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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. 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.

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. 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!" 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. 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.Identical in every way, just shrunken down so this bouncy castle fits where the larger one doesn't. 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. Sing Along with Mitch is often thought to have used this trope due to "Common Knowledge", but Mitch Miller said this is due to people getting mixed up with the Fleischer sing-along short subjects of the 1920s and 1930s; his TV show merely showed the lyrics on-screen.

This is a staple of I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME's lyric videos, starting with "Bleed Magic" and continuing with most songs from Razzmatazz. This fits in well with the band's Retreaux aesthetic, as it gives the videos the appearance of old singalong VHS tapes. The music video for Metronomy's "A Thing for Me" carries this into the real world...with hilarious results.Homestar Runner: "Homestar vs. Other Little Girl" includes a sing-along for the song Other Little Girl improvises to help Homestar remember that people can't stay in two places at the same time. Unlike most examples, the ball bounces underneath the lyrics, instead of on top of them.