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* A rooster crows in the TitleSequence of ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' and the reason why it's this trope is because the intro involves the farmer getting ready in the morning.

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* A rooster crows in the TitleSequence of ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' and the reason why it's this trope is because the intro involves the farmer getting ready in the morning. In the ChristmasEpisode ''The Flight Before Christmas'', this gets subverted twice: On Christmas Eve, a turkey throws snowballs at him and takes his place, and on Christmas morning, the turkey hastily puts the rooster back in place after seeing the farmer approaching with an axe.[[spoiler: (He's just getting firewood.)]]
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* DoubleSubverted in ''Comicbook/RiversOfLondon: Monday Monday'', where DI Stephanopolis and her wife Pam don't understand why their rooster only crows at dusk ... because they haven't realised that at dawn, they're [[TheImmodestOrgasm making too much noise themselves]] to notice.
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* 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.

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* In one of Smurfette's {{Imagine Spot}}s from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' 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.
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* RecycledInSpace in ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' when a pterosaur-like critter on Tatooine crows exactly like a rooster in the morning. This is done at the end of a HardWorkMontage, showing that Din, Peli and her pit droids have spent the entire night restoring the N-1 Starfighter, which they then roll out into the light of the rising twin suns for a flight test.


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* ''Series/FullFrontal''. Combined with RingRingCrunch in one skit where the crowing is [[NotAMorningPerson interrupted by a gunshot]].
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* ''Manga/TheFoxAndLittleTanuki'': The ''Naganakidori'' are divine chickens who serve the Sun Goddess - which is true to many myths about her in Japanese tradition - so this trope is naturally in mind. Their crowing can mark other events ordained by her as well, such as Senzou's release from being sealed.
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* In the ''[[https://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html Western Tradition]]'' lecture titled "Common Life in the Middle Ages," historian Eugen Weber relates the story of medieval peasants that prayed for a miracle because the cock in their village had stopped crowing; in a world with almost no clocks they had no other way to tell the time.

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* In the ''[[https://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html Western Tradition]]'' ''Western Tradition'' lecture titled [[https://youtu.be/Nqb7UXrUm9I "Common Life in the Middle Ages," Ages,"]] historian Eugen Weber relates the story of medieval peasants that prayed for a miracle because the cock in their village had stopped crowing; in a world with almost no clocks they had no other way to tell the time.
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* In the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS game for Toys/{{Zoobles}}, while the Zooble is sleeping, the sun appears in a transition from night (where the top screen shows a night sky with a moon) to day, complete with an off-screen rooster crowing.
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* In RealLife in TravelogueShow ''[[Series/LongWayRound Long Way Down]]''. Creator/EwanMcGregor, cohost Charley Boorman, and their team stop for the night in a roadside village in Zambia. Charley notices a rooster strutting about the village, notes that it will probably wake them up way too early next morning crowing at the dawn, then says "We could eat it." The rooster remains uneaten, and sure enough, the next morning it's shown crowing at the dawn.

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* Discussed and averted in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''. In one of the final episodes, "Here to Help", the BigBad states that she'll give until a nearby rooster crows for the protagonists to surrender. Marco openly assumes that this means they have at least until sunrise to figure out a plan, only for Star to incredulously reply that they most likely don't, since it's "a dumb bird, Marco. It crows whenever it wants."

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* Discussed and averted in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''. In one of the final episodes, "Here to Help", the BigBad states that she'll give until a nearby rooster crows for the protagonists to surrender. Marco openly assumes that this means they have at least until sunrise several hours to figure out a plan, only for Star to incredulously reply that they most likely don't, since it's "a don't.
--> '''Marco:''' So is that rooster gonna crow at sunrise or something?\\
'''Star:''' What? No. It's a
dumb bird, Marco. It crows whenever it wants."

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy literally does this dawn at the tower.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy literally does this dawn at the tower.tower in at least one episode.
* Discussed and averted in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''. In one of the final episodes, "Here to Help", the BigBad states that she'll give until a nearby rooster crows for the protagonists to surrender. Marco openly assumes that this means they have at least until sunrise to figure out a plan, only for Star to incredulously reply that they most likely don't, since it's "a dumb bird, Marco. It crows whenever it wants."
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* In ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', a rooster crows to signal the start of every new day. If it doesn't, then it means it's going to rain.

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* In ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', a rooster crows to signal the start of every new day.day in spring, summer and fall. If it doesn't, then it means it's going to rain.
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* Used for a ''double'' punchline in ''WebComic/AwkwardZombie'', where [[TheChewToy Marth]] [[https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/instinct must put up with crowing at dawn]], despite the fact that one participant isn't a rooster and the other ''isn't even a bird''.
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See also CockyRooster, another stereotype associated with roosters.

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See also CockyRooster, another stereotype associated with roosters.
roosters. If an artificial bird is used to indicate the time of day, it's usually a CuckooClockGag.
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--> '''Esme Hoggett:''' We got to do something about that duck.

