History Main / NapInducingSpeak

* ''TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': The educational video about UsefulNotes/AncientEgypt Miss Fowl puts on in "Beach Party Mummy" is an extreme example: just a few ''seconds'' listening to it puts Principal Willoughby (who's [[NonGivingUpSchoolGuy all fired up]] from learning the main characters cut class to explore Egypt for real) to sleep.

* One ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' one-shot starring [[GreatGazoo Mister Mxyzptlk]] has him taking down an enemy from an even ''[[AlwaysSomeoneBetter tougher]]'' dimension by baiting them into a copy of ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman The Zzzandman]]'', where a parody of Morpheus quickly puts them to sleep with a long, boring fairy-tale.

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* ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'' requires Hoagie to read Bernard's textbook to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext put a talking horse to sleep to take its dentures]].

-->--'''Oliver Larding''' on '''Edward Lionheart''''s acting, ''Film/TheatreOfBlood''

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-->'''Flo''': (''outside the closed doors'') I love you too!

* In ''Franchise/OnePiece'', when Jimbei tells Luffy and co a ''7-chapters long'' {{Exposition}}, Luffy ([[IdiotHero in his usual fashion]]) is revealed to be sleeping at the end.
* In ''{{Manga/Jormungand}}'', this happens to Tojo when he tries to explain to his comrades the significance of the Defense Intelligence Headquarters' SR unit. Unfortunately, his talk made Jonah fall asleep. He was later criticized for the long speech that also tried to make the others doze off.
* In ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'', this happens when Zeferis tries to explain the reasoning behind [[spoiler: her and Natalie's actions against Shanon and the others]], and her resulting conflict of interests, to Pacifica who just doesn't get it. This is because her explanation consisted of TechnoBabble set to holographic imagery, so Pacifica fails to understand any of it. Instead, it causes her to [[FunnyBackgroundEvent nod off and fall asleep.]] Zeferis even has to tell her to wake up so she can repeat it; this time, in simpler terms that Pacifica can understand.
* 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.

* ''Anime/BikiniWarriors'': In the 7th OVA, Black Knight decides to tell the heroes the story of how she came to this world despite them saying they don't care about her backstory. When she is done, everyone, including her companion Necromancer, has fallen asleep.

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* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho''. Used for ComedicSociopathy in "Beneath the Viscoid", when the Master, [[HydePlaysJekyll posing as the Doctor]], threatens to put ''himself'' to sleep while giving a PatrickStewartSpeech. He quickly blames his yawn on exhaustion.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', Fone Bone's favorite book is ''Moby Dick''. Any time he tries to read one of his favorite passages from it, [[RunningGag his audience immediately falls asleep]]. (Unless it's the rat creatures, who find his reading voice [[BrownNote debilitatingly painful]].) At one point, they even ''weaponize'' it by having Fone Bone read out a passage in order to knock out an attacker.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} in Helvetica'' features an assembly of chieftains who take turns making long-winded speeches while the others sleep peacefully. Our heroes try to hide from pursuing Roman soldiers by pretending to be asleep as well.
* Ended up being averted in one story of the Swedish comic ''ComicStrip/NittioettanKarlsson''. [[DrillSergeantNasty Furir Rickard Revär]] ''intended'' to put his men through one of these meant to break them by forcing them to listen to a lecture from one of the most infamous bores around. Said bore ended up being late however and with the soldiers already getting angry and irritated, being the coward he was, the bore decided to put himself on the soldiers good side by allowing them to watch ''[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Terminator 2]]'' instead. Suffice to say, [[HairTriggerTemper Revär]] was not happy when he found out.

--> '''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.
* ''ComicStrip/DeRechter'': One comic, the Lawyer practiced his speech in front of the mirror. Then his ''own reflection'' fell asleep, much to his dismay.

--->'''Announcer''': And now, a 4-hour documentary on the history of certified public accounting.
* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' [[https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-07-03 strip]], Dogbert shows Dilbert the comic book he's making, "The Adventures of Boron: The Most Boring Man in the Universe", in which Boron (who looks like Dilbert) slays the entire marketing department by explaining asynchronous protocols. Dilbert is annoyed and starts explaining why asynchronous protocols are important - and Dogbert promptly falls asleep.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Leo}}'': Summer tends to do this whenever she lets herself ramble on and on about things, to the point where anyone else listening to her rambling will try to tone her out, be bored out of their skulls, and fall asleep (even characters in [[Film/Titanic1997 a movie]] she's watching aren't immune). [[spoiler: This gets weaponized in the climax, when Summer uses her rambling to bore a persistent alligator to the point of exhaustion.]]
* Though Katie's heartfelt speech in ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'' is anything but to the audience, [[spoiler: PAL can't seem to stay out of sleep mode due to how boring she thinks it is]]. Everyone's a critic, it seems. Especially [[AIIsACrapshoot foul-mannered AI]].

