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Senior Sleep-Cycle
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If you see a senior citizen in a TV show, most likely, they're either already napping or going to be in a few minutes. And, due to Finagle's Law, it will always be right when they're supposed to be keeping an eye, on something, or about to ... tell ... ... you ... zzz ... Huh? Wha? Oh, right. There are some elders who can escape this inconvenience. Evil Old Folks tend to be exempt from this rule, as are women in general. Maybe they just drink a lot of coffee. Needless to say, this is an Elderly Trope. It is also more likely to appear in a comedy. In real life, several studies have suggested that people actually need less sleep as they grow older; and the portrayal of this trope in media matches the symptoms of narcolepsy, a neurological disorder unrelated to age. However, older people often tend to go to sleep earlier than younger adults, and since the elderly are usually retired, they generally have nothing in their schedule to prevent them from napping whenever they feel like it. Furthermore, some sleep disorders that can cause daytime dozing, such as sleep apnea and insomnia, are more likely to gradually develop over the course of a lifetime. See also Scatterbrained Senior. |
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Heralds of Valdemar: In Exile's Honor, one of Alberich's undercover identities is an old man who lives this trope. "Falling asleep" after dinner lets Alberich eavesdrop on the upper classes safely. | |
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"Old Man" of Pawn Stars had been shown to be flat out asleep when he was at work. He is co-owner of the place and so he's allowed to do that. Chumlee has rudely lampshaded this fact on more than one occasion. You gotta admire a man who keeps his resumé up to date. | |
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In Umineko: When They Cry, during a few of the murders, Nanjo's alibi is that he was asleep at the time. | |
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The Simpsons: Abraham J. Simpson is constantly falling asleep, often in the middle of sentences. It's possible he's narcoleptic (especially on the season nine episode "Lisa's Sax" where, after he tried to sing "The Funky Grampa", Grampa ended up falling asleep standing up). | |
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In Are You Being Served?, here is the only way to wake up a sleeping Mr. Grainger: | |
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Bloodborne: Gehrman slept for... a week? A year? A decade? God knows how long he's been dreaming? It was justified however, he's been stuck in his own dream unwillingly after all. | |
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In Detentionaire, Mr. Peggs, the elderly teacher who is meant to be supervising detention but always sleeps on the job instead. He will not wake up for anything, as demonstrated when Biffy yells “YOUR FACE IS ON FIRE� while standing right in front of him and doesn't get as much as a peep. This is very convenient for Lee considering how often he has to sneak out for some reason or another. Of course, this being Detentionaire, this turns out to not be what it seems and is actually important to the plot – we find out in Season 3 that Mr. Peggs once tried to open the mysterious pyramid beneath the school, but he didn't have all the instructions so he missed the part that tells you when you can do so, and, as a result, was zapped by a beam of magic and fell into a permanent sleep-like coma, no cure for which is yet known. | |
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One episode of King of the Hill dealt with Hank and the gang befriending the elderly school groundskeeper Smitty, who keeps falling asleep every time he tries to fix up the football field. | |
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Cid Highwind of Final Fantasy VII is depicted as having one in the original game, apparently as part of his portrayal as a Grumpy Old Man, despite really not being that old. | |
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The Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "Youngstar 3" starts with Old Man falling asleep, prompting his grandson Youngstar and Shero to go ahead and face a giant monster without his help. Once he wakes up and follows them, Old Man isn't happy about his teammates facing the threat without him. | |
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Pops, the elderly doorman, from The Muppet Show can often be seen sleeping before someone interrupts him. | |
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Bernard, one member of the Neighborhood Watch Alliance in Hot Fuzz, spends most of his onscreen time asleep, except for about a minute during the final confrontation. | |
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There are sleeping old men in some of the apartments in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. They're heavy sleepers, as this video demonstrates. | |
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Monster Loving Maniacs: Arthur Van Alten is prone to randomly falling asleep, meaning his grandkids often have to pull their weight in the event he suddenly falls asleep in the middle of hunting monsters. | |
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The Order of the Stick: In present times, Serini is an old halfling and tends to take naps at inopportune moments, such as during the Order's brainstorming for defeating Team Evil. | |
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The wise old man in Labyrinth randomly falls asleep, much to the chagrin of his hat. | |
