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Fake Interactivity
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Sometimes works pretend to be interactive when, by the definition of their medium, they aren't. You know what this means, right? Beat note Oh, right, wiki pages aren't interactive media; we have no idea what your mental response was going to be so we'll just have to pretend you said something relevant to the question. You're absolutely right, it means that anything the audience does has no effect on the program! Anyway, this is common in children's programming (e.g. Edutainment) to encourage a form of Audience Participation. Sometimes, instead of a blank pause, the work will have a chorus of voices chime in with the expected answer, in case kids either don't understand, are incapable of answering due to a disability, or are smart enough to know nothing they say or do will affect the episode. This trope reached its zenith around the Turn of the Millennium thanks to overwhelming success of preschool programming such as Blue's Clues, before becoming quite uncommon by the end of The New '10s. A 2010 survey conducted by Disney prior to their preschool block being rebranded to Disney Junior suggested that this might have occurred due to the rise of simple-to-use smart devices being able to teach concepts to preschoolers through actual interactivity. As such, writers no longer feel a need to do this. When this trope is used in a Show Within a Show, it could involve The Tape Knew You Would Say That. Shows with fake interactivity have No Fourth Wall. Characters in shows with fake interactivity have a tendency to assume you're a child. Compare But Thou Must!, the video game equivalent, where the interactivity allowed by the medium isn't utilized. Not to be confused with the audience shouting at Too Dumb to Live characters. |
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In Batman: Arkham Asylum, the player is told to either press the middle stick on their controller or tilt their mouse to dodge a gun when affected by the Scarecrow's gas, you obviously fail and get a game over screen no matter what you do with the "quit" and "try again" buttons allowing you to continue past the fake interactivity. | |
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This actually originated, at least for Pooh, from the live-action series Welcome to Pooh Corner, where the characters ask a question, then it shows clips of real children answering. For instance, in the trope-naming Very Special Episode "Too Smart for Strangers", the characters ask what to do near a stranger. Bear in the Big Blue House and The Doodlebops are among the other live-action kids shows to utilize this method as well. | |
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In one online ad for Dory toys at Target Dory hides and you have to find her. Regardless of whether you click or not, or tap or not if you're on your Phone, Dory still acts as if you did. | |
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Played for drama in Room. As a Child by Rape of a Bunker Woman kept in the titular Tailor-Made Prison, Jack's favorite TV show is Dora the Explorer because of this very trope. Later on (but well before they escape Room), he gets very confused when Ma tells him that while Dora is still fake, the people in the live-action shows are real. note Up until that point, he thinks that Door (Room's security door) leads into Outer Space, and that each type of TV show is a "planet" (such as "the cartoon planet", "the news planet", and "the fitness planet") that floats in Outer Space. | |
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Inverted in one Homestuck panel. Homestuck actually is frequently interactive, with Flash animations and game segments, but once trolled the readers by displaying a loading screen, followed by: "You spend no less than 90 seconds staring at this fucking GIF image before you realize the actual Flash animation is on the next page." | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) #1, Sonic asks readers to plug in their Sega Genesis consoles and boot up Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in order to get him to the Casino Night Zone. He then admits, "Or you can just turn the page!" | |
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland begins with Bert and Ernie telling the kids in the audience that they'll need to help participate during the movie and ask them to count down from ten to start the film. Kids' voices responding to Elmo are played during these parts. | |
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Happens on Bo on the Go!, a Canadian CGI series that could best be described as Dora with the Serial Numbers Filed Off. | |
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Pee-wee's Playhouse, being a parody of the "kid's show" genre, did this a lot. As an interesting side note, the plastic overlay from Winky Dink inspired Pee-Wee's "Magic Screen" segments. | |
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Jake And The Neverland Pirates is pretty much Dora with pirates and better animation. Features Peter Pan in the pilot and Captain Hook as a running villain. | |
