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Clock Tampering

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Clock Tampering	comment	Clock tampering is the art of changing the time on a clock so that you could make time be in your favor and trick others into believing it to be the true time. Some kid may do this in school when the teacher isn't looking, so they and their classmates can get out of school early, while an adult may make a clock go backward to forge his timecard and avoid getting in trouble with the boss for being late. This trope is also used in mystery and thriller works, in which the murderer may alter the time on a clock to establish a false alibi about being somewhere else at the time of the murder. Might lead to Implausible Synchrony (all clocks show the exact same time of day). Compare Clock Discrepancy (the time of an event doesn't happen at the time it was said).
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Clock Tampering / int_1ae07075	comment	At the beginning of one episode of Peppermint Park, Snorkee attempts to slow down a clock to give her and her friends more time to work on the titular show. Knurkel has to explain to her that slowing down a clock doesn't affect time in any way.
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Clock Tampering / int_1f418bf4	comment	TaleSpin: In "The Time Bandit", a Recycled Script from the DuckTales example above, Baloo alters the clocks and calendars (and even bribes a radio show host to say the incorrect day) to trick Rebecca into thinking it's Saturday and pay him so he can attend a party at Louie's. This causes a chain of events that end with Rebecca nearly getting executed in Thembria. In "Flying Dupes", Baloo is tasked with delivering a package to the Thembrian High Marshall by 3:00, unaware that the package contains a bomb. When he, Col. Spigot, and Sgt. Dunder stop at Ivan's bar, Spigot refuses to leave until after 3:00, when the showgirls perform. Baloo alters the clock at Ivan's to 3:00 and disguises himself and Dunder as the showgirls.
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Clock Tampering / int_21b73568	comment	In Holidays with Holmes, Holmes sets Watson's clock back several hours on his birthday so as to allow the doctor a long rest after the exhausting previous night and to give Mrs. Hudson more time to prepare.
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Clock Tampering / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Mrs. Krabappel announces the discovery that the clocks have been running early for a long time, so class that day is being extended by two hours. Bart groans and begrudgingly looks at the Lil' Bastard Clock Tampering Kit hidden in his desk.
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Clock Tampering / int_2af4f467	comment	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: A bomb is planted in a building, and the only one who knows where is Zartan, who was captured and is being interrogated in the same building. Gung Ho sets the watch Zartan was wearing to count down faster so, when he inevitably admits the bomb's location to save himself, the Joe team have more time to defuse it.
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Clock Tampering / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes In "Swooner Crooner", several chickens punch the clock at Porky Pig's egg plant; one chicken arrives late and sets the clock back before punching in. In the first Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoon, Don't Give Up the Sheep, Ralph changes Sam's punch clock to trick him into thinking that it's quitting time so that he leaves, giving him a free shot at the sheep. Sam is just leaving when he sees the time on a clock tower and runs back just in time to stop Ralph. In "Tweet Tweet Tweety," Sylvester changes the clock to a few minutes early so he can jump into the Old Faithful geyser to try and snatch Tweety. Tweety has already escaped the crater and goes on to move the clock to 12:00. Old Faithful erupts on the spot, taking Sylvester up and down with it. "Porky's Badtime Story" has Porky Pig and Gabby Goat arriving at work late. Gabby turns the punch clock back two hours and tries to clock in — the clock makes some ungodly noises that bring their boss over. (Remade as "Tick Tock Tuckered" with Daffy Duck in Gabby's place.)
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Clock Tampering / int_2c96ae0e	comment	In one episode of Hustle, Mickey's alibi for a crime is that there's a photo in the newspaper of him shaking hands with a senior policeman, whose watch clearly shows that it's the time the crime took place. The Once More, with Clarity flashback shows him secretly adjusting the watch as they shake hands.
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Clock Tampering / int_2f3d08a7	comment	In the Dennis the Menace (1986) episode, "A Step Ahead", Dennis sets his alarm clock back one hour so that he can stay up for another hour before having to go to bed. Marty, his babysitter, is prepared for this, as he has his watch with a built-in alarm for 9:00 P.M. set to the correct time.
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Clock Tampering / int_2f73c3e4	comment	In the first Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoon, Don't Give Up the Sheep, Ralph changes Sam's punch clock to trick him into thinking that it's quitting time so that he leaves, giving him a free shot at the sheep. Sam is just leaving when he sees the time on a clock tower and runs back just in time to stop Ralph.
