History Main / BananaPeel

* In ''VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject'', during the battles against Darkdeath Evilman, you can attempt to run away from the [[spoiler:[[SeeminglyHopelessBossBattle Seemingly]]]] HopelessBossBattle. When you try to do this in the early parts of the game, the main character slips on a banana peel and dies.

** ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin2009'' has The Joker facing off against the equally villainous Dr. Simon Hurt. He places a gun just out of his reach and they have a contest to see who can get to the gun first, but Hurt fails to notice the banana peel Joker had left on the stone steps; he ends up slipping on it and cracking open his skull, allowing The Joker to bury him alive.

* In ''Aniation/PleasantGoatFunClass: Travel Around the World'' episode 20, Wolffy slips on a banana peel and only barely lands on his toes.

* ''UsefulNotes/MTVMovieAndTVAward'' had a spoof of the 1998 ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}} Godzilla movie's taxi chase scene. With Godzilla in pursuit, ''Creator/ChristopherLloyd'', playing a senile taxi driver, gets startled and drops a banana peel out of the window, causing Godzilla to fall over. Link [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDUf9oWK36A here]].

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' actually gave the banana peel gag long-term consequences. Recurring extra, Crushbot, [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3900 slipps on a crate of bananas]]. Crushbot weighs several tons and lands on Roko, another, less durable robot. While Roko survives the subsequent squishing, a large part of her character arc after that point is her struggles adjusting to her new body.

* ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' has prank bananas that can [[AbnormalAmmo somehow]] be fired from Zael's crossbow at [=NPCs=] and party members, [[HilarityEnsues leading to much hilarity]].

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Travel Around the World'' episode 20, Wolffy slips on a banana peel and only barely lands on his toes.

** ''ComicBook/BatmanAndRobin'' has The Joker facing off against the equally villainous Dr. Simon Hurt. He places a gun just out of his reach and they have a contest to see who can get to the gun first, but Hurt fails to notice the banana peel Joker had left on the stone steps; he ends up slipping on it and cracking open his skull, allowing The Joker to bury him alive.

And watch her go sliding out the door.''

* The ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' anime uses banana peals as a running gag. At first the local TricksterTwins are seen eating them to set it up; then chimpanzees start appear out of nowhere right about the time the [[SchoolgirlLesbians St. Lobelia Academy]] girls show up. Ten episodes in they stop trying to explain it, but the banana peels keep turning up anyway. This gag does not show up in the manga.

* Music/Steppenwolf's "Twisted":

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4563333/1/For-The-Greater-Good For The Greater Good]]'', after Gaea changes the timeline by erasing Dumbledore from existence, Grindlewald dies in a freak accident involving one of Tom Riddle's spells gone wrong, a banana peel and a cliff.

* A PlaygroundSong set to the long-ago Chiquita advertising jingle.

* Played straight in this Rexona commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaxEkYEZ58]] when a woman slips on a banana peel she just dropped.

* [[http://www.michaeldashow.com/zoom/zoom_escapeplanb.html This image]] is made of this trope, {{Steampunk}}, and win.

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* The ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' anime uses banana peals as a running gag. At first the local TricksterTwins are seen eating them to set it up; then chimpanzees start appear out of nowhere right about the time the [[SchoolgirlLesbians St. Lobelia Academy]] girls show up. Ten episodes in they stop trying to explain it, but the banana peels keep turning up anyway. This gag does not show up in the manga.
* In an episode of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', Giroro distracts Keroro with a banana peel. Keroro being the big show-off that he is, he can't resist stepping and slipping on the peel. Keroro's inability to resist slipping on banana peels becomes a minor RunningGag.