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Inai Inai Baa!: At one point in time, the show featured an anime segment called Mushimushi-kun, revolving around a caterpillar who often "interacted" with the children watching. For example, in one segment, he offered the viewers a drink by holding his opened can of juice up to the screen for them to drink out of, and in another segment he played catch with the viewers using a balloon. In the first episode of the eighth generation of the show, Poupo asks for the viewer's name, followed by a brief pause and him acting as if you answered correctly. In a segment on the "Tomodachi Hahaha" VHS, after Kuu can't guess what animal Wan Wan drew, Wan Wan shows the viewers the drawing (of a hippo) and asks them what animal it is, followed by a brief pause. However, Wan Wan does not talk after this, with the tape cutting to the next segment. |
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The Simpsons: Played with very briefly in the episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?": This was connected to a contest the show was running in which viewers could figure out the assailant to win a prize. |
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In the climax of Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, a girl named Christy is mortally wounded by dark magic (note that the Big Bad didn't intend to hurt her), and the Care Bears tell the audience that they have to chant "I care!" along with the other characters in order to save her. Even if you don't play along, or say you don't care or will Christy to die (you monster), she gets better regardless, and the villain pulls a Heel–Face Turn. | |
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In a rare example of a show for older kids doing this, the Hailey episodes of Yo-kai Watch contain a segment called "Yo-Kai Search Quiz", where the viewer has to help Hailey find where that week's Yo-Kai is hiding. Hailey and USApyon usually count down while waiting for the viewer to choose the correct answer, but in one episode, this did not happen. | |
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In the Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō theatrical movies, the audience is encouraged to interact with Shimajiro and company. Just like in the Pretty Cure example above, the theater patrons are given a special cardboard megaphone in order to "respond" to Shimajiro. | |
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This is used in a bonus scene in Odin Sphere you can get if you wait a few seconds after receiving the "Fin" screen in the ending. The merchant speaks to directly the player and waits for the response. The scene ends with the merchant asking, "Ah, you are a writer?" and then begging the player to tell him the title of the book they're writing, which then appears on a black screen in white letters: ODIN SPHERE. | |
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Blaze and the Monster Machines has Blaze and AJ asking the audience to do various things, such as placing objects and finding which choice will work. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: This trope was spoofed in "Toddler Titans...Yay!", where the Titans get put into a show that spoofs shows with this feature (mainly Dora the Explorer), and disembodied kids' voices. In "The Viewers Decide", the main Titans compete against Titans East over which team gets to keep Bumblebee, who is more interested in going solo. At various points, the main Titans ask the viewers to call (with a 555 number, of course) and vote which team Bumblebee belongs in. Of course, the main Titans rig the vote against Titans East in the end, but Bumblebee leaves regardless. |
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In Toby Terrier and His Video Pals, some sections of the show paused in anticipation of the Toby toy responding, but it continued on if he didn't. In the only tape released for the Wonder Bone accessory, the show stopped dead to let you press the buttons on the toy to answer questions. However, since the Toby toy couldn't send signals back to the tape, it didn't matter if you got the right answer or even did nothing, the show would just keep going regardless. | |
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In New Dynamic English, Max would usually ask the listener questions regarding the interview. There's also "A Question for You" where Max asks a question with an answer that is up to the listener. Elizabeth also does this to the listeners in Functioning in Business. |
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The Where's Wally/Waldo TV series does this somewhat during breaks, showing a static picture and encouraging the viewer to locate Wally/Waldo before time runs out. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Parodied on one of the Show Within a Show programs that Meatwad watches. A puppet sings and flail about, occasionally directly addressing the in-universe audience in a demonic tone. None of the characters seem to notice this at all. | |
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In the movie Thomas and the Magic Railroad, the audience is supposedly responsible for putting the cushion out to break Mr. Conductor's fall. This is averted in the two series on which the film was based, however, outside of educational segments made between Seasons 8-12. | |
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In Season 1 of Doby & Disy, the title characters frequently ask for the viewers' help on their adventures, having them do things such as find objects they are looking for. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In the episode "One False Movie", Eduardo watches a Dora parody called "Lauren is Explorin'" (named for series co-creator Lauren Faust; the director is even a caricature/voiced by her husband Craig McCracken). | |