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Clock Tampering / int_34de22dc	comment	Mr. Bean: In "Happy New Year, Mr. Bean," he invites his neighbors for an impromptu New Year's Eve party. Snacks include twigs dipped in Marmite (!) and sugared vinegar (!!). They immediately turn his clock to midnight, "ring in" the new year, and head to a real New Year's party. He wakes up to the sound of a party at what he thinks is 3:00 AM, and realizes that they've tricked him big-time.
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Clock Tampering / int_3be307d1	comment	Tenchi Muyo!: In one of the manga issues, Ryoko pulls this prank on Sasami to make her think she's late for school. And all because Ryoko wanted to see the "Girl running late with a piece of toast in her mouth" trope for herself.
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Clock Tampering / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: One book mentions that the clock tower of the Teachers' Guild strikes noon early, in accordance with all the teachers' wishes and prayers for class to be over. In Thief of Time, Jeremy Clockson thoroughly disapproves of the practice. One time he heard another clockmaker deliberately kept his watch five minutes fast, and while we don't get the details, we do learn there was a lot of blood to clean up.
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Clock Tampering / int_5320ab5e	comment	Columbo: Several episodes have the villain tamper with the clock in order to establish a false alibi. In "Fade in to Murder", the murderer uses this (combined with a video recorder) to establish an alibi. He slips up when he resets the watch of the friend he is using as an alibi: he sets it to the right time, not realizing his friend kept his watch five minutes fast.
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Clock Tampering / int_5690420f	comment	DuckTales (1987): In "Allowance Day", Huey, Dewey, and Louie trick Uncle Scrooge into thinking it's a day later than it is so they can get their allowance before a sale on a scooter ends. The problem is, Scrooge is so influential and well-respected that all his business partners assume it is the next day, and their error travels to people all across the globe. This includes the shopkeep, so the triplets still miss their sale, and the general of a Banana Republic, who says Scrooge missed his shipment date.
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Clock Tampering / int_5e263c73	comment	Vermillion Watch: Order Zero: The zoo you need to search has a time-controlled automatic gate. To get in, you need to reset the clock controlling it.
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Clock Tampering / int_60f95f8	comment	Nick Velvet: In "The Theft of Twenty-Nine Minutes", Nick is hired to ensure that the passengers on a riverboat cruise 'lose' 29 minutes. Getting a job as a Stage Magician on the riverboat's cabaret, Nick is able all of the clocks on the boat without being noticed. During his show, he collects the watches from all of the guests as part of a trick. As he places the watches in a bag, he uses sleight of hand to wind each one back 29 minutes. As they don't get their watches back till the end of the show, no one notices the change of time.
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Clock Tampering / int_610a28dd	comment	In Peter Pan, Peter, Wendy, John, and Michael, while on the way to Neverland, land on the minute hand of Big Ben, setting the clock forward 10 minutes and changing the time shown from 8:05 pm to 8:15 pm.
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Clock Tampering / int_64cb4245	comment	Caillou: Done in the April Fool's Day Episode by Daddy as a practical joke on Mommy, moving the kitchen clock ahead an hour from 8:00 to 9:00 AM, to confuse her when she comes down in the morning for breakfast. After the prank successfully works, this leads to the parents explaining to Caillou what April Fools' Day is and inspires him to play a joke on Mommy as well.
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Clock Tampering / int_7242289	comment	The Clocks: the murder victim is surrounded by six clocks, four of which have been stopped at 4:13. These clocks turn out to be Red Herrings. The unpublished book that the clocks imitated, however, directly implicated the killer as she was one of only a few people who had access to it.
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Clock Tampering / int_7291539d	comment	Batman: Arkham City: By altering the PC's/Console's internal calendar to the dates circled on the Courthouse Basements Calendar would cause Calendar Man to recite unique dialogue linked to each holiday in question. There's an additional hidden one if you change the internal calendar to the 13th of December 2004 (the founding of Rocksteady Studios) which wasn't discovered until later. Adjusting the clock was a faster way to hear the unique dialogue as well as attaining the trophy linked to them. Depending on the player, it might even be the only way to get some of them, as some people might be obliged to spend some of the specified holidays at locations away from their PC/console for family reasons.
