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Mike Biel explains what went on behind the scenes:
Now about Phil's sound effect--you might want to add this explanation.
It was not impromptu. He came into the studio that day saying that he had discovered a great phone dialing vocal sound effect, but he wasn't going to let us hear it until he did it on the program. It was so fantastic he wanted to spring it on us on the air. He had been thinking about it all week--but apparently he had no idea what it sounded like on the outside where WE hear it.
As you can hear on the tape he had no idea why we were all doubled over in pain from laughing so hard. The puzzled look on his face was priceless.
When the bit began, Bill Stock was on the floor because he had to use the low mic on the sound truck for the phone ringer box. The extension cord on the ringer wasn't long enough to allow him to stand behind the sound truck. It was good he was already on the floor, since he usually was the only one standing, he might have hurt himself falling. After the third or fourth dialing everybody looked at me, since I was the only one hearing it thru a microphone. I nodded my head "Yes" and went into convulsive laughter, at which point Bob, Bill, Barry Berg, and Stephenie Winge all became hysterical!
This became only the second time that we ever stopped tape and redid a bit. The aired version itself--although not as funny--was also risque. The punchline was that this college girl was telling her mother that she was safe during the blackout because she was spending the night in a fraternity house.