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->'''Cowardly Lion:''' I haven't slept in weeks.\\
'''Tin Man:''' Why don't you try counting sheep?\\
'''Cowardly Lion:''' That doesn't do any good -- I'm afraid of 'em.
-->-- ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''

A character desperately needs to get to sleep. Maybe they've been awake for three days straight; maybe they have an important meeting to attend in the morning. But for whatever reason, no matter how hard they try or how much they toss and turn, they simply can't fall asleep.

Cue the character trying to get to sleep by counting imaginary sheep. Cartoons may show the sheep in an ImagineSpot. Those sheep may be jumping over a fence, walking into frame, or simply standing in a field; it doesn't matter. The intention is to drift off to sleep through the sheer boredom and repetition of counting them.

[[ScienceMarchesOn Unfortunately, proven by science to be ineffective in real life.]]

Because most people know (normally through personal experience) that counting sheep does not help the counter to fall asleep, [[DeadHorseTrope this trope is rarely played straight nowadays]]. More often than not, it can be found:
* Deconstructed (with the character concentrating so intently on counting sheep that they forget to sleep. If interrupted, cue swearing and/or recounting)
* Parodied (flocks of non-imaginary sheep have a soporific effect because people will try to count them)
* and/or Exaggerated (using some weird method in counting sheep, like counting something else, or the sheep is doing something else other than jumping, or using a calculator, or counting to 338,547 sheep, or setting up an animation of sheep jumping using a computer...)

Very often, it will be PlayedForLaughs. When it's ineffective, the trope can also be used to show how serious the character's insomnia is. When it's too effective, on the other hand, it shows how easily the character drifts off to sleep.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* A series of mattress commercials by Serta featured counting sheep who were constantly annoyed that people stopped needing them since the mattress was so comfy, they'd had an easier time falling to sleep. Although, more recent commercials have forgotten this idea with the sheep openly supporting Serra’s products.
* One of the more (relatively) famous billboards for South Carolina roadside attraction South of the Border has a motorized depiction of sheep jumping over a fence with the phrase "Your sheep are all counted at South of the Border" (their classic billboards went for these kinds of puns a lot).
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In the second episode of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess TV'', when Keiichi and Belldandy are trying to sleep in a car, he explains the idea of counting sheep to her. He ends up awake all night, as Belldandy doesn't realize ''why'' you do it. She ends up counting over 38,000 when we last see it.
* Happens in episode seven of ''Manga/GabrielDropOut'' with Vigne, (a [[MinionWithAnFInEvil demon with an F in evil]]), has trouble falling asleep. At first she can't remember what animal its supposed to be so she starts counting cerberi (plural of cerberus) but thinks that it's supposed to be something "cuter and fluffier" and switches to counting dream versions of her friend (and Angel) Gabriel.
* In an episode of ''{{Manga/Gintama}}'', Katsura starts counting sheep to help himself fall asleep. As is typical of [[GagSeries the show's nature]], this activity eventually leads him to telling a lengthy and tragic story about some high school basketball players, the only things in the story related to the sheep counting being the jumping involved in the sport, and the jersey number of one of the players being the same as that of the sheep he was about to count (Which he finally does at the end of the story).
** Okita counts Hijikata corpses when he wants to fall asleep. Hijikata naturally isn't amused when he finds out about this.
* In the first episode of ''Manga/HaruhiChan'', Kyon has a dream, and Mikuru is a sheep that Haruhi is cruelly trying to force into jumping [[strike: over the fence]] through a ring of fire so Kyon can count her.
* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': During a period where he's both tired and stressed out, Shirogane falls asleep in the Student Council room and starts counting sheep...and then transitions into counting ''coffins''[[note]]In Japanese, the words are near homophones (hitsu'''ji''' versus hitsu'''gi''')[[/note]]. Ishigami wakes him up, worried that he's going to put some kind of curse on himself.
* In the first half of the 37th episode of ''Anime/KiraKiraHappyHirakeCocotama'', Pillow is having trouble sleeping, so he attempts to count sheep by having Ribbon wear a sheep costume and repeatedly jump over the same miniature fence while he counts her jumps. Instead of making Pillow sleepy, it results in Ribbon tiring herself out from all the jumping.
* ''Manga/{{Klonoa}}'': In Volume 1, Chapter 5, Klonoa suggests that [[TheInsomniac Emperor Jillius]] do this to fall asleep easier. It doesn't work, [[ExaggeratedTrope even when he reaches 165,478,325,693,261,541 sheep]].
* In ''Manga/KurikosanKonnichiWa'', the titular Kuriko prefers to imagine her husband jumping the fence.
-->'''Kuriko:''' Ten Yoichi's, eleven Yoichi's...
-->'''Yoichi:''' Make it sheep, will you?
* The almost daily animation clips that appeared online when ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' was airing all ended with an audio segment of one of the girls counting sheep for main character Kimihito to help him fall asleep. Most of them parodied the trope with Papi falling asleep herself, Suu waking him up so she can finish counting, Tio counting cookies (until she ran out), Manako shouting her counting since she's too nervous to get close and Zombina counting zombies, only to switch to zombie sheep when she's told to count sheep to name but a few.
* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': When [[CheerfulChild the Professor]] fails to get sleep, Sakamoto suggests she count sheep. She falls asleep after just ''one'' sheep. Nano, impressed by how much it works, tries it herself the next moment, and also falls asleep on the first sheep, except this time ''mid-sentence'', with Sakamoto noticing that this sheep didn't even make it over the fence.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
** In the ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Snack Attack", the group is trying to stop a large Snorlax that's eating the grapefruits of seven big islands by making it to fall asleep. One of the things Misty tries is a Snorlax counting routine instead of one with sheep. She only succeeds in putting herself to sleep.
