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-->'''Randy''': ''(Normal voice)'' Awe. Too bad.


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-->'''Randy''': ''(Normal voice)'' Awe. Too Aw, too bad.

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* In [[MyNameisEarl My Name is Earl:]]
-->'''Randy''': ''(inhales balloon air)'' ''(in helium speech)'' [[TheWizardofOz We represent the lollipop guild, the lollipop guild, the lollipop-]]
-->'''Darnell''': Randy, those aren't helium balloons.
-->'''Randy''': ''(Normal voice)'' Awe. Too bad.

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* Once on ''ThePriceIsRight'', announcer Rich Fields inhaled helium before reading the prize copy as part of a Showcase skit. He then did it ''again'' before his signoff.

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* Once on ''ThePriceIsRight'', announcer Rich Fields inhaled helium before reading the prize copy as part of a Showcase skit. He then did it ''again'' before again for his signoff.signoff.
* There was also an episode of ''WheelOfFortune'' where, on a set decorated with balloons, neither Pat Sajak nor Vanna White could resist.
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* MaxKeeblesBigMove had Robe trying to pass the time waiting for Max to arrive for his going away party by blowing up balloons to get the desired effect. As soon as he does get it, he shouts "Yee-haw!" in a very high-pitched voice, and sounds this way for the remainder of the scene.




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* Falsetto Jones, the villain of the week on Kim Possible, had an extremely high-pitched voice due to a freak accident involving helium (hence his name).
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** It also gets done in the remake of ''MonkeyIsland2'', which does have voice acting.
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* ''TopGear'' once tested how well the roofs of old convertibles had held up by putting the presenter in their vehicle with an open tank of helium. James and Jeremy's roofs were in good condition and held in the helium, resulting in them getting squeaky voices. Richard's [[TheAllegedCar heavily-modded]] convertible allowed the helium to leak and didn't change his voice at all, much to his disappointment.
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* [[LiloandStitch Chris Sanders.]]

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* In an episode of ClassOf3000, helium is released into the cooling vents as a practical joke. Those affected included [[CoolTeacher Sunny Bridges]], [[ButtMonkey Kam]], [[BookDumb Li'l D]], and Principal Luna.
** Notably, it didn't affect [[GeniusDitz Philly Phil]], who thought his voice would sound weird.
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* On ''TheFarSide'', some big dogs take turns inhaling helium balloons and barking like small dogs.
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* In an episode of {{RocketPower}} Sam and later his older brother Lars catch the "Fiji Flu" where one of the side effects is having a very high pitched voice.

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* In an episode of {{RocketPower}} Sam and later his older brother Lars catch accidentally spreads the "Fiji Flu" to his friends where one of the side effects is having a very high pitched voice.
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* In an episode of {{RocketPower}} Sam and later his older brother Lars catch the "Fiji Flu" where one of the side effects is having a very high pitched voice.

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* In the {{LooneyTunes}} short "Long Haired Hare" at one point while heckling opera singer Giovanni Jones who had earlier broken his instruments, Bugs Bunny replaces his throat spray with liquid alum and he does warm up exercises singing Figaro with each time he says it his head shrinks with his voice becoming higher pitched.
* In the Screwy Squirrel cartoon "Lonesome Lenny" at one point Screwy sticks Lenny's head into a bucket of alum and he says while his head is shrinking "Why did you put my head in the bucket George?, you shouldn't have put my head in the bucket George, why did you do it?" in a high pitched voice.
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** Harold gets one in the finale after Courtney {{Groin Attack}}s him, hilariously, he does a literal ''speech'' while in HeliumSpeech mode.
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* Happens once in FanboyAndChumchum, when Boog's [[TheBoyInThePlasticBubble plastic bubble]] gets filled with helium, right as he's about to punch the titular characters. He notes that it's VERY hard to sound threating with his voice like that.

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* Happens once in FanboyAndChumchum, when Boog's [[TheBoyInThePlasticBubble [[BubbleBoy plastic bubble]] gets filled with helium, right as he's about to punch the titular characters. He notes that it's VERY hard to sound threating with his voice like that.

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* In ''ConkersBadFurDay'', if you use the first ContextSensitiveButton for a second time after Conker's hangover is healed, he'll pull out a helium canister, which Birdy will snatch and huff (as if he was drinking a beer, actually):
-->Really nice helium, heheheh.

