Telephone number 776-2323 on a pager for Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) to call if he needed God's help. The DVD changes this to a 555 number. According to Universal Studios, which produced the movie, the number it used was picked because it did not exist in Buffalo, New York, where the movie was set. However, the number "did" exist in other cities, resulting in customers' having that number receiving random calls from people asking for God. While some played along with the gag, others found the calls aggravating. The number in the Glenn Miller Orchestra's hit song "Pennsylvania 6-5000" (1940) is the
Glenn Miller Orchestra it out on the dances at the Glenn Island Casino, and they loved it. They couldn't figure out how we knew when to come in loud. But, you know, I told them, "Well, we have a sixth sense of that sort of thing." But actually, what happened is the drummer hit the cowbell, and we knew the next time was loud. And this was all Glenn's doing. On February 5, 1940, Miller recorded "Tuxedo Junction", which hit number-one hit and reportedly sold 115,000 copies within the first week of release, and placed 7th overall for the National Hit Parade that