Comments on: Balloon

By: Jake Chambers

Jake Chambers — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:36:41 +0000

I still don’t get it. Get Bickel on the line.

By: paperboy

paperboy — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:05:04 +0000

Bought myself a red balloon, got a blue bird surprise…

By: Lola

Lola — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:55:39 +0000

That’s assuming they’re cats and not foxes or something else.

By: AMC

AMC — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:50:51 +0000

My thoughts were, initially, in line with Dr. Shrinker.

But, my second thought was: why not a mouse for a cat?

By: Dr. Shrinker

Dr. Shrinker — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:33:29 +0000

I thought it was a reference to these iconic Disneyland balloons that my parents NEVER bought me when I was a child

http://www.flickr.com/photos/major_clanger/61053292/

By: Rainey

Rainey — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:31:05 +0000

PB’S explanation reminds me of a “theory” of little people existing inside television sets.

By: paperboy

paperboy — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:22:11 +0000

James Pollack#8 seems right, but the balloon is still a distraction. I seem to recall an old cartoon about a cat “playing with it’s food” by having a card game with a mouse, which emphasized the concept, but just holding a balloon doesn’t qualify as “playing”.

By: asap

asap — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:32:21 +0000

“A bird in the hand is worth worth more than two in the …”

By: Skaloop

Skaloop — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:26:38 +0000

They are taking their bird for a “walk”. Just like we put leashes on dogs, they put one on the bird. But since it flies, a leash is not as practical. So they stick it in a ballon, to keep it from flying away. Not that a balloon is more practical, but it is a comic, so I shall suspend some disbelief.

By: BoT

BoT — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:12:20 +0000

The way the balloon is ‘windowed’ to allow us to see the bird inside is evidence that it’s an opaque balloon. So the cat, as far as he knows, is walking around with a normal party balloon. The bird that’s inside (for god knows what reason) must remain flying inside an opaque balloon without resting to prevent the cats from discovering it, which they surely would if he stopped and weighed the balloon down.

Or that’s my guess. Whatever guess is correct has to take in to account that the bird is un-seeable from the outside.