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--> '''Esme Hoggett:''' We We've got to do something about that duck.
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--> '''Esme Hoggett (waking up)''': We got to do something about that duck.

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--> '''Esme Hoggett (waking up)''': Hoggett:''' We got to do something about that duck.
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--> '''Esme Hoggett (waking up)''': We got to do something about that duck.
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* ''[[Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7 Tooba Tooba Noonbory]]'' has a variation; the rooster ''sings'' at daybreak.

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* ''[[Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7 Tooba Tooba Noonbory]]'' ''Animation/ToobaToobaNoonbory'' has a variation; the rooster ''sings'' at daybreak.
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* The Mesopotamian god Nergal, associated with the sun and its more devastating sides like fire and plague, had the rooster as his sacred animal.
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* In ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'', whenever the time of day becomes dawn, the sound of a crowing rooster plays.
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* ''[[Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7 Tooba Tooba Noonbory]]'' has a variation; the rooster ''sings'' at daybreak.
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* This trope is exploited in the UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}n folktale of Roro Jonggrang. In the tale, the brash Bandung Bondowoso asked Roro Jonggrang to marry him, and to prove his worth he set out to build 1000 shrines in a night with the help of his army of djinns. Roro Jonggrang, fearing that Bandung might succeed, asked the locals to pound rice on mortars and wake the roosters to crow, so that the djinns are fooled into thinking it's morning already and left.

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* This trope is exploited in the UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}n folktale of Roro Jonggrang. In the tale, the brash Bandung Bondowoso asked Roro Jonggrang to marry him, and to prove his worth he set out to build 1000 shrines in a night with the help of his army of djinns. Roro Jonggrang, fearing that Bandung might succeed, asked the locals to pound rice on mortars and wake the roosters to crow, so that the djinns are fooled into thinking it's morning already and left. The same trope is also used in another folktale Sangkuriang.
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* ''Film/HospitalPlaylist'': The series of flashbacks showing Jung-won sobbing on an annual basis to his brother about how being a doctor is hard, and he wants to quit, are made even funnier by the sound of a rooster crowing the dawn each time. In the big city of Seoul.

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* ''Film/HospitalPlaylist'': ''Series/HospitalPlaylist'': The series of flashbacks showing Jung-won sobbing on an annual basis to his brother about how being a doctor is hard, and he wants to quit, are made even funnier by the sound of a rooster crowing the dawn each time. In the big city of Seoul.
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* ''Film/HospitalPlaylist'': The series of flashbacks showing Jung-won sobbing on an annual basis to his brother about how being a doctor is hard, and he wants to quit, are made even funnier by the sound of a rooster crowing the dawn each time. In the big city of Seoul.
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* The title character in Creator/BillPeet's ''Literature/CockADoodleDudley''. As it turns out, his crowing does actually have some influence over the sun rising, because he's far more enthusiastic than the other roosters, which makes him a favorite with the sun.
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* 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!"

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* 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!"

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%%* ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange''

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%%* ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange''* ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' plays with this trope; Reggie, the resident rooster on Patch of Heaven, is fast asleep when we first see him, but one of his sons (still a tiny chick) lets out a mighty crow, startling him off his perch.
--> '''Reggie (to Grace and Mrs. Calloway)''': Hey, that's my boy!
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* A rooster crow is heard in ''Series/{{LazyTown}}'' whenever the sun comes up.


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* A rooster is heard crowing offscreen in ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' whenever daybreak is shown.
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Theories forgotten.

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* ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'': Camilla does this at the dawn of the Muppet Boarding House.


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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy literally does this dawn at the tower.
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* ''Film/TwoCentsWorthOfHope'': A rooster crowing is used to set the scene when Antonio gets back into town in the early morning after one of his mysterious overnight trips to Naples. A rooster crowing is heard again when his sister is getting married early in the morning at a Shotgun Wedding that everyone's embarrassed about. This despite the fact the movie is set in a town, not a farm.

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* A rooster is heard to crow right before daybreak in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', which is odd, since the meanies seem to have turned every other living creature to stone.

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* A rooster is heard to crow right before daybreak in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', which is odd, odd since the meanies seem to have turned every other living creature to stone.



* This was a RunningGag in ''Film/SonInLaw'', to the point of Crawl (Creator/PaulyShore) telling the rooster to "[[BigShutUp give it a rest]]".



* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", Applejack [[{{Flashback}} remembers]] when she left the farm for the big city, and is surprised to find that city folk have no concept of a rooster. Homesick, she watches the sun rise the next morning and sadly cock-a-doodle-doos to herself.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", Applejack [[{{Flashback}} remembers]] when she left the farm for the big city, city and is surprised to find that city folk have no concept of a rooster. Homesick, she watches the sun rise the next morning and sadly cock-a-doodle-doos to herself.


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* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': in a cutaway, a trio of roosters crow except the developmentally disabled rooster who utters "Good night, everybody".

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