-> ''"It's like the audience participation at the Christmas Panto. We all know damn well the forthcoming events will not change whether we yell 'He's behind you!' or not! But you're going to hold everything up until we say it, aren't you, you fucking cross-dressing bitch?!"''
-->-- '''Yahtzee Croshaw''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''

->"''I flip to this channel to find: no sound, no movement, just [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer a cartoon Latino girl and her monkey]] staring at me hungrily/happily. It was one of those moments of truth, as if god was trying to tell me something. The moment seemed to go on forever, surreally self-reflective. I realized that I do need to enjoy the silence, to look at myself instead of watching all these movies. Reality was indeed outside the television. Then the monkey said: [[color:red:THAT'S RIGHT! The answer is Three! Now, can you see where Conchita's shoes are?]] So, with a sigh of relief, I learned nothing and spent the next hour or so watching Creator/AdultSwim. :)''"
-->-- '''Jared von Hindman''', ''[[http://headinjurytheater.com/article13.htm Head Injury Theater]]''

->''"[[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]] always says she’s going to need '''my''' help, like can I find a magic thing, she waits for me to say, “Yeah.” I shout out, “Behind the palm tree,” and the blue arrow clicks right behind the palm tree, she says, “Thank you.” Every TV person else doesn’t listen."''
-->-- Jack's thoughts, ''{{Literature/Room}}''

->''"We've got to tell the bird to put the egg down! Say, 'Put it down!' Again! Now [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve flap your wings]] while you do it! Flap your wings and yell! '''Don't question it, just do it!'''"''
-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Maraka]]''', ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', "TV Funhouse"

->'''Dora''': I bet I can fly. Do you think I can fly? [pauses for a moment, then begins crying in frustration] I've never been able to hear you! It's the show's big lie!
-->--''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', "Dora the X-plorer"

->"'Interactive TV' is an extremely silly and worthless fad, but it'll probably be with us for a long time, so we might as well get used to it. The whole concept, obviously, is oxymoronic -- there's nothing less interactive than broadcast television. In order for something to be "interactive," I have to be able to interact with it, which means that my participation has to matter somehow. I can interact with a website -- the ''[[Series/PlayWithMeSesame Play With Me Sesame]]'' website is a decent example of this -- because, on a basic level, my pointing and clicking has some effect on what happens on the screen. It talks to me, I "talk" back to it, and that's an interaction. But if something's being broadcast at me on TV, then there's no way that I can have any impact on what's happening on screen. The show keeps going whether I feel like movin' and dancin' or not; I can't even slow it down or pause it. In fact, it would keep going just the same, even if I choked on my breakfast cereal and passed out on the carpet. The "interaction" is only one-way, and therefore, we're not interacting -- it's just acting upon me.

->Which means, basically, that the show is shouting at me and giving me orders, and not very coherent ones. "Bullfrog belly breath!" they say, and then they show me a picture of a bullfrog breathing. Then they cut to a kid moving her arms out and then towards her stomach. "Breathe in deep! Now let it go!" That's with a shot of a lion stretching on all fours. "Cow monkey neck roll! Roll, roll!" That's with a shot of a monkey doing a somersault. Then they show the kids rolling their heads around on their shoulders. This is all impossibly confusing. By the time I figure out what it is that they expect me to do, they're doing something else. Plus, the motions that the kids in the studio are doing are not the same as what the animals in the nature-show footage are doing. It's not immediately clear whether I'm supposed to be turning somersaults or just moving my head around, and the instruction "Cow monkey neck roll!" is only marginally helpful.

->By the way, I'm not really trying to follow the instructions, of course. I'm just imagining what it would be like if I was trying. I don't really feel like movin' and dancin', and nothing on the screen is making me want to do anything but sit on the couch and shake my head. I feel fairly comfortable that the children of the world are doing the same, if they haven't already changed the channel or started drawing on the walls with magic markers.
-->-- [[https://www.toughpigs.com/journalanimaljam.htm The ToughPigs review of ''Animal Jam'']] (the kids' puppet show on Discovery Kids, not the [[VideoGame/AnimalJam video game]])

->''What was your favourite part of this episode? ...({{Beat}})... I liked that too.''
-->-- '''Dora''', ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''

->'''[[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lynn Loud Jr.]]''' ''(in a story)'': "What do you mean 'why not'? Ugh, fine, I'll explain."
->'''Luna Loud''': "Did the audience just talk back to her?"
->'''Lincoln Loud''': "Weird. They never talk back to ''me''."
-->-- ''Fanfic/PeekingThroughTheFourthWall'', Episode 33

->''Say the oath with us and do what we do!''
-->-- '''Darby''', ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTiggerAndPooh''

->''"There you are. Something very odd has happened. Yes, I'm talking to you, who's watching me...talk to you."''
-->-- '''Oprah''' in an ''Series/OddSquad Needs You'' advertisement