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An early ad for ZooPals (a brand of animal-themed paper plates for kids) used the plates themselves instead of a ball. Referenced by name in the Big and Rich song "Freak Parade". Of course, the song consisted almost entirely of the phrase "Somebody's got to be unafraid to lead the freak parade" repeated over and over again, faster and faster until the end of the song. Batman: The Brave and the Bold: A little Plastic Man in ball form provides the bouncing ball as Plas leads a merry sing-along of a lyrically-mangled version of "Yankee Doodle" in "Cry Freedom Fighters!". The intro for Les Kassos has a bouncing ball over the lyrics of the theme song. Although on the last syllable, the ball falls from the words and hits Dark Papy in the helmet. In The Ramones' cover of the iconic Spider-Man song, the bouncing ball is, appropriately enough, a spider. Which, at one point, gets squished against the screen by the sole of the singer's shoe.
Keynotes, an Australian game show that unsuccessfully attempted an American version, affected the bouncing ball. Contestants scored musical notes to a song they had to identify. Each time a note was added, the notes were played with a bouncing ball. When Monty Python performed "The Philosopher's Song" during Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the "bouncing ball" was the head of a Bruce. Averted in Silent Hill 3's joke ending. The ridiculously goofy lyrics to the "Silent Hill Song" are simply highlighted in red as they are sung, even though a SH-themed bouncy ball likely would have made it even funnier.Used in the musical segment of ReBoot's third season finale, during the performance of the Mainframe Strolling Players, where they recap the season by way of a musical number. In this instance Scuzzy is the ball. Some of the songs on the Animaniacs sing-along videos use the bouncing dot approach, some use the highlight-the-words one, and some just show the current line of the song. WeimTime's Synthesia covers of other songs have little chibified heads of the characters who sing their respective parts bouncing on the words of their lines. For example, a tiny Garnet head is used as the bouncing ball for their cover of "Stronger Than You". Galavant uses a bouncing bird for the lyrics of “Love Makes the World Brand New” in the second season. No other songs in the show have lyrics on the screen.
Sarah Silverman's HBO special We Are Miracles includes a performance of her song "Diva" that comes complete with this. Follow the bouncing ball" is a technique of directing singalongs in movie theaters (and later on home video) where the lyrics are displayed as onscreen subtitles while a ball bounces along each word or syllable of the lyrics, in sync with the actual beat and rhythm of the song. What's This Song?, an NBC game show from 1964, averts this. Contestants identify songs then they have to sing the first two lines of the chorus which is shown on-screen. The bouncing ball is not used. To some, the flashy text looked a lot better than the standard texting, and actually helped enhance the moment. As much as it can be enhanced. Played mostly straight (the ball was grey, not red) in the karaoke episode of Kappa Mikey. Played with in one song, however, in which, rather than bouncing over the lyrics, the ball is bouncing away from the cast while they try to catch it.
In the reprise of the refrain of Barnes & Barnes' Fish Heads, a bouncing fish head is used over the lyrics. Lampshaded on a musically themed episode of Muppet Babies (1984), where Bunsen's latest invention was the Bunsen Honeydew Self-Propelled Follow-the-Bouncing-Ball Ball. This allowed the otherwise musically inept Beaker to get in on the fun. ("Meep meep meep-meep-meep, meep meep-meep meep-meep...") The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: The HD home media releases include the option to watch the movie in an "Everything is Awesome Sing-Along". For the 2016 Week 2 Monday Night Football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears, ESPN ran a commercial implementing this trope with both teams' fight songs, using the teams' logos as the bouncing ball. Averted by the VeggieTales sing along videos. Instead, the letters change colors (green to white in the first one, yellow to white in the second) when the words are sung.
Most versions of the Ghostbusters Licensed Game by Activision do this on the title screen with the movie's Theme Tune. Goldballs next appears in Spider-Man, where he is seen attending Brooklyn Visions Academy, where he becomes the classmate of Ganke Lee and Miles Morales, aka the second Spider-Man. [2] Used (and played with) quite often in Animutation, with " French Erotic Film" being an example . In this case, the bouncing ball is Jay Jay the Jet Plane until it collides with Princess Diana's car, at which point Di's decapitated head becomes the bouncing ball. The music video for Metronomy's "A Thing for Me" carries this into the real world...with hilarious results.
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Thomas & Friends's songs use a cloud of smoke produced from Thomas' funnel at the beginning of each song in place of a ball. In the film In Like Flint, when Derek Flint is on an Aeroflot plane going to Cuba, he starts a sing-along in Russian and a red star (symbol of the Soviet Union) bounces on the subtitled words (also in Russian) as they are sung. Played straight in the 2006/2007 sing-along series. The ball for the songs will be represented by an object or character that is related to the song. Sing Along with Mitch is often thought to have used this trope due to "Common Knowledge", but Mitch Miller said this is due to people getting mixed up with the Fleischer sing-along short subjects of the 1920s and 1930s; his TV show merely showed the lyrics on-screen. Skullmonkeys did this for a part of the ending cinematic for the song "Klogg Is Dead" with a bouncing skull.
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