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* In the patient select screen of DieAnstalt, Lilo will sometimes tap on the screen with one of his blocks.

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* The Scout of ''TeamFortress2'' does this in "Meet The Scout". As a neat detail, his screen-poke leaves a greasy smudge that stays on-screen for the rest of the short.

* In the patient select screen of DieAnstant, Lilo will sometimes tap on the screen with one of his blocks.

* In the patient select screen of [[DieAnstant]], Lilo will sometimes tap on the screen with one of his blocks.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-One of the more [[LiteralMetaphor literal]] examples-] ]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[-One of the more [[LiteralMetaphor literal]] examples of BreakingTheFourthWall-] ]]

* In a TV spot for [[SlyCooper Sly 2: Band of Thieves]], Sly taps the screen with his cane and asks "So, uh... you in?"

* [[HomeStarRunner Strong Bad]], in a bid to escape the [[BreakingTheFourthWall 'tiny box,']] actually 'breaks' your screen at the end of the ''Trogdor'' video.

* Mr. Opportunity from Honda commercials.

As TechnologyMarchesOn, the "screen glass tap" sound effect is still in use despite being an [[TheArtifact Artifact]] due to the rise of flat-screen LCD's not made out of glass, though some ads now feature a "dull thump" sound effect instead to compensate for this change.

* Henry and June do this in almost every episode of ''KaBlam!''.

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* [[TeamFortress2 The Scout]] does this in ''Meet The Scout''. As a neat detail, his screen-poke leaves a greasy smudge that stays on-screen for the rest of the short.

* {{Deadpool}} in ''MarvelVsCapcom 3'' will shake the screen and berate the player for his or her laziness after winning a fight.

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* Hugo has a habit of doing this when you die in the games.

* [[TeamFortress2 The Scout]] does this in ''Meet The Scout''. As a neat detail, his screen-poke leaves a greasy smudge that stays on-screen for the rest of the short.

* ''{{Bubsy the Bobcat}}'', at least in the first of his games, knocked on the screen as one of his {{Idle Animation}}s. In a nice little touch, [[ScreenShake the screen even ''shook'']] when he did it.
* Tino from ''TheWeekenders'' sometimes does this at the beginning of an episode, and even does it during the theme song.
* In ''LimboOfTheLost'', the hero will tap the screen to get your attention if you spend too much time doing nothing. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that, unlike most video games, you are actually a character: his guardian, who is guiding him.