The Atone Phone was introduced in the 2007 season during the Jewish High Holidays. Stephen interprets the Ten Days of Repentance to mean that Jewish people should apologize specifically to him, and introduces a hotline (1-888-OOPS-JEW) that Jews can call to apologize for anything that they may have done to "wrong" Stephen. The phone occasionally rings during the show, with an old style bell ringer that rings to the tune of Hava Nagila. The segment is reintroduced every season during the High Holidays, and each subsequent season it is revealed that the number to call has to be shared with another hotline that shares the same number, first 1-888-MOPS-KEY and later 1-888-MOSS-LEW., 1-888-MOS-PLEX, and 1-888-NORS-LEZ.
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Famous quotes containing the words atone and/or phone:
“Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)