Oddity Archive: Episode 68 - 1-900 ARCHIVE Vol. 2 (Operators Aren't Standing By!) (UNCUT)
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2017
- At the time that this episode first dropped, it was hit with a claim from a certain billion-dollar wrastlin’ organization over one of the ads-problem was, nothing in the episode belonged to them. In short, they were willing to fight to the death over it and I wasn’t.
Thanks to a cease-and-desist order on the part of the ACTUAL owner of the aforementioned ad, we are now able to present this episode uncut.
Stats from original posting:
Views: 16,487
Likes: 263
Dislikes: 4
Original Tagline: You asked, we delivered. $74.13 will now be added to your phone bill.
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"HEY KIDS DID YOU EVER WANT TO CALL A TABLE? WELL, NOW YOU CAN! CALL 1-900-IM-A-FUCKIN-TABLE FOR GREAT TABLE ADVENTURES- BECAUSE TABLES GO ON A LOT OF FUCKIN ADVENTURES" - nostalgia critic
Oh my god I'm choking. Santa clause and a smut line have the same phone number
And said phone number has 666 in it.
I called the laugh line when I was a kid (1-900-505-1212). When the guy asks "you called, what did you hear?" and she laughs... that's LITERALLY THE LAUGH LINE. It LAUGHS AT YOU.
Occasionally tells an unfunny tale... mostly laughs in your face.
I called 12 times.
New York Telephone used to have "Dial a joke" line in the New Yorkarea.
hA dUmB bItCh YoU jUsT gAvE uS mUnNi DuMbAsS -laugh line
That little shriek at around 6:39 cracks me up every single time. It's great to finally see this episode as it was originally meant to be seen!
The rumor of DTMF tones that would auto dial numbers if a phone just happened to be off the hook at the time the ad was playing. I think that is from those rapid digital beep strings you used to get spurts of on channels like USA or TBS in the 80s 90s in between idents and commercials and programs resuming. I'd hear it outside of 900 commercials, so, it wasn't that. I get the basis of the rumor because: it happened more frequently in late hours for whatever reason.
TV stations were using DTMF tones back then to control broadcasting equipment as well, so it makes sense that you might have heard a couple of tones at some weird times.
They were used in the US for local ad insertion, to mark the cue points where a local TV station might insert local ads that weren’t carried on the satellite feed from the network.
Also, that LMaD phone game ended up being a scam, w/most "winners" never receiving the prizes they were supposed to get...the company running the game ended up paying out a class-action settlement during the mid-90s.
Yes I remember watching those ads as a Kid on USA's game show block.
@@newstarcadefan - Same here!
So great to see this one with the missed ad finally restored! Take that, out of touch billion-dollar wrastlin' organization!
The Blondie cover at the beginning is hilarious.
"I draw the cards, and they reveal...The two maidens...and...the...chalice. The cards are winding me up."
Jojo got rich and built a pretty big psychic hotline company for a while. I think she retired with her money before risking getting sued.
You think she retired, but IT WAS ME! DIO!
Well, of course. She didn't have a law alliance and magic missiles aren't admissible in court.
@@natedash11 a man of culture
What makes people break down and cry like this?
*Calls weird crying hotline.
"The Original Trilogy was never that good!"
*cries
That's a meme waiting to happen.
22:03 "IT'S waiting for you!"
The most honesty in one of these 900 number commercials, ever.
I have a feeling that the 1-900 number shared by the Santa line and the adult entertainment line were run by the same company, and they'd run the Santa line during the Christmas season and the adult line the rest of the year.
I have a feeling you're correct.
this makes me very worried that it was actually possible for some unlucky kid to decide they wanted to talk to santa outside of christmas, and would then proceed to be greeted with a not-so appropriate message on the other end
A company called PrimeTel buys up defunct 1-800 numbers, and depending on the time of day, they either go to DirecTV, Life Alert, or an adult talk line.
I’m from the future and this video is still awesome.
Please get 1-900 ARCHIVE Vol. 3 going. Are Operators Standing by for our orders?
