Balloon Boy Neighbor #1 Lines

[During song Edge of the Sky] We’re off to the edge of the sky and over the-!

Oh please. What are you even pitching?

We’re a family of performers who sing all the latest hits. Like Boom Boom Pow!

Sorry, no.

TV Exec. #1: Oh yeah, I got one of their tapes. Everyone in the industry did. And I work for Animal Planet!

I think the general consensus is that their problem was their… malleability. They were different people in every tape. I mean, that’s great for Meryl Streep, but maybe not so much for Reality TV.Oh yeah, I got one

You can say a lot of bad things about them, sure. But there was also a lot of love in that family. And it was sort of refreshing to see this modern day Partridge Family, mostly because I still find young David Cassidy extremely sexy.

…

Hey wait a minute, aren’t you…

Neighbor #2: I will say, I mostly felt bad for the kids. Especially, ya know, the Balloon Boy.

Totally exploited.

Neighbor #3: They weren’t… exploited… but they were, manipulated, ya know?

Sorry, but no child is born wanting to be on television. That shit is taught.

Sheriff: Again, I don’t wanna keep harping on Bye Bye Birdy, but some of those performances stuck with me. And as the little lamb…

…and none more so than…

Neighbor #3: …was their youngest

Falcon

[Song “Now” ends] So Daniel Craig, watch out, we’re starting now!

I don’t know how they put food on the table. When you spend all that time trying to get famous, there can’t be much income…

Neighbor #3: One of them was called the “Bear Scratch”. It was a pole that looked like a tree and you’d scratch your back on it. It was awesome.

Naomi worked nights, that’s for sure. Although, no one really knew what…

[Song “Sudden Realization playoff starts] At the edge of the sky!…

I saw him building it. For weeks. But, I thought nothing of it. I thought it was just for something normal. Well, normal for the Heene’s.

[Song “Building the Balloon” ends] Ahhhh! Ahhhh!

A kid was in there! And I was just supposed to watch from my window? Hell no! I watched form my front porch!

[Song “Give Him to Us” ends & playoff begins] Give him to us!

Just like that, you couldn’t get any peace on the culdesac.

[During Act Two Opener] Now all these folks have are deflated dreams!

Suddenly, everything started making sense. This was their lowest low, but it also felt like this was them in their full force, you know?