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* ''[[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Incredible Hulk]]'' has the occasional counter indicating number of days without incident (in this case, "incident" means "Bruce getting pissed off enough to Hulk Out and break lots of things").
** [[The Incredible Hulk (Filmfilm)|The Incredible Hulk]] did the same thing
 
== Film ==
 
* ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' had one of these inside the Hoover Dam.
* During a shooty shootout in a shooter factory in ''[[Shoot 'Em Up (Filmfilm)|Shoot Em Up]]'', numbers are predictably shot off the sign until it displays 0. Shoot.
* Done in the movie ''[[Speed (Film)|Speed]]''. In the finale, as the subway train crashes out of control through the construction area, there's such a sign. The subway train crashes ''through'' it.
* [[Played for Drama]] in ''[[Super 8]]'', when an accident counter ([[Averted Trope|at a very]] [[No OSHA Compliance|high count]]) at the Lillian steel mill is seen reset to zero before it is revealed that the accident {{spoiler|caused the gruesome death of the protagonist's mother.}}
* Used in ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]''. The sign is reset to zero after the first "twenty-three-nineteen" incident.
* In ''[[Young Doctors In Love]]'' the sign is reset after [[The Chew Toy|the assassin]] smokes next to gas tanks, and explodes.
 
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== Live-Action TV ==
 
* On ''[[Countdown Withwith Keith Olbermann]]'': "X days since the (previous) President declared Mission Accomplished in Iraq."
** Occasionally used to count other things, though none have lasted as long. 'Days since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster' is the most recent.
*** The most common one now seems to be "X days since Republicans took control of the House. Mr. Boehner, [[Ironic Echo|where are the jobs?]]"
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* Inverted in the first ''[[Oddworld]]'' game: One of the scrolling information bars in Rupture Farms, a meat packing plant, reads "''Only'' 1,234 work related injuries this month! Keep up the good work"
* Several ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' maps have a sign that reads "This Job Has Worked [0] Days Without an Accident".
* ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'' has several of these signs throughout the game. At least one has fallen off the wall entirely.
* The new ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' video game has one of these signs shown in the firehouse just outside the door to the sleeping quarters/showers.
* One derelict spaceship in ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'' has an "It has been five days since our last workplace fatality" announcement.
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* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Eggman]] really is cutting corners with his attractions if they come with a MINUTES without accidents counter!
** "Come aboard the asteroid coaster! Accident free for 45 minutes!"
* ''[[Dead Space (Videovideo Gamegame)|Dead Space]]'' has a "Days Since Last Accident" sign which predictably reads '0'. It shows up as a background image on its [[Steam]] library page.
 
 
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* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' offers "{{smallcaps|17}} days without a [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|major]] explosion" [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040507 in the Baron's labs], and "No hideous death in {{smallcaps|2}} days" [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090304 in the castle Heterodyne]. There's a corpse caught in the process of updating the last one.
** "It has been [[Ludicrous Precision|437215353 seconds]] since [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071008 this system was last activated]".
* ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'': [http://xkcd.com/363/ 38 days since someone reset this sign].
* In ''[[The Whiteboard]]'' several such signs show up occasionally, like [http://the-whiteboard.com/autowb104.html "10 days since last mauling"]
 
== Web Original ==
 
* Somewhere in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series]]'' Little Kuriboh adds a sign to an establishing shot of the school "X days since last Godzilla attack."
* In one of the ''[[Acts of Gord (Website)|Acts of Gord]]'' stories, he comes up with the idea of having an "[http://www.actsofgord.com/Wrath/chapter01.php X days since I've had to deal with an idiot]" sign. The idea being that while dealing with an idiot, he would sigh and flip it back to 0, right in front of them. He hoped they'd be offended enough to leave.
* [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] doesn't have that kind of restraint; he counts time since his last gay joke in hours instead of days.
* There are numerous images of one office or another's version of an "It Has Been X Days Since Our Last [[Jurassic Park (Franchise)|Velociraptor]] Incident" sign.
 
== Western Animation ==
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* In a ''[[Futurama]]'' episode a sign counts the days since Omicron Persei 8 last invaded Earth and in another episode there's one in a working ground for slaves counting the days since the last accident (and Fry accidentally nails his own hand to the sign while changing the number, then reaches for the "1" sign anyway). Also, there's one on the door to the cryogenic tubes Fry got frozen in.
* On an episode of ''Chilly Beach'', one of the townspeople is changing a sign marked "Number of days Since Last Polar Bear Attack" from "0000" to "0001". He gets eaten by a polar bear and the number blows off.
* An episode of ''[[Back Atat the Barnyard]]'' has Freddy attempting to change the "Days since last accident" sign. When he does, he falls off the ladder he was using prompting a long and exaggerated cycle of him falling.
* In the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "The Accidental Terrorist", just after Bobby got a ride on a car lift in a car dealership, the camera zooms towards the background showing the sign "2 days since the last accident."
 
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