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In Barney's Great Adventure, this trope is used thrice: when Barney encourages the viewers to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, when Baby Bop asks them if they've seen her blanket and when Barney encourages them to imagine a log can fly in order to get the Egg Macguffin back from a hot air balloon. | |
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Laff-A-Lympics: An episode featured an applause meter device for home audiences to gauge which team they wanted to win a specific event via their applause. Mildew Wolf (one of the show's commentators) held his mic up to the camera for the presumed home viewer applause. | |
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Sesame Street: Aside from the occasional Fourth Wall break, the show avoided this as well for the most part. And even when the Fourth Wall was broken, the characters were usually just lecturing the audience on various topics, with the audience merely spectators witnessing as the lessons descend into anarchy. Then along came "Elmo's World" and "Journey to Ernie." There's also "Abby's Flying Fairy School", but the characters ask each other questions rather than the audience. Elmo's Playdate plays this straight, being done in a similar style to a virtual video chat. Elmo encourages the viewers to do several activities when promoted, the most notable of which being a certain noise causing him to ask the viewers to dance like crazy. |
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Lampshaded in HunieCam Studio by Kyu after picking your first girl: | |
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Yo Gabba Gabba!: A few Season 1 segments used this trope, such as "Brobee Wants to Color," "Foofa Wants to Play a Game," "Muno Wants to Play Pretend," and "Let's Listen to Sounds with Toodee." Other than these, the series tends to avoid this trope. | |
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Played with in Romper Room: The host could use the Magic Mirror to "see" who was watching, naming children who'd written to the show. Since this was a show franchise produced by local stations, it was likely that a given child watching might be called. | |
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Readalong: Characters in the show would often hold conversations with the audience, even pausing and talking back to them. It being an Edutainment show from The '70s, it was as interactive as one would expect. | |
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Doc McStuffins: In the first season, this happens during the next episode/end credit segments. It was then dropped like a hot potato afterwards. The show's creator actually created the show with a purposeful intention of not doing this in the first place. | |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse features the cast asking the audience for help. | |
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Steamshovel Harry is purportedly a game about jump physics where you have to save the earth from an asteroid that will strike in ten minutes. Unfortunately, the mandatory tutorial video takes ten minutes and you die immediately afterwards. | |
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Brødrene Dal tends to have a lot of fun with this, frequently asking the audience to send in their answers to questions that are then answered immediately afterward. In one particular example, the brothers are considering whether or not to steal food, and ask the audience; Everyone who wants them to steal the food, turn of their television. They then declare that "everyone who's watching now is in favor of us stealing". In another scene, the Narrator asks a question of the audience and asks them to send in their answer. The next episode does actually open on him having asked a police officer to pick a random winner from the pile of correct answers. The police officer hands him an envelope... containing a parking ticket. |
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Used in HuniePop during the introductory and closing conversations. Most notably Momo who will still be your "kitty" no matter how much you try to get her away. Lampshaded in HunieCam Studio by Kyu after picking your first girl: |
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Blue's Clues used this technique so heavily as to call attention to itself. Usually, pre-recorded children's voices would answer the question. Host Steve or Joe (Kevin in the U.K.) would keep up a running dialogue with the viewer, who was supposed to help figure out the clues to the game of Blue's Clues. A typical line of dialogue... | |
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Parodied in the Smosh video If Kids Shows Were Real.... After Anthony is shot, he tells Ian to ask the audience for advice on how to save him, as they just finished watching Dora the Explorer. | |
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Animated TV series Boo! also plays this trope straight, requiring the viewer to point out where Boo's hiding. As the show's Title Theme Tune explains "Can you find Boo? It's all you have to do!" | |
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Lou and Lou: Safety Patrol: Whenever there's a safety violation, one of the twins gives their magnifying glass to the viewer and asks them for their help to look for it. | |
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Parodied in the epilogue of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, where Imperfect Cell stops and asks the audience what he should to do defeat Trunks. He is apparently told to use the Kamehameha, but Trunks kills him before he can. | |
