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The Pizza phone call is a bit odd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdKyJXZLy5U

"U-uhhh..."

"(Oh my god, help...)"

"I'd like to order a..."

"Um..."

"A pizza...?"

"With, uhh..."

"The toppings are, uh."

"I have them copied, I'll just paste them to you."

"(Your phone is too old to receive texts...)"

"(It reads out loud, character-by-character, an ASCII art of an anime catgirl.)"

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Is Alphys always THIS nervous when she orders pizza?

This is the same level of anxiety she experienced when agonizing over whether to call Frisk or not at the start of the Hotland trip.

And it's clear that she was not actually prepared to order pizza, because rather than a list of toppings, she seems to bail on the call and just paste the first thing she has available. The anime catgirl ASCII art, which is in no way, shape, or form releted to Pizza.

And it doesn't even sound like the original intent of the call was to order pizza at all. It sounds like Alphys wanted to call Frisk, freaked out, spun a wheel in her brain which randomly landed on "Pizza", then timidly proposed this as the reason for her call, in the form of a question?

We do get a lore drop here, that Frisk's phone isn't originally able to recieve texts.

But if anything, listening to this call, I think Alphys DID know that this was Frisk's number, and that she got a panic attack from social anxiety and came up with a fast, half-baked excuse for what her call was supposed to be about instead.