"Getting Ready for Bed" Plot: Both this book and Seriously, Just Go to Sleep play this for laughs and parody the "world at bedtime" variant of the trope.Getting the Baby to Sleep: The book is entirely this trope, being about the desperation to send a child to sleep.Gag Censor: On the book's cover, the central word in the title is obscured by the Moon.Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The narrator wants you to, well, go the fuck to sleep.It's very likely that this is the highest number of obscenities to ever appear in a picture book. Cluster F-Bomb: The book contains many instances of the F word as well as some other swears.*Bleep*-dammit!: The moon on the front cover covers all of two letters of the word "Fuck" it isn't really fooling most readers.Antagonistic Offspring: A mild and even affectionate example, but the child is clearly at odds with the parent's desire for them to just go the fuck to sleep, to the parent's great frustration.This one assuredly cannot be read to a child at bedtime or any other time, unless you buy the aforementioned bowdlerised version. Affectionate Parody: Of the rhyming, saccharine books normally read to small children at bedtime.Jackson once again provides the dramatic reading. In 2020, Mansbach released a self-parody of the book, Stay the Fuck Home, in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and recommendations to self-quarantine at home to slow down the spread of the virus. A third book followed, Fuck, Now There Are Two of You. In September 2014, a proper sequel was released, You Have to Fucking Eat. Was later turned into a Bowdlerised version aimed at children called Seriously, Just Go to Sleep. Jackson (and later on, by Werner Herzog and George Lopez in Spanish ). It went viral, and was then helped by an audiobook read by Samuel L. It is the lament of a parent whose child will not go the fuck to sleep. Go the Fuck to Sleep is a 2011 children's book parody by Adam Mansbach.
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