Pagers are great in the middle of a crisis; at least some of our favourite TV characters certainly think so. Who could forget Ross' numerous calls from a male prostitute in friends or the episode of Scrubs where Dr Cox finds J.D's pager? Here are the best TV moments involving pagers.
The One with the Ick Factor
With Carol about to give birth at any moment, Ross decides that he needs a pager. However, his pager number 55-JIMBO receives numerous calls intended for a male prostitute with a similar number. Ross gets fed up with his new device until his ex-wife pages and lets him know that she is now in labour, reminding viewers that pagers really can save the day.
In a subsequent episode of friends, Joey finds that pagers can have other uses when he places adverts all over his apartment asking the hot girl that waved at him to call him on his pager. Unfortunately, Joey's plan backfires when the hot girl agrees to go on a date with Ross.
Scrubs
The Scrubs doctors are rarely without their pagers and know exactly how important they are in an emergency situation. Some of the funniest moments in the series involve pagers, and who can forget the episode where Dr Cox finds J.D's pager next to a can of Fresca and a dog-eared copy of Teen People magazine?
Dr Cox is furious that J.D doesn't have his pager on him and threatens to page him every 20 minutes on his day off, stating that if J.D doesn't answer every last page he'll shove the device so far down his throat that he'll need to tinkle every time it goes off! However, Dr Cox doesn't go ahead with his empty threat and instead chucks J.D's pager into the car park where it is last heard beeping manically in the bushes.
In a later episode, J.D has a novel way of remembering Dr Cox's pager number with his own pager song "Dr Cox at my door, Pager number 324".
The Wire
One of the best episodes of The Wire is named after pagers. In the 2002 episode 'The Pager' Avon Barksdale, a drug-dealer, shows just how careful his crew are about using pagers. McNulty's team get permission to clone the crew's beepers and they start monitoring payphones to see which numbers are being called. However, the numbers that they receive from the cloned pagers are all in code. The code looks extremely complicated, but the office klutz, 'Pres' manages to break it at towards the end of the first season, giving him a minor victory over his colleagues.
Grey's Anatomy
The Scrubs doctors aren't the only medics with pagers. During the episode "Where the Wild Things Are" the residents have a competition running to see who can get the most surgical procedures in order to win points. Meredith suspects that a patient who has been behaving oddly has a brain tumour and this wins her the grand prize of a jewel encrusted pager. All the residents have to page her for the next three months whenever they have a surgery and she can choose to take it if she wants. Later on in the episode, Meredith shows what a good friend she is by giving the sacred sparkle pager to Cristina to cheer up her friend, after she turns down other pick-me-ups like tequila.
Jenny Kettlewell is the Marketing Manager for Multitone Systems, a telecommunications strategy company that has provided pagers and implemented paging systems for organisations in the public and private sector for many years.
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