Here we have one of the funnier episodes (I think) of The Dick Van Dyke Show and it's built largely around my buddy, the late Lennie Weinrib. I suspect it was written around him since Lennie was an obsessive practical joker, especially on the telephone. He owned a green Rolls Royce with a phone in it back at a time when you rarely saw a green Rolls or a phone in a car.
Once in a while, he'd give me a lift in the car and I'd be a captive audience as Lennie, employing the same verbal and acting skills that made him a top voiceover, cartoon and occasional on-camera actor would "hook" someone via phone the way his character "hooks" Rob Petrie in this episode.
I happen to dislike practical jokes about as much as I dislike cole slaw and generally find them about as funny. But even I had to concede that Lennie was a master of that questionable art form…