Basic Trope: A student falls asleep in class during the lesson.
- Straight: Bob falls asleep during his Physics class.
- Exaggerated:
- The whole class falls asleep during the lesson.
- Bob falls asleep every lesson.
- Bob sleeps all through the day and has to be waken up after the classes.
- Downplayed: Bob looks notably drowsy, but doesn't fall asleep.
- Justified:
- The class is really boring.
- Bob hasn't had enough sleep at home.
- Bob is naturally a Sleepy Head.
- It's a last class, and Bob is tired after a tough day.
- Inverted:
- Bob is Sleep Learning, and suddenly wakes up during his "lesson".
- Bob wakes up at night and thinks he has to go to school, for some reason.
- The teacher falls asleep during the lesson.
- Bob's teacher shows up in his bedroom in the middle of the night.
- Subverted:
- Bob falls asleep but the the teacher or a classmate wakes him up.
- Bob isn't sleeping, just daydreaming.
- Double Subverted: ...but falls asleep again.
- Parodied:
- Bob goes into a coma during the lesson.
- Bob treats his desk like a bed and carries a pillow, a sheet, and a blanket to school.
- Bob has slept for fifty years, until an old cleaner wakes him up.
- Bob has somehow Slept Through the Apocalypse in class.
- Bob only goes to school to have a good sleep.
- The more time Bob spends sleeping during a given class, the better he does in it.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Bob falls asleep, then wakes up. But sleeps again when the teacher resumes the lesson.
- Bob falls asleep in some lessons and stays awake through others.
- Averted: Bob never falls asleep in class or always has enough sleep.
- Enforced: "We need to show that Bob is a Sleepy Head." "I know! Let's make him fall asleep in class!"
- Lampshaded: "Is Bob sleeping in class again?"
- Invoked: Bob likes to stay up late for whatever reason, knowing that falling asleep in class wasn't that bad.
- Exploited: Alice knows that Bob likes to doze off and doesn't wake him up so she can beat Bob.
- Defied: Bob drinks coffee to avoid falling asleep in class.
- Discussed: "Bob likes to doze off in class. Is he having enough sleep?"
- Conversed: "Bob's a sloth, he must be falling asleep in class."
- Deconstructed: Bob's habit of falling asleep makes him unable to follow lesson in school, resulting in bad grades and not graduating.
- Reconstructed: Then Bob finds out that sleeping more makes him capable of absorbing more lessons.
- Played for Laughs:
- Bob falls asleep and snores, disturbing the class.
- Bob rambles all of his embarrassing secrets.
- Played for Drama: Bob's habit makes him alienated by his classmates. Bob feels disgusted with himself and made him The Woobie.
- Implied: The lesson in which Bob falls asleep happens offscreen, while he and/or other characters talk about it after the fact.
Now, let's go back to Asleep in Class. Hey, are you dozing off again?
