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** Honorable mention to the fireworks O'Neill threatens his SGC recruits with during a training exercise in "Proving Ground". The recruits can't figure out how to disarm the "bomb" before the timer goes off, so the team leader aborts the exercise.
** Then, there's the episode "Fail Safe". In an attempt to destroy/divert an asteroid headed towards Earth, SG-1 places a bomb on it. Unfortunately, Carter then discovers that the asteroid itself is a huge bomb, and their bomb will trigger an explosion large enough to destroy Earth. With only a few minutes to go before the timer reaches zero, the team climbs back out to their bomb, only to discover that the control mechanism has been damaged by a falling rock. To make matters worse, instead of the classic red-wire, blue-wire, it turns out that all of the control wires are the same color; as O'Neill puts it, [[Lampshade Hanging|"This is a very poorly designed bomb!"]]
* In an early episode of ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]'', Sledge has to find and disarm a time bomb hidden in a clock store.
* ''[[MacGyver]]'' featured ridiculously large numbers of time bombs, especially in earlier episodes. Pretty much the first [[MacGyvering]] we see is done to keep a time-delayed missile from exploding. There was even a time bomb in the ''opening credits,'' and an entire early episode focused on defusing some bombs on a cruise liner. Handily, Mac [[Expansion Pack Past|happens to have served in Vietnam as an expert in bomb defusing]].
** The "MacGruber" skits from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', which are themselves a parody of ''MacGyver'', always take place in a locked room with some sort of time bomb. One of his allies (Maya Rudolph, [[The Other Darrin|later Kristen Wiig]]) is always on hand, counting down the time on her watch. {{spoiler|However, the bomb always ends up exploding.}}
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*building explodes*
Wildcat: "Of course, my watch is a little slow..." }}
* Multiple times on [[Totally Spies!]]. Including one time when the [[Big Red Button]] to stop the bomb was easily accessible, but Clover, Sam, and Britney [[Time Stands Still|had their bodies slowed down to the point that they would never make it to the bomb in time.]] {{spoiler|They are saved by Alex.}}
* Used several times in ''[[Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures|The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'', notably in "Escape from Questworld," and "Future Rage," in both of which cases Dr. Quest manages to stop the countdown with one second left.
* [[Filmation]] ''[[The New Adventures of Superman]]'' episode "APE Strikes Again". Lex Luthor tries to use a bomb in an alarm clock to blow up a generator.
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