* Happens in episode 7 of Season 2's ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts''. Right after responding to a guy who sent him a text message about why he was so curious about peeping in the girl's bathroom, Akihisa sends a reply stating "Isn't it obvious? I like what I like." Unfortunately, he sent that message to one of the main girls of the show (so to her it would seem like a LoveConfession from the ObliviousToLove character), and before he can correct his mistake, his friend Yuuji walks by to see what was wrong, and happens to slip on a banana peel. It causes him to slip, and he accidentally steps on Akihisa's cell phone before a reply can be made.
* Features in the opening theme animation (and song) to ''Anime/ExcelSaga''.
* Occurs in the beginning of the ''Eiken'' OVA, the male protagonist slipping on a banana peel for a CrashIntoHello with the future love interest. More specifically, he ends up on top of her with both hands on her (enormous) breasts. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QFzXe0Yz5Y (You can watch it on JesuOtaku's review.)]]
* The first training to make Sumika more clumsy in ''Manga/WhisperedWords'' is this. Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in its status as DiscreditedTrope.
* 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 one episode of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', Itoshiki talks about wanting to die a "celebrity death", which he initially means dying by something owned by a celebrity. One example is "slipping on a celebrity's banana peel", which is immediately followed by the RimShot sound.
* It happens early on in ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', when the protagonist, Araragi, discovers Senjogahara's "condition"... Because she slipped on a banana peel and fell from the stairs into his arms. After their slightly later, slightly more traumatizing encounter, Araragi demands that Hanekawa never eat a banana in school, and if she does, to always throw it away properly.
* In an episode of the anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Kochikame}}'', a banana on the subway platform tracks caused a train to derail with hilarity reaction.
* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Nanami slips on a banana peel discarded by Chu-Chu.
* Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' slips on a banana peel, causing a chain reaction which results in the creation of a clone of his [[GenderBender girl-side]] possessed by a ghost, stepping from a MagicMirror. After much trouble, the twin (who wasn't so much evil [[ScrewYourself than horny]]) is sealed again in the mirror, at which point Ranma slips on a banana peel in the ''exact same place'', resulting in a clone of his male side.
* In a variation, when [[spoiler:Shouma]] from ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' steps on a discarded bottle in episode 15, it has the same effect as if he had stepped on a banana peel.
* A banana peel appeared in ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' during one episode, in which a karate person [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=HD21N1me52I slipped on that banana peel.]]
* Su from ''Manga/LoveHina'' sometimes leaves these around. Sarah also tries to deliberately throw one in front of Keitarō once.

* In ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', Sorata slips on a banana peel in the beginning of Episode 7, causing him to slip and fall down on top of [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Mashiro]]. Just in time for [[BigBrotherAttraction Yu]][[ClingyJealousGirl uko]] to enter the door.
* ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan'' has episode 6, in which one segment involving Umaru, Taihei, and Kirie playing a video game version of ''Game of Life'' while a narrator tells about all the events happening. At one point, the narrator mentions Kirie slipping on a banana peel, with the injury forcing Kirie to retire from swimming.
* At the end of the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' episode "The Not So Lucky, Lucky Cards!", the person who winds up with the deck of cards, which now consists of only the joker card, ends up slipping on a banana peel and falling into a sewer.
* In ''Anime/TamagotchiHappiestStoryInTheUniverse'', Kikitchi throws banana peels onto the ground to make Memetchi and Makiko slip due to him being jealous about their interest in the magical books.
* ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'': Pan Saruhara cheats in a race by throwing down a banana peel to make her oppenents slip.

* In chapter 40 of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]], the eighth part of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', this trope is invoked as Aisho Dainenjiyama slips on a banana peel created by the stand Paisley Park.

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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Smart S. trips over a banana peel in episode 7 of Season 2, hurting him to the point that he can't perform his role as the prince in the upcoming SchoolPlay. This gives Big M. the idea to make a machine that dispenses banana peels to make everyone slip and sabotage the play.
* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "The Chase", Lamput morphs into a banana peel and makes Fat Doc and Slim Doc, who are trying to capture him and bring him back to their lab [[RoadRunnerVsCoyote as usual]], slip into some nearby trash cans.
* In the ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' episode "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E46DoubleTrouble Double Trouble]]", Dozegury slips up Noonbory with a banana peel to stall for time.
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Travel Around the World'' episode 20, Wolffy slips on a banana peel and only barely lands on his toes.
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* A short bonus story at the end of ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' has V lock a {{secret police}} agent out onto [[ThePrecariousLedge an 18 inch ledge]], where he slips on one of these (which V [[DeathTrap had dropped there]]).
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Marsupilami}}'' comic series, there is an evil businessman who wants to make profit out of banana plantations, and his henchmen try to find original product ideas. One suggests making lubricant out of the banana peels since its slippy factor would be of great advantage, but this idea is already heavily patented. Another henchman suggests making concrete out of the banana peels, but another one points out that the concrete would be very slippery.
* In the comedy comic series ''Nabuchodinosaure'', there is an episode where the title character has to outrun another dinosaur and is carrying a lot of bananas. Therefore, he throws the banana peels at his pursuer so he keeps on slipping. The end of the story is him being [[BalloonBelly bloated up]] because he ate all the bananas that he peeled since he doesn't like wasting food.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** ''Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets'' 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 ''Recap/TintinCigarsOfThePharaoh'', Tintin attempts to foil security guards with banana peels. He manages to foil two of them, but the third finally turns the tables.
* During UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, Franchise/TheFlash found himself facing a villain who got him to slip on an atomic banana peel. [[http://i.imgur.com/vYqX3Y9.jpg Cue him]] slipping into outer space.

* Used in ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story about Baby Smurf's paper dolls, who play that trick on a hapless Greedy Smurf carrying a dessert with him.

