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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E13FryAndTheSlurmFactory Fry and the Slurm Factory]]": Slurms [=MacKenzie=], the original party worm working in advertising for Slurm, is partied out. He's covering red eyes under his cool shades and all he wants to do is stay home and rent videos.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E13FryAndTheSlurmFactory Fry and the Slurm Factory]]": Factory]]", Slurms [=MacKenzie=], the original party worm working in advertising for Slurm, is partied out. He's covering red eyes under his cool shades and all he wants to do is stay home and rent videos.
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* ''TabletopGame/DontRestYourHead'' has the main characters, who are known as the Awake for a reason. To enter the Mad City, you have to remain awake well beyond what's reasonable, and once you're in it, falling asleep makes you prey to all sorts of unspeakable things. One of the main game mechanics is Exhaustion, which adds dice to your rolls... but if the highest-number die in the pool is Exhaustion, you add one to your total, and if your Exhaustion hits 6 or higher, you can't stay awake any longer and Crash. If you're ''lucky'', you'll die.
* ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' has the Oneiromancers, adepts who gain power from staying awake. The catch is that they lose all of that power when they fall asleep, ''or'' if they aren't actively being hindered by their lack of sleep. [[spoiler:The founder of the school is a MindHive between a set of twins, known as the Dyad, that ''never needs to sleep'', giving it an endless stream of power. There's a catch here, too - if the Dyad was ever forced to sleep, it could very well wipe out the entire school of magick in one go.]]
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* WebVideo/Local58's "Real Sleep" video's final section shows a bunch of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] and [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages against sleep and dreaming]].
* Website/CollegeHumor:
** Sketch "The Horrors of Hungover Traveling" has Zac trying to catch a flight while being brutally hungover and extremely sleep deprived. The flight gets delayed and he passes out lying over several seats at the airport.
** "I Got NO Sleep Last Night" is considered the most boring conversation imaginable. Zac keeps bringing it up and wants to tell it in elaborate detail.

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* WebVideo/Local58's "Real Sleep" video's final section shows ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMcbM6BxPR4 Karin]] is a bunch of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] and [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages against nurse who didn't get enough sleep and dreaming]].
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** Sketch "The Horrors of Hungover Traveling" has Zac trying
because she had to catch a flight while being brutally hungover and extremely deal with many patients in the hospital she works for during the COVID pandemic. Tokusa also didn't get any sleep deprived. The flight gets delayed and he passes out lying over several seats at the airport.
** "I Got NO Sleep Last Night" is considered the most boring conversation imaginable. Zac keeps bringing it up and wants
due to tell it in elaborate detail. his job as a doctor, experiencing similar things like Karin did.


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* WebVideo/Local58's "Real Sleep" video's final section shows a bunch of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] and [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages against sleep and dreaming]].
* Website/CollegeHumor:
** Sketch "The Horrors of Hungover Traveling" has Zac trying to catch a flight while being brutally hungover and extremely sleep deprived. The flight gets delayed and he passes out lying over several seats at the airport.
** "I Got NO Sleep Last Night" is considered the most boring conversation imaginable. Zac keeps bringing it up and wants to tell it in elaborate detail.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailor'' suffers from this in "Me Musical Nephews". All he wants is to get some sleep, but his nephews refuse to stop playing loud music for long, even after being sent to bed. And no matter how quick he is when trying to catch them in the act, he always finds them faking sleep. Eventually, he gives up and tries to [[MediumAwareness escape the cartoon by manually doing the]] IrisOut, [[spoiler:but it doesn't work.]]

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* In {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans in their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.

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* In {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers/1978}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans in their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.

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* In {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers/1978}}, {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans in their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.
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* In {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers/1978)}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans I'm their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.

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* In {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers/1978)}}, {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers/1978}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans I'm in their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.
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* Military, maritime and space settings often show enlisted personnel doing their turn at the night watch (sentries or guard duty). A cliche of these scenes is to show them battling sleepiness. If you've never seen the character until their watch, they may be a RedShirt who ends up dead.
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Terror of attack, so they must stay up all nijht

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* Terror. They are afraid of a lethal threat (robber, monster, alien, etc) which they believe will attack during the night, so they must keep watch until morning.
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* In {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers(1978)}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans I'm their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.