* In the 1979 Disney comedy ''Film/UnidentifiedFlyingOddball'', a NASA astronaut travels back in time to the days of King Arthur, and tries to explain how he got there by describing everything that's going to happen between the discovery of America and when he first blasted off. His long rambling lecture only confuses the King and puts his court to sleep until Merlin loses his temper and suggests they BurnTheWitch
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'': when Indy and Mutt discuss their respective relationships with missing professor Harold Oxley, Mutt comments that he was great to have around because Ox's long academic monologues would put him to quickly put him to sleep when he was having trouble going to bed as a child.
* Creator/BenStein has made an entire cinematic career out of playing such characters, starting with his role as... anyone? anyone? ...the economics teacher in... anyone? anyone? ...in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''.
* In ''Film/WhoIsHarryKellermanAndWhyIsHeSayingThoseTerribleThingsAboutMe'' Georgie, who suffers from severe insomnia, has his long-suffering accountant Irwin read him the quarterly earnings report because it's the only way he can get to sleep.
* In ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'', during the historical montage of the Disguisey family, Abraham Lincoln was a boring campaign speaker causing the audience to fall asleep. An ancestor in disguise helps him get elected president by performing a dance.

* Falling asleep in church is practically as old as the church itself. In ''[[Literature/TheBible The Book of Acts]]'', the combination of a late night, warm lights, and Paul's preaching sends a young man off to sleep... and right out of the third-story window where he was sitting. [[BackFromTheDead He got better.]]
* ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings''. When Frito and Spam first meet Goddam, he starts telling them a boring hard luck story. Spam immediately falls asleep and Frito has to keep himself awake by slapping himself in the face. Goddam continues with his story and Frito falls asleep too.

* During an important Cadre meeting in ''Literature/TheColdMoons'', the lazy leader Eldon falls asleep partway through.

* ''Series/FamilyTies''. During his FallingInLoveMontage with a music student he's tutoring, Alex can be seen droning on about economics while she's dozing off.
* In the ''Series/FullHouse'' episode, "Crimes and Michelle's Demeanor", Danny, Uncle Jesse, and Joey try everything to get Michelle to go to sleep, but nothing works. Eventually, Danny gives Michelle a lecture on the importance of sleep, and she promptly falls asleep. This is brought up towards the end of the episode, when Michelle gets punished for the first time after bringing her kiddie pool into the kitchen.
-->'''Danny:''' "Listening to me talk is not punishment, although it does seem to help you go to sleep."
* Invoked in ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': In one episode where the team gets arrested by Col. Vance, and old acquaintance of Eliot's, he starts going down everything he could charge them with until he gets to Parker, who he finds asleep. Eliot comments that she gets bored easily. Turns out a minute later that she wasn't actually asleep, she was just [[SlippedTheRopes getting out of her handcuffs]].
-->'''Col. Vance:''' (''while arresting the team'') Parker here...\\
'''Parker:''' (''snore'')\\

* ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'': On a school camping trip that Lizzie's mom Jo is chaperoning for, she takes the girls group on a hike and begins reading from the nature manual when they spot a specific type of bird. The scene then switches to B-plot of Matt and Sam at home, and when it cuts back to the camping trip, the group are all asleep as Jo finishes reading about the bird. The inner Animated!Lizzie segment shows her and said bird snoring against each other.
* Inverted on at least two occasions on ''Series/{{MASH}}'':
** In, "Henry, Please Come Home", Henry gives an impromptu acceptance speech after being awards the Special Citation of Merit for the efficiency rate at the 4077th cracking 90%. Hawkeye pretends to nod off during Henry's speech, though Trapper still nudges him.
** 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."
* Season 4 of ''Series/TheMaskedSinger'' has a running gag of panelist Creator/KenJeong rambling on who he thinks the Giraffe contestant is, but one episode {{exaggerate|dTrope}}s it by having the Giraffe and panelists Jenny [=McCarthy=] and Nicole Scherzinger lie down to sleep as Ken goes on, the show cut to a commercial break, then returning with Ken still rambling.
* ''Series/MrBean'':
** In one episode Mr Bean tries desperately to stay awake during a sermon at church.
* ''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 one episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', a patient keeps getting light-headed and passing out, but it only happens when he yawns. Dr Cox, trying to prove a point, orders JD to tell him a story. Halfway through the first sentence, the patient falls over. [[{{Jerkass}} Halfway through the second sentence,]] [[WorthIt Dr. Cox falls over.]]
* Played with on ''Series/SesameStreet'' regarding Professor Hastings. His lectures are so boring that he himself falls asleep while giving them.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Schisms", Riker interrupts Data's poetry reading "Ode to Spot" with a snore. (It's not entirely because of Data's poetry; Riker hasn't been getting a good night's sleep lately for reasons revealed in the episode.)
* In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeofZackAndCody'' episode "Graduation", Cody's valedictorian speech puts all of the attendees to sleep.