* The oldest known example of slipping on a banana peel being played for humor dates to 1880 and a ''Harpers' Weekly'' two-panel cartoon called "Banana-Skin Butcheries". The gag is mixed with anti-Irish bigotry. The first panel, labeled "Cause", shows a drunken Irishman flinging his banana peel on a sidewalk. The second panel, labeled "Effect", shows a finely-dressed gentleman being carried away on a stretcher.

** Garfield's alter ego, [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1990/05/15 Banana Man,]] brings humor to the world by spreading peels aound and voilà, instant fun!
* ''Anacleto agente secreto'':
** Played with in this Spanish strip: in one gag, the main character slips on a banana peel... in the middle of a frozen river in the South Pole.
** Yet another strip shows the main character trying to infiltrate in one house by walking right up the façade. It works well, until he slips on a banana peel.
* One ''[[ComicStrip/TheFarSide Far Side]]'' comic features a penguin slipping on a banana peel in the middle of a vast plane of ice.

* There is a humorous full-page cartoon in a magazine showing a monkey skating in the jungle by having its feet in banana peels. It would be very hard for banana peels to slide on jungle soil, not to mention that the peels had the "non-slippery" part on the ''outside''.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Frazz}}'', one girl tries to slip on a fresh banana peel. Much to her disappointment, she remains firmly in place... possibly because she tried it on ''carpet''.

* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djgGZUufAmg I Kissed a Girl]]", a ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' fan animation, a banana peel discarded by Pinkie is the cause of an AccidentalKiss between Rarity and Adagio.

* In ''Film/TheWizardOfSpeedAndTime'' (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.
* ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway''. Spike and Whitey notice and carefully step around a banana peel despite it being bigger than they are. Immediately afterwards, they slip on a pair of much smaller slugs.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five]]'': Monkey's flashback shows that banana peels were his favorite prank to the hapless villagers. Then he attempts this on Oogway by surrounding him with peels, but the turtle manages to get past them all and Monkey falls prey to his own trap.

* Played straight in the 1917 Creator/HaroldLloyd short ''The Flirt''.

* In ''Film/SherlockJr'' (1924), Creator/BusterKeaton sets a banana peel trap for his rival but ends up [[HoistByHisOwnPetard slipping on it himself]].
* The opening of ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'' has the '''prison bus''' slip on a banana peel while driving through the mountain road, causing it to fall off a cliff.

* ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' has a banana peel joke in the final scene. Ethel Merman is the victim.
* ''Creator/MontyPython Live at the Hollywood Bowl'' subverts the banana peel joke as part of the "Custard Pie Lecture" sketch. Rather than slipping on the skin, Michael Palin picks it up and stuffs it down Terry Jones's overalls.

* In the movie version of ''Film/TheColourOfMagic'', the wizards try to kill Trymon by using a banana peel [[spoiler:as a distraction so he would die because of wet cement covering him; it fails]]. Later on, during the climactic battle atop the Tower of Art, [[spoiler:Trymon slips on a banana peel and is hit by his own spell]].
* In the football game of ''Film/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.
* In ''Film/BillyMadison'', a bus driver tosses a banana peel out of the window onto the highway. The banana peel slowly rots, forgotten, as the film goes on... [[BrickJoke until the end of the film]] when the JerkAss O'Doyle family's car drives onto it, swerves around and ends up driving off the cliff.
* One of [[AfricanTerrorists Sam Boga's men]] slips on a large bunch of them in ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy''. It was pretty much inevitable, considering the guerrillas were camped out in a ''forest'' of banana trees.
* Subverted in the French movie ''La Vengeance du serpent à plumes''. The protagonist is trailed by an assassin in the Parisian subway while eating a banana. You'd expect this trope to come into play, but the bad guy instead slips on a discarded metal can just as he's about to strike, and falls on his own blade. The clueless "hero" then blindly tosses the banana peel behind him, which lands on the face of the dying assassin.

* In the ''Film/VForVendetta'' movie, this is part of the Creator/BennyHill-inspired skit on TV, with Gordon Dietrich (Creator/StephenFry) dropping a banana under the feet of the fake V, allowing the guards to catch him.

* Taken UpToEleven in Chaplin's film ''Film/TheCircus'' when the Tramp slips on a banana peel on a tightrope, [[MischiefMakingMonkey placed there by a monkey]].
* In ''Film/{{The Black Balloon|2007}}'', Charlie and his friend Russell appear in a SchoolPlay about [[Literature/TheBible Noah's Ark]] as two monkeys. Their dance involves one of them dropping a banana peel and the other pretending to slip.

