This article focuses on the interactions between Balloon and Nickel.
Overview[]
Balloon and Nickel had little to no interactions in Season 1, due to them not being on the same team and having early eliminations. But in Inanimate Insanity II, Nickel starts to have rude remarks against Balloon. As they were in the same team, Nickel would do things such as not letting him help in challenges, being sarcastic around him, and pulling his best friend, Suitcase away from him, assuming his presence was tearing up his alliance with Suitcase and Baseball. In Inanimate Insanity Invitational, however, Nickel seems to be slowly warming up to Balloon, as he was willing to work with him to help the team, and becoming friends with him, with the help of Box.
Episodes suggesting a friendship[]
In Stranded in Paradise, Balloon congratulated Nickel for helping him in the challenge.
In Snapshot Showdown, Nickel said he was actually glad to see Balloon. Balloon also voted for Lifering, tying the votes.
In Try Not To Laugh Challenge, Balloon voted for Tea Kettle instead of Nickel. During Tea Kettle's elimination, Tea Kettle starts to scold Balloon for making a bad decision by basing his entire game around working with Nickel, but Balloon explains that he doesn't want to play the game using betrayal and lying. She quickly understands this, and urges Nickel to finally acknowledge that he and Balloon had become friends.
In Best Served Cold, Balloon said he likes his team even if it is only two people. Nickel also asked Test Tube if he could look out for Balloon.
In I Am Chocolate!, Balloon and Nickel chat throughout the entire episode.
In Home Is Where the Heart Is, during Paintbrush's elimination, MePhone4 notes that Yin-Yang is probably his second favorite contestant still on the show. Balloon calls this out, asking who exactly he thought he'd make happy with that comment, to which Nickel says "my second best friend has a point."
In Friend or Froze, prior to the betrayal reveal at the end of the elimination, they promised to keep advancing as an alliance in the finals while giving Bot a new look that desired from last episode.
In Spring on the Breakfast!, Nickel attempted to apologize Balloon, then he accepted his apology, and they tried to fix things out while both of them being in the The Loser Room.
In The Great Bluish Bake Off, Balloon abruptly removes the tablecloth where Silver Spoon was feeding Blueberry, this he does for Nickel, Balloon says that although things are weird between them, he didn't want to see Nickel's dignity fall for a simple vote, later in the episode, they work together, even though there is obvious tension, they manage to make a good team with Cabby and Silver Spoon, after Cabby and Silver Spoon were captured by the monster, Nickel and Balloon hide, Balloon takes the moment for a talk before they "die", to ask Nickel why he treated everyone so well, while he treated him miserably, Nickel finally apologizes to Balloon, explaining things to him, telling him that there is no need to accept his apologies if he doesn't want to, he will understand. Later in the same episode, Nickel congratulates Balloon for winning immunity, and apologize again, Balloon accepts it, saying that he understands and will be there for him, they both look happy afterwards, laughing and having fun.
In The Show Must Go On, Nickel defends Balloon when Silver Spoon and Cabby claim that they don't think that Balloon even talks to anyone else other than Nickel. Later during the elimination, Balloon tells Nickel that he thinks that his biggest chance of winning was to vote out Nickel which Nickel understands. Before Nickel gets send off to Indefinite Island, Balloon and Nickel hug each other (mainly Balloon because Nickel doesn't have arms).
In A Jury of Your Fears, when Balloon is giving his speech and Silver Spoon makes a joke about him, Nickel is one of the people who did not laugh at him and was rather seen as annoyed or a bit angry. Later when Balloon tries to make a speech again, Nickel tells everyone about how great he was at taking out (not in a dating way) his greatest ally - Nickel - out in Episode 17 and asked Balloon to tell them all about it. However, Balloon practically repeats what Nickel said which caused the jury to get bored. After which Nickel tells Balloon to just talk like himself. When the jury (including Nickel) were deciding who should win, Nickel tries to get everyone to choose Balloon and when Yin-Yang said that Cabby was the only one who even had an 'inch of kindness', Nickel denies that saying that Balloon's personality is 'nice'.
In You Can't Do This Forever, Nickel votes for Balloon to win Inanimate Insanity Invitational.