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Clock Tampering / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur: In the prologue to "The Last of Mary Moo Cow", Arthur sets every clock in his house to 4:00 to trick D.W. so he can watch Dark Bunny. It doesn't work, since D.W. doesn't know how to tell time.
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Clock Tampering / int_77be988d	comment	In Thief of Time, Jeremy Clockson thoroughly disapproves of the practice. One time he heard another clockmaker deliberately kept his watch five minutes fast, and while we don't get the details, we do learn there was a lot of blood to clean up.
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Clock Tampering / int_7884ec15	type	Clock Tampering
Clock Tampering / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: Inverted in "The Susie"; Kramer decides to ignore Daylight Savings Time one year, only to repeatedly find things happening one hour late.
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Clock Tampering / int_7b82aa31	comment	101 Dalmatians: At the beginning, Pongo forwards the time on Roger's clock so he can go for his 5:00 walk in the park and get Roger and Anita, plus him and Perdita, to meet.
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Clock Tampering / int_8085e756	type	Clock Tampering
Clock Tampering / int_8085e756	comment	In one of the St Clare's books, Bobby Ellis sends their form teacher a summons to a teacher's meeting, and once the teacher leaves she puts the clock forward ten minutes. When the teacher gets back, confused and annoyed because no one else showed up at the meeting, she doesn't check the clock immediately - which leads to her ending class without giving the surprise test that she thinks the girls don't know about. While the class gets the test the next day, everyone has had a chance to study for it. Bobby would have gotten away with it completely if she hadn't tried a nearly identical trick as part of a practical joke just a few weeks later.
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Clock Tampering / int_82439e64	comment	The Office (US): One Cold Open features Michael falling asleep at his desk after eating a large chicken pot pie. Jim, Pam, and Dwight proceed to change all of the office clocks (plus Michael's watch and car clock) so he'll think it's 5:00 when he wakes up and let everyone go home.
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Clock Tampering / int_8ad918d7	comment	Bear in the Big Blue House: In "Good Times", Treelo becomes impatient waiting for 6:00 so he and Bear can see the sunset together, so he turns the hands on his clock so that it reads 6:00. When he shows it to Bear, Bear has to explain to him that he can't make time go faster by turning the hands of a clock. In "Wait For Me", Tutter is making some cheesy fruit pops in the freezer, and after Bear sets a timer, he tells Tutter that when the timer dings, the pops will be frozen and ready to eat. Tutter sets the timer back to zero, having thought that they will be ready once it dings. Bear explains to him that he actually has to wait for time to go by, but advises him to do something other than look at the timer to help pass the time.
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Clock Tampering / int_8c05f749	comment	Death in Paradise: In "Beyond the Shining Sea - Part One", the killer secretly sets a witness's phone five minutes ahead: leading her to believe that she last saw the Victim of the Week alive five minutes later than she actually had. This throws out the supposed timeline of the murder and allowed the killer to murder the victim and still establish their alibi.
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Clock Tampering / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: The medics stage a patient emergency and turn the recovery ward clock back a half hour so Frank won't be able to operate a gun in bringing down "5 O'Clock Charlie," an inept North Korean bomber. When a mortally wounded soldier is brought in on Christmas Day, BJ is desperate to keep him alive through the day so that his children will not have to remember Christmas as the day their father died. He, Hawkeye, and Margaret manage to keep the man alive until sometime past 11 pm. Hawkeye then turns the wall clock forward an hour, so that they can declare the time of death as being on December 26.
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Clock Tampering / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Recess: In "The Spy That Came in From the Playground", T.J. and the gang show their new friend James around their operation by setting the clock forward to get out of school early. The next day, they find the clock caged off to prevent them from doing it again (thanks to James actually being an adult mole sent by the district to shut down the T.J. operation from the inside).
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Clock Tampering / int_94d91fcf	comment	Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The episode "Time Off" has Yumi setting Ami's alarm clock ahead a few seconds to get a few more moments of sleep. However, because Ami is such a Schedule Fanatic, she ends up doing things a few seconds later than normal.
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Clock Tampering / int_98b9912e	comment	The Goofy short Teachers Are People has a student doing this to make school end early, just as the narrator says "Little hands make the time pass quickly."
