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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Powerful images for the passage of time:''
''A clock's hands, sweeping past 12!"''|T-Rex, ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'', [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000418.html "i do my best"]}}
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Compare [[Spinning Newspaper]].
=== Subversions ===▼
== [[Film]] ==
* [[The Beatles]]' ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' movie uses a variant of this by showing rapidly clockwise-spinning hands when time actually ''is'' going forward rapidly, and then rapidly counterclockwise-spinning hands when time is going ''backward'' rapidly.
* At the end of ''[[
* In the 2002 adaptation of ''[[The Time Machine]],'' the first sign Professor Hartdegen is travelling into the past is when the hands on his collection of pocket watches slow down, then reverse, speeding up as he travels further back.
* Used briefly in ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Used in ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'''s [[Kamen Rider Den-O|Den-O]] arc when time becoming disjointed during Decade and Den-O's fight is represented by a clock (sitting inexplicably in the middle of the [[BBC Quarry]] in which they're fighting) doing this.
* [[Even Stevens]] plays with the gag version where a cuckoo clock's hands start spinning rapidly.
* Occurs in [[The Basil Brush Show]] while Basil, Dave and Stephen are spending time worrying about the safety of a millionaire whom they hope to get some cash off. Near the end of the montage, Basil looks at the
** Done similarly in an episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''.
* In a [[Mr. Bean]] episode, first a bunch of mechanisms to wake up Mr. Bean are seen. He effectively ignores them. Then the clock is shown spinning to show that Mr. Bean ended up waking up late.
* Done in ''[[The Young Ones]]'', with Vyvyan noting that the clock is broken.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Romancing
** In ''[[
* In the Flash game ''MARDEK RPG'', the effect for the [[Status Buff]] Haste is an orange clock face whose hands start out still but then spin up into a blur.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in a ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode, where Kim is in detention. The clock hands start to indicate passing time and begin accelerating rapidly, whereupon Barkin hits the clock face, muttering, "Stupid clock's busted again..." and resets it, indicating a grand total of... five minutes have passed.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Two Dozen And One Greyhounds" has a spinning clock hand when the last puppies are born.
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Op. A.W.A.R.D.S.". It turns out to be just Numbuh Four playing with his watch.
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