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* Blue licks the screen at the end of "Laugh With Blue" from ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou''.

* The titular character from ''Zapper'' does this on the title screen after a randomised amount of time (sometimes not doing it at all before the game enters AttractMode).

* On ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTiggerAndPooh'', at the end of the "One Big Happy Family" song in ''Tigger & Pooh and a Musical Too'', Buster licks the screen. He also does this in the opening of the story "Roo's Kite-Tastrophy."

* [[Franchise/HugoTheTVTroll Hugo]] has a habit of doing this when you die in the games.

* In ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'', one of Franchise/JakAndDaxter's introductions involves Daxter tapping on the screen while Jak stands in the background.

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 uses now feature a "dull thump" sound effect instead to compensate for this change.

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* In 1991, after Bo Jackson broke his hip, Nike ran a new "Bo Knows" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOVHVII4tXI commercial]] showing him training to get back into shape. Creator/DenisLeary, the narrator, ends the commercial by saying "I think you hear me knocking, and I think I'm coming in, and I'm bringing Bo and his big bad hip with me" before knocking on the screen twice.

* [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo "Find a happy place! Find a happy place!"]]

* The first series of Creator/VictorLewisSmith's ''{{Ads Infinitum}}'' opens with an animated Victor proclaiming "Hello, my name is Victor, I am a TV critic, and I live inside your television." He then taps several times on the screen with his remote control, accidentally smashing it on the last tap.

* The first series of {{Victor Lewis-Smith}}'s ''{{Ads Infinitum}}'' opens with an animated Victor proclaiming "Hello, my name is Victor, I am a TV critic, and I live inside your television." He then taps several times on the screen with his remote control, accidentally smashing it on the last tap.

* The {{Wii}}mote does this in [[http://www.super78.com Super 78 Studios']] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZbxfwnLfA Wii - Hold on Tight! 2]], presumably to test its durability after [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qfMK23avLY the previous video]].

* Daniel Tiger Jr. will nuzzle the screen in WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood. You can hear it.

* Tino from ''TheWeekenders'' sometimes does this at the beginning of an episode, and even does it during the theme song.

* Creator/{{Channel 4}} played with this trope in its promos in the early 1990s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owFNCvoyAOs (14'14" in)]].

* [[RobPaulsen Mr. Opportunity]] from Honda commercials.

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

* [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} Sometimes, in my game]] ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' I'll shake the screen and berate the player (that's you) for your laziness after winning a fight.

* {{Channel 4}} played with this trope in its promos in the early 1990s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owFNCvoyAOs (14'14" in)]].

* Whenever the fourth wall in ''AnEpicComic'' is messed with enough, it begins to crack up.

* In ''LimboOfTheLost'', the hero will tap the screen to get your attention if you spend too much time [[IdleAnimation doing nothing]]. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that, unlike most video games, you are actually a character: his guardian, who is guiding him.
* In ''[[PacMan Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures]]'', Pac-Man will tap the screen if you leave the game paused [[IdleAnimation for too long]].
* Banjo does this in the opening theme of ''BanjoKazooie''.
* [[{{Deadpool}} Sometimes, in my game]] ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' I'll shake the screen and berate the player (that's you) for your laziness after winning a fight.

* ''SimonTheSorcerer'', Simon does this to show the player he is 'getting bored' when the player does nothing [[IdleAnimation for too long]].
* In the VirtualVillagers spin-off Virtual Families a sick character will tap on the screen to get the player's attention if they haven't noticed the illness.