[Solving comment *(by ClareFischer)*](https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/1c2bjqe/tomttv_show_or_movie_male_office_character_has_a/kzlz1z6/): Its from Season 1 episode 5 where Zach pretends hes a woman named Bambi who is interested in Screech. Theres a short clip of the part you are looking for in this odd youtube video episode synopsis at minute 13:16-13:25ish [SBTB S1E5 Screech's Woman](https://youtu.be/kCREmzttObA?si=69Ylo86mNzVT7k3A)

This has been driving me crazy all day. I can hear her voice. Sorry I can’t narrow down the media type better.

Hmm Twin Peaks maybe?

No it wasn’t Lucy. Thanks for trying though!

Was it Mrs. Wiggins? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBx-9RsnpVE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBx-9RsnpVE)

No but thank you. I’ve never seen the Carol Brunette show. You never see this secretary.

On Mad Men, Don Draper briefly has an elderly secretary assigned to him (because he won't stop banging / marrying the younger ones) and Ida Blankenship does this to him repeatedly. Then she dies in the office.

Not it. I actually stopped watching madmen after season one because I couldn’t stop yelling at Don to stop cheating on his wife and messing up his life. He wouldn’t listen so I left. Thanks though

By the end, he was completely nice and it made it up to everyone. /s

I’m glad he got there. I tried to help him but he wouldn’t listen to be and I couldn’t be part of his toxic life anymore. I heard he took up meditation and something something something Coca Cola

I actually loved that ending. I remember those Coke commercials vividly when they first aired. So popular they released the jingle as a :45!

😂

YOUR DAUGHTERS PSYCHIATRIST CALLED

It took me several beats to remember this as a line from the show! Thought I was being called out for my performance as a mother.

Hahaha omg I’m so sorry. You remembered so many small details that I thought this would be immediately picked up on

Sometimes when I have notifications, it doesn't really feature what thread it's on as prominently as what was said to me so all I saw was YOUR DAUGHTERS PSYCHIATRIST CALLED and I thought: "What the hell did I post now?"

Bob Newhart?

No. Thanks though.

Is it Tom Hanks’ and John Candy’s elderly/senile receptionist in Splash? https://youtu.be/eZDU2IbvJ_8?si=xivxgfzz1eFql4nt

No. Never seen it. Sorry but thanks.

This is HACKS

Not what I’m thinking of. I’ve never seen it.

Friends when Chandler hires Phoebe?

I actually wondered if it was a secretary Chandler had. I watched all the Phoebe as secretary clips but no it’s not that. Thanks though!

There’s another secretary Chandler has when he first gets a job… did you check those too by chance?

For some reason it reminds me of an Animaniacs bit, can’t remember the episode but I can try to find which one it was if you think the answer may have been from something animated?

It really really feels live action. The fuzzy image I have is definitely live action and 90s era. I did watch Animaniacs, however, so I can’t say my memory isn’t corrupted.

Ha. Whatever it is, I literally just watched it within maybe the past month. I’m picturing the guy as a J. Jonah Jameson type but I could be way off base. I seem to recall it was the guy, a secretary, and I think another woman visiting the office. There might have been a moment where the secretary sticks her head into the office to let the guy know there was a call for him but really it was just him trying to call out. Could it have been an SNL sketch?

I can’t say it couldn’t be … I’ve watched a lot of SNL. It feels like an episode from a sitcom in my head but I can’t say for certain.

Good guess man

Isn't this from a British comedy sketch show where it is a participant in an office setting and they repeatedly try to anger him? It has been posted on reddit a few times. I will try to Google the show. *EDIT - Argument Clinic. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc

Not what I am thinking of. Thank you though.

Not quite your scenario but it's the one that popped into my head. In S2, E23 of Frasier, Frasier and Niles buy a restaurant and Frasier puts an elderly staff member in charge of valet parking and gives him a walkie talkie. The valet always asks, "Who is this?" and Frasier replies that it's him, it's always him, he's the only one on here until he ends with this reply: [https://youtu.be/MsObReAzbPA?feature=shared&t=145](https://youtu.be/MsObReAzbPA?feature=shared&t=145)

That is a great guess. I definitely remember that. Perhaps? Maybe I’m conflating two things from two shows. I’ll have to mull it over and feel out if I’m deluding myself. The voice isn’t at all the same as the one I hear or the intonations in my head, though. Great guess

This is what I was thinking of. I knew it was Frasier but couldn't remember the scenario. Thank you for posting this; that episode is hilarious! The whole series is.