** In another episode, James, Jessie and Meowth are up in a tree spying on a rancher and her field full of Mareep, which are basically electric sheep. As usual...
--->'''James:''' One Mareep, two Mareep, three Mareep... *snore* ...
** It happens again but to only Meowth this time in the ''Episode N'' arc of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'' when Team Rocket is stealing Mareep from Floccessy Ranch. This actually becomes something of a BrickJoke a few episodes later when Meowth is trying to be resilient to Dr. Colress of Team Plasma's MindControl experiment – it's shown that Meowth's technique to keep his mind focused is counting Mareep in his head.
** Happens a fourth time in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY'', when Meowth counts Mareep to get some sleep, and ends up dreaming he's buried under a mountain of Mareep.
* Tatsu from ''Manga/TheWayOfTheHousehusband'' tries counting yakusa to help him fall asleep, it doesn't work.
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/BoonieCubs'': In Season 2 episode 23, Violet tries this to combat her insomnia, but imagines Billy the goat ringing the school bell among the sheep and fears that she might be late for school, only to realize she's just imagining it.
* Careless S. does this in episode 19 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' when he finds himself unable to sleep. Unfortunately, he does the counting out loud, which costs Smart S. his sleep.
* Attempted by Mr. Slowy in ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 1. It suddenly becomes morning by the time he makes it to five sheep.
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[[folder:Audio Plays]]
* The ''Hitsuji de Oyasumi'' series of talk [=CDs=] feature an assortment of popular Japanese voice actors counting sheep to help the listener fall asleep. Not just a few sheep, either; most of the counts go up to 400 sheep. 22 albums of this and ''counting''. Here's a Creator/NorioWakamoto [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4tIi2Q_LWc version]]. There's also a CD featuring the cast of ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfhkj-OQyPk in character.]]
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* One of the ComicBook/ArchieComics had Archie try to count sheep when he couldn't sleep, but for some reason the sheep wouldn't jump.
* ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'': Inverted in issue three of the 2018 series that's part of ''ComicBook/TheSandmanUniverse'', where Timothy Hunter uses magic to summon sheep that he counts to stay awake, making it to one thousand by 7:00 in the morning.
* ''Comicbook/MonicasGang'' had at least two cases, one where the title character was traumatized by ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' and tried counting sheep to finally sleep, and managed to do so even if they turn into Graboids; and a Chuck Billy story concerned the title character and his friend Zeke facing problems when assigned to check the size of a herd i.e. ''literally'' count sheep, something that whenever they attempted, it made them sleepy (the eventual solution was painting numbers on every animal).
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', a co-worker notes that he used to own a sheep farm. Asked how many sheep he had, he says every time he tried to count them he fell asleep.
* One Creator/CharlesAddams cartoon has a creepy-looking bald individual (the genesis for Uncle Fester on ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' TV series) getting to sleep by counting sheep being herded into a slaughterhouse.
* One comic produced during the Clinton administration parodied this by a character counting Veeps. One Al Gore, Two Al Gores, Three Al Gorezzz...
* ''ComicStrip/BeauPeep'' had a strip with Beau and Dennis lying in their bunks:
-->'''Dennis''': Beau?\\
'''Beau''': What is it, Dennis?\\
'''Dennis''': I can't sleep.\\
'''Beau''': Well, try counting sheep or something.\\
'''Dennis''': Beau?\\
'''Beau''': What is it this time?\\
'''Dennis''': I can't count.
* ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}} does this once and Manolito in a sheep disguise enters her dreams to raise publicity for his father's grocery store, much to Mafalda's disgust.
* One ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' comic strip has the titular duck doing this. However, as he had apparently just read ''The Lion Hunt in Africa'', the sheep slowly morph into full-grown lions. Donald wakes up in fear, and the strip ends with him reading Mother Goose fairytales as a form of BrainBleach.
* {{Inverted}} in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' when Calvin dreams that he's in a field of rocks and decides to count how many there are. He's gone well beyond a million when he ends up counting himself ''awake''.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1980/06/29 The June 29, 1980 strip]] has Garfield have difficulty sleeping, his insomnia remedied when he counts mice.
** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1991/07/07 The title panel of the July 7, 1991 strip]] shows Garfield dreaming of refrigerators jumping over a fence.
** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2024/01/14 In the January 14, 2024 strip]], Garfield doesn't count sheep. He counts donuts. Upon reaching the fourth donut, he leaves his bed to have a MidnightSnack.
* ''ComicStrip/RedAndRover'': Red, nervous about his upcoming return to school, lies awake. When Rover suggests he count sheep, Red says he tried, and it made things worse. His thought bubble reveals that he imagined drawing sheep on a blackboard, with the teacher telling him he missed one and ordering him to do it over.
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[[folder:Eastern European Animation]]
* An episode "Dream Maker" of ''Animation/KikoRiki'' revolves around this. Rosa, trying to get a good night's sleep, starts counting sheep, continues to do so in her dream for a while... and there she meets Wally the ram, who apparently [[DreamWeaver has the power of creating dreams for others]]. Carlin and Krash are also shown to get visits from him in their dreams. Dokko suggests that after thousands of years of counting sheep, they became able to influence others' dreams. Wally, for his part, does not remember anything and barely gets enough sleep himself.
