The Babysitter.

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When Alice is giving her phone number to the woman looking for a babysitter whenever she says "zero" it sounds like a voice over. I also noticed when Ralph ran in & said he called the number his "zero" sounded like a voice over as well. It happens a few times & I was wondering if anyone else had caught that?

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When Alice is giving her phone number to the woman looking for a babysitter whenever she says "zero" it sounds like a voice over. I also noticed when Ralph ran in & said he called the number his "zero" sounded like a voice over as well. It happens a few times & I was wondering if anyone else had caught that?

It was over-dubbed. The original exchange was BEnsonhurst 3. It aired that way in syndication for several years, until apparently someone complained that it was a real phone number. They dubbed BEnsonhurst "Zero", since no real phone numbers had a zero in the exchange. It's one of the reasons why nowadays in film and TV they use "555" as an exchange......because it doesn't exist in reality. :wave:

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Oh okay thanks for the info. :wave:

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It was over-dubbed. The original exchange was BEnsonhurst 3. It aired that way in syndication for several years, until apparently someone complained that it was a real phone number. They dubbed BEnsonhurst "Zero", since no real phone numbers had a zero in the exchange. It's one of the reasons why nowadays in film and TV they use "555" as an exchange......because it doesn't exist in reality. :wave:
Or, in the case of a 1966 Mad magazine piece on telephone solicitors, using letters that at the time weren't used for phone calling ("Call QZ 1-2345"
or something like that).