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* OperatorsAreStandingBy: A product is implied to be limited time only by saying that phone operators are awaiting calls.
* TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy:Incompetent Incompetent, abusive, or weird phone operators.
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* DiscardedNotDelivered: Deleting a text message rather than sending it.
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* FiveFiveFive: The tendency for In-Universe phone numbers to use 555 as the exchange code.
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* FiveFiveFive: The tendency for In-Universe phone numbers to use 555 as the exchange code.code to avoid using the number of a real person and getting them flooded with calls.
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* UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan: A Useful Notes page on making calls in the US and its territories, Canada, and large parts of the Caribbean. By the way, this is where the 900 number originated.
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* UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan: A Useful Notes page on making calls in the US and its territories, Canada, and large parts of the Caribbean. By the way, this is where both 555 and the 900 number originated.
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* EmbarrassingVoicemail: Someone leaves an awkward or humiliating voicemail.
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* BurnerPhones: Criminals using cheap phones, which they then destroy or throw away.
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* BurnerPhones: Criminals using cheap phones, which they then destroy or throw away.away so that it won't be possible for the authorities to trace their signals.
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* PocketDial: Accidentally calling someone by sitting down when the phone was in your back pocket (also known as butt dialling).
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* PocketDial: Accidentally calling someone by sitting down when the phone was in your back pocket (also known as butt dialling).dialing).
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* PayPhone: When a pay phone is a plot point.
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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: A Useful Notes page for special phone numbers, meant for special services such as fake psychics, or people pretending to be fictional characters.
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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: A Useful Notes page for special phone numbers, meant for special services such as fake psychics, or people pretending to be fictional characters.
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* AnonymousPublicPhoneCall: A character creates an anonymous phone call with a telephone booth.
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* JustForFun/CellPhonesCouldHaveSolvedThisPlot: Classic works that wouldn't have worked in a world with mobile phones.
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* JustForFun/CellPhonesCouldHaveSolvedThisPlot: Classic works that wouldn't have worked made sense in a world with mobile phones.
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* NoPhonesTonight: Turning off one's phone at night in order to have a quiet night.
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* UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan: The telephone numbering plan used by the US and its territories, Canada, and large parts of the Caribbean. By the way, this is where the 900 number originated.
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* UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan: The telephone numbering plan used by A Useful Notes page on making calls in the US and its territories, Canada, and large parts of the Caribbean. By the way, this is where the 900 number originated.
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* UsefulNotes/BritishPostalAndTelephoneSystem: A Useful Notes page that includes information on making calls in the UK.
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* JustForFun/CellPhonesCouldHaveSolvedThisPlot: Classic works that wouldn't have worked in a world with mobile phones.
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* PhoneBoothChangingRoom: A superhero uses a telephone booth to change from their street clothes into their superhero outfit.
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* PhoneBooth: Phone booths are used for changing clothes, cramming into for fun, hiding secret passages, or be trapped or killed in.
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* PhoneBooth: Phone booths are used for changing clothes, cramming into for fun, hiding secret passages, or be trapped or killed in.
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!!See also:
[[index]]
* UsefulNotes/GoingMobile: A Useful Notes page for issues created by the Mobile Web.
* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: A Useful Notes page for special phone numbers, meant for special services such as fake psychics, or people pretending to be fictional characters.
[[/index]]
!!See also:
[[index]]
* UsefulNotes/GoingMobile: A Useful Notes page for issues created by the Mobile Web.
* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: A Useful Notes page for special phone numbers, meant for special services such as fake psychics, or people pretending to be fictional characters.
[[/index]]
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* UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: A Useful Notes page for special phone numbers, meant for special services such as fake psychics, or people pretending to be fictional characters.
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* PhoneBooth: Phone booths are used for changing clothes, cramming into for fun, hiding secret passages, or be trapped or killed in.
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* FunnyPhoneMisunderstanding: A comical misunderstanding happens over the phone.
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* BurnerPhones
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* CellPhonesAreUseless
* CompromisingCall
* ConfiscatedPhone
* CovertEmergencyCall
* ButtDialingMordor (doesn't always involve a phone, but can)
* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse
* CallingOutForNotCalling
* CellPhonesAreUseless
* CompromisingCall
* ConfiscatedPhone
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* BurnerPhones
BurnerPhones: Criminals using cheap phones, which they then destroy or throw away.
* ButtDialingMordor (doesn't always involve a phone, butcan)
can): Accidentally contacting evil via long-range communication.
*TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse
TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: Plot points based upon the old UrbanLegend about a woman who kept getting creepy calls asking how the kids she was babysitting were doing, then was told, "The calls are coming from inside the house" by the police.
*CallingOutForNotCalling
CallingOutForNotCalling: When somebody is late, someone else tells them off for not messaging them.
*CellPhonesAreUseless
CellPhonesAreUseless: To avoid plot holes, cell phones fail far more than they should.
*CompromisingCall
CompromisingCall: A sub-trope of SoMuchForStealth for when someone accidentally blows someone else's cover by phoning them.
*ConfiscatedPhone
ConfiscatedPhone: Stealing someone's cell phone or snatching a landline or payphone.
*CovertEmergencyCallCovertEmergencyCall: Calling, or otherwise contacting, emergency services without speaking (or by speaking in code).
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* CuttingTheElectronicLeash
CuttingTheElectronicLeash: Defying your superiors by throwing away or destroying your phone.
*DisconnectedByDeath
DisconnectedByDeath: A phone call abruptly ends because one participant died.
