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16	->'''Frye:''' What's up with that yo-yo-looking thing that's dangling in Sturgeon Shipyard?\
17	'''Shiver:''' Oh, that cursed thing. It just makes it hard to target enemies from the high ground.\
18	'''Frye:''' Really? It just makes me sleepy. The more I stare, the more...I lose...focuhhhhhh...\
19	'''Big Man:''' [[IntelligibleUnintelligible Ay. Ay! Ay!]] (Not again. Frye! Wake up--we're still on the air!)
20	-->-- ''VideoGame/Splatoon3''
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22	Often, a pocket watch (or another object of that sort) is swung back and forth like a pendulum in front of a victim repeatedly to hypnotize them. This is almost always accompanied by the hypnotist saying "You are getting very sleepy..." or some variation.
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24	TruthInTelevision: Since these kind of motions are rather hypnotic in RealLife, this trope somewhat makes sense.
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26	See also MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks, HypnoFool, HypnoticEyes, and TriggerPhrase. Not to be confused with HypnoTrinket, which is something the subject/victim wears, or MindControlDevice, which is a device that has the sole purpose of hypnotizing someone/controlling someone's mind. Could be used to HypnotizeTheCaptive, or (very rarely) for MassHypnosis.
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28	!!Examples:
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30	[[folder:Advertising]]
31	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sng12C7MKm8 this]] commercial for Advertising/{{Trix\|Rabbit}}, the Rabbit thinks being hypnotized will help him get over his obsession with Trix. The hypnotist uses a watch to put him under.
32	* A commercial for ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' has Wario attempting to hypnotize the viewers into becoming him. It's a variation on the famous "Obey Wario, destroy Mario!" ad for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins''.
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35	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
36	* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': One of Doraemon's gadgets, as shown in "Doraemon's Time Capsule", is a wand that acts as a hypnotic pendulum that can hypnotize even artificial intelligence such as robots.
37	* Meg is hypnotized in this manner in one episode of ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan''. To elaborate, the pervert Chou fantasizes about using a pendulum to hypnotize Meg, and later uses a cuckoo clock.
38	* In an episode of ''Anime/{{MegaMan NT Warrior\|2002}} Axess'', Ms. Yuri hypnotizes Ms. Mari using a pair of Clackers.
39	* A brief bit in ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' features Mio trying this on Yuuko with a yen coin. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyMn-5e6PA8 Yuuko ends up trying to eat it]].
40	* An episode of the ''Manga/NodameCantabile'' anime involves Nodame hypnotizing Chiaki in order to cure his fear of flying. She uses a watch because that's how she had seen it done in movies.
41	* This is how Jango the hypnotist from ''Manga/OnePiece'' hypnotizes his victims to make them sleep, or his allies to make them stronger. The problem is, he often hypnotizes ''himself'' as well as his targets.
42	* Nanapon from ''Anime/SevenOfSeven'' can use her crystal in this way. In one episode, she tries to teach Nana, but [[HypnoFool ends up hypnotizing herself instead]].
43	* In a chapter of ''Manga/SquidGirl'', Sanae uses one to try hypnotizing the titular protagonist into loving her. It doesn't work, but since almost everyone around her is so annoyed that they decide to play along and fake being hypnotized (Even ''her pet dog'' was faking it), she buys it anyway. Only Squid Girl herself doesn't bother playing along.
44	* A scene in ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' also features the girls trying hypnosis with a yen coin.
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47	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
48	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 5 episode 51, Big M. swings a rock on a string in order to get Little M. to go to sleep. Little M. tells the general that modern hypnotists usually tell whoever they're hypnotizing to look into their eyes, mimics the movements... and finds that he's sent Big M. to sleep.
49	* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Hypnosis", Specs Doc sees a hypnotist use a swinging pocket watch to hypnotize someone in a TV show, and he and Skinny Doc use this idea to hypnotize Lamput into doing their bidding.
50	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': Wolffy uses one, shaped like a wolf's head, in ''Great War in the Bizarre World'' episode 22 to hypnotize Jollie when he isn't able to give the location of the Luminous Ray. It works on nearby Wolnie, but not Jollie.
