Telephone operator

The Telephone Operator is a human from the live-action movie continuity family

Let your fingers do the picking walking.

Hello and thank you for calling our 24-hour international help desk line. Para Espanol, priense dos. To continue in English, please hold for the Telephone Operator.

Please continue to hold. You are a valued customer!

Please remember to speak slowly, clearly, loudly, and directly into your phone headset. Please also realize that getting angry is not going to make this go any faster at all.

Fiction

Transformers (2007)

Actor: Ravi Patel (English)

When Captain Lennox's team was being chased by Scorponok near a small village in Qatar, the soldiers attempted to contact the Pentagon in order to call in an airstrike. Amidst the chaos they found a phone, thanks to Akram, but then Lennox had to deal with the telephone operator--who was completely bored by the situation, picking his nose and chiding Lennox for raising his voice at him, while at the same time inviting him to upgrade his service plan. Lennox had more important things to worry about, and after some strategic hollering (and finally finding a credit card among Epps' many, many pockets) the operator finally put the call through. Transformers

Notes

• The character is not named in the film. His proper title is given in the closing credits.

• According to director Michael Bay in Transformers' DVD commentary, this scene was inspired by a story told to him by US Navy SEALS about a similar situation during the 1983 US Invasion of Grenada.