From the rather sparse description that's present as of this posting, I can see it has something to do with telephones... but what?
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Prank calls. That's it.
Yeah, and I was surprised that we didn't already have a trope for this.
I don't like the name, though; we should just go with the simple "Prank Call", the better to resonate with Mistaken for Prank Call.
Agree on the name change. If a mod has to ask "what is this trope?", then it needs either a better name, a better description, or both. The name's the easiest thing to fix.
No contest to the name change here.
We could also do with a few more non-Simpsons-related examples.
We could raid wikipedia:Prank call#Popular culture for examples. Looks to me like that would take 30-90 minutes to do properly - does anybody have the time to do that right now?
Not right now, but sometime in the next day or so. It's not like we're on a timer, after all.
And done, a week after I said I'd do it.
The page now has 14 examples.
More now. I'm searching the wiki on "prank call" and adding everything that seems appropriate.
Done now.