Dr. Davis, telephone please.
So there is this sound clip out there, which I originally heard at the beginning Queensryche’s Operation Mindcrime album, way back in 1988. Since that time, I’ve heard the clip on hundreds of films and television programs, the fact is if there is a scene in a hospital there seems to be a pretty good chance the clip will be included.
I’ve actually had a bit of a laugh recognizing the sound bite in various movies, and after hearing it in a movie tonight, I figured I would compile a list of everyplace the clip appears, since the origin of the clip appears unknown. People collect all sorts of stupid things on the web, this is just my little contribution.
If you come across an instance of the sound clip in a film somewhere, post a comment to the message or contact me directly.
For the record the sound clip is transcribed below, I’ll add a link to the clip once I get an audio version of it… now where the heck is that Queensryce cassette?
“Dr. Davis, telephone please Dr. Davis, telephone please Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. Hamilton”
Movies
- Blue Sunshine (1976)
- The Fantastic Four (1994) via Dethboy
- Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)
- The St. Tammany Miracle (1994) via Gabe
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) Unconfirmed
- Catch Me If You Can (1989) Unconfirmed
- Article 99 (1992) Unconfirmed
Music
Television
Random
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This clip was used in the original Roger Corman Fantastic Four movie..
I also heard it in an episode of Married with Children, but i couldnt say which one.
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Hmm, I’ll have to keep my eye’s open for the Married with Children episode. I don’t remember any taking place in a hospital, so it shouldn’t be that hard to track down.
As for the FF film, I thought that movie never saw the light of day? Is there a bootleg copy floating around? I would love to check it out as I love a bad movie.
Thanks for the information, I’ll update the list.
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I found it on some torrent site, it’s not there right now, but if you check reuglarly is should reappear sooner or later.
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Yeah, after I hit submit I thought, of course there is a copy out there… it’s the internet.
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It took nearly 60 days from the time I began started this thread to catch my next instance of the quote, but I’ve now added the Full Moon production of “Dark Angel” to the list.
More to come soon, I hope.
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Check out Motley Crue’s Dr. Feelgood and I heard it on an ABC new broadcast this evening. I’m glad I’m not the only one who has caught on to this. Kind of funny.
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It’s definitely at the beginning of Dr. Feelgood (as mentioned above), and it’s also in a super-cheesy movie with Mark-Paul Gosselaar and the girl from Punky Brewster called “Heavenly Hoops” (originally titled “The St. Tammany Miracle” according to IMDB, it’s a straight to video thing). I’ve noticed it in other things as well, although I don’t know for sure where. Is it some kind of in-joke with sound effects guys or something?
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I like the in-joke suggestion. It seems to appear a little too often to be a coincidence. I mean isn’t there another stock hospital sound in Hollywood?
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Just heard it on Nip/Tuck on the episode Shari Noble
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naughty by nature’s “ghetto bastard” also has it in the beginning.
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“Kids in the Hall” use it in many of their hospital scenes.
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I just saw the movie “The Cooler” with William H Macy and the line was in that movie too. I’ve also heard it on NCIS and CSI.
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The first time I heard it was in the the song Catapult, I’ve heard it in a number of movies and TV shows. I found it rather amusing. The inside-joke thing doesn’t seem that far off.
I heard it in a movie on Sundance once and that surprised me since it was a documentary. That’s when I decided to search the line on the web, but I thought it was “Doctor David” so I didn’t find anything. At this point I no longer remember the title of the documentary.
I found this page by looking for the Phish song.
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After a quick look around Phish’s website I found the following entry:
http://www.phish.com/letters/index.php?year=1994&month=4#sectnav
We can say the origin of distribution of the full clip may be from a “sound effects album”, but we can’t say that is the first source.
I guess we wont know that until we find out who produced this album. We do know this album is at least 20 years old.
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This clip was also used as an intro to the song “Sedatives” on the Hell’s Pit album by ICP.
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Heard it last night on a tv show called Spiders: The Dark Side.
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As an avid Queensryche fan I’ve heard this sound everywhere. I’m glad I found this site confirming I’m not insane
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It’s also in Death Wish 3.
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I heard it last weekend in a movie called “The State Within”
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It’s also on the Motley Crue track “Terror ‘n’ Tinseltown,” the first track on the Dr. Feelgood album.
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I’m so glad I’m not the only person that’s heard it everywhere since hearing it on the Queensryche album (and then on the Motley Crue shortly afterwards)!
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This clip was in a new movie called The Savages with Philip Seymoure Hoffmans
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the dr davis clip also appears on the motley crue dr feelgood album and on the national geographic documentary called Spiders: The Dark Side.
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I’ve also had the same experience. I just heard it in Nip/Tuck episode 73. My wife was just watching it and I made here rewind it. The segment of the clip plaid was just the “Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair” part.
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I am at this time watching Charles Bronson in “Death Wish 3″ …yea not much goin on here.But that same lame weak cheesie cliche’ clip is in this film as well.After hearing it for the last 20 years i felt compelled to google it.I googled (Dr. Davis telephone) and your site came up 1st.That real of audio really gets on my nerves.Why the hell dont they get some new ones already?
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I noticed this clip being used over and over years ago in the soap “Another World”…they broke it in two, so that the Dr. Davis part was one page heard in the hospital occasionally, and the Dr. Blair/Hamilton part was used a lot in the background.
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Got one for ya, the 2007 flick Anamorph. Roughly an hour and 9 min. in.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497323/
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I also heard it in The Savages (2007)
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This is like Wilhems Scream that you hear in many movies, it is a cliche from a popular sound effect library, I personally heard it in Operation Mindcrime from Queensryche, last time I heard it in Anamorph movie. and I decided to Google it and here I am.
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Just heard this on the movie Juice with Tupac Shakur. Had heard it on Queensryche’s Mindcrime and many other places. Then I found this site confirming I’m not crazy. Wild.
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the movie, “the savages”
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Another Queensryche fan here, I hear that tune everywhere too.
I remember a 80 movie I guess with John Cusak which expend a Christmas night on a hospital with a pregnant woman, but I couldn’t find the movie.
If somebody remember it, very Welcome.
I believe this isn’t by far an stupid list.
I’m very should a lot of people are very curious about this “tune”.
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Just Heard it in the chapter 16 of the first season of Prison Break, to be exactly at 7 min 32 seconds.
I love this tune
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Yes, thank goodness I’m not the only person that has picked up on this ubiquitous audio clip. I, too, have been hearing this audio clip EVERYWHERE since Queensryche’s first Operation Mindcrime album way back in the 80’s, and thought the album must have made me crazy or something. This seems to be the only hospital-related soundbite circulating in Hollywood. Interesting.
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Just heard it on a radio commercial for a Detroit Tigers game(they won by the way) I also heard it for the first time on “Mindcrime” and now that I am a rock d-j, I am going to find that clip and use it at every opportunity!
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You mean I can stop prescribing myself Haloperidol? Its only a sound byte???
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Just heard it on a CBC radio show, Afghanada. I am also a big Queensryche fan, Mindcrime being my favourite album.
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Thanx a lot for the list!!! The same with me too: thought it was recorded by Queensryche but then heard the same clip on TV some time in the 90s and just started to listen to Dr. Feelgood album to discover it was there too.
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just heard it in the HBO bio flick “Gia” with angelina jolie