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Often occurs because [[Talking Is a Free Action]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'' episode 3, Yusei is trying to escape through the maintenance shaft before trash from Neo Domino City comes rushing into Satellite like a tsunami. On the way, he duels Ushio, which in itself takes roughly 15 minutes. Yusei only has three minutes from entering the tunnel 'till the maintenance hatch closes. 10 minutes of the duel are spent in said tunnel.
** Furthermore, at one point, the timer says 1:40. 2 minutes later, it says 1:30.
* Also occurs in the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' series, during Yugi and Jounouchi's (Joey) duel, while Malik (Marik) has Jounouchi brainwashed. The duel is set to take no more than 40 minutes or both would be [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|dragged to the bottom of the ocean by the anchor to which they are tied]], but it actually takes 3-4 episodes of non-stop [[Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series|children's card games]], which totals 60-80 minutes.
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* Lampshaded by the cast of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' in the episode ''Time Chasers'':
{{quote| '''Tom Servo:''' (after establishing he was counting down earlier) ...zero... ''four''... three... two... one... z-- ''THREE''... two... one... ... '''TWO'''... [plane crashes, destroying time machine] ...one... whatever.}}
* On the children's TV show ''[[The Big Comfy Couch]]'', one of the usual devices employed in every episode was that Lunette would look around for items inside the couch while making a mess, and then at the end of the episode she would clean the mess up in a "ten-second tidy". Usually these would last over a minute. Very likely this was done under the assumption that [[Viewers
* ''[[Knight Rider]]'' (2008) "Knight Fever": Trying to abort the destruction of a recently nanovirus-infected command center, Carrie and Alex find that the security device has malfunctioned and won't read their handprints. It repairs itself just in time to stop when the countdown reaches 1 second.
* In the ''[[Scrubs]]'' episode "My 15 Seconds", the timer which displays during the "15-second visits" with Nicole Sullivan sometimes visibly slows to half speed.
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== Western Animation ==
* A variant of the fast burning fuse is seen in ''[[Batman:
** And furthermore, the timer beeped with every passing second, even when it was offscreen, but the beeps didn't correspond to how much time had passed. At the 20-seconds mark, it plainly beeped more times than there were seconds remaining.
* In the episode of ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', "Invasion of the Secret Santas!", where, after noticing a doll is a bomb with a 10 second timer, Batman exclaims, "It's a Bomb!" for 5 seconds, before cutting to a commercial break.
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* In the opening of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (TV)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', the timer Sally sets actually counts down ''faster'' when it's not on-screen. Potentially justified in that a few seconds could have been skipped between some of the camera changes (though that would be odd).
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', when [[It Makes Sense in Context|Homer is waiting to deliberately take a cannonball to the stomach that he knows will kill him]], the fuse on the cannon is shown burning most of the way from beginning to end several times between shots of something else.
* In the first episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', a [[Sealed Evil in A Can]] is due to be released [[When the Planets Align]] -- specifically, the stars are supposed to aid in her escape from the moon that very night. As Twilight Sparkle reflects on this, she looks at the moon, and four nearby stars can clearly be seen approaching it at a visible rate. Then the viewpoint shifts, the scene switches to another place and the scene there goes on for a moment. And then Twilight looks at the sky again, and the stars continue practically from where they were when last seen and merge with the moon.
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* The last hour before the train arrives in ''[[High Noon]]'' is done in real time, there being a number of clocks visible to confirm this.
* In ''[[Star Trek]] First Contact'' Picard sets the auto destruct for a fifteen minute, silent countdown. It is deactivated by Data after about 11 minutes.
* Averted in ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'' by having [[Sapient Ship]] Nell malfunctioning due to battle damage, so she keeps messing up the [[Self
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* In the ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' episode "Waiting For Edward", Moltar pulls a lever to initiate the destruction of the planet, mostly because he just feels like it (and he's holding a sale!). The timer appears on his viewscreen and is visible any time the action cuts back to him. This being Space Ghost, it's all but forgotten until the end of the episode when the planet blows up exactly when the timer said it would, in real time.
* A segment of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', named appropriately "Five Minute Warning," has Garfield needing to avoid eating for five minutes to receive a cake. When the countdown starts, a timer appears in the corner of the screen and counts down in real time.
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Rainbow Dash says she can clear the clouds in "ten seconds flat." It indeed takes only ten seconds in real time.
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* Spoofed in ''[[Bobobo Bobobobo]]'': Denbo-Chan can only stay for... two hours.
** Played straight, however, with Mr. Bo-Jiggler and Patchbobo.
* Spoofed in ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' episode 23. Kururu shows a countdown that shows Keroro has 72 minutes until [[
== Films ==
* Spoofed in the film ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'', with the countdown on Mega-Maid's [[Self
{{quote| '''Computer:''' Ten... nine... eight... six...<br />
'''President Skroob:''' Six? What happened to seven?!<br />
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