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* UsefulNotes/{{VCR}}s included a digital clock, which in many people's homes simply blinked "12:00" because no one could be bothered to figure out how to program it after hooking it up or after a power failure, because the clock wasn't necessary to watch movies - only to program when to record things. This became a common [[StockJokes Stock Joke]] for someone who was HopelessWithTech.

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* UsefulNotes/{{VCR}}s Platform/{{VCR}}s included a digital clock, which in many people's homes simply blinked "12:00" because no one could be bothered to figure out how to program it after hooking it up or after a power failure, because the clock wasn't necessary to watch movies - only to program when to record things. This became a common [[StockJokes Stock Joke]] for someone who was HopelessWithTech.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' story "Time Waits For No Mandy" (from Cartoon Network Block Party #56, DC Comics) has Mandy, who hates celebrating her birthday, tricking Father Time into going on vacation. It causes a loop in time to the point where it becomes monotonous. Grim, Billy and Mandy try to find a way to get Father Time back on the job.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' story "Time Waits For No Mandy" (from Cartoon Network Block Party (''ComicBook/CartoonNetworkBlockParty'' #56, DC Comics) has Mandy, who hates celebrating her birthday, tricking Father Time into going on vacation. It causes a loop in time to the point where it becomes monotonous. Grim, Billy and Mandy try to find a way to get Father Time back on the job.
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' has used a broken watch to establish time of death more than once.
-->'''Lanie:''' He was killed at 11:15.
-->'''Castle:''' So specific. I'm impressed.

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' has used a broken watch to establish time of death more than once.
-->'''Lanie:''' He was killed at 11:15.
-->'''Castle:'''
11:15.\\
'''Castle:'''
So specific. I'm impressed.
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* ''Literature/ThePurpleCloud'': Every clock in London has stopped at 3:10, when they became clogged with purple dust from the titular FogOfDoom.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': Subverted in the episode "The Day the World Didn't Move Around Very Much". A jet cutting a power line stops Johnny's clock at 12:00, and after seeing similar events, he's convinced that time has stopped for everyone but him when in fact he runs into various instances of things intentionally standing still for other reasons.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': Subverted in the episode "The Day the World Didn't Move Around Very Much". A jet cutting a power line stops Johnny's clock at 12:00, and after seeing similar events, he's convinced that time has stopped for everyone but him when in fact he runs into various instances of people and things intentionally standing still for other reasons.



** Ditto for a clock at the Chernobyl power plant. It can still be found at a museum.

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** Ditto for a clock at the Chernobyl UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} power plant. It can still be found at a museum.



* During the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, many buildings were left with calendars stuck on the day the lockdowns started, frozen in time almost.

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* During the COVID-19 pandemic UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, many buildings were left with calendars stuck on the day the lockdowns started, frozen in time almost.

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