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53	[[folder:Comic Books]]
54	* A ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'' story uses a folding fan opening and closing to the same effect on [[spoiler:Colonel Olrik]] to get him to relive his memories as [[spoiler:Professor Septimus' guinea pig]].
55	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': One of the first tricks Paula uses on targets she needs to have do her bidding but doesn't have time to fully mentally break and condition is to strap them in and have a trinket spun or waved in front of their eyes to see if they're susceptible to hypnotism.
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58	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
59	* ''Kerry Drake'' features a rare example of one of these being used on a crowd of people. Shandar hypnotizes his followers with a clock pendulum (he calls it "The Pendulum of Existence").
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62	[[folder:Fan Works]]
63	* Calvin is hypnotized in this manner by the school psychiatrist in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''.
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66	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
67	* {{Downplayed\|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2''. In Screenslaver's lair, there is a machine that resembles a clock which has one of these along with three hypnosis spirals. It does not impact the plot, merely setting the scene.
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70	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
71	* In ''Film/CarryOnMatron'', Dr. Francis A. Goode is seen hypnotizing himself before being walked in on by his boss, Sir Bernard Cutting.
72	* Variation in ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'': In an early scene, E.T. lulls Elliott to sleep in this manner. In this case, E.T. sways his own body back and forth, causing Elliott to sway with him and fall into a trance.
73	* In ''Film/Frankenstein1970'', Victor von Frankenstein does this with reflected light, playing it across the eyes of his victim while he talks in a low, hypnotic tone. He hypnotises Schutter with light reflected off a pair of forceps, and Mike with light reflected off a coin.
74	* In ''Film/AManWithAMaid'', Jack swings a crystal in front of Alice and Marion in an attempt to hypnotize them. It fails, but does put Samson into a trance.
75	* ''Film/OurManFlint'': Flint hypnotizes Lloyd Cramden by using his watch, [[PlayingWithATrope but not by swinging it]]: it generates a small light moving around on its face, and Cramden becomes hypnotized watching it.
76	* ''Film/StewardessSchool'': Larry uses a pendant while using hypnosis therapy on Kelly.
77	* In ''Film/TheatreOfDeath'', Davras hypnotizes Nicole by reflecting light off his ring and moving it slowly back and forth across her eyes.
78	* In ''Film/TortureGarden'', Dr. Diabolo tells his customers to stare at the highly reflective shears of Atropos. He talks at them in a low, monotone and reflected light from the shears plays across their eyes, putting them into a trance.
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82	* A stage magician holds up a watch and says that it's his grandfather's watch, and is priceless in and of itself outside of its utility in hypnotizing people. He hypnotizes the entire audience, using it as a pendulum and begins his first command. "Now, I want you to..." He drops the watch and it shatters on the ground. "Shit!" It took four weeks to clean that theatre's seats...
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85	[[folder:Literature]]
86	* ''Literature/{{Bunnicula}}'': Chester is implied to have been hypnotized by a clock pendulum.
87	* In ''Literature/TheDarkTower'', Roland hypnotizes people several times by having them focus on a bullet as he walks it back and forth across the backs of his fingers. Not exactly a pendulum, but thematically similar.
88	* {{Inverted\|Trope}} in Gordon Korman's ''Literature/TheHypnotists''. A stage hypnotist appears to use a pendulum to hypnotize his subject; however, it is later revealed that it was just for show, and true hypnosis works through [[HypnoticEyes eyes]].
89	* ''Literature/LumbanicoTheCubicPlanet'': The Great Guardian uses a tear-shaped piece of astrolita (a glowing blue mineral) on a string to hypnotize Vinca into revealing where her friends have gone to.
90	* In ''Literature/MollyMoon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism'', Molly buys one from an antique shop, but earlier she uses her own: a spoon (while she's stirring soup) and a piece of soap on a string.
91	* The ''Literature/{{Sorcery}}'' gamebooks have the Nap Spell, which is used together with a brass pendulum. It's capable of putting most enemies to sleep, as long as they're sentient.
92	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' book "The Amazing [=SpongeBobini=]", [=SpongeBob=] tries to hypnotize Patrick into not being sick using a combination of this and HypnoticEyes. It doesn't work.
93	* Moretti of ''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'' uses a coin on a string to hypnotize people, though he prefers to spin the coin rather than swing.
