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* ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|InfiniteFrontier}}'' #780 is the start of Superman, Hippolyta and Nubia's failed efforts to get Diana to get some sleep. Even [[spoiler: Image-Maker]], part of the BigBadEnsemble, [[SympathyForTheHero takes pity on Wonder Woman]] and says her ChronicHeroSyndrome isn't healthy.
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* ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'': In one scene of "Sleep", Muno can't take his nap because he's afraid of sleeping alone. His rock friends sing to him to think of happy things to feel better so he can sleep.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', Gargamel is having terrible insomnia. Eventually, he looks up a sleeping spell in his spellbook, and casts it on himself using a mirror. That works, but it makes him sleepwalk... right into the Smurf Village. Suffice to say, HilarityEnsues from there.

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'', Gargamel is having terrible insomnia. Eventually, he looks up a sleeping spell in his spellbook, and casts it on himself using a mirror. That works, but it makes him sleepwalk... right into the Smurf Village. Suffice to say, HilarityEnsues from there.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "Asleep at the Chalk", Rudy sneaks into the night-time part of Chalk Zone to avoid having to go to bed at night. Eventually the effects of sleep deprivation kick in leading Rudy to make some careless choices that start causing harm for the residents of Chalk Zone, so Snap has to work to get him safely back home.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "Asleep at the Chalk", Rudy sneaks into the night-time part of Chalk Zone to avoid having to go to bed at night. Eventually the effects of sleep deprivation kick in in, leading Rudy to make some careless choices that start causing harm for the residents of Chalk Zone, so Snap has to work to get him safely back home.
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** In one episode Sheldon is unable to sleep as long as he's left a specific science problem, one he's having a lot of trouble with, unsolved. Over the course of the episode he steals peas, then makes diagrams with marbles, and when those are not big enough he breaks into a generic Chuck E Cheese type place to use the balls from the ball pit. Bernadette tells him [[FridgeLogic he would probably be able to solve it if he wasn't so sleep-deprived]], but he doesn't listen.

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** In one episode Sheldon is unable to sleep as long as he's left a specific science problem, one he's having a lot of trouble with, unsolved. Over the course of the episode he steals peas, then makes diagrams with marbles, and when those are not big enough he breaks into a generic Chuck E Cheese type place to use the balls from the ball pit. Bernadette tells him [[FridgeLogic he would probably be able to solve it if he wasn't weren't so sleep-deprived]], but he doesn't listen.
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* In ''Literature/PostmanPatsSleepyDays'', an 80s picture book based on the ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'' series, Pat can't sleep at night, which interferes with his post rounds. Everyone in Greendale has a suggestion to help, but none of them seem to work. Eventually, his wife Sara sees him reading their son Julian a bedtime story, and figures that if it works for Julian, then maybe it will work for Pat. Luckily, it does.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Sleep No More", Buster is picked as one of the contestants to compete in an All-You-Can-Eat Pizza contest, but he finds that he cannot sleep because of pizza-related dreams that continuously plague him. There, he meets up with other contestants who also cannot sleep due to the excitement of the contest. Because of this, the contest is cancelled until everyone can get a good night's sleep.

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In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Sleep No More", Buster is picked as one of the contestants to compete in an All-You-Can-Eat Pizza contest, but he finds that he cannot sleep because of pizza-related dreams that continuously plague him. There, he meets up with other contestants who also cannot sleep due to the excitement of the contest. Because of this, the contest is cancelled until everyone can get a good night's sleep. sleep.
** In "[[Recap/ArthurS11E3BuenasNochesVicitaPrunellaPacksItIn Buenas Noches, Vicita]]," Vicita loses her favorite bedtime storybook, ''The Very Magic Mango Tree'', and can't sleep without having it read to her. To help her, Arthur and D.W. create a "do-it-yourself" copy of the book with the help of Vicita (who knows the story of the book by heart), but that night, Vicita realizes that she didn't finish the story properly, as its protagonist, [[Myth/BrazilianFolklore Uaica]], fell asleep in a tree at the end of the story when he was supposed to climb down and fall asleep under it. Becoming worried that [[DaydreamBeliever Uaica may fall down from the tree unless she gets him down soon]] (she's 3 and ½ years old), Vicita falls asleep and has a dream where she and her stuffed llama Raulito (who becomes a fully animate TalkingAnimal in her DreamSequence) are looking for Uaica and the magic mango tree he fell asleep in so they can get him down and Vicita can sleep again. The episode has Vicita's parents suffering from SleepDeprivation as well, since on the night that Vicita lost ''The Very Magic Mango Tree'', they had to stay up all night reading her several other storybooks in an unsuccessful attempt to help her fall asleep; her mother is shown taking a nap on a bench on the playground of Vicita's preschool the next day.
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* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'': One of the comic strips has Hiroshi attempting to sleep early because he need to catch the 5.00am train to Osaka for a business meeting, but his attempts at dozing off is repeatedly interrupted by Shin-Chan's nighttime antics that includes sleepwalking, shouting aloud in his sleep for dreaming he's Action Mask, waking up and being scared to use the bathroom. Eventually Hiroshi - reluctantly escorting Shin-Chan to the loo at around 3.00am - decides since he's near the toilet, he might as well take a leak, and upon exiting the toilet sees Shin-Chan offering him a canned drink from the fridge since he looks thirsty. Hiroshi takes a swig, turns the can around, and realize Shin-Chan had just given Hiroshi [[OhCrap one of his high-energy isotonic drinks]].

