Clocks

Clocks is a Season 2 episode in The Mr. Men Show.

## Plots

* **Miss Helpful,** **Mr. Grumpy and Mr. Scatterbrain's plot**: Miss Helpful makes Mr. Grumpy a new clock so he can wake up early before the fishing contest, but the clocks wakes him up too early. He tries again but gets the same result. So Mr. Grumpy gets help from Mr. Scatterbrain so he can wake him up at the right time, but he ends up waking Mr. Grumpy up too late for the fishing contest.
* **Mr. Rude's plot**: Mr. Rude makes an advertisement about his "Le Rude Cuckoo Clock" which makes 12 different rude sounds because regular cuckoo clocks annoy him. (Deleted in the UK)
* **Mr. Noisy and Mr. Quiet's plot:** Mr. Quiet's house's power went off, so he stays at Mr. Noisy's house, but his clock is ticking too loudly so he stuffs it in the refrigerator so he cannot hear the noise. He ends up bumping into Mr. Noisy who couldn't sleep either. Since they're both up, they decide to stay up all night playing drums.
* **Mr. Bump and Mr. Tickle's plot:** Mr. Bump and Mr. Tickle try to fix the tower clock. Mr. Tickle fixes it by tickling it, but Mr. Bump falls off, falls into the sewer, and gets hit by a clock hand. Mr. Tickle fixed the clock, however, and he claimed that it only needed a good tickle.

## Characters

* Little Miss Whoops
* Mr. Happy
* Mr. Fussy
* Mr. Grumpy
* Little Miss Helpful
* Mr. Scatterbrain
* Mr. Nosey
* Mr. Small
* Mr. Noisy
* Mr. Quiet
* Mr. Tickle
* Mr. Bump
* Little Miss Chatterbox *(title card only)*
* Mr. Rude *(speaks in the US version)*
* Little Miss Sunshine *(does not speak in the UK)*
* Mr. Lazy *(cameo)*
* Mr. Strong *(cameo)*

## Transcript

*The transcript for Clocks can be seen here.*

## Trivia

* In the original version of the deleted scene, the cuckoo Mr. Rude was originally going to fart in front of the viewers. This was likely changed for it being seen as too crude.
* Mr. Noisy is revealed to have a dog.

### Remarks

* Miss Whoops says her catchphrase in a low pitch while she was waking up and knocking her alarm clock. Her pitch is normal in the European version.
* This is the 2nd time Miss Helpful gives Mr. Grumpy something meant to be helpful but isn't helpful at all. The 1st was in Telephone.
* In the beginning of the episode, the clock tower seems to go off around 12:20. Grandfather clocks and clock towers only go off when the big hand reaches 3, 6, 9, or 12.
* Mr. Grumpy has bacon, eggs and coffee twice in this episode.
* Mr. Quiet ends up enjoying loud drumming for once.
* Miss Chatterbox is on the title card, but not in the episode itself.

### Goofs

* The bottom strap of Mr. Nos(e)y's watch is transparent.
* Before Mr. Bump falls into the sewer, the cast on his left leg disappears for a split second.

### Real-World References

* Mr. Bump hanging from the clock tower is a direct reference to the 1923 film *Safety Last!* Mr. Bump even says "Safety last!" (only in the UK version) while doing so.

### Dub edits

* Mr. Grumpys saying "Thank you, Miss Helpful!" is expanded to "Thank you very much, Miss Helpful!"
* Mr Grumpy says "I hate the morning," an extra line in the UK version.
* Mr. Grumpy does not say "Oh, where's the soap?" or "Ah, there's the soap!" in the US dub.
* When Mr. Grumpy comments on Miss Helpful's alarm clock, he says "piece of junk" in the US version and "load of rubbish" in the UK version.
* In the US dub, Mr. Quiet says "The electricity's out," but in the UK dub, he says "I got a powercut".
* Mr. Noisy pronounces "either" differently."
* Only in the UK, Mr. Bump says "Safety last!"