Throughout the ‘80s and early ‘90s, there were certainly some pretty damn weird pop-culture-themed 900 numbers. For a small (rapidly escalating as every minute passes) fee, you could use your touch-tone phone to call, say, pop-culture icon Captain Kirk or child-murderer Freddy Krueger or Mac, the McDonald’s-loving alien from Mac and Me. But really, who would want to talk to that grotesque creature — other than Steven Spielberg’s attorneys, of course.
Back in 1990, Mark Frost and David Lynch’s surreal mystery/soap opera/coffee and cherry pie porn Twin Peaks also attempted to cash in on the 900 number craze, launching the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Hotline — which hopefully no one called in need of actual emergency assistance. The premise of the phone number was that you would be connected to Lucy at the police station, and she, along with other actors, would fill you in on the “latest clues and updates” in the world of Twin Peaks.