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7->'''Dr. Frank-N-Furter:''' I see you shiver with antici...\
8'''Audience:''' ''SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT!''\
9'''Dr. Frank-N-Furter''' ...pation.
10-->-- Callback for ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''
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12When the audience for a broadcast or performance are invited to participate in some way. This can be simple, like a character in a stage show directly asking for the audience's help, or more complex, such as:
13* Taking part in a public vote which influences the show.
14* Contacting a show and commenting on a topic, or making song requests.
15* Inviting audience members on-stage, or having the cast or presenters go into the StudioAudience.
16* Interviewing audience members, or calling someone up to play a game.
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18A SuperTrope to OfficialFanSubmittedContent, which is when Audience Participation is used to turn fanon into canon; AudienceParticipationSong, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin when this trope is used in—what else—a song]]; FakeInteractivity, which is when this will have no effect whether the audience chooses to participate or not; and InteractiveComic, which is when a comic is reliant on this trope. A regular feature of {{Pantomime}}.
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20Usually involves BreakingTheFourthWall, but if it is done very often that you think the work ''relies'' on Audience Participation, then there is NoFourthWall to begin with. Depending on the audience, this can lead to the Subversion, AudienceParticipationFailure.
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23!!Examples:
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28* Ron Popeil's infomercials for Showtime Rotisseries had the catchphrase "Set it and forget it!" which the audience would shout on command.
29* AMC Theaters' Advertising/WeMakeMoviesBetter ad spawned this thanks to its {{camp}}y, {{melodrama}}tic tone, with audiences reciting Creator/NicoleKidman's dialogue and even saluting the screen when the line "somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this" came up. AMC not only kept the ad in theaters for far longer than they intended to because of the audience reaction, they recorded a sequel.
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33* ''Anime/AttackOnTitan'': [[spoiler:King Fritz of Eldia]] rounds up a village after a pig escapes from his livestock. After he threatens to punish the village collectively unless the responsible party comes first, the village unanimously and immediately blame [[spoiler:Ymir]]. It is implied [[spoiler:Ymir]] is not even responsible but the others simply exploited for her kindness and passiveness.
34* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
35** Ever since the movie for ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' movies have had the Miracle Lights, basic flashlight-like toys that are given to the audience (mostly the kids and sometimes older patrons) to use. The movies always start out by telling them what the Miracle Lights are for and what not to do with them (shine them in your eyes, pull on another's Light, swing them around, and, in the case of the ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' movie, launch them into space). They're used near the very end of each movie, the mascots urging the children to shine the lights and give the heroines their movie-only SuperMode to save the day.
36* ''VideoGame/PrettySeries'':
37** The ''Best 10'' movies consisted of the top 10 performances in the series, which was chosen by audience vote through a ticket sold with the GreatestHitsAlbum soundtracks.
38** ''Anime/KingOfPrism'' uses a lot of audience participation; not even TheMusical is free from this. Glowsticks are sold at every screening, and some parts of the films have captions on the screen for audiences to respond appropriately. This is especially apparent during the [[SignatureMove Prism Jumps]] where the film has the characters interact with the audience. There are also official cheer guides to the songs performed.
39* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' has added several main cast members based on reader votes on what type of [[CuteMonsterGirl monster girls]] should show up next. Recently, Okayado has had fans send in self-portraits along with what type of monster girls they'd like to be paired up with for various cameo appearances.
40* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
41** ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' had a contest for three custom made units to show up in the anime. There was a kitbash model unit, a kitbash unit from ''VideoGame/NewGundamBreaker'' and a custom color unit. The winners were "Zssa Storm" (a kitbashed Zssa from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ''), "Benkei" and a red and white Deathscythe.
42** The sequel series ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'' had a contest where fans could vote on which obscure (read: not from an animated series) mobile suit they wanted to see put in an appearance; the winner was the Xi Gundam from the novel ''Shining Hathaway'', which showed up during the free-for-all battle in the final episode.
43* A central component of the ''Franchise/LoveLive'' franchise. Many elements and aspects of the series are decided solely by reader polls. These include the names of the groups and subunits, subunit compositions, song centers for major singles, names for certain characters and setpieces like the schools, and more.
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46[[folder:Animation]]
47* ''Animation/ThreeThousandWhysOfBlueCat'': The viewers have sent questions to the studio that have been used for later episodes of the show.
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50[[folder:Comedy]]
51* Creator/JimGaffigan is known to do something similar to this; while not actually having the audience participate, but anticipating what they're probably thinking. You can tell he's doing this when he does a StageWhisper.
52-->"Is he going to whisper to himself after every joke?"
53* Creator/JeffDunham also will answer questions from the audience using Walter.
54* Creator/RossNoble's entire act will be based primarily around the audience's action in the first few minutes, as well as the surroundings of the theater at the time. You are guaranteed to never see the same show twice, and it's triply funny if you see it live.
55* About half of [[Creator/DaraOBriain Dara Ó Briain]]'s act consists of him talking to select audience members.
56* Promoters pay attention: even if a comic at your venue is on this list, or is especially good at audience back-and-forth, please do not advertise in a way that encourages [[AttentionWhore hecklers]].
57* Tim Minchin has also played with this trope on occasion.
58* Bill Dana was a fixture at San Francisco's comedy club the Hungry i, and in an audience Q&A session (which was recorded for the album ''Jose Jiminez, First Man In Space''):
59-->'''Audience member:''' Why do they call this place the Hungry i?\
60'''Dana:''' Has anyone given you any food since you've been here?
61* Music/MitchBenn's show ''Don't Fear the Reaper'' opens with a parody of that very song (originally performed on ''Radio/TheNowShow''). Before this begins, as he's getting onto the stage, he hands a cowbell to someone in the front row with the words "You'll know what to do." (He says on one occasion [[AudienceParticipationFailure this has gone wrong]]: "Never heard the song, never seen a cowbell before.")
62* Creator/RobinWilliams would often go out into the audience during his standup and riff on the people he encountered or the things he saw.
63* This is the shtick of InsultComics such as the late Creator/DonRickles and Creator/LisaLampanelli. If you don't want to be offended, avoid the front row.
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66[[folder:Comic Books]]
67* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' featured what is known as the most infamous example of this trope (at least in comics): a phone poll to decide if Jason Todd would be killed by the Joker's bomb in ''ComicBook/BatmanADeathInTheFamily''. He lost by 72 votes out of a total of 10,614 cast, and proceeded to perish, not returning until the events of ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood Under the Hood]]'' (although he was {{Retcon}}ned into ''ComicBook/BatmanHush'' in 2003 when ''Under the Hood'' established that the graveyard scene had Batman initially fighting the real Jason Todd before Jason fled partway through the battle and was replaced by Clayface assuming his form.)
68* The 1980s version of ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' that ran in ''Adventure Comics'' and ''New Adventures of Superboy'' encouraged readers to mail suggestions for superheroes Chris King and Vicki Grant could turn into using their H-Dials as well as villains that they'd fight, including some more mundane submissions such as what clothing they'd wear or what furniture would be in their homes. Creator/HarlanEllison notably submitted a proposal for a villain called the Silver Fog.
69* In the lead up to the ''ComicBook/HellfireGala'' yearly one-shots, fans are asked to vote for one of six mutants to join the X-Men for its yearly change ups. For the 2021 event, Polaris won the event. In 2022, it was Firestar. 2023 changed things up massively: [[spoiler:to kick off the ''ComicBook/FallOfX'' era, the people being voted in were already chosen to be X-Men. The winner of the vote was instead the SoleSurvivor of Orchis' initial attack. That winner was the Juggernaut]].
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72[[folder:Fan Works]]
73* Despite Platform/FanFictionDotNet outright forbidding this type of fic on their site, these are still quite popular and there are quite a few uploaded there. The most popular being truth or dare fics. (Where the audience makes outrageous dares the characters have to carry out.)
74* The author, [=cuttingmoon57=], once had a poll where fans can decide the size of the katana Luso would get in ''Fanfic/TheTaintedGrimoire''.
75* Another author, ithinkabouttrees, has a ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' fanfiction called Annabeth Chase Versus the Internet, where fans not only give suggestions on what kind of internet based shenanigans the gang runs into, but are encouraged by the author to do so. The comments to last week's chapter may give clues to what might be coming in next week's, depending on which ideas the authors decides to use.
76* [=FanFiction.Net=] writer Mrfipp put up contests for reviewers so they can decide which summon is up next in his ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fanfic.
77* ''Fanfic/CatRa''
78** After changing Catra's reaction to the First Ones' virus to acting like an actual cat, Monokub ran a poll about whether the virus' second appearance should do the same thing, or make her act drunk like Adora in canon. [[spoiler:Drunk won.]]
79** For the dream world at the end of Season 3, he allowed fans to write their own flashback scenes.
80* ''Fanfic/CodeGeassPaladinsOfVoltron'': The author has posted two polls so far, the first of which was to ask who, if any, of the other paladins, would get Geass, and the other to ask if they should give their lions special names beside their colors. [[spoiler: Turns out, they were happy with '''all of them''' getting Geass]]. There was also a review based poll to determine who would end up with who in this story. Based on the tags the story has on ''Platform/ArchiveOfOurOwn'', the final pairings are [[spoiler: Lelouch and Kallen, Rai and Shirley, Rivalz and Milly, and Suzaku and Euphemia]].
81* ''Fanfic/DiscordsNewBusiness'': The story is vote-driven, with the readers deciding who gets transformed into what. More precisely, each chapter ends on revealing who will be the focus of the next chapter. From its publication, the readers have one week to vote for what transformation they want to see.
82** Some chapters let you choose both the transformation and the character, or the transformation instead of the characters.
