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* The PSP version of ''RivieraThePromisedLand'' adds [[ThatOneSidequest a very difficult]] quicktime event challenge to a secret [[FanService hot spring scene]] after chapter 2 by having an utterly BadAss Grim Angel struggle almost hopelessly over a randomly placed banana peel.

* The PSP version of ''RevieraThePromisedLand'' adds [[ThatOneSidequest a very difficult]] quicktime event challenge to a secret [[Fanservice hot spring scene]] after chapter 2 by having an utterly BadAss Grim Angel struggle almost hopelessly over a randomly placed banana peel.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', if your character eats [[CommonPlaceRare a banana]] and then continues adventuring in the same area, you will eventually trip over the peel. There is a [[BraggingRightsReward trophy]] for doing this multiple times.

* In ''Film/SherlockJr'' (1924), BusterKeaton sets a banana peel trap for his rival but ends up slipping on it himself.

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney''

* Banana peels are one of ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'''s biggest obstacles. Slipping on one will cause him to flop over completely, greatly increasing the chance of him knocking something over and causing a spike in his Suspicion meter if anyone is watching.

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has chimpanzees appear out of nowhere just to spill banana peels all over the place. In Episode 9, Haruhi slips on one of them, setting up a dashing rescue by one of the [[SchoolgirlLesbians St. Lobelia Academy]] girls. Not so much in the manga, though.

* In ''[[Film/FattyTintypeTangle Fatty's Tintype Tangle]]'', a random passer-by drops a banana peel right in front of Creator/FattyArbuckle's porch just as Fatty is leaving home. HilarityEnsues.

* Banana peels are one of ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'''s biggest obstacles. Slipping on one will cause him to flop over completely, causing a big spike in his Suspicion meter if anyone is watching.

* A very early ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon has him squaring off with Bluto, who owns a produce cart pulled by a mistreated horse. A bunch of bananas gets thrown to the pavement, and things go naturally from there.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In "Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G.", Numbuh One throws some banana peels before a quadruped HumongousMecha (straight out of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''). The mecha pilots burst into laughter at this sight, but then their vehicule steps on a peel in the snow... and it immediately topples to the side.

* Occurs in the ''Eiken'' OVA.

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* In ''The Wizard of Speed and Time'' (both the short and the feature), the title character, after a minute of running hyperfast across the world, encounters a banana peel that trips him up.
* ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' gives an example of the real life conditions causing this trope in the description. Tiana is negotiating a real estate deal with the Fenners, and the shorter of the two eats a banana peel and discards it carelessly on the ground. No one slips on it, however.
* Parodied in FlushedAway. The rats notice and carefully step around a banana peel despite it being bigger than they are. They fall on a pair of much smaller slugs later.

* One ''{{Funimation}} Update Quickie'' takes this to truly ''ridiculous'' extents in one of its [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funniest episodes]] by having a careless Scott drop a banana in frustration. [[spoiler:Then, a man walking by who was a major character in the rest of the month's quickies slips on the banana, ''falls off the roof of the building from it'', and dies. Turns out it was AllJustADream... which in return was AllJustADream Chris Sabat had before getting hired by Funimation.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}''

-->'''Kevin:''' Man, that's old.

-->'''Jimmy:''' Owie, Sarah!!

* Skrawl uses this as a form of attack in ''{{ChalkZone}}''. Snap laughs this off at first, saying it's one of the oldest gags ever, but he shortly falls for it just the same.
* '''ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "City Of Frownsville" , when Hal Larious (a.k.a. Lou Gubrious) slips on a banana peel dropped by Bubbles, it causes the then-crying populace of Townsville to start laughing again.

* Parodied in FlushedAway. The rats notice and carefully step around a banana peel despite it being bigger than they are.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "Beauty and the Beach" (initially banned in the West, and then aired with several edits), Meowth uses banana peels to slip up Bulbasaur and Misty, who are helping to serve customers at a restaurant. In Misty's case, it also counts as FootFocus, since she's wearing sandals.

And the rest? ''[[TemptingFate Well...]]''

* Hilariously subverted in an episode of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends''. Lumpy notices he's about to step on one, and lifts his foot over it... only to see that the floor also has nails, a snake, spikes, a frayed cord and lava in various places. Then he falls over anyway back outside and onto a bike, breaking his spine.

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** ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' has one villain set a banana peel as a trap for Tintin. Snowy takes notice and moves the banana peel right next to the man's foot, and he gets [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoisted By His Own Petard]].

* In Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'', the future has produced giant-sized bananas. Naturally, two characters have lots of trouble staying standing when the peels are left on the ground.

* In the football game of ''HorseFeathers'', one of Chico and Harpo's plays involves the use of banana peels for offensive blocking -- but Harpo is enjoying it so much, he tosses one under teammate Zeppo, who is running with the ball.

* An especially goofy example occurs in [[BobHope Bob Hope]] movie, ''The Son Of Paleface'', when he tosses out handfuls of banana peels to trip up Red Indians, who are pursuing his old car ''on horseback''!

* Mentioned in ''LukeSkywalkerAndTheShadowsOfMindor'', when Nick Rostu stalls a mob by firing into the floor and making the first meter or two turn into slippery goo, so that they all fall in heaps and struggle in vain to stand.

** RV Robo falls victim to this in an episode of ''GekisouSentaiCarranger''. Yes, you read that right: the HumongousMecha ''slips on a banana peel''.

* In a ''SesameStreet'' segment, Grover returns from Jordan with a basket of banana peels. As he dumps them on the ground, he calls out the viewer's expectations that he'll slip on them ("Comedy 101!") and vows that won't happen. He sitll manages anyhow.

-->Is it a crime to tell him or is it a crime not to?\\

Or just remain silent, then laugh as he crashes with a thud?

* Gumshoe slips on some of these in ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations]]'', in the stairs leading to the Heavenly hall. The peels were left in there by Larry, who advises to be careful when going back because the peels would still be there.
** Becomes one of Phoenix Wright's attacks in ''UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3''.

->''"A banana has two uses: food, and entertainment."''
-->-- '''Garfield''', ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/02/04/ February 2, 1982]]