Ah a reverse re-edit only this time (Unlike Record Ripoffs Vol 4.) This is uncut. Maybe now we can get those views back up. Finally seeing the ad from GLOW makes me happy, and makes even Ed happy.
newstarcadefan At least it wasn't Wrestlelicious or Women of Wrestling. Brian Zane suffered for that.
"Run, Jane, Run".
"Take your clothes off, Jane".
9:04 Yes, that commercial DID sample the ticking clock from Pink Floyd's "Time".
Reminds me of the 80s movie 976-Evil in which a boy keeps calling a 976 number that tells scary stories but by calling it he's unknowingly opening the gates to hell. If I'm not mistaken it was directed by Wes Craven. Also as a child of the 80s and 90s I vividly remember all the 900 numbers. It seemed like anything that was popular in the 80s had a number you could call both for adults and kids. I remember my mom telling me as a kid that the Santa hotline was just a scam to get money and I was forbidden to call it. However one night an ad came on the tv for the 900 number and it basically said Who do you think is the hottest man in Hollywood? Call now and tell us! I remember being surprised to see my mom (who normally hated those commercials) dialing the number and when asked by a recording to name the hottest man in Hollywood my mom yelled" Mel Gibson !! "And quickly hung up the phone. Our next phone bill charged her nearly 5 dollars for that call and she was pissed! Lol that was around 89/90 and to this day I still tease her for calling such a dumb hotline. I remember starting around 91 or 92 there wasn't much if any of those numbers aimed at kids anymore. It was mostly a party line one for singles and of course the ones with gorgeous women in bras and panties promising the caller "a good time " they were especially popular on Friday and Saturday nights when USA's Up all night show with Gilbert Gotfried hosting lol. The 80s and early 90s was a strange time. 🤔
When I was a kid, my parents had the 1-900 numbers blocked for obvious reasons.
It's funny how we were thousands of miles apart, but had a similar 900 history: here in Brazil, we also had a system identical to you 1-900 (here it was 0-900), although pricing was optional (it was also used for phone shopping, without actually charging for the call, only credit cards for purchases with operators). However, it was also abused by children, specially in the early to mid 90s when services providing sneak peaks to cartoon show's episodes for the next week started to appear (you'd call and listen to a summary and sound bites of whatever anime or cartoon show was going to air as the next episode). It was also used for sex hot lines, and, more frequently in the late 90s, horoscope and fake astrology (the 900 number in Brazil is now, among the Gen X, synonym with the bizarre "Criswell meets Liberace" Puerto Rican astrologer and con man Walter Mercado - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mercado).
When the state owned phone companies were broken and sold out in the late 90s (similar to how Ma Bell's monopoly ended in America), and all phone service was privatized, new rules and regulations came about - and thus the 900 numbers were closed out and no such service is now allowed. We do have a 0-300 for corporations that allows for a local rate to be charged regardless of where the caller calls from (the difference billed to the company), a 0-500 used only for special cases for non-profit organizations doing Telethons or donations (with a fixed donation value), and a 0-800 for toll free (identical to America's 1-800).
17:10 THAT'S THE OPENING AUDIO FROM NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD!
Not the music, it's literally the ACTUAL SOUND from the first 30 seconds of the movie! Like they just dubbed the audio from the NOTLD tape over their commercial master, ROFL!
I know Romero screwed up the copyrights, making the movie public domain accidentally, but wow! That's just... lazy!
GLOW on the Archive? Crossover with Wrestling with Wregret confirmed.
Another good episode...interesting backstory on the history of 900 and 976 numbers, and never knew there was a phone line for the short-lived series "Mr. Smith" (which was part of NBC's disastrous fall 1983 lineup of such flops as Boone, We Got it Made, and Manimal...not a single series which premiered that September was renewed for a second season!).
It's the same orangutan who in the Clint Eastwood movies Any Which Way You Can and Every Which Way But Loose.