83* In ''Fanfic/MassEffectHumanRevolution'', Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom-based readers were invited by the author to choose the party members that would go with Adam down to Noveria, as well as which two of the three tasks Adam would undertake in preparation for going after Elsa Devereaux.
84* In ''Fanfic/OpeningDangerousGates'', the author allows the fans to vote on which ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' characters get summoned to the ''Manga/FairyTail'' universe.
85* In the {{Imageboards}} site for ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', most if not all fan-works operate on a multiple-choice (and the occasional write-in) format to influence the direction of the story and the actions of the lead character, ''Fanfic/BeingMeiling'' and its sequels being one work page example from the site.
86* In ''Fanfic/InThisWorldAndTheNext'' Robst held a poll to decide what would happen to Ron Weasley.
87* Used regularly in ''Fanfic/ADream''. If the author likes an idea, theory, or joke put forth by one of the fans, he'll incorporate it into future chapters.
88* ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'' ran competitions for who among the fans would get guest spots, as well as a full Mad Libs contest.
89* ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'' is a "Quest Fic" that places readers into the shoes of Izuku Midoriya and encourages them to vote on how he's going to spend his time, whether it's hanging out with his friends, training, or his strategies in combat with TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} as a basis.
90* Creator/{{Vendetta543}} runs a lot of polls for Fanfic/AnArcForEverySeason. Most of them help to dictate major outcomes in the series and, of course, the [[Main/{{Shipping}} "romantic couple"]] of choice. He also used it to determine, which [[Main/BonusMaterial "omake"]] of the series make next.
91* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': Prior to the release of Episode 39, the author held a Platform/YouTube poll where he asked "Which one of these men is the shiniest hidden gem currently serving the Republic?" The choices were Octavian Grant, Terrinald Screed, Nial Declann, and Gilad Pellaeon, all of whom are ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' characters who served in the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars. Pellaeon, being the most recognizable and well-known of the four, predictably won the overwhelming majority of votes while Screed came in at a distant second place. After this poll, Pellaeon and Screed would appear as POV characters in Episode 39 where they are each commanding one of Kuat Drive Yards' ''Mandator II''-class star dreadnaughts against Battlefleet Xek-Tek in a big SpaceBattle.
92* ''Fanfic/TheWebOfTheSpiderMan'' is written by the same author as ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'' and operates under similar logic.
93* Occam Razor (responsible for ''Fanfic/YuGiOhTheThousandYearDoor'' and ''Fanfic/YuGiOhDarkMessiah'' among others) frequently approached his audience (on a site called The Pokemasters Forum, not FF.net) for character and card submissions, often including them as a ContestWinnerCameo. This ended after he was banned from Pokemasters for various reasons (because, as mentioned above, FF.net doesn't allow this sort of thing).
94* ''Webcomic/GeometryDashEpisodes:'' The project [[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/575043138/editor/ GDE: Retray]] was created with votes deciding on several story events and actions by [=Totalpro64=]. Its sequel ([[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/575043138/ Retray 2: The Second Attempt]]) continues this with [=Saul_Demongamer47=], an insert character the audience created themselves via voting, entering the episode FromBeyondTheFourthWall to help [=Totalpro64=].
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97[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
98* Some anime films make use of "cheering screenings" for their theatrical run, especially for runs of movies featuring {{Idol Singer}}s. The audience usually brings their own penlights and cheer, perform sing-alongs, and even have their own scripted ''Rocky Horror''-style retorts to character antics. Movies that have done this include ''Anime/TheIdolMaster'', the films in the ''VideoGame/PrettySeries'', and even a rerun of the first ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' movie.
99** It's not just anime that gets this treatment: several Bollywood films, ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'', ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' and ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' also got cheering screenings.
100* Sing-along showings of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', in which people are freely able to sing-along to the catchy tunes without feeling like they're trying to stop themselves from singing aloud. Disney would later do similar screenings with ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'', ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}''.
101* ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsMovieIIANewGeneration'' has a small segment at the end where the Care Bears directly ask the audience to chant "I care!" along with them to save a girl cursed by dark magic.
102* No joke, some showings of ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' had live audiences following the instructions of the guards holding the placards in the climatic wedding scene ("Applause", "Laugh", "Awwwwwwwww").
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105[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
106* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' redefined audience participation, to the point that there's an entire script for what to yell and what props to throw. The [[http://www.rockyhorror.com/history/howapbegan.php whole thing started]] when an audience member responded to Janet using a newspaper to protect herself from the rain by yelling, "Buy an umbrella, you cheap bitch!" It just escalated from there. Many theaters that regularly show the movie also have a "shadowcast" of (volunteer) live actors who'll perform in front of and generally engage the viewers as the film is shown, either adhering to the original audience script or (more commonly) making up new jokes all the time, in tune with pop culture and current events. You're almost guaranteed never to see the same exact ''Rocky'' twice.
107* Rocky's sequel ''Film/ShockTreatment'' has had shadowcast productions as well, though due to the larger cast and comparative obscurity they're not as plentiful as ''Rocky Horror''. This is invoked InUniverse as well-the entire movie takes place in a TV studio, where the audience (hinted to be the entire population of Denton) regularly sings along with the music and responds to cue cards. Not to mention that the plot started when Brad and Janet were plucked from the audience to participate in a game show.
108* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' involves this in Australia, specifically the Valhalla theater in Melbourne (until it closed down in 2003), where the audience lovingly recite the dialogue, dress up as their favorite characters, throw items such as white bread, newspaper and stuffed animals at the screen, and dance in the aisles to the movie's soundtrack.
109* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' shadowcasts run on audience participation. The show encourages audience members to stand up and sing during certain key songs (We Started This Op'ra Shit!) or to wave/throw certain props (such as blue glow-sticks for Zydrate containers) at other key moments. The show also has a number of call-backs delivered in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' tradition. Which makes a particular callback fairly obvious, given that the first words shown in the film are "In the not too distant future."
110* ''Film/TheRoom2003'' has elicited this kind of response, albeit not the director's intention. Complete with people throwing plastic spoons, roses and footballs at the screen. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZcgHEY2dHs here]].
111* ''[[http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2010/03/horror_has_a_new_accent.html 13 Street: Last Call]]'' is a film project wherein you, the audience, submit your cellphone number, and the software randomly picks a number and calls it. Throughout the film, the audience member speaks to the protagonist via voice recognition, helping her make vital decisions that drive the film's plot.
112* Anyone who has ever been to a movie theater in India can testify that this is the whole point in watching a Bollywood movie.
113* ''Film/TheOogielovesInTheBigBalloonAdventure'' encouraged the viewers to dance and sing at its screenings.
114* ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'', Creator/WoodyAllen's GagDub film of a Japanese spy flick, has the hero suddenly ask the audience to believe really hard in restoring bullets to his gun, a parody of the ''Peter Pan'' stage play.
115* ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' at one time had people in the audience shadowcasting the performance during the song "Dancin'", where the song deviates between big band and rock.
116* UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} has been trying to make an Audience Participation version of ''Film/SeventeenSeventySix'' happen -- props (including [[ItMakesSenseInContext flies to throw at the screen]]) and all. It's as painfully nerdy as it sounds.
117* ''Film/{{Help}}'': The film has been called "The Rocky Horror Beatles Show" at some conventions (most notably Beatlefest Chicago), where screenings are frequently interrupted by audience members counting the number of times John dials the phone and handing out sticks of Wrigley's spearmint gum during the "Paul on the Floor" segment.
118* During production of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Lucasfilm created four paint schemes for Obi-Wan's new astromech droid (which has maybe a minute of screentime) and had fans vote for their favorite at starwars.com. The shiny-bronze-all-over design won.
119* ''Film/{{Cats}}'' seems to have taken this on, as the film [[BoxOfficeBomb flopped badly]] in its initial theatrical run but has been selling out "rowdy screenings" in [[https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/cats-box-office-flop-is-it-the-next-rocky-horror.html various cities, such as Toronto, Los Angeles, Brooklyn and San Francisco]]. Additionally, the "Mr. Mistoffelees" number seems to encourage audience participation.
120-->"Oh, well, I never was there ever a cat so clever as magical Mr. Mistoffelees..."
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124* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/AsimovsBookOfFacts'': The book has a letter from Dr Asimov, requesting that readers send in ''their'' facts for the next volume of ''Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts''.
125* The ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' series plays with this in the first book, ''The Eyre Affair''. Thursday and Landen attend a long-running production of ''Richard III'' which involves [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow cast members being drawn from the audience, shouted call-and-response from the audience, and pun-based props]].
126--> '''Audience:''' ''WHEN'' is the winter of our discontent!?\
127'''Richard III:''' ''[[[LargeHam hammily]]] '''Now''''' is the winter of our discontent, ''[[[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing audience cheers]]]'' made glorious summer by this son of York ''[audience don sunglasses]''...
128* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' series, readers voted on Mia the Bridesmaid Fairy and Juliet the Valentine Fairy's names.
129* ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'': In ''The Dark Sleep'', Bobbi's stage performance as Shanghai Lil is prefaced by her costar staggering around the nightclub, apparently drunk, and asking the clientele if anyone has seen his girl Lil.
130* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' occasionally holds polls on the official site for the fandom to make decisions. This has included polls about which character should be featured in an upcoming story or book, which dust jacket color or audiobook narrator they prefer, which cats they'd like to be made into plushies, and names of characters including a protagonist's warrior name.
