I never understood the attraction of Prank Phone calls. I can almost understand the humor and thrill of actually making a prank call, that sense of playing off the cuff and adlibbing nonsense to mess with people. However, I just can’t understand listening to prank calls. They strike me as very Three’s Company humor and that show always made me have to leave the room.
A few years ago the Jerky Boys were so popular they got their own movie. And that was a dumb idea. I would hope that as time passed people would get a little smarter, but no.
I listen to this alternative station out of Chicago whenever I hit the region. Unless, of course, it’s around the afternoon rush hour. Then they have the hourly “Phone Tap” where some obnoxious wench calls people and pretends to be someone else. The effect is truly enhanced by the fact she always talks through her nose. As soon as it approaches ten past the hour on that drive I turn the channel. And usually don’t bother to go back.
On the bright side if you hit Chicago around noonish you can hear Electra’s Last Letter Game, which normally plays some pretty off the wall stuff. Hence the reason I keep going back to that station. I know they have good music, but damn I hate prank calls.
Tune in next time, whenever that may be, for more things that you love and I hate.
Amanda | 21-Apr-08 at 1:06 pm | Permalink
I dunno - there was a DJ in Detroit (Dick Purtan) who did prank calls, and some of them were freaking hilarious. Like the time he called the meat dept of an A&P grocery and complained about his “chicken kit.” He did it with a really thick Pogo-esque drawl, and had the meat dept manager in fits. Purtan complained that his “chicken kit” had too many legs, and not enough heads to put the chicken together right, and that he couldn’t get superglue or epoxy to make the parts stick.
It took the manager about 10 minutes of this to realize that Purtan was talking about a “pick-o-the-chix”