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Parodied in Amanda the Adventurer: The player is watching episodes of a strange Show Within a Show that parodies Dora the Explorer, including segments where the title character will stop and talk to the audience, prompting the player to type in a response or click on the screen. However, if you accidentally (or deliberately) get the answers wrong, Amanda will repeat herself, getting increasingly annoyed, until she forces you to pick the right answer. In the third and final tape from Pilot Episode, she sounds downright threatening if you get the wrong answers. | |
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The book The Monster at the End of This Book has Grover asking the reader not turn the page, going to greater and greater lengths to 'secure' the next page against turning, and getting increasingly desperate as the reader continues to read the book. (Because there's a monster at the end of the book, you see.) At the end, Grover himself turns out to be the monster, and becomes embarrassed when he realizes this. | |
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Zig-zagging on Word Party: Watching the show on supported devices will actually see an icon pop up at set intervals, which when tapped will suspend the show and launch a flash-card like minigame. In other parts of the show, and/or if you watch the show from a device which does not support the interactive segments, the trope is played straight (the babies and narrator addresses you as the big kid). | |
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Dora the Explorer is without question the Trope Codifier for preschool edutainment, with the viewer answering questions, giving suggestions, shouting "Swiper, No Swiping!", and telling Dora their favourite part of that day's adventure (she also liked that part, by the way). The show actually does have an in-universe justification for this, with the idea that the characters actually exist within a children's computer game (hence the computer arrow). Later seasons even change some visual elements to give the impression that the viewer is now "playing" on a tablet rather than a desktop. Other than that, Dora shares similarities with Mr. Rogers. It does this in the PS2 games based on the franchise too, despite now being actual interactive media. It also happens in Dora and Friends: Into the City!, but less frequently. The most egregious example would be at the beginning of each episode, in which Dora and one of her friends encourage the viewer to clap their hands... for no reason whatsoever. Averted with the "Dora Appisodes" app, which actually uses the microphone and touchscreen to answer Dora's questions. |
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The Jolly Roger Telephone Company is a company that provides bots which handle telemarketer calls, such as "Whitey Whitebeard" or "Salty Sally." The bots are designed to trick the caller into thinking there's a person on the line, when actually the bot is just responding with pre-written routines such as "There's a bee on my arm. You keep talking, but I'm just going to stay quiet because of this bee" and "I can't concentrate because of this weather. How's your weather, by the way?" However, they can never actually directly respond to what the telemarketer or whoever's calling says and will fill spaces in-between with phrases like "Yes, yes" and "Uh-huh" to make the caller think that they're responding. Later iterations of the programming have gotten more advanced, such as being able to detect certain scams and engage custom routines ("Oh, my back's really hurting me, do you have medication for that?") as well as pass the call off to another bot once one runs out of material, but the same basic idea still applies. Before Jolly Roger, there was a bot called "Lenny," designed to sound like a Scatterbrained Senior, for the same purpose. Unlike the Jolly Roger bots, though, Lenny didn't have AI capabilities to customize his routines, had a fairly limited repertoire, and there was only one "Lenny" bot (so no passing off the call to another bot when he ran out of material.) Not that this hasn't prevented scammers from getting bogged down by "him" for as long as an hour at a time. |
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The home edition of 1961 ABC game show Camouflage had clear sheets of film included for viewers to put over their TV screens and with the crayon included trace the object the contestants on the show were attempting to find and trace. | |
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Phineas and Ferb parodied this with "Ducky Momo", a Show Within a Show which is a strange hybrid of Hello Kitty and Dora the Explorer. Here's a sample of what an episode entailed: | |
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Parodied in Bloom County, as Opus learns English from the show. In the first of those strips, he responds to "Trumpet player" with "Terflump Gerflump"; in the second, he answers "Public servant" with "bozo". In both cases, Rogers just says "Good!" | |
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This is actually a plot point in Act 2 of the Agent plotline in Star Wars: The Old Republic. What you tell your character to say and what he/she actually says are often two different things, because your character was brainwashed into following the orders of the group you were infiltrating. | |
