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. 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. Thomas & Friends's songs use a cloud of smoke produced from Thomas' funnel at the beginning of each song in place of a ball.

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] The intro for Les Kassos has a bouncing ball over the lyrics of the theme song. Although on the last syllable, the ball falls from the words and hits Dark Papy in the helmet. 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. Season 2 Episode 14 of Wakfu has this for the theme song in the opening credits, with Az as the "bouncing ball".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. 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. In the reprise of the refrain of Barnes & Barnes' Fish Heads, a bouncing fish head is used over the lyrics.

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. Most versions of the Ghostbusters Licensed Game by Activision do this on the title screen with the movie's Theme Tune. Used in the musical segment of ReBoot's third season finale, during the performance of the Mainframe Strolling Players, where they recap the season by way of a musical number. In this instance Scuzzy is the ball.

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HBO also used it once, as part of an April Fools' Day variant on their "Starship HBO" intro, which replaced the typical footage with a cheap, public-access style copy; the ball in this case followed the original music (another variant of the April Fool's intro had a cheap kazoo version of the music instead and no "bouncing ball" lyrics) 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. When Monty Python performed "The Philosopher's Song" during Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the "bouncing ball" was the head of a Bruce.