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Related to [[Exact Time to Failure]]. Not to be confused with the gameshow ''~321~'' or the Class 321 Electric Multiple Units.
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== Film - Animated ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Babylon5
* ''[[Married...
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'''Peggy:''' You know how you are always complaining that your father never does anything with the family? Well, just watch that window and your father has a big surprise for us. Right about now - three, two, one...
''[Al screams and falls past the window, family laughs and claps]'' }}
* ''[[Sports Night]]'' episode "Quo Vadimus"
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'''Dana Whitaker:''' Isaac doesn't trust that when he tells me something, I can be cool. He thinks it's gonna spread around and the information'll get all twisted and I'm going to show him he's wrong.
'''Isaac Jaffe:''' ''[While in his office]'' Three, two, one...
'''Jeremy Goodwin:''' Isaac, I don't know if you heard. Six this morning there was a bid from an Italian airline called Platypus. }}
* ''[[Out of This World]]'' did it when the uncle had some [[Love Potion]] in the form of cologne on, and when he was about to take a swim, the daughter and mother counted down for when the [[Instant Harem]] would abandon him.
* [[Double Subversion|Double subverted]] in a ''[[Cheers]]'' episode. A beautiful woman walks into the bar while Sam is in his office, and Carla does the countdown. It's as if the show is [[Lampshade Hanging|admitting how predictable it is]], but Sam is two seconds late. He comes out, asking, "Where is she"?
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'''Sam:''' Gimme a break, Carla. There's lead pipes down there. Interferes with the radar. }}
* By [[Community]]'s second Christmas episode, the glee club have become so predictable that Annie can count down to their 'hip-hop remix' of carols.
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Home On The Strange]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20131019175303/http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=268 with the drinking game].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Often used in [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Bubbles in ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'', during an episode in which the girls try to defeat a particularly tough monster in their own ways.
* In ''[[Superman:
* [[Phineas and Ferb]]
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