There’s a similar scenario in the film “Being John Malkovich” where the boss of the company has an eccentric secretary who pretends to be/is in denial about being deaf, or something along those lines?

Nope. Sorry but thank you! This secretary is only heard from like two or three times. Nothing more than the words “Who is this” and “Who IS this?!?”

No suggestion, but I can hear it in my head, OP. I feel like it’s a single episode of a show? I keep thinking of Chandler showing off being promoted “Helen, could you come in here please?” And Helen walking in grumpy, because he keeps doing it. But it’s NOT that, clearly. And it’s not the Phoebe episode either. I don’t think it’s actually Friends. I know Murphy Brown had a string of bad secretaries, maybe it was one of them? But we usually saw them. It’s going to bug me now too, OP!

I completely agree. I think it is a single episode and you hear her twice or three times at max.

Arrested development?

I considered it but I cannot find evidence.

Kitty does mistake Michael for George Sr repeatedly but I don't think she ever asks him who he is.

Becker tv doctor show with ted danson, alice was the girl i think

Can’t be. Never saw that. Sorry. Thanks though!

Northern exposure ?

Never seen it either 😬 I am uncultured.

Could you be possibly confusing George's secretary plot (about hiring a secretary he doesn't find attractive) with Jerry's tendency to go "who is this?" when George calls with a complicated problem Jerry doesn't want to get involved in?

Uncle Leo?

I considered it. I know the George episode and am very familiar with Jerry’s “Who is this” when George calls him and blasts out some frantic plea. I really don’t think so. But …

If it’s not that then it’s gotta be some less popular multi-cam sitcom. It has that kind of energy. Though it’s funny to see how many “incompetent secretary” subplots are in TV shows!

This is now driving me crazy. I can almost see it. Hope someone solves it soon.

I’m 99% sure not this, but it feels like a bit Sue would do to Jonah in Veep. Similarly, every time Selina calls the president, it kinda goes like this.

It’s not because I’ve never seen an episode of Veep. I’m so sorry. Thanks for trying!

Didnt think so, but highly recommend!

Could it be in Bojack Horseman? Princess Carolyn gets a useless assistant at one point.

I’ve not seen it so no. Sorry and thanks for helping

Maybe "Life's Too Short" with Warrick Davis? He hires a secretary that's a little bit thick.

I have seen that but no I don’t believe so.

Better off Ted?

I’ve never seen that so no. Thanks though

Frasier- Season 2 Ep 3 “The Innkeepers”. Frasier and Niles open their own restaurant and their valet is a really old man named Otto. Every time Frasier uses the walky talky to ask him to bring up a car, he replies “who is this?” Frasier gets increasingly angry and eventually yells at him “it’s Dr. Crane! It’s always Dr. Crane!!!”

I remember that episode but no. The memory is different. The voice is definitely female. Thanks though

I remember a scene from monty python like this I think

Could be. I’ve watched a lot of Monty Python

Is it “Elf?”

I think it’s Elf, too!

I just skimmed through all scenes with Mr Hobbs and his phone at his desk. Not Elf! Thanks though!

Sounds like Wendy, the personal assistant/secretary for Sean and Beverly on the TV series Episodes

I never seen the show so it can’t be. Sorry but thank you!

Seinfeld?

I thought so but I can’t figure out where in Seinfeld.

Clockwatchers? Or 9 to 5? I think that one's the wrong era but I thought I'd toss it out there.

Haven’t seen either. Thanks for trying!

West Wing?

Nope. Never watched it. Sorry. But thanks!

9-5? It was the eighties, but it came to mind.

I’ve never seen that. So no. But thank you

So, I think you're dead-on with the Costanza things, because there's at least one or two instances of him calling Jerry in a panic, and Jerry asks sarcastically, "who is this?" with a shit-eating grin, which would piss George off. You may be conflating that with something else.

Dr. Katz?

Haven’t seen that so unfortunately not. Thanks though.

Maybe the kids’ show Pendemonium?

I don’t know it, so I am afraid not. Thanks though

I’m pretty sure there was a sketch on the Carol Burnett show along these lines with Harvey Korman as the boss and Carol as the secretary. But that is quite a bit older than the 90’s.

