 Barts anonymous prank calls to Moe were inspired by "The Tube Bar  Recordings", tapes of actual prank calls to Louis  Red Deutsch (qv), a New Jersey bartender famous for his violent  temper (the pranksters, John Elmo (qv) and  Jim Davidson (VII) (qv), got the idea to prank him one day when,  while passing his bar, they saw him beating up one of his customers  for not drinking fast enough). Louis Red Deutsch (qv) would  unfailingly respond to the prank calls with a stream of cursing,  abuse and threats.