94	* In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', when Nutt attempts hypnotherapy on ''himself'', Trev puts him in a trance by swinging his tin can back and forth on a string, saying he once saw a music hall performer do this with a pocket watch.
95	* In ''Literature/WaysideSchool Gets a Little Stranger'', Dr. Pickle uses a pickle-shaped pendulum to hypnotize his patients. Incidentally, his real name is Pickell.
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99	* In one episode of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', "Fester Goes on a Diet", Morticia tries to use her necklace on Uncle Fester, to which he responds, "The only one who can hypnotize me is ME!"
100	* ''Series/{{ALF}}'': The titular character tries to hypnotize the family cat Lucky using a pocketwatch. "You are getting sleepy. You... are no longer a cat. You are a bagel."
101	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
102	** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E12Helpless Helpless]]", Giles uses a crystal to hypnotise Buffy.
103	** When Xander gets a LiteralSplitPersonality in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E3TheReplacement The Replacement]]", his meeker side thinks that his more confident side is an evil shapeshifter using a shiny coin to hypnotize people. [[SubvertedTrope It turns out that confident Xander just found the coin at a construction site he was working at and thought it was cool.]]
104	** Used as a BilingualBonus joke in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E20Touched Touched]]". Willow uses a spell to hypnotize a Harbringer -- a {{mook\|s}} for the BigBad whose [[EyelessFace eyes have been sewn shut]]. According to the shooting script, Willow is saying in Turkish while casting the spell, "You are getting sleepy. Very, very sleepy. I do not have a pocket watch, but then again, you do not have eyes."
105	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
106	** This is how the First Doctor mesmerises Dodo in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]", only instead of using a pendulum he swings his hand with the ring on it back and forth in a similar motion.
107	** The villain of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora The Masque of Madragora]]" uses drugged smoke and a dangling crystal to hypnotize Sarah Jane.
108	** The Sixth Doctor uses a silver medallion on his fob chain to calm a TechnicallyLivingZombie trying to kill Peri in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]".
109	** PlayedForLaughs in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe The Ultimate Foe]]", the last episode of "The Trial of a Time Lord". The Master has a criminal named Sabalom Glitz in his grasp and is trying to hypnotize him with a pocketwatch. Glitz ''appears'' to be in a trance, but says that he's only wondering how much the pocketwatch is worth.
110	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In "[[Recap/FarscapeS03E07ThanksForSharing Thanks for Sharing]]", Stark and John Crichton are trying to repair Talyn when Stark starts panicking that the LivingShip is dying. John waves a [[CowTools gadget]] back and forth in front of his face.
111	-->'''Crichton:''' Work... now... freak... later... Work... now... freak... later...\
112	'''Stark:''' ''[following it with his single eye]'' Yes... that's it...\
113	'''Crichton:''' Good.\
114	'''Stark:''' How much later? ''[[[TemptingFate concussion missiles explode outside the hull]]]''
115	* Patrick from ''Series/TheMentalist'' has used various objects to hypnotize people: a pen, a watch, a necklace...
116	* A flashback reveals that ''Series/NickyRickyDickyAndDawn'' had a one-time babysitter whom their parents nicknamed "Easily-Hypnotized Harry" because the quadruplets exploited this trope to make him take them to the movies.
117	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Fargo Whiskers", Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton briefly attempt to use a watch to hypnotize Miss Brooks and suggest she stay home from school for a week. A misunderstanding made them think Miss Brooks was suffering from a nervous breakdown; they were afraid she would act weirdly in front of the visiting school inspector.
118	* ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': In "[[Recap/PowerRangersLightspeedRescueOlympiusUnbound Olympius Unbound]]", Jinxer uses one of these to hypnotize Captain Mitchell into giving Olympius the Aquabase's power supply.
119	* ''Series/RadioEnfer'': Jocelyne uses one to hypnotize Jean-Lou and Carl in one episode where she becomes an hypno-therapist.
120	* In ''Series/Vegas1978'', a lady police hypnotist tries this, but Dan Tanna's assistant is already somewhat mesmerized by her breasts.