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[[folder:Fanfiction]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13459233/1/Twelve-Days Twelve Days]]'' Harry counts reindeer while lying awake shortly before Christmas.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10766595/4/Harry-Potter-Three-to-Backstep Harry Potter - Three to Backstep]]'' Harry, nervous about sharing a bed with Hermione and Daphne for the first time, tries counting sheep jumping over a gate.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12138385/1/Dance-with-the-Devil Dance with the Devil]]'' Harry suffers a bout of insomnia.
-->Merlin, he'd already counted about two hundred sheep, and he'd used up the last of his precious supply of Dreamless Sleep yesterday. He was running out of options!
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2452148/1/The-Closet The Closet]]'' Harry tries counting sheep but loses track several times when Seamus and his sex partner are too loud.
* ''Fanfic/LucysSecret'': Due to having gotten up at night to [[EmbarrassingDampSheets change her bedsheets]], Lucy [[SleepDeprivation is tired in math class]], and so decides to [[AsleepInClass take a nap]]. She counts imaginary sheep with the times tables written on them.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5950260/1/Nothing-Works Nothing Works]]'':
-->'''Dumbledore:''' Noooooooo.... I like sleep. Counting goats is so soothing - well that and dreaming of Gellert....
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4411492/19/Vows Vows]]'' Harry tries counting sheep and dragons, but gives up when the dragons start eating the sheep.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9251394/22/A-Kitten-s-Penpal A Kitten's Penpal]]'' Harry counts golden snitches jumping through Quidditch hoops.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', Nick asks if the trope applies to assistant mayor Bellwether, a sheep, shortly after she leaves the room.
-->'''Nick:''' Do you think when she goes to sleep, she counts herself?\\
'''Judy:''' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Oh shush]].
* The Farmer in ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' falls asleep when he sees the flock jumping in front of his car one by one.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* From ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'':
-->'''CowardlyLion:''' I haven't slept in weeks.\\
'''Tin Man:''' Why don't you try counting sheep?\\
'''Cowardly Lion:''' That doesn't do any good -- I'm afraid of 'em.
* In ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain'', Alonzo Hawk tries counting sheep, but in his dream the sheep morph into evil versions of Herbie, setting the course for a very deranged nightmare.
* ''Film/HowToSleep'': Robert Benchley considers counting sheep as a way of getting to sleep, but says he always gets worried about the sheep clearing the fence. Sure enough, in his dream one of them bangs right into the fence.
* In ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheInvisibleMan'', when a psychiatrist tries to put Lou to sleep (the whole scene is one big ComicallyMissingThePoint), Lou starts counting.
-->'''Psychiatrist''': What are you doing?
-->'''Lou''': I'm counting cows.
-->'''Psychiatrist''': ''COWS?''
-->'''Lou''': I'm allergic to sheep.
* In comic short film ''Film/SureCures'', the insomniac doesn't count sheep, he counts babes in bikinis jumping over a fence.
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[[folder:Jokes]]
* A wealthy New York garment manufacturer had been having trouble with insomnia, so his doctor suggested counting sheep. During the next office visit the doctor asked how it had gone.\\
"Well doc, I tried counting sheep just like you said. When I got to 500, I sheared the sheep and made some nice wool overcoats. That was when I ran into a problem. ''Where was I going to get 500 linings?''"
* An accountant tells his friend that he's having trouble sleeping. His friend asks if he's tried counting sheep. The accountant says, "That's the problem. I make a mistake and then spend three hours trying to find it."
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/CanYouSeeMe'': Attempted by Tally in ''All the Pieces of Me''. It doesn't work, because the sheep keep jumping the wrong way, and she can't keep track of which ones she's already counted.
* In ''Literature/MonsterGirlEncyclopedia'', the Weresheep has enchanted wool which makes those who come into contact with it drowsy, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard including the Weresheep themselves]].
* In ''Literature/PostmanPatsSleepyDays'', WesternAnimation/PostmanPat is struggling with insomnia, so Peter Fogg suggests that he count sheep to fall asleep. However, that night Pat counts five hundred sheep and still doesn't fall asleep.
* In Jay Williams' ''Literature/ThePracticalPrincess'' Prince Perian is under a spell which forces him to count sheep and has gotten up to 16,000,015 by the time of the story. Princess Bedelia suggests that counting sheep jumping ''backwards'' (by hundreds) might wake him from his current semi-drowsy state. It works.
* In ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'', Pooh tries to put himself to sleep by counting Heffalumps [creatures that resemble elephants] but every Heffalump takes a pot of his honey, and when "the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalumps were licking their jaws, and saying to themselves, 'Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better', Pooh could bear it no longer".
* The 2022 picture book ''Baa, Baa, Tap Sheep'' stars a group of 10 celestial lambs who help children get tired by dancing above their heads. Each lamb takes their turn dancing in a different style (such as disco, waltz, and boogie) before landing on to a child's bed as they get sleepy. The book ends with another lamb performing a lullaby on a violin as the 10 lambs fall asleep on top a child's bed as they slowly fad into constellations.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/MrBean'' once did this, but instead of imagining them, he uses a photograph of a field full of sheep. After continually losing count, he counts the number of rows and columns of sheep, does a quick calculation, and instantly drops off.
* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': In "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS1E5GoodNightSweetSkipper Good Night, Sweet Skipper]]", the Skipper is trying to fall asleep because when he sleepwalks, he remembers the way he turned a radio into a transmitter in Guadalcanal. When Gilligan offers him a cup of warm coconut milk, the Skipper says he's already had too many glasses and never wants to see another, or a lamb chop, for that matter. Gilligan is confused, and the Skipper explains that he's counted a huge number of sheep while trying to fall asleep.
