The 555-FILM guy

S07E08 The Pool GuyretroJul 21, 19983 years later8 posts by 6 posters
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Dave

I rewatched "The Pool Guy" last night, and have a few questions about the Movie phone guy. I read a while back that there's a real Movie Phone number in NYC and there's a recording that really gives you movie listings. Does anyone know the real number? Also, the man who played the movie phone guy who showed up at Kramer's apartment at the end was not listed in the credits. Any idea who that was? Or the voice? Was the TV voice they used the same as the real Movie Phone guy's voice?

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Adam Sena↩ Dave

In article , [email] wrote:

Movie Phone is 777-FILM (777-3456) You can even but your ticket with Movie Phone!

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Single White Male↩ Adam Sena

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Adam Sena wrote:

having trouble dialing that number. I'm not even sure anybody once called to speak to Kramer the entire time. I wonder if whoever had 555-3457 had this much trouble too? Surely everybody didn't dial the exact same wrong number all the time. I imagine some people got the right number, but people were constantly misdialing. Does this seem unusual to anyone else?

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Rick Streeter↩ Single White Male

I thought about that.....but I think you have to imagine the scale that we are talking about....there are like, what 5 billion people in NYC and moviephone probably gets 1000's of calls a minute......a wrong one to a number that close every 10 minutes probably isn't that odd......

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Rick Streeter↩ Rick Streeter

But the fact that Elaine AND George called it is a bit unlikely..........

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Dave↩ Adam Sena

Thanks, I also found it on the Web, but I don't have a sound card so I can't tell if the guy says, "Hewwo, and welcome to Movie Phone."

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Lone Locust of the Apocalypse↩ Dave

[email] writes:

I've only used it once or twice so I don't remmeber exactly, but I'm pretty sure he does say that... (we have it also in the SF Bay Area -- in fact I suspect most major metropolitan areas have it...)

www.777film.com works too, so if you find that easier to remember, you can use that also.

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Alexande59↩ Dave

In Boston, it's 333-FILM. Many movie theaters have little buisness-card-type things that say 333-FILM on them...the ones I've seen are black with yellow type. I don't know about New York though.

Michael Alexander