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134* Many [[GameShow game]] and {{reality show}}s use this in various ways. They may get to influence the show by being a gameplay mechanic to assist the main contestant or voting for someone to be [=eliminated/saved/etc=]. Or even better, ''all'' of the contestants on a show may just be plucked from the audience by default (see ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', ''Series/TruthOrConsequences'' and ''Series/LetsMakeADeal'' for examples).
135** On occasion, shows might let audience members play an AudienceGame, usually for small amounts of cash or prizes, if they have time left at the end of the show or if the game ends earlier than usual.
136** Creator/BruceForsyth, who's presented several such gameshows including the British remake of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', has collected several call-and-response catchphrases over his many, many, ''many'' years in showbiz. He tends to keep them going even when he moves on from the show, so they're now so well known in the UK you could probably use them to catch out foreign spies. His most famous one: "Nice to see you, to see you...", to which the audience would respond with "NICE!"
137** The CBS ''Series/MatchGame'' had audience participation of a different sort. Some questions like "Dumb Dora was ''so'' dumb..." prompted the audience to call back "How dumb was she?" (this first started on the panel then progressed into the audience). Audiences booing bad answers were a mainstay as well. They also had audience participation of the normal kind where they would poll studio audiences for the Audience Match segment of the BonusRound. Both of these were carried over when the show was revived on ABC with Creator/AlecBaldwin.
138** ''Series/PakDePoenDeShowVan1Miljoen'' also had audience participation of a different kind. There was a number panel on the front of the screen. If the audience member had the same number as the one that was shown on the panel, they would win the grand prize of 20 million BF. To put this in perspective you only need to know that the winner of the show can maximally win 1.05 million BF.
139* ''Your Number's Up,'' a short-lived show on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1985, had audience members coming to the stage when the last four digits of their phone number showed up on the game board display. They stood behind the contestant they thought would win the game and won a prize if they were right.
140* Many competition shows have or have had a audience vote feature, as part of the show at some point. (usually done through texting or more recently an app option). How much this affects the show depends on... well, the show.
141* ''Series/AmericanIdol'': Audience votes for their favorite to stay in. (exception for this would be the "audition" episodes).
142* ''Series/BigBrother''. Most nations have this as something the viewing public does via a phone line; the US version had it for the first season, but switched over to an internal system among the contestants for later seasons. they sometimes still have some audience vote feature in the US version in some form. by getting resources (One example is season 23 had BB bucks, that you could save for a casino style games that can affect the nomination) even though it's currently house voting. USA ''Celebrity Big Brother'' (not sure if the celebrity version is its own show or not) season 3 had people vote for a contestant to have an extra prize (of cash). And had a 'officially' unplanned vote for the winner if there was a tie in the jury. because [[spoiler: a contested left unexpectedly outside the nomination, and did not come for the jury.]]
143* ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' currently (as of April 2022) has half Judge vote, half audience vote. This is a weird one as the voting is only open during the East Coast and Central Time zone broadcast and is closed after the final commercial break of that broadcast. The official response to this is for Western Time zone people to vote based on last week's episode.(which is why the first episode has no elimination in recent seasons.) Making it a weird example of a redemption not mattering due to some of the voters not seen the most recent episode. The two people who have the least combined score. has the judges decide which one of them goes. (The rules for this gets a little fuzzy for Double Elimination nights.)
144* Until the lawyers told them to stop, there were ''Rocky Horror''-style showings of the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' MusicalEpisode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, with Feeling]]", with props for the audience, shadow casts, and audiences shouting things like "Shut up, Dawn!".
145* ''Series/{{Community}}'' had audience participation of the voting variety. Fans designed their own Greendale flags and then voted for one to become official, the winning one was introduced in "[[Recap/CommunityS2E04BasicRocketScience Basic Rocket Science]]" and the voting was written into the plot as having been done by Greendale students.
146* ''Series/{{Endurance}}'':
147** Audience members at the reunion special got to vote for which male and female contestant that they wanted to return in Endurance 2. The contestant votes counted as individual votes while audience vote only counted as 1 per gender [[spoiler: though Max and Jenna, whom received the most support from the audience, still got chosen to return.]]
148** The fireball mission from ''Endurance 2'' was brought back in ''Tehachapi'' after being voted as the favorite Endurance mission in a fan contest.
149** Garrett and Kelsey of ''Hawaii'' along with Will and Leslie of ''Fiji'' got their initial spots on the show due to being voted in from fans from a selection of other hopefuls.
150* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' features an InUniverse use of this trope: a Klingon Opera audience knows all the songs, and any member might get called on to play any part at any time.
151* The cast of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' gets their improv suggestions from the audience. And will even pull some of the audience into the scene on the fly.
152* ''Series/SportsNation'' is built around audience participation via the polls in which the audience votes on ESPN's [=SportsNation=] website, for which the show was named.
153* In one episode of ''Series/CallMyBluff'', Barry Cryer gets the audience involved in his definition, much to the astonishment of Sandi Toksvig:
154-->'''Sandi''': I can't believe you got Audience Participation from this lot. I always thought they were just a LaughTrack!
155* ''Series/TheDoctorOzShow'': Dr. Oz likes to get his audience involved. At least one lucky member gets to be the "assistant of the day", and sometimes the front row or even the whole studio gets in on something. (Heaven help you if it's a new dance!)
156* ''Series/HotSeatWithWallyGeorge'' had tons of it. Wally would often hold Q&As with audience members, or invite them to grill (or heckle) the guests. They'd wave signs in support of Wally (or, on occasion, his guests). Most memorably, they helped out with the ticket plug; when it came time to recite the final phone number, Wally would shout out "NINE NINE NINE!", and the audience would respond "FIVE THOUSAND!".
157* ''Series/{{Studio3}}'' was a quirky between-shows program for Australia's kids' channel Creator/ABC3. As such, it included a lot of audience participation, such as chances for kids to be part of the show by sending in videos, photos, or popping up on the show's webcam.
158* ''Series/AdamHillsInGordonStreetTonight'' has Audience Participation to the hilt. The audience are asked to fill in a questionaire before the show begins and Hills uses the answers in the show, including calling specific people out. The show sometimes revisits past audience members in later shows, such an Anglican minister who willingly adopted the title "The Church Of The Latter Day Geek" for her own church (much to Hill's surprise).
159* One Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus sketch ("The Cannibal Undertaker") was so offensive, the audience rushed the stage in protest. Actually, the BBC wouldn't let the guys do the sketch without some sort of negative consequences, so they went all out; the audience participation was what allowed the sketch to air. In fact, if you watch the scene, you'll notice that two of the people leading the charge are Creator/TerryGilliam and scriptwriter Ian Davidson.
160* This was how ''Series/That70sShow'' was originally going to have its title decided. The audience for the test screening were to choose between the two {{Working Title}}s, [[Music/TheWho ''Teenage Wasteland'' and ''The Kids Are Alright'']]. But the audience came out of the test screening referring to it as "that 70's show" and [[AscendedFanon the name stuck]].
161* If none of the panelists on ''Series/{{QI}}'' know the answer, Stephen Fry will sometimes ask the audience--and with several hundred people in, usually some of them do know. The audience have thus won several episodes, as the panelists themselves tend to score in the negatives. There are also episodes where special guests are invited in and they sit in the audience for the show. On one episode, a member of the audience came onto the stage with flapjacks when Alan Davis complained of being hungry. It hasn't always gone well for the audience however: On a couple of occasions they've been deliberately [[SchmuckBait baited]] into [[TheDreaded The Klaxon]], and indeed in the episode 'Kit and Kaboodle' the audience actually came last!
162* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', when it premiered on Creator/SyFy, had a home game of sorts where people on the network's website would riff ''[[Creator/RogerCorman World Without End]]'' while it played live. Two versions were made, at 4 pm and 11 pm.
163* "Doubt," a 2004 episode of ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', featured a "he said/she said" rape trial that ended with no announced verdict. An online poll was held and a majority of respondents found the defendant not guilty.
164* ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow'' would start off with star Carol Burnett coming out on stage, and after greeting the studio audience and [=TV=] viewers, she would answer questions from members of the audience.
165* ''Series/TheNightlyShow'': In the first episode, host Larry Wilmore encouraged audience members to cheer or boo when they think a guest is or isn't "keeping it 100." This was effectively an endorsement for the audience to heckle guests who said things they didn't like.
166* ''Series/CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture'' had toys that could interact with the program itself as it was being broadcast.
167* In the late 90's, Microsoft made a line of toys called Actimates that, with the help of a special transmitter, could interact with their respective Creator/PBSKids program. Only ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' and ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' got Actimates made for them.
168* Nina and Melanie Martinez on ''Series/TheGoodNightShow'' encouraged viewers to say Spanish words, learn sign language and stretches, and play games with them.
169* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
170** In a 1982 episode, Creator/EddieMurphy appeared in a chef's kitchen with a live lobster, announcing that fans could vote by phone whether or not to boil it. As part of the joke, Murphy intentionally made the "boil" number far more comprehensible... only for the "spare" option to win. Murphy later cooked the lobster anyways and fed it to his co-stars on-air, citing racist complaints he received regarding the skit. Creator/DCComics editor Dennis O'Neil cited the stunt as a direct inspiration for the phone poll for the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily''.
171** A similar vote was held in 1983; executive producer Dick Ebersol let the audience decide whether or not eccentric performer Creator/AndyKaufman would be banned from the show. The SNL cast was clearly in favor of Andy staying, with Eddie Murphy telling the audience if they could spare a lobster, they could surely spare his friend too. Alas, the voters decided to ban Andy, to the visible displeasure of the rest of the cast. Andy never returned to the show, passing away a year later. These events are dramatized in the Kaufman {{biopic}} ''Film/ManOnTheMoon''.