* In a Season One ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' sketch, a kid says he can't sleep and his father suggests counting sheep. The kid starts crying about all the slaughtered sheep. His father says they're live sheep. The kid says, "You didn't tell me they were alive. Dad, I was up all night tagging their toes!"
* In the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode "Un-Alful Entry", Al is counting hooters instead (meaning breasts, not owls).
* In ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', Usagi's reaction to a talking cat plushie telling her she's TheChosenOne is to say "I'm having a dream!" Then she gets into bed and starts counting sheep.
* ''Series/{{Chockablock}}'': Episode 3 features the story of Farmer Jake who, when he can't get to sleep one night, starts counting sheep, only for the last sheep to refuse to jump the gate unless he can name eight different words that rhyme with "sheep". After some thinking, Farmer Jake comes up with his eight words, the sheep jumps the gate and Farmer Jake is finally able to fall asleep. However, "watching all those sheep" also causes Chockabloke to nod off while leaning against Chockablock, who responds by letting off a series of alarms to wake him up.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/GreenDay's "Brain Stew":
-->I'm having trouble trying to sleep\\
I'm counting sheep but running out
* This trope is referenced by name in the Music/OwlCity song "Fireflies":
-->Leave my door open, just a crack\\
(Please take me away from here)\\
'Cause I feel like such an insomniac\\
(Please take me away from here)\\
Why do I tire of counting sheep?\\
(Please take me away from here)\\
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep
* Music/PDQBach's "Shepherd on the Rocks, With a Twist" ends with the shepherd dozing off while trying to count his sheep.
* "Oh Lord, I Wish I Could Sleep" by The Spinners contains this chorus:
-->''1,2,3,4 I'm just counting sheep\\
Oh Lord, I wish I could sleep\\
It's 5,6,7,8 and I'm still counting sheep\\
Oh Lord, I wish I could sleep''
* Music/SpikeJones' rendition of "The Sheik of Araby":
-->When I'm laying down to sleep\\
I'm counting girls instead of sheep
* Buddy Clark's "Linda":
-->When I go to sleep\\
I never count sheep\\
I count all the charms about Linda
* Doc Watson's "Southbound":
-->I'm all right 'til late at night I'm sitting by my window\\
Counting sheep but I couldn't sleep for listening to that train blow
* Music/UlteriorMotives :
-->''You're counting all your sheep in disguise, Caught up in the world of lies!''
* "Then You've Never Been Blue":
-->If you've never had to count a million sheep\\
Then you've never been blue, never been blue
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': In "A Winter's Nap", Bear tries to take a nap on a cold winter's day, but he has trouble falling asleep, so he decides to count fish. He gets up to five trout before finding this strategy isn't working.
* In an episode of ''Series/EureekasCastle'', Magellan has trouble falling asleep, so Eureeka suggests that he count sheep. The first time he tries this, he is only able to count one sheep. The second time, he gets up to four sheep before he gets to a gorilla that scares them away, as well as him.
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': Discussed in the Mark Hammil episode; after the "Ram a Lam a Ding Dong" musical number, Kermit asks one sheep if there are more of them. The sheep tells him that he doesn't know, as every time they try to count themselves, they fall asleep.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7IHPJ0k9Bg a brief Bert and Ernie sketch]] Ernie gets bored counting sheep, so he starts counting fire engines, and finally balloons. The noise of these imaginary objects wakes Bert up, and the last one causes to Bert to wake up [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a girl]].
-->'''Ernie:''' Um... one?
** Then it all comes back to haunt Ernie in another sketch where [[https://youtu.be/JAV71UHWSXM the Count spending the night at Bert and Ernie's apartment]] and being unable to sleep. When Ernie suggests counting sheep, the Count obliges...complete with his typical EvilLaugh and DramaticThunder accompaniment. The [[https://youtu.be/wblWacel_9g next morning]] neither of them sleep, but the Count is refreshed, while Ernie... is not.
-->'''Ernie:''' [[OverlyLongGag 43,891... 43,892...]]
** On another Bert & Ernie sketch Ernie can't fall asleep on a night Bert is away. He calls Bert and Bert suggests he count sheep. Ernie begins to count sheep but he keeps Bert on the line to hear him count.
** One "Number of the Day" sketch has the Count count sheep until an elephant appears, with said elephant indicating that number (for example, if the elephant appears after five sheep, then the Number of the Day is five, for zero only the elephant appears).
** Yet another ''Sesame Street'' sketch has Little Bo Peep at a Lost and Found department, for rather obvious reasons. Once her sheep are recovered, she confesses to the clerk that she doesn't know how many she has, because she's never dared count them. The clerk offers to count them for her, and...
** In another sketch involving the Count, the Count gets up to 3,411 sheep before the sheep quit, tired of jumping for him every night. The Count calls the 24-hour Emergency Counting Service, whose worker tries to give him substitutes like holes in Swiss cheese and paper clips, but the Count insists that he wants to count sheep. Eventually, the Count settles on counting the worker in a sheep costume over and over as he jumps over the bed, much to the worker's ire.
** Yet another sketch involving the Count is the song, "The Bahh Bahh" where dozens of sheep (and a few other animals) sing and dance across the Counts bed as he counts them. The Count admits that he has such a great time that he doesn't care if he falls asleep or not.
** In one of the recurring "Singing Number Guy" sketches the guy asks how many sheep will fly over him before he falls asleep. Nine sheep fly by before he does.