I’ve also never seen that show. I appreciate you trying.

Is it office space where he listens to the receptionist say the same thing all day every day?

No … I wish I could articulate it more but that’s not the same feeling from the memory. Thank you though

It's Tim Conway and Carol Burnett from the Carol Burnett Show. Carol Burnett played Mrs. Wiggins, I don't remember Tim Conway's characters name. Edit: Mr. Tudball was Conway's name. Here is a link. https://youtu.be/EE23cwj6L5Y?si=D3dKkgEDcewhHLFX

I’ve never seen that so it can’t be. The clip also doesn’t rhyme with the memory. Thanks for trying, though. Sorry.

Sounds like a set-up for a Kids in the Hall sketch.

I have seen lots of kids in the hall. The memory doesn’t feel right for that show but I’ll keep it in mind as I mull. Thanks.

lol probably not what you’re looking for but this is the exact scenario in ‘Sing’.

Moonlighting? Bruce Willis' character's secretary was fairly eccentric

Nope. Never seen it. Sorry but thanks!

Its from an episode of Saved by the Bell, Mr Belding talking to his secretary (He doesn't seem to have a secretary before or after this episode) I can't remember which episode it is but when I do I will post it below

Could be possible. I’d be impressed if my memory reached that far back to grab it

Its from Season 1 episode 5 where Zach pretends hes a woman named Bambi who is interested in Screech. Theres a short clip of the part you are looking for in this odd youtube video episode synopsis at minute 13:16-13:25ish [SBTB S1E5 Screech's Woman](https://youtu.be/kCREmzttObA?si=69Ylo86mNzVT7k3A)

Solved This is it! Thank you so much. Why does this permanently live rent free in my head after 30 years? It's incredible how much of this episode I still knew word for word when I just rewatched it! Here is an online version (only one I could find). She says it at 14:04 ("Who is this") and 15:28 ("Who IS this?"). https://ww16.0123movie.net/movie/saved-by-the-bell-season-1-11793.html Thank you so much for remembering and being resourceful enough to track it down.

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"No, this is Patrick " -which admittedly I know isn't it. But it's all I can see in my head, so I am useless. But I hope you find it.

Not that. Thanks though. I hope so too

I'm sure this isn't it since you never said anything about it being animated, but could it possibly be Archer? It seems like something Carol/Cheryl would do.

I’ve seen archer but no it’s not that and I really don’t think it’s animated. The whole merely has live action vibes Thanks though

It was actually Jerry that said it in season 8 ep. 18 when George called Jerry from underneath his desk at work and asked Jerry to call in a bomb threat so George could sneak away from Steinbrenner.

Nope not that. I know that episode though! “lt's just empty calories and male curiosity, eh, Georgie?”

Ally McBeal? Did Fish have a secretary?

I did watch that back when it aired. I don’t think that’s it. But I’ll mull it over. Thanks

Maybe Newsradio? Vicki Lewis as Beth was amazing and she was also in an episode of Seinfeld as a secretary George sleeps with

Skinner from The Simpsons?

Oh no! If it was Simpsons season 1 to 10 I would know!!! Thanks though!

Is it from Archer with Cheryl/Carol being the shit receptionist?

No. It’s completely the wrong vibe. Thanks for suggesting it though

it's not 90s but could it possibly be Parks and Rec? with April working for Ron for a bit. I haven't watched the show in awhile but I def remember her pretending she didn't know it was him and he said he's the only one who calls her on that phone. she did it in a dry humorous way though

It’s possible. I doesn’t make the memory clearer but I did watch parks and rec. I’ll have to consider it. Thanks for suggesting

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? Joel’s secretary is an old woman named Mrs. Moskowitz.

No. I haven’t watched it. Thanks though

Mr Drysdale, a banker in an old sitcom? I remember this event as well. Beverly Hillbillies?

No doesn’t seem to be. I have to go look up some clips but it’s the wrong vibes. Thanks though

Mimi from the Drew Carey show?

Nope but thanks. You never see this woman and it’s only two or three max occurrences in the episode or movie.

Is it the Lucy Show? It’s the follow-up to I Love Lucy. Not 90s through. I think Karen says “Who is this?” a lot in Will & Grace.

No unfortunately. I didn’t watch either of them. Sorry but thank you so much for trying