History Main / HarassingPhoneCall

* In the music video for Billy Joel's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhJg1finpyU Sometimes a Fantasy,]] he calls a woman and sings the song to her, much to her annoyance. [[spoiler:The ending shows she never answered and the whole thing was in his head]]. Rather creepily, Joel's nervous movements and the presence of another man in the room suggest he's being forced into making the call.

* Genevieve Sabourin, alleged stalker of Alec Baldwin supposedly called and texted him a lot.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had a comic where a duck hunter is in a phone booth and playing a duck call into the phone. On the other end of the phone line is a duck in his house with a shocked expression on his face. The caption says "[[{{Pun}} Obscene duck call]]."

--> "Buddy, if it only takes one hand to hold then I'm not interested." *click*

* In ''Videogame/WelcomeToTheGame'', the Breather is a local SerialKiller who taunts the player via phone call some time after they begin browsing the Deep Web, before attempting to break into their house.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter gets these from his boss, Angela, in the episode "Peter-assment". Also, while the Griffin's were out on vacation [[StalkerWithACrush Herbert]] kept calling the house and leaving creepy messages for Chris.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E94FourOClock Four O'Clock]]", Oliver Crangle tells FBI Agent Hall that he calls the supposedly evil people in the middle of the night to accuse them of various crimes.

* This is parodied, of course, in the ''Film/ScaryMovie'' movies. For instance, Ghostface calls one of his victims (played by Carmen Electra) while reading a porn mag where she's the centerfold. When he says he wants to know what her insides look like, she tells him to turn the page.

* {{Music/Madness}}'s "Close Escape" from ''Music/{{Absolutely}}'' is a black comedy number from the [=PoV=] of an obscene phone caller.

* {{Music/BillyIdol}} "Crank Call"

** Spoofed in "Enemy-In-Law". when Plankton falls for Mr. Krabs' mother, he calls her up to ask her out. After stepping on the phone buttons to dial the number, he's left gasping heavily as Mrs. Krabs answers. Upon hearing it, she almost hangs up but Plankton manages to catch his breath and clear speak.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E19JellyfishHunterTheFryCookGames "Jellyfish Hunter"]], [=SpongeBob=] gets a phone call late at night after spending the day hunting jellyfish for Mr. Krabs. The call consists of menacing heavy breathing on the other line, and the camera cuts to reveal that the caller in question is No Name, the mysterious blue jellyfish that [=SpongeBob=] has been trying to catch since the start of the episode and who was just shown stalking him on his way home. No Name soon hangs up, leaving [=SpongeBob=] highly unnerved.

* Bart Simpson's prank calls, mentioned above in Western Animation, were based on the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Bar_prank_calls Tube Bar prank calls]] that circulated within the underground tape-trading network during the 1970s & '80s. The threats made by the real target of those calls, bartender & former boxer Howard "Red" Deutsch, once he realized he had been made the butt of the tapers' joke, were if anything more unhinged than anything the Simpsons' writers came up with.

* Bart Simpson's prank calls, mentioned above in Western Animation, were based on the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Bar_prank_calls Tube Bar prank calls]] that circulated within the underground tape-trading network during the 1980s. The threats made by the real target of those calls, bartender & former boxer Howard "Red" Deutsch, once he realized he had been made the butt of the tapers' joke, were if anything more unhinged than anything the Simpsons' writers came up with.

* Ramsley calls Jim in ''Film/TheHauntedMansion'' before hanging up without answering.

* ''Film/LostHighway'': At Andy's party Fred meets a [[UncannyValley strange]] [[UncannyValleyMakeup looking]] Mystery Man in Black who tells Fred that he is at his house right now and is the one who sent the videotapes to him. He then tells Fred to phone his house, Fred does so, and the voice of the Mystery Man answers at the house while he's standing right in front of Fred.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-145 SCP-145,]] a phone which, if answered, connects to an unknown woman who pleads for help and describes torture being inflicted on various individuals (who can be heard screaming in the background). Using the phone without someone else watches causes the listener to vanish and join the other victims.

* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': An anonymous caller who claims to be Amelia's frenemy occasionally calls her to stop her from investigating the fire, threatening that she'll be in more trouble if she continues it.