ID. Yet, many professionals have adapted workarounds, such as hiding their numbers with phony covers. Sometimes, the usage of Punny Names have often comes into play. In real life, it can depend on the location when it comes to legality, with fines being the most common punishments.

A subversion of this is known as Mistaken for Prank Call, where a call sounds like a prank, only to be found that it wasn't.

Examples of Prank Call include:

Fan Works

• Mars Attacks: Simpsons, each chapter has at least one such call to a random location, mostly to Moe's Taven.

Music

• "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1996 parody of TLC's "Waterfalls", "Phony Calls", is not only all about this trope, it incorporates a snippet of one of Bart's phone calls from The Simpsons.

Video Games

• Maniac Mansion has the option for the player to pull a prank call to distract villainess Nurse Edna when she enters her room.

Western Animation

• A common running gag throughout The Simpsons deals with Bart prank calling Moe with random names, resulting in Moe's rants towards the caller. Yet, fan theories suggest that although Moe knows Bart was behind the pranks, as he's used to his voice, he still goes along due to loneliness.