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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Used in one of the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' movies as part of an [[Establishing Shot]] for a school.
* In ''[[K-On!]]'', the school uses a synthesized Westminster Quarters to mark the end of class periods.
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* The doorbell at the home of the eponymous Laura in ''[[Laura]]''.
* In ''The Ghost and Mr. Chicken'', when Luther Heggs is spending the night in the haunted house, these bells can be heard in the distance just before the famous scene with the self-playing organ and the bleeding portrait.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[Scrubs]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY "Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong... wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong."]
* ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'' had a doorbell that made this sound. Naturally, whenever someone rang the doorbell, they had no idea where the sound was coming from and attempted to search for the song's source. Their search was always then interrupted by someone knocking on the door.
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'': The chimes are a key plot point in
* ''[[The King of Queens]]'': The doorbell of Doug and Carrie's annoying neighbors, the Sackskys.
== [[Music]] ==
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* The intro of Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling's "The Chimes Of Big Ben". Which makes sense because the song is inspired by the already mentioned ''[[The Prisoner|Prisoner]]'' episode of the same name.
* Supertramp uses the chimes during the one of the collage sections in "Fool's Overture".
* Well the [[Trope Namer]] and [[Trope Codifier]] is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiKOhOzQyZg Big Ben] isn't it?▼
* Lots of doorbells have this as one of their standard digital tones.▼
** Some electronic air raid sirens have it as a test signal. So imagine the electronic doorbell tones, but at earsplitting volume, too!▼
* Just like mentioned above, Japanese Schoolbells.▼
* Many antique clocks used this as a chime after "Big Ben" was built. However, the tune really originated from Great St. Mary's church in Cambridge, England, [http://www.gsm.cam.ac.uk/great-st-marys/bells/ and was known as the "Cambridge" chimes before it was used in "Big Ben" at the Westminster Palace.]▼
* Brownies (The UK equivalent of Girl Scouts) often used to end meetings with a song to this tune: Oh Lord our God/ Thy children call/ Grant us thy peace/ And bless us all. Nowadays, because of the reference to God, another song is often used instead.▼
* Played during the daylight hours by the carillon in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, [[Canada]] -- except [[The Poppy|at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.]]▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
* "Tender Shepherd" in the musical ''[[Peter Pan]]'', though the low "sol" is often avoided by the singers.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[Wrestlecrap]] Radio'' podcast briefly featured a device called the Clocktrolla (meant to count down the days until [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Women's Champion Candice Michelle eclipsed The Fabulous Moolah's twenty-eight-year reign as champion); upon activation, the Clocktrolla played a terrible rendition of the tune, performed on steam whistles.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Used for Rarity's doorbell in ''[[My Little Pony:
== [[
▲* Well the [[Trope Namer]] and [[Trope Codifier]] is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiKOhOzQyZg Big Ben] isn't it?
▲* Used for Rarity's doorbell in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
▲* Lots of doorbells have this as one of their standard digital tones.
▲** Some electronic air raid sirens have it as a test signal. So imagine the electronic doorbell tones, but at earsplitting volume, too!
▲* Just like mentioned above, Japanese Schoolbells.
▲* Many antique clocks used this as a chime after "Big Ben" was built. However, the tune really originated from Great St. Mary's church in Cambridge, England, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131115214146/http://www.gsm.cam.ac.uk/great-st-marys/bells/ and was known as the "Cambridge" chimes before it was used in "Big Ben" at the Westminster Palace.]
▲* Brownies (The UK equivalent of Girl Scouts) often used to end meetings with a song to this tune: Oh Lord our God/ Thy children call/ Grant us thy peace/ And bless us all. Nowadays, because of the reference to God, another song is often used instead.
▲* Played during the daylight hours by the carillon in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, [[Canada]] -- except [[The Poppy|at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.]]
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[[Category:Score and Music Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Westminster Chimes]]
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