History Main / CountingToPotato

* ''Music/TheBeatles "Eight Days A Week" is a variation on this as the title was a typical Ringo malapropism.

* In ''Tacky the Penguin'', "odd bird" Tacky always counts, "One, two three, four, two, three, six, zero, two and a half, zero."

* ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonBrown'' had its win condition reached on the 11th day, but didn't end immediately after reaching the win condition because the update to [[TwitchPlaysPokemonArena PBR]] wasn't finished. Because of this, the timestamp on the final update in [[Recap/TwitchPlaysPokemonBrown our recap page]] is 10d26h1m, aka '''26 hours''' and 1 minute into Day 11.

* A logic quiz which devolved into a meme has the answers of 2+2= fish, 3+3= 8 and 7+7= triangle. A variant can also be found in one ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'' game.

* {{Justified}} in ''[[Literature/AlcatrazSeries Alcatraz Versus The Shattered Lens]]''. Alcatraz deliberately numbers his chapters in a way that makes no sense, so that if the order-obsessed cult of Evil Librarians tries to read it their heads will explode.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': The scores to {{Calvinball}} range from oogie to boogie, and Q to 12. Given that the whole point is to make it up as you go, this probably goes for the scores as well.

--> '''Don Pedro''': First, I ask you what they�ve done; thirdly, I ask you what offense they�re charged with; sixth and lastly, I ask you why they�ve been committed here; and, in conclusion, I ask what they�re accused of.

* In Creator/{{U2}}'s song "Vertigo", Bono opens by counting in: "Unos! Dos! Tres! Catorce!" (Translation: Some, two, three, fourteen)

* In Issue 7 of ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' (TheOneWith the [[SpinoffBabies Teeny Tiny Girl Squad]]), Toddler!Whats-Her-Face claims "I can count to G!" while Toddler!Cheerleader brags "I can count to purple, backwards."

* There is a drama game designed to improve concentration, called 1-2-3-buzz. People stand in a circle and in turn say a number in sequence from 1 to 4, then starting again at 1. Then 4 is replaced by saying "buzz". After a couple of rounds of that, 1 is usually replaced by a clap.

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Letters or numbers replaced by a similar-looking picture, letter, or number. So, 2 replacing Z but not M replacing W.

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* ''Film/HomeAlone''. As the [=McAllister=] family wonder about Kevin from Paris, Megan asks Buzz if he's not the least bit concerned about his well being, or something bad happening to him.
-->'''Buzz:''' No, for three reasons: A) I'm not that lucky. 2) We have smoke detectors. And D) We live on the most boring street in the United States of America, where nothing remotely dangerous ''will'' ever happen, period.
* In TropeNamer ''Film/TheRinger'', Steve Baker ([[Series/{{Jackass}} Johnny Knoxville]]) is pretending to be mentally retarded, and one of the things he says while practicing in the mirror is, "I can count to ''potato!''"

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* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', trolls have a counting system based on fours, rather than tens (apart from Detritus, who ends up counting in binary). As a result a troll counting "one, two, three, many"[[note]]and continuing "many-one, many-two" all the way up to "many-many-many-three" which is followed by "lots"[[/note]] comes across this way (leading to an InUniverse stereotype that trolls can't count past three).

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* In ''Series/AntFarm'' Paisley counts only in vegetables in one episode.
* ''[[Film/ErnestPWorrell Hey Vern, It's Ernest!]]''. While preparing for a baking contest, Ernest reminds Vern of three basic principles (while holding up four fingers): "Number one--always use plenty of sauce. B--always squeeze yer tomaters. And three--don't forget to thump your melons, knowwhutImean?"

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* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'': The incompetent constable Dogberry has just caught a pair of criminals, and is trying to tell Don Pedro what they did in a speech that combines this trope with getting stuck in a revolving door at the DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:

--> '''Don Pedro''': First, I ask you what they’ve done; thirdly, I ask you what offense they’re charged with; sixth and lastly, I ask you why they’ve been committed here; and, in conclusion, I ask what they’re accused of.

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* ''Ride/DisneyThemeParks''. At the entrance to Toontown in Disneyland, there's a population counter which is constantly cycling through numbers...and screws, stars, dumbbells, TNT, and various other random things.

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* In the "Top 11 Nostalgic Mindf*cks" episode, ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' counts down from "number banana" to "number relativity'.
* ''WebVideo/JonTron'' gives bizarre fractions, such as, for example, "Six Golden Bananas+/Shigeru Miyamoto" in the rare instance he gives a score for a game.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' uses this quite often, considering almost all of the characters have some CloudCuckoolander in them. Some more specific examples:

Surprisingly unrelated to Letters2Numbers, TwoPlusTwoMakesFive and ThreePlusFiveMakeFour. Occasionally overlaps with CountingToThree and may result in a case of EEqualsMCHammer.

-->''Red Guy is trying to expose Super Cow''
-->'''Red Guy:''' WHAT ELSE DO I KNOW ABOUT SUPER COW? ''WHAT ELLLLSE?!'' OKAY, THINK! A) She speaks Spanish. 2) She's a superhero...
-->''Chicken kicking Cow out of his new treefort''
-->'''Chicken:''' 1) It's for men only. And B) You're a six-hundred-pound girl!

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode Three Gems and a Baby, Greg does this as he tries to explain why baby Steven's gem begins to glow.
-->'''Pearl:''' Well, what do you do with a human baby when it glows?!
-->'''Greg:''' First off, human babies don't glow. And letter number B... WHAT IF THEY DO?!

* On a couple of occasions in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Numbah 4's given some pretty strange countdowns, with letters and random numbers. Presumably, this is a combo of him being BookDumb and the overall strangeness of operating the KND's [[BambooTechnology 2x4 Technology]].

* ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': "One...two...FIVE!"

* PippiLongstocking does this. "One, two, nineteen."

* Videogame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath has a RunningGag in the DLC level set, "Perfection" in which Beethro tries to count something, and a voice in his head starts counting with him and messes up. Subverted in one room where the voice starts counting, and doing it correctly, prompting Beethro to tell it that there's nothing that needs counting.

* WebVideo/JonTron gives bizarre fractions, such as, for example, "Six Golden Bananas+/Shigeru Miyamoto" in the rare instance he gives a score for a game.

* Rock Bottom demonstrates this in a ''FelixTheCat'' cartoon where he and the Professor are launching themselves from a cannon:

* Ona couple of occasions in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Numbah 4's given some pretty strange countdowns, with letters and random numbers. Presumably, this is a combo of him being BookDumb and the overall strangeness of operating the KND's [[BambooTechnology 2x4 Technology]].