You know......they had clowns to clean up all the animal poo at the end of the parade but the clown union got into an uproar because one of their members slipped and fell into a giant pile of elephant dung where he suffocated and died. When he fell he was kicking and thrashing about and everybody was laughing because the thought he was......clowning around.
So then they said, "so, you don't like dung? Well then, what do you think about BALLOONS?" So of course, the clown union was enthused.