** While they aren't counted, the Boogie-Woogie Sheep in the Bert and Ernie "Dance Myself to Sleep" sketch are a reference to the trope.
** In Episode 2620, Mr. Handford is trying to take a nap when Snuffy tasks him with looking after Alice. When Mr. Handford tries to figure out how to get Alice to take a nap so he can take his nap, Meryl Sheep suggests that Alice count sheep, since that's what people do when they have trouble sleeping. Since Alice hasn't learned how to count yet due to being only two years old, Mr. Handford counts for her as Meryl jumps. Unfortunately, both Mr. Handford and Alice are still wide awake, as Meryl gets tired when Mr. Handford gets to 12.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* In ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress'', Winnifred, having failed to find any comfortable position on the bed, counts all through the night and by the next morning has reached several thousand without getting any rest.
* In ''Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun'' the "Moonshine Lullaby" number has the line "Count your sheep, Mama's singing you to sleep."
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[[folder:Toys]]
* The Ganz toy company (makers of the ''VideoGame/{{Webkinz}}''), as part of its "Flat-A-Pat" collection, sells a "Sleepy Sheep" that evokes this trope by being a plush sheep with its eyes closed in sleep (the other animals in the toyline, in contrast, don't have a sleep theme). Though given it's intended to be a SecurityBlanket for babies, having it in the bed or crib to cuddle with might actually make it easier for children to fall asleep than the more traditional version of this trope.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator'', sometimes, instead of starting a new dream, you are instead shown an animation. One of these shows sheep jumping over a fence.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Worms}} 3D'', the objective of one of the missions is to cure your leader of his insomnia by using the sheep weapon to make him count some sheep.
* The game ''VideoGame/PokemonChannel'' has an ''entire channel'' devoted to showing Mareep (electric sheep) jumping over a fence. Pikachu has a tendency to fall asleep while watching it.
* ''VideoGame/WarioWareTwisted'': One microgame is called "Falling Asheep", which has you timing sheep's jumps over a fence in a boy's thought bubble. There’s also an extended version of this microgame called “Staying Asheep”, which involves the player having to get as many sheep to jump over the fence as possible.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', Princess Toadstool's "Sleepy Sheep" spell inflicts sleeping status onto the target by causing a sheep to fall onto them. If done right, you can cause a sheep ''avalanche'' to put all enemies to sleep.
* Due to their association with sleep, games in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series have this as an item which inflicts the [[StatusEffects Sleep status]].
* DreamWeaver Doremy Sweet (a {{Baku}}) has this a major motif of her attacks in ''VideoGame/TouhouHyouibanaAntinomyOfCommonFlowers'', where her attacks consist of sculpting dream souls into sheep, beds, pillows, hammocks and other sleep-related paraphernalia, with super-move where she turns into a giant mechanical sheep that shoots sheep missiles.
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'':
** ''New Leaf'' introduces the Dream Suite, which allows the player to visit other towns in dreams. The character who runs the Dream Suite is a tapir named [[Characters/AnimalCrossing Luna]], who helps the player to fall asleep by counting sheep.
** ''New Leaf'' has peppy villagers sometimes bringing up the question if the player has trouble sleeping at night, and then mentions people counting sheep jumping over a fence, which does not work for her. She then says that she has instead been counting ants jumping over a sugary food (which is selected at random), only for the ants to get stuck in a pile, and the peppy villager can't get to sleep.
** Vesta's description in ''Pocket Camp'':
-->''If you're having trouble sleeping, Vesta will always let you count her. Sure, she's only one sheep, but you can count her over and over until it works.''
* ''VideoGame/MarioPartyAdvance'': One of the Gaddgets in is a sheep counter which displays sheep going by on the screen.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'': A skill by that very name is introduced from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'' onwards, which can put all enemies to sleep during battle, though in the [=PS1=] original, it can only be learned as a hybrid ability by reaching Rank 5 of the Troubadour and/or Shepherd vocations after completing either vocation. In the game's 3DS remake however, it is learned by advancing to Rank 5 of the Shepherd vocation, due to the remake eliminating hybrid abilities. From ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' onwards though, it becomes an enemy only skill used by Satyrs and Silenuses in battle[[note]]Who also use it once again in ''Dragon Quest X''[[/note]], as well as Woolmauluses, a rarefied variant of the [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cumaulus enemies]] introduced from 6.4 of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestX'' onwards.
* The Animist job class in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has an ability called Sheep Count, which acts as an area-of-effect sleep spell. In ''Tactics Advance'', the spell's animation shows three sheep circling above the battlefield while in ''Tactics A2'', it shows an entire herd running across the screen.
* In ''Incredible Dracula 6: The Ice Kingdom'' an insomniac werewolf tries counting the mosquitoes in the swamp.
* ''VideoGame/GensouShoujoTaisen Yume'' introduces an original character, Meeko, a sheep youkai. Her special effect causes characters who are too close to her and have a Will below a certain level to be unable to act (because they fall asleep). Incidentally, "mee" is the Japanese onomonopeia for a sheep's cry (the equivalent of "baa"), while "-ko" is a standard ending for Japanese female names, meaning her name basically means "baa girl".
* In ''Atlantis Odyssey'', Robert explains the purpose of counting sheep, stating that it's so boring he always falls asleep by the tenth one. An insomniac Mi'ara promptly starts counting [[CallARabbitASmeerp yok'tars]].
* In ''Homescapes'' William comments in the Homespace feed that he used to count sheep, but at present is counting all the extra shelves needed for the library. Jeb replies that when got caught up in a job once he started counting nails, while Lisa states that she's been counting the pages of her lecture notes.
