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* ''WesternAnimation/LittleEinsteins'' stars four child prodigies who, by the age of six, have mastered various musical instruments and forms of interpretive dance, but are still worse at problem-solving than your four-year-old is, and constantly needs their help. Er... [[IdiotBall sometimes]], anyway.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LittleEinsteins'' stars four child prodigies who, by the age of six, have mastered various musical instruments and forms of interpretive dance, but are still worse at problem-solving than your four-year-old is, and constantly needs their help. Er... [[IdiotBall sometimes]], anyway.help.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTigger&Pooh'' stars Darby and her pet dog Buster who encourage the viewers to help them solve mysteries with Pooh and his friends.
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** "Play With Me Sesame" features Ernie, Bert, Grover, and Prairie Dawn encouraging the viewers to play along with several activities.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTonkaTown'': In "Race Day In Tonka Town", Chuck The Dump Truck asks the audience to "rev their engines" with him, which will somehow allow him to gain enough speed to RampJump out of a pit he'd gotten stuck in. Oddly, this was the only instance of Fake Interactivity in the entire show.
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* In a CollegeHumor live video. Hardly Working: Believe!, the above-referenced theatrical experience of Pan where the audience is clapped to keep Tinkerbell alive. However, this takes a dark turn as one of the audience members is violently threatened for not clapping hard enough.
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* In the ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'' theatrical movies, the audience is encouraged to interact with Shimajiro and company. Just like in the Pretty Cure example above, the theater patrons are given a special cardboard megaphone in order to "respond" to Shimajiro.

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* In the ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'' theatrical movies, the audience is encouraged to interact with help Shimajiro and company. Just like in Similar to the Pretty Cure example above, the theater patrons are given a special cardboard megaphone in order to "respond" to Shimajiro.
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* Like most ObjectShows, ''{{WebAnimation/ONE}}'' gives the viewer the choice on what character should be eliminated at the end of each episode. But as Stone later reveals right before he is eliminated, the viewer's votes don't matter, and the eliminated character had already been chosen before the show even began.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LittleEinsteins'' stars four child prodigies who, by the age of six, have mastered various musical instruments and forms of interpretive dance, but are still worse at problem-solving than your four-year-old is, and constantly needs their help. Er... [[IdiotBall sometimes]], anyway. Can be FridgeBrilliance, since prodigies or not, they're still just children.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LittleEinsteins'' stars four child prodigies who, by the age of six, have mastered various musical instruments and forms of interpretive dance, but are still worse at problem-solving than your four-year-old is, and constantly needs their help. Er... [[IdiotBall sometimes]], anyway. Can be FridgeBrilliance, since prodigies or not, they're still just children.anyway.
* ''WesternAnimation/LouAndLouSafetyPatrol'': Whenever there's a safety violation, one of the twins gives their magnifying glass to the viewer and asks them for their help to look for it.
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* Animated TV series ''Boo'' also plays this trope straight, requiring the viewer to point out where Boo's hiding. As the show's TitleThemeTune explains "Can you find Boo? It's all you have to do!"
* ''Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?'' has Mikey ask the viewers to choose which thing Al should do in a scenario given.

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* Animated TV series ''Boo'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Boo}}'' also plays this trope straight, requiring the viewer to point out where Boo's hiding. As the show's TitleThemeTune explains "Can you find Boo? It's all you have to do!"
* ''Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?'' ''WesternAnimation/CanYouTeachMyAlligatorManners?'' has Mikey ask the viewers to choose which thing Al should do in a scenario given.



* ''Engie Benjy'' added this in beginning series 3, complete with kids' voices answering the characters.

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* ''Engie Benjy'' ''WesternAnimation/EngieBenjy'' added this in beginning series 3, complete with kids' voices answering the characters.



* ''WesternAnimation/MaryokuYummy'': The Wishing Ways segments do this.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MaryokuYummy'': The Wishing Ways segments do this.ask the viewers for help.



* Also a staple of the Nick Jr. channel's "Puzzle Time" interstitials with Moose A. Moose.

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* The animated series ''Wonkidoos'' uses this. Similar to ''Blue's Clues'', children's voices are used to answer the question. Unlike most of these examples, they don't even give you time to answer the question yourself!

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* The animated series ''Wonkidoos'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Wonkidoos}}'' uses this. Similar to ''Blue's Clues'', ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', children's voices are used to answer the question. Unlike most of these examples, they don't even give you time to answer the question yourself!

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* In the ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'' theatrical movies, the audience is encouraged to interact with Shimajiro and company. Just like in the Pretty Cure example above, the theater patrons are given a special cardboard megaphone in order to "respond" to Shimajiro.



* In the ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'' theatrical movies, the audience is encouraged to interact with Shimajiro and company. Just like in the Pretty Cure example above, the theater patrons are given a special cardboard megaphone in order to "respond" to Shimajiro.
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* Some [[LiveOnStage stage adaptations of children's programs]] such as ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' ''Live'' or ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' ''Live'' will use a form of this in drawing an audience response, similar to the way a children's show that uses this will do. Even so, because the show is usually pre-recorded, it must go on even if the audience response isn't particularly energetic that day, or even if some of the audience decide to be contrary.

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

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* Some [[LiveOnStage stage adaptations of children's programs programs]] such as ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' ''Live'' or ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' ''Live'' will use a form of this in drawing an audience response, similar to the way a children's show that uses this will do. Even so, because the show is usually pre-recorded, it must go on even if the audience response isn't particularly energetic that day, or even if some of the audience decide to be contrary.
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* In ''Film/BarneysGreatAdventure'', this trope is used thrice: when Barney encourages the viewers to sing ''Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'', when Baby Bop asks them if they've seen her blanket and [[spoiler: when Barney motivates them to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve imagine]] a log can fly in order to get the EggMacguffin back from a hot air balloon]].

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* In ''Film/BarneysGreatAdventure'', this trope is used thrice: when Barney encourages the viewers to sing ''Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'', when Baby Bop asks them if they've seen her blanket and [[spoiler: when Barney motivates encourages them to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve imagine]] a log can fly in order to get the EggMacguffin back from a hot air balloon]].
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* While the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' series averts this, the trope is played straight with the rare video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6pC3EoIgnw VeggieTown: Greetings from Bob and Larry]]''.

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* While the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' series averts this, the trope is played straight with the rare video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6pC3EoIgnw ''[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=C6CS0WKe9h8 VeggieTown: Greetings from Bob and Larry]]''.Larry]]'', which has the characters ask questions to the viewers. Justified, as it was meant to be used as part of a Vacation Bible School cirriculum.
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* In the ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'' theatrical movies, the audience is motivated to interact with Shimajiro and company. Just like in the Pretty Cure example above, the theater patrons are given a special cardboard megaphone in order to "respond" to Shimajiro.

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* In the ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'' theatrical movies, the audience is motivated encouraged to interact with Shimajiro and company. Just like in the Pretty Cure example above, the theater patrons are given a special cardboard megaphone in order to "respond" to Shimajiro.

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