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Drake & Josh both try to talk to the people watching the show. In a truly hilarious bit, Drake is warmly received by his audience and given a plate of cookies through the fourth wall, while Josh is both insulted and spit upon. In another episode, Crazy Steve is watching Dora the Explorer, asking Dora why she would need to ask the audience something so simple when she could probably figure it out herself. |
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Garfield and Friends: Parodied in "The Multiple Choice Cartoon". Garfield gets the viewers to decide where the episode takes place, who's in it, and what the plot is. As a Running Gag, the choice the audience votes for is always "C". | |
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A mainstay of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, especially when the episode gets to the point of resolving the Character Development issue of the day. | |
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Most versions of Peter Pan ask the audience to "clap if you believe in fairies" to restore Tinkerbell back to life. | |
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Little Einsteins stars four child prodigies who, by the age of six, have mastered various musical instruments and forms of interpretive dance, but are still worse at problem-solving than your four-year-old is, and constantly needs their help. Er... sometimes, anyway. | |
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JoJo's Circus had the main character and her "pet lion" Goliath, mainly to encourage exercise by asking the viewers to get up and exercise or dance with them. | |
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Chockablock has a segment where the presenter (either Fred Harris as Chockabloke or Carol Leader as Chockagirl) records themself singing a song. But Chockablock has a habit of missing out any words which fit the Rhyme of the Week when the recording is played back, and this can mess up the picture which is on Chockablock's screen at the time. For example, Old King Cole might stop being so merry, or the cake from "Pat-a-cake" might shrink. To fix the picture, the viewers are told they must fill in the missing words, but the picture gets fixed no matter what you do. Also, the "fill in the words" part happens whether or not there is anything wrong with the picture. | |
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Hate Plus has a sequence where *Hyun-ae tells you to make a cake before you can progress. This is a real-world cake. The game suggests recipes for you and checks to see if the amount of time each recipe takes to complete has passed, but if you wait the correct time, *Hyun-ae has no way of knowing if you've actually made a cake or not (unless you tell her). There is an achievement for sending the developer a photo of you eating the cake with her, though. | |
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A mainstay of the modern Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior programs My Friends Tigger & Pooh and Special Agent Oso. This actually originated, at least for Pooh, from the live-action series Welcome to Pooh Corner, where the characters ask a question, then it shows clips of real children answering. For instance, in the trope-naming Very Special Episode "Too Smart for Strangers", the characters ask what to do near a stranger. Bear in the Big Blue House and The Doodlebops are among the other live-action kids shows to utilize this method as well. |
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Bear in the Big Blue House has "What Do You Think?", where Bear asks various kids about the episode's topic. | |
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Oobi used this in the game segments, though kids' voices were used to answer the questions. | |
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Sent up in Wonder Project J2. A selling point at the time was that Josette, the Robot Girl whom you have been tasked with raising, would respond in full voice to player input, which generally came in the form of simple "praise/scold" prompts. In one of them, if you praised her dancing ability, she would modestly deny her talent, insisting that since you'd taught her everything she knows, you must be a much better dancer, and asks for a demonstration. After staring out of the screen for a few seconds, she claps her hands and laughs happily, admitting that she can't actually see you, but she's certain you were fantastic! | |
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood has the titular character occasionally talk to the viewers and ask them to do certain tasks (like imagining with him). | |
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French animated TV series Didou (known as Louie in the UK and Australia) plays this trope straight. | |
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On the PBS children's math show Odd Squad, each episode includes a short "recruitment video" requesting that young viewers sign up with their math-mystery-solving agency. The recruiter's invitation is always addressed in this fashion, as with: "Hey, you with the hair. And the eyes. Yes, you!" or "Hey, you! With the glasses! Or no glasses!" | |
