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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' - happens to Beavis when they buy a bunch of balloons at a marine park (hearing earlier how dolphins are in danger of choking on balloons). Butt-head gets him down with a slingshot - hitting Beavis in the crotch and making him let go.

In "WebAnimation/Dummymania" Starky Smerkins; the titular villain has an odd obsession with Balloons, he often uses them in ridiculous ways.

In "WebAnimation/Dummymania Starky Smerkins; the titular villain has an odd obsession with Balloons, he often uses them in ridiculous ways.

In Dummymania, Starky Smerkins; the titular villain has an odd obsession with Balloons, he often uses them in ridiculous ways.

* The plot of the Creator/BusterKeaton short ''Film/TheBalloonatic'' is basically "camper stumbles across hot-air balloon; HilarityEnsues."

** In an odd variation of this trope, where Moe himself ''became'' a balloon. In ''[[Recap/TheThreeStoogesDizzyPilots Dizzy Pilots]]'', Moe falls into a tub of tar, and to get the tar off of him, Larry and Curly cut a hole in his clothes and begin filling it up with gas. HilarityEnsues as Moe begins to float away when Larry and Curly aren't looking, and they spend the next sizable chunk of the episode trying to get Moe down. He eventually floats through an opening in the ceiling and into the sky.

* The sci-fi comedy ''Bread Overhead'' by Creator/FritzLeiber, a bread company seeking to make bread that's lighter than those of its competitors injects the bread with hydrogen. This makes the bread so light it goes floating off the production line and into the sky. HilarityEnsues until the bread finally comes to rest in a famine-stricken Ukraine, solving a world-endangering crisis.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Dale tries the balloons-tied-to-a-lawnchair version with Bill as a test subject. HilarityEnsues when the chair ends up flying away and Dale attempts to shoot down the balloons, only for the chair to fall and Bill to get tangled in the balloons, causing him to drift all the way to Mexico.

* When an infant at the 'gravity works' stage of development (throws everything on the ground) is handed a helium balloon, they will try and throw it to the ground. HilarityEnsues.

** Certain [[{{MascotMook}} Pikachu]] obtained via events are able to use the move Fly; according to [[{{TabletopGame/Pokemon}} the card game]], ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap'', and ''VideoGame/PokeParkWii'', they do so with this trope. With the average Pikachu only weighing about 13 lbs, this is a lot more plausible than it is for humans.

%%* Pretty sure they did this to Graham Norton during a ''UsefulNotes/ComicRelief'' one year.

* Pretty sure they did this to Graham Norton during a ''UsefulNotes/ComicRelief'' one year.

* ''Series/UltramanAce'' have one of it's many, many MonsterOfTheWeek, Bad Balloon, who disguises itself as a hot-air balloon which turns out to be alive and swallows children within it's belly. Ace deals with the monster by [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe halving it]], as usual, leading to several freed children carried by hundreds of balloons floating down to safety.

* ''Series/UltramanAce'' have one of it's many, many MonsterOfTheWeek, Bad Balloon, who disguises itself as a hot-air balloon which turns out to be alive and swallows children within it's belly. Ace deals with the monster by [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe halving it]], as usual, leading to several freed children carried by hundred of balloons floating down to safety.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'': Sir Hiss the snake not only becomes an airborne spy by sticking his head inside an inflated balloon so that his body hangs down as the string ([[AnachronismStew and how does Medieval England have helium-filled rubber balloons to begin with?]]), but gains altitude by ''[[AllBallonsHaveHelium further inflating the balloon, with his breath]], while his head is inside it''. Balloonacy on so many levels.