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?

[VIDEOWACK]

Originally Posted by AndAwayWeGo

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.

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Oh okay thanks for the info.

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Originally Posted by VIDEOWACK

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.

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).