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Clock Discrepancy

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61 feature instances
46 referencing feature instances

Clock Discrepancy	type	FeatureClass
Clock Discrepancy	label	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy	page	ClockDiscrepancy
Clock Discrepancy	comment	The time of an event doesn't happen at the time it was said. Usually the clock or watch is off. The event either happened early or later, but the characters don't notice until quite after the event. In mysteries, such a discrepancy can make or break an alibi. When this happens because someone manipulated the clock, you have a case of Clock Tampering. Compare Magic Countdown. Contrast Right on the Tick and Implausible Synchrony (all clocks show the exact same time of day).
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Clock Discrepancy / int_109f7814	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_109f7814	comment	A non-criminal example in Sherlock, where the titular character figures out that a "friend" of his from his university days has crossed the International Date Line twice by the fact that his watch is two days late.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_261c8d3f	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_261c8d3f	comment	On The Simpsons Homer gets painted as a molester by an unscrupulous TV show clumsily editing an interview; the clock behind him jumps back & forth as he speaks.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_2b0b461e	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_2b0b461e	comment	Black Widowers: In one mystery, a character is woken up by a phone call at a time that is actually an hour later than he thinks it is (because he hasn't yet set his clock forward for Daylight Savings Time) and thus unwittingly provides a false alibi. In one mystery, a discrepancy between 5:50 (which would exonerate the accused) and "half past five" (which incriminates him) is resolved in favor of the former — the witness reporting the latter was an accountant used to decimal numbers who unconsciously interpreted the digital clock display as "five and a half".
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Clock Discrepancy / int_2e2efbf9	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Back to the Future Marty is at Doc Brown's house and thinks he will be on time for school, only to discover all his clocks are a half hour slow. Doc Brown proves to Marty that the time machine works by synchronizing watches with a digital clock he attaches to his dog, then sending the dog one minute into the future. When the dog shows up again, his clock is a minute slower than Doc's.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_2f28a53c	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_2f28a53c	comment	In the Ellery Queen TV series episode "The Adventure of the Hard-Hearted Huckster", an important clue is that the victim always had his watch set 5 minutes fast, and his secretary did too because her boss did it.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_33379487	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_33379487	comment	In The King's Speech, when Bertie comes to tell David that he is late for dinner, David reminds him that their father ordered all the clocks set fast and winds the hands back on a mantel clock by half an hour. According to royal biographers, this is Truth in Television.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_36f5e759	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_36f5e759	comment	The Maze Agency: In #22, Gabe accidentally yanks the killer's wristwatch off his wrist during a struggle. Noticing that the watch is three hours ahead, Gabe realises that the killer had just flown in from the west coast.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_3c33a32c	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_3c33a32c	comment	The Day of the Jackal. The 1962 assassination attempt on Charles De Gaulle fails because the OAS leader was consulting the almanac for the wrong year and so misjudged when sunset was. This made it too dark for the gunmen to see his signal and they opened fire too late.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_3e5de40b	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_3e5de40b	comment	In Scrubs Elliot suggests creating one of these after a patient dies, Doctor Cox and the team had been trying to get the critical care ward through an entire day without losing one of their patients and the man coded just ten minutes before midnight. Dr Cox tells her no, on the grounds that losing only one patient in that type of ward is a win in itself and in ten minutes they get to try again.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_457b671e	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_457b671e	comment	In an early episode, Stan accidentally exposes the whole family to a deadly virus, and they are diagnosed with 24 hours to live. They decide to make the most of their time by watching the complete first season of 24. When the time is finally up, they say their goodbyes and wait for the clock to strike the new hour, as if expecting to just drop dead without question. The clock rings, but Roger tells them that clock is always a little fast. Better give it another minute. The virus was inert, so they weren't in any real danger in the first place.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_46196a4	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_46196a4	comment	In the very first mystery of The Kindaichi Case Files, Kindaichi manipulates a suspect's watch to get said suspect to reveal themselves. Many other mysteries are also solved when Kindaichi realizes that some sort of clock-based manipulation is in play.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_5400d19	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_5400d19	comment	The first season finale of The Raccoons, "Gold Rush", plays with this trope. Cyril Sneer is planning to shut down the Raccoons' crusading newspaper, The Evergreen Standard, with the help of Mr. Knox. Cyril's plan involved cutting off the supply of ink and paper to the Standard and forcing it out of business. For his plan to work, the deal had to be finalized under a deadline. However, Cyril is contacted by Mr. Knox that the deal is off because he missed the deadline - which saves the newspaper. Cyril is clearly confused as his clock indicates he had time to spare before the deadline. His son Cedric Sneer reminds him that years ago, the clocks were intentionally set back earlier so that he could get more work out of his employees.