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Screen Tap
- 167 statements
- 31 feature instances
- 24 referencing feature instances
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A character taps on your TV screen from the inside to get your attention. Yes, that's right — someone is Breaking the Fourth Wall by touching it! As Technology Marches On, the "screen glass tap" sound effect is still in use despite being an Artifact due to the rise of flat-screen LCDs not made out of glass, though some uses now feature a "dull thump" sound effect instead to compensate for this change. Compare with Camera Abuse, which fools with the camera, not the screen you're viewing. |
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Dropped link to CommonKnowledge: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to FourthWallObserver: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to IdleAnimation: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to LongRunners: Not an Item - CAT | |
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Dropped link to playedfordrama: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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| Screen Tap / int_1dfd04a9 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_1dfd04a9 | comment |
In Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures, Pac-Man will tap the screen if you leave the game paused for too long. | |
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| Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_27006886 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_27006886 | comment |
The main menu of LEGO Racers has a LEGO character (specifically the next circuit champion you have to beat) on it, dancing around. If you wait long enough, the character will bang on the screen in a sort of Continue Your Mission, Dammit!. | |
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| LEGO Racers (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_2a1325f2 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_2a1325f2 | comment |
Whenever the fourth wall in An Epic Comic is messed with enough, it begins to crack up. | |
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| An Epic Comic (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_31c31084 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_31c31084 | comment |
Tino from The Weekenders sometimes does this at the beginning of an episode, and even does it during the theme song. | |
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| The Weekenders | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_3ea015a3 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_3ea015a3 | comment |
In Playstation All Stars Battle Royale, one of Jak and Daxter's introductions involves Daxter tapping on the screen while Jak stands in the background. | |
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| PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_50a9ace1 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_50a9ace1 | comment |
In the Popeye cartoon "Battery Up," Brutus hits a foul ball that flies to the camera and shatters the TV screen. | |
| Screen Tap / int_50a9ace1 | featureApplicability |
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| Popeye (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_5924fecf | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_5924fecf | comment |
Strong Bad, in a bid to escape the 'tiny box,' actually 'breaks' your screen at the end of many of the "Podstar" versions of the episodes. | |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_5ba3bd61 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_5ba3bd61 | comment |
In the CD-ROM version of The New Way Things Work, if the game is left idle for long enough, a window briefly pops up with David Macaulay trying to get the player's attention, one instance of which is this trope. | |
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| The Way Things Work | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_5db85d4 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_5db85d4 | comment |
In Limbo of the Lost, the hero will tap the screen to get your attention if you spend too much time doing nothing. Justified in that, unlike most video games, you are actually a character: his guardian, who is guiding him. | |
| Screen Tap / int_5db85d4 | featureApplicability |
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| Limbo of the Lost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_6c3b0503 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_6c3b0503 | comment |
In a TV spot for Sly 2: Band Of Thieves, Sly taps the screen with his cane and asks "So, uh... you in?" | |
| Screen Tap / int_6c3b0503 | featureApplicability |
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| Sly 2: Band Of Thieves (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_6cbd00ce | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_6cbd00ce | comment |
At the end of "Staying Within the Lines" on Dragon Tales, Max ends the show by scribbling black across the screen. | |
| Screen Tap / int_6cbd00ce | featureApplicability |
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| Dragon Tales | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_746814ae | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_746814ae | comment |
In the Arthur episode "You Are Arthur", Buster asks Arthur is there is someone inside his head watching everything he does on a TV screen, and he knocks on the screen producing a glass sound. | |
| Screen Tap / int_746814ae | featureApplicability |
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| Arthur | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_7579423f | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_7579423f | comment |
Banjo-Kazooie Before the game menu opens, the titular Banjo and Kazooie treats the player to an opening musical piece accompanied by Mumbo Jumbo and Tootie. Banjo gives the screen a playful greeting tap just before beginning. | |
| Screen Tap / int_7579423f | featureApplicability |
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| Banjo-Kazooie (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_884bcbd0 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_884bcbd0 | comment |
On My Friends Tigger & Pooh, at the end of the "One Big Happy Family" song in Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too, Buster licks the screen. He also does this in the opening of the story "Roo's Kite-Tastrophy." In "Good Night to Pooh," he sniffs the screen and fogs it because it's cold and the ground is covered with snow in the story. | |
| Screen Tap / int_884bcbd0 | featureApplicability |
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| My Friends Tigger & Pooh | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_88ccb90a | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_88ccb90a | comment |
