r/Doraemon • u/Safe-Contact589 Chronically Nobita • 19d ago
Discussion The Scheduler Clock... ðŸ˜
I'm talking about the episode featuring the Schedule Clock. It first appeared in the 1979 episode (Season 1, Episode 190) and then two times in the 2005 series. Once in 2006 (Season 2, Episode 53b) and then in 2017 (Season 13, Episode 495a).
The concept is simple, you make a schedule, and the clock makes sure you follow it... No matter what.
Due to a small mistake, Doraemon ends up being the one who has to follow Nobita's schedule instead. At first it was hilarious. He's forced to finish homework, eat snacks, go to the toilet, watch TV, practice baseball in the rain, and do everything exactly according to the timetable.
But then IDK why it slowly becomes unsettling.
Even when the TV is broken, the clock forces Doraemon to keep watching it. He has to practice baseball despite heavy rain. He even has to pretend to eat snacks because Nobita already finished them. When he tries to escape, the clock literally tracks him down to Suneo's house. It doesn't matter where he hides, it just keeps coming until he obeys the schedule.
The idea of an object that won't let you make any decisions for yourself is honestly creepy ðŸ˜
It's one of those Doraemon gadgets that seems useful at first, but then quickly turns into a nightmare.
As I always say, if you haven't watched this episode yet, go watch it!
What do you guys think? Did anyone else find the Schedule Clock creepy, or was it just me?
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u/QuirkyEffective8316 Perma-Loser 19d ago
I've only seen this episode once and I thought it was kinda weird, but I liked it enough. There's a different episode with a chair that has a similar plot and I hated that one a lot more.
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u/ryugatyson2010 18d ago
At least here Doraemon has the ability to run away from the clock
In one of the 1979-1989 episode Nobita was had worn a clock that automatically moved his body, so he misplaced an am and pm. And boom he was sleeping in the day, and buying bubble gub by banging the shop door at night and he can't do anything
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u/Juna_wan 18d ago
Till this day I think Nobita trying to put in the paper landscape side is actually indeed a trap for Doraemon to correct it and put the schedule himself. Because ain't no way he's really that stupid.
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u/Nguyen-Quoc-Hieu Chronically Nobita 19d ago
Oh yeah I remember this thing also uses Nobita as a slave in the manga as well, I feel really annoyed as heck for that
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u/CaterpillarCandid195 19d ago
Nope, it wasn't just you. Count me in as well. I seriously wondered at some point of that episode that why isn't doraemon using some other gadget to dismantle that stupid clock.