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* The [[Babysitters Club]] could be reached at KL5-3231.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Harry Dresden's phone number, shown in a picture of his phone book entry in the game, is (312) 555-4-WIZ.
=== [[Periodicals]] ===▼
* A dating columnist once put her real phone number on the cover of a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090104075552/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/features/26283/call-julia magazine.]▼
* [[Nickelodeon]] magazine has a format for E-mail addresses and domain names for their pranks: they use the .not suffix as an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] on .net, e.g., whatever@wherever.not or www.fakecompany.not.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* Glenn Miller's song "PEnnsylvania 6-5000" was - and still is - the number of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania (+1-212-PE6-5000) where the band often performed in their network radio broadcasts. The hotel in turn served (and was named for) a train station on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
* The phone number in the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic music video] for [[Carly Rae Jepsen]]'s "Call Me Maybe".
* [[Defied Trope|Defied]] in Tommy Tutone's 1981 song "[[wikipedia:867-5309/Jenny|867-5309/Jenny]]", which caused that particular phone number to be valued by businesses that ''want'' people to call them.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Aversion: The newspaper comic ''[[Dilbert]]'' once had a story line about a "Date-a-Dilbert" service. The cartoonist thought it needed a real phone number, so he put his own number in the strip. It got hundreds of calls, mostly from women who really wanted to date a Dilbert.
* In ''[[Ginger Meggs]]'', one of Ginger's friends has a poster up saying "Missing since 4:00PM Ph: XXXX XXX XXX". The phone number is of a colleague of the cartoonist.
▲== [[Periodicals]] ==
▲* A dating columnist once put her real phone number on the cover of a [https://web.archive.org/web/20090104075552/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/features/26283/call-julia magazine.]
▲* [[Nickelodeon]] magazine has a format for E-mail addresses and domain names for their pranks: they use the .not suffix as an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] on .net, e.g., whatever@wherever.not or www.fakecompany.not.
== [[Radio]] ==
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