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* In ''WebAnimation/SmashBrosLawl'' the Final Smash of TheIrateGamer is to start a videogame review that puts his enemies to sleep.

* ''Creator/RowanAtkinson Live'': In "It Started With a Sneeze" Atkinson plays a church parishioner who tries to stay awake. Reused in the ''Mr Bean'' sketch mentioned above.** In, "O.R.", Frank goes into another one of his little mini-rants, to which Trapper remarks, "Keep talking, Frank. I could use the sleep."

* In ''SmashBrosLawl'' the Final Smash of TheIrateGamer is to start a videogame review that puts his enemies to sleep.

* In ''SmashBrosLawl'': The Final Smash of TheIrateGamer is to start a videogame review that puts his enemies to sleep.

* ''SouthParkTheSitckOfTruth'' has the OptionalBoss battle against [[spoiler:Al Gore]], who opens the battle with a presentation on [[spoiler:Global Warming]] that will put the characters to slep unless guarded.

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Sometimes a speaker, be it a speaker delivering a speech, or just a person conversing, is so boring or uninteresting that the people listening to them can't stay awake.

* In ''Film/AGoofyMovie'', some of the students start dozing off while Principal Mazier gives his speech, particularly when he says "we don't want to waste our vacation sleeping..."

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* ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}} in Helvetica'' features an assembly of chieftains who take turns making long-winded speeches while the others sleep peacefully.

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* The stinger in ''Film/IronMan3'' revealed that Tony Stark had been unburdening himself by narrating the entire story to Bruce Banner--and that Bruce had been asleep through most of it.

* ''[[Film/TheNakedGun The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear]]'':

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-->'''Col. Vance''': (''while arresting the team'') Parker here...
-->'''Parker''': *''Snore''*
-->'''Vance''': Is she asleep?
-->'''Eliot''': She bores easy.
* Inverted on at least two occasions on ''[[Series/{{Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'':

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* {{Inverted|Trope}} in one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip. Calvin decides to count all the rocks he can find. Next panel he's up to a billion and one. Then he wakes up since it was AllJustADream.
--> '''Calvin:''' Wow, I bored myself ''awake''.
* Invoked in a [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] comic strip, when Statler can't sleep at night so he asks Fozzie for a video of his last monologue.


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* In the ''DextersLaboratory'' episode, "Last But Not Beast", Dexter and his family have difficulties figuring out what to do to stop a giant monster from destroying Tokyo. Toshi (whom Dexter was part of a foreign exchange student program with) appears before them to tell them the story of a boy who defeated a giant monster, not be fearing it, but because of the power of his heart, which brought other people together in love, repelling the monster away. Dexter, Mom, and Dad are moved by Toshi's story, and decide they need to work together to rid Tokyo of the giant monster... all the while [=DeeDee=] had fallen asleep.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents episode,'' "Future Lost", Timmy and Cosmo fall asleep whenever Wanda tries to teach them a lesson about doing the right thing. [[spoiler:She does this to herself at the end of the episode after Timmy and Cosmo both fall asleep again.]]

-->'''Red Guy:''' Huh? Oh, I'm so sorry, ''[[NoIndoorVoice I FELL ASLEEP]]!'' (Starts jotting notes) Now, you say it all started seventeen years ago?

* Exaggerated on the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", when Squidward plays his clarinet for Patrick. Patrick falls instantly asleep after the first note.

* ''TazMania'': After running out of orange juice, Hugh drives himself, Taz, and Uncle Drew to the store to get some more; along the way, he goes into detail about how orange juice is made, [[ImagineSpot complete with a visual aid]]. Taz and Uncle Drew have fallen asleep by the time Hugh finishes his story.
* ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy''

* A framing device in the ''IAmWeasel'' episode, "I.R. Wild Baboon" has Weasel defending himself with a reporter over a prison phone about how he was trying to film a documentary on Baboon's peculiar and constant migration habits (it turns out Baboon was annoyed by Weasel following him and was trying to get away from him). After Weasel finishes his story, [[PaperThinDisguise Red Guy, as the reporter]], wakes up.

* In ''{{Bone}}'', Fone Bone's favorite book is ''Moby Dick''. Any time he tries to read one of his favorite passages from it, his audience immediately falls asleep. (Unless it's the rat creatures, who find his reading voice [[BrownNote debilitatingly painful]].)