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175* ''{{Magazine/Analog}}'': Several columns were developed that include unpaid reader submissions. The "Analytical Laboratory" is a tally of reader votes for the best stories of previous issues. "Brass Tacks" is a column where readers share their opinions on the magazine's quality (often [[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike praising]]/[[FanHater bashing]] specific stories), while "Science Discussions" is usually more of a direct back-and-forth about NonFiction things, such as one of the essays in the magazine from half a year ago. %[invoked]%
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179* Music/PaulAndStorm are probably the Rocky Horror of musical comedians; half of their songs just won't work live without banter with the audience. One of their songs, "The Captain's Wife's Lament", is regularly side tracked by joking with the audience and the general consensus is that if it runs ''under'' ten minutes, you've been short-changed (the studio version clocks in 2:25; the record is 35 minutes). In live performances, they'll often make a point of stating the time early in the song. "We are beginning it at 8:26 PM. Those of you who've not seen us before, I mention that because you'll be wondering why we're still singing it at 9:17 PM. And those of you who've seen us know ''I'm not kidding.''"
180* Dutch band ''De Staat'' try their damnedest to emulate the colossal CGI circle pit from the video to "Witch Doctor", finding themselves hampered either by a lack of space or health and safety regulations. They managed it on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXQ8EOWrV0 a small scale]] in 2016, but the barricades bordering the runway stopped them from forming a huge one around a podium at Lowlands [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJRFkGQ_68U three years later]]. Does this stop audiences from forming one for the song regardless? Nope.
181* Music/MyChemicalRomance encouraged their fans to do this with the universe based on the [[Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys their fourth and (currently) most recent album]].
182* Music/TheProtomen have numerous songs where the audience is encouraged to clap along and chant or sing certain parts. Some key examples are the "WE HAVE CONTROL. WE KEEP YOU SAFE. WE ARE YOUR HOPE," in Will of One, and the back-up in Breaking Out.
183* [[Music/{{Daughtry}} Chris Daughtry]] has been known to ask the audience to sing along (either as a [[CallAndResponseSong call and response]] or just letting them have the chorus), even joking with them that it doesn’t matter what they sing as long as they sing[[note]]This is referencing the constantly [[{{Mondegreen}} misheard lyric]] for "Home", "I'm ''going'' home", not "I'm ''coming'' home".[[/note]]
184* Music/ElvisCostello had an entire audience participation ''tour'' back in 1986, and brought it back again in 2011. Called "The Revolver Tour", it featured a giant carnival-style wheel that audience members would spin to determine which song Elvis would play next.
185* Subverted by Music/TomLehrer in his live album ''Music/TomLehrerRevisited'', while introducing "The Irish Ballad", which parodies folk music in general:
186-->''One of the more important aspects of public folk singing is audience participation, and this happens to be a good song for group singing, so if any of you feel like joining in with me on this song, I'd appreciate it if you would leave, right now!''
187* Music/{{Weezer}} did this with the Hootenanny Tour, in which audience members were encouraged to bring instruments along and play along with the band.
188* Anyone who's ever been to a Music/GreenDay concert is aware of Billie Joe's infamous "Hey-Oh's" and doing the YMCA with a Pink Bunny.
189** Green Day is also notorious for bringing fans onstage to play guitar during a song. On some occasions, when they perform Operation Ivy's "Knowledge", they will bring a bassist, drummer, and guitarist on stage to start a makeshift band.
190* The Angels' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jLoxp8EmoM "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?"]] has the traditional response to the chorus "No way, get fucked, fuck off!" [[LandDownUnder Classic Aussie humour right there.]]
191* It wouldn't be a Pete Seeger concert without the audience joining in on some songs. Pete was good enough at this that he could get people singing along to choruses in languages they don't know.
192* Kool Koo Kangaroo is big on getting audiences at live shows to sing and dance along.
193* The Arrogant Worms: "Rippy the Gator" and "Rocks and Trees" are straight examples. "Jesus Brother Bob" has a couple of lines that tends to be spoken by the audience. "Mounted Animal Nature Trail" is a bizarre example, as the animals in the song are dead and shouldn't make noise, but the crowd will make the noises anyway just so the Worms will make fun of them for doing so.
194* Before they retired the song, during live performances of "Misery Business", Music/{{Paramore}} singer Hayley Williams would bring 1-3 fans onstage to either sing, play guitar, or both.
195* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' had the audience at New York's City Center Theater sing along with the Bruces Philosophers' Song. When the audience's first attempt came half-hearted, the Bruces threatened "Anyone not singing will have a bottle of Foster's lobbed at their heads!" The words were presented and the audience joined in full volume.
196* Arlo Guthrie's famous live recording of "Alice's Restaurant" includes a segment of audience participation in which he invites the crowd to sing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant." He chastises their first attempt as "terrible" and has them try again.
197* Bobby [=McFerrin=]'s ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' medley encourages audience participation, from humming "Over the Rainbow", to scatting part of "If I Only Had a Brain", to responding "Oh my!" appropriately to "Lions and Tigers and Bears!".
198* This is Music/{{Milgram}}'s core, stand-out feature, allowing anyone to decide and vote on whether or not they want to forgive a prisoner. The results of the vote influence the story and content of the future songs, with many of the songs from the second trial referencing the fan-voted results from the first. Fans can also ask prisoners questions through the mobile app from time to time.
199* ''Music/ChristmasWithTheTabernacleChoir'': To varying degrees depending on the year and the guests. Special mention goes to Creator/KristinChenoweth who is introduced not by walking on stage but as she strolls around the auditorium greetings audience members as she goes.
200** The 2017 and 2018 concerts each had a sing-along number.
201** The concerts traditionally conclude with the choir and audience joining in an encore of "Angels From the Realms of Glory".
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205* ''Literature/BookOfEsther'': When the book is read aloud during Purim, audiences are [[CheapHeat expected to boo and jeer]] every time they hear the name of Haman (''boooo''!). Noisemakers are even provided just so we can be sure his name is properly drowned out.
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209* ''Creator/HeyJakeAndJosh'':
210** Almost every ''Hey! Jake and Josh'' show has this to some degree. ''Podcast/PokemonWorldTourUnited'' is the most noteworthy since all gym leaders except for Blue are played by patreon sponsors. ''Podcast/PokemonWorldTour'' also has the name-rater segment with viewer-submitted nicknames.
211** ''[[Podcast/MorphinGrid Morphin' Grid]]'', ''Pokemon World Tour'', and ''Podcast/KingdomSmarts'' all have segments for reading listener emails (though for the latter those are usually saved until the end of each game to manage spoiler potential).
212* ''Podcast/{{Psycomedia}}'' starts every episode with a feedback section known as backfeeding and [[BlatantLies will often tackle topics based on requests]].
213* ''Podcast/MarekVsWyshynski'': Prior to [[OnceAnEpisode every episode]], the titular hosts will ask a Question of the Day and invite listeners to give their answers via e-mail or [[Platform/TwitterX Twitter]], with the best answers (as judged by the hosts) being read on-air at the end of each show. Answers that get on the air range from the obvious to the witty - even BlackHumor will occasionally make its way there if it is particularly clever.
214* ''Podcast/TopDownPerspective'': Before being released in podcast/video format, the show is streamed on Twitch, where the hosts always interact with the chat. They also end every show by answering viewer questions submitted to them via Twitter, the show's email address, (rarely) Facebook, and (even more rarely) handwritten letters sent to LetsPlay/ProtonJon's P.O. box.
215* The ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' live shows often have the actors encouraging the audience to say or do certain things, like shouting along with a battle cry, or looking under their seats for an escaped [[EldritchAbomination Librarian]].
216* During {{live episode}}s of ''Podcast/HowDidThisGetMade'', Paul Scheer encourages the fans to perform jingles for the "Second Opinion" segment (where Paul, Jason, June and the guest panelist(s) read five-star user reviews culled from Amazon for the movie of the week). The songs are usually parody versions of existing songs with the lyrics exchanged for something relating to the movie.
217* Most of the episode outros of ''Podcast/MysteryShow'' included host Starlee Kine giving a hint about the next mystery and inviting listeners to guess what it might mean. Also, in episode five, she turns to Twitter for help in locating Jake Gyllenhaal, and things get a little out of hand.
218* The ''Podcast/HouseToAstonish'' live show had volunteers from the audience assisting in "House to Astonish Theatre" (a DramaticReading of ''Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}'').
219* ''Podcast/AnimeSlushie'':
220** For the Winter 2021 taster and onward, Cube and Feen took requests from the Patreon supporters on which anime each of them would watch.
221** The ''Film/JupiterAscending'' slushie was the first episode requested by the patrons.
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225* Professional wrestling lives and dies on this form of audience participation; a suitably "hot" crowd is practically a character in the show. So much so that Dave Meltzer, of ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' fame, factors the crowd into his ratings of matches on his five-star scale. Many matches have been elevated from good to great because of a hot crowd.
226** One of the most infamous incidents was at ECW's Hardcore Haven in 1994, when Terry Funk and Cactus Jack called for chairs to be thrown in the ring and the crowd responded with ALL of them.
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230* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In ''Journey to Ernie'', viewers would be encouraged to help Big Bird find Ernie.
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234* ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue''
235** Used in the intro to the ''Pick-Up Song'' round, parodying that of Creator/BruceForsyth in [[ParodyDisplacement now-long-defunct]] game show ''Play Your Cards Right''. The chairman gives the BorrowedCatchphrase "Winners will be awarded points, and what do points mean?" with the audience [[PhraseCatcher expected to shout back]] "PRIZES!" Due to this being such a well-known catchphrase, they've taken to subverting it.
