Breaking down the best slapstick GIF we’ve ever seen (The Verge)

I’m going to cut the preamble here and get straight to the chase: what the hell is going on in this GIF? How did it all happen? Did a troupe of butterflies flap their wings really hard on the other side of the planet, and through the Super Chaos Theory cause this everyman’s Cirque du Soleil? I don’t