History Main / TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall

** In the Season 1 episode "Bank Robbery", Fat Doc is thrown into a prison cell whose back wall has tally marks scrawled onto it.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode [[Recap/FreakazoidSeason2Episode3 Mission: Freakazoid]], where while being held captive in a prison in the brutish police state of Vuka Nova, Dexter's dad keeps trying to do this but can never get the number of hash marks right. The epilogue showed the Douglas family back at home and Dad was still trying to get it right.

* In Season 4 of ''Series/SearchParty'', Dory is held in solitary confinement by Chip in a recreation of her apartment, and fed once a day with a meal of chicken nuggets and an apple. Because she has no natural light, she loses track of the time of day, and can only determine it by when she gets meals, so she starts removing the sticker from each apple and sticking placing it on the front door. Cue TimeJump, and she is shown to have nearly 100 so far.

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* ''Series/BassieEnAdriaan'': In "Het geheim van de schatkaart" , when Vlugge Japie is imprisoned in the same cell as B2 (who has been in prison since the end of "De Diamand"), he notices B2 has been marking his days this way. The wall is so full with tally marks already that Japie remarks B2 should get some new wallpaper soon.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': In the Season 4 episode "The Elongated Knight Rises", Barry, who has been sentenced to life in prison the episode before, can be seen marking his days in prison this way.
* ''Series/{{Monsters}}'': In "Habitat", a woman named Jamie Neal volunteers to be locked in a room for nine months in exchange for money and makes tally marks with lipstick. On day 64, she becomes depressed when she realizes that since she has no way of accurately telling time (the room has no clocks and no windows so she can't see the sun), and she just made a new mark whenever she wakes up, she can't actually be sure her tally is accurate.
* In Season VIII of ''Series/RedDwarf'', the season number is scrawled on the title card in tally marks. The season arc involves the Dwarfers being sentenced to the ship's previously unmentioned prison levels.
* When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Fitz is arrested and sent to a military prison]] in season five of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', he tallies the days by [[RunningGag drawing monkeys on the walls of his cell.]]
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': Saul Tigh creates a set of tally marks using his thumbnail while being held prisoner by the Cylons during the TimeSkip between seasons two and three. The [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Number One]] acting as his jailer tells him they know what he's doing and that they change the marks when he's asleep. It's unclear if he's telling the truth or just [[KickTheDog screwing with Tigh]].
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': One wall of the Swan bunker is covered with tally marks, which Locke sees when he first enters it. According to the production designer, there were ''9,000'' marks on there.
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* ''VideoGame/SpyFox 2: Some Assembly Required'' ends with Napoleon Le Roach getting put in prison. Initially, he angrily swears revenge against Spy Fox and SPY Corp, but then he gets gloomy and makes a tally mark on the wall of his cell.

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