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{{trope}}
[[File:rooster-at-day-
A common staple in fiction, [[Everything's Better
In certain works, the rooster is replaced with a creature more suited to the setting.
Related to [[Howling to
''Not'' [[Truth in Television]], as in [[Real Life]] they never shut up regardless of what time it is. They are just the only animals awake at that ungodly time.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* This trope is why a rooster is used as a symbol for insomnia for Ambien (prescription sleep aid) commercials.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', Serizawa would often dress as a rooster, climb on top of a pole, and announce the time of day.
* In ''[[Pokémon (
* In ''[[Doctor Slump]]'', this is done by a ''pig''. [[Widget Series|It's that kind of manga.]]
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* Featured in a lot of ''[[Asterix]]'' adventures. Averted in ''Asterix and the Cauldron'', where Asterix discovers the emptying of the cauldron just before daybreak and rouses all the villagers, so the rooster considers crowing unnecessary.
== [[Film]]
* [[Rover Dangerfield]]
* [[Home
* [[Rock
* In ''[[Cloudy
* A rooster is heard to crow right before daybreak in ''[[Yellow Submarine
* Played for laughs in the claymation movie, ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[Babe]]'', where a duck crows to avoid being eaten.
** And really annoys the actual rooster, who sees it as ''his'' job but can never wake up early enough to beat the duck.
* Part of the [[Establishing Character Moment]] for heroine Nastenka in ''[[Morozko]]'' (The Russo-Finnish ''Jack Frost'', as seen on ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', a rooster crowing interrupts Gandalf's confrontation with the Lord of the Nazgûl at the gates of Minas Tirith, even though there's enough smoke from Mordor that it's impossible to tell that the sun is rising.
* The book ''[[The Enormous Egg]]'' starts with a mini-plot about the family's chicken, Ezekiel, who crows every morning, annoying the neighbors. The solution is to put him in the cellar at night and not let him out until well after sunup, so he doesn't know when its dawn and therefore doesn't crow.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In
** In ''[[
*** Given that this is such a [[Cutting the Knot|witchy]] response to this kind of limitation, one must [[Fridge Logic|wonder]] why Granny Weatherwax is so concerned with doing the spell the "right" way and disapproves of Nanny's loophole.
* [[
* In one ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'' story, high school dropout/con artist Wilford Wiggins tries to get kids to invest in a device that can control birds. He demonstrates its abilities by making a rooster crow at sunset. Encyclopedia ruins the scam by pointing out that since the rooster had been kept under a blanket beforehand, it probably thought the sun was rising instead of setting.
== [[Live
* In ''[[The Office]]'', Dwight hints that a rooster wakes him up every morning. Not surprising since he lives on a farm.
* Mentioned in ''Friends'', Chandler and Joey's pet chick, now a full grown rooster, apparently has a habit of waking up the whole apartment building at dawn, though only Monica and Rachel knows that they own it.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Billy Hatcher and
* Multiple ''Zelda'' games, to indicate that it's officially daytime.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Two ''[[The Order of the Stick
* Occurs {{spoiler|as a [[Chekhov's Gun]]}} in [[Tales of the Questor]]: the hunt of the protagonist is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120626075459/http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00508.html stated] to end when "the cock crows the dawn". {{spoiler|Unfortunately, [http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00514.html there's] a [http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00521.html way around that], [http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00522.html or is there?]}}
** {{spoiler|[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00544.html There is.] someone didn't take the possibility of a nickname or code name into account.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Any cartoon or film that takes place on a farm, really.
* On ''[[
* One episode of ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' spoofed this by having a ''bear'' crow. At the end of the episode, Dagget asks, "Norbert, what is ''wrong'' with that bear?"
* There's a rooster who crows at dawn in ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'', which, on one occasion, [[Made of Explodium|explodes.]]
* A rooster crows in the [[Title Sequence]] of ''[[Shaun the Sheep]]''.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* A sight gag in the ''Super Secret [[Secret Squirrel]]'' cartoon "Dr. O" has the sun repeatedly coming out and disappearing as Secret Squirrel struggles with the controls of Dr. O's sun-blocking satellite. A rooster farmer is seen crowing when the sun comes out, and stopping when it disappears again. Eventually, the light starts changing so fast he keeps getting cut off, and he eventually gives up.
* At the very beginning of ''[[Der
* In the classic [[Tex Avery]] cartoon "[[Tex Avery MGM Cartoons|Cock a Doodle Dog]]", Spike the Bulldog has his sleep interrupted by a rooster with an especially obnoxious crow. After various backfiring attempts to shut the bird up, Spike winds up crowing loudly by the rooster's house after the rooster goes to bed.
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