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** 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.}}

* In the ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episodes "Obsession", "The Immunity Syndrome" and "The Doomsday Machine", the bomb was used by the ''Enterprise'' crew to destroy a [[Monster of the Week]]. In each case crew members or the ''Enterprise'' had to get out of the blast radius before the bomb detonated.

* A common plot device in ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', although in this case it's usually the heroes who set the bomb. Much drama comes of having to escape the area before it goes off and much comedy comes of Carter's bombs going off a few seconds later than his eager countdown.

* Played straight more than once in ''[[Chuck]]'' ("Chuck Versus the Intersect", "Chuck Versus the Sandworm") but also subverted, as Chuck and Sarah {{spoiler|encounter a large device with a countdown timer that they believe to be a bomb. After an unsuccessful attempt to defuse the bomb, as the timer nears zero, they share a [[Now or Never Kiss|Now Or Never Kiss]], but the device turns out not to be a bomb}}. All three of those in the first nine episodes of the series. Also played straight in "Chuck Versus the Third Dimension"{{spoiler|, in which the device has to be taken away from the crowd.}}

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' had a time bomb in "The Zeppo" built by undead school sociopath Jack O'Toole - {{spoiler|in a game of chicken, Xander convinces Jack to disarm it, pointing out being undead wouldn't be as much fun in little pieces.}}

** And then ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' had an ep actually named 'Time Bomb', where the team had to drain some of Illyria's power before she blew the whole world sky high.

** Also in the First Doctor adventure "The Daleks"- the Daleks attempted to detonate a neutron bomb on Skaro in order to increase radiation levels on the planet and allow them to survive outside their city (wiping out the other native race, the Thals, in the process). The countdown is stopped with just a few seconds remaining.

* [[Truth in Television]] subversion: On ''Build It Bigger'', the host accompanies an excavation-crew in Peru as they set up explosives to expand a tunnel in the Andes. After lighting the fuse and retreating to a safe distance, their foreman shows him the 8-minute countdown that's running on his cell phone, which indicates there are about four minutes left before the blast. The explosives go off prematurely ''while they're filming this scene''.

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