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*** A joke during the third season has Sokka constructing a huge, complex, and somewhat squickily detailed schedule so they can arrive in time to carry out the invasion of the Fire Nation during a rare solar eclipse. For some odd reason, the suggestion about eating and going to the bathroom at the same time wasn't well received.

** A joke during the third season has Sokka constructing a huge, complex, and somewhat squickily detailed schedule so they can arrive in time to carry out the invasion of the Fire Nation during a rare solar eclipse. For some odd reason, the suggestion about eating and going to the bathroom at the same time wasn't well received.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokkasMaster Sokka's Master]]" raises the valid point that he's nowhere near as useful as the other members of the Gaang (even the animals can at least fly). His usefulness is limited to... making schedules, without which the Gaang are apparently unable to function normally.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E13MazelTina Mazel-Tina]]", when the coordinator for Tammy's bat mitzvah quits in the middle of the party, Tina is forced to take over her duties, the most important of which is to keep the party running on schedule. When Tammy goes missing, Tina continues to make sure the party continues according to the schedule, filling in for Tammy in all the activities and leading the dances, which makes Tina the new center of attention and it quickly goes to her head. When she finally finds Tammy and hears her cries for help, she ignores her, preferring to keep the party on schedule per Tammy's orders, although this is just an excuse to lead the upcoming ladies' choice dance in Tammy's place.

* Twilight Sparkle from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is like this at times:

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Party Pooper Pants" features [=SpongeBob=] planning a party that follows a strict schedule in an attempt to keep it from going out of control, saving the actual fun parts for later. Of course, nobody wants to follow the schedule, and they lock [=SpongeBob=] out of his house as soon as he leaves.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Courtney reveals, in a Season 2 [[ConfessionCam confessional spot]], that she schedules ordinary daily activities ''years'' in advance.

* Heath Grice in ''Manga/BlackClover'' times every one of his and other people's actions. He gets serious against Asta once he realizes that fighting him has taken up exactly 25 seconds of his time. His character profile states his favorite things are punctuality and being on schedule.

* The Rparrah in ''Astra'' are a whole ''cult'' of Schedule Fanatics. They believe that they can learn to control time by being precisely aware of it.

* Shirogane Sakuya, in ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', is not apparently bothered by unscheduled disruptions and events. An aristocrat is flexible, after all. However, he does also have his schedule planned down to the second. If he wants to meet you at exactly three and you show up at three and nineteen seconds, he starts chiding you for lateness.

* Dorothy in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' likes schedules. In one Patreon strip, Becky tells her she can't schedule everything, and knocks her schedule out of her hand to prove it. [[BatmanGambit Exactly as scheduled]].

** "Sokka's Master" raises the valid point that he's nowhere near as useful as the other members of the Gaang (even the animals can at least fly). His usefulness is limited to... making schedules, without which the Gaang are apparently unable to function normally.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Mazel-Tina", when the coordinator for Tammy's bat mitzvah quits in the middle of the party, Tina is forced to take over her duties, the most important of which is to keep the party running on schedule. When Tammy goes missing, Tina continues to make sure the party continues according to the schedule, filling in for Tammy in all the activities and leading the dances, which makes Tina the new center of attention and it quickly goes to her head. When she finally finds Tammy and hears her cries for help, she ignores her, preferring to keep the party on schedule per Tammy's orders, although this is just an excuse to lead the upcoming ladies' choice dance in Tammy's place.

** The episode "Foster's Goes To Europe" had Herriman be one of the ''many'' delays to the group setting out on their trip because he ''insisted'' on making them a schedule and repeatedly making adjustments for things like time zones.
** The episode "Let Your Hare Down" (from which the picture above is sourced) opens with Herriman going through his day precisely on schedule, much to the annoyance of the others.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Party Down", Lori tries hosting a sophisticated party based on her teen magazine.

** "Lesson Zero" involved Twilight struggling to write ''something'' for her [[OnceAnEpisode weekly friendship report]] to Princess Celestia. Her inherent perfectionism and insistence that the report needs to be sent that very day causes magic-induced mass hysteria when she tries to "make" a friendship lesson instead.
** In "It's About Time", she nearly has a breakdown when she realizes her schedule for this month doesn't include enough time to make a schedule for ''next'' month.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Bubble Boys", Baljeet tried this. It didn't work out so well.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'''s Courtney reveals, in a Season 2 [[ConfessionCam confessional spot]], that she schedules ordinary daily activities ''years'' in advance.

* Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental material]] by Renko Usami, who can and will be late to events, but can tell to the second how late she was.

* Leela from ''Webcomic/PVPOnline'' [[http://pvponline.com/comic/2014/07/03/downside-up schedules time for small talk]]. She's a {{workaholic}} [[http://pvponline.com/comic/2014/06/09/workaholics financial auditor]].
* {{Subverted}} in ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'''s [[http://xkcd.com/874/ Time Management]]:

* An InvokedTrope in ''Film/IAmLegend'', virologist Robert Neville keeps to a strict daily routine to keep himself focused on his research and [[GoneMadFromTheIsolation not go crazy]] in a city where he appears to be the SoleSurvivor of a ZombieApocalypse.

* Temple Fugate, AKA the Clock King in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. The one time he ''did'' break his routine, things [[StartOfDarkness went pretty wrong]].

See also ClockKing, someone who knows not only their own schedule but also everyone else's. Compare ObsessedAreTheListmakers, where a character shows fanaticism towards some other organized list.

->''"Some part has malfunctioned and must be replaced. It will require at least an hour. This sends Effie into a state. She pulls out her schedule and begins to work out how the delay will impact every event for the rest of our lives."''

This is a character who has to do ''everything'' according to precise schedule, every day of their lives. You could set your watch by them. This is often portrayed as being unhealthy and/or tied in with some kind of mental condition. Obviously, watching someone go about things the same way for the entire story would get very dull, so the plot generally forces them to break this schedule at some point. Characters with [[SuperOCD OCD]] can get very stressed when someone messes with their schedule.

-->-- ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Catching Fire]]''

** Public transit, and railways in particular, are the reason standard time exists. Before the railway, you could set your clock by the sun and a few minutes' difference from one town to the next didn't matter. Enter the railway: in addition to needing to catch a train on time, train crews need to follow a schedule to the minute to avoid a collision. Even a couple minutes' difference one way or the other can spell disaster. The "railroad standard watch" existed for a reason.

* Creator/HarlanEllison's '''Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman'' depicts a future where ''everyone'' is a schedule fanatic because if they aren't, the Ticktockman deducts their time late from their lifespan and kills them if it runs out. [[spoiler:After the Harlequin is captured and "dealt with", the sign that his actions have left a lasting effect is that the Ticktockman himself starts running late.]]
* The book ''Triplets'' by Joyce Rebeta-Burditt has one of the triplets like this, which puts her in contest with the protagonist, who is usually late.

* The man at the start of the ''Literature/AlexRider'' novel ''Point Blanc'', [[spoiler: which leads to his death. An assassin hacks his private lift, sends it up one floor and leaves a hologram projection in its place.]]
* The rabbit from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.