Line #8 Literature/GoTheFuckToSleep


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/go_the_fuck_to_sleep.jpg]]
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3	''Go the Fuck to Sleep'' is a 2011 [[ChildrensLiterature children's book]] {{parody}} by Adam Mansbach.
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5	It is the lament of a parent whose child will not [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin go the fuck to sleep]]. It went [[MemeticMutation viral]], and was then helped by an audiobook [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udj-o2m39NA read by]] Creator/SamuelLJackson (and later on, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xFZ0A15Bg by]] Creator/WernerHerzog and Creator/GeorgeLopez [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rER2qGJ7CAo in Spanish]]).
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7	Was later turned into a {{Bowdlerised}} version aimed at children called '''''Seriously, Just Go to Sleep'''''. In September 2014, a proper sequel was released, '''''[[http://www.amazon.com/You-Have-F-g-Eat/dp/1617753785 You Have to Fucking Eat]]'''''. A third book followed, '''''Fuck, Now There Are Two of You'''''.
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9	In 2020, Mansbach released a self-parody of the book, ''Stay the Fuck Home'', in response to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and recommendations to self-quarantine at home to slow down the spread of the virus. Samuel L. Jackson [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSrbxyna4z4 once again provides the dramatic reading.]]
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11	!!Tropes:
12	* AffectionateParody: Of the rhyming, saccharine books normally read to small children at bedtime. This one assuredly cannot be read to a child at bedtime or any other time, unless you buy the aforementioned bowdlerised version.
13	* AntagonisticOffspring: A mild and even affectionate example, but the child is clearly at odds with the parent's desire for them to just [[TitleDrop go the fuck to sleep]], to the parent's great frustration.
14	* BleepDammit: The moon on the front cover covers all of two letters of the word "Fuck"; it isn't really fooling most readers.
15	* ClusterFBomb: The book contains many instances of the F word as well as some other swears. It's very likely that this is the highest number of obscenities to ever appear in a ''picture book''.
16	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The narrator wants you to, well, ''go the fuck to sleep.''
17	* GagCensor: On the book's cover, the central word in the title is obscured by the Moon.
18	* GettingTheBabyToSleep: The book is entirely this trope, being about the desperation to send a child to sleep.
19	* GettingReadyForBedPlot: Both this book and ''Seriously, Just Go to Sleep'' play this for laughs and parody the "world at bedtime" variant of the trope. The parent is very frustrated trying to get the kid to go to sleep.
20	* HellIsThatNoise: The sound of the microwave. "Beep!"
21	* TheInsomniac: The kid seems to be tending this way.
22	* ParentsAsPeople: The hapless parent just wants to get their kid to sleep so they can watch a movie, their frustration driving them to use completely inappropriate obscenities. [[TruthInTelevision Let's face it]]; what parent hasn't felt exactly like this at least once?
23	* RefugeInAudacity: It's a children's book spoof about parents being so irritated by their child refusing to sleep that their orders for the child to go to bed are peppered with strong swear words. There aren't many other things as audaciously funny.
24	* SelfParody: ''Stay the Fuck Home'', done in the same structure as ''GTFTS''.
25	* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The parents succeed in putting their child in bed after much effort, but the beep of their microwave instantly undoes it.]]
26	* SirSwearsALot: The narrator can’t make it through a single paragraph without resorting to some obscenity or other, mostly the F-word.
27	* SubvertedKidsShow: What with the swearing and all.
28	** A proper SubvertedKidsShow with Noni Hazlehurst's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xtcB457jqQ reading]], as many of the Australian fans are old enough to remember her from ''Series/PlaySchool''.
29	** A second proper subversion [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBHwmVlP_DE occurs with]] ''Series/ReadingRainbow'''s Creator/LeVarBurton.
30	* TitleDrop: The phrase "Go the fuck to sleep!" gets repeated several times.
31	* TruthInTelevision: Count the many, many reviews from parents of young kids who've admitted they found the story all too relatable. Adam Mansbach has confessed in his interviews that he got the idea during a time [[WriteWhatYouKnow when his own two-year-old daughter]] regularly took two hours to fall asleep.
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33	-> ''I'll read you one very last TV Tropes page if you swear you'll go the fuck to sleep.''

Context Literature / GoTheFuckToSleep