The 4300 number is burned into my memory forever. Every channel I watched as a kid would have multiple adds for Santa Lines and they used to have a jingle with kids singing it like a Christmas Carol. Also, I do remember hearing about the fabled "Hold your phone up to the TV if you can't dial the phone" add but never saw it.
I got in huge trouble when i was a kid for calling 1-900-909-jeff the dj jazzy jeff and fresh prince hotline
What was that hotline like?
They caught on later here, mainly 1990 to 2005, with a peak around 1997. We had the jokes and adult stuff, along with quizes and dial a hit, but for some reason Psychics were the most popular, 6 or 7 pages in the TV guide full of all psychic ads charging $5.99 per minute +GST (12.5% tax) and several scam quizzes where you never won. They were called 0900 numbers here.
0:02 For phone geeks, that's a Webcor 767A SW landline phone.
The "woman" that answers the shared the Santa number is ACTUALLY the guy who plays Santa.
When he said emphasis on the latter, I was like what about us bi girls
You know we had those 1-900 numbers here in the U.K. for a time (ITV regional companies had their own “Helpline” for their region (i.e. Yorkshire Television’s “Christmas Line”, Granada TV’s “Granada Help” (which I presume the advert for used Granada TV’s Pointing G logo!!!) and Various Numbers In The Thames Television/LWT, STV And Anglia regions!) so you Thought America and Canada was Wired!
Speaking of wrestling... WCW (bought by WWE in 2001) was notorious for their hotline so much that Wrestling Observer Newsletter called them out for teasing Ric Flair's death on an ad for the hotline (it turned out to be someone else).
What is going to happen when the Drug dealer gets out of jail and wants his luxury car back, or the pimp caddy you bought gets shot up as opposing pimps thought its original owner was still in it.
1-900-660-6666.... I guess Santa's on his own naught list this year.
ah, hot-lines and 1-something-numbers... We also suffered from a swarm of those things way back in the 90's in Chile; tarot readers, sports and news and the always present chat and adult lines.
I see that you were able to re upload with the Glow footage intact. I know you had a (unwarranted, WWE doesn't own Glow intellectual property) copyright claim from WWE. Good to see it worked out
Hey, greetings from beautiful downtown Aurora, for real. Your vids are fun, and your caustic sense of humor takes a bit to warm up to, but it's classic. Fun stuffs! Can you do a vid about the old Buckingham Mall in Aurora please?
This is a nice change of pace. I was afraid this was going to be yet another re-edit no thanks to greedy copyright holders. Kudos to the actual owners of the ad in question.
Yep, big thanks to Babe The Farmer's Daughter (Ursula Hayden)
I paused the video to find references to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It's an anime based on a manga of the same name, Ben.
The Dire Straits song in question that the Go To Bed line music reminded me of was "Your Latest Trick" from the "Brothers in Arms" album.
21:50 This ad screams late 80's Jailbait 🤣
Loved the _'Jojos'_ line Ben - I lost it!
When I watched the Beavis and Butthead episode when they call the 1-900 number I thought the numbers were short so they couldn't be mistaken for real ones (1-900-LICK, for example) but from this video I learned that was actually possible.
I recall that tarot card one from Detroit (313) when I was a kid!!
What a great way to start the morning. Any chance of a part 3 of this Ben?
One can only hope so. Seems like it won't be the case though.
I'd be down for another dosage of 1-900-ARCHIVE though.
@17:10 they use the library music from Night of the Living Dead. Great episode!
I knew it!! Santa has a 900 with two sets 666 yep the sign of the devil.
I used to hate these ads here in Polk County Florida
Also Ben, is the Dire Straits song you're thinking of Your Latest Trick?
love that intro
i didn't know you could block 900 numbers. Did they phone companies charge for that? Was it a monthly service fee? Seems so sleazy if they did charge monthly.
Local DC area shock jocks Don and Mike had "fun with 1900 numbers calling them, they called Jose Canceco hotline, Robbay called the Tranvestite number, and the Alyssa Milano "Teen Steam" one.
Can psychics give me next week's powerball numbers?
Teletext services in Poland are full of numbers for adults and some of that psycho stuff but they're mostly SMS based services.
