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Telephone Numbers In The Last Action Hero

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Telephone numbers with the prefix 555 are widely used for fictitious telephone numbers in North American television shows, films, video games, and other media.

During the 1960s phone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers.

In an in-joke, 555 numbers are mentioned in the 1993 action film The Last Action Hero, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The character of Danny Madigan tries to convince Schwarzenegger 's character that he is inside a movie by pointing out that 555 numbers give at most 9,999 possible telephone numbers, Schwarzenegger 's character replies that area codes would solve that problem and O 'Brien 's character drops the subject.

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