236--->'''Humph:''' And points mean Gatwick Airport. What do points mean?\
237'''Most of audience:''' PRIZES!\
238'''A few people:''' Gatwick Airport!\
239\
240'''Jack:''' ...And points mean prizes. What do idiots shout?\
241'''Audience:''' PRIZES!\
242'''Jack:''' Thank you.
243** The round "Karaoke-Cokey" requires the audience to hum a well-known tune and the teams to guess what it is. In the stage show, the audience is provided with kazoos, which they use not just in this round but also in "Swannee Kazoo".
244* Just about every hrase in ''Radio/RidersRadioTheater'' involves some form of call and response, usually the whole audience saying the tail end along with the voice actor in unison.
245* In early episodes of ''Radio/JustAMinute'', chairman Nicholas Parsons would sometimes put difficult decisions on challenges to the audience, asking them to cheer for one panellist or boo for the other and declaring the winner to be whichever attracted the louder sound. The Swedish version, ''Radio/PaMinuten'', still uses this approach, although the chairman asks for separate cheers for each of the challenger and the challenged rather than simultaneous cheering and booing.
246* The ''Be Our Guest'' block on the Disney Hits station on Sirius XM has two different Disney fans each week each pick 4 of their favorite Disney songs. Sometimes, the person on the block will be a celebrity associated with Disney, like the cast of ''Series/HighSchoolMusicalTheMusicalTheSeries''. In addition, several songs that were eventually placed in regular rotation debuted on this block first, such as [[Ride/JourneyIntoImagination "One Little Spark"]] and [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie "Stand Out"]].
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250%% * A common feature in children's plays.
251* OlderThanTelevision: ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1904}}'' has Peter demanding that the audience [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve clap to restore Tinkerbell]].
252* Creator/AynRand's ''Night of January 16th'' had a jury selected from the audience to judge the defendant guilty or innocent at the end of the play.
253* At the beginning of the second act of ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'', the emcee comes into the audience (it helps that the theater is set up like an actual nightclub) to search for a dance partner, often leading to ad-libs, such as "I sense fear here."
254* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil often involves the audience in its acts. For example, ''Theatre/{{Mystere}}'' has a bit before the show actually starts in which a clown leads arriving audience members all around the room, to every place ''but'' where they need to be seated.
255* ''Theatre/{{Drood}}'' is built on this trope. Since the [[Literature/TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood source material]] was never completed, the audience decides the identity of one mysterious character, who the murderer is, and which two characters spontaneously fall in love.
256* ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'': In some productions, during the "soothsayer" scene Pseudolus will ask the audience for help as to what to say to Erronius.
257* In ''Theatre/PassingStrange'', we have characters running through the audience and audience members being sung at.
258* ''Theatre/ReturnToTheForbiddenPlanet'' treats the audience like passengers on Scientific Survey Ship Nine, complete with "polarity reversal drills" and a vote as to whether one character should be forgiven or punished.
259* ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' selects three audience members to join in the spelling bee. The setup is rigged so they'll win or lose by certain points of the story.
260* During the "Money" song in ''Theatre/AvenueQ'', the cast runs out into the aisle with buckets and hats asking for money to build Kate's Monstersorri school. All of the money ends up being donated to Broadway Cares: Equity Fights AIDS. After the song, they still won't have enough and will chew out the audience for being cheapskates, and may remark on any strange things that were placed in the hat.
261** A more subtle instance earlier can happen earlier the show. [[Theatre/AvenueQ Kate]] interrupts Trekkie Monster's song "TheInternetIsForPorn" insisting that "Normal people don't sit at home and look at porn on the internet!" Trekkie just stares blankly at the audience. In many productions, Trekkie will point to a guy in the front row and chuckle at him knowingly.
262* ''Modern Luv'': "Turn down the lights, take out your cell phones...", in the final number.
263* Most {{Pantomime}} performances involve their audience at some point. (“Oh no they don’t!” “Oh yes they do!”)
264* Several Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany productions involve the audience:
265** ''Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged'' selects six couples from the audience to play the animals on Noah's Ark. The rest of the audience plays the drowning sinners.
266** In ''Theatre/TheCompleteHistoryOfAmericaAbridged'', the script recommends allowing the arrival of latecomers to interrupt the Amerigo Vespucci sketch, and pausing the action to ask them where they were all this time so that one of their answers can be recycled as a BrickJoke at the start of the second act (when one of the actors hasn't returned yet). Later in the second act, audience members are invited to participate in a history quiz, and are polled on which of two endings to the show they want to see (though their vote doesn't matter).
267** ''Theatre/TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeareAbridged'' has one audience member be Ophelia, another audience member be her ego, the front row be her id, and the rest of the audience be her superego. It's worth noting that Ophelia is not a volunteer; one member of the troupe sarcastically says "That woman there would make a better Ophelia!" and they then decide this is a good idea and drag her onto the stage.
268** ''The Complete Millennium Musical'' uses an audience member as the victim of the Inquisition.
269* Maureen's performance in ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', where she asks the audience to join her in mooing like a cow.
270* At one point in ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}'', [[CharacterNarrator the Cat in the Hat]] plays an auctioneer selling a kidnapped Horton the Elephant, and gets the audience to bid on him. He will invariably mock the audience:
271-->'''The Cat:''' Sold for $50,000 to the good sir with the mustache and the greasy sideburns... oh, [[ViewerGenderConfusion sorry ma'am]].
272* More or less implied in ''Vanities'', while the girls are practicing cheers in the first scene. However, in some productions, audiences find this works so well that they voluntarily choose to shout back at them: "Gimme a T.(T!) Gimme an I.(I!) Gimme a G.(G!) Gimme an E.(E!) Gimme an R.(R!) Gime an S.(S!) Put 'em together and whaddaya get? (Tigers!)"
273* ''Theatre/TheShipThatNeverWas'' has a fair bit of audience participation. Some characters with no spoken lines are played by people picked from the audience, some audience members are assigned characters (and given hats to wear), but said characters never actually appear on stage, and some members are given props and/or told to make sound effects.
274* One of the most famous plays that has audience participation is ''Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding'', which is performed in the style of a wedding reception and has the audience seated at tables while the cast acts from different parts of the theatre (often a converted reception hall). A 2004 film version took out the interactive aspect and was a critical and commercial failure.
275* In ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'', the Knights find the Grail beyond the fourth wall, since the clue is hidden behind a rock (exactly what this clue is depends on the seating plan of the theatre itself). The Knights bring the one sitting in that seat onto the stage to congratulate them. The lucky individual is then awarded a trophy shaped like the Monty Python foot.
276** The audience is also encouraged to join in with the reprise of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life at the end.
277* ''Five Guys Named Moe'' has a lot of audience participation, especially during the final song of the first act, "Push Ka Peesh Ka Pi", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=905fKR0ZbFY which culminates in the audience dancing onto the stage and then out of the theatre in a giant conga line!]]
278* ''Theatre/AccidentalDeathOfAnAnarchist'' presents two endings to the play, and The Maniac invites the audience to choose whichever one they prefer.
279* As part of a production of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' at the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London shortly after its completion, the production company planted audience members who, during the scene in which Mark Antony reads Caesar's will to the crowds to turn them against the conspirators, began shouting, "Read the will!" Soon, the whole audience began to join in, as though collectively playing the role of the crowd at Caesar's funeral.
280* ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'''s second act opens with FourthWallObserver Willy Wonka conducting the entr'acte and then heading into the front row to call up the Golden Ticket winners, who come charging through the aisles, to the onstage Waiting Room. And as he steps off the conducting platform, he briefly takes a seat on an audience member's lap! (If there's an unoccupied front row seat, he might take that instead, but often that's not the case.)
281* ''Theatre/HereLiesLove'' is notable that the immersive setup delineates the political atmosphere. There's a floor-standing audience closest to the the action, while the mezzanine and floorsider seats observe. During line-dancing sequence, all audience members are encouraged to dance. More notable in the musical's conceit is that it implicates the audience in falling for the Marcos regime and its incoming dictatorship.
282* Creator/TeamStarkid:
283** ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon'' has the audience decide upon the names of all the characters in the family. Much like the [[VideoGame/TheOregonTrail game]] it is based on, most of the names tend to end up being quite silly (e.g. Slippery-When-Wet, Crap-Hole). The audience even gets to choose which character [[spoiler:ends up dying of dysentery]].
284** In ''Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier'', the Princess directly asks the audience about Aladdin's intentions at one point. When the audience inevitably tries to tell her that he's not trustworthy, she does not seem to care.
285--> '''Princess:''' (towards the audience) Oh no, you guys! Do you think Jafar could be right?
286--> '''Audience:''' Yes, yeah, of course, etc.
287--> '''One Guy:''' I don't think so.
288--> '''Princess:''' Me either!
289** At the end of ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'', Emma pleads with the audience to help her call for help, asking people to hand her their phones.
290** ''Theatre/SpiesAreForever'': At one point, Baron von Nazi calls on the audience to chant with him.
291-->'''Von Nazi:'''Now say it with me:
292-->Nazis are not so bad, nazis are not so bad
293-->'''Nazis and Audience:''' Nazis are not so bad
294-->Nazis are not so bad, Nazis are not so bad
295-->'''Curt Mega:''' WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
296* ''Theatre/{{Fairview|2018}}'': Both InUniverse and played straight. First InUniverse in the third act, some white people in the audience that have been commenting on the action insert themselves in the story (a black family throwing a birthday party). Then, right at the end, after Keisha (the daughter of the black family) gains MediumAwareness, she tells the white people in the audience to come up on the stage and join the play, so that they will be the people being watched instead of the ones doing the watching.
