Gee, the Owens family must have really loved clocks. There are about 4 of them in the living room...the big grandfather clock and smaller wall clocks...all in a row!! I'm watching the show for the first time since I was a kid and had forgotten all about that. I think it's kind of amusing. :lol:

I haven't watched Mr. Belvedere in ages, but if I see it come on any of our cable stations, I'll check it out just to see these clocks. My husband and I have clocks literally all over the house (kind of like that scene at the beginning of the original Back to the Future, where all those clocks go off in Doc's office!), so he may be interested in seeing it, too! What can I say? We're clock fanatics, I guess!

It is on DVD, too - and I'm sure you could catch some of it on YouTube. The clocks are all in the living room, by the staircase.

hey, you know what time it is there?

Man, it had to be a pain changing all those for Daylight Savings Time, etc. :eek: :lol:

The clocks always seem to be set at different times, too. :lol:

Man, it had to be a pain changing all those for Daylight Savings Time, etc. :eek: :lol:
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That makes me think of something funny. I have a friend that works in a jewlery store and he told us that when daylight savings time came around they had to reset every watch in the store. Took them three hours! :lol:

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That makes me think of something funny. I have a friend that works in a jewlery store and he told us that when daylight savings time came around they had to reset every watch in the store. Took them three hours! :lol:
Gosh, that's got to be a pain. :lol:

The clocks always seem to be set at different times, too. :lol:
there's one for each time zone of all the countries he's been thrown out of :nod:

there's one for each time zone of all the countries he's been thrown out of :nod:
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We're clock fanatics too--three cuckoos, two annivesary and an assortment of others.....when all of them go off, THE NOISE!! :lol:

There might be one by the front door in the living room, too. Then again, it might be a barometer. :lol:

Clocks on TV shows mostly are shown to be non-working, are they not?

Clocks on TV shows mostly are shown to be non-working, are they not?
They never seem to. :lol:

I remember in one of the season one or two episodes George seems to change the time on one of the clocks. If I remember correctly they all showed different times.

By the way I work for a watch/clock company and all the clocks in the office tell different times. It's a running joke with the employees. We seem to have problems getting the time on the phones to match the time on the timeclocks and the time on the computers. I won't even get into the clocks on display :rofl:

Maybe that's why sitcom characters are always arriving late to places!! :lol:

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In one episode George pauses on his way down the stairs to adjust the time on one of the clocks (he was really killing time because he didn't want to go to Wesley's ballet recital) and Kevin said "come on Dad, that clock doesn't even work". So I get the feeling the clocks may have been intended to be decorative rather than practical since they weren't even in working condition.

In one episode George pauses on his way down the stairs to adjust the time on one of the clocks (he was really killing time because he didn't want to go to Wesley's ballet recital) and Kevin said "come on Dad, that clock doesn't even work". So I get the feeling the clocks may have been intended to be decorative rather than practical since they weren't even in working condition.
Yeah, I remember that episode, too. Someone in that house was sure a clock fancier. :lol: :D

In one episode George pauses on his way down the stairs to adjust the time on one of the clocks (he was really killing time because he didn't want to go to Wesley's ballet recital) and Kevin said "come on Dad, that clock doesn't even work". So I get the feeling the clocks may have been intended to be decorative rather than practical since they weren't even in working condition.

Ah yes, that's the episode I was thinking of :D .

In one episode George pauses on his way down the stairs to adjust the time on one of the clocks (he was really killing time because he didn't want to go to Wesley's ballet recital) and Kevin said "come on Dad, that clock doesn't even work". So I get the feeling the clocks may have been intended to be decorative rather than practical since they weren't even in working condition.


We actually have a couple of clocks in our house that don't work so we just used them for decorations as well. I know, it's crazy but if you knew the two of us, you'd understand! :happyface :crazy:

I think they were just there to dress up the set, as an obscure visual for the audience. And it worked, here we are talking about it :).

None of them functioned as far as I knew. In an ep featuring Jason Bateman in season 3, he even stops on his way upstairs, stares at the clocks, then checks his own wristwatch to his ear.

None of them functioned as far as I knew. In an ep featuring Jason Bateman in season 3, he even stops on his way upstairs, stares at the clocks, then checks his own wristwatch to his ear.

That episode was from season 2, not season 3.

That episode was from season 2, not season 3.
You're right, I'd forgotten about that scene. :lol:

I'm currently watching Season 3 - does anyone else notice that there are less clocks in the living room this time around? Or is it just me? :confused: :lol:

I'm currently watching Season 3 - does anyone else notice that there are less clocks in the living room this time around? Or is it just me? :confused: :lol:

I do believe there are less this time around. After this thread I made a conscious effort to look while I was watching the season three set and it seemed like there were a little less. Maybe they were trying to save money on props on season three. :lol:

I do believe there are less this time around. After this thread I made a conscious effort to look while I was watching the season three set and it seemed like there were a little less. Maybe they were trying to save money on props on season three. :lol:
Glad to see I wasn't the only one who noticed. :lol:

Clocks on TV shows mostly are shown to be non-working, are they not?

No. It's always 12:00 on Charles In Charge. :lol:

No. It's always 12:00 on Charles In Charge. :lol:

At least they're right twice a day. :lol: :lol: :lol:

At least they're right twice a day. :lol: :lol: :lol:

When you watched S4 a while back, did you notice fewer clocks than season 3, or were they about the same?

I think you're right...there seemed to be less clocks as the show went on.

hey, you know what time it is there?
Some of them don't even work.

There's also the episode where Heather's boyfriend Shawn (Jason Bateman) uses Heather to try and get close to Marsha. At one point he walks by the clocks and looks at his watch, and listens to his watch ticking as if to check that it's right, and shakes his head at the clocks in confusion, lol. :)

There's also the episode where Heather's boyfriend Shawn (Jason Bateman) uses Heather to try and get close to Marsha. At one point he walks by the clocks and looks at his watch, and listens to his watch ticking as if to check that it's right, and shakes his head at the clocks in confusion, lol. :)

I wonder if that was part of the script or if it was an ad-lib by Jason Bateman.

The clocks were a visual representation of time as Mr. Belvedere sees his life (an various chapters in his book).

His life was one big diary of various travels throughout time. The stay he had with the Owens family merely represented only one point in time for him.
Deep down, he was a very vain person who only saw this family as a long stay at a hotel. However, he learned to love them despite his intentions.

The clocks were a visual representation of time as Mr. Belvedere sees his life (an various chapters in his book).

The Owens family had the clocks there before Mr. Belvedere came on the scene.