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123	[[folder:Music & Music Videos]]
124	* Pointedly averted in the Music/TheyMightBeGiants song "Hypnotist of Ladies":
125	-->''He's a hypnotist, hypnotist of ladies\
126	Never had a pocket watch, never counted backwards.''
127	* The video for Rainbow's song "Street of Dreams" features a man being hypnotized with a pocket watch around the time the song kicks in.
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130	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
131	* ''Series/FraggleRock'': Sidebottom, calling himself "Dr. Fun", uses his stethoscope as one of these, hypnotizing Junior into believing he's a Fraggle.
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134	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
135	* In ''Ravenloft II: House on Gryphon Hill'', the sequel to the original ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'', uses this instead of the more well known Tarokka reading. While the DM plays the hypnotist, the players take turns answering the questions, choosing from a list given to them by the game.
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138	[[folder:Video Games]]
139	* Willy Beamish can make an impromptu one in ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish'' by combining a length of chain with his Nintari's lock-up key. [[spoiler:He uses it on a Tootsweet security guard to knock him out and escape his office.]]
140	* In ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'', Dr. Bumby practices hypnotherapy and uses a door key with a Venus symbol at the top to hypnotize his patients.
141	* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', during a fight against a dinosaur, the context-sensitive buttons will give Conker a pocket watch, which he can use to hypnotize and tame the dinosaur.
142	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has the ultra-rare monster [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Hypnotist_of_Hey_Deze Hypnotist of Hey Deze]], who specifically averts this trope in a ShoutOut to the Music/TheyMightBeGiants example above:
143	-->''He's never had a pocketwatch, and he's never counted backwards, but he looks like he ''has'' beaten up quite a few adventurers in his day, and it seems that you're next on his list.''
144	* Duster from ''VideoGame/Mother3'' has one that can used to put enemies to sleep, though with a lower success rate than PSI.
145	* At the end of ''VideoGame/NightfallMysteries 2: Curse of the Opera'', Vincent uses a pocket watch to put the player character into a trance.
146	* The Psychic-type Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Hypno wields a pendulum, swinging it back and forth to perform its psychic attacks, which has led to it being considered a MemeticMolester.
147	* ''VideoGame/ScienceGirls'': The player's Hypontise skill, which stuns enemies for a time, has its animation, be taking out a gold pocket watch and swinging it once.
148	* The "Hypnotize" spell from ''VideoGame/TheSims1: Makin' Magic'' will have the sim use a wand as a pendulum and cause the target sim to be sleepy, so that they can be susceptible to further suggestions when pulled off. Just don't try it on those holding a wand.
149	* There is an item in ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'' called the "Hypnotizer". It's a coin on a chain, and it can be used to see a dream again.
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152	[[folder:Webcomics]]
153	* In the ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' Franchise/{{Pokemon}} parody arc, the Hypno anologue uses a pendulum just like the Pokemon she's based on. We see her use it to hypnotize [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/gam-18 Justin]], as well as [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/gam-17 herself.]]
154	* In ''Webcomic/TheMonsterUnderTheBed'', Shadow uses her tail for this on Tim, although to lull him to sleep rather than actually hypnotizing him.
155	* [[http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20111104-hypnotism Becky's fantasy]] in ''Webcomic/ThinkBeforeYouThink'' involves Brian swinging a pocket watch.
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158	[[folder:Web Original]]
159	* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': Marianne Williamson attempts to hypnotize the other Democrats and the studio audience to vote for her.
160	* Referenced by WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} at the beginning of episode 10 of ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]'':
161	--> '''Courtroom official:''' She was seen leaving around 9:30pm.\
162	''[a giant pocketwatch swings back and forth]''\
163	...\
164	'''{{LetsPlay/slowbeef}}:''' I feel like ''I've'' been hypnotized watching [[SoBadItsGood this]].\
165	''[the watch disappears]''\
166	'''Diabetus:''' "You want to play better game" -- oh.
167	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/log-of-anomalous-items Log of Anomalous Items]] has an inversion: a pocket watch that induces a mild trance state in anyone looking at it only when it '''isn't''' being swung back and forth like a pendulum.
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170	[[folder:Western Animation]]
171	* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'': Cadpig attempts to use this on Leitunant Pug in "Howl Noon" to get him to face his fears and stand up to his childhood bully, Persian Pete. In the end, Pug uses Cadpig (Who has been strapped to him with handcuffs) as a pendulum to hypnotize and defeat Persian Pete.