297* Dave Malloy's ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' relies on audience participation. The cast is constantly running through the audience and hands out things like pierogies and shaker eggs. In one of the songs, two audience members are chosen to be suitors to Princess Mary and Old Prince Bolkonsky. Two characters pull stools into the audience and have a conversation around the people seated there. The character of Anatole repeatedly goes out into the audience and kisses women on the cheek. Letters are also given to the audience directly by cast members to pass to other cast members. Much of the audience is seated on stage for the cast to interact with, and much of the stage is where seating would normally be; there is basically no line between the stage and the seating.
298* As anyone who has ever seen the stage version of ''[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow The Rocky Horror Show]]'' will be able to tell you, it gets just as chaotic and raucous as it’s film counterpart, but with the added bonus of the actor playing The Criminologist (usually a stand up comic, or someone with experience in Pantomime) coming back to the audience with some kind of retort.
299* ''{{Theatre/Matilda}}'' opens its second act with Mr. Wormwood asking the audience if they've ever read a book. He then mocks a particular person, usually in the first few rows, for being a bookworm.
300* ''{{Theatre/Pippin}}'' has the title character's grandmother, Bertha, asking the audience to join her in a singalong. The end of the number averts this when she tells the audience that she has to sing the final verse by herself.
301* In some post-2007 productions of ''[[WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock Schoolhouse Rock LIVE!]]'', after the line "And Pluto, little Pluto, is the farthest planet from the sun" is sung in "Interplanet Janet", the characters living inside Tom's mind realize that something is off, causing whoever is the music director to chime in and tell them the truth about Pluto as the actor playing the planet shows a deflated version of it. Shulie suggests that the audience vote for whether they should make Pluto a planet for the rest of the performance or not. George agrees and does what she suggests, asking the audience to raise their hands if they want Pluto to be a planet. If enough people raise their hands, the "normal" version of Pluto returns, and if they vote no, the deflated planet gets tossed behind the stage.
302* ''Theatre/HedwigAndTheAngryInch'' is very reliant on audience participation, with Hedwig calling on the audience to sing along with her during "Wig in a Box" and getting ''very'' close to audience members during "Sugar Daddy."
303* The plot of the 2022 ''WebVideo/GameGrumps LIVE'' tour "Tournament of Gamers" relies on audience participation. The audience is divided into two teams (Arin's "Team Grump" and Dan's "Not So Grump"), and audience members on each side get called onstage to play various minigames and defeat the other side. The final battle, however, [[spoiler:has Dan and Arin play onstage, with the audience being encouraged to ''cheer'' for one side or the other to power them up, with the FinalBoss being powered by both sides' cheering combined]].
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307* Ride/UniversalStudios LOVES to use this throughout many of its attractions. In particular, attractions like ''Ride/EarthquakeTheBigOne'', ''Ride/{{Disaster}}'', ''Theatre/AnimalActors'', and ''Theatre/UniversalsHorrorMakeUpShow'' have guest volunteers brought up on stage to help demonstrate the many techniques used in the creation of special effects in movies.
308* [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]] has its share of Audience Participation in pretty much 95% of its attractions. Original shows from the past included ''Superstar Television'' where guests can act in select scenes from classic TV shows like ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', ''Series/HomeImprovement'', and others, and the Monster Sound Show, in which guests can add classic sound effects to a short comedic film starring MartinShort and ChevyChase. Superstar Television was replaced with ''Theatre/DougLive'', a [[TheMusical musical]] based on ''WesternAnimation/DisneysDoug'', in which one child played "Quail-Kid," and selected adults played members of The Beets. And after ten years, THAT was replaced by ''The Series/AmericanIdol Experience'', where talented guests auditioned for the chance to be the first in line for a real American Idol audition in their hometown. Other attractions that had audience participation included "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire-Play It!" (which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin more or less a recreation of the TV show of the same name]]), "Lights! Motors! Action!" (in which a guest controlled a stunt car through remote control), the Studio Backlot Tour (guests were picked to get splashed in an underwater mining sequence for an unnamed action film), and "Toy Story Midway Mania" (which is an interactive ride!). Oh, and even one of the RESTAURANTS has audience participation, in the style of a 1950s household with the waiters admonishing patrons to get their "Elbows off the table!"
309* As part of the Millennium celebration that ran from October 1, 1999 to January 1, 2001 [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Epcot]] had the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uZkj35hGfA "Tapestry of Nations" parade]] in the World Showcase area of the park. The Sage of Time character who headed the parade encouraged guests to dance with the performers - most of which controlled various large puppets strapped to their backs - as part of his narration. The performers occasionally interacted with the guests, depending on a given puppet or costume's capabilities. IE: they reached down and had the puppet shake hands with a guest or in the case of the Reverse Marionette, let a guest hold the hands of the smaller marionette.
310* ''Ride/StarTours: The Adventure Continues'': Darth Vader will single out a random member of the audience as a Rebel spy on board, and their picture will show up on the screen.
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314* As a general example, crowd-funded games (such as those on Kickstarter) often involve pledge-participation. In addition to donation gifts for different levels of support, many studios will also poll their backers as to some of the content that will be going into the game. Other times, they will promise to include certain additional features if the project meets certain stretch goals, which can often help drum up a surge of further funding for the project.
315* ''Website/PuzzleClubhouse'' is a series of free online games based entirely around the idea of audience participation. A new game episode comes out on the first of every month, and between episodes, the development team asks the player community to submit game concepts, story ideas, artwork, sound effects, puns, etc, for community vote. The most popular content is integrated into upcoming episodes and becomes part of Puzzle Clubhouse canon.
316* After ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed]]'' was released, Steve Lycett stated that if fans of the game could get at least one hundred votes for 3 different characters from SEGA history, he would pitch those characters to Sumo Digital and SEGA for consideration of being made into DLC. The winners were Advertising/SegataSanshiro, [[VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} Ryo Hazuki]], and [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]].
317* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' features in-universe Audience Participation with its battle system. All battles take place on a stage, with certain factors causing audience members to come in and leave, cheer on the player (which gives them star power, and Mario can even show off to the crowd to gain even more Star Power) or even throw things at the player to help or hinder them. Some enemies will even attack the audience (such as Magnus von Grapple's [[AbnormalAmmo machine gun that fires audience members]], or the FinalBoss ''devouring the entire audience'' to regain health.)
318* In April of 2015, Creator/{{Nintendo}} opened an official polling website known as the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Fighter's Ballot'', where fans could suggest a character to be added to ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' as the game's final DLC fighter. Two months later, VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} was the announced as the winner, coming in first in Europe, placing in the top five in North America, and being first worldwide [[DisqualificationInducedVictory among realizable characters]]. Series creator Creator/MasahiroSakurai would later reveal that the ballot results went on to inform both main roster and DLC character selection for the following game in the series, ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. The characters in question being [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Ridley]], [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Simon and Richter Belmont]], [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry King K. Rool]], [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo and Kazooie]], and [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]]; Sora, in particular, was the actual overall winner of the ballot. It was simply impossible to negotiate with Creator/{{Disney}} for the character within the given timeframe.
319* Domina has this for viewers on Twitch. They can cheer on the fights to increase the prize money and determine the fate of gladiators that surrender. They also vote on decisions the player has to make during events, although the player is not required to make the audience's choice.
320* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'', some concerts will have the option to jump on stage with the singers, dancing along by clicking the mouse in time with the beat.
321* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has an in-universe example: [[spoiler:the audience of the ImmoralRealityShow can talk to the robot [[BenevolentAI K1-B0]] in his head, and serve as his guide]]. Then {{exaggerated|Trope}} when [[spoiler:they hijack him in the last chapter and ''become the FinalBoss'']].
322* The ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' series does this by way of each installment's final [[CavemenVsAstronautsDebate Splatfest]], with the results of the event going on to inform some major element of the next installment.
323** The first game's "[[IdolSinger Callie vs. Marie]]" Splatfest had the latter win, resulting in the two cousins slowly drifting apart (to Marie's complete dismay) between the first and second games, with [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 the sequel]] itself having its main campaign partially concern Callie having disappeared [[spoiler:and later revealed to have become a BrainwashedAndCrazy general for the Octarian Army]].
324** ''Splatoon 2'''s "OrderVersusChaos" Splatfest, led to [[VideoGame/Splatoon3 the third game]] having a "chaos" theme, with the setting shifting from Inkopolis (the metropolis where the first two games take place), to the desert environment of the Splatlands and the more multicultural city of Splatsville.
325* In most ''VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack'' games, anyone who joins a room after the eight contestants enter will join an audience pool. The audience can influence the games in certain ways (like placing votes in ''Quiplash''), and in some cases even participate collectively as an extra "player".
326* Prior to the release of ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar3'', two shirts were made available for the Xbox Live Avatars that were functionally a poll for Clay Carmine’s fate in the game, [[spoiler: with his two brothers being killed unceremoniously early on in the previous two games]]. One shirt said, ”Save Carmine” and the other said “Carmine Must Die.” Each shirt purchased counted as one vote. [[spoiler: He lives! The first and to date only Carmine to survive the events of the game. Two in fact.]]
327* Since 2017, the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series has an annual public poll called Choose Your Legends, for which characters will have special versions of themselves added to ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes''. The honors for each year go to the top two from each gender, and past winners will be removed from the running for future installments of the poll.
328* ''VideoGame/{{Blaseball}}'' has gameplay where you can earn coins, with which you can then buy votes. At first these were used to vote for Decrees (leaguewide rules changes) and Blessings (improvements for your team). Later on, there were Wills (internal team raffles), the Idol Boards (a weeklong popularity contest: your idol could earn you coins), and Renovations and Gifts (highest coin bidder).