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GUN×SWORD: Carlos of El Dorado V is always asleep when he's on screen, save for two occasions. | |
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American Dad!: One episode has Steve age up to an eighty year old due to an experimental CIA serum. Despite this, he still tries - and fails - to go on a date with the Alpha Bitch of the school, who had given his teenage self a chance. At the diner, she leaves him in disgust as said old man, and, in the midst of protesting, he falls asleep mid-sentence. Shortly thereafter, another elder walks by and gleefully declares, "They brought back the old napping booth!" She proceeds to sit down and fall asleep as well. In "Old Stan of the Mountain" after Stan gets cursed for mocking the elderly causing him to turn into an old man, after misunderstanding a conversation between Steve and Hayley he thinks they want him to die, he then becomes paranoid and repeatedly tries to kill them but keeps falling asleep in the process of doing so. |
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Rugrats Castle Capers: In the game's opening cutscene, Stu asks Grandpa Lou to look after the babies while he goes to the store to buy more paper clips for his latest invention, an enormous kiddie playset for the Reptar Storytime Pizza Parlor. Lou says, "I'll watch em' like a hawk!" and falls asleep immediately afterwards. | |
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Cohort of the Ministry of Pain (a trio of elderly supervillains) from The Powerpuff Girls episode "Fallen Arches" is shown to have fallen asleep in the midst of a bank heist. | |
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Hotel Transylvania: Transformania has Murray's human transformation consist of becoming a tiny elderly Egyptian man with a tendency to fall asleep at the worst times. | |
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According to the DVD commentary for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, the grandparents had a side bet going during filming as to who could appear asleep on screen most often. | |
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Referenced, if not actually present, in the Avatar Extras in Avatar: The Last Airbender. When Bumi welcomes the Gaang to "Old People Camp", the Extras pop on screen to declare, "Dinner at 4 o' candle and bedtime at 6:30 o' candle." | |
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One of the recurring background extras in Simple Samosa is a wheelchair-using senior citizen who tends to fall asleep during conversations. According to Dhokla in "Moong Fu Samosa", he alternates between spending six hours awake and six hours sleeping. | |
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Parodied on Phineas and Ferb. Linda's mother appears to be succumbing, but she was playfully teasing Lawrence about his boring thimble story. | |
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Averted in The Sims 2. In fact, elders are the only life stage who automatically awaken when they reach a full energy bar (all other Sims will sleep in until morning). The cycle this inevitably creates (given the steady decline of the energy bar over time) is that it simulates the "early to bed, early to rise" sleeping pattern for which many Real Life elderly people are known. | |
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Bilbo Baggins, in The Lord of the Rings. Used to show Bilbo's age catching up with him after he gives up the One Ring. | |
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Angela Nicely: “Blooming Gardens!� has an old lady, who randomly falls asleep in the middle of a conversation. | |
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The Annoying Orange's Grandpa Lemon. He falls asleep in the middle of conversations and even while being chopped in half. | |
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Dinosaurs: In "Germ Warfare", Grandma Ethyl falls asleep while reading Baby the story of The Three Little Pigs. Baby impatiently waits for her to wake up so she can tell him what happens after the wolf huffs and puffs. In a later scene, when he sneezes his pacifier at her, she wakes up and says "And blew the house down." | |
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The old man Yanni Yogi in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney constantly falls asleep in the middle of conversations, and even the trial, and only wakes up when his Snot Bubble pops. This is all part of his act, however. | |
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In one Dennis the Menace (US) strip, Dennis finds Mr. Wilson asleep in front of his television set, and tells Mrs. Wilson that her husband always gets tired before the TV does. | |
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In Dad's Army (1971), General Wilkinson is fast asleep in a chair when the Local Defense Volunteers believe that the Germans have begun the invasion, allowing Sergeant Wilson to take his gun for Captain Mainwaring to use. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Deadly Years", Rapid Aging caused Captain Kirk to doze off in the command chair. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire. Averted with Ser Barristan Selmy who recalls how as a young squire he'd stumble still yawning onto the training ground every morning, whereas now he hardly gets any sleep. As he's old and full of regrets, it's not a good thing to be awake in the wolf hour. | |
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In One Piece, Vice-Admiral Garp is about to punch Luffy when both suddenly fall asleep. It's less that Garp is old than that he comes from a family of narcoleptics. | |