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Fahrenheit 451 has the protagonist's wife Millie, who is utterly obsessed with her TV Room. Not a room containing a TV, mind you; a room where nearly all the walls are televisions. Her favorite show (and many others, no doubt) has the gimmick of mailing episode's script a few days ahead of time, letting viewers memorize their lines. During the show, a light in the corner of the screen indicates when the viewer is supposed to speak. All Millie thinks about are the characters from the show, and she even demands that her husband replace the final wall of the room with a fourth TV so she can feel more immersed. No Fourth Wall, indeed. The film adaptation simply presents a straightforward example of the trope, in the form of characters having a banal argument, turning to the viewer playing an unseen third character, and asking their opinion. Linda doesn't answer in time, but it continues anyway with a noncommittal reply, apparently shattering her immersion. |
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The Hinako Series is (in)famous as an attempt at this targeted towards the older Otaku crowd with the intent for them to act as companionship with stuff like training, sleeping, and bathing in the most Fanservicey possible. It was also one of the best selling OVAs in Japan at the time of release, being sold out rather quickly. | |
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The above basically describes the DanceDanceRevolution DVD Game — there are stepcharts, but no actual interactivity, only encouraging phrases. They even provided a mat that doesn't have any electronics in it. | |
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Pinky Dinky Doo has a segment of this nature at the end of each story, which takes the form of a quiz section. | |
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While the VeggieTales series averts this, the trope is played straight with the rare video VeggieTown: Greetings from Bob and Larry, which has the characters ask questions to the viewers. Justified, as it was meant to be used as part of a Vacation Bible School cirriculum. Parodied in "God Wants Me To Forgive Them" when Larry asks the audience if they're interested in hearing about their adventures while stranded on an island, followed by the obligatory Beat. When Bob asks Larry about what we said, Larry admits he doesn't know and just assumes we said yes. |
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Fly Out, PriPara: Aim For It With Everyone! Idol Grand Prix has Meganee tell the viewer to turn their hand as if they were cranking a Gashapon machine to pick the songs, which happens anyway even if the audience isn't doing the action. | |
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Also parodied in the SuperMarioLogan video "Jeffy Breaks His Helmet!" | |
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Parodied in a Saturday Night Live spoof of Dora the Explorer called "Maraka", in which the title character asks about the meaning of life, the nature of free will, and the Robert Blake murder trial while acting as though the viewers are giving a specific answer. Maraka also becomes aggravated when the "audience" does not pretend to toboggan down a mountain. | |
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TV Tropes: Hell, this very site has a tendency to do this by using video examples from video games. | |
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The Lingo Show: Not only does it have prerecorded children's voices answering the questions the insect characters ask, but the characters also encourage viewers to "wave their hands above their heads like antennae". | |
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The Patrick Star Show: Parodied in "The Star Games". The Star family, minus Patrick, want you to yell at your screen to tell them who should be the host of the Game Shows for the rest of the episode. Text flashes on the screen telling you to keep screaming and be louder. | |
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Handy Manny: Ever since the start of season 3. They couldn't re-do the classic animation with the tools dancing on a stage. Instead, they had a mash-up of different scenes from episodes with Kelly asking trivia questions to the viewers. | |
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The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!: Fish does this in short segments called "Fish Facts." Played for Laughs, as the answer is always demonstrated in the background by the actual animal while Fish is asking the question. By the third season, however, the animals appear in bubbles surrounding the Cat to try to make things a bit more challenging. | |
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It also happens in Dora and Friends: Into the City!, but less frequently. The most egregious example would be at the beginning of each episode, in which Dora and one of her friends encourage the viewer to clap their hands... for no reason whatsoever. | |
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Doctor Who: In an in-universe example, one episode had the Tenth Doctor on a video (filmed several decades prior), apparently interacting in real time with the episode's protagonist (in the modern day). Turns out he was actually just reading off an autocue (complete with pauses of appropriate length)... transcribed during said conversation by the protagonist's own sidekick and given to the Doctor in the future. This being the same episode that gave us 'timey-wimey, wibbly wobbly' is not at all coincidental. | |
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The home video release of the fifth Love Live! concert has an animated segment of the main characters doing the calls and responses, with the characters pausing for the viewers to say the chants. They act as if you said the response even if you didn't. | |
