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|title=<center>''1-900-490-FREAK (lost audio from an interactive 1900 number; 1987-1995)</center>
|title=<center>1-900-490-FREAK (audio)</center>
|image=Freddie.jpg
|image=Freddie.jpg
|imagecaption=A screenshot of a commercial advertising the phone line
|imagecaption=A screenshot of a commercial advertising the phone line.
|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
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'''''1-900-490-FREAK''''', most known for its commercial, is an interactive 1900 number that was mostly geared towards kids and teenagers. When someone would call the number, the caller would be given a choice from leaving a recording, hearing a recording, leave a message to '''''Freddie Freaker''''', the mascot for the 1900 phone line, and learn what's popular and what wasn't. A large majority of the recordings were rap songs, while others were jokes, weird sounds, and party locations. The most creative of the recordings would even get broadcasted on the phone in its own section and the people who managed to get their recordings there would be known as a "Freak Phone Star."<ref>
''1-900-490-FREAK'', mostly known for its commercial, was an interactive 1900 number that mostly geared towards kids and teenagers. When someone would call the number, the caller would be given a choice from leaving a recording, hearing a recording, leave a message to Freddie Freaker - the mascot for the 1900 phone line - and learn what's popular and what wasn't.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20180313131459/https://break.com/article/what-was-the-freddy-freaker-puppet-900-number-2684769 Archived Break article on Freddy Freaker and it's creator.] Retrieved 05 Jun '20</ref>
 
A large majority of the recordings were rap songs, while others were jokes, weird sounds, and party locations. The most creative of the recordings would even get broadcasted on the phone in its own section, and the people who managed to get their recordings there would be known as a "Freak Phone Star."
 
It became a huge hit with MTV audiences and callers to a point where people would often ask for official Freddie Freaker merchandise. These plans never came to fruition at the time due to the company that owned the phone line (Starwest Entertainment) wanting to focus more on developing the phone programs and because of prototyping costs.
 
Kevin Leto (The co-creator of Freddie) described what would happen if you called the number: <blockquote>"You could make funny recordings, freaky messages, record rap tunes, leave a message for Freddie, hear about what's freakin, anything and everything. The majority of the messages were user created rap tunes. Some were really good rappers. Then we had a section to hear the best recordings".</blockquote>


It became a huge hit with ''MTV'' audiences and callers to a point where people would often ask for official merchandise of Freddie Freaker to a point where the creators couldn't be able to listen to them all. It was eventually shelved during the time because the company who owned the phone line wanted to focus more on developing more phone programs and because of the cost prototyping was.
Kevin Leto (The co creator of Freddie) said this is what would happen if you called the number: "You could make funny recordings, freaky messages, record rap tunes, leave a message for Freddie, hear about what's freakin, anything and everything. Majority of the messages were user created rap tunes. Some were really good rappers. Then we had a section to hear the best recordings."<ref>https://freddiefreaker.wikia.com/wiki/1-900-490-FREAK</ref>
==Devotion==
There was a tumblr page devoted to fuckyeafreddyfreaker on July 31st 2014. Beaker.com wrote about the character and spoke to Simmons about what he knew of the project. There, it was revealed that the terms "The Party Freak" and "Freddie Freaker" were trademarked in 1988 and cancelled in the mid-90s.<ref>https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freddie-freaker?full=1</ref>
==Availability==
==Availability==
Most of what was recorded on the phone line were recorded on physical tape machines and are still in storage to this day. However, none of the recordings of the Freak Phone Stars was ever shown online neither the ones that weren't featured. But with thoughts of reviving the phone line's mascot, it is possible that we're able to hear these recordings any time soon.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreddieFreaker/ A Facebook group talking about Freddie Freaker] Retrieved 10 Jun '18</ref>
Most of what was recorded on the phone line were recorded on physical tape machines and are still in storage to this day. However, '''none of the recordings of the Freak Phone Stars have been released online'''. With thoughts of reviving the phone line's mascot, it is possible that these recordings could be heard in the future.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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  |description2 =The 2nd commercial.
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==External Links==
*[https://freddiefreaker.wikia.com/wiki/1-900-490-FREAK The Wikia page on ''1-900-490-FREAK''.]
*[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freddie-freaker?full=1 The KnowYourMeme page on Freddie Freaker.]
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreddieFreaker/ A Facebook group talking about Freddie Freaker.]


==References==
==Reference==
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Revision as of 01:56, 14 July 2021

Freddie.jpg

A screenshot of a commercial advertising the phone line.

Status: Lost

1-900-490-FREAK, mostly known for its commercial, was an interactive 1900 number that mostly geared towards kids and teenagers. When someone would call the number, the caller would be given a choice from leaving a recording, hearing a recording, leave a message to Freddie Freaker - the mascot for the 1900 phone line - and learn what's popular and what wasn't.[1]

A large majority of the recordings were rap songs, while others were jokes, weird sounds, and party locations. The most creative of the recordings would even get broadcasted on the phone in its own section, and the people who managed to get their recordings there would be known as a "Freak Phone Star."

It became a huge hit with MTV audiences and callers to a point where people would often ask for official Freddie Freaker merchandise. These plans never came to fruition at the time due to the company that owned the phone line (Starwest Entertainment) wanting to focus more on developing the phone programs and because of prototyping costs.

Kevin Leto (The co-creator of Freddie) described what would happen if you called the number:

"You could make funny recordings, freaky messages, record rap tunes, leave a message for Freddie, hear about what's freakin, anything and everything. The majority of the messages were user created rap tunes. Some were really good rappers. Then we had a section to hear the best recordings".

Availability

Most of what was recorded on the phone line were recorded on physical tape machines and are still in storage to this day. However, none of the recordings of the Freak Phone Stars have been released online. With thoughts of reviving the phone line's mascot, it is possible that these recordings could be heard in the future.

Gallery

A commercial that was used on MTV to advertise the phone number.

The 2nd commercial.

External Links

Reference