History Main / CockADoodleDawn

* The opening sequence to ''Series/TheBigComfyCouch'' begins with a rooster crowing.

** In the novel ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', there is Cyril the Rooster, who never remembers to crow at the right time till he is given the words "Cock-a-Doodle Doo" to read by [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Death]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:it turns out Cyril is also dyslexic. ''"Dock-a-loodle-fod!"'']]
** In ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'' there's a spell that must by completed before the first rooster crows. [[spoiler:Nanny Ogg has her vast army of children and grandchildren gag all of the area's roosters so the spell will work even if takes until after dawn to finish it.]] Given that this is such a [[CuttingTheKnot witchy]] response to this kind of limitation, one must [[FridgeLogic wonder]] why Granny Weatherwax is so concerned with doing the spell the "right" way and disapproves of Nanny's loophole.

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* At the very beginning of ''Disney/DerFuehrersFace'', a rooster can be heard crowing "Heil Hitler!" while performing a Hitler pose outside WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's chalet (which for some reason, resembles UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's face).

** In the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon "Crowing Pains", Henery Hawk says that rooster crow at dawn and proposes that Sylvester, Barnyard Dawg and Foghorn wait until then to see who crows, so Henery can figure out which one of them is really a chicken.

* Among [[''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros. cartoons]] where this is affected is "Porky's Poultry Plant" and "Each Dawn I Crow." In "Chicken Jitters," a rooster flaps its wings and inhales deeply, ready to crow, but instead he yells '''"Hey, fellas! Wake up!!!"'''

* Parodied in ''Film/{{Babe}}'', where a duck crows to avoid being eaten. This really annoys the actual rooster, who sees it as ''his'' job but can never wake up early enough to beat the duck.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In the U.S. Acres segments, Roy Rooster has a paying job to wake up everyone in the morning.

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* At the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace'', a rooster can be heard crowing "Heil Hitler!" while performing a Hitler pose outside WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's chalet (which for some reason, resembles UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's face).

* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', the crowing is done by scallops.

A common staple in fiction, Roosters are often shown to crow at daybreak. In fact, almost all works set on a farm have this happening. In many depictions, a rooster's crowing itself is what brings the sun up.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' involves the sun not rising at all unless the rooster crows.

* Played for laughs in the claymation movie, ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun''. Fowler the rooster is seen at sun rise at the beginning of a scene, where he loudly shouts in very obvious English, "COCKADOODLEDOO!... What what!"
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', when the titular peach breaks loose from the tree and begins rolling toward the ocean, there's a cut to a rooster on a fence, with the peach rolling up over the hillside in the background. The rooster starts to crow, only to get run over by the giant fruit.

* The opening sequence to ''Series/TheBigComfyCouch'' begins with a rooster crowing.

* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Gandalf's confrontation with the Lord of the Nazgûl at the gates of Minas Tirith is interrupted by a rooster crowing somewhere in the city, heralding that the sorcerous cloud which has hidden the sun for three days and aided Sauron's darkness-loving armies is dispersing. Sure enough, the battle starts to turn with the [[CueTheSun arrival of the dawn]] and what it brings:
-->""And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. [[TheCavalry Rohan]] had come at last."
* The book ''Literature/TheEnormousEgg'' starts with a mini-plot about the family's chicken, Ezekiel, who crows every morning, annoying the neighbors. The solution is to put him in the cellar at night and not let him out until well after sunup, so he doesn't know when its dawn and therefore doesn't crow.

* In ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNewSun'', Severian comes across a totem that has been hung up by a cult, consisting of a rooster's decapitated head with pins stuck through its eyes. He guesses that since roosters announce the dawn, and the pins serve to blind it, the people who made the totem are working against the return of [[MessianicArchetype the New Sun]].

* When [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kramer buys a rooster]] in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', it makes its presence known to Jerry by crowing early in the morning and waking him up.

* Frank Harris and Maria Marquez' version of the Venezuelan folk song "Canto del Pilon" has a rooster crowing prominently among other animals in the instrumental break.[[note]] You can hear it on the ''Potatoes'' anthology released by [[Music/TheResidents Ralph Records]].[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' has a rooster crowing to indicate daybreak (and a wolf howl to tell the player that night has fallen).

* Played with in a sidequest in the first level of ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2''. A rooster starts out subverting the trope, waking up its exasperated owner out of a sound sleep no matter what time of day it is. Your job is to change the time of day from night to day several times. The bird crows each time the sun rises until it finally loses its voice.

* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', the crowing is done by scallops.

* A rooster crows in the TitleSequence of ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep''.

* At the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace'', a rooster can be heard crowing "Heil Hitler!" while performing a Hitler pose outside WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's chalet (which for some reason, resembles UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's face).

* A rooster can be heard crowing in the background in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "Good Ole T.J.", after T.J. pulls an all-nighter to revise his and Gretchen's project. This is the only time this trope is used in the show.
* This is played straight on several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', but gets inverted in the "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen" episode, where a rooster is shown HowlingToTheNight.
* In one of Smurfette's {{Imagine Spot}}s from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' cartoon special "Smurfily Ever After", Farmer does the honors of crowing at dawn to wake up his wife when Smurfette imagines herself being married to him.
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheSkeletonDance'' (like in the "Danse Macabre" example under Music), a rooster crowing signals that the skeletons have to stop dancing and get back in their graves.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'': In "T.D. and Martha Gopher Broke", a rooster crows at dawn once. Justified, as they're on a farm which explicitly contains chickens.

* Frank Harris and Maria Marquez' version of the Venezuelan folk song "Canto del Pilon" has a rooster crowing prominently among other animals in the instrumental break.[[note]] You can hear it on the ''Potatoes'' anthology released by [[TheResidents Ralph Records]].[[/note]]

* In ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNewSun'', Severian comes across a totem that has been hung up by a cult, consisting of a rooster's decapitated head with pins stuck through its eyes. He guesses that since roosters announce the dawn, and the pins serve to blind it, the people who made the totem are working against the return of [[TheMessiah the New Sun]].

** In the novel ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', there is Cyril the Rooster, who never remembers to crow at the right time till he is given the words "Cock-a-Doodle Doo" to read by [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Death]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Cyril is dyslexic. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Dock-a-loodle-fod!]]]]