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* In the timed bonus levels of ''[[Gauntlet (1985 video game)]]'' (the original), the narrator's voice (you know, the [[Wizard Needs Food Badly]] guy) would count down the last ten seconds before you failed to clear the level and get the bonus. Sometimes he'd [[Unreliable Narrator|mix up the numbers]] as a joke.
* [[Starship Titanic]] had a bomb that, once armed, would audibly count down, get distracted, and have to start over repeatedly. The player could also distract it, annoy it, and even make it break down in tears.
=== Webcomics ===
* ''[[Evil, Inc.]]'' has time bombs with oversized LED countdown [http://evil-inc.com/comic/geoffrey-barnes-6/ for sale]. There's a twist...
=== Western Animation ===
* Spoofed in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "A Tale of Two Santas", in which Bender, arrested
** [[Truth in Television]]. The [[wikipedia:Linear feedback shift register#Uses as counters|LFSR]], a common random number generator, makes a better counter than normal counting.
** Also spoofed in the episode "A Big Piece of Garbage": The crew is sent to destroy a giant ball of garbage heading directly towards the Earth along with an explosive set to detonate after 25 minutes. Once they activate it, the digital timer counts down "25:00...15:00...05:00...6h:00" to the crew's surprise. The reason? The timer was ''upside down'' and thus set to ''52 seconds''. Way to go, Farnsworth.
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'''Spongebob:''' I guess we started too early. Let's go again!
'''Squidward:''' 5... 4... 3...
'''Squidward:''' [[Crosses the Line Twice|Twooooooo]]! }}
* [[The Simpsons|FIVE-hy-ay-ay, FOUR-hy-ay-ay...]]
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