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Clock Tampering / int_9a38e9a0	comment	My Life Is Murder: In "Wild Life", following a "Eureka!" Moment when the power going out in her apartment causes the oven clock to reset to 0:00, Alexa realises that the killer created an alibi by resetting all of the clocks in his house (including his wife's phone) ahead by twenty minutes to make it appear that a crucial phone call happened later than it actually did.
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Clock Tampering / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: When Ayumi stayed at her dentist's house, the dentist committed murder while Ayumi napped. The dentist altered the clocks and watched a recording with Ayumi she pretended was live TV, creating a witness for her false alibi.
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Clock Tampering / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Regular Show: In "Saving Time", Benson orders Mordecai and Rigby to set the park clocks back for Daylight Savings Time, but they decide to prank him by setting the clocks to the wrong time (along with the clocks on Benson's apartment). This causes the park and Benson's apartment to move to the correct time zone, right in the middle of the ocean!
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Clock Tampering / int_9e4d9f48	comment	Cat's Eye: Ai Kisugi's classmate Kasumi becomes suspicious of Ai's sister Hitomi after an accidental photo at night captured the infamous thief "Cat's Eye" on film. Although the developed photo only shows Hitomi's silhouette, Kasumi notes that she has a near-identical physique to that of "Cat's Eye" and decides to see the thief herself by staying over at the cafe the night a heist was supposed to take place and holding all three sisters in a poker game before the 1AM deadline of the heist. To disprove her suspicions, they spike her drink with an hour-long sleeping drug, then go commit the heist while Ai sets the clocks back an hour before Kasumi wakes up. When she does, the sisters claim she fell asleep for about a minute.
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Clock Tampering / int_9ec61fa1	comment	NewsRadio: One episode has Jimmy in a deal to sell the station with a midnight deadline. While the staff tries to convince him not to do so, Matthew reveals that he set the clock back and the midnight deadline had actually passed. Jimmy tells him that the deadline was just a guideline and they still have time.
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Clock Tampering / int_9f78fda3	comment	In the Murder, She Wrote episode "Frozen Stiff", the Victim of the Week is found in an industrial freezer, with his watch broken at a time when nearly all the suspects, and Jessica, were together. Jessica quickly realises that, with the body frozen, there's no way to actually be sure that was the time of death, but has a harder time convincing the sheriff. She eventually checks the power usage of the freezer and finds a big spike over an hour earlier — the last time the door was opened.
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Clock Tampering / int_a309575c	comment	Jonathan Creek: In one episode, the murderer fakes an alibi by adjusting the clock in his house in order to make a respectable Christian missionary (whom he is caring for while she recovers from an injury) believe that the current time was the time when the murder was committed when she saw him in the house. Note that in order for the murderer's plan to work, he needs to change the time a lot, by whole twelve hours — unlike most examples, this is a complex operation that happens over several days.
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Clock Tampering / int_b08d7309	comment	Little Lulu: Besides the trope's mention in her theme song, the short Lulu at the Zoo has Lulu fast-forwarding a clock so she won't have to wait for a 2:00 tour of the zoo.
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Clock Tampering / int_b1cd847c	comment	Muppet Babies (2018): In "The Froginizer", Kermit remembers that Fozzie likes to have a snack when the clock strikes noon (and Animal tries to take his snacks from him at this time), so without being noticed, he sneaks by Fozzie and Animal (as The Noodler and Meanimal) so he can set the clock to noon to distract them so he, Piggy, and Summer (as Super Fabulous and Captain Ice Cube) can get past them and to Dr. Meanzo's evil lair.
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Clock Tampering / int_b36a4699	comment	In Exam, Deaf changes the clock when no one is looking, so when White talks to the Invigilator as soon as he thinks he's won, he disqualifies himself because they are still within the time limit.
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Clock Tampering / int_bca72091	comment	Animal Crossing: This is basically the heart of the time-travelling cheat, where you manipulate the console's clock and calendar to get seasonal insects, fishes, and season-limited items sold at Nook's Cranny early. Some people also do it to manipulate the Stalk Market, the game's turnip gambling minigame. And of course some do it to exploit the Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit since the game has a banking system that awards you a monthly interest based on the money you have in your account. Later games can detect this and will punish you by making your turnips become rotten and thus worthless if you attempt to do this and slip up (largely by detecting that the calendar and clock has regressed from the last save, a telltale sign that you attempted to travel back through time), and your villagers will allegedly guilt you by telling you that there is a rumor that you are a time traveller. A later update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons would severely nerf the bank interests so that the compound interest time travel gambit is not as profitable as in previous games.