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The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure tried to do this with instructions at the beginning of the film encouraging the children to do certain things when certain events in the film took place. The few parents who thought this would be a good idea regretted the decision when the kids would run loose all over the movie theater and disrupted everyone else's time there. | |
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Used fairly cleverly in The House in Fata Morgana. Every so often, the Maid will ask Your (yes, capitalized) thoughts on what happened or a character's actions. There is no minimum waiting time, and you can immediately go to the next text box, but it encourages you to think about the plot and potentially catch foreshadowing. | |
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Maryoku Yummy: The Wishing Ways segments ask the viewers for help. | |
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Used in Stanley, mainly by the goldfish Dennis to quiz the viewers. | |
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Both Shenzhen IO and EXAPUNKS have the tools to create basic games using their respective fictional programming languages and simulated hardware. Each game assigns you to create a game using these tools when you unlock them, but since there's no way for the game to tell you've done this, these assignments boil down to holding down a button to say you did it. Each game lampshades how its essentially working on the honor system as you do it. | |
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Super Why! has this, calling the viewer "Super You". With the Power to Help! | |
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Parodied in the Homestar Runner Strong Bad Email "for kids". Strong Bad demonstrates how bad of a kids' show host he would be with an Imagine Spot. He asks the kids to say "The Cheat", which they do (though one says "Christopher Columbus") and Strong Bad gives them an F-- regardless. Then when they fail to find The Cheat hiding behind a box (they say he is "right there" but do not specify), he flips out and threatens to kill their dogs. | |
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On Wallykazam!, Wally will quiz viewers on things such as what word starts with a particular sound. Overall this is done far smoother and less often than in Dora, making it more enjoyable to watch. | |
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The Pretty Cure films (save for the ones from Max Heart through Splash Star, as well as the Spring Carnival movie and the Healin' Good♡Pretty Cure movie) have objects called Miracle Lights that are used at the climax. Each patron in the theater is given one, and has to use it at the climax while shouting "You can do it, Pretty Cure!" or "Power to the Pretty Cure!". People who don't have the lights are encouraged to support them with all their heart. | |
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Each episode of The Helpful Fox Senko-san has a post-credits scene named "Super Senko-san Time", where Senko interacts with an unvoiced individual, with the audience taking his point of view. | |
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Parodied in Plancy's World, which is a Take That! towards Dora the Explorer. The webtoon's main character, Plancy, constantly talks to the viewers as if she were actually in a show made for preschoolers. The living flower in the pot on her head calls her out on this constantly. | |
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Ants in Your Pants: Lickety Split would often pause to let the audience speak to him, or would react like they told him something, which is always very specific to the script. | |
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Shane and David do this during the beginning of The Upside Down Show. | |
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Played straight in Team Umizoomi. The team addresses the viewer as their "UmiFriend". | |
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Zig-zagged in The Trail to Oregon!. The audience really does get to name the five main characters by shouting out suggestions, and vote on which of the characters dies at the end. However, the part where the audience is allowed to choose how the character will meet their demise is only there on the assumption that the audience will always choose dysentery, a safe bet due to the disease's memetic nature in the game on which the musical is based. | |
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Bee and Puppycat sees this trope in the Show Within a Show Pretty Patrick. His Pretty Patrick Lunchtime series consists of him "eating" with the viewer and sharing his lunch of the day with them, but mostly talking to the camera as if the viewer was there with him. | |
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Mo Willems' Pigeon series of books, beginning with Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus present this in literary format, encouraging the readers to shout out "No!" when the Pigeon begs to do something he's not allowed to do, like driving the bus. Some of these stories were later adapted for DVD by Scholastic and Weston Woods. There are other children's picture books that have adopted this format as well. | |
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Creative Galaxy, being by many of the creators of Blue's Clues, naturally uses this with show star Arty sometimes asking the viewers for help and regularly speaking with them. | |
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