Unfortunate television news show banter

I taped the parade for the kids because we were on the road during the broadcast. We're just now watching a little bit of it and I saw a guy with a puppet and the puppet was asking kids in the crowd if the balloons would hurt him. He said, "I'm really, really scared of the balloons. They won't hurt me, will they?" And all the little kids shook their heads and said, "No. no, no..."