diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f461f88c5963..7b9144d93eed 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -134,3 +134,4 @@ ibis/examples/descriptions
 
 # automatically generated odbc file for ci
 ci/odbc/odbc.ini
+*-citibike-tripdata.tar.xz
diff --git a/docs/_renderer.py b/docs/_renderer.py
index 77d2220026ff..79cd5c146402 100644
--- a/docs/_renderer.py
+++ b/docs/_renderer.py
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ def render(self, el: qd.ast.ExampleCode) -> str:
             lambda line: quartodoc_skip_doctest in line or skip_doctest in line
         )
 
-        has_executed_chunks = False
-
         for chunk in toolz.partitionby(chunker, lines):
             first, *rest = chunk
 
@@ -39,11 +37,22 @@ def render(self, el: qd.ast.ExampleCode) -> str:
                 # check whether to skip execution and if so, render the code
                 # block as `python` (not `{python}`) if it's marked with
                 # skip_doctest, expect_failure or quartodoc_skip_doctest
-                if any(map(should_skip, chunk)):
+                if skipped := any(map(should_skip, chunk)):
                     start = end = ""
                 else:
-                    has_executed_chunks = True
                     start, end = "{}"
+                    result.append(
+                        dedent(
+                            """
+                            ```{python}
+                            #| echo: false
+
+                            import ibis
+                            ibis.options.interactive = True
+                            ```
+                            """
+                        )
+                    )
 
                 result.append(f"```{start}python{end}")
 
@@ -67,22 +76,16 @@ def render(self, el: qd.ast.ExampleCode) -> str:
                 result.extend(rest)
                 result.append("```\n")
 
-        examples = "\n".join(result)
-
-        if has_executed_chunks:
-            # turn off interactive mode before rendering
-            return (
-                dedent(
-                    """
-                    ```{python}
-                    #| echo: false
-
-                    import ibis
-                    ibis.options.interactive = False
-                    ```
-                    """
-                )
-                + examples
-            )
-        else:
-            return examples
+                if not skipped:
+                    result.append(
+                        dedent(
+                            """
+                            ```{python}
+                            #| echo: false
+                            ibis.options.interactive = False
+                            ```
+                            """
+                        )
+                    )
+
+        return "\n".join(result)
diff --git a/ibis/expr/api.py b/ibis/expr/api.py
index b0e9ba4704fd..5b3ebd14b14b 100644
--- a/ibis/expr/api.py
+++ b/ibis/expr/api.py
@@ -326,8 +326,7 @@ def table(
     Create a table with no data backing it
 
     >>> import ibis
-    >>> ibis.options.interactive
-    False
+    >>> ibis.options.interactive = False
     >>> t = ibis.table(schema=dict(a="int", b="string"), name="t")
     >>> t
     UnboundTable: t
diff --git a/ibis/selectors.py b/ibis/selectors.py
index bd851d4c9def..9bc5f1a9e654 100644
--- a/ibis/selectors.py
+++ b/ibis/selectors.py
@@ -180,11 +180,8 @@ def numeric() -> Predicate:
     >>> import ibis
     >>> import ibis.selectors as s
     >>> t = ibis.table(dict(a="int", b="string", c="array<string>"), name="t")
-    >>> t
-    UnboundTable: t
-      a int64
-      b string
-      c array<string>
+    >>> t.columns
+    ['a', 'b', 'c']
     >>> expr = t.select(s.numeric())  # `a` has integer type, so it's numeric
     >>> expr.columns
     ['a']