Balloon Belly/New Media

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Both helium and ferret ointment are known to have this effect on The Cheat.

Homestar: Woah, Marzipan, check out that ugly bird.
Marzipan: Homestar, I think that bird is the Cheat.
Homestar: No way! The Cheat is one fine-looking young man. That is an ugly bird.

  • There are animated banner ads out there that advertise ways to trim inches off your belly. Because most of these ads are poorly animated, their portrayal of a person losing weight typically consists of an otherwise skinny person with a large belly "deflating" so to speak, rather than having realistic body proportions for their before and after weights.