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* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E10HalfDecentProposal Half Decent Proposal]]", Homer's intense snoring is making life miserable for Marge and kicks off the plot (a play on ''Film/IndecentProposal''). There is a surgery that would correct it, but the family can't afford it. Enter Marge's high school StalkerWithACrush, Artie Ziff, now a tech billionaire, who offers the family $1 million if Marge will spend a weekend with him.

Their noises keep other characters up and cause them to suffer from SleepDeprivation, leaving them cranky the next day while the noisy character feels fully rested. This is quite prevalent in fiction, but in RealLife, snoring in particular can leave the snorer fatigued as well as the people that are disturbed by it.

Taken to extremes, a character who makes a lot of noise when they sleep could catch the attention of other characters who live outside of the main setting and invoke a DistantReactionShot.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'', while the Mitchells are driving towards the PAL Labs campus late at night, Rick starts snoring. Katie, her daughter, thinks initially that he's dying, but Linda (Rick's wife and Katie's mother) then tells her that's what she always has to deal with during the night. She even tells Katie to pray for her.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', Tiffany and Annagramma have to watch over a corpse through the night. The latter falls asleep, and snores with a sound described as being like "ripping planks". Tiffany thinks that the noise would probably scare away any evil spirits lurking about that night, and when Annagramma wakes up and innocently asks her if she got any sleep, all Tiffany can do is glare.

* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': Britanny Diggers sleeps with Curly-like snoring (chainsaw-sounding inhalations, exhales with a funny little whistle). One of the things that initially attract her to her (then-) future husband Stryker is that he finds the "whistle" part of her snoring adorable.

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' has the 3 main pups having a hard time sleeping due to the farm animals making too much noise.

* On ''[[Series/{{Jonas}} J.O.N.A.S L.A]]'', to get back at Stella for taking a stylist job on her movie set, Vanessa forcibly moves in with her and Macy at the guest house using a "flying termites" fumigation excuse. Cut to a snoring Vanessa sleeping next to sleep-deprived Stella and Macy. When she wakes up, we get this exchange:

* On ''[[Series/{{Jonas}} J.O.N.A.S L.A]]'', to get back at Stella for taking a stylist job on her movie set, Vanessa forcibly moves in with her and Macy at the guest house using a "flying termites" fumigation excuse. Cut to a snoring Vanessa sleeping next to sleep-drived Stella and Macy. When she wakes up, we get this exchange:

* ''Literature/MoongobbleAndMe'': In Book 5, the titular "Naughty Nork" snores quite loudly. Moongobble creates a [[DeflectorShields soundproof magical barrier]] around his head to allow the rest of their group to get some sleep, but the Oggledy Nork's snoring is so loud and powerful that the barrier is found to have inflated the next morning. When said barrier is subsequently popped, the sound of all that released snoring is compared to the noise produced by fourteen bears fighting in a thunderstorm.

** Epel snores very loudly. This is remarked upon by Rook at one point.

[[folder: Literature]]

* ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'': Encyclopedia's friend Benny Breslin is notorious for his loud snoring, and it's been a plot point a few times.