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5:44 pm
November 23, 2010
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I am watching the series from start to finish again and in one episode (can't remember the title but it's the one where Castle makes the date with the prostitute in season one) he quotes his number as 347-555-0179. In Season 2 Love Me Dead, Scarlett Price's phone number is 212-555-0179. To add to that, in Knockdown Hal Lockwood's number is 917- 555-0176.
Starting to remind me of the X-Files and Chris Carter's fixation on the number 1013
6:26 pm
January 15, 2010
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Wow. You are beyond detail-oriented! It amazes me what some people catch in this show.
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7:14 pm
March 8, 2010
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Jack Skellington said:
I am watching the series from start to finish again and in one episode (can't remember the title but it's the one where Castle makes the date with the prostitute in season one) he quotes his number as 347-555-0179. In Season 2 Love Me Dead, Scarlett Price's phone number is 212-555-0179. To add to that, in Knockdown Hal Lockwood's number is 917- 555-0176.
Starting to remind me of the X-Files and Chris Carter's fixation on the number 1013
So, a secret message?
8:15 pm
November 23, 2010
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dmcw said:
I work from home so this is about the 5th time I have watched the series from start to current.
8:34 pm
January 5, 2010
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I've noticed in a lot of movies that the phone number XXX-555-XXXX is used. Must be a trade secret!
8:49 pm
March 8, 2010
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Nev827 said:
I've noticed in a lot of movies that the phone number XXX-555-XXXX is used. Must be a trade secret!
I read somewhere, years ago, that the actual prefix of 555 does not exist, it's never used. So, if a TV show uses a number with valid prefix then some poor sap get a billion phone calls from people who want to try the number. But if they use 555 then it's not a "real" phone number and goes nowhere when you dial it.
9:23 pm
November 23, 2010
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The 555 definitely doesnt exist. 555-0100 through 555-0199 are specifically reserved for using in tv/movies/books/etc In fact if you go all the way back into the 50's, many shows give the number as "KL5" or "Klondike5"(K and L are #5 on the phone). It was more the 0179 that had been used in multiple episodes and now 0176 that stood out to me.
9:34 pm
January 5, 2010
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Leftfield said:
Nev827 said:
I've noticed in a lot of movies that the phone number XXX-555-XXXX is used. Must be a trade secret!
I read somewhere, years ago, that the actual prefix of 555 does not exist, it's never used. So, if a TV show uses a number with valid prefix then some poor sap get a billion phone calls from people who want to try the number. But if they use 555 then it's not a "real" phone number and goes nowhere when you dial it.
That's always what I thought too. Just like the phone company stopped issuing the phone number 867-5309 after it became a hit song in the 80s. And Jack confirmed what I always thought too – that it is used exclusively in TV/movies/etc.
2:10 am
November 23, 2010
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It gets better. In Sucker Punch they pull the sim card from Jack Coonan's phone. They say that they can read all but the last two numbers (212-555-01XX). Castle says that leaves 99 possibilities. Esposito says that the numbers all belong to the same trunk. The FBI. Based on that, Scarlett Price the hooker from Love Me Dead is an FBI agent
12:42 pm
October 28, 2009
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Jack Skellington said:
dmcw said:
I work from home so this is about the 5th time I have watched the series from start to current.
haha… why do i think that you don't get much work done? if i worked from home i would be so dooooomed
but thanks for the phone number trivia! i've always wondered about that and now i know… it's sort of like the ongoing joke how there have been many tv shows or movies that have airline flights involved would use Oceanic Airlines as a fictional commerical carrier… and then LOST happened!
12:55 pm
March 8, 2010
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Jack Skellington said:
The 555 definitely doesnt exist. 555-0100 through 555-0199 are specifically reserved for using in tv/movies/books/etc In fact if you go all the way back into the 50's, many shows give the number as "KL5" or "Klondike5"(K and L are #5 on the phone). It was more the 0179 that had been used in multiple episodes and now 0176 that stood out to me.
I didn't realize that detail. Thanks for clarifying.
2:42 pm
December 6, 2009
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I went to college with a few guys whose phone number was 867-5309. That was in the late 80s/early 90s so it's possible they've stopped giving out that number now.
As others have said, there are numbers with the 555 prefix that have been reserved for movie/TV use, just like each state has license plates that have been reserved for use on the cars that appear in movies/TV shows. I know I've seen repeat license plates on NCIS quite frequently.
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