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332* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Strong Bad Emails and annual Halloween costume contests.
333* Many of the battles in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' are taken from fan requests. For Season 10, fans were able to vote for two match-ups (one for 2D animation, the other for 3D animation) to become episodes in the season.
334* ''[[WebAnimation/TacoMan Taco-Man Plays a Video Game]]'' lets viewers of the ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin'' review choose what Captain Novolin does to Mayor Gooden via annotations. [[spoiler:If you wait too long, Taco-Man picks the wrong choice, causing Captain Novolin to go to jail.]]
335* Many competition-based ObjectShows, including ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'', the first one which popularized it, allows the viewers to vote on who gets eliminated as well as recommending characters to debut as contestants or simply be part of the crowd in particular episodes.
336* The creators of ''WebAnimation/ClubPenguinShutdown'' use ideas based on what people have written in comments, and showcase them in an aftershow mini-series known as ''Club Penguin Shutdown: The Aftermath''.
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340* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' the audience exists as a black mass of white faces that surrounds Kiel at all times, making her hear the forum posts. In moments where Kiel is knocked out or badly hurt, the audience is told to call out to Kiel, which can go from taking the form of people telling her to wake up, to telling her to wash her hair every once in a while.
341** Unfortunately, it's implied that [[spoiler:Snadhya'Rune has her OWN audience of fan advisors from an alternate Earth]] - hence all the successful mayhem and corruption.
342* The main characters of ''Webcomic/{{Voices}}'' can hear the readers' forum posts in their heads.
343* An important element of ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'', as it is an InteractiveComic.
344* ''Request Comics'' has this as a central conceit: readers can request ideas for Ben Heaton to make webcomics out of.
345* Tempts Fate, the hero of the side-comic to ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', is sometimes indirectly aware of the audience's guesses to the riddles he must solve. One time he says "I bet if a lot of people made a guess, they would say...", while another time he states that "Over 400 people wrote [the answer to the riddle] on the door.."
346* ''Webcomic/TheJupiterPalladium'' has [[http://jupiter-palladium.com/universe/fan-character-portal fan characters which appear from time to time]]
347* ''Webcomic/BooksDontWorkHere'' has NoFourthWall and all the {{Non Player Character}}s are afraid of what would happen if the audience stopped reading the comic. Because of this anyone who is an avatar of someone in the real world is treated as a first class citizen, and lives in the lap of luxury. Readers who donate to the comic can request an avatar of themselves.
348* In-universe, the Traveling Heterodyne Shows in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' often have this. Case in point:
349-->'''Actress [[TheVamp Lucrezia]]:''' Who has deactivated my beautiful frogs?!?!\
350'''Audience:''' (''while pointing at actor [[TheHero Bill]]'') HE DID!!!!
351* The comics of ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' started out this way, being framed as [[{{MUCK}} text-based games]]. Originally fans submitted suggestions for the next 'command' which would become the next panel(s) of the comic. However, the growing fan base and increasingly complex plot resulted in the suggestion box for ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' being closed altogether, though fan suggestions and ideas are still incorporated into the universe on a smaller scale.
352** Naturally, [=MS Paint Adventures=] inspired ''Webcomic/{{Prequel}}'' (and some other comics and "Ask [character]" blogs) uses this. In the former case, how much participation there is is variable; either the audience bands together to make poor Katia miserable, or the author conveniently handwaves some reason for the audience's helpful suggestions to be ignored, and still sometimes the audience suggestions will be closed temporarily for things to happen outside of her control. (When they try to force Katia, or the current protagonist, to do things that clearly go against the character's nature, it gets written off as a particularly perverse or self-destructive impulse that they are annoyed with themselves for even having.)
353* Played for laughs in [[http://zeropercentdiscountcomic.tumblr.com/post/63210576328 this]] strip from ''Webcomic/ZeroPercentDiscount''.
354* ''Webcomic/{{Oceanfalls}}'' takes reader submitted command suggestions and uses them to advance the story. As expected, the commands submitted range from plot related to downright absolute memetic nonsensical suggestions.
355* Level 9, 10 and 11 of ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'' have an overreaching plot involving the three main characters (Rusty, Mimic and Cube) choosing two companions each for a specific quest. Said choice is done through the readers voting for any characters from earlier in the comic (except for those aforementioned three and the Princess, who's been kidnapped) they fancy. Choices are guided either by who could be the most useful for said quests, of who could provide the most entertainment (since the vote can include former villains too).
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359* Most (but not all) of the tweets on Blog/MakeUpAGuy are follower submissions messaged to the account.
360* In October 2018, On, the creator of the {{VideoGame/Grow}} games, made an audience participation game called ''[[https://twitter.com/ONKICHI/status/1049285632743206914 Grow RT]]'' on his Japanese Twitter account. The game consisted of an image of a creature and gave the audience two choice of how the creature would evolve, similarly to how ''Grow ver. 1'''s gameplay works. If the image would get enough reteweets, the creature would evolve and the audience would be presented with two new options to choose from (All steps can be seen [[https://twitter.com/ONKICHI/status/1051456468065513474 here]] on reverse order). The game got interrupted a week later due to the creator's health problem. In December 2020, he tried the concept [[https://twitter.com/EYEZMAZE/status/1341373413701521415 once again]] on his more popular English account (All steps can be seen [[https://twitter.com/EYEZMAZE/status/1341742325416960010 here]]). Once there was not enough people to reach the next evolution step (largely because the game went on a little hiatus), he decided to conclude the game with an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAlLO-co0us animation]] that was made thanks to the specific choices the audience made during the Twitter game.
361* Imageboards such as Website/FourChan and Website/{{Questden}} involve many scenarios called "Quests" where audience participation is the most important part of the story. The level of MediumAwareness of the main characters varies between nonexistent (characters believe that they are making queries to their subconscious and making the choices themselves) to completely aware (with many characters freaking out at the start of their stories upon listening to voices in their heads for the first time). Voting and arguments are frequent.
362* Some of the links on ''Website/NobodyHere'' invite the reader to submit content themselves.
363** "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/blasphemy.here Blasphemy]]" tracks the movements of the readers' cursors to be played when other readers open the link.
364** "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/reality.here Reality]]" shows a dead dragonfly, with its body parts being pulled apart by ants. The ants' movements are the actions of the previous visitors.
365** "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/apologies.here Apologies]]" allows readers to submit things they would like the author to apologize for.
366** "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/wait.here Wait]]" asks the audience three questions, and the answers are displayed for everyone to see: "What are you waiting for?", "What are you doing in the meantime?" and "What if it doesn't happen?".
367** "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/avoid.here Avoid]]" can be described as an "anti-dating" page, which asks you to name four things that they love or hate--whether by manually typing them or by selecting them from a list of previous responses--as well as adding your name. It will then produce the names of a user that you should avoid, one whose opinions are different to yours.
368* Being an open species Art RPG, everyone wanting to join in on the WebOriginal/SeldnacRae is able to make their own Seldnac character and create stories set in their world.
369* The two leads of ''WebOriginal/SheaScientificFilms'' will interact with tweets and [=YouTube=] comments in-character.
370* ''Roleplay/SolarWind'' allows its audience to make decisions to move the plot forward. This mechanic was especially prevalent in the first few chapters.
371* Let's Plays on the Website/SomethingAwful forums will often have audience participation in the forum topic, if the game has scope for such a thing.
372* All of the segments of the Creepypasta story ''WebOriginal/VoxAndKingBeau'' were originally posted on /x/ with the author writing as the titular character. Vox posted about the strange happenings in her life and frequently asked /x/ for advice, actively encouraging and responding to comments.
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376* ''WebVideo/SevenSecondRiddles'' has a variant; some riddles never actually have definitive answers, and are instead deferred to the commenters, who can then theorize amongst themselves as to what the "correct" answer is. On at least on occasion, a riddle's answer was chosen from the comments section.
377* ''WebVideo/BreakItToMakeIt'': Viewers are able to submit ideas for items to use in future videos to break stuff with.
378* Chuggaaconroy:
379** He based his Let's Play of ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Animal Crossing: New Leaf]]'' on this idea. Once per 2-3 episodes, he asked fans about some idea(e.g. next public works project or his new clothes), and everyone was able to send him his/her suggestion.
380** Whenever he plays a Pokemon game, the fans are allowed to choose the nicknames of his party members.
381* LetsPlay/ClumsyChicken's live Platform/YouTube streams are built around this. Viewers can request areas for her to go to/specific enemies to defeat/specific party configurations.
382* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' takes majority of matches from comments under videos, and even encourages it in one of announcer's catchphrases: "''WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE!''" Starting from season 2, fans can also vote for official winner of the battle.
383* WebVideo/{{Failboat}} has had a couple streams where he allows his live chat to play games alongside him, each viewer typing in inputs to control the character, akin to ‘’WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon’’. Things tends to go off the rails quickly. [[https://youtu.be/5KOVSsSOoKk The first time]] they did this was with ‘’VideoGame/SuperMario64’’, where they tried to get the first star in the game. [[https://youtu.be/EeiADx8fvss Later, Chat controlled Bandana Waddle Dee]] in ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' and joined Failboat in defeating all three arena boss rushes. Soon after, [[https://youtu.be/0ZbQpOEkues Chat played another Kirby game]], this time ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', with Chat playing as Kirby and Daniel playing the allies.
384** Fail has also done a couple of live performances where he bring audience members to compete in a contest of Mii making (using VideoGame/{{Miitopia}} to create popular characters from Miis).
