The Birthday Wish

* Video
* BTS

 —Episode description

**The Birthday Wish** is the 15th episode in the series.

## Plot synopsis

Buttered Side Down is setting up the decorations for his birthday party, (blowing up four balloons) before bringing out his birthday cupcake. When he is about to light the candles, he feels lonely that no one is attending. (not even his own family members) So he draws faces on each of his balloons, ties them each to a chair, and blows out his birthday candles, wishing for friends. Suddenly a gust of wind comes in, before Buttered eats his cupcake before cleaning up. That is when the balloons follow him, as he then notices right behind him, and ties them back up. This gets serious over the next days, as Buttered is just trying to do his normal activates, with the balloons always seemingly stalking him. (even as they drew a picture of wanting to supposingly kill him) He finally has had enough and threatens to pop the balloons with a meat fork if they do not leave him alone. It is then revealed, after the yellow balloon of the group pops, (by getting too close to the fork) that they only wanted to say happy birthday through their card. Later that night Buttered is cuffed by a balloon cop for balloon murder, in the scene of the crime. He is then sent to balloon jail, and placed into a cell with a rogue balloon cellmate, who proceeds to intimidate him.

After the video ends, (and the events of the crime; being released from jail) Buttered Side Down makes a story page on how he was sent to balloon jail using Squarespace.

### Behind the Scene Notes

* The Creators revealed that there was a deleted intro where Buttered Side Down would set up the decorations and streamers, but was eventually scrapped likely due to time constraints.
	+ They also revealed that many random characters were supposed to show up to Buttered' party, but couldn't think up any and instead wanted to focus on him being lonely and him wanting to make a friend.
* It is mentioned that the Creators will never do a video with the balloons again due to it being difficult to have the balloons' faces face towards them. This led to them retaking the wind scene several times to get the balloons to face them.
	+ This is later brought up when Buttered gets followed by them.
* When Creator 2 blew up the red balloon and tied it up, Creator 1 would come in and swap the breath-air blown balloon for a helium one.
* There was one outtake scene where Buttered is looking down at his cupcake before looking at the balloons, before the red one floats up onto the ceiling, causing Creator 1 to come in and tie it to the chair.
* It is mentioned that they only bought one cupcake, thus having to perfect the cupcake shot in one go. It is revealed that that cupcake was the last of its type when the Creators went to a grocery store.
	+ If you can see when Buttered stabs his cupcake, his knife is clean, but when he raises it to his mouth, the knife is instead dirty. This is because in a raw scene, the cupcake stuck to the plate when Buttered stabbed it twice, and when he lifted it up, it fell apart.
* The plants that Buttered waters weren't the Creator's plants, and instead were already the landlord's at the time of filming.
* It is revealed that the balloons' letter saying "hell" and "death" were them trying to spell "hello" and "dear" respectively, along with a bunch of "skulls" that were supposed to be happy faces.
* The balloons shadows were digital and later edited in post production.
* The shower scene featured the balloons on a pipe that shook to look at Buttered while he showered, and the Creators were happy when the purple balloon faced directly in the shower.
	+ There was an extended scene with Buttered attempting to run away from the balloons, only to come across the staircase to find an extra balloon laying there.
* When the balloons approached Buttered when he finds a meat fork, Creator 1 was on a longboard, holding the balloons in his palm and moving towards Creator 2. This was later edited out but was deemed difficult.
* If one could look closely at the balloon cop, the creators revealed that they held a string to lift the hat in place, as the hat would be too heavy for the balloon. they also revealed they taped the balloon cop to the ground.
* The jail cell that Buttered is placed in wasn't real, and instead a 360 degree cell that Creator 2 found online.

## Characters

* Buttered Side Down
* Balloons (misunderstood antagonists)
* Balloon Cop
* Big Bob the Red Balloon / Brody the Balloon

## Trivia

* It is revealed in this episode that August 8th is Buttered Side Down's birthday fictionally.

## References

1. ↑ Bringing Balloons to Life @ 15:35

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Playing Darts • Learning to Teleport • Learning Advanced Math • Halloween Tryouts • Cardboard Combat

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