Basic Trope: A non-interactive media that utilizes pauses (usually after asking a question) so that viewers can "answer".
- Straight:
- The Edutainment Show Learning with Alice and Bob often features the titular characters asking viewers questions, such as "What is 2 + 2?", before pausing for a few seconds and saying something such as "You're right, it's 4!".
- In Learning with Alice and Bob, the titular characters ask viewers questions like "What is 2 + 2?". Then they pause for a few seconds and a chorus of children's voices answers "Four!". After that answer is given, the characters say something such as "You're right!".
- Exaggerated: The whole show is just 20 minutes of Alice and Bob asking the viewers how to do even the simplest tasks.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob briefly ask the viewers if they know what 2 + 2 is, and then they say soon afterwards that the answer is 4.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Viewers are prompted to ask Alice and Bob a question, and then they say a response.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob are talking to offscreen Cute Mute Charlie.
- Double Subverted: But after they ask the question to Charlie, they ask it to the viewers.
- Parodied:
- Alice and Bob ask the viewers what 2 + 2 is. A moment later, they get angry, and tell them to respond. They get even angrier, yelling and swearing at them to answer the question, and eventually they get so angry that they break the camera.
- Alice and Bob ask the viewers what 2 + 2 is. A moment later, they say "Oh, okay."
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Learning with Alice and Bob is actually an interactive media, such as a video game, and therefore viewers can actually input their answers.
- Enforced: The television show's creators want the viewers to have some opportunity to think about the answers to a question, even if they can't actually respond.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: When Alice and Bob don't know the answer to a question, they ask the viewers, who (hopefully) respond and teach them.
- Defied: "Who are you talking to? You know you can't actually hear them, right?"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I don't know what's weirder; answering the questions of kids' TV show hosts, or staring back at them while waiting for them to reply."
Do you want to go back to Fake Interactivity? (pause) Great, I'll see you there!
