Line #6 WebAnimation/ClockSuckers


1	''Clock Suckers'' is a [[WebAnimation web-based cartoon]] created by Mike and Andy Parker and released under the College Humor website. The show stars Ben (voiced by Mike Parker), a thirty-something slacker who inherits a time machine composed of a bathtub and a Simon game from his deceased grandfather. Along with his friends, Kate (voiced by Hollie Bertram) and Tanner (voiced by Andy Parker), Ben uses the time machine to travel through time, changing and altering the timeline along the way. The cast is rounded out by Grit, [[DeadpanSnarker a sarcastic robot]], and Rocco, a talking cat, both of whom Ben has also inherited from his grandfather.
2
3	The 13 cartoons were released from 2007 to 2008. On October 2020, Lowbrow Studios hinted at a possible continutation of the series (along with many other of their works).
4	----
5	!!''Clock Suckers'' provides examples of:
6	* BadFuture: Ben, Kate and Tanner create one, though it doesn't seem so bad to them.
7	* BunglingInventor: Ben's deceased grandfather. Also insane, as shown in one episode where they go back in time to see him.
8	* CloudCuckoolander: Just about any famous people they meet in the past is like this.
9	* CrazyEnoughToWork: The way Tanner's... um, friend, tried to get them out of the alternate dimension. It didn't work.
10	* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Happens in some episodes.
11	* {{Jerkass}}: Kate, although all three main characters qualify.
12	* LoveableSexManiac: Kate and Elvis.
13	* LastNameBasis: Tanner. Even ''his mom'' calls him that.
14	* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Happens with Tanner in one episode.
15	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Billy Murder.
16	* NonSequiturCausality: Delaying the death of Abe Lincoln turns Kate into a guy.
17	* OfCorpseHesAlive: Thinking they killed Creator/LindsayLohan (she was only in coma), they do this while starring in a movie, and ''actually wins an Oscar''.
18	* OurTimeMachineIsDifferent: It's a bath tub with a board game for the controls. Also, Ben convinces Kate that it won't work if she has a shirt on.
19	* ParallelPornTitle: The episode ''Demolition Man is Not a Good Movie'' begins with Ben saying he can take any movie titles and turn it into a porn title, with Kate listing some movie titles. He struggled to come up with one for ''Film/TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty'' when the main plot kicks in. When the future is under attack (ItMakesSenseInContext), Ben [[BrickJoke finally]] comes up with a porn title for the film (''The Bridges of Madison Cootchie'').
20	* ReallyGetsAround: The final episode shows the three discovering that Music/ElvisPresley had sex with Tanner's mom nine months before he was born, so they go back in time so they can bring him back and confront Mrs. Tanner about it. In the meantime they notice Elvis's notebook listing names of all the people he had sex with, among them [[ILoveTheDead Betsy Ross]] (later seen humping her skeleton remains), WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, and [[InterspeciesRomance Xantar the Horrible]].
21	* TalkingAnimal: Rocco the cat, who is able to talk through a machine Ben's grandfather invented.
22	* TimeTravel: The whole premise of the series.
23	* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: Every single episode.
24	* WaybackTrip

Context WebAnimation / ClockSuckers