History Main / AllBalloonsHaveHelium

* A commercial for a Clinique skin care product has a ''water balloon'' floating.

* In Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'', [[RuleOfFunny Sir Hiss inflates a balloon (from the inside!) and is able to zoom around like a helicopter using his tail as a propeller]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'', the human version of Pinkie Pie briefly floats around the gym at Canterlot High with a balloon she inflated.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2'', the hatchlings inflate Zoe to try to rescue some eggs they lost. Despite Zoe only being inflated by the other birds blowing into her, she does float upward into the sky, and even into space.

* Subverted in one ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'' story. A witness claimed he saw a man known for handing out balloons abducting a child when one of his trademark balloons flew into a tree and got stuck. The witness said he climbed the tree to retrieve it when he saw the balloon man put the kid in his car and drive off. Encyclopedia deduced the witness was lying because the aforementioned balloon man always inflated his balloons by mouth, and therefore none would have flown.

* Played with in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'': Mrs Slocombe is accused of being drunk, and she's asked to blow into a breathalyzer balloon. She does so and the balloon floats away.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'': Aerodent, the aerial rodent, blows up its own teddy-bear balloon.

* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' had two examples involving Dick Dastardly. In the ''The Great Cold Rush Race'', Dastardly inflated an inflatable version of the Mean Machine from ''inside'' it to overtake the other cars into first place, but it backfired when Muttley tapped him on the back, inflating Dastardly. In ''Whizzin' to Washington'', Dastardly uses his breath to inflate a giant balloon hoping to send the other cars away by popping it. The balloon floats while Dastardly is inflating it, allowing the cars to pass.
* ''Animation/VinniPukh'', the balloon Pooh uses to reach the beehive was already inflated, but then Pooh blows even more air into it to make it bigger and only then he manages to fly up with it. Earlier, Piglet tried blowing air into it and inflated ''himself''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': In "Toon Physics", [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Orson Whales]] gave a lecture on this after Furball falls victim to an InflatingBodyGag, [[DiscussedTrope pointing out]] that "any old gas will do" for making an object float in cartoons. He also said that a can of baked beans would've been funnier.

* Happens in the second season credits for ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''.
* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' in the episode ''Mummy Pig's Birthday''.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', Clifford inflates a balloon, which floats.
* An episode of the ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' cartoon had Sgt. Snorkel eat so much that he got a literal BalloonBelly and floated away. Makes even less sense than normal examples of this trope, as he's stuffed with ''food'', not air.
* Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''; a child photographer tries to get Maggie to smile by increasing the pitch of his voice, only to dejectedly realize that the balloon just contains air.
* Happens in the opening sequence for ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'', where Lu attempts to inflate a balloon, but the air blows back inside her, causing her to inflate and float away.
* Mr. Funny did this once in ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow''.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges'', Curly inflates himself so he, Larry and Moe can escape a castle where all the exits are locked.

* ''WesternAnimation/InchHighPrivateEye'': The end of the opening titles has Inch High, plummeting to the ground, blowing up a balloon that manages to keep him airborne.

* Occurs at the end of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' when Christopher Robin re-inflates the balloon that Pooh and the others thought was popped when it was really deflated.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'':
** "Dial P For Pink" has a thief inserting a balloon in a hole in the side of a safe he's trying to crack (with the Panther inside it thwarting his every move) and inflating it with his breath. The safe rises, as the thief walks off with the safe tied to a string floating above him.
** "Pink Outs" (a series of 12 unrelated comedy vignettes) has a segment where the Panther offers to blow up a little boy's balloon. It is inflated to giant proportions, then the air in it suddenly expels back into the Panther. He is now balloon sized, floating in mid-air, as the little boy walks off with him, holding Pink's tail.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PippiLongstocking'', as she manages to inflate her father's ''hot air balloon'' with nothing but her breath and have it fly. Then again, we're talking about [[SuperStrength Pippi]], so this isn't too surprising.
* The 1947 WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short ''WesternAnimation/WideOpenSpaces'' ends with a wobbling tree branch pounding onto the pump attached to Donald's air mattress, which floats up in the sky as it expands.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4clfO06TMkI An Old Navy commercial from 2006]] had a woman blow a bubble that lifted her into the air, and people started forming a human chain to make sure she doesn't float away. Said bubble eventually became the size of a house and the chain had at least 15 people wearing denim jeans.
* A series of animated commercials for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa2AHMGqRzk Bubblicious bubble gum]] from the early 80's had kids blowing "The Ultimate Bubble" with their product, allowing them to float off the ground and ''travel through outer space''.