In the opening of Beany and Cecil, Cecil licks Beany, creator Bob Clampett, and the TV screen. | |
| Screen Tap / int_88ccb90a | featureApplicability |
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| Beany and Cecil | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_8fda4aad | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_8fda4aad | comment |
Daniel Tiger Jr. will nuzzle the screen in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. You can hear it. Also, in "Mad At the Beach," when Daniel and Elena splash each other at the beach, they also splash the screen. | |
| Screen Tap / int_8fda4aad | featureApplicability |
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| Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_93cc5f35 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_93cc5f35 | comment |
In the Virtual Villagers spin-off Virtual Families a sick character will tap on the screen to get the player's attention if they haven't noticed the illness. | |
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| Virtual Villagers (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_9994a14f | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_9994a14f | comment |
WALL•E did this in one of his movie's promos, accidentally cracking the screen. | |
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| WALL•E | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_a1e03f15 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_a1e03f15 | comment |
Blue's Clues & You!: Blue licks the screen at the end of "Laugh With Blue. She also did it in "Happy Birthday, Blue!", "Bluestock", "Blue's Night Before Christmas" and "Blue's Show and Tell Surprise." Blue and Magenta both lick the screen twice in "Getting Glasses With Magenta." Blue also licks the screen in the show's intro sequence. |
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| Blue's Clues & You! | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_a6d4d0d6 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_a6d4d0d6 | comment |
Hugo the TV Troll has a habit of doing this when you die in the games. | |
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| Hugo the TV Troll (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_b24837f5 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_b24837f5 | comment |
Simon the Sorcerer, Simon does this to show the player he is 'getting bored' when the player does nothing for too long. | |
| Screen Tap / int_b24837f5 | featureApplicability |
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| Simon the Sorcerer (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_c0d295c4 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
The Scout of Team Fortress 2 does this in "Meet The Scout". As a neat detail, his screen-poke leaves a greasy smudge that stays on-screen for the rest of the short. This trend is carried on in both "Meet The Medic" and "Meet The Pyro", albeit being a bit of a fake-out (the "screens" he runs into ends up being a window and a camera, respectively). Even though the "Meet The Director" comic establishes that these cameras exist in-universe, it's still in line with Scout being a Fourth-Wall Observer (i.e. acknowledging that he's a character class, referring to the base as a "map", and teasing his opponents about ragequitting). |
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| Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_c42e88f5 | type |
Screen Tap | |
| Screen Tap / int_c42e88f5 | comment |
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: In one of his countless fourth-wall breaking moments, Deadpool taps and shakes the screen while calling out the player for their laziness after winning a fight. | |
| Screen Tap / int_c42e88f5 | featureApplicability |
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| Screen Tap / int_c42e88f5 | featureConfidence |
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| Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_c43df4d8 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
After five days of "X days to go" promos for the Series 8 premiere of Doctor Who, there was one in which the Twelfth Doctor tapped cracks in the viewer's screen that formed the word "TODAY". | |
| Screen Tap / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
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| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_c5eaa1a9 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_c5eaa1a9 | comment |
Beetlejuice, in his debut episode, smooshes his face on the screen begging kids to send him money so he can get Lydia a present. | |
| Screen Tap / int_c5eaa1a9 | featureApplicability |
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| Beetlejuice | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_d4cad0e2 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_d4cad0e2 | comment |
Bubsy, at least in the first of his games, knocked on the screen as one of his Idle Animations. In a nice little touch, the screen even ''shook'' when he did it. | |
| Screen Tap / int_d4cad0e2 | featureApplicability |
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| Bubsy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_d6ed834e | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_d6ed834e | comment |
In the patient select screen of Die Anstalt, Lilo will sometimes tap on the screen with one of his blocks. | |
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| Die Anstalt (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_eb59224d | comment |
LazyTown: Robbie in his Mayor Meanswell disguise takes a mallet and shatters the screen at the end of the "Fun to be the Mayor" song. | |
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| LazyTown | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_ec701427 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_ec701427 | comment |
The titular character from Zapper does this on the title screen after a randomised amount of time (sometimes not doing it at all before the game enters Attract Mode). | |
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| Zapper (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_fe49cc8b | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_fe49cc8b | comment |
In "Taking Care of Splatter" from Creative Galaxy, Jackson's dog Splatter licks the screen. | |
| Screen Tap / int_fe49cc8b | featureApplicability |
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| Creative Galaxy | hasFeature |
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| Screen Tap / int_fe85bfc8 | type |
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| Screen Tap / int_fe85bfc8 | comment |
In all of the Super Smash Bros. games, one of the possible results of having your character thrown off the top of the screen is them smacking into the camera, obscuring the view of the brawl behind them for a moment before falling off. | |
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