History Main / SixIsNine

* ''StarTrekVoyager'' had an ad for its 30th anniversary episode where they showed the number 1966 (Star Trek TOS's first year) and rotated the first 6 into a 9.

* ''DoctorWho'':

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* In ''TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'', the title character notices a '90' tattooed on her arm that wasn't there before. It isn't until she time leaps a few more times that she realizes it was the number of leaps she had left, and it was actually '06.'

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* ''TheFarSide'': In one cartoon, a painter has just painted "999" on Satan's office door in hell. Satan doesn't look happy, and the painter says "I must have been holding the dang work order upside down!"

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* In ''NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation'', the Grizwolds spend some time with German-speaking relatives. As they leave, they slam the door and the 6 swings down and becomes a 9, they'd been staying with strangers and didn't realize it.
* In ''Film/EndOfDays'', the NumberOfTheBeast is really [[spoiler:999]].

* This happens to Lenny in ''Film/{{Memento}}'', causing him to bash a random motel resident in the face.

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* ''{{Cheers}}'': The bar has a raffle using numbered pingpong balls. Number 99 gets chosen, but Sam points out that the 99 looks like a 66. HilarityEnsues.

-->'''Harry:''' "Dick, I've lost all feeling in the left side of my body. [looks at can upside down] Could somebody please call "1-1-6"?

* In an episode of cult TheSeventies British cop show ''TheSweeney'', the "6 with a screw missing turns into a 9" gag is used in a scene where a very respectable family are eating dinner when armed policemen crash into their home, and are just as surprised as they are because they were expecting to meet armed criminals. After the mistake is cleared up, the officers leave with apologies and the family calmly return to their meal. Moments later, a crash is heard in the distance, and the father comments that it sounds as though they've found number 9.

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* In ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'', there is a bit where Satan received a phone call intended for the emergency services because the caller had the phone upside down.

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* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' makes the Number 9 a plot point by [[spoiler:having June's bracelet (a 6) actually being a 9, which allows her to open any of the doors in the game,]] making it an important hint to who Zero actually is.
* In the fifth case of ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', a piece of evidence contains a note that reads "6-7S 12/2." However, the note was apparently written upside down and it actually reads "2/21 SL-9," tying it to another case altogether.

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* In ''EndOfDays'', the NumberOfTheBeast is really [[spoiler:999]].

* [[VeggieTales Larry]] never got his pizza in one Silly Song because the house number (16) on his door was broken.

* This happens to Lenny in ''{{Memento}}'', causing him to bash a random motel resident in the face.

->"And this is a 6 from somebody's house, or is it a 9, ya don't know!"

* In ''OldHarrysGame'', there is a bit where Satan received a phone call intended for the emergency services because the caller had the phone upside down.

* In ''National Lampoon's European Vacation'', the Grizwolds spend some time with German-speaking relatives. As they leave, they slam the door and the 6 swings down and becomes a 9, they'd been staying with strangers and didn't realize it.

* ''NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' makes the Number 9 a plot point by [[spoiler:having June's bracelet (a 6) actually being a 9, which allows her to open any of the doors in the game,]] making it an important hint to who Zero actually is.

If you turn the number 6 upside down you get a 9 and vice versa. [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready We all know that]].

* Causes some sort confusion in the plot, that doesn't allow it to advance (like the example below).

* This is why you'll occasionally see a line at the bottom of these two numbers.

* ''StarTrekVoyager'' had an ad for their 30th anniversary episode where they showed the number 1966 (Star Trek TOS's first year) and rotated the first 6 into a 9.

* In ''National Lampoon's European Vacation'' the Grizwolds spend some time with German-speaking relatives; as they leave they slam the door and the six swings down and becomes a nine, they'd been staying with strangers and didn't realize it.
* In ''EndOfDays'' the NumberOfTheBeast is really [[spoiler:999]].
* Something like that happened in the French/British Film ''La Grande Vadrouille'' set during WW2 with hotel room 6 and 9.
* In the film version of ''MinorityReport'' there was a scene where John Anderton gets Crow's hotel room wrong due to the number 9 or 6 having a screw loose.
* This happens to Lenny in ''{{Memento}}'' causing him to bash a random motel resident in the face.

