Cue O'Clock



Timepieces with Text: In comedies, clock dials are occasionally seen with one or more of the numbers replaced by a non-numerical word or picture telling what will happen on the hour. (Previously called "Type 1".)

Character Chronology: A slight variation of this is when a character creates a fictional time based upon the actions of one or more other characters. (Previously called "Type 2".)

Comic Books

 * Skalman from Bamse got an alarm clock like this. And he always follows it (there has been only one exception).

Literature

 * Harry Potter: The Weasley family has a clock which has nine hands and doesn't tell time at all. It just shows where each of the family members currently are. ("home," "school," "work," "travelling," "lost," "hospital," "prison," and "mortal peril.") Molly also has one to tell her to do things like "Time to make tea", "Time to feed the chickens" and "You're running late".
 * MOD: If it doesn't tell time, how is it an example of this trope? Please explain, or move the example to a more appropriate trope page.

Video Games

 * Used in one of the puzzles of The Impossible Quiz.

Web Comics

 * xkcd has a wristwatch with Zeppelin O'Clock.

Western Animation

 * The title character of the Classic Disney Short "Donald's Cousin Gus" has a watch that tells mealtimes.
 * In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Baby Cakes", Pinkie Pie glances at a wristwatch with a picture of her face at the top while waiting for her chance to play with the Cakes' newborn twins some more.

Other Media

 * This image could be adapted for most Memetic Molesters.
 * Otaku O'Clock
 * This clock.

Advertising

 * "Sounds like Pimms o'clock!"

Live-Action TV

 * In the House episode 'Simple Explanation' Kutner does not turn up for work and Taub puts forward an obviously fictitious cover story for him, saying that his dog is sick and he will be there by lunch. At lunchtime House looks at his watch and says "Look at the time. It's half past Taub-was-lying-about-Kutner."

Magazines

 * A magazine article from the 1920s said that it was "Sex O'Clock in America".

Music
"What time's it at? It's at Party O'Clock"
 * In the song "Party on Fountain":

New Media

 * 4chan: Good heavens, just look at the time!
 * The term "beer thirty".

Stand-Up Comedy

 * An ATC Tower relaying local time to an inbound aircraft, "...If you're a civilian, it's 3:00; if you're Air Force, it's 1500; if you're Navy, it's Six-Bells, if you're Army, the big hand is on '3' & little hand is on '12'; if you're Marine, it's 2 hours until the bar opens!

Video Games

 * The description for one of the watches you can put on your Rock Band character claims it to be "rock o'clock".

Web Comics

 * The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: "We are on Eastern Pain Time and it's Dan O' Clock!"
 * All mixed drinks are half-off from Dan O'Clock to Dan Thirty.
 * Mac Hall: Shirtless O'Clock