History Main / Fakeinteractivity

* ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'' normally avoids this pretty studiously, but did do it once in a SomethingCompletelyDifferent style story.

** 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 [[TropeNamer trope-naming]] VerySpecialEpisode "TooSmartForStrangers", the characters ask what to do near a stranger. ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' and ''Series/TheDoodlebops'' are among the other live-action kids shows to utilize this method as well.

* When Microsoft Windows has an error, a popup will come up asking if the user wants to submit an error report. It doesn't matter whether they click "Yes" or "No," there ''is'' no error report being created, and it's not going anywhere regardless. (Although if they ''do'' click "Yes," it will then make it ''look'' like it's compiling and sending an error report.)

* In ''Animation/DobyAndDisy'', the title characters frequently ask for the viewers' help on their adventures, having them do things such as find objects they are looking for.

** Before Jolly Roger, there was a bot called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkeEsJ6ror0 Lenny]]," designed to sound like a ScatterbrainedSenior, 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.) [[WhatAnIdiot Not that this hasn't prevented scammers from getting bogged down by "him" for as long as]] ''[[WhatAnIdiot an hour]]'' [[WhatAnIdiot at a time]].

* ''Engie Benjy'' added this in during series 3, with complete with children's voices answering the characters.

* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland'' begins with Bert and Ernie telling 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.

* ''Engie Benjy'' added this in during series 3.

** 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'').

"A", throw the stick so he can fetch it.

* The DancingBear gag of the 1961 horror film ''Film/MrSardonicus'' was a simulated "vote" on the final fate of the movie's villain. Just before the closing scene, the film's producer appears onscreen and invites the audience to hold up the "thumbs up/down" cards they'd have been issued during the original theatrical release. He goes through the motions of calling on a few audience members to clarify their votes, mimes tallying the results, then calls the verdict and cues up the concluding scene. [[spoiler: It's unclear if a "show mercy" option was ever filmed or not (most film historians agree that it wasn't), but the slanted way the producer describes the viewers' choice pretty much ''guarantees'' that "no mercy" will win, so only that outcome was ever actually shown. That's why it's ''Fake'' Interactivity.]]

* ''Series/BrodreneDal'' 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 wether 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".

* Some stage adaptations of children's programs such as ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales Live'' or ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse Live'' will use a form of this in drawing an audience response, similar to the way a children's show that uses this will do. Even so, the show must go on even if the audience response isn't particularly energetic that day, or even if some of the audience decide to be contrary.

* In the movie ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'', the audience is supposedly responsible for putting the cushion out to break Mr. Conductor's fall. This is averted in the [[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine two]] [[Series/ShiningTimeStation series]] on which the film was based, however, outside of educational segments made between Seasons 8-12.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[SchmuckBait An ''excellent'' video on the topic.]]]]]

* The ''Anime/PrettyCure'' films (save for the ones from Max Heart through Splash Star, as well as the Spring Carnival movie and the ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' 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.

[[caption-width-right:350:An ''excellent'' video on the topic.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' is without question the TropeCodifier for preschool {{edutainment}}, with the viewer answering questions, giving suggestions, shouting "SwiperNoSwiping", 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' spoofed this trope in "Toddler Titans...Yay!", where the Titans get put into a show that spoofs shows with this feature (mainly ''Dora the Explorer'').

** Before Jolly Roger, there was a bot called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkeEsJ6ror0 Lenny]]," designed to sound like a scatterbrained old man, 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.)

* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' has the titular character occasionally talk to the viewers and ask them to do certain tasks (like imaginaing with him).

* Inverted in one ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'' [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=007326 panel]]. ''Homestuck'' actually is frequently interactive, with Flash animations and game segments, but once trolled the readers by displaying a loading screen, followed by: [[spoiler:"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."]]

* The ''Anime/PrettyCure'' films (save for the ones from Max Heart through Splash Star, as well as the Spring Carnival movie and the ''Anime/HealingGoodPrettyCure'' 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.