Audience Participation Failure: Difference between revisions

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A subtrope of [[Audience Participation]]

* Joan Baez once led her entire audience in a "repeat-after-me" version of "Amazing Grace". It didn't work so well when she tried it at Live Aid. That crowd wouldn't start singing along until she segued into "We Are the World".

* During their concerts, [[Dragonforce (Music)|DragonForce]] get the crowd to sing a part of their song, "Through the Fire and Flames". While performing a different song, "Operation Ground and Pound", in Ohio, the crowd just laughed and cheered when ZP Theart held out the microphone. He then went on a short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJQG9W8qxBo tirade] about this.

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* One skit on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' had Tom Servo, dressed as a cheerleader, doing the whole "give me an S!" routine. Mike and Crow are slow to cooperate, but eventually concede and give Servo "an M, an R, a ''small'' x, and one L," leading to Servo chanting about "MRxL."

* As a joke, ''[[Bill Bailey]]'' often gets the audience to sing along to La Bamba. Needless to say, it dissolves into gibberish quite quickly.

* Arlo Guthrie, at the end of "[[~~Alices~~ Restaurant (Music)|Alices Restaurant]]", trying to get the audience to join in on the chorus. The first attempt causes Arlo to say "That was awful" and try again with more success.

* Arlo Guthrie, at the end of "[[Alice's Restaurant (Music)|Alices Restaurant]]", trying to get the audience to join in on the chorus. The first attempt causes Arlo to say "That was awful" and try again with more success.

* [[Weird Al]] has a contingency for this on "Dare to Be Stupid". At the "I can't hear you!" part, he expects the audience to shout back "Dare to be stupid"...and if they don't do it loud enough, he'll [[Overly Long Gag|keep saying "I can't hear you!" until they do]].

* [[Whose Line Is It Anyway (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]], Greg Proops attempted to get the audience to sing along with him as a response to improvise in the style of a pantomime. When he only got a few responses, he yelled out: "'''SING, DAMN IT!'''" He got them to sing.

* [[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]], Greg Proops attempted to get the audience to sing along with him as a response to improvise in the style of a pantomime. When he only got a few responses, he yelled out: "'''SING, DAMN IT!'''" He got them to sing.

** In the game Hoedown, the audience typically claps in tune to the music. During one episode, however, the audience simply could not clap in sync for a good 20 seconds. The audience had to stop clapping and start again for them to finally get it right.

* Invoked for laughs in Ugly Duckling's "Opening Act." Despite the increasingly desperate pleas for the audience to shout "I wanna rock right now," the only response is a single "YOU GUYS SUCK!"