* In the ''HowIMetYourMother'' episode "Bad News", the numbers fifty to one are hidden in the episode as a countdown until Marshall [[spoiler: receives the news of his father's death]]. A file folder Barney is holding is marked with the number nine, and later on the folder is picked up upside-down, now representing the number six in the countdown.
* In a Halloween episode of ''QuantumLeap'', Sam leaps into the body of a horror writer whose street address is 669. Near the climax, [[spoiler: the nine flips upside-down to reveal that the devil is amongst them]].
* {{Parodied}} in an early episode of ''SaturdayNightLive'', one sketch was a parody of The Omen. Late in the sketch, one character accuses the child, Damien, of being spawned from Satan, and they should check for the Number Of The Beast on his forehead. One character checks by standing behind the child, and declares that everything is okay with him, because the number on his forehead is 999.
* ''{{Cheers}}'': The bar has a raffle using numbered ping pong balls. Number 99 gets chosen, but Sam points out that the 99 looks like a 66. HilarityEnsues.
* Parodied in ''ThirdRockFromTheSun'': Harry:
--> "Dick, I've lost all feeling in the left side of my body. [looks at can upside-down] Could somebody please call "1-1-6"?
* In episode 9 of TheUnusuals, the cops find out that the perpetrator of the case they're working on lives in apartment #6. They go to the apartment, and find the wrong person entirely. Naturally, the apartment they knocked on was actually #9, and the nail had fallen out of the top of the sign. (Cue chase scene, set to [[EarWorm Tunak Tunak Tun]], as the actual perp has had plenty of time to prepare to flee...)

* In an episode of cult TheSeventies British cop show ''TheSweeney'', the "6 with a screw missing turns into a 9" gag is used in a scene where a very respectable family are eating dinner when armed policemen crash into their home, and are just as surprised as they are because they were expecting to meet armed criminals. After the mistake is cleared up, the cops leave with apologies and the family calmly return to their meal. Moments later, a crash is heard in the distance, and the father comments that it sounds as though they've found number 9.

* Episode 4 of ''RetardedAnimalBabies'' featured a fake TV screen as a bonus feature, and selecting Channel 666 will lead to a video of Satan eating children from a bowl. Channel 999 is this upside-down.

* In the ''OldHarrysGame'' there is a bit where Satan received a phone call intended for the emergency services because the caller had the phone upside down.

* ''NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' makes the Number 9 a plot point by [[spoiler: having June's bracelet (a 6) actually being a 9, which allows her to open any of the doors in the game,]] making it an important hint to who Zero actually is.

* In ''IndigoProphecy'' (a.k.a ''Fahrenheit''), a timed sequence puts police detectives Carla and Tyler in a hotel attempting to find the protagonist, Lucas, who is hiding in room 369. The player controls Carla/Tyler, but the first "room 369" you bust into has someone else inside; the lettering on the door un-sticks and swivels to reveal that they're actually at room 366. The mistake gives Lucas just enough time to get his own objective done and hide.

* An episode of {{Rugrats}} involved Tommy being kidnapped as a result of criminals succumbing to this trope.

* In a short sketch on ''TheBennyHill'' Show, Benny as a jealous husband breaks into a hotel room and shoots the man & woman in the bed. Then he takes another look at them, looks at the room number, rotates the 6 to a 9, and sheepishly exits.

* Oliver Stone's ''{{JFK}}'' was released on the 30th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. The theatrical trailer displayed the date of said assassination--November 22, 1963--and then swiveled the 6 in 1963 around to reveal the release date for the film.
* ''StarTrekVoyager'' had a similar ad for their 30th anniversary episode: they showed the number 1966 (Star Trek TOS's first year) and rotated the first 6 into a 9.

* This is why tou'll occasionally see a line at the bottom of these two numbers.

[[PeopleSitOnChairs If you turn the number 6 upside down you get a 9 and vice versa]]. [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready We all know that]].

Alice is a detective and has learned from a phone call that weird things are happening in Apartment 6. She goes over there, investigates, but finds nothing. But the phone calls continue, so Alice goes again to to Apartment 6, only to find out that the apartment where she was investigating was number 9, but the 9 somehow it was unscrewed, and looked like a 6.


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* This is why they put a line in the bottom of these two numbers.