-->'''Sir Arnold:''' He keeps falling asleep in Cabinet. \\
'''Sir Humphrey:''' I thought they all did. \\

* An episode of ''Series/{{Bizaardvark}}'' involves a teacher who constantly bores everyone to sleep, even if he's teaching a class on dinosaurs. He's actually aware of the problem, having been fired from all his previous teaching posts because of it. He decides to give up teaching and start making sleep-aid tapes. Amelia notes that he's going to do fine.
* In "Scatty Safari", ''Series/TheGoodies'' suggest kidnapping a famous stand-up comedian during his act [[TakeThat after everyone falls asleep]], but it's pointed out that the last time they tried that trick, they fell asleep too.
* Sometimes the end result of an [[EmotionEater energy vampire]] feeding in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'' is the victim becoming drained and lethargic if they don't pass out altogether. Colin Robinson deliberately cultivates a persona of being a {{Troll}} and TheBore to feed. Other energy vampires have similar tactics of obnoxiously indulging in long winded tangents on niche topics.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "The Female Factor", as Doyle starts saying, "When I was in the Drug Squad...", his partner Bodie pretends to fall asleep on the spot.

* [[Music/TheEverlyBrothers The Everly Brothers]] song "Wake Up Little Susie" describes the narrator's predicament after he and Susie fall asleep at a boring movie. After waking up, they realize that [[NotWhatItLooksLike nobody will believe that there's an innocent explanation]] for being out hours after Susie's curfew.

* ''Myth/ClassicalMythology'': Hermes was once ordered to kill Argus, but Argus is almost impossible to sneak up on because his body is covered with eyes, and normally, only half of them close when he sleeps. Hermes approached him and told a boring story, so boring that Argus fell asleep. He continued talking until ''all'' of his eyes closed, then Hermes killed him.
* ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'': After Gilgamesh makes an epic journey to meet him and try to gain immortality, Utnapishtim promises to make him immortal if he can stay awake for seven days. Utnapishtim decides to tell the story of how he survived TheGreatFlood. Gilgamesh falls asleep while listening and fails the test.

--> '''Niko:''' Roman! Are you sleeping you fat fuck? Wake up!
* In ''Videogame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', one of [[Videogame/{{Diablo}} Deckard Cain's]] Heroics is "Stay Awhile and Listen", where he tells a story that puts any enemy heroes in front of him to sleep.

* In ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'', there is a side mission where your character attends History of Magic Class. This is so boring that you need to pass a quicktime event titled "stay awake", and failing it has your character pass out
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', when you first travel to the Old Owl Well, you encounter Grobnar Gnomehands, a recruitable gnome bard who is first seen singing and dancing in the middle of an open field in an attempt to get the attention of so-called "Wendersnavens", creatures that - according to him - are invisible and immaterial, and are "everywhere and nowhere". He then goes on to introduce himself, eventually trailing off into a long-winded story from his past. As you can guess, as soon as he gets into the details, the entire party falls asleep and wakes up a couple of hours later, just in time to see Grobnar finish his story. He remarks that you seemed very concentrated on the story, although the sounds you were making were rather strange, almost like snoring...