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_5690420f	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_5690420f	comment	DuckTales (1987): In "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. McDuck", at first, the nephews think they missed the "cure-by" date, but Shedlock mentions that the clock difference means they can still do it.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_5b18983b	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_5b18983b	comment	In Ghostwriter, one of the main characters is accused of burning a one-man-run electronic store. His friends were able to prove him innocent when they discover that the store's display clock was running one hour slow, meaning he has an alibi for the actual time of the crime. The store owner, however, doesn't, and he ends up being the real culprit, as he was trying to destroy evidence of a mass videotape duplication system.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_5ba6595e	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_5ba6595e	comment	Reno 911!: A psychic tells Jones that he'll lose one of his testicles by midnight. He spends the episode worrying about it, and he's relieved when a clock shows that it's past midnight. Then someone mentions that the clock is a little fast; cue testicle injury.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_5cd1aa89	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_5cd1aa89	comment	The book 1984 plays with this idea. The main character looks at the clock which reads 8:00. He thinks it's still 8 pm, but instead it was actually 8 am. Due to the nature of the world the book takes place in, we can't even really be sure if the story is taking place in the year 1984 at all.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_5f831ed	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_5f831ed	comment	In Murder on the Orient Express, the broken watch also appears - and Poirot points out that the killer wants him to think that the murder happened at that time. To confuse matters further, the train crosses several time zones.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_60f02ddb	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: In "The American Dad After School Special", Stan puts an exploding collar on his son, set to go off if he doesn't ask a girl out in 24 minutes. As he's running down the street, he remarks that his Timex watch shows he still has 5 minutes left, then immediately sees a newspaper with the headline "Timex Recalls Watches For Being Four Minutes Slow." In an early episode, Stan accidentally exposes the whole family to a deadly virus, and they are diagnosed with 24 hours to live. They decide to make the most of their time by watching the complete first season of 24. When the time is finally up, they say their goodbyes and wait for the clock to strike the new hour, as if expecting to just drop dead without question. The clock rings, but Roger tells them that clock is always a little fast. Better give it another minute. The virus was inert, so they weren't in any real danger in the first place.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_60f95f8	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_60f95f8	comment	Nick Velvet: In "The Theft of Twenty-Nine Minutes", Nick is hired to 'steal' 29 minutes from the passengers on a pleasure cruise; i.e. cause them to lose 29 minutes without realising anything has happened. He does so by working as a Stage Magician on the cruise and collecting everyone's watches for a trick. (The story predates the ubiquity of mobile phones which would have this stunt more difficult, but not impossible.) Over the course of this act, he resets all of the watches by 29 minutes, before returning them as the grand finale of his act, leaving no one any the wiser.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_650641c2	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_650641c2	comment	The Darwin Awards brings us an unusual example involving daylight saving time:
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Clock Discrepancy / int_691be369	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_691be369	comment	In the pilot episode of The X-Files Mulder & Scully get affected by a few minutes of Missing Time - there's a big bright light, and then the next thing they know it's 9 minutes later. Mulder marks the spot where it happened. Nothing comes of it at the time except to demonstrate Mulder's belief in the extranatural, but then in an episode years later it happens again and it turns out they're at the exact same spot.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_72e7d7f6	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_72e7d7f6	comment	The Lord Peter Wimsey novel Have His Carcase has a discrepancy that's based on medical evidence rather than timepieces. Harriet finds the body of the victim with still-liquid blood pooled around it; then the body is washed out to sea before it can be autopsied. Peter and Harriet spend most of the book assuming the murder happened almost immediately before she found the body because the blood didn't have time to clot; in actuality, the victim was a hemophiliac and the murder happened several hours earlier. Meanwhile, Harriet is working on a novel where someone has to set a clock to support an alibi. And finding it frustrating.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_73549409	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_73549409	comment	In Storm Hawks, episode "Five Days", when Aerrow breaks nearly every bone in his body and has to remain motionless for five days for a repair crystal to heal him, he starts noticing some small minor problems with the ship, including a clock running three ticks too slow. Then Master Cyclonis attacks their ship to take back the repair crystal (that Piper stole) to fix something valuable one of her subordinates broke. She looks at the clock thinking the crystal needs ten more minutes to completely heal him so she removes the crystal from Aerrow's cast. Just when she's about to finish him off, Aerrow points out that the clock was slow and that he was healed two minutes ago and fights back.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_74a0b5d1	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_74a0b5d1	comment	In the 1981 film Gallipoli, an artillery officer fails to synchronize his watch, so the bombardment stops several minutes before the Australian troops are due to attack, leading to a massacre.