Reminds me of the Simpsons. Someone starts giving the number, “555…”
And Homer says, “555? That’s obviously fake!”
Another from Vengeance Most Fowl: during the chase the need to grab some vegetables from a farmer, who’s the farmer from Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep films.
BTW, the “Onya Doorstep” reporter is voiced by Diane Morgan aka Philomena Cunk.
And also, on the lightning slow canal chase, the name of Feather’s barge is “The Accrington Queen”.
The UK TV series Alli!Allo! pulled that gag too. And way back in the 50s, the BBC radio show The Goons invented, for connoisseurs of rhyming slang, a sports reporter called Hugh Jampton. (There is a London suburb called Hampton Wick - apparently no BBC bigwig noticed).
Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once. I’ve seen 'Allo 'Allo (though not every episode), and I don’t remember a Jack Hughes.
If you ever get the chance to see The Games, I highly recommend it.
There is one episode where the Colonel and Lieutenant are trying to avoid the blame for yet another failure in regard to the knockwurst with the Fallen Madonna&c&c. The Lt makes it clear that if he’s fingered he will denounce the Colonel, with a dramatic “J’accuse!”, to which Helga says “Who is Jack Hughes?”
(The writers nicked quite a few gags - on top of the basic skit - there’s one from Tati’s M. Hulot’s Holiday)
They did a similar gag on News Radio. Jimmy James, the rich and egotistical station owner, spends the entire episode trying to get the phone number of an attractive woman. Finally she writes it down and hands it to him. After she leaves, he looks at the paper triumphantly.
“555? Wait a minute, this is one of those fake telephone numbers!”
And they riff on this, in The Last Action Hero, when the kid is trying to convince Arnold that they’re in a movie. “All the phone numbers start with 555! That means there can only be 9,999 phone numbers in a city with millions of people!” “That’s what area codes are for!”
The 555 joke is also used in Family Guy in its “Stand By Me” parody:
In Delicatessen, one resident of the post-apocalyptic apartment building is shown mending a condom, which has two patches on it…in front of his two children.