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* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'': One of the comic strips has Hiroshi attempting to sleep early because he need to catch the 5.00am train to Osaka for a business meeting, but his attempts at dozing off is repeatedly interrupted by Shin-Chan's nighttime antics that includes sleepwalking, shouting aloud in his sleep for dreaming he's Action Mask, waking up and being scared to use the bathroom. Eventually Hiroshi - reluctantly escorting Shin-Chan to the loo at around 3.00am - decides since he's near the toilet, he might as well take a leak, leak too, and upon exiting the toilet sees Shin-Chan offering him a canned drink from the fridge since he looks thirsty. Hiroshi gladly takes a swig, turns swig before turning the can around, around... and realize Shin-Chan had just given Hiroshi [[OhCrap one of his high-energy isotonic drinks]].
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* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'': One of the comic strips has Hiroshi attempting to sleep early because he need to catch the 5.00am train to Osaka for a business meeting, but his attempts at dozing off is repeatedly interrupted by Shin-Chan's nighttime antics that includes sleepwalking, shouting aloud in his sleep for dreaming he's Action Mask, waking up and being scared to use the bathroom. Eventually Hiroshi - reluctantly escorting Shin-Chan to the loo at around 3.00am - decides since he's near the toilet, he might as well take a leak, and upon exiting the toilet sees Shin-Chan offering him a canned drink from the fridge since he looks thirsty. Hiroshi takes a swig, turns the can around, and realize Shin-Chan had just given Hiroshi [[OhCrap one of his high-energy isotonic drinks]].
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* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' graphic novel ''A Thief in [=ThunderClan=]'', a recurring problem throughout the book is Brightheart having trouble sleeping due to her {{Flashback Nightmare}}s and stress about everything going on in [=ThunderClan=] at the moment. She spends several scenes [[StargazingScene looking up at the stars]] and trying to investigate the prey that's going missing from the camp, and tries to get advice from some of her Clanmates.
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* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': In one chapter/episode Kagura is unable to sleep and constantly pesters Gintoki to help her. Desperate to return to his slumber, he reluctantly gives her a few tips but is unsuccessful because she overdoes them all (runs several laps around town when advised to exercise and overeats when given food, making her extremely out of breath or bloated with a BalloonBelly instead of sleepy). By the end of the story, Kagura is finally able to sleep while listening to the radio... however Gintoki no longer can, thanks to a SurpriseCreepy story from the radio scaring him.

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* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': In one chapter/episode Kagura is unable to sleep and constantly pesters Gintoki to help her. Desperate to return to his slumber, he reluctantly gives her a few tips but is unsuccessful because she overdoes them all (runs several laps around town when advised to exercise and overeats when given food, making her extremely out of breath or bloated with a BalloonBelly instead of sleepy). By the end of the story, Kagura is finally able to sleep while listening to the radio... however Gintoki no longer can, thanks to a SurpriseCreepy surprisingly creepy story from the radio scaring him.
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* ''Bali'' has "I'm Not Scared" and it's no surprise that Bali can't get to sleep when he has to listen to the sound of a noisy truck outside, his little sister crying loudly (because of the truck), his neighbor playing the saxophone and a horse neighing on television elsewhere in the house among other things.

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* ''Bali'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Bali}}'' has "I'm Not Scared" and it's no surprise that Bali can't get to sleep when he has to listen to the sound of a noisy truck outside, his little sister crying loudly (because of the truck), his neighbor playing the saxophone and a horse neighing on television elsewhere in the house among other things.
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* ''Series/OneFootInTheGrave'': "Timeless Time" is a BottleEpisode involving Victor and Margaret as they struggle to get to sleep in their bedroom, not helped by occurrences such as a hypersensitive car alarm.

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