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_880cfa15	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_880cfa15	comment	Happens in Hogan's Heroes when LeBeau must climb up a dumbwaiter to steal strategic plans from a banquet hall before bombs that the Heroes planted go off. LeBeau manages to get up, steal the plans, and get back down, handing off the plans to their French Underground contact at the exact moment the bombs explode. The heroes are congratulating Carter on his expert bomb-making skills when they notice he's looking at his watch with great concern and ask him what's wrong.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: A soldier whom they're trying to keep alive through December 25th so his kids don't have to remember Christmas as "the day Daddy died" dies at about 11:35pm. Hawkeye moves the hands of the clock so that it's 12:10am, saying "Hey look he made it." They falsify the death certificate.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_8d81f086	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk: In the episode "Mr. Monk and the Rapper", a rapper named Murderuss is suspected of killing his rival rapper Extra Large with a time bomb in the exact same matter as he described in his song "Car Bomb". However, it turns out that Murderuss is innocent and that Extra Large was not the intended target. The bomber was trying to target the person who was in the limo before the victim and failed to account for the fact that Daylight Savings Time started that day. And so the bomb went off an hour later than it was supposed to. In "Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan'" Disher buys a watch from a street-corner salesman in New York City who claims it is accurate. However, this is shown not to be the case when Disher remarks on its ability to show times all around the world and says "it's 5:30 here; in Denver, 3:30; in California, 12:17; and in Paris, France... time has stopped." The troubles with the watch prove to be critical because it sets off an alarm at a crucial time. The characters almost get caught because the instructions are only written in Korean and so they can't figure out how to turn the sound off.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_8d84a932	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_8d84a932	comment	In an episode of Soap, Mary sets the alarm clock forward a half hour so she and Burt can have time to talk before he goes to work. When she tells him about it he tries to go back to bed for another half hour of sleep.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_8f25225c	comment	In the Danganronpa fanfic Fractured Fates, this comes up during the first class trial. On the night of the murder, Rumi claims to have seen Azami coming out of the library at 9:15 PM before the two went to their respective bedrooms. The discrepancy comes in that none of the three students who were in the main hall at 9:18 PM (Shiro, Kaneki, and Asuna) saw the two, which would have been impossible because Azami and Rumi would have had to have passed through the main hall to get to the bedrooms. The reason for the contradiction is that Rumi didn't have her e-Handbook on her and as a result asked Azami for the time when they ran into each other. Azami, the killer, then lied to her about what time it was in order to make Rumi think it was earlier than it really was, thus creating a fake alibi for the time of the murder.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_94377b17	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_94377b17	comment	Steel Ball Run: When traveling through a forest that takes them in circles, Gyro tasks Johnny to make marks on the trees when they pass them every few seconds, only to discover various identical marks around them as they're under the effect of a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_946775cd	type	Clock Discrepancy
Clock Discrepancy / int_946775cd	comment	In Primer, Abe suspects that the Box is a time machine, and he confirms this by placing a digital watch inside it for a minute. Upon removing the watch, it's about 21 hours fast.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: A police officer realizes that his roommate is up to no good because he keeps all his clocks 5 minutes fast to make sure he is never late to work, but the roommate resets the clocks to read accurately as part of his plot to fudge with his alibi. (Fortunately, more substantial proof of guilt is also found.)
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Clock Discrepancy / int_9b530c26	comment	In an Archie Comics, Big Eater Jughead is in class and informs the teacher Miss Grundy that "his stomach" says it's lunchtime. She reminds Jug that the clock on the wall reads 10 before noon. At that moment, the school janitor Mr. Svenson enters the classroom with a ladder. The purpose? To adjust the clock, which he said was running ten minutes slow.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_9f5af515	comment	A Forensic Files episode has a suspect's supposedly airtight alibi—that he was on a fishing trip with his family, which they'd recorded—being torn apart by this. Aside from finding it odd that someone would feel the need to tape a random outing like this, they noticed that the man kept glancing at his watch and soon noticed a discrepancy between the time on his watch, the time indicated on the tape, and the angle of the sun, and realize that the man tampered with the tape to create his alibi.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_a0890fc1	comment	Done in a episode of Newsradio when Jimmy decides to sell the station. He's supposed to contact the buyer at midnight to finalize the deal. The staff spends most of the night trying to convince him not to sell. Five minutes before midnight, Matthew reveals he had set the clock back ten minutes and it was actually five minutes after and Jimmy has missed his deadline. Of course since This Is Reality, midnight was just a loose guideline and Jimmy can still go through with the deal.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_a0b48882	comment	In The Firechasers, Barnaby is examining the photographs of the fires and realises that one of the photos taken by Jim Maxwell is missing. When he tracks it down, he discovers that the photo shows the clock on the factory, and the time reveals that the photo was taken before the alarm was raised, meaning the photographer was on the scene when the fire started.