Basic Trope: An attempt at Audience Participation goes wrong.
- Straight: When Artist and the Band are performing, they start off by asking "Are you ready to rock?" The audience is completely silent.
- Exaggerated: The audience begins booing and rioting on the stage.
- Downplayed: A few people cheer, but it's clearly not the intense reaction the band was hoping for.
- Justified:
- The band is unpopular and just an opener for the actual attraction, whom everyone wants to see instead.
- The band is too indecipherable for the audience to understand even the simple question they start with. note
- Inverted: The audience members collectively ask a question to the band, who don't respond.
- Subverted: The band asks it again and gets a more positive response...
- Double Subverted: ...by one participant, as the rest are silent.
- Averted: The audience responds appropriately.
- Enforced: It's in a Show Within a Show. The writers wanted to establish that the artist is unpopular, so they had them fail to appeal to the audience.
- Lampshaded: "That didn't go very well, did it?"
- Discussed: "Oh, they're trying to get the audience excited. I hope it works out..."
- Conversed: "Remember that gimmick they hyped up and they wanted us to join in, but then everyone was just unimpressed?"
Say it with me, now! Audience Participation Failure! ... (crickets)
