
After all, strangers could steal your phone. Now that there are no phone booths, asking someone you see if you might make a quick call for a taxi when you break your phone or asking if you can call and see where your ride is at in transit are both very commonly given reasons. Many of us have handed our phones to a stranger in need. Of course, you can always be sneaky about things instead.
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Beyond that, there’s voice changing software that will help keep them anonymous. From burner phones registered to fake name to blocked numbers, the Crank Yankers will either find ways to adapt and overcome or getting caught will become a big part of the show. However, for every advance, there is an equal and opposite advance. Most people these days have phones that show the caller ID.

Perhaps answering machine gags will be part of the new norm for prank calling. It just means they’ll have to work harder for their jokes. People are less likely to answer a call from a number they don’t know, but that won’t leave the Crank Yankers totally high and dry. Instead, they have changed with the times and will no doubt be using cell phones instead. The New Crank Yankers will not be using the ubiquitous landline phones. You’d be hard-pressed even to find one outside a museum. As strange as it may seem to mature generations, there are plenty of people now, adult people, who have never used a phone booth at all. However, as cell phone technology advanced the image of someone sitting on a landline phone, slowly phased out of pop culture. Kids being rude on wall mounted telephones or in phone booths was a staple of comedy in the ’90s and early 2000s. Bart was likely a big part of the inspiration for Crank Yankers. The Simpson EffectĪnyone who grew up watching the Simpsons is probably familiar with Bart’s constant harassment of Moe and the many prank calls he made to Moe’s Tavern. Because of the unusual complication, the cast had to record when they were able to travel which made the show somewhat sporadic. As a result of those laws, the cast had to travel to Las Vegas where one-party consent to record is legal. In most places, it’s illegal to record a conversation without the consent of the other person. There were, of course, some complications. The premise was simple they would make prank phone calls as characters they’d invented.

In 2002 Comedy Central picked up a strange and funny show filled with puppets and comedy stars. In order to know what’s different about Crank Yankers, you need to take a look back at the original.
