Basic Trope: Someone is making a lot of noise while sleeping, giving the other characters Sleep Deprivation.
- Straight: Bob is snoring loudly, keeping Alice awake next to him.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob's snoring is so loud that it keeps up the entire neighborhood.
- Bob's snoring keeps on going while he is awake and active, keeping the whole neighborhood awake 24/7.
- Downplayed: Bob is having an extremely vivid dream. He loudly reacts to something in his dream, waking up Alice, but they soon go back to sleep with no fuss.
- Justified:
- Bob has nasal congestion problems.
- Bob took some sleeping pills - snoring is one of the side-effects.
- Inverted: Bob is an old man who sleeps quietly, and Alica can't get a wink of sleep without constantly having to check whether Bob's actually still alive and well or has passed in his sleep.
- Subverted: When Alice can't sleep, she gets up and turns off a loud air conditioner in the next room, after which, she sleeps just fine, despite Bob continuing to loudly snore.
- Double Subverted:
- Only to be woke up by Bob's snoring soon after.
- Alice (and the audience, and the rest of the neighborhood if not half of the county) discovers the hard way that this was Bob snoring on a proper, snoring-reducing position. With Alice gone from his side, he shuffles in bed and things go From Bad to Worse.
- Parodied:
- Alice is seen looking annoyed and cramming a pillow over her head, and then the camera zooms out to reveal that Bob's snoring somehow sounds exactly like a jackhammer, then a World War II battlefield, then an alarm clock and then "Chop Suey!" by System of a Down.
- Bob has a home-based job as a news announcer for his city, which involves broadcasting his voice across the city via a sound system to give news updates to the population. However, one night he forgets to turn off the mic before going to bed and promptly broadcasts his snoring for the whole city to hear.
- Bob's snoring is so loud that it measures on the Richter scale, shatters several windows in the neighborhood, sets off a few dozen car alarms and ends up on the news.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Alice and Bob take turns falling asleep and snoring loudly, waking each other up.
- Bob is snoring off and on. It sometimes wakes up Alice, but stops so she can get back to sleep.
- Averted:
- Alice and Bob are both sleeping quietly, without issue.
- Bob and/or Alice aren't trying to sleep.
- Enforced:
- Alice needs to be sleep deprived for the next scene.
- The writers want to use this incident as fuel to expand on a Running Gag rivalry between Alice and Bob.
- Lampshaded: "I can't sleep with Bob snoring!"
- Invoked: Because Bob had trouble sleeping, a friend gave him some sleeping pills. The friend knows that snoring is one of the side-effects, and wonders if it might keep Alice awake.
- Exploited:
- Alice has a competition with a rival the next day. Her rival tricks her into sleeping near Bob, knowing about his snoring problems, hoping it will ruin her sleep so she'll do poorly in the competition.
- Bob's snoring is weaponized as Cool and Unusual Punishment.
- Defied:
- Alice wears earplugs when going to bed.
- Alice sleeps in a separate (sound-proofed) room from Bob.
- Alice pays (the quite expensive) surgery and equipment to fix Bob's problem before she spends a single second sleeping next to him.
- Discussed: "I couldn't sleep last night. It felt like someone else was snoring in the same room."
- Conversed: "Man, I feel bad for Alice - it's hard to sleep when you're with someone who's being too loud!"
- Implied: Alice is extremely tired and groggy at breakfast, complaining about Bob's snoring.
- Deconstructed: In addition to Alice's sleep deprivation, Bob is also tired and irritable as a result of his own snoring.
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob's snoring deafens Alice. Cue one-off gag (or Running Gag) of Alice misunderstanding things and going all "Huh? Speak louder!" for a little while every morning.
- Bob's snoring is loud beyond what human beings (and most machinery) are physically capable of. Its active use as a weapon of mass destruction is discussed In-Universe, with the potential punchline of being a violation to the Geneva Conventions.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice develops a sleeping disorder as a result of Bob's snoring keeping her up.
- Bob's snoring causes a rift in his and Alice's relationship.
- Bob's snoring deafens Alice. She is understandably upset about becoming a disabled person by inches thanks to Bob.
- Played for Horror:
- Alice is unable to sleep because of Bob's snoring. Because of this, she does a mistake that gets someone (if not herself) killed.
- Alice completely snaps and kills Bob because of his snoring. The method she uses to get rid of him is too brutal even for those who were willing to consider Bob an Asshole Victim, and Alice spends the rest of the story as a murderous maniac with a Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Bob's snoring is actively used as a method of torture, and it is depicted quite realistically (with the writers basing the scene on records of "enhanced interrogation" used by the Gestapo, KGB and North Korea).
Can't sleep? Maybe you should go back to Loud Sleeper Gag.