172	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/AlmostNakedAnimals'' where Octo tries to do this for a hotel attraction with a ''digital alarm clock'' on a string, and his subject agreed to pretend to be hypnotised.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS1E18TheRefund The Refund]]", Gumball and Darwin hypnotize a store manager into giving them a refund on a game. They use a watch in order to do this.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
175	** One ImagineSpot of the titular character has a new friend of Buster hypnotizing him in this manner.
176	** Buster himself has used this twice: once on Arthur and once on Arthur's neighbor Vicita.
177	** In the episode "What Is That Thing?", Francine uses one of these on her cat, Nemo, in hope of curing his fear of water.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'': In "Hypno-a-Go-Go", Otis orders a hypno watch in order to have fun hypnotizing the farm folk. Unfortunately, he ends up hypnotizing himself while watching a boxing movie, resulting in him attempting to destroy the farmer whenever he heard a bell.
179	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': Dale tries to use one in the episode "The Pied Piper Power Play", but it rarely works.
180	* In one ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' cartoon, Donald goes to Ludwig Von Drake for anger issues. Ludwig tries a watch, saying "Vatch de vatch!". [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't work]], so he simply [[AmusingInjuries hits Donald over the head with a mallet]].
181	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Double D receives a psychology book, which includes a hypnosis wheel. Eddy decides to use it on the kids in the neighborhood, and has a ball making them all do silly things. Unfortunately, the Kankers show up and get their hands on the wheel, using it to turn the Eds into dogs.
182	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In "Crocker Shocker", Dr. Fancyfree hypnotizes Mr. Crocker with a pocket watch so he doesn't believe in fairies.
183	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' has Fred trying to hypnotize Wilma using a rock on a string. He hypnotizes Barney instead.
184	* In ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Madam Foster's bowling rival is able to hypnotize Bloo by swinging the ball from a paddle-ball in front of his face to coax him into bowling for her team.
185	* The ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS1E05 Wade, You're Afraid]]" has Orson hypnotize Wade into not being afraid by using a turnip on a string.
186	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' has Ami using a pocket watch as one of these to hypnotize a bull that they were forced to fight. It worked... [[OhCrap until the bull broke out of its trance and ate the pocketwatch.]]
187	* In ''WesternAnimation/HollyHobbieAndFriends: Secret Adventures'', Holly tries to hypnotize Carrie with a locket to cure her fear of the dark. She ends up hypnotizing Amy instead.
188	* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': In the episode "Bearly Enough Time", Johnny tries this to hypnotize a bear into sleeping, but ends up following the swinging pendulum with his own eyes and falling asleep himself.
189	* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' episode "Pirates from Below", Hadji hypnotizes a guard with a flashing ruby.
190	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
191	** In "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E10FedUpShellShocked Fed Up]]", Lincoln uses a quarter on a string in an attempt to hypnotize himself into believing his dad's wienerschnitzel tastes like ice cream. Unfortunately, Lola wants to try it too and ruins the hypnosis.
192	** In "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS5E6CowPieKidSavedByTheSpell Saved by the Spell]]", Zach uses a pocket watch on Lincoln to convince him to dance instead of do magic for the talent show. Lincoln isn't affected, but Meryl ends up getting hypnotized instead.
193	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic:''
194	** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of My Excess]]", Zecora uses this on Spike when examining his greed-induced growth.
195	** In the short "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS0E4StarlightTheHypnotist Starlight the Hypnotist]]", Starlight uses a star-shaped pendent on a chain to hypnotize Twilight into curing her fear of ladybugs.
196	* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbARealBoy A Real Boy]]", Candace has Stacy hypnotize her with a pocket watch into ignoring the need to bust her brothers so that she can spend the entire afternoon relaxing with Jeremy.
197	* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010'': Strudel attempts to use a swinging walnut to hypnotize a squirrel into acting more like a squirrel in the episode "Call of the Squirreldog". It ''is'' effective... on the wrong target.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E5BoogieFrightsAbracadaver Abra-cadaver]]", the title villain hypnotizes Blossom with a watch. He doesn't really make her do anything; he just entrances her so he can get his revenge on her more easily.
