These over 30 bear in mind the ache: that leap scare of dialing a telephone quantity solely to be met with the piercing sounds of a fax machine reply tone — the uninvited cousin of the dial-up modem.
That's precisely what The Wonder Years star Fred Savage heard each time he tried to name Alicia Silverstone after they met filming an episode of his household sitcom in 1992.
The Surprise Years season 5, episode 11 was Silverstone's first on-screen function. Within the episode, "Fred Savage's character [Kevin Arnold] asks me on a date and I say, 'Choose me up at seven,' or one thing," Silverstone tells Leisure Weekly. "And that's what makes him determine he must get on it and learn to drive."
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Savage hoped to attach with Silverstone after filming. "Fred requested me for my quantity, which was actually candy, 'trigger I used to be 14. My house telephone quantity was additionally [used for] a fax machine of my dad's work. So he had tried calling that a couple of occasions, and it simply went straight to fax. So he thought I gave him a pretend quantity or one thing."
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Silverstone — who just lately graced the quilt of EW's '90s Subject — says they’ve "since corrected the state of affairs."
However not all her Surprise Years connections had been missed. The Clueless alum (who will reprise her function as Cher Horowitz in an upcoming sequel collection) says she and Josh Saviano, who performed Kevin's finest good friend Paul on all six seasons of the ABC collection, "grew to become excellent pals."
"I don't understand how our change of numbers labored," she says with fun, "however that labored."
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Silverstone shared the fax machine anecdote as half of a bigger cruise down Reminiscence Lane, trying again at her iconic '90s roles, together with The Crush, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Previous, and extra. You may as well watch the video interview in full above.
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