* Mentioned in ''Literature/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.
-->'''Nick Rostu:''' Not bad. Maybe not up there with [[CallARabbitASmeerp slipping on a raballa peel]], but still pretty funny.
* An outtake in one of the ''Literature/ToughMagic'' books has the main character dueling a clown. Unsurprisingly, one of the tricks the clown pulls is making a banana peel field. [[spoiler:Which he himself falls prey to.]]
* In ''Literature/MissBindergarten Has a Wild Day in Kindergarten'', Danny falls victim to this in the cafeteria.

* ''Watch Out For Banana Peels (and Other Important Sesame Safety Tips)'' is a book based on ''Series/SesameStreet''. The book's cover art features Grover slipping on a banana peel that Elmo tosses on the ground, and the page for Safety Tip #2 features a a similar thing happening.

* ''Acme School of Stuff'' had a Radio Shack Armatron try inserting a VCR cassette. One instance had the robot [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3taHvG3UksM#t=1m00 slip on a peel]].

* ''Series/TheGoodies'':
** In episode "Cunning Stunts", Bill is seen throwing several banana peels on the floor just so he can slip all over them as part of his entry in the Eurovision Loony Contest. Graeme and Tim also slip all over the skins.
** And a mimed banana peel causes a nasty accident in "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express". ItMakesSenseInContext (sort of).
* An episode of ''Series/GoodEats'' featuring bananas and plantains spoofed this multiple times.

* In the ''Series/LazyTown'' episode "Robbie's Dream Team", Robbie Rotten demonstrates this to the titular dream-team of Robbie lookalikes as a potential plan to defeat Sportacus by dropping several banana peels on the ground during "[[VillainSong We Are Number One]]". They promptly [[EpicFail slip on them themselves]] and fall to the ground.
-->'''Robbie:''' Now watch, and learn, here's the deal! He'll slip and slide on this banana peel~! ''[watches in utter disbelief as his lookalikes step on the peels themselves and slip over]'' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!]]'''''

* There was an episode of ''Series/CasteloRaTimBum'' where Caipora ate some bananas and kept throwing the peels everywhere. Pretty much everyone in the castle slips on them.
* In an episode of German kids show "Bernd das Brot", Franchise/StarWars series gets parodied. The heroes go against the Clown Warriors, and Bernd [[CosmicPlaything as always]] gets the short end of the stick, respectively bananas since they don't have enough light swords for everybody. But since he is also insanely GenreSavvy, he weaponizes his bananas - clowns ''must'' slip on them when they see one.
* ''Series/TheWeeklyWithCharliePickering'': During her piece on the gig economy, one of the gags that Zoë Coombs Marr performs as part of her "Uber Gags" gig is stepping on a banana peel and doing a pratfall on to her back. She then adds that, as contractors, gig economy workers have no coverage for workplace injuries.
* The anti-embarrassment spell from ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' involves a magic banana peel that when slipped on, causes the embarrasee to laugh at themselves. Sabrina uses it on Valerie to remove her embarrassment but ends up getting humiliated as a consequence. At the end of the episode Sabrina tosses it over her shoulder but it misses the trash bin, just as Libby approaches carrying a large cake.

* [[Music/WallOfVoodoo Stan Ridgway]] has his "Salesman" slipping on a banana peel (it's only metaphoric, though).

-->I'm Chiquita Banana, and I'm here to say\\
Get rid of your teacher the easy way.\\
Just put a banana peel on the floor\\
And watch her go sliding out the door.

* This is referenced in the song "Oops, I Goofed Again!" from ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'', in which Bear sings "''If I slip and trip on a banana peel, I say 'oops, I goofed again'.''"

* The ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' series features banana peels as an item; crashing into one causes you cart to spin out and possibly lose coins.
* The PC racing game ''Crazyracing Kartrider'' also features a banana peel item.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' has banana peels as items, and also Diddy Kong can drop them any time. Oddly, they cause tripping just as effectively if you opt to throw them directly at your opponents instead of letting them step on them.
* ''VideoGame/Mother3'':
** Fassad is both very fond of bananas and rather careless about where he discards the peels. [[spoiler:This bites him in the ass at the end of Chapter 5.]] Running over them will make you slip, even if you happen to be in a hovering Pork Bean.
** There is an item called an "Ancient Banana", which can be used in battle to make an enemy trip and lose about 50 HP. A pathetically weak item, [[LethalJokeItem unless you use them against the EXP-rich Soot Dumplings]] [[GuideDangIt (assuming you can find them)]].