* In ''IndigoProphecy'' (a.k.a ''Fahrenheit''), a timed sequence puts police detectives Carla and Tyler in a hotel attempting to find the protagonist, Lucas, who is hiding in room 369. The player controls Carla/Tyler, but the first "room 369" you bust into has someone else inside; the lettering on the door un-sticks and swivels to reveal that they're actually at room 366. The mistake gives Lucas just enough time to get his own objective done and hide.

* In ''IndigoProphecy'' (a.k.a Fahrenheit), Carla and Tyler are in the hotel and want to frame Lucas and they will find him in the room 369. Lucas tells Marcus to call the cops, meanwhile Carla opens room (pictured above)] with force, only to find out a couple in bed, and realizing it's room 366. She later goes to the real room 369, only to find out it's empty.

* Oliver Stone's {{JFK}} was released on the 30th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. The theatrical trailer displayed the date of said assassination--November 22, 1963--and then swiveled the 6 in 1963 around to reveal the release date for the film.
* StarTrekVoyager had a similar ad for their 30th anniversary episode: they showed the number 1966 (Star Trek TOS's first year) and rotated the first 6 into a 9.

* In TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime, the title character notices a '90' tattooed on her arm that wasn't there before. It isn't until she time leaps a few more times that she realizes it was the number of leaps she had left, and it was actually '06.'

* TheFarSide: In one cartoon, a painter has just painted "999" on Satan's office door in hell. Satan doesn't look happy, and the painter says "I must have been holding the dang work order upside down!"

* In End Of Days the NumberOfTheBeast is really [[spoiler:999]].

* In the film version of MinorityReport there was a scene where John Anderton gets Crow's hotel room wrong due to the number 9 or 6 having a screw loose.
* This happens to Lenny in Memento causing him to bash a random motel resident in the face.

* In the HowIMetYourMother episode "Bad News", the numbers fifty to one are hidden in the episode as a countdown until Marshall [[spoiler: receives the news of his father's death]]. A file folder Barney is holding is marked with the number nine, and later on the folder is picked up upside-down, now representing the number six in the countdown.
* In a Halloween episode of QuantumLeap, Sam leaps into the body of a horror writer whose street address is 669. Near the climax, [[spoiler: the nine flips upside-down to reveal that the devil is amongst them]].
* {{Parodied}} in an early episode of SaturdayNightLive, one sketch was a parody of The Omen. Late in the sketch, one character accuses the child, Damien, of being spawned from Satan, and they should check for the Number Of The Beast on his forehead. One character checks by standing behind the child, and declares that everything is okay with him, because the number on his forehead is 999.
* {{Cheers}}: The bar has a raffle using numbered ping pong balls. Number 99 gets chosen, but Sam points out that the 99 looks like a 66. HilarityEnsues.
* Parodied in ThirdRockFromTheSun: Harry:

* In a short sketch on TheBennyHill Show, Benny as a jealous husband breaks into a hotel room and shoots the man & woman in the bed. Then he takes another look at them, looks at the room number, rotates the 6 to a 9, and sheepishly exits.
* In an episode of cult TheSeventies British cop show TheSweeney, the "6 with a screw missing turns into a 9" gag is used in a scene where a very respectable family are eating dinner when armed policemen crash into their home, and are just as surprised as they are because they were expecting to meet armed criminals. After the mistake is cleared up, the cops leave with apologies and the family calmly return to their meal. Moments later, a crash is heard in the distance, and the father comments that it sounds as though they've found number 9.

* In the OldHarrysGame there is a bit where Satan received a phone call intended for the emergency services because the caller had the phone upside down.

* NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors makes the Number 9 a plot point by [[spoiler: having June's bracelet (a 6) actually being a 9, which allows her to open any of the doors in the game,]] making it an important hint to who Zero actually is.
* In the fifth case of PhoenixWrightAceAttorney, a piece of evidence contains a note that reads "6-7S 12/2." However, the note was apparently written upside down and it actually reads "2/21 SL-9," tying it to another case altogether.
* In IndigoProphecy (a.k.a Fahrenheit), Carla and Tyler are in the hotel and want to frame Lucas and they will find him in the room 369. Lucas tells Marcus to call the cops, meanwhile Carla opens room (pictured above)] with force, only to find out a couple in bed, and realizing it's room 366. She later goes to the real room 369, only to find out it's empty.

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