199	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' has the hypnotist using a ''pen'', with the obligatory MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks HypnoFool being [[DeanBitterman Principal Prickly]]. Hilariously, this is implied to be ''why'' he fell for it.
200	-->'''Prickly:''' What a goofball. Nice pen, though...
201	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
202	** In "Chuckie's First Haircut", Susie hypnotizes Chuckie with a yo-yo in an attempt to help him get over his fear of haircuts.
203	** In the special "All Growed Up", Tommy uses the fake Scorpio medallion as one on Dil to help him get to sleep.
204	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', the Ghost Clown used a golden coin on a string like this. It turns out the ghost [[ScoobyDooHoax is actually a disgruntled hypnotist in disguise]].
205	-->'''Ghost Clown:''' Watch the pretty coin of gold\
206	And you will do as you are told!
207	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E17HomerAtTheBat Homer at the Bat]]", to inspire the company softball team, Mr. Burns brings in a hypnotist who uses a swinging watch for his MassHypnosis.
208	-->'''Hypnotist:''' You are all very good players.\
209	'''Team:''' ''[[[SpeakInUnison speaking in unison]]]'' We are all very good players.\
210	'''Hypnotist:''' You will beat Shelbyville.\
211	'''Team:''' We will beat Shelbyville.\
212	'''Hypnotist:''' You will give 110 percent.\
213	'''Team:''' That's impossible. No one can give more than 100 percent. By definition, that's the most anyone can give.
214	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
215	** One rare deconstructed case occurs in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E1FearOfAKrabbyPattyShellOfAMan Fear of a Krabby Patty]]" when Plankton ([[ItMakesSenseInContext disguising himself as a Shrink]]) tries this on [=SpongeBob=] to "help" him with his phobia of Krabby Patties (when in reality, he's trying to hypnotize [=SpongeBob=] into divulging the secret formula). Surprisingly, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Plankton's initial hypnotism cures [=SpongeBob=] of his phobia]] and the Status Quo returns to normal (much to Plankton's protests and misfortune).
216	** Done again in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E14 SpongeBob's Bad Habit]]" when Hans hypnotizes [=SpongeBob=] to try and cure his nail-biting habit.
217	** Not a pendulum, but in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS6E17ShuffleboardingProfessorSquidward Professor Squidward]]", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are entranced by the ticking arm of Squidward's metronome that they end up swinging with it and repeating "tick" over and over.
218	* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
219	** In "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS3E23DeepDive Deep Dive]]", when Star continuously wakes up from her sleep-portaling right before she finds where the mysterious voice she hears is coming from, Janna Ordonia uses Marco's wristwatch to hypnotize her into staying asleep so they can help her find it.
220	** Another example is shown in "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS3E28TotalEclipsaTheMoon Total Eclipsa the Moon]]" when Star's mother, Queen Moon Butterfly, is stuck in a hole and a spider takes the opportunity to use himself as a pendulum to make the Queen drowsy and rob her of her crown.
221	* In one ''WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird'' cartoon, Sylvester goes to a psychiatrist to try and cure his problem chasing Tweety. Similar to the Donald Duck cartoon mentioned above, the psychiatrist first tries swinging a watch in front of his face, [[SubvertedTrope but it doesn't work]], so he instead hits Sylvester on the head with a hammer.
222	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzZCxkkLkGs One episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' features this in an attempt by Bull to hypnotize Axle. When it backfires, Axle attempts to snap Bull out of it using the same watch hanging from a fishing rod.
223	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "Totally Switched", an evil shrink uses a variant of this device to swap the personalities of his patients.
224	* In the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episode "Real Gone Ape", Dick Dastardly does this to a circus ape.
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228	* It's very common to use this in stage hypnosis. It is often referred to as "eye-fixation" or "fixed-gaze", which can also refer to a completely different and unrelated induction technique in hypnotherapy.
229	** Alternate foci for this method can be anything from a candle flame to a dot on the wall.
230	* It was once widely used in therapy too, but [[DiscreditedTrope not anymore]]. Since one element of a successful induction is the ''expectation'' of entering trance, the familiarity of the trope can actually work to a hypnotist's advantage, but it's not really done since it's considered rather naff these days.
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Context Main / HypnoPendulum