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* Parodied on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. Ted, working out of his home, gets a call from his personal assistant saying he's sick and won't be coming in. Ted accepts it, but then notices on his cell phone's caller ID that the call came from INSIDE HIS HOME. {{spoiler|The assistant is in the next room sleeping with his roommate Robin.}}
* Played straight in the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "The Living Doll", when a man receives a phone call from his daughter's evil doll, who threatens to kill him.
* Spoofed during ''[[The Daily Show]]'', when Jon announces his Rally to Restore Sanity only to have it be interrupted by Colbert over the phone. It takes Jon a minute or two to realize that Colbert is, in fact, calling from inside the studio. The punchline? They were talking on an [[Tin Can Telephone|aluminum can walky-talky]] the entire time.
* One of [[Al Franken]]'s "Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley" segments on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' tell a scary story in a [[Halloween Episode]] based on this. The mysterious caller was [[The Unintelligible|completely incomprehensible and mumbling]] and the big, scary reveal comes from the phone operator responding to one of the mysterious calls to warn the girl, "The caller is inside the house! It's your father, and he's been ''drinking!''"
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