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_a183d57f	comment	In the final episode of Futurama, Fry proposes to Leela and asks her to meet him at a restaurant by a certain time if she accepts. When it's obviously well past the deadline and Leela hasn't shown up, Fry leaps from the roof of the building in despair. Part-way down, he sees Leela approaching and realizes that his overuse of a Reset Button created by the professor has caused his watch to be several hours fast.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_a309575c	comment	This has cropped up in a few episodes of Jonathan Creek as part of the solution to the mystery, most notably in "Miracle in Crooked Lane" whereby an ill woman was convinced that morning was evening, in order to provide an alibi for a murder.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_a32b6a64	comment	In an episode of The West Wing, Toby, Josh, and Donna miss a flight to Washington because they crossed a time zone line without noticing.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Hol Horse is told that he'll be able to kill Jotaro if he shoots into a pipe at noon sharp. After some rather humorous attempts to set up the attack, Hol Horse fires his weapon the instant he sees on his watch that it's noon... only for every shot to miss their mark as a result of Hol Horse's watch actually being a few minutes too early. Steel Ball Run: When traveling through a forest that takes them in circles, Gyro tasks Johnny to make marks on the trees when they pass them every few seconds, only to discover various identical marks around them as they're under the effect of a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_b4882594	comment	80 Days: Lampshaded. In the original novel, Fogg seems to have lost his bet by being a day late but soon finds out that the travelers have crossed the International Date Line and effectively gained a day. Here, Fogg knows to adjust his clock when the line is crossed and Passepartout remarks that there is no way such an organized man would miss such a detail.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_bb3fde3d	comment	In an episode of Danny Phantom, the titular character tricks the Big Bad into thinking he still has 10 minutes left of powerlessness left by turning Vlad's clock back. This allows him to gain the element of surprise and win the fight.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_bd311b2e	comment	Tornado Brain: The night of Colette's disappearance, she visited Frankie to ask to borrow their childhood notebook, and also visited Tess to ask for a scarf. Both sisters are confident that she visited at exactly 6:45 and stayed for several minutes, even though she couldn't have been in both places at once. Tess later realizes that she forgot to reset her clock for daylight savings, meaning Colette actually visited her at 7:45.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_c497d688	comment	It pops up again, notably, in Murder At The Vicarage. The victim, supposedly, was killed as he was leaving a note for the vicar in his study. He wrote 6:20 on the note, which matched the clock that—naturally—fell from the desk and was smashed with the hands pointed at 6:20. But the vicar's wife had deliberately set the clock 15 minutes fast to help the vicar be more punctual. The sleuths assume that the murder was committed later and that the murderer, not knowing about the clock's discrepancy, changed the time in order to frame the victim's wife. At the end it is revealed that the wife and her lover committed the murder together, did know about the clock discrepancy, and deliberately framed her so that she wouldn't be suspected once the discrepancy was revealed.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: In one episode, the profilers trick a captured terrorist into revealing his co-conspirators' target by manipulating his sense of time, then letting him think the planned attack had already taken place. It wasn't done with a physical clock, it was done by altering the terrorist's prayer time slightly at each point, distorting his internal sense of time. Gideon even pointed out that using an actual clock would have probably failed as it would have been more obvious. In a case of a literal "clock discrepancy" (versus a "time discrepancy"), one episode featured victims whose watches were all set to wildly different and inaccurate times. The team knew it had to be a clue, but couldn't figure out what it could possibly be until they got a watch that was stopped and figured out that the unsub had set all the watches to 6:22 at the time of death. Then they're still stumped, until they convert that to military time and get 18:22, which corresponds to a Bible passage regarding homophobia, making them realize it's a hate crime.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_cd34de67	comment	Tales of the Gold Monkey. In "God Save the Queen" the time-obsessed villain plants a Time Bomb on board the Queen Victoria. Our hero causes him to have a Villainous Breakdown by resetting his watch.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_cf2d20a8	comment	In the Johnny Bravo cartoon "Bearly Enough Time", a clock being even a millisecond off was Chronos the Bear's Berserk Button.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_e278316b	comment	In The Prisoner (1967) episode "The Chimes of Big Ben", Number Six realizes that his "escape" was a fake because Big Ben is indicating the same time as a watch he supposedly obtained in Poland — which should be one hour ahead of London time.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman has an episode where the title character notes that his atomic clock is much faster than his watch, due to the Villain of the Week possessing Mental Time Travel powers.
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Clock Discrepancy / int_f3a4bfa9	comment	In Mary Poppins Returns, Admiral Boom claims that Big Ben is several minutes out, and his firing of the morning cannon is correct. Turns out he is right. Much later in the film, Jack and Jane black out the faces of Big Ben, then stop, reset and restart the clock to buy the Banks family a precious few minutes in their Race Against the Clock. Coincidentally, this puts Big Ben on the correct time. And when Wilkins complains that it has already gone midnight by his watch, he is asked which is more likely to be correct: his watch or Big Ben?
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