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* In "I'm Really Ever Not So Well" from ''Literature/CharlieAndLola'', when Lola gets a cold, Charlie tells her it's because of all of the germs in her mouth. After an extended musical sequence, she comments that there must be thousands and hundreds of germs. He suggets that she count them, so she does so.

* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': Commander Rourke threatens to shoot the Atlantean King on the count of ten if he doesn't divulge the whereabouts of the Heart of Atlantis. The countdown goes "one, two, ''nine'', te..." It's only when Rourke [[spoiler:notices the symbol in the pool in front of the throne that turns out to be the portal to the Heart]] that he puts the gun down.

** Yosemite Sam tries to do a quick count on Bugs during a duel in "Wild and Wooly Hare" ("1, 2, 3, 9, 10!") but Bugs was hip to him and walks behind and kisses Sam on the nose when he turns and fires behind him.

--> '''Hugo (a Creator/PeterLorre expy):''' Rocky, the money, Rocky."
--> '''Rocky (an Edward G. Robinson expy):''' Oh yeah, yeah." (counting:) One for you and one for me. Two for you and one, two for me. Three for you and one, two, three for me."

-->'''Johnny:''' One...two...ten!

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* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip Lucy is skipping rope saying "Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen..." When she passes by Charlie Brown and Linus she loudly says "'''Ten billion and one, ten billion and two, ten billion and three, ten billion and four'''..." Once they're out of sight she returns to "Twenty one, twenty two, twenty three..."

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'''Yakko:''' Hey, [[Main/MediumAwareness it's only a six-minute cartoon]].

* The catch phrase of the ''WesternAnimation/GhostBusters'', when shooting off their guns. "On, three. Three!" In one episode, the veteran member explicitly instructs the younger members to ''wait'' for him to count.

* Joking in front of Katarina as Garen in LeagueOfLegends causes him to play his animation, a one handed hand stand, and say "999... and 1000! Oh, didn't see you there!"

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* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVersusAliens:'' The Missing Link is lifting weights when Susan walks by. "Seven, eight, nine hundred ninety-nine, one thousand. Can't believe I did ten sets."

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* In the ''StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Thirty Days" Tom Paris is doing push-ups in his brig cell (long story). He starts honest with "One, two, three", but then Neelix comes in with a meal. After a slight pause he jumps to "Ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred."

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-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}, episode, "Chalkboard Bungle".''

-->Brian: And, one thousand, whew!
-->Girl: One thousand what?
-->Brian: Percent, that's what!

* A variant from the ''SgtBilko'' movie, during a surprise inspection by Major Thorn, the title character has to tell one of his out-of-shape men to "drop and give me twenty". While the Major is distracted by something else, Bilko mercifully says "And 20", even though the private only managed about one and a half pushups.

->'''Miss Flamiel:''' "Yakko, can you count to 100?"
->'''Yakko:''' "One, two, skip a few, 99, 100!"
->'''Miss Flamiel:''' "No, give me all the numbers!"
->'''Yakko:''' "Hey, [[Main/MediumAwareness it's only a six-minute cartoon]]."

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* There's a ''MADMagazine'' comic featuring two guys at the gym, one of whom is counting "..105, 106, 107..". The other says "You must have awesome strength to do that many reps." "It's mind over matter. Whenever a pretty girl walks by, I start counting at 100".

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* A variant from the ''SgtBilko'' movie, during a surprise inspection by Major Thorn, the title character has to tell one of his out-of-shape men to "drop and give me twenty". While the Major is distracted by something else, Bilko mercifully says "And 20", even though the private only managed about one and a half pushups.

* And who can forget King Arthur from MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail

* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': Commander Rourke threatens to shoot the Atlantean King on the count of ten if he doesn't divulge the whereabouts of the Heart of Atlantis. The countdown goes "one, two, ''nine'', te..." It's only when Rourke [[spoiler:notices the symbol in the pool in front of the throne that turns out to be the portal to the Heart]] that he puts the gun down.

* In ''TheLostCrown'', Nancy skips at least half the numbers when she's supposed to be counting to thirty in a game of hide-and-seek.

* The catch phrase of the WesternAnimation/GhostBusters, when shooting off their guns. "On, three. Three!" In one episode, the veteran member explicitly instructs the younger members to ''wait'' for him to count.

* In the stage adaptation of ''Series/AlloAllo'', a scene begins with Herr Flick doing push-ups; when his love interest Helga enters, he adds a thousand to his count.

* In Superman:TheAnimatedSeries, Lobo is introduced this way

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVersusAliens:'' The Missing Link is lifting weights when Susan walks by. "Seven, eight, nine hundred ninety-nine, one thousand."

Contrast [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=y54fupb29hlkb8by9ovpsvu7 Losing Count]].