* 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 [[CosmeticAward trophy]] for doing this multiple times.
* In the adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Gobliiins}}'', one of the player characters can make a werewolf novelist laugh by intentionally slipping on a banana... just a banana.
* ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon'' has Raidou slip on a peel early in the game while cornering a suspect with unbelievable luck. The banana peel is later used as the standard slip/tripping animation.
* ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'' involves a banana peel accident. [[spoiler: After Lammy gets her new guitar and dashes off, in her haste she slips on PJ Berri's banana peel and dies. This leads to performing concerts in {{Hell}}.]] The U.S. version, however, significantly alters the accident and the result location to a/an (presumably more humid) island.

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** The Bouncywild enemies in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' occasionally toss banana peels. Should Sora step on one, he will slip, fall on his ass, and lose a ton of munny.
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'', they lost the banana peels, and in its [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] remake, it was re-added, although Sora will now lose Moogle Points instead.
** Also, in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' during the Fruitball minigame, if your character gets hit by a bunch of bananas, banana peels will spead thoughout your side of the field. If you slip on one, your character is knocked out for several seconds.

* ''VideoGame/WaterWarfare'' has banana peels as an item that make you slip if you run over them--rather difficult to distinguish from the pick-up-able item, too. Strangely, they make you unable to turn your head as well, which we're ''still'' working out.
* Subverted in the first episode of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse''. Max's psychic visions hint that a thrown-away banana peel is important, and that the heavy they're trying to dispose of ends up falling down a manhole. If the player opens the manhole and places the banana peel in front of it, the heavy comes over to tell them "no littering", and while he's distracted, Max runs up behind him and bangs two dustbin lids together, stunning the heavy into the hole.
-->'''Sam:''' Oldest trick in the book!
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' has banana peels which can be sucked by your vacuum cleaner.
* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', a banana peel can be found next to a grinder at Mann vs. Machine's Mannhattan. Anyone who steps on the banana peel will slip right into the grinder, [[UndignifiedDeath leading to their death]]. Hilariously enough, this includes robot bosses, which a skilled Pyro can airblast them towards the banana peel to receive an instant kill.
* ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' has prank bananas that can [[AbnormalAmmo somehow]] be fired from Zael's crossbow at [=NPCs=] and party members, [[HilarityEnsues leading to much hilarity]].
* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'' features several maze puzzles based on the banana peel gag, usually triggered by Layton finding a discarded banana peel and expressing dismay at the careless littering.
* Banana peels are one of ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}'''s biggest obstacles. Slipping on one will cause Octodad 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.
* The first secret hot spring scene in ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'' was a simple walk-in-and-witness scenario. The PSP remake, however, adds [[ThatOneSideQuest a very difficult quicktime event challenge]] by having an utterly badass Grim Angel struggle almost hopelessly over a randomly placed banana peel.
* Referenced in ''VideoGame/{{Jardinains}}'' and the sequel ''Jardinains 2!'' with the powerup that looks like a banana peel and makes all the nains slip and fall off their bricks. You can go on a mad nain-bouncing spree, but have to watch out for the flowerpots that the nains were holding and dropped when they fell.
* In ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'' the Clown starts with a banana that they can eat to produce a peel to be used in their pranks. The Botanist can grow bigger bananas that slip you for longer.
* In ''VideoGame/CarriesOrderUp'', these show up in later levels, dropped by littering customers. Walking over them provides predictable results, but you can [[SpectacularSpinning spin right through them]] without consequence.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesHeroes'' has "Banana Peel" as a Plant Trick. Using this allows the Plant Hero to move a Zombie teammate to another lane (a.k.a. making them "slip") while also drawing a Banana Tribe card for the Plant Hero.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/DarkwingDuckCapcom Darkwing Duck]]'' LicensedGame for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]], if Darkwing steps on a banana peel, he will slip on it, stunning him. During the battle with Quackerjack, Mr. Banana Brain tosses banana peels at Darkwing, but these kind can actually take away his health.

* In the handheld electronic game ''Slip 'n' Slide'', you controlled a street sweeper trying to stop suicidal banana eating/skin discarding pedestrians from killing themselves by stepping on these.

* 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.

