History Main / FiveFiveFive

* This is used as the basis of a joke in the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Phone Home". Bloo decides to phone a number involving "555" by using a phone imaginary friend (who was actually a man trapped in a costume), so when he dials the number by jumping on the numbers, he ends up jumping on the man's stomach three times in a row. Ouch!

* Music/TheTime's hit "777-9311" (which is how the singer implores the woman he's hitting on to reach him via), which, like the Jenny example, doesn't include an area code.

* The side of a tow truck in ''VideoGame/((Delicious)) 4: Emily's Taste of Fame'' says "Call 555 TOW TOW."

* The side of a tow truck in ''Delicious 4: Emily's Taste of Fame'' says "Call 555 TOW TOW."

* In ''Revived Legends 2: Titan's Revenge'', a sign on a building in ''Greece'' says "FOR RENT: 555-152".

* In David Feldman's ''Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?'' an illustration accompanying the entry on why pay toilets no longer exist in the US depicts several stalls with BathroomStallGraffiti on the outside of the doors. One of the messages states "Call 555-6126 and tell Steve he's a jerk!"

* In keeping with the IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' Community School's phone number is (416) [[JennysNumber 867-5309]]. License plates are all over the place - Principal Simpson has ASKK-080 and Coach Armstrong has [=COACH001=] (Ontario starts the regular number series at ''xxxx''-100, no lead zeroes and has a seven-character VanityLicensePlate limit) while Eli has a generic plate with no province (or state) caption.

'''Danny''': "There can only be 9,999 phone numbers that start with 555. How many people live in L.A.?\\

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has the distinction of using ''both'' versions. In 1985, the number for Jennifer's grandma is "555-4823". In 1955, "Doc" Brown's number is "[=KLondike=] 5-4385".

* In the cult NES game ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'', the hieroglyphs in the villain's hideout allegedly say, "Are you reading this? Then so are your customers! Contact Sutekh at [[CardCarryingVillain 555-EVIL]]"

** Walter also buries [[spoiler: about $80 million in cash, which is stolen and replaced with a couple of bodies]] at GPS coordinates that he documents as his picks on a lotto ticket. Attempting to dig them up is not recommended, as the coordinates given (+34° 59' 20.00", -106° 36' 52.00) actually point to Albuquerque Studios -- which is about a mile away from a DEA station.

** The phone number for "Coffee Talk" (or was it "Coffee Tawk"?) was 555-4444. (However, the three 5s were replaced with coffe mugs and the said 5s that were called were bleeped out because that phone number was {{Defictionalized}}.)

** Another Mathnet episode also involving a kidnapping has them recieve a call of touch-tones -- they're given twelve tones that don't correspond to any phone number in service. But thanks to George using the power of combinatorial analysis (i.e.: George putting the letters each touch-tone represents vertically on little sticks and moving them up and down until they make out words) they determine the real meaning of the touch-tones: [[spoiler: BLEAK HOUSE NY - the kidnappers' location]].

** Producer Chuck Lorre even discusses this trope, and the difficulty in getting the phone number on air, in his essay-like VanityPlate at the end of the episode. Creator/{{CBS}} would eventually censor it from broadcast due to the number he [[TakeThat gives to the idiots who dial all these numbers]] as well as the [[ExecutiveMeddling executives]], 555-382-5968, which reads [[spoiler: "FUCK YOU"]].

** Every single dial-able phone number in ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'' is a 555 number. [[spoiler: Except Konami's help line.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' game a real number on the business card that Bob is given. While inactive at the time of original release, calling it as of the DVD release resulted in Mirage's voice telling you to enter the number on the website to access a DeletedScene not included on the DVD.

* ''VideoGame/WarioWare Twisted'' has an unlockable telephone that you can dial. Once you get it, you may be awarded phone numbers every now and then to call -- but all of them have only four digits.

* Despite what "Baby Got Back" tells you, dialing 1-900-MIX-A-LOT just gets you a disconnected number. During the song's release, it was a working number and you could hear Mix say pre-recorded messages for 99 cents a minute. When he let the number go, several companies attempted to use it when it went back into circulation (mostly phone sex lines); it eventually was retired from the [[UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber 900]] pool because of the song and people calling looking to talk to Mix. (And, eventually, most of the 900 numbers going the way of the dodo anyway, thanks to changes in both laws governing them and {{technology|MarchesOn}}.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' game a real number on the business card that Bob is given. While inactive at the time of original release, calling it as of the DVD release resulted in Mirage's voice telling you to enter the number on the website to access a DeletedScene not included on the DVD.

Compare to JennysNumber, which is also commonly used as a phone number. See also LoggingOntoTheFourthWall for the website equivalent. Whatever you do, don't confuse this with SixSixSix, though bonus points for works where that's the area code for TheDevil.

Virtually all US phone numbers on fictional programs are made up of the following:

* Magazine/NickelodeonMagazine has a format for E-mail addresses and domain names for their pranks: they use the .not suffix as an IncrediblyLamePun on .net, e.g., whatever@wherever.not or www.fakecompany.not.

* The phone number seen on the newspaper clipping in the beginning of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' originally didn't start with 1-555, but 1-888 instead. This was changed so that the phone number wouldn't accidentally be a legitimate number.

* Music/ChuckBerry asked the operator to get him "Norfolk, Virginia, [=Tidewater=] Four Ten Oh Nine" in "Promised Land". At the time the song was originally written and recorded in 1964, that would make the full number (703) 844-1009. By the time of Music/ElvisPresley's famous cover in 1974 the area code had shifted to 804, and Norfolk is now served by area code 757.

* [[https://www.smbplumbing.com A promotional site]] for ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' lists the brothers' plumbing service's number as 929-55-MARIO. Subverted as the M makes this a 55''6'' number, and thus it's a functional phone number. Calling it gives you a response from Luigi.