* Referenced in ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' when you go to the movies. Ichiban has to resist the urge to fall asleep, which is represented as driving off men in sheep masks trying to hypnotize him. On the other hand, he gets assistance from [[CockADoodleDawn men in chicken masks armed with cymbals]].
* In ''Spring Valley'', Thomas comments that after counting sheep all of last night, he now wants to buy some for the farm.
* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'' plays it for laughs in a [[OptionalCharacterScene tavern banter]] between Osvald, Hikari, Partitio, and Temenos. Osvald asks everyone about their opinions on the mysterious One True Magic. Hikari thinks its source is [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]], Partitio says it's money, and Temenos claims that it's sheep. When questioned, Temenos proceeds to explain that since counting sheep puts you to sleep, sheep obviously have some kind of special power. The other guys find this idea to be decent and try it out... ''and it works''.
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* ''Webcomic/CountYourSheep'' obviously derives its title from this trope. In [[http://countyoursheep.keenspot.com/d/20030611.html the very first strip]], Katie puts herself to sleep by counting her imaginary friend, Ship the sheep. Since there's only one of him, this doesn't take long. There have been several variations on the gag over the years, including [[http://countyoursheep.keenspot.com/d/20100208.html this semi-serious one]].
* In [[https://xkcd.com/571/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip, a character tries counting sheep, only to run into an OverflowError, causing their mental image of sheep jumping a gate to turn into a stampede heading in the opposite direction. Whether it's a bigger problem to have one's brain throw an overflow error or to be awake [[TheInsomniac even after 32,767 sheep]] (the limit of a signed 16-bit integer) is anyone's guess.
-->'''AltText:''' "If [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep androids someday DO dream of electric sheep]], don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int."
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-06-05 inverts this]], by having sheep count people to fall asleep.
%%* Webcomic/KarateBears actually count sheep in the morning [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/10/count-sheep.html for Breakfast!]]
* Parodied in [[http://www.fuzzyfive.com/2010/comic/living-after-midnight/ this]] ''[[Webcomic/TheFuzzyFive Fuzzy Five]]'' strip, where the young lady counts fuzzy octopus toys in place of sheep.
* In ''Webcomic/TheBirdFeeder'' [[http://thebirdfeeder.com/comic/90 #90]], "Beetles," Josh states that he counts beetles instead of sheep.
* From ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness''
** A variation in [[http://explosm.net/comics/4966/ this]] comic: an angry punk calling people "sheep" ends up putting himself to sleep.
** [[http://explosm.net/comics/4594/ Another comic]] has someone misinterpret their friend's suggestion of counting sheep due to AmbiguousSyntax. Naturally, the sheep end up keeping him awake with their counting.
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in [[https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/do-electric-sheep-dream-of-androids this]] ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' ShoutOut-filled comic. Two [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Mareep and a Flaaffy]] [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep (electric sheep) dream]] of various androids from pop culture.
* Parodied on occasion in the ''Webcomic/CrossTimeCafe'' spinoff ''[=Neo-CTC=]'', first seen [[http://www.whiteponyproductions.com/neoctc/NEOCTC_191.htm here]], almost always with Mzzkiti counting the sheep and Kathy [[PaintingTheFourthWall somehow observing her doing so]].
-->'''Mzzkiti:''' I hate it when I can't sleep.
-->'''Kathy:''' I love it when she can't sleep.
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In [[Recap/HomestarRunnerAJorbWellDone "A Jorb Well Done"]], Coach Z dreams of Strong Sad clones jumping over a fence while [[SleepLearning listening to a tape of Strong Sad repeatedly saying the word "job"]].
* ''[[http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87189/projects/149088/871891231362545.jpg Insomniac Innovations]]'' by [[http://www.behance.net/gallery/Glennz-Tees-Designs-2008-09/149088 Glennz]] -- an elecronical rotary sheep counter!
* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'':
** In the game ''Maths Nightmare'', Imiya the Aisha is sleeping before a big math test, and is having a nightmare about a horde of Babaas (sheep-like Petpets) jumping over the fence, all carrying math problems. You have to solve the math problems very fast to keep the line of Babaas moving, or else they'll fall down onto the alarm clock and Imiya will wake up.
** One of the books that you can read to your Neopet is called Counting Babaas. It's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]].
--->''This wonderful book gives suggestions for counting Babaas and even has Babaas on each page for you to count!''
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', the titular character was having a problem sleeping, so Genie tried to help him sleep by summoning mini sheep for him to count.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Up All Night 2: Up All Day" has Daggett attempt this, but he gets it mixed up by thinking he should listen to a sheep counting in order to go to sleep.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
** In "Sleep No More", due to nervousness over [[EatingContest a pizza eating contest]], Buster can't get to sleep so Arthur recommends he count sheep. It works at first until a thought train leads Buster into thinking of pizza and then a pizza eating contest.
** In the prologue to "Buenos Noches, Vicita", Arthur tells the viewers that everyone has a different method of falling asleep. In Muffy's example, she calls her butler, Bailey, to count sheep for her. She falls asleep shortly after he starts counting.
* Parodied in the French series ''WesternAnimation/AvezVousDejaVu'', where a conversation between two sheep listing the friends and family members who'll attend a picnic ends with the two of them falling fast asleep.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'', Cricket tries counting sheep to sleep. Unfortunately, the farm only has the one sheep.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' episode "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS5E08MrPeanutbuttersBoos Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos]]" features a background gag based on the trope where one of the party guests is a sheep who has pajamas with the numbers "1, 2, 3" on them as his Halloween costume and is eventually seen sleeping on the couch.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' episode "Do Toons Dream of Animated Sheep?" had Bonkers D. Bobcat count sheep, only for one of them to steal his dreams out of disappointment that her own dreams never come true.