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* The single funniest thing this troper ever witnessed occurred when he was a junior in high school, and involved two jokers singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in helium voice.

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* The single funniest thing this troper ever witnessed occurred when he was a junior in high school, and involved two jokers singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in helium voice.

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* [[WhoseLineIsItAnyway Wayne Brady]] was known for pulling this off ''without actual helium.''

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* [[WhoseLineIsItAnyway Wayne Brady]] Brady of ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' was known for pulling this off ''without actual helium.''
* The ''{{Eureka}}'' episode "What Goes Around Comes Around" has a particle accelerator that's cooled by liquid helium. Naturally the cooling line breaks and everyone becomes squeaky for about half a scene until they can shut the line off.
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*In the RobinWilliams stand up routine ''Weapons of Self Destruction'', he states that this is the reason why we need to invent cars that run on helium. Because there would be nothing funnier than two angry guys getting out of the car after a wreck and having them going "I'm gonna kick your ass... Crap, I think one of us has a gas leak."

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* Used in the prologue of ''{{Ever17}}''. Before visitors can enter the underwater theme park of LeMU, they must go through a compression chamber and adjust to the change in air pressure via helium. Earphones are given to each visitor to make everyone's voices sound normal, but when Takeshi removes them and talks to an already high-pitched Coco...

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* Used in the prologue of ''{{Ever17}}''. Before visitors can enter the underwater theme park of LeMU, [=LeMU=], they must go through a compression chamber and adjust to the change in air pressure via helium. Earphones are given to each visitor to make everyone's voices sound normal, but when Takeshi removes them and talks to an already high-pitched Coco...
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-->'''VicMignogna''': "[[FullmetalAlchemist Don't call me small]]--''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny (barely avoids headslamming the table)]]'' I'll break off your feet and stick 'em on your head!"

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-->'''VicMignogna''': "[[FullmetalAlchemist Don't call me small]]--''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny (barely avoids headslamming the table)]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRq9Y4sMUMI I'll break off your feet and stick 'em on your head!"head!]]"
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-->'''VicMignogna''': "[[FullmetalAlchemist Don't call me small]]--''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny (barely avoids headslamming the table)]]'' I'll break off your feet and stick 'em on your head!"
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-->'''TravisWillingham''': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFIxM7SWr0 "My friends wanna know, 'When you go out of town, what do you do?' 'Oh, you know, eat cake...huff balloons...make a big dumbass out of myself...'"]]

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-->'''TravisWillingham''': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFIxM7SWr0 -->'''TravisWillingham''': "My friends wanna know, 'When you go out of town, what do you do?' 'Oh, you know, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick eat cake...huff balloons...]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFIxM7SWr0 make a big dumbass out of myself...'"]]
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* A new trend around anime conventions: getting voice actors to say their characters' famous lines after inhaling helium. HilarityEnsues, usually.
-->'''TravisWillingham''': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFIxM7SWr0 "My friends wanna know, 'When you go out of town, what do you do?' 'Oh, you know, eat cake...huff balloons...make a big dumbass out of myself...'"]]
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** Well, you can literally die laughing. Inhaling too much helium can displace the oxygen, suffocating you. Also, one elderly man died while watching MontyPythonsFlyingCircus. His heart rate upon death was estimated to be ''500 beats per minute.''
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* Noah gets one of these in [[TotalDramaIsland Total Drama World Tour]] after a serious GroinAttack with a golden statue head.
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* Happens once in FanboyAndChumchum, when Boog's [[TheBoyInThePlasticBubble plastic bubble]] gets filled with helium, right as he's about to punch the titular characters. He notes that it's VERY hard to sound threating with his voice like that.
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* In [[PhineasandFerb Phineas and Ferb,]] one of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's evil plans involved filling the entire tri-state area with "Doofelium" making his high squeaky voice lower in comparison, because making his own voice lower would be too much of a hassle. Ended up affecting himself and yelling out his {{catchphrase}} [[OncePerEpisode ("Curse you Perry the Platypus!")]] in helium speech.
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** Later, we find that sucking up ''bandwidth'' has this effect on Strong Mad. Don't ask.
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** A definitive YouFailPhysicsForever moment, even if it ''is'' funny.
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*** To be fair, it was for a demonstration of an EMT oxygen mask, so actual harm would have been difficult.

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