* WebAnimation/{{Emirichu}} has a video where she explains her constant clumsiness and some examples of it. At one point in the video, she shows a drawing of herself slipping on a banana peel.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'':
** Garfield engages in a little rapid-fire banana eating in order to slip up the "monster" he thinks have invaded his home. [[spoiler:It is Jon, back from the store.]]
** Happens in the ''Orson's Farm'' segment, where aliens arrive to steal away the Earth's comedy. The animals try everything to convince them otherwise by trying to make them laugh, such as jokes, slapstick humor, and a singing segment about the joys of humor, but nothing works. Finally, with their time almost up, Roy the rooster accidentally slips on a banana peel he threw away seconds ago, making the aliens burst with laughter.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' episode "The Write Stuff" has Garfield annoyed by his show becoming a ludicrously shoddy soap opera and finding that it's because the show's newest writer Samuel W. Underburger is humorless and hasn't laughed since he was eight years old (the reason being that he saw a man slip on a banana peel and felt guilty for laughing at the man's misfortune). After several failures to get Underburger to laugh and therefore gain a sense of humor, Garfield ultimately succeeds when the man ends up slipping on a banana peel.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons ''love'' this trope. It's probably easier to list those cartoons that don't use it than those that do (still not a short list, though).
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In the episode "Funny Pants", Patrick slips on the same banana peel several times.
** Exaggerated in the episode "The Bully", where Flats drives a truck trying to run over [=SpongeBob=] but the truck slips on a banana peel and flips over.
** In the episode, "Unreal Estate", Squidward tricks [=SpongeBob=] into thinking he is allergic to his pineapple house, and tries to help [=SpongeBob=] move into a new house. When Squidward shows [=SpongeBob=] a banana house, what follows is a cutaway that parodies the show's theme song, wherein [=SpongeBob=] slips on a banana peel.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** Subverted in a "Behind the scenes" of the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'': we see a montage of clips of the Cylon actors falling over in the costumes in a variety of interesting ways, culminating with a lone Cylon taking his time to walk down a hallway towards a banana peel on the floor. Just as he's about to reach it he's hit by a wrecking ball and sent flying through the hull into space.
** Played straight...er when Jesus slips on a banana peel while walking on water.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': The band gets an in-house therapist who reinforces good behavior with banana stickers (the sort of thing one would reward to preschool kids) -- when they have enough of him and give him his notice, he rushes them in a fit of rage, but slips on a banana sticker, and plummets out a window.
* Occasionally used in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''; the Creator/ChuckJones shorts featured this fairly often.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Be Kind to Aminals" 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.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' special "It's a Very Merry Eeks-mas", SantaClaus slips on a banana peel and gets severely injured after he complains about the mob of angry reindeer.

* ''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 vehicle steps on a peel in the snow... and it immediately topples to the side.
* In ''Creator/RichardScarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever'', Freddie Fox slips on one after his song about numbers. EpicFail ensues.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'':
** Batmite use this to take out Gorilla Grodd, while pretending to be Batman, in "Legends of the Dark Mite!" ("Irony' good.")
** Falseface slip on Detective Chimp's discarded banana peel in "The Golden Age of Justice!".
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has Brain slip on a banana peel resulting in a badly sprained ankle on one leg and a torn knee ligament in the other.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' episode "Tazmanian Lullaby", during one scene Francis X Bushlad tries tons of things, but the screen keeps shaking. The camera then focuses on Francis to reveal that Francis [[EpicFail slipped on a banana peel three times.]]
* Naturally, the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' animated series has this happen more than once. In fact, one episode begins and ends with people slipping on banana peels!

* True to its ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' roots, ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' features this gag:
** In episode "Shiver Me Dodgers", incognito on a pirate spaceship, Dodgers slips on some banana peels on a staircase while trying to be "inconspicuous". He then angrily rants about how someone can be stupid enough to leaves banana peels on stair steps -- to find out that the culprit is an enormous gorilla crewmate.
** In "The Six Wazillion Dollar Duck", Dodgers' first test of his new cybernetic legs is to run at SuperSpeed over a treadmill while eating a banana... and he lets the peel slip under his feet, naturally causing a crash.
* Skrawl uses this as a form of attack in ''WesternAnimation/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.