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/BozoTheWorldsMostFamousClown Bozo the Clown]]'' cartoon "Sheep Thief Grief" has Bozo tending his uncle's sheep flock. He does a spot check, counting them off, and proceeds to start getting sleepy.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'': In "Silent Fight", C.J. and Carl accidentally wake up Carlitos when they fight with each other and [[GettingTheBabyToSleep try to get him back to sleep]] to [[DontWakeTheSleeper avoid having him wake up their sleep-deprived parents]] (as Frida had threatened to ground them for two months if they woke Carlitos up). C.J. and Carl make sheep costumes, dress in them, and take turns jumping near Carlitos' crib until Carlitos falls asleep. This plan works, but when Carl notices his El Falcon action figure in C.J.'s back pocket, he fights over it with him, waking up Carlitos and their parents and getting themselves grounded as a result.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In the "Bloody Marty" episode, [=McGee=] is hiding from Marty who wants to make [=McGee=] fall asleep so that he can trap him in a mirror. He notices a sheep jumping over a fence, then another and then another before he realises that Marty is throwing them over.
-->'''Bloody Marty''': Mind helping me count my flock?
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainZedAndTheZeeZone'', which is based on the concept of a group of RAF-like pilots in a DreamLand patrolling to keep kids' dreams safe, has the ground crew consist of anthropomorphic sheep as a StealthPun reference to this trope.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' features Numbuh Five singing a lullaby about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7YtqcwD80 counting sheep]] in the episode "Operation: D.I.A.P.E.R."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "The Sandman Sleeps", the titular Sandman can't go to sleep, so he brings sheep over to jump in front of him. But some get bored already and pass the time by either arm wrestling or playing poker, and one even yells at him "Just go to sleep already!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', Chicken tries to do this to sleep and get over the effects of too much caffeine. He ends up counting mules carrying coffee bean bags.
* One scene in WesternAnimation/PixarShorts film "WesternAnimation/DayAndNight" had several sheep jump inside Night's body.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', the ''Justice Friends'' episode "Things That Go Bonk in the Night" had Krunk count sheep to go to sleep. He's out like a light after only counting one sheep.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'': In ''Drag-Along Droopy'', sheepherder Droopy leads a massive flock of sheep who mow down all the vegetation in their path, riling the resident cattleman. On the eve of their face-off, Droopy dozes, counting sheep hopping a fence. The sheep doze, counting Droopys hopping a fence.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "First Blood", Peter and his friends camp outside while staying at Wild West's dude ranch. While Quagmire dreams of sheep hopping a fence, Joe dreams of a wheelchair-bound sheep finding himself unable to jump, suing the farmer for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, and forcing him off his newly-acquired property, only for the fence to swing shut as the farmer drives away, resulting in the sheep [[FlippingTheBird flipping him off]]. And ''that's'' when Joe starts counting.
* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'': In the Trans-Lux short "Mechanical Felix", the Professor is so obsessed with obtaining Felix's magical bag of tricks, that when he tries to count sheep, they turn into identical magic bags.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'':
** In the season one finale, "Fred Flintstone: Before and After", Fred complains of being hungry, trying to count sheep (on Barney's suggestion present-day), only to recall the sheep turning into lamb chops!
** In "Ann-Margrock Presents", Ann-[[PunnyName Margrock]] sings a lullaby to Pebbles about counting sheep.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", when the characters go to a pet show:
-->'''Fry:''' Man, that's dog's gonna be hard to beat. Look at him bring in the sheep! One sheep, two sheep ... ''(yawns)''... three sheep... ''(falls asleep)''
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'':
** Inverted in the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segment "I Like Having You Around": Bo, a sheep, isn't sleepy, so he decides to count ''people'' until he dozes off.
** Played straight in the ''U.S. Acres'' segment "Sleepytime Pig", where Orson has trouble sleeping and the other farm animals try to help him get some sleep. Bo's twin sister Lanolin tries to help by having Orson count a conga line formed by her relatives.
** In "Arrivaderci, Odie", Garfield tries to count sheep, but his guilt at supposedly driving Jon into sending Odie away makes him start counting Odies instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' episode "Silence of the Sheep" has Mr. Sandman send three sheep to get Garfield to sleep by counting them. Unfortunately, they fail due to Garfield earlier drinking 92 cups of coffee. As a result, the sheep get fired by Mr. Sandman and proceed to cause problems by instead making everyone else in town fall asleep. Eventually, Mr. Sandman gets the sheep back to his domain with Garfield's help and the episode ends with Garfield sleeping by counting lasagnas.
* One episode of the cartoon ''Grimmy'' features a gang of criminal sheep. How do they rob banks? "Count us!"
* The ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTheSeries'' episode "Portrait of Mavis as a Young Vampire" has Mavis try to count slugs so she can get some rest before having her portrait painted. She ends up staying awake counting to 1,993 before she runs out of time and is unable to prevent her portrait being ruined by falling asleep during its painting.
* In "[[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts How to Sleep]]", Goofy does this unsuccessfully when it turns into a nightmare about a sheep stampede that causes him to [[CatapultNightmare wake up screaming]].
* Employed a few times in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'':
** One time, Jackie fell asleep while looking at the Sheep Talisman.
** Another time, when Uncle can't sleep because he's focused on preventing Shendu's demon brethren from returning, Jackie asks if he's tried counting sheep, to which Uncle replies "Demons always eat them".
* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when Jimmy is trying to conquer [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes his fear of pickles]], he sleeps in bed while dreaming of pickles jumping over a fence, with a small yell between each snore.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' couldn't sleep, so he had Dukey dress up as a sheep and jump over his bed.
* {{Parodied| Trope}} on ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', in an episode where [[TheDitz Stumpy]] is in a math lesson and wants to prove how good he is at math:
-->'''Stumpy''': One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep...\\
''Stumpy falls asleep.''
* In the episode "Sleepless Night" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kipper}}'', Kipper does this when he has trouble falling asleep, and he ends up asking why you're supposed to count sheep. He gets his answer when he counts a kangaroo, which jolts him back awake.
* In "Sleepover At Gilroy's" from ''Literature/LlamaLlama'', Euclid wakes up Llama Llama due to his sneezing from allergies. He tells Llama that his family counts sheep to fall asleep. So Llama Llama counts ''[[WorldOfFunnyAnimals him]]'' and falls asleep at a count of four.
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Experiment 360, aka Drowsy, is a sheep-like experiment with the power to put people to sleep, riffing off this trope.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Sour Puss," Porky and his pet cat Pussy go to sleep before embarking on a fishing trip. Porky counts sheep hopping over a fence while Pussy counts fish hopping over a fence.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' episode "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS2E2FireEscape Fire Escape]]", an already-asleep tenant's dream of sheep jumping over a fence is disturbed when Mickey comes and warns him about a fire, causing the sheep in the dream bubble to freak out and run away.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'':
** In "Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Dark?", Gonzo asks Beaker if he's ever counted sheep to help him get to sleep. He also asks if he's counted elephants, squirrels, and kangaroo rats. Fozzie then says he always counts baby ducks jumping over chili dogs into a bowl of tapioca bumblebees. (ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.)
** "Muppet Goose" had Fozzie try to count sheep, but he was overwhelmed by how many sheep there were. Of course, it was all an ImagineSpot.
** In "Gonzee's Playhouse Channel", Kermit and Scooter use paper bag puppets to play the respective roles of "Kert" and "Bernie" on ''[[Series/SesameStreet Sesame Seed Boulevard]]''. When Kert can't sleep, he tries to count sheep, but Bernie finds this a bad idea, since Scooter is allergic to sheep. When the sheep jump over the beds, Scooter sneezes, causing his Bernie puppet to fly off his hand.
-->'''Kermit:''' AAAAAAHHH!!! HE SNEEZED HIS FACE OFF!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the episode "Rock-a-Bye Pooh Bear", when Piglet is afraid to go to sleep, Pooh, Rabbit and Tigger try this on him by having Tigger bounce around dressed as a sheep. In the end, Tigger gets tired before Piglet does.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', Mort attempts to sleep while obsessed with touching King Julien's feet. He counts sheep, but those quickly turn into disembodied feet.
* ''The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show'': One of the ''Baby Plas'' segments had the titular infant son of Plastic Man complain to his babysitter that he isn't tired. The sitter replies by suggesting he count plastic sheep.
* The “WesternAnimation/PuppyDogPals” episode “Counting Sheep” has the pugs try and find a flock of sheep for Bob to count so he can fall asleep.
* An animated short of ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'' revolves around the characters doing this. Misery's version has the sheep jumping straight ''into'' the wall, where Misery counts with "...ow."
** Another Misery variation has the sheep jumping over a fence...off a cliff.
-->'''Misery:''' [[CatapultNightmare ONE!]]...''I can't sleep for fear more sheep will be harmed.''
* ''WesternAnimation/SevenLittleMonsters'':
** In the episode "Good Night", Seven is having trouble sleeping and is advised by his brother Two to count sheep. Seven refuses because he doesn't like sheep, but changes his mind when his other brothers Four and Three respectively suggest he try counting crabs and elephants instead.
** "Splitting Hairs" has Three assume the persona of an Irish shepherd and at one point getting himself to fall asleep by counting three actual sheep.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' episode "Be Still My Bleating Heart", it is shown that one of the jobs Sheep does to make ends meet has him jumping over a fence to help insomniacs fall asleep.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
** In "Squeaky Boots", Mr. Krabs falls asleep by counting money jumping into a cash register, but keeps getting [[ItMakesSenseInContext woken up by the squeaky boots he gave to SpongeBob]].
** The episode "Snooze You Lose" has an insomniac Squidward taking a walk, only to see [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere several things having to do with sleep]]. One thing he passes by is a television set showing a flock of sheep on the screen.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStoryTreats'' has a segment in which Hamm tells Rex to count sheep to go to sleep. Rex counts Bo Peep's sheep... but there are only three of them, so it doesn't work.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' episode "Dog Tired" has Snaptrap and his minions try to get Dudley to fall asleep by disguising themselves as sheep for him to count. It doesn't work because Dudley is too stupid to know how to count.
* One of the WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit ''Cracking Contraptions'' shorts features a device that produces sheep for Wallace to count himself to sleep. The "sheep" are really just Gromit in a sheep costume, being tossed up in front of the bed... 500 times.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' episode "P.U. to P.E." shows a screen that depicts pixelated sheep jumping over a fence in a scene where Robot is sleeping.
* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "[[Recap/WorkItOutWombatsS1E33ParrandaHappyNewAcornYear Happy New Acorn Year]]," while napping, Louisa counts Zeke and Snout. Everyone else is very irritated.
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