*DumpedViaTextMessage
DumpedViaTextMessage: Breaking up via text, email, etc.
*EmbarrassingRingtone
EmbarrassingRingtone: A character uses an embarrassing song as their ringtone.
*EscapeCall
EscapeCall: Someone doesn't want to attend an event, so they have someone phone them and pretend there's an emergency.
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* FunnyAnsweringMachine
FunnyAnsweringMachine: Answering machines or voicemail messages that highlight a character as quirky.
*UsefulNotes/GoingMobile
UsefulNotes/GoingMobile: A Useful Notes page for issues created by the Mobile Web.
*HarassingPhoneCall
HarassingPhoneCall: Being contacted by someone who's either a pervert or straight-up evil.
*ICanSeeYouICanSeeYou: Someone gets a call, thinks the caller is far away, but then the caller reveals that they can see the call-ee, and it's creepy.
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JennysNumber: The phone number "867-5309", as a [[ShoutOut reference]] to a song about a woman named Jenny, who had this number.
*KindaBusyHereKindaBusyHere: Someone answers their phone while they're busy, to tell the caller that it's inconvenient.
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LostInTransmission: Someone receives important information, but some of it is lost.
*MistakenForPrankCallMistakenForPrankCall: Someone phones another person for a true, but out-there reason (e.g. "You've won a competition"). The other person thinks it's a prank call.
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UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber: A Useful Notes page for special phone numbers, meant for special services such as fake psychics, or people pretending to be fictional characters.
*NoPhonesTonightNoPhonesTonight: Turning off one's phone at night in order to have a quiet night.
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* NoYouHangUpFirst
NoYouHangUpFirst: Two characters, who are usually a couple, playfully argue over who should hang up first.
*OnePhoneCall
OnePhoneCall: Someone in the slammer has the right to one phone call.
*TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy
TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy: Incompetent phone operators.
*PayPhone
PayPhone: When a pay phone is a plot point.
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* PhoneCallFromTheDead
PhoneCallFromTheDead: Someone gets a letter/call/email/whatever from their loved one... except that loved one is dead!
*PhoneInDetective
PhoneInDetective: Someone can do detective work over the phone.
*PhoneNumberJingle
PhoneNumberJingle: Using a phone number as a jingle.
*PhoneTraceRace
PhoneTraceRace: Police set up a phone trace for a criminal and need them to stay on the line for a certain amount of time.
*PhoneWord
PhoneWord: Phone numbers that spell words.
*PhoneyCall
PhoneyCall: Pretending to be on the phone to someone, when you're not, or you're talking to someone else, or they hung up, or it's really an AI on the other end.
*PhoningThePhantom
PhoningThePhantom: Phoning a supernatural creature that's invisible/inaudible to certain people.
*PocketDial
PocketDial: Accidentally calling someone by sitting down when the phone was in your back pocket (also known as butt dialling).
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* TheRadioDiesFirst
TheRadioDiesFirst: A radio breaks down to set the plot forward.
*RadioSilence
RadioSilence: Not transmitting your radio unless you have a very good reason.
*ReachingBetweenTheLines
ReachingBetweenTheLines: People can send objects or body parts via phone, or make their phones grow eyes, mouths, etc.
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* RidiculouslyLongPhoneHold
RidiculouslyLongPhoneHold: Waiting a ludicrously long time for a phone operator to be available.
*RidiculouslyLongPhoneNumber
RidiculouslyLongPhoneNumber: A phone number that's really long.
*RingRingCrunch
RingRingCrunch: Someone is annoyed by their cell phone or alarm clock ringing, so attacks it.
*RippedFromThePhoneBook
RippedFromThePhoneBook: When someone finds a phone number important to an investigation, they rip out the whole page from the phone book.
*RudelyHangingUp
RudelyHangingUp: Someone rudely hangs up in the middle of a phone conversation.
*ShoePhone
ShoePhone: Spy technology disguised as mundane items.
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ShortDistancePhoneCall: Two people are talking on the phone, but they're within speaking distance.
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SuddenLackOfSignal: If someone's lost their cell phone signal, that means they're somewhere peculiar.
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SuperCellReception: Cell phones work even in places they shouldn't be able to.
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* TelecomTree
TelecomTree: Phoning allies to help with a situation.
*TelephoneSong
TelephoneSong: A song about phone calls.
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TelephoneTeleport: A character can travel via phone.
*TiedUpOnThePhoneTiedUpOnThePhone: Someone gets caught in a telephone cord.
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* UselessWithoutCellPhones
* VideoPhone
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* VideoPhone
* VoicemailConfusion
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* TVTelephoneEtiquette
TVTelephoneEtiquette: A character hangs up the phone without even saying goodbye (unlike Rudely Hanging Up, it ''is'' at the end of the conversation, but it's still impolite).
*UselessWithoutCellPhones
UselessWithoutCellPhones: A character who becomes dumb without their phone or computer.
*VideoPhone
VideoPhone: Phones with video screens.
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VoicemailConfusion: A character mistakes a voicemail for an actual person.
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* LandlineEavesdropping: Using a second handset on a landline to listen in on someone's call.
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* NewhartPhoneCallNewhartPhoneCall: A phone call where we only hear one side of the conversation.
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* FiveFiveFive: The tendency for fictional phone numbers to use a lot of 5s.
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* FiveFiveFive: The tendency for fictional In-Universe phone numbers to use a lot of 5s.555 as the exchange code.
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* TinCanTelephoneTinCanTelephone: Low-tech telecommunications using two cans and a string (or a talking tube).
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