#also I am aware that the story-boarders and animators likely just didn't know how balloon animals work

[i-drew-a-ferret]

Blitzo’s balloon horse is better.

no I am not joking, just hear me out here.

You see this? Fizzarolli made a balloon animal the way anyone else would. It’s perfectly fine, nothing wrong with it, but anyone can do it. I just learned how to make balloon animals and got that down in under 10 minutes. Blitzo on the other hand made one without legs. You’d think it would be easier, but no, that simplicity is an illusion. An illusion which your first attempt at balloon twisting will shatter.

For those who don’t know, the body, neck, and tail segments of your typical balloon animal will not stay in place without legs. They need a lock twist provided by the legs, to make them behave. And yet here, we see, Blitzos balloon horse has no legs, but he is not holding the neck and tail in place. They stand tall on their own, a monument to his skill and our hubris in thinking it would be so simple.

Now I took it upon myself to create this balloon horse. First, this is what it should look like if you were to go about it like a regular balloon animal:

Without the lock twists, you’d only have a head on a stick. A warning to other balloon horses that they may lose more than their legs, but not much else. Notice the extra un-inflated balloon near the end. This would ordinarily provide air to make the leg twists, however those do not exist in this balloon horse. Clearly Blitzo wasn’t using beginners strategies, he was doing something more complicated.

Next, if you inflated it as you went, tying off the different segments as you would the open end of the balloon:

A limp, dead, horse. It clearly lost it’s life at  the same time as its legs. It has defined segments, but little else is going for it. You can hold it up to make it look something like Blitzos horse:

This would be what an amateur would do to make a legless balloon horse. Hold it’s neck and tail, or perhaps use tape if they feel so inclined, but Blitzo is no amateur. If you pay attention to how he holds his cursed worm horse, you’ll see that his hand is flat against it’s belly. He offers no support to either it’s neck or tail, but still it stands.

Finally, if you inflated it as you went, used double knots carefully positioned so that the segments would lean in the right direction, twisted the head three times (for some reason it wouldn’t work until I did), and sacrificed hours of your life to make this accursed balloon horse:

You would have this. You may be wondering: Why is it pink? well you see, I ran out of green balloons trying to make this wretched beast. Here we have a legless worm horse. Hell Fucking Yeah.

Now not only did Blitzo flawlessly make a more complicated balloon animal, but when the crowd was not impressed with his skills he used his encyclopedic knowledge of horses to save the performance with a joke. Sadly, the joke relied on the audience also having an encyclopedic knowledge of horses, so it fell flat.

I think with all the evidence I provided, you’ll have to agree that Blitzo made an infinitely more impressive balloon horse than Fizzarolli.

I rest my case.