Skinner's Weather Balloon

Skinner's Weather Balloon, also known as the "Hi! I'm Big Butt Skinner!" Weather Balloon or the "Buttzilla" Weather Balloon, was a Springfield Elementary School-owned weather balloon created for the school's Science Week that was sabotaged by Bart Simpson by placing folds that unfold at the pull of a string upon launch to give the illusion of Principal Skinner bending down and having an enormous butt sticking out of his pants, with him holding a sign. Bart attempted to hasten the launch of the balloon on the final day of Science Week by cheering loudly for Science. As soon as it lifted off, however, Bart pulled the string to reveal the modifications he made to the balloon, to the children's amusement and to Skinner's horror. He attempted to get it down itself, and then had the children throw rocks at it (promising that he will allow the child who successfully brings it down to not have to learn fractions), but missed and ended up hitting Skinner's car (although Nelson and Jimbo in particular were indicated to have been aiming at Skinner's car after learning that they risked hitting it, to Skinner's irritation). Groundskeeper Willie then attempts to shoot it down with a shotgun, but missed and ended up inadvertently getting two fighter jets to shoot each other down. Because of this, Skinner punishes Bart by having him help him with his astronomy project of finding a new cosmic object for Skinner to name. Coincidentally, the balloon returned in the middle of the project, causing Skinner to grab the balloon from the climbing castle. However, the shock and horror that Bart ended up stealing his chance at getting a new cosmic body named caused him to release the balloon. The balloon was eventually destroyed when the comet, burning up in the toxic portion of Springfield's atmosphere, rammed into it, causing it to deflate, while in trajectory to Flander's fallout shelter, destroying that as well.
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Category:Pranks
Category:Objects
Category:One-time objects
Category:Tapped Out
Category:Principal Skinner
Category:Fictional Characters