Clock
Listen to
Listen to verb - To take notice of and be guided by.
Both terms in one sentence
- The first boss of Epic Mickey, the Clock Tower, is driven to madness by having to constantly listen to "It's A Small World".
Source: Incessant Music Madness -
Establishing Character Moment: The opening montage is of most of the cast being woken up by their alarm clocks and is a series of character notes, such as Peppermint Patty smashing her clock with a hockey stick and Schroeder almost shutting his off but declining so he can listen to Beethoven.
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One of Carter's sermons you can listen to in Harvest Moon Friends Of Mineral Town, features this trope, in the form of a little boy deciding to save up his pocket money to buy an alarm clock to 'wake up' his mother, after his father tells him that she's 'sleeping'.
Source: Please Wake Up
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