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In Toy Story 3, Woody calls Andy's dog Buster to help him save his friends from the trash. In waddles an elderly, obese Buster, who then falls asleep on top of the cowboy. | |
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Futurama: Professor Farmsworth once fell asleep while skiing and woke up at the lodge with a bronze medal around his neck. "Less than Hero" has this gem: |
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Whenever Grandpa Lou is put in charge of the babies, he is always asleep within a matter of seconds, a fact that the babies always use to their advantage. The Rugrats Movie hints that age has nothing to do with this however and that he's been this way his whole life (likely alluding to narcolepsy). Didi mentions that he slept through Pearl Harbor. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! special "Timmy's Secret Wish" has Timmy fall asleep mid-sentence after discovering that he's aged 50 years as a result of all the wishes his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda granted being undone. | |
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Father Jack Hackett on Father Ted seemingly spends his entire life sleeping when he isn't drinking or yelling obscenities. | |
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The Secret World: Old Joe is prone to nodding off in his chair when he's not giving you mission briefings; on top of being quite elderly, he's also in the middle of an island-wide Zombie Apocalypse, and he's taking as many opportunities to sleep as possible. Taken to extremes with Octavian the Eagle, who spends all of his time asleep, and insists on continuing in his attempts to sleep even as Filth-infected fauns amass in the forest outside his home and vampires get ready for an apocalyptic war against humanity. It's eventually made clear that Octavian has actually been in his seventies for the last two thousand years, and by now wants nothing more than to die: until something actually manages to bring about the end of the world, the best he can do is sleep. The only way to rouse him is to put his Morality Pet in harm's way. |
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Old Jack keeps falling asleep in the middle of his conversation with the title character in Puss in Boots. | |
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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team has Dr Snoozemore, who falls asleep mid conversation at semi random. This makes his speeches take a fair bit longer than they would otherwise. | |
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Suga Mama on The Proud Family always falls asleep while watching wrestling or when she is supposed to be chaperoning Penny or babysitting the twins. Turn it off and she immediately wakes up to tell you to turn it back on, then goes back to sleep once it's back on. | |
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Happens in SpongeBob SquarePants with Mermaid Man, who will keep randomly dozing off while standing and when woken up he'll start acting like he's about to go into a mission. | |
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The Old Man at the End of Time in Chrono Trigger (aka Gaspar, the Guru of Time), has always fallen asleep against a streetlamp when the heroes visit him, and has to be woken up to start a conversation. Then again, being at the End of Time doesn't usually give him very much to do. | |
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Granny Smith of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic seems to doze off easily. In "Luna Eclipsed", when she takes some fillies out Trick-or-Treating, she states that she should have been asleep five hours ago. It's a trait that appears less and less as the cartoon goes and she gets a more energetic personality. | |
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The Superhero Squad Show episode "Days, Nights, and Weekends of Future Past!" had Falcon and H.E.R.B.I.E. end up in an alternate reality where Scarlet Empress (an older Scarlet Witch) has taken over the world with an army of Sentinels. The heroes encounter an elderly Magneto who frequently falls asleep before finishing his sentences. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door has Elderly Numbuh Two in the final episode, "Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S." In the Live-Action segments, despite not looking like a year over his 50s, he's almost always falling asleep, and is shown to have become somewhat senile with age. | |
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The Netflix series Travelers has a variation. Trevor, or rather the traveler currently inhabiting Trevor, was one of the first test subjects for consciousness-transfer technology and consequently has lived far longer than a normal human lifetime. Turns out there's a side effect: a mind that old starts to suffer from "temporal aphasia," randomly freezing up for longer and longer periods until eventually he'll go permanently catatonic. | |
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Old from The Gnomes of Dulwich is constantly fast asleep holding his spade. | |
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Averted in Hey Arnold!, as both grandparents are quite hyperactive, and awake almost all of the time. Almost inverted with Grandma Gertie, since she seems to even be awake at odd hours in the night. | |
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Inverted in Survivor: Fire, where instead of falling asleep during the day, Gran wakes up at night. | |
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