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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. Season 2 Episode 14 of Wakfu has this for the theme song in the opening credits, with Az as the "bouncing ball". 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.
In the reprise of the refrain of Barnes & Barnes' Fish Heads, a bouncing fish head is used over the lyrics. In The Ramones' cover of the iconic Spider-Man song, the bouncing ball is, appropriately enough, a spider. Which, at one point, gets squished against the screen by the sole of the singer's shoe. 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". 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.The Nostalgia Critic's review of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier had a bouncing William Shatner head during a sing-along of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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". 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.
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.The music video for Metronomy's "A Thing for Me" carries this into the real world...with hilarious results. 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.
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!" Sarah Silverman's HBO special We Are Miracles includes a performance of her song "Diva" that comes complete with this. 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] 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.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. Identical in every way, just shrunken down so this bouncy castle fits where the larger one doesn't. 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. 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.
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