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* In {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers(1978)}}, {{Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers/1978)}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans I'm their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.
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* In {{Film / Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans I'm their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.

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*In {{Film / Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)}}, pods from space land on Earth, containing aliens that copy humans I'm their sleep. TheHero tries to stave off sleep as long as he can to avoid the alien menace.
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* In ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', Hachiken has committed to an extraordinary workload leading up to the school festival, including cleaning the dorm, organizing a schedule for the campus pizza oven, competing in a horse-jumping competition, building a draft horse race track, helping out with other clubs' activities and his own class activities. He's clearly exhausted leading up to the festival - there's a scene where he's set about six alarm clocks to wake himself up at 3:30 AM to get some work done - but it comes to a head when he finally collapses from exhaustion the morning before the festival begins.
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* InsomniaEpisode: Characters are unable to sleep for one episode/chapter/instalment.

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* InsomniaEpisode: Characters are unable to sleep for one episode/chapter/instalment.episode/chapter/installment.
* LoudSleeperGag: A character's noisy sleeping causes other characters to get no sleep.
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* FellAsleepDriving: Characters who operate a vehicle while short on sleep tend to do this, usually to unfortunate or tragic results (though this occasionally can be PlayedForLaughs).
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13473286/1/Gaz-Taster-of-PTSD Gaz, Taster of PTSD]]'', Gaz suffers from this as a result of [[PlaguedByNightmares recurring nightmares]]. The lack of decent sleep, and her [[TherapyIsForTheWeak refusal to talk out her root issues]], causes her to start having SanitySlippage [[spoiler: until she has a breakdown. After a brief stay in a mental hospital, she starts getting better]].
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* TruthInTelevision: If you don't get sufficient sleep, it ''will'' affect your brain functions and even your physical health. It can be caused by illness such as insomnia or sleep apnea, or through a busy schedule or stress. Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation has the details]].

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* TruthInTelevision: If you don't get sufficient sleep, it ''will'' affect your brain functions and even your physical health. It can be caused by illness such as insomnia or sleep apnea, or through a busy schedule or stress. Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation has the details]].

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** In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys stays up late playing a video game and is very sluggish the next day. ** In “Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!”, Truly is tired while doing homeschooling, ostensibly because she had a late night.

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** In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys stays up late playing a video game and is very sluggish the next day. day.
** In “Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!”, Truly is tired while doing homeschooling, ostensibly because she had a late night.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' episode "The Big Sleep", the challenge of the day for the contestants is to stay awake as long as possible.
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* It happens during the Series/DoctorWho short titled "Clara and the TARDIS" as a result of the TARDIS continually hiding Clara's bedroom.
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* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': After starting her own firm, Kim becomes overwhelmed with her work from Mesa Verde. She loses sleep working overtime and eventually becomes so exhausted she can barely function. While driving on the highway, she veers off the road and crashes, narrowly escaping death but leaving with a broken leg.

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* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': After starting her own firm, Kim becomes overwhelmed with her work from Mesa Verde. She loses sleep working overtime and eventually becomes so exhausted she can barely function. While driving on the highway, she veers off the road and crashes, narrowly escaping death but leaving with a broken leg.arm.
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* WebVideo/Local58's "Real Sleep" video's final section shows a bunch of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] and Th[[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages against sleep and dreaming]].

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** another episode has the crew trying to sleep the night before a basketball game against another station. They get interrupted by runs and their attempt to nap the next day is interrupted by work on the station bathroom. They ultimately give up and go on to the gym.

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** another Another episode has the crew trying to sleep the night before a basketball game against another station. They get interrupted by runs and their attempt to nap the next day is interrupted by work on the station bathroom. They ultimately give up and go on to the gym.



* ''Series/{{Newhart}}'': The the TV station where Dick works holds a multi-day telethon, and circumstances lead to him being the sole host. He starts suffering from insufficient sleep, and in the end can only be lured off the set by Stephanie's "beautiful" rendition of "Old Man River".