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Clock Tampering / int_c22f50d5	comment	Goblins in the Castle: The morning after the goblins are released, it's discovered that they changed the time on one of the clocks as one of their pranks — it's early morning, but the clock is striking two.
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Clock Tampering / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: This is done in the 4th case by Gundham Tanaka to initiate their murder plot. While all the students were trapped in the funhouse, they are required to attend Monokuma's Tai-Chi lessons in the tower at 7:30 AM sharp, else they be punished. Gundham sets all the clocks in the funhouse back 2 hours while everyone was sleeping, making everyone believe that they still had more time to sleep (they were close to starvation and dehydration, so they wouldn't try to exert themselves). Because of this, the only one to go to the tower was the robotic "Mechamaru" who had a built-in clock tuned to the proper time. There, Gundham intercepted him alone and enacted his murder.
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Clock Tampering / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the Doctor Who story "Ghost Light", the Doctor at one point puts the house's clock forward to 6pm because he's fed up waiting for the nocturnal characters to become active.
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Clock Tampering / int_cf6c05c1	comment	In "Swooner Crooner", several chickens punch the clock at Porky Pig's egg plant; one chicken arrives late and sets the clock back before punching in.
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Clock Tampering / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars: A third-season episode has a social science class run an experiment. One group of students will represent members of a terrorist group who have been arrested while another group represents the prison guards. The inmates' goal is to avoid revealing the location of a bomb before a certain time while the guards' goal is to get them to reveal it. In the end, the "guards" trick the "inmates" into giving up the location by setting the clock ahead and making them think they've succeeded.
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Clock Tampering / int_e1550346	comment	SPY Fox in: Dry Cereal: In the White Water path, Sal, the sailor on the S.S. Deadweight won't let you look at the map in the control room. During his conversation, he mentions that he needs to use the restroom as the result of drinking 17 bottles of prune pop, but he can't leave his post until his shift ends and his replacement arrives. You have to change the time on the time clock according to the time Bea Bear tells you, then show up in a sailor hat in order to get Sal to leave.
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Clock Tampering / int_e251c6c5	comment	The Big Clock: While cleaning up the crime scene for Janoth, Steve Hagen turns a clock back several hours and stops it, making it appear it had been broken in the struggle, so it will appear the crime had occurred several hours earlier.
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Clock Tampering / int_e5413319	comment	In This Is How Floods Begin: A young man tampers with the clock of the city tower to make it go slower. It makes dawn arrive late, thanks to the planet's bizarre laws of space and time. Later, when it becomes clear the main character has only a couple of days to live, the Planet Council decide to put all the major clocks forward to make sure that the starship carrying medications arrives in time to save him. It is eventually revealed that many people put their small clocks and watches forward as well because the ship lands five hours earlier than expected.
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Clock Tampering / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In "Stuck Together, Torn Apart", Peter and Lois have a trial separation and Quagmire leaps at the chance to ask Lois out. As she says she needs some time to think it over, Quagmire smashes open a wall clock, turns the time forward, and asks "How about now?"
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Clock Tampering / int_ec1766dd	comment	In Die Feuerzangenbowle, this is part of a more elaborate, that is, downright epic school prank pulled off by the (alleged) student Johann Pfeiffer. While at his teacher Professor Crey's home, he sets back all clocks he can find by one hour, expecting "Schnauz" to believe his pocket watch is the one that's wrong, setting back that one, too, then his alarm-clock, and then being late for school the next day so that Pfeiffer can impersonate him. It ends up getting even better than this.
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Clock Tampering / int_f5e6b493	comment	The Thinking Machine: Crucial to how the murder was committed in "His Perfect Alibi". Once Van Dusen works out what the killer has done, he then has to work out how he did it.
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Clock Tampering / int_fac5f5c8	comment	Gremlins 2: The New Batch: In an attempt to trick the Gremlins into going to the lobby of Clamp Enterprises while it's still day, the protagonists blind the windows and set all the clocks in the building ahead a few hours.
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