* Michael Jordan delivers a never-say-die speech to the morose Looney Tunes at halftime of the Ultimate Game in ''Film/SpaceJam''. The result puts every 'toon to sleep except BugsBunny, who remarks, "Great speech, Doc. You had them riveted."

* PlayedForLaughs in ''GrandTheftAutoIV''. Roman is so disinterested in Niko's talking about the war and the old country in the opening cutscene he falls asleep.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles''. After Bart finishes telling Jim his life story, Jim snores because he's fallen saleep. Bart says "Always like to keep my audience riveted."

* In the ''DextersLaboratory'' episode, "Last But Not Beast", Dexter and his family have difficulties figuring out what to do to stop a giant monster from destroying Tokyo. Toshi (whom Dexter was part of a foreign exchange student program with) appears before them to tell them the story of a boy who defeated a giant monster, not be fearing it, but because of the power of his heart, which brought other people together in love, repelling the monster away. Dexter, Mom, and Dad are moved by Toshi's story, and decide they need to work together to rid Tokyo of the giant monster... all the while DeeDee had fallen asleep.

* A framing device in the ''IAmWeasel'' episode, "I.R. Wild Baboon" has Weasel defending himself with a reporter over a prison phone about how he was trying to film a documentary on Baboon's peculiar and constant migration habits (it turns out Baboob was annoyed by Weasel following him and was trying to get away from him). After Weasel finishes his story, [[PaperThinDisguise Red Guy, as the reporter]], wakes up.

Sometimes a speaker, be it a speaker delivering a speech, or just a person conversing, is so boring or unintersting that the people listening to them can't stay awake.

* ''WebComic/OrderOfTheStick''

** After Redcloak finishes his long explanation of his battle strategy he finds Xykon has fallen asleep--though it's largely implied Xykon was faking it to make a point.
-->'''Xykon:''' Oh, sorry I just fell asleep right in the middle of that.
-->'''Redcloak:''' You're a lich. You're actually physically incapable of sleeping.
-->'''Xykon:''' Which should just emphasize how boring that was!

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the episode "Family Appreciation Day" has [[Main/AlphaBitch Diamond Tiara's]] father, [[Main/UnclePennybags Filthy Rich]], give a presentation for Family Appreciation Day at the school about his business, Rich's Barnyard Bargains". It seems that the only people who aren't falling asleep (or looking like they're falling asleep) are the teacher Cheerilee, Diamond Tiara, Twist, and Truffle Shuffle.

* In the ''[[Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie Sonic the Hedgehog OVA]]'', Dr. Robotnik's long-winded speech about how the Robot Factory in The Land of Darkness needs to be shut down or there will be a massive explosion puts everyone (The President, Princess Sara, Sonic, Tails, even his own robots) to sleep. He wakes them up by popping his demonstration orb.

** Happens early when Vaarsuvius is telling a roomful of goblins how powerful she is and how thoroughly she will destroy them. The other members of his party actually decided that she must have been casting an extremely powerful area-effect ''sleep'' spell.
** After Redcloak finishes his long explanation of his battle strategy he finds Xykon has fallen asleep -though it's largely implied Xykon was faking it to make a point.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "Dear Adil", Arthur gets a Turkish penpal named Adil, however, after their first exchange of letter, Arthur has an ImagineSpot, where he believes his response letter to Adil will be so boring that not only does Adil fall asleep, but so does his father, his camel, and the entire city of Istanbul (to be fair, Arthur is under the wrong assumption that life in Turkey is like depicted in fiction, and that Adil owns a camel and lives in a tent). In fact, at one point, Arthur reads over a draft of one of his letters to Adil, and remarks, "Even ''I'm'' boring myself to sleep!" D.W. even cruely remarks that Arthur read her one of the letters he was writing, and it put her to sleep.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Professor Binns, the History of Magic teacher, is so boring that students routinely sleep during his class. He can't remember his students' names, and he doesn't even seem have noticed that ''he's dead'', continuing to lecture as a ghost. He's thus really surprised when Hermione actually asks him a question in the second book, as it's the first time in a while that he's seen a student react to anything he's said.