Ring Ring Crunch / Live-Action TV

• Chuck: Sarah kills her alarm clock with an expertly thrown knife. She's wearing a night mask at the time, too.
• Variant: In an episode of Friends, Phoebe caves and decides to move in with her cop boyfriend. They are woken in the morning to a bird singing a beautiful song. The boyfriend smiles, takes out a gun and shoots the bird. She apparently learned a bit from him, as she would later hammer her beeping fire alarm. It still didn't stop beeping.
• In an early episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Jake is late to the precinct, but he explains he had a plumbing problem. The Cutaway Gag reveals, the alarm in his smart phone went off and a sleepy Jake chucks it away… into the toilet. Once the gag ends, he requests for a departmentally issued phone.
• On a Xena: Warrior Princess "Groundhog Day" Loop episode, Xena uses her chakram on the rooster that keeps waking her up. All it does is cause an instant reset.
• Mr. Bean once drowned his alarm clock ... then hung it out to dry to use the next day.
• There was an episode of The A-Team when B. A. Baracus, sleeping in a house the team was using for a hideaway, smashed an annoying alarm clock into little tiny pieces with one pound of his fist. "It's too early, foo'!"
• Booth from Bones does this once. While having a particularly stressful day, an ice cream truck passes by with a grating tinny tune blaring in every direction. In addition, the truck displays a prominent, and slightly terrifying, clown (Booth has a well-established dislike of clowns). His solution? Take his pistol out and pop a few rounds in it.
• Saturday Night Live once had a skit advertising a "car alarm silencer." The device being advertised was actually a bazooka that destroyed the offending car.
• On NCIS, Gibbs is notorious for accidentally/intentionally destroying his own cell phone when it gives him any trouble, either by malfunctioning, ringing too much, or simply existing. He's even dropped one into a jar of paint thinner. The other agents on his team now keep plenty of spares in their desks, ready to hand to him at a moment's notice.
  • They tell him they "rebooted" it.
• Scrubs:
  • Subverted with a cellphone belonging to Turk. He's talking to an ex when JD throws the phone on the floor. It carries on working. He then jumps up and down on it. It carries on working. Frustrated, he throws it out of the window, and the scene ends. Later, someone else picks it up and returns it. Completely undamaged and not even having ended the call. JD wonders what it's made of, and says he has to get one for himself...
  • Overlaps with Sorry, I Left the BGM On in another episode. Colin Hay, former lead singer of the 80s band Men at Work, has been popping up all over the place with a guitar, crooning Men at Work's hit "Overkill" and background music. In one scene, JD and Doctor Cox are having an important moment, but Hay's singing is drowning out their dialogue. Doctor Cox abruptly loses his temper and turns around, grabs Hay's guitar and smashes it to splinters against the wall. Hay protests that he knows other songs Dr. Cox could have asked him to play. "Sure you do."
• Both played straight and averted in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the first season, she accidentally destroys her alarm when she forgets her true strength. But by the sixth season in "Once More with Feeling", she is so filled with ennui that she merely picks it up and holds it, listening to it ring.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: Worf smashing the mandolin that Geordi is playing in "Qpid". "Sorry."^note Which is a reference to a scene in Animal House in which Bluto smashes a folk singer's guitar before uttering the same line.
• In Drake & Josh, Drake turns off his alarm clock by dropping a dumbbell on it.
• Stargate SG-1 has a fairly tame version. When Jack and Teal'c were off fishing in one episode and Daniel tried calling them, Jack took out the batteries and threw them in the lake, if I remember correctly.
• The Goodies:
  • Hilariously spoofed in "Lighthouse Loonies". Seeing the fog closing in around the Jolly Rock lighthouse Graham switches on the foghorn, startling an over-sensitive Tim who yells at him to turn it off. Graham does so but the foghorn continues to blare, even after they repeatedly flick the switch, pull out the power cord, rip the foghorn to bits and jump up and down on it. Finally in desperation Graham swallows the part emitting the most noise, whereupon silence ensues. Until he opens his mouth to speak.
  • Also present in the second episode, "Snooze", with a radio. It seems that Graeme has built a hammer into his wall for the primary purpose of smashing his radio. One wonders why he doesn't just throw it out.
• In Drop the Dead Donkey, Damien is trying to do a to-camera piece and keeps being interrupted by various things (tramps, a Hare Krishna parade, a piano falling off a hoist...) culminating in a nearby car alarm going off. The camera goes to black and he rips the wires out of the car, apparently bare-handed.