Episodes suggesting a conflict[]
In Double Digit Desert, Nickel and Baseball were talking about who was going to join the game, teasing that it definitely wouldn't be Balloon.
In The Penultimate Poll, When Balloon was trying to share his opinion of Taco making it this far with Nickel and Marshmallow, they tell him to shut up.
In Marsh on Mars, When Balloon finishes the rocket, Nickel is surprised that he was helping with the rocket, offending Balloon in the process. Afterward, when Baseball won't let him on the ship, Suitcase stands up for Balloon, and Baseball and Nickel give in and let him go save Marshmallow with Microphone.
In A Kick in the Right Direction, Nickel shows Knife how to use sarcasm by using Balloon as a example, saying that he's very trustworthy in a sarcastic tone, which Balloon picks up, stating that he thought people were starting to accept him as a person. After that, Knife tries being sarcastic saying that they like him, which causes him to run off crying.
In Let Er' R.I.P., Nickel tells a scary story to Balloon and Suitcase, causing them to scream and run away.
In Mazed and Confused, When Balloon and Suitcase walk up to join Baseball and Nickel in covering ground inside the maze, Nickel almost immediately realizes that Balloon "Isn't Suitcase", so he tells him to scram. After Suitcase convinced Nickel to let Balloon come with them, Balloon accidentally led them to an area with tons of booby traps, and the entire alliance were frozen, set on fire, and shocked. afterward, when Balloon was looking for a different route, Nickel was arguing that it would be better if Balloon could keep to himself. Balloon overhears this, and is shown visibly angry to Nickel. Balloon yells at him that he gets about how people feel after season one, and said he thought they could find some common ground, stating that's too much to bare for Nickel. Balloon later states with Suitcase that he was totally in the right there, and questions how she can get on their good side.
In Kick the Bucket, Nickel sets up Balloon, and votes off Balloon.
In Stranded in Paradise, Nickel constantly insults Balloon, calling him untrustworthy and arguing with him when they crash on the island.
In I Am Chocolate!, Balloon is mad at Nickel for telling Test Tube to watch over him, since Test Tube did a bad Job.
In Friend or Froze Balloon finds out about what Nickel said about him because of Silver Spoon and Candle getting involved, and they became enemies on Balloon's side.
In Spring on the Breakfast!, at first once they were paired up together, it was uneasy for them to get along. Yet they still get along once Nickel apologized to Balloon, and he accepted it. However, as time keep passing and they were still doing the challenge, Balloon keeps seeing a hallucination of Suitcase, and explains his tribute to her and starts to argue with Nickel that Balloon said not to erase it. Nickel claims that Balloon wouldn't avoid everything since they were both in Season, and that Nickel really wanted to make things better. When suddenly a replica toy version of Suitcase appeared in front of them. Nickel tries to talk to the replica and falls down on an open trapdoor, then Balloon immediately rescues him. Nickel also starts to turn against Balloon by saying that he was the problem, and that Nickel is done with it.
Balloon drops him and to proceed to do the challenge by his own. Once the challenge was over, Balloon wanted to vote for Nickel until Yin-Yang decided that his entire alliance should vote for Silver Spoon. Both alliances are ready for elimination, and then the it was revealed that it was a tie. MePhone4 said that all contestants should revote by only choosing either Silver Spoon or Yin-Yang. Nickel and Balloon told their alliances to not change votes. And because of their decisions, they unfortunately let Silver Spoon and Yin-Yang to become immune, leaving both of them and Bot to be eliminated at random. Bot said that they cannot do it because they promised to be the only final three, and tried to talk about their problems. Nickel and Balloon accepted the tiebreaker, but because it was short effort and very random chance of luck, Bot was eliminated with only no votes and have to be sent there in Indefinite Island. Once Bot is leaving, they said to Nickel and Balloon that they thanked them for all the memories they made within this season. And the episode almost ended with Nickel and Balloon having disappointed and regretful faces because of their decisions they've made after the elimination.
In The Great Bluish Bake Off, Balloon is annoyed when Nickel compliments other contestants like Silver Spoon.