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This trope is rarely ever played straight, but more often deconstructed (with the character concentrating into counting sheep so intently that they forget to sleep, if ever interrupted, cue swearing or recounting), parodied (flocks of sheep have a soporific effect because people will try to count them) and/or exaggerated (using some weird method in counting sheep, like counting something else, or the sheep is doing something else other than jumping, or using calculator, or counting to 338,547 sheeps, or setting up an animation of sheep jumping using a computer...). Usually, it will be [[Played for Laughs]]. When it's ineffective, the trope can also be used to show how serious the character's insomnia is. When it's too effective on the other hand, it shows how easily the character drifts off to sleep.
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* In the first episode of ''[[Haruhi Chan]]'', Kyon has a dream, and Mikuru is a sheep that Haruhi is cruelly trying to force into jumping <s> over the fence</s> through a ring of fire so Kyon can count her.
* In the second episode of ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]] TV'', when Keiichi and Belldandy are trying to sleep in a car, he explains the idea of counting sheep to her. He ends up awake all night, as Belldandy doesn't realize ''why'' you do it. She ends up counting over 38,000 when we last see it.
* In an episode of ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'', James, Jessie and Meowth are up in a tree spying on a rancher and his field full of Mareep, which are basically electric sheep. As usual...
{{quote| '''James:''' "One Mareep, two Mareep, three Mareep... *yawn* ..."}}
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* In the Disney cartoon, [[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]] was having a problem sleeping, so Genie tried to help him sleep by summoning mini sheep for him to count.
* ''[[Johnny Test]]'' couldn't sleep, so he had Dukey dress up as a sheep and jump over his bed.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when Jimmy is trying to conquer [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|his fear of pickles]], he sleeps in bed while dreaming of pickles jumping over a fence, with a small yell between each snore.
* One episode of the cartoon ''Grimmy'' features a gang of gangster sheep. How did they rob banks? "Count Us!".
* In ''Drag-Along Droopy'', sheepherder Droopy leads a massive flock of sheep who mow down all the vegetation in their path, riling the resident cattleman. On the eve of their face-off Droopy dozes, counting sheep hopping a fence. The sheep doze, counting Droopys hopping a fence.
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