* Storm Jaxon, the hero of ''Skuljagger'', uses a variety of gum as power-ups. The cherry gives him hovering abilities.
* In ''Sid & Al's Incredible Toons'' and ''The Incredible Toon Machine'', a pack of bubble gum is one of the objects in the game and may be used by Sid or Al to take flight.
* ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' has a puzzle whose solution is to inhale a helium balloon and then chew some bubble gum so that it floats out of a window. Besides this being [[RuleOfFunny physiologically impossible without Guybrush passing out from lack of oxygen]], one wonders how both helium and bubble gum were accessible in the [[AnachronismStew 17th century]].
** Guybrush is famously capable of holding his breath for a very long time.
* Two optional quests in ''VideoGame/LilGatorGame'' give you an item you can equip to let you float. One (for rescuing the kid who was riding a bunch of balloons) is an actual helium balloon that appears and disappears, and the other (for cleaning the cardboard monsters off the old man's roof) is gum that you blow bubbles with.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "The Big Flub" centered on a bubble gum-like substance that was marketed as Pep. It allowed its user to float using the bubbles that were blown. The advertising campaign and its effect made it incredibly popular until its horrific side-effects were discovered.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PippiLongstocking'', as she manages to inflate her father's ''hot air balloon'' with nothing but her breath and have it fly. Then again, we're talking about [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Pippi]], so this isn't too surprising.

* ''VideoGame/FlowerKnightGirl'': Balloon Vine specializes in creating balloons, whether for achieving [[CallOfTheGreatBlueYonder her dream of flight]] via {{Balloonacy}} or [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponizing them against pests]]. {{Justified|Trope}], as aside from her use of magic [[AppliedPhlebotinum being one way to sidestep the issue]], her handmade efforts are made possible via a special type of medicine that makes one's breath lighter than air, allowing for the buoyant effect when the balloons are inflated by just blowing into it.

* ''Webcomic/StupidFox'' [[http://stupidfox.net/73--bubbly does this.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' had Beret Guy [[http://www.xkcd.com/1395/ inflate a laptop through its power cord.]]

* Happened in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', where Shrek and Fiona inflated a frog and a snake, respectively, that then floated like helium balloons.

* The ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series has this happen in the Balloon Burst mini-game, in which the Bowser balloons float up simply from inflating them with hand-operated air pumps.

* The 1947 WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short ''WesternAnimation/Wide Open Spaces'' ends with a wobbling tree branch pounding onto the pump attached to Donald's air mattress, which floats up in the sky as it expands.

* The 1947 WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short "Wide Open Spaces" ends with a wobbling tree branch pounding onto the pump attached to Donald's air mattress, which floats up in the sky as it expands.

* In Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', [[RuleOfFunny Sir Hiss inflates a balloon (from the inside!) and is able to zoom around like a helicopter using his tail as a propeller]].

See also {{Balloonacy}} for when the same balloons, inflated with human breath, actually can lift something else up, and BalloonOfDoom if the same balloons are PlayedForHorror. Related to RuleOfFunny and CriticalResearchFailure.

See also {{Balloonacy}} for when the same balloons, inflated with human breath, actually can lift something else up, and BalloonOfHorror if the same balloons are PlayedForHorror. Related to RuleOfFunny and CriticalResearchFailure.

See also {{Balloonacy}} for when the same balloons, inflated with human breath, actually can lift something else up. Related to RuleOfFunny and CriticalResearchFailure.

* The Bubble Monkey in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has the ability to levitate himself with bubblegum.

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* ''WebComic/StupidFox'' [[http://stupidfox.net/73--bubbly does this.]]

* Taken UpToEleven in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PippiLongstocking'', as she manages to inflate her father's ''hot air balloon'' with nothing but her breath and have it fly. Then again, we're talking about [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Pippi]], so this isn't too surprising.

* There was a commercial for a Skittles gum where, after refusing to share said gum with someone, a man blows a bubble with it, grabs hold, and floats away.

* The Bubble Monkey in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' has the ability to levitate himself with bubblegum.

* The 1956 ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Muscle Beach Tom" shows one of the most blatant examples of this trope with a balloon tank having "air" written on it, despite the fact that the balloons (and later Tom) float as if they're filled with helium.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "The Sponge Who Could Fly," [=SpongeBob=] accidentally tucks a hairdryer in his pants, which causes them to inflate and thus allows him to float.

A SubTrope of HollywoodDensity, common in cartoons, characters will inflate a balloon (or another person) with their breath and automatically it starts to float. A bubblegum-based variant exists.