* A CGI ident for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s Nicktoons block had its orange blob mascot slip on one of these at the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': During the "Producer" segment at the end of "Plays Ball", the producer slips on a banana peel towards the end of the phone call that makes up the segment. Liz slips on the same banana peel shortly after that.
* The two-part pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' has this as a plot point. Bonkers notes that no Toon can resist the urge to perform this gag, and it is later used to prove that the villain isn't really a Toon.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch'' episode "The Bear Who Came to Dinner" has Square Bear slipping on a banana peel dropped by zookeeper Peevly and landing on his back. Hair Bear gets Square to fake a serious injury so he can threaten Peevly with an animal negligence suit if he doesn't nurse Square back to health. At the episode's climax, Botch slips on a banana peel Peevly errantly tosses, and Hair runs the threat again--this time in lieu of a promotion for Botch.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther:'' As "Pinkfinger", the panther slinks along a high-rise ledge when an enemy agent places a peel in his path. Skids off the ledge, into a garbage can, and the peel lands full on his noggin.
* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': In "Not So Goofy", [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Baloo]] tosses away a peel and Goofy slips on it. Because he was trained to be "un-Goofy", Goofy manages to keep the tray he is carrying put while he slips.
* On ''WesternAnimation/JoJosCircus'', [=JoJo=]'s parents attend a club in which one of the things they do for fun is slipping on banana peels. They ''are'' clowns, after all.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS1E11ButterflyEffectTheGreenHouse The Green House]]", as part of Lincoln's plan to reduce his sisters' massive energy-wasting habits, he suggests to Luan that, rather than cook banana cream pies to throw, she use banana peels for comedy. She initially balks at the idea, saying that [[EveryoneHasStandards she's above that gag]], but starts to see the ''[[{{Pun}} a-peel]]'' when Lincoln slips on a peel.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ToxicCrusaders'' episode "The Snail Must Go Through", a banana peel in middle of the road causes a race car driver Crash Shelby drive his vehicle into a barge full of snails, which turns him into a mutant superhero known as Snailman.
* The plot of one ''WesternAnimation/FutureWorm'' short; Danny slips on a banana peel in the school cafeteria that results in his lunch splattering all over him and embarrassing him in front of everyone. His first two attempts to avoid this fate end up being FailureIsTheOnlyOption, then when he and Future-Worm prepare to tie the banana peel to a rocket and [[HurlItIntoTheSun fire it into the sun]] it turns out someone ''has'' to slip on the peel, because if it were to fly into the sun it would [[RuleOfFunny cause the sun to]] ''[[RuleOfFunny explode]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': DM deliberately slips on one during his fight against himself (ItMakesSenseInContext) in "Attack of the Clown". In the original series episode "The Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God," he slips on a banana peel dropped by a gorilla as part of the HumiliationConga he goes through in the episode.
* In the "Me and My Guide" song from ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'': "Toy Hospital: Mole Money, Mole Problems", this is [[AvertedTrope averted]]. The guide dog Mountie navigates Hil the toy mole around one.
-->'''Doc [=McStuffins=]:''' Looks like you two are perfect together.
* Seeing as how ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has the walking talking Banana Joe, this joke was going to happen. And it did with the largest kids in Elmore Jr. High: Tina Rex and Hector Jötunheim both slipping on Banana Joe, usually crushing him underfoot in the process.
** Banana Joe actually weaponizes this trope in "The Inquisition", taking off his peel and using it to trip up the villain, who was trying to escape.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': In "Crime After Crime", Bloo deliberately tries to get punished by Mr. Herriman by filling the hallway with bananas, causing him to [[StaircaseTumble fall down a long flight of stairs]]. Unfortunately for Bloo, Herriman ''doesn't'' punish him (due to the prank serving his paranoia at the moment).
-->'''Bloo:''' What a ''slip''-up, Mr. H! You should have kept your eyes ''peeled!'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Get it? 'Cause I made you]] ''[[DontExplainTheJoke slip]]'' [[DontExplainTheJoke on banana]] ''[[DontExplainTheJoke peels?]]'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Get it?]]
-->'''Mr. Herriman:''' Why, I could have been ''killed''... by that terrifying villain that was stalking me in the halls. Oh, you've saved my life, Master Blooregard! You have my eternal gratitude!
* ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' used this in the ''Super Santa'' short "Vegetation", where Santa grabs the peel off of a mutant banana and ends up slipping on the peel.
* Two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' featuring the little astronaut mouse Little Ace From Outer Space use the banana peel in a non-accidental fashion. Rockets launched from [[PunnyName Cape Bananapeel]] have a giant mechanical hand come out and squeeze the rocket out of a banana peel.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'':
** In "No Laughing Matter", Kermit tries to prove to Fozzie that he can still be funny without his Great-Uncle Schnozzie's lucky joke book by having him slip on a banana peel. When Fozzie tries to do so, he ends up kicking it into Piggy's face.
** In "Best Friends Fixer Uppers", Bunsen invents a banana-peel powered disco ball for a science fair being held on the moon. When Beaker gathers banana peels for it, he slips on one and crashes through a wall, [[ImpactSilhouette leaving a Beaker-shaped hole in it]].
** In "Boo-Boo Patrol", Fozzie's sister Rozzie slips on one during the episode's namesake song, but Fozzie catches her before she can hit the ground.
** Subverted in "The Ribbiter"; Kermit is reluctant to let Robin become the titular vllain, so one of his ways of sabotaging Robin's chance of passing Dr. Meanzo's final test, driving a car to the finish line without knocking over a barrel of pickles, is by tossing banana peels onto the road. When Robin dodges the banana peels, Kermit uses one of Summer's frozen water balloons to create a patch of ice, which Robin slips on.
** In "Tarzanimal", the babies put banana peels on their feet to use as roller skates.
* In "Upside-Down Frown Cake" from ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'', Ms. Marmalady slips on one left lying around by Spork and Spatch.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Mars Rock For Mom", Sunspot slips on a banana peel.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'' episode "Baby Human" ends with Igor rushing off to dispose of the formula he made that created the titular Baby Human, only to trip on a banana peel tossed aside by Phil. This results in the formula being spilled over and created hundreds of Baby Humans that end up consuming the entire world.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Beavemaster" had a scene where Tor slipped on a banana peel and fell down a cliff.
* In "Eeyore's Sad Day" from ''WesternAnimation/MyFriendsTiggerAndPooh'', Tigger tries this as a comedy gag to cheer up Eeyore, asking Pooh what kind of shoes you make out of a banana and saying "Slippers," but there is no response except [[ChirpingCrickets the caw of a bird]].
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/COPS1988 C.O.P.S.]]'' episode "The Case of the Bad Luck Burglar", Buttons [=McBoomBoom=] slips on a banana peel while trying to explain to Big Boss why he bungled his latest assignment.
* A variant in the B-plot of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSuddenlySuzy Suddenly Suzy]]", with Perry the Platypus driving a banana shipping company's delivery truck chasing Doofenshmirtz with his Carbon-Footprint-inator (a giant foot made of carbon paper). The truck that Perry's driving contains a giant banana on the roof of the trailer; Perry stops below the Carbon-Footprint-inator and drops the banana, causing the Inator to slip on it and stick itself into Doofenshmirtz's blimp.