• In Seinfeld, the subplot to The Marine Biologist has a woman named Corinne being unfortunate enough to be hit on the head with two thrown noisy devices. Eccentric author Yuri Testikov throws Elaine's pocket organizer out a car window after she's unable to stop it from beeping. The second time, Elaine and Jerry visit Yuri at his hotel room to secretly collect evidence of this action by using a tape recorder, since Elaine wants Yuri to cover the bill for Corinne's injury. Yuri hears the noise from the tape recorder and throws it out of the hotel.
• In an episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Amy accidentally uses her brand-new telekinetic powers to hurl an alarm clock across her bedroom.
• Has happened at least once on The Red Green Show.
• In Corner Gas, there is a montage of Brent repeatedly hitting the snooze on his alarm clock until he finally wakes up on his own and remarks that he just had a weird dream that he owned an alarm clock, and says he should probably go buy one. Later in the episode, the real alarm clock be bought goes off, and he instantly smashes it to pieces with a single blow, reminding him of why he didn't have one before. Even later in the episode, the alarm on Hank's electronic organizer gows off while Brent has fallen asleep at the bar, and he smashes that too.
• In the Goosebumps (1995) episode "Say Cheese and Die — Again!", Greg has gained an absurd amount of weight as a result of having his picture taken by the cursed camera. This is first shown when he wakes up the next morning with his swollen hand breaking his ringing alarm clock.
• In the live-action The Adventures of Superboy series, Clark is ordered by his boss to keep a journal of everything he does. "7:00. Wake up. Need a new alarm clock. Again." Alarm clocks just aren't designed to take being slapped by sleepy Kryptonians.
• Likewise in Lois & Clark, episode "Pheromone My Lovely", Clark is awakened by his alarm clock and accidentally flattens it with a single bash.
• In the Modern Family episode "Chirp", Phil spends the entire episode trying to track down a smoke detector that is making an annoying chirping sound. He eventually becomes so frustrated that he starts smashing the smoke detectors.
• In the now-lost show His Lordship Entertains, Lord Rustless hangs his alarm clock from a string over a bucket of water; when it goes off, he cuts the string and goes back to sleep.
• In Frasier, this is the result of Frasier hitting Anger in his procession through the Five Stages of Grief after losing his job. He starts off tearing into a (surprisingly durable) pinata ("they found a gobstopper on the other side of the freeway"), but when he gets a phonecall he drops it on the floor and starts smashing it with the broken stick.
• Taquita and Kaui: The titular girls are snoozing peacefully. When the alarm on the clock-radio goes off, they get... a Danity Kane song. After a few moments of annoyed listening, Taquita gently pulls a hammer out of the nightstand, smashes the poor radio into oblivion, and gently puts it back in the nightstand. With the radio attached.
• In the Supernatural episode "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20), Dean throws Sam's cell phone out the car window.
• Jessica Jones (2015)
  • One teaser is a sleeping and hungover Jessica crushing her alarm clock with a single hand...at three in the afternoon.
  • Kilgrave has taken an entire police precinct hostage by commanding every cop to point a gun at each other or themselves. He starts a conversation with Jessica. Suddenly, a cell phone rings.
    Kilgrave: Whose is that? [the phone continues to ring; no one answers it] Whose phone is that?! [Kilgrave paces around, looking for the ringing phone. He eventually identifies the annoying phone as the one on Oscar Clemons. Upon getting a silent confirmation that yes, this is his phone, Kilgrave takes Clemons' phone and hurls it at a wall, shattering it into pieces] THE NEXT PERSON WHOSE PHONE RINGS HAS TO EAT IT!!! [Kilgrave rubs his hands over his face and begins pacing back and forth, trying to compose himself] Crappy fluorescent lights and cockroaches and loud cell phones and the smell of piss! I AM TRYING TO PROFESS ETERNAL LOVE HERE, PEOPLE!
• Supergirl (2015). The title character does this after being affected by Red Kryptonite.
• On an episode of Top Gear (UK), Jeremy Clarkson shows off a small device which can be put on a car to remind the owner that it runs on diesel fuel rather than gasoline. Jeremy is so annoyed with it that he ends up destroying it with a hammer.
• Batwoman (2019). Downplayed when Kate Kane turns off the radio with irritation because radio host Vesper Fairchild is complaining about how Batwoman isn't on the case of a Classy Cat-Burglar. We discover why with the Bedmate Reveal that Kate has a hot new girlfriend.

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