Great riffing
I think that Santa phone line with the 666 number that also shared the exact same one with an adult line must have been by different people, because there was an Easter bunny one with that number that also mentioned whoopies and special olympics. I think the phone sex line either sold their number or it was much later.
In 1982, my younger sister and I inadvertently ran up the phone bill calling one of those Santa lines. I made sure to record the calls. Or at least tried.
Yikes! I'm pretty sure your parents had a "talk" with you and your sister when they got to the phone bill.
I got anxiety when I saw the cry line.
i just watched the cutted version wth!
7:18 hold up, a REAL LEATHER?!
Good goddess! I remember seeing some of these as a kid. The 900s are dead now
Press 4 and he says "for"
🎥🎥
That one dude had a killer mullet.
I would love to know which ad that the unnamed wrestling company claimed on if you know specifically Ben.
I believe it was the one at 19:00, which had nothing to do with the unnamed company, aside from them once employing some people from that particular group (who I don't think even feature).
He said in the commentary for this episide that WWW claimed the GLOW ad.
AHAHAHAHAH I remember the one at 10:52 me and all my buddies used to make fun of it at school...
I'm an innocent sheltered boy from the suburbs, so would someone please explain the joke at 23:38 for me?
I really am curious about what all these women are doing now
With how WWE's been buying up video libraries since the early 2000's i'm surprised they don't own GLOW
Ursula Hayden has very, VERY tight reigns on the GLOW name and likenesses, so much so, many of the GLOW girls have to pay a fee to use their original character names when doing live interviews.
Hey, Santa only comes once a year ;)
I wonder if the neon red W set the algorithm off?
5:58 666? Santa? Oh no, Santa...wait, switch and change some letters and he becomes...Satan! OH NO.
EDIT 21:17 EVEN WORSE, it's now the opposite of Santa/Satan! It's...girls...
and question if you won a Chevy vehicle and you live in America would is still count as an imported vehicle?
The Chevrolet Sprint is literally just a Suzuki Cutlus with a Chevy badge glued onto it
Now they do this on apps..
I didn’t demand this
Dire Straits. na I was thinking WHAM! careless whispers.
Hamsters do have lips!
420 add it, that has to be intentional.
oops another 660 6666 hay that's Santa number. or I mean SATAN.
There's this one I recall from my youth as well:
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Would love to hear the story of which ad the WWE thought they owned, can you hint us which one it was?
The ad in question was the one of GLOW towards the end of the video. The WWE doesn't own the rights to anything related to the GLOW promotion back in the day, so why they tried to make a claim is beyond me. Someone over there must have been asleep at the keyboard xD
Potential copyright is robotically flagged by a computer and mailed to the copyright holder. It's whoever does the online copyright litigation's job to investigate and approve infringements.
I don't get the Geiger Counter Joke
A geiger counter is a device used to detect radioactive material in objects.
He's implying that the women in that commercial were fake.
@@wakkowarner5297 That makes even less sense, was he implying that those women were hanging out at Chernobyl and suddenly got massive tittie?
You know what, I'm trans why don't I go there?
finally a vaporwave fetish hotline
16:55 is this a Jojo reference?
At least this isn't another re edit.
#wheresthefairuse
My god, I think there are still some 900 numbers, but why was this ever legal.. OK order Hydrocodone with out a prescription no prob, guess I get it now....
Don't get exited you can't get narcotics as easy nowadays... thank god
@@bradmad8346 Yeah tell that to my mom who suffers from chronic back pain from multiple fractures and has still has trouble getting her pain meds nowadays. Thank God my ass.
Speaking of adds - this video had at least 20 youtube adds, adding about 18 minutes. So I'll set this to loop mode.
Oof...
4/20
"Today's date"
Doobie Brothers, anyone?
11:54 Oh I see...
Oh, it's related...
Because they want you to be good and stoned when you call!
You don't like U2?! You're dead to me, Ben. Unsubscribed. >:P
oops another 660 6666 hay that's Santa number. or I mean SATAN.