* Subverted in the French movie ''La vengeance du serpent à plumes''. The protagonist is trailed by an assassin in the Parisian subway while eating a banana. You'd expect this trope to come into play, but the bad guy instead slips on a discarded metal can just as he's about to strike, and falls on his own blade. The clueless "hero" then blindly tosses the banana peel behind him, which lands on the face of the dying assassin.

* In ''Film/TheBlackBalloon2007'', Charlie and his friend Russell appear in a SchoolPlay about [[Literature/TheBible Noah's Ark]] as two monkeys. Their dance involves one of them dropping a banana peel and the other pretending to slip.

* ''UsefulNotes/MTVMovieAndTVAward'' had a spoof of [[Film/Godzilla1998 the 1998 Godzilla movie's]] taxi chase scene. With Godzilla in pursuit, ''Creator/ChristopherLloyd'', playing a senile taxi driver, gets startled and drops a banana peel out of the window, causing Godzilla to fall over. Link [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDUf9oWK36A here]].

* In the ''Series/LazyTown'' episode "Robbie's Dream Team", Robbie Rotten demonstrates this to the titular dream-team of Robbie look-alikes as a potential plan to defeat Sportacus by dropping several banana peels on the ground during [[VillainSong "We Are Number One"]]. They promptly [[{{EpicFail}} slip on them themselves]] and fall to the ground.
-->'''Robbie:''' Now watch, and learn, here's the deal! He'll slip and slide on this banana peel~! (''watches in utter disbelief as his look-alikes step on the peels themselves and slip over'') '''''[[SuddenlyShouting WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!]]'''''

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesHeroes'' has "Banana Peel" as a Plant Trick. Using this allows the Plant Hero to move a Zombie teammate to another lane (aka making them "slip") while also drawing a Banana Tribe card for the Plant Hero.

** For the review of ''VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons'', to show how easy it is to die in the game, a sketch with Fred as the eponymous Drake has him slip on a banana peel... and die.
** The second Comics-Based Games episode start off with a parody of [[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Barbara Gordon / Oracle]]'s OriginStory, showing how Commissionner Magret's daughter got crippled following an attack by the villainous Banana-Man... who threw a banana peel at her, on which she slipped (which is shown in slow-motion and with dramatic music).

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In the episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesAllowanceDay Allowance Day]]", the plane taxis across one as Launchpad brings it in for a landing, causing yet another crash.

** In season 9 episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E14TheLastLaugh The Last Laugh]]", one of Cheese Sandwich's comedy factory's projects is a banna peel that goes into a SlipperySkid all across the floor, tripping up everyone it slides under.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/COPSAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Case of the Bad Luck Burglar", Buttons [=McBoomBoom=] slips on a banana peel while trying to explain to Big Boss why he bungled his latest assignment.
* A variant in the B-plot of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSuddenlySuzy "Suddenly Suzy"]], with Perry the Platypus driving a banana shipping company's delivery truck chasing Doofenshmirtz with his Carbon-Footprint-inator (a giant foot made of carbon paper). The truck that Perry's driving contains a giant banana on the roof of the trailer; Perry stops below the Carbon-Footprint-inator and drops the banana, causing the Inator to slip on it and stick itself into Doofenshmirtz's blimp.