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* ''Series/{{Newhart}}'': The the TV station where Dick works holds a multi-day telethon, and circumstances lead to him being the sole host. He starts suffering from insufficient sleep, and in the end can only be lured off the set by Stephanie's "beautiful" rendition of "Old Man River".
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', thanks to Julian and the lemurs playing loud dance music nonstop every night, Skipper hadn't been able to get any sleep for a week straight, causing him to become unhinged more than usual. At the same time, Private had developed an interest in Shakespearean shows that were playing in the park and found himself spouting some of the Bard's quotes. In his delusional state, Skipper thought Private was talking in code and believed the actors in the shows were enemy agents.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12930880/1/Lucy-s-Secret Lucy's Secret]]'', Lucy [[EmbarrassingDampSheets wets the bed]] and doesn't get enough sleep due to her attempts to clean it up. She ends up falling AsleepInClass and being sent to the principal's office.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12930880/1/Lucy-s-Secret Lucy's Secret]]'', Secret,]]'' Lucy [[EmbarrassingDampSheets wets the bed]] and doesn't get enough sleep due to her attempts to clean it up. She ends up falling AsleepInClass and being sent to the principal's office.



* In ''[[https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:CircularBoat742/Fanfiction_-_Road_Trip_Rage Road Trip Rage]]'', Lincoln is sleep deprived from waking up too early and falls asleep in the van.

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* In ''[[https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:CircularBoat742/Fanfiction_-_Road_Trip_Rage Road Trip Rage]]'', Rage,]]'' Lincoln is sleep deprived from waking up too early and falls asleep in the van.



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* Played for laughs in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' when the crew is forced to prematurely wake up Dr. Phlox whose species normally only sleep once per year. The results are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcL8Fw4KBoY&t=58s hilarious]].

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* Played for laughs in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' when the crew is forced to prematurely wake up Dr. Phlox whose species normally only sleep once per year. The results are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcL8Fw4KBoY&t=58s hilarious]].hilarious.]]



* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Days?", Sonic and Tails are unable to get any sleep because of Eggman, who's become their roommate because his island fortress was damaged in a storm and needs repairs, and he keeps them up all night with TV, board games, and spontaneous pillow fights. It turns out this was part of his evil plan: he lied about the fortress getting damaged, and he intended to keep Sonic and Tails awake so they'd be too tired to stop his Obliterator Bot. This winds up coming back to bite him when Obliterator Bot mishears his commands to destroy Team Sonic and leaves to destroy Eggman's fortress instead; he asks for the help of his archenemies to prevent this, but when it comes time to defend the lair, Sonic and Tails are too tired to act on his instructions to disable Obliterator Bot, forcing him to use a kazoo to snap them out of it so the team can finally take the robot down ([[spoiler:but even then, [[ShaggyDogStory they couldn't save the fortress from getting destroyed for real]]]]).

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Can an Evil Genius Crash on Your Couch for a Few Days?", Sonic and Tails are unable to get any sleep because of Eggman, who's become their roommate because his island fortress was damaged in a storm and needs repairs, and he keeps them up all night with TV, board games, and spontaneous pillow fights. It turns out this was part of his evil plan: he lied about the fortress getting damaged, and he intended to keep Sonic and Tails awake so they'd be too tired to stop his Obliterator Bot. This winds up coming back to bite him when Obliterator Bot mishears his commands to destroy Team Sonic and leaves to destroy Eggman's fortress instead; he asks for the help of his archenemies to prevent this, but when it comes time to defend the lair, Sonic and Tails are too tired to act on his instructions to disable Obliterator Bot, forcing him to use a kazoo to snap them out of it so the team can finally take the robot down ([[spoiler:but even down. [[spoiler:Even then, [[ShaggyDogStory they couldn't save the fortress from getting destroyed for real]]]]).real]]]].
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* Sniper Wolf from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' has a reputation for staying in one place, waiting for her target, without eating or sleeping for days.
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* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'':
** In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys stays up late playing a video game and is very sluggish the next day. ** In “Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!”, Truly is tired while doing homeschooling, ostensibly because she had a late night.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': In episode "KO's Heath Week", at the end by Friday at hike trip, K.O. has this badly due to, ironically, staying up late researching health facts for his health week.
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* SneakingOutAtNight: If they do it too happen, their sleep schedule tends to suffer.

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* SneakingOutAtNight: If they do it too happen, their sleep schedule tends to suffer.

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