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In the season 2 episode "Brush With Greatness", Krusty the Klown has a segment in his show called "Kroon Along With Krusty" where the kids sing with him. The lyrics are shown on TV with a bouncing Krusty head. Identical in every way, just shrunken down so this bouncy castle fits where the larger one doesn't. According to Wikipedia, the bouncing ball was named and invented by Max Fleischer, the founder of Fleischer Studios, in 1924. Usually the "ball" is a big red dot, but sometimes it'll be a different color, or some manner of icon appropriate to the setting. The ball may also highlight whatever word or syllable it touches, or leave a dotted line as it travels across the words.
A sing-along version of Frozen was released in January 2014, where the audience can follow a bouncing snowflake. A November 2014 DVD/Digital HD re-release includes both the original and sing-along versions. Frozen II also received a sing-along re-release in January 2020, included as an extra on the Blu-ray, UHD, and Digital HD copy. 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. Referenced in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode Godzilla vs. Megalon during the "Jet Jaguar Song" host segment: "I'd tell you to follow the bouncing ball, but...uh...we don't have one."Spoofed in one episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, when the crystal ball used to talk with Vincent Van Ghoul goes into a stream. As the gang chase after it, Scrappy yells, "Follow the bouncing ball, and everybody SING!" What follows is a bad rendition of 'Row Row Row Your Roat' to which Van Ghoul comments, "This is the worst dinner music I have ever heard!" The video for "Walk the Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was) puts the chorus lyrics on screen with a bouncing ball, but over a completely different (and instrumental) section of the song. This was used in the Great Mighty Poo's Villain Song in Conker's Bad Fur Day, where the lyrics were put up onto the screen whilst you read it with a ball made of crap... made even funnier by the profane and crude lyrics of the song.
Referenced by name in the Big and Rich song "Freak Parade". Of course, the song consisted almost entirely of the phrase "Somebody's got to be unafraid to lead the freak parade" repeated over and over again, faster and faster until the end of the song. What's This Song?, an NBC game show from 1964, averts this. Contestants identify songs then they have to sing the first two lines of the chorus which is shown on-screen. The bouncing ball is not used. 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. Sarah Silverman's HBO special We Are Miracles includes a performance of her song "Diva" that comes complete with this. Skullmonkeys did this for a part of the ending cinematic for the song "Klogg Is Dead" with a bouncing skull.
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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. The DVD of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) includes a sing-along version of the "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" song with a bouncing dolphin, naturally. An early ad for ZooPals (a brand of animal-themed paper plates for kids) used the plates themselves instead of a ball.
Thomas & Friends's songs use a cloud of smoke produced from Thomas' funnel at the beginning of each song in place of a ball. Played straight in the 2006/2007 sing-along series. The ball for the songs will be represented by an object or character that is related to the song. The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: The HD home media releases include the option to watch the movie in an "Everything is Awesome Sing-Along". 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. To this day, kids' singalong tapes and DVDs still use this technique from time to time; modern karaoke videos use a variant without the ball, merely by highlighting the appropriate text with the appropriate rhythm.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". Drill-X in Skylanders: Giants is a large drill robot ... who sings. Sort of. True to form, his singing is subtitled, with a miniature icon of the robot's face bouncing across to the beat. ( video ) Batman: The Brave and the Bold: A little Plastic Man in ball form provides the bouncing ball as Plas leads a merry sing-along of a lyrically-mangled version of "Yankee Doodle" in "Cry Freedom Fighters!". 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.
Used (and played with) quite often in Animutation, with " French Erotic Film" being an example . In this case, the bouncing ball is Jay Jay the Jet Plane until it collides with Princess Diana's car, at which point Di's decapitated head becomes the bouncing ball. After many adventures under the guidance of Illyana Rasputin and Shadowcat, Goldballs and his teammates express uncertainty about continuing as students anymore. [1] Wait Till Your Father Gets Home has a variation in its opening: While Irma sings the Title Drop, Harry is seen driving his car over a bumpy road formed by the words. Advertisements for Meow Mix cat food occasionally feature a bouncing ball while the cats are meowing the product's theme song.Guns N' Roses' " Garden of Eden ". Not only does the song have the fastest singing possible, but during the guitar solos, the ball keeps bouncing in plain air. When Monty Python performed "The Philosopher's Song" during Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the "bouncing ball" was the head of a Bruce. Most versions of the Ghostbusters Licensed Game by Activision do this on the title screen with the movie's Theme Tune.
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