385* WebVideo/FishtankLive: Along with having a live chat for subscribers, viewers can spend money on "tokens", which they can spend to vote on polls, or send text-to-speech messages to various rooms in the house. They can also cash in their tokens on "fishtoys", with various effects such as sending goodies to contestants, switching on/off camera feeds, or turning up or down the temperature in the house.
386* ''WebVideo/GameTheory'' has the Super Amazing End Card Tournament -- a poll about a set of subjects related to the video shown or about the next episode [=MatPat=] covers. Only a few times does this impact what is shown, such as what subject for the next episode.
387* LetsPlay/{{Gronkh}} often lets his viewers decide what to do next in his [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]].
388* WebVideo/{{Jacksfilms}}:
389** "Your Grammar Sucks," where Jack makes fun of incoherent Internet comments, has viewers screenshot the comments and send them to him on Twitter or Facebook.
390** YIAY (Yesterday I Asked You) is a series where Jack asks his audience questions and shows off their best answers in his video. Sometimes he goes beyond straightforward questions and asks viewers to create photo manipulations, make valentines, or write lyrics for a song. YIAY led to a few {{Spin Off}}s like "Fix Your Pix," where Jack edits user-submitted photographs, and "Fake Facts" where Jack makes clickbait images out of fake trivia his fans create, then asks his audience to submit proof that it fooled their friends. Jack also runs a live Twitch game show based on YIAY where he competes with fans to have the funniest response to a question.
391* Many of WebVideo/Jerma985's more ambitious streams allow the chat to participate in whatever he has going on. His carnival stream, for example, necessitated chat input to operate robots to perform a series of simple carnival games. The ''WebVideo/Jerma985Dollhouse'' streams were a more ambitious flavor of this, with chat dictating Jerma's clothing for the day, his activities, and where furniture would be placed.
392* Prior to releasing the second season, the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' parody ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' put out some teasers for said season, in which fans were encouraged to call a phone number and answer an automated survey. It turned out that the survey only asked the caller to state two things: their name and how many sexual partners they have had throughout their life. The results were included in the "Sex Survey Results" video which was released along with the rest of the second season.
393* ''WebVideo/LostInGoogle'': The scripts of the episodes are based on the viewers' comments and suggestions from the previous videos.
394* ''WebVideo/LostPause'': A significant part of Noble's content is his reaction videos. With his Try Not To Laugh challenges, he asks his fans to send him funny pics or clips.
395* One of the appeals of ''WebVideo/MovieNight'' is that you can submit your own reviews of the movies that Jonathan Paula is reviewing.
396* LetsPlay/{{Marriland}}, also known as Devin, did this at the end of his ''Yellow Sleeplocke''. After he (as Hello) [[spoiler:loses to Mewtwo,]] he ends up depositing two of his Pokémon but keeps the four mains used in the Sleeplocke in the party. Why? Because he has challenged his Twitch audience to a final battle, with the viewers controlling Hello, and Devin using his four main Pokémon from the old team from long ago, consisting of Pikachu, Pippi the Clefable, Zippy the Charizard, and Porkchop the Primeape. Devin has the audience vote on the moves and strategize. In the end, [[spoiler:Devin is defeated by the audience itself]].
397* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': While many of the creators' [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall stream chats have been canonized from their introduction]], they become crucial in the finale on Day 134 when they are invited to vote for whether the pirates choose to [[spoiler:fight against Ivy (the heart of [[TheHeartless the Corruption]]) or Iris (the leader of [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist the Church]])]] in the end, judging by ''their'' knowledge and belief of [[spoiler:who's the true villain]] after watching the SMP, with the total votes tallying up for a final decision. They choose to [[spoiler:fight [[BigBad Iris]] and are able to help the pirates {{Earn Your|Happy Ending}} BittersweetEnding.]]
398* {{LetsPlay/Skawo}}'s Patreon Supporters can decide which playthrough will be up on Patreon early, regular viewers can decide what format some games will be displayed in (E.G. Whether Twilight Princess would be displayed on a Game Cube, a Game Cube hacked to have wide screen, or the Wii U remake).
399* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'''s hit mechanic allows viewers to donate to streamers and tell them a player they want them to kill.
400* [=SomeGuy712x=]'s let's play videos allow any users to vote on which level he plays next. Many players also throw in jokes with their votes, so the vote recap starts with a long list of "1 vote for [thing in comment]" before the actual results are listed. Sometimes, these spawn {{Running Gag}}s throughout the playthrough. In ''EVERY LEVEL IGGY!'', viewers could vote for which {{Self Imposed Challenge}} he would use while playing the next episode's levels.
401* LetsPlay/TearOfGrace occasionally plays the games suggested by his audience and decides whether a series is successful and worth continuing by the amount of people who like and view it. He also regularly hosts polls in his comment section about whether or not a series should stay or be "slayed".
402* Anyone of the ''WebVideo/{{React}}'' members will always tell the viewers to comment what they should React next on the next episode of any React series (''Kids'', ''Teens'', ''Elders'' and ''Youtubers'').
403* Double subverted in the ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'' "Perfect "Pokérap" video, which was filmed at a panel at PAX East 2019. A RunningGag has Brian put questions up onscreen for the audience to read aloud, only to chew them out because he said there would be no audience participation, and that was just a test. However, when Brian realizes he can't say the names of every Pokémon in the short timeframe he's been alloted, he gets the audience to shout out a bunch of Pokémon whose names he couldn't fit into the rap.
404-->'''Brian''': I love all the Pokémon, but here's the catch,\
405Saying them all kinda seems Farfetch'd!\
406Lemme Axew a question, wanna help me out?\
407It's time to Throh in more names, come on, give me a shout!\
408''[Right side yells out 200 names]''\
409Those Pokémon are Tentacool!\
410''[Left side yells out 200 other names]''\
411And those Pokémon are trash!
412* Given that ''WebVideo/TheWhiskeyVault'' revolves around a deeply subjective topic (namely, sampling and reviewing all kinds of whiskey), hosts Daniel and Rex are not comfortable doing list episodes. The ones that they have done on ''The Whiskey Vault'' and its sister channel ''The Whiskey Tribe'' have all been based on feedback given by their fanbase which is collated together to create the list for each such episode.
413* ''WebVideo/{{Xiil3gendaryzetsubou}}'' do this during their Twitch streams to decide things like who to spend time with in ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'', who to take into battle in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', which route to take in ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'', etc.
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417* ''WesternAnimation/BlindVaysha'': This animated short is about a girl, Vaysha, who sees the future with one eye and the past with the other, but never the present. At the end the narrator invites the viewer to close their right eye. A blank bright screen is shown and the narrator muses about how the movie hasn't made yet. The narrator then tells the viewer to close their left eye. A dark screen is shown and the narrator says the film has crumbled to dust. Then the narrator wonders "do we see the world with the eyes of Vaysha the blind?"
418* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had, at the end of season 22, a vote to decide whether Ned Flanders and Edna Krabappel should get together. [[spoiler:They did...and they even got married!]]
419* Parodied and subverted in ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'', where Jim has his super suit stolen by Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head and replaced with a powerless version. He tries various methods to get superpowers to compensate, to no avail, before finally BreakingTheFourthWall in desperation.
420-->'''Jim:''' (''to the audience'') I'll get superpowers if you all just ''believe''! [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Believe and clap very hard!]]\
421(''beat'')\
422'''Jim:''' Well? Are they clapping?\
423'''Peter:''' [[AudienceParticipationFailure Uh... a few of them. Most of them are just changing the channel.]]
424* Cosgrove in ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' also appeals to the audience to clap to get them out of a bind (this time getting Freakazoid and him out of a trap). This time it actually works.
425-->'''Cosgrove:''' Throw in some [[InherentlyFunnyWord "huggbees"]], too!
426* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Prick Up Your Ears" played with this trope. At certain points, the cartoon would pause and an announcer would say "If you want X to do Y, text [=FAMGUY1=], if you want X to do Z, text [=FAMGUY2=], etc", then played some relaxing music. Once that finished, the cartoon would then act out the one the public "picked."
427* A season two episode of ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' utilized a cartoon gauge to determine which team would win an event by means of home viewer applause. Mildew Wolf (one of the commentators) would hold his mic up to the camera (which we see as a close-up of it). Naturally, the Really Rottens got bupkis.
428* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha''; in one episode, the three protagonists and Sally GotVolunteered for this watching a pro match after one wrestler "dares" the other to fight with four junior luchadores in his jersey. (''And'' they help him escape a pin.)
429* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' did this twice: once as a hotline for who would win in "Justice League's Next Top Idol Star" and the second as to which alternate forms of the Titans would appear in the "Beast Girl" episode. The latter of which was infamous for being [[VeryFalseAdvertising false advertising]], as all of the Titans in the episode turned out to be [[spoiler: GenderBender versions of themselves]].
430* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' did this for the names of the Mighty Twins. Via a special phone number, children could vote for one of two sets of names [[note]] Tuck and Ella and Junior and Rosie, the former of which wound wind up winning[[/note]] after texting the word "TWINS".
431* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' had two different endings for each season, because during the week leading up to the season finale, the broadcaster in whatever nation would hold a vote as to who the audience wanted to be that season's winner. When asked which ending is canon, [[WordOfGod Tom McGillis]] stated that both endings are canon.
432** This was subverted in ''World Tour,'' only because the audience poll had the final ''three'' up for voting instead of the final two - [[spoiler:Cody, Heather, and Alejandro]]. In America, since [[spoiler:Cody]] had always been a fan favorite and was the only one of the three to not be a villain, he received far more votes than either of the other two. However, he lost early in the finale and got third place, with most of the episode being a competition between [[spoiler:Heather and Alejandro]]. The winner in America was the runner up in the votes, [[spoiler:Heather]].
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