Played mostly straight (the ball was grey, not red) in the karaoke episode of Kappa Mikey. Played with in one song, however, in which, rather than bouncing over the lyrics, the ball is bouncing away from the cast while they try to catch it. Most versions of the Ghostbusters Licensed Game by Activision do this on the title screen with the movie's Theme Tune. Advertisements for Meow Mix cat food occasionally feature a bouncing ball while the cats are meowing the product's theme song. Every Drawn Together DVD set has a sing-along special feature. Considering what kind of show it is, you can probably guess what kind of things they use in place of a bouncing ball.

On episode "New Kids on the Blecch", the chorus of "Drop Da Bomb" has the phrase, " Yvan eht nioj" appear on the bottom of the screen, with a bouncing Ralph Wiggum head. A much straighter example would be Discovery Family's "Sing-Along Sundays", in which a bouncing ball engages audiences to sing along with songs from Strawberry Shortcake, Littlest Pet Shop (2012), and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The Magic Christian opens with a snippet of "Come and Get It" by Badfinger over a shot of a 10-pound banknote, with the lyrics transcribed by a bouncy ball. Speaking of One Piece, some TV specials had a song called "Family" as their ending, sung by each of the Straw Hats. The lyrics in romaji were shown on the bottom of the screen, with a cute bouncing ball representing whoever was singing at that point (If it was the entire crew, it was the Going Merry's figurehead). Skullmonkeys did this for a part of the ending cinematic for the song "Klogg Is Dead" with a bouncing skull.

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Sort of the karaoke of its time, but intended for a mass audience. Musical literacy was a much bigger deal in the early 20th Century.

After many adventures under the guidance of Illyana Rasputin and Shadowcat, Goldballs and his teammates express uncertainty about continuing as students anymore. [1]

An 1998 ad for ABC's telecast of Babe featured a parody of "Old McDonald Had a Farm" with the ABC logo as the bouncing ball. Galavant uses a bouncing bird for the lyrics of “Love Makes the World Brand New” in the second season. No other songs in the show have lyrics on the screen. In the film In Like Flint, when Derek Flint is on an Aeroflot plane going to Cuba, he starts a sing-along in Russian and a red star (symbol of the Soviet Union) bounces on the subtitled words (also in Russian) as they are sung.

There was a marathon of Spongebob Squarepants and The Fairly Oddparents episodes that featured at least one song, and they displayed the songs' lyrics, encouraging viewers to sing along. Though not really a straight example (it merely highlighted the words as they were sung), it fits this trope. Keynotes, an Australian game show that unsuccessfully attempted an American version, affected the bouncing ball. Contestants scored musical notes to a song they had to identify. Each time a note was added, the notes were played with a bouncing ball.For the 2016 Week 2 Monday Night Football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears, ESPN ran a commercial implementing this trope with both teams' fight songs, using the teams' logos as the bouncing ball. There's also a dangerous bouncing ball which you probably shouldn't follow. Do not confuse with Happy Fun Ball. To some, the flashy text looked a lot better than the standard texting, and actually helped enhance the moment. As much as it can be enhanced. Averted during the sing-along segments of The Beatles. The segments simply ran the text of the song lyrics, usually with a mini-adventure starring the Beatles, or a proto-music video.

When Monty Python performed "The Philosopher's Song" during Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the "bouncing ball" was the head of a Bruce. The intro for Les Kassos has a bouncing ball over the lyrics of the theme song. Although on the last syllable, the ball falls from the words and hits Dark Papy in the helmet. WeimTime's Synthesia covers of other songs have little chibified heads of the characters who sing their respective parts bouncing on the words of their lines. For example, a tiny Garnet head is used as the bouncing ball for their cover of "Stronger Than You". Follow the bouncing ball" is a technique of directing singalongs in movie theaters (and later on home video) where the lyrics are displayed as onscreen subtitles while a ball bounces along each word or syllable of the lyrics, in sync with the actual beat and rhythm of the song. Fabio Medina is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He previously went by the codename Goldballs, but has changed to Egg following changes in the X-Men during the " Dawn of X" relaunch. The character is depicted usually as a member of the X-Men or as a supporting character in stories featuring the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man.

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In a sort of cross between this trope and closed captioning, displaying lyrics of opening and ending songs on screen is very common for not only anime, but Japanese TV in general. Goldballs next appears in Spider-Man, where he is seen attending Brooklyn Visions Academy, where he becomes the classmate of Ganke Lee and Miles Morales, aka the second Spider-Man. [2] In fact, later Sing Along Songs releases have a new version of the theme sung by Sebastian the Crab that retains the "follow the bouncing ball" lyric, but the lyrics to the theme (and the songs afterward, by extension) are displayed using the highlighting method. Curiously, this version of the song does remove direct references to Disney. Averted in Silent Hill 3's joke ending. The ridiculously goofy lyrics to the "Silent Hill Song" are simply highlighted in red as they are sung, even though a SH-themed bouncy ball likely would have made it even funnier.