* When [[TheBard Cisse]] attempts to tell a story to Kari from ''VideoGame/DeadInVinland'', she falls asleep almost immediately. In fairness, she'd already told him she was trying to sleep. Amusingly, she recovers from extra [[MultipleLifeBars Fatigue]] that night.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'', a quest line involves "testing your endurance" by listening to [[TheBore Buzz Killington]] without falling asleep. The first time your Sim tries it they ''will'' become sleepy, but afterwards they realize they can take an Energy Potion, and when you go back after taking one you can stay awake during his speech.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner:'' In [[Recap/HomestarRunnerInSearchOfTheYelloDello "In Search of the Yello Dello"]], Strong Sad lures the Yello Dello into sleep by telling long, rambling stories about his life. It works so well, it knocks Homestar Runner and Pom Pom unconscious in the process. There's also a version of the cartoon with InCharacterCommentaries--and Strong Sad monologues over this particular scene, making the other commentators fall asleep as well.
* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': In "ComicBook/{{Ultron}} vs. [[VideoGame/MegaManX Sigma]]", Boomstick almost falls asleep when Wiz tries to explain what ionic energy is. Boomstick then tells him to quit with the nerd-speak.

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* In the webcomic version of ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', Greg gets put in Mr. Peters’ class for Botany. His big brother Rodrick (and even their dad when he was in school) could never stay awake in Mr. Peters’ class because of how slowly and quietly he talks. When Greg starts the class, he finds out that Rodrick wasn’t joking. He describes the effect of Mr. Peters’ voice as “swallowing a whole handful of sleeping pills.”
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': [[AuthorAvatar Prof. Foglio]]'s ability to make people fall asleep with his rambling stories earns him a position at the [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110502 hospital in Mechanicsburg,]] telling stories to rooms of patients to get them to sleep without the use of drugs.

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* In ''WebAnimation/SmashBrosLawl'' the Final Smash of WebVideo/TheIrateGamer is to start a videogame review that puts his enemies to sleep.
** The Wilford Brimley assist trophy make enemies too close of him fall asleep, he also spawn healing food when he's over.
* ''Series/TheCryOfMann'': Jouglat pours his heart and soul out to Agent Martinez, who responds by going to sleep in the middle of his monologue.
* The ''WebVideo/ProZD'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj7VMd8z8XA trying to recommend that one niche show you love]]" has [=SungWon=] trying to explain the AudienceAlienatingPremise of ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'' to his friend, only for it to put him to sleep.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Card Wars", Finn can't quite stay awake through Jake's explanation of the rules of Card Wars. Understandable since this takes ''hours''.
* 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 cruelly remarks that Arthur read her one of the letters he was writing, and it put her to sleep.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/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 by 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.
* During the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The Fight for Castle [=McDuck=]!", Huey is explaining to his brother Louie his plan to find the Blessed Bagpipes of Clan [=McDuck=]. Louie claims to be in a "Huze".

* In ''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.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Goodbling and the Hip-Hop-Opotamus", Mindy asks Principal Goodvibes why is he so boring, to which he retorts by claiming that he fights evil (in an RPG), collects rare memorabilia (''[[Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girls]]'' merch), and spend all night listening to music (from the apartment above his). When Mindy is shown again, he's since bored her to sleep.

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

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': Happens quite a few times, but a couple of specific examples are as follows:
** At one point in the, "Jet Fuel Formula" story arc, Boris, ([[PaperThinDisguise posing as a hypnotist]]), manages to put [[TheDitz Bullwinkle]] under in order to get from him the recipe for Grandma Moose's Fudgecake recipe, which also happens to be the world's most powerful rocket fuel. However, Boris makes the mistake of asking Bullwinkle to tell him everything he knows. Bullwinkle takes the command literally, and tells him ''everything'' he knows, nonstop, for twelve hours; Boris, Natasha, and Rocky fall asleep while listening.
** In the, "Topsy Turvey World" story arc, Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Captain Peachfuzz are in a plane that's losing fuel, and altitude, that is until Rocky finds a particular book on a shelf, "Hokey smokes! I'm looking at the Congressional Record! We have enough gas in here to fly us around the world!" Sure enough, a makeshift microphone is connected to the fuel line, and Bullwinkle basically reads the entire book into the mic, refueling the plane, and in the process, putting everyone in the plane - including the narrator - to sleep.
** In the Fractured Fairy Tale short Leaping Beauty, a witch curses the titular take on Sleeping Beauty to become TheBore, such a bore in fact that just talking about anything puts everyone, including Prince Charming, to sleep.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E15NakedTommyTommyAndTheSecretClub Naked Tommy]]", Lou gives a long-winded speech about his life during his award ceremony at the Wombat lodge. Stu and Didi are so bored listening to it, that they fall asleep. It takes the reactions of the other audience members seeing Tommy walk around naked to wake them back up.

