Beach Ball Bounce

A scene from an Animaniacs episode, including two members of The Beach Ball Gang (Wakko and Buster Bunny)

Beach Ball Bounce (also known as Beach Ball Bouncing, Balloon Bounce, Balloon Bouncing, Beach Balling, S2P, Sit to Pop, Sitburst, Sitpop, Paper Bag Burst, Red Hat of Death or Weight Limit Ride) is a game by Amblin Entertainment when someone sits on a balloon or a beach ball until it pops.

The Beach Ball Gang

1993-2003: Wakko

On September 13, 1993, the Warners managed to escape without outside help, much to the studio's chagrin. However, they were no longer able to completely contain them and resorted to simply trying to catch and lock them up as much as possible. During this time, the Warners also starred in their own show, Animaniacs, as one of six major segments; the show became popular in-universe, causing the children to receive fan mail and get swarmed at conventions. The Warners also became close with the show's producer, Steven Spielberg, who Wakko would sometimes call over lunch. Wakko is usually very polite to Scratchansniff, and seems to consider him a role model of sorts, as he can be seen imitating his movements at times; and he also tries to get the doctor to play with him or otherwise spend time with him. Though Wakko doesn't notice, Scratchansniff often gets very frustrated with him due to his habit of taking everything literally, which makes his job as a psychiatrist difficult, as Wakko will tell him what he is touching instead of how he feels, or inflate himself when asked to expand on a thought. Scratchansniff does seem to have made some headway with him, though- while Wakko is nowhere near de-zanitized, he has communicated to the doctor about his severe coulrophobia, which the doctor tries to help him with. The Warners also become acquainted with the studio nurse, Hello Nurse. Yakko and Wakko developed an intense crush on her, and whenever she appeared they will use their customary greeting and often leap into her arms and kiss her. For her part, Nurse seems to tolerate the Warners' behavior, though she does sometimes attempt to capture them with Ralph and Scratchansniff. She is one of the few characters that ever adjusts her wording for the Warners following a misunderstanding, such as in "Variety Speak" and "This Pun for Hire." She also pats Wakko and smiles while holding the boys in "Hello Nurse." The latter song also reveals the brothers are aware and in awe of her intelligence, as Wakko literally sings her praises.

On October 29, 1993, Wakko the Beach Ball Popper began usually sitpopping beach balls, and has caused a helium shortage and popped 605 beach balls, 124 exercise balls and 67 hopper balls, including a hopper ball shown during the production of the Animaniacs episode "Phranken-Runt".

Buster Bunny was changed to Bugs Bunny in 1995. Wile E. Coyote is very popular sitpopping inflatables, but often usually sitpops hopper balls. Elmyra Duff would also be seen sitpopping inflatable toys, and mostly sitpops latex balloons.

In 1996, Wile E. Coyote announced to become a librarian on November 4, 1997, and released new Looney Tunes and Animaniacs DVDs and books seen in Animaniacs, which are Barney's 1-2-3-4 Seasons, Waiting for Santa, Space Jam, Barney's Good Day Good Night, Barney in Outer Space, Barney's Magical Musical Adventure and Wakko's Wish. Dr. Scratchansniff left in 1998, with his final episode being an intro to "The Animaniacs Suite."

2003-2014: Mr. Whiskers

A failed sitpop of a blue ball by Mr. Whiskers

Looney Tunes: Back in Action was theatrically released in the United States on November 14, 2003 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was the debut of Buster Bunny's Inflatable Popping.

On January 1, 2004, the inventor of Exercise Balls: Aquilino Cosani invented Pop-Resistant Exercise Balls since Wakko kept sitpopping them.

On August 11, 2006, an Inflatable Popping series with Bugs Bunny was released, which were owned by Paramount since 2011. It features [[Bugs Bunny], Daffy Duck, Taz, Sylvester and Tweety.

In 2008, Wakko's portrayer was changed from Hogarth Hughes to Asher Angel.

In early 2009, Wakko started YouTube because of his popularity.

In 2011, The Looney Tunes Inflatable Popping Series started featuring Blue Sky Studios stuff, because of Rio coming out that year, which is related to beach balls.

In 2013, Sylvester Junior was added to the Looney Tunes: Inflatable Popping series.

2014-2019: Robin

While only the two members were available in the Beach Ball gang from 1993 to 2013, Robin from [[Teen Titans Go!] was added in 2014.

In 2015, Marvin the Martian was added to the Looney Tunes: Inflatable Popping series.

In 2017, Robin started YouTube.

In May 2018, Bugs Bunny started YouTube.

2019-present: Max

Max from Sam and Max: Freelance Police was added to the Beach Ball Gang on September 20, 2019. Two weeks later, Risk, Whack, Rob and Max, a Halloween special featuring Mr. Whiskers, Wakko, Robin and Max was released in theaters on October 4, 2019.

On November 13, 2019, Mr. Whiskers was redesigned with longer legs and purple glasses and Mr. Whiskers, Robin and Max stopped popping beach balls. However, they went back to popping beach balls on April 28, 2020.

In 2020, Max started YouTube.

On September 29, 2021, A variation of Baby Shark was uploaded on YouTube to keep Baby Shark's Big Show! on television. The next day, a beach ball with Yakko was bought by Wakko the Beach Ball Popper, because of more popularity of Animaniacs during the release of both The Addams Family 2 and the previous film.

In popular culture

Pinkie Pie sat on a beach ball until it popped in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode "The Last Roundup.

See also

• Blue Sky Studios
• Fat fetishism
• Balloon fetish
• Animaniacs