-->In Chapter 12, what kind of bottles did Miss Van Campen talk about? Anybody? Anybody?? My God, these children ''all'' have ADD! [scribbles onto his notepad quickly]

** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in the episode "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", when Squidward plays his clarinet for Patrick. Patrick falls instantly asleep after the first note.
** "Hall Monitor" opens with everyone except [=SpongeBob=] falling asleep during Mrs. Puff's class, with one student already snoring.

* At the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E2AQuackInTheQuarks A Quack in the Quarks]]", the students of ACME Looniversity fall asleep when Plucky tells tall tales about how he spent his weekend. Buster awakens when Plucky finally stops talking.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the episode "Family Appreciation Day" has [[AlphaBitch Diamond Tiara's]] father, [[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 episode "Valuable Lesson" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Yakko, Wakko, and Dot were super bored to death by a preschool show, that they both fell asleep. And frankly, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/valuable_lesson_full_episode___animaniacs.jpg seeing the three sleep together]] is badass [[SleepCute adorable]].
* WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}} played it straight in the episode, "The Troll Rock". Everyone including Hilda's mom was bored during the slideshow at the parent-teacher conference. [[MoodWhiplash Until the projector gets knocked over causing everyone to gasp in horror]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' episode "Shush Ninjas", the Bears are called in to calm down a theater full of rowdy children. Grizzly gets everyone's attention and makes [[RousingSpeech an epic, heartfelt speech]] about the communal experience of going to the movies. It works, but only because it flies right over the kids' heads and bores them to sleep.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': A RunningGag is to have someone, usually Mr. Cat or Stumpy, fall asleep while someone else is talking.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/The7D'' episode "Sleepytime", it's the time when the Academy of Spookiness gives out awards for spellcasting. The award for putting the most amount of people to sleep ends up going to the presenter, because his performance as the host bored 150 people at the award show to sleep.

* In HogwartsLegacy, there is a side mission where your character attends History of Magic Class. This is so boring that you need to pass a quicktime event titled "stay awake", and failing it has your character pass out

* In ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'', this happens when Zeferis tries to explain the reasoning behind [[spoiler: her and Natalie's actions against Shanon and the others]], and her resulting conflict of interests, to Pacifica who just doesn't get it. This is because her explaination consisted of TechnoBabble set to holographic imagery, so Pacifica fails to understand any of it. Instead, it causes her to [[FunnyBackgroundEvent nod off and fall asleep.]] Zeferis even has to tell her to wake up so she can repeat it; this time, in simpler terms that Pacifica can understand.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', Fone Bone's favorite book is ''Moby Dick''. Any time he tries to read one of his favorite passages from it, [[RunningGag his audience immediately falls asleep]]. (Unless it's the rat creatures, who find his reading voice [[BrownNote debilitatingly painful]].) At one point, they even ''weaponise'' it by having Fone Bone read out a passage in order to knock out an attacker.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E15NakedTommyTommyAndTheSecretClub Naked Tommy]]", Lou gives a long-winded speech about his life during his award ceremony at the Wombat lodge. Stu and Didi are so bored listening to it, that they fall asleep. It takes the reactions of the other audience members seeing Tommy walk around naked to wake them back up.

* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho''. Used for ComedicSociopathy in "Beneath the Viscoid", when the Master, [[HydePlaysJekyll while posing as the Doctor]], threatens to put ''himself'' to sleep while giving a PatrickStewartSpeech. He quickly blames his yawn on exhaustion.

* The ''Creator/ProZD'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj7VMd8z8XA trying to recommend that one niche show you love]]" has [=SungWon=] trying to explain the AudienceAlienatingPremise of ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'' to his friend, only for it to put him to sleep.

* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'': Osvald's final boss Harvey has a skill that puts a party member to sleep. That skill? "Lecture."

* In ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', this happens when Zeferis tries to explain the reasoning behind [[spoiler: her and Natalie's actions against Shanon and the others]], and her resulting conflict of interests, to Pacifica who just doesn't get it. This is because her explaination consisted of TechnoBabble set to holographic imagery, so Pacifica fails to understand any of it. Instead, it causes her to [[FunnyBackgroundEvent nod off and fall asleep.]] Zeferis even has to tell her to wake up so she can repeat it; this time, in simpler terms that Pacifica can understand.

* Unless you are a huge fan of closing credits from either a movie or TV show, watching them can easily make you get bored and fall asleep.

* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho''. Used for ComedicSociopathy in "Beneath the Viscoid", when the Master, while posing as the Doctor, threatens to put ''himself'' to sleep while giving a PatrickStewartSpeech. He quickly blames his yawn on exhaustion.