History Main / BananaPeel

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has one story (called [[Series/{{Lazytown}} "Now Watch and Learn, Here's The Deal"]]) where a Foundation staffer who needs to be euthanized chooses to be killed by SCP-173 (a statue that breaks your neck if you stop looking at it). Before he closes his eyes to trigger it, he knocks over a crate of banana peels. [[spoiler:After it trips, SCP-173, instead of breaking his neck, ''bitch-slaps'' him to death.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' villain Splatter Phoenix, who has the ability to call something into existence by painting it, makes a banana peel for Darkwing to slip on, and bemoans the necessity of painting such a mundane object.
** There was also "Apes of Wrath" which took place on an island filled with gorillas who love to eat bananas; however, it's not until the last few seconds of the episode when Darkwing accidently slips on a banana peel and comments, [[LampshadeHanging "Well, you knew someone had to do it."]]

** And in the episode "If It Smells Like An Ed", after Jimmy successfully frames the Eds [[DisproportionateRetribution because Eddy gave him a wedgie]], after the Eds are taken away by the Kankers, Jimmy walks away [[LaserGuidedKarma and slips on a banana peel]], [[ButtMonkey injuring himself yet again]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "City of Frownsville" , when Hal Larious (a.k.a. Lou Gubrious) slips on a banana peel dropped by Bubbles, it causes the [[EverybodyCries then-crying populace of Townsville]] to start laughing again.

* Occasionally used in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''; the Creator/ChuckJones shorts featured this fairly often.

** Becomes one of Phoenix Wright's attacks in ''VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3''.

* ''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.

* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol''. The [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/monkeys/doompatrol034009fa.jpg cover of Doom Patrol #34]] showed a heavily armed gorilla (Monsieur Mallah) walking along the street pushing a baby carriage and about to slip on a banana peel.

* In a ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'' comic, Titeuf used a banana peel to break the leg of a doctor who was going to vaccinate the students, he was said to have hands that shakes alot, much to the fear of the students for his syringe.

* One ''[[ComicStrip/TheFarSide Far Side]]'' comic features a penguin slipping on a banana peel in the middle of a vast plane of ice.

--> '''Bakugo''': YOU DID '''''NOT''''' JUST BANANA PEEL ME, YOU FUCKER!

* The ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short "Pardon My Scotch" features an interesting variation on this trope. Curly launches an unpeeled banana into the mouth of an opera singer to get him to shut up. The indignant opera singer attempts to storm out, but slips on the half of the banana he spit out.

* In ''The Pal Patrol'', a book based on ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', Simba arrives at Pride Rock an hour later than he promised Timon and Pumbaa because he had to help a herd of elephants who slipped on some banana peels that a troop of monkeys tossed on the ground. When Simba asks Timon and Pumbaa why the monkeys can't remember to clean up after themselves, Pumbaa tells him that he thought monkeys never forgot. Timon reminds him that it's ''[[ElephantsNeverForget elephants]]'' who never forget anything.
* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “No Littering, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker slips on a banana peel while skating.

* ''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 similar thing happening.
* ''Computer War'' by Creator/MackReynolds. When a couple of saboteurs infiltrate a government office, one of them is eating a banana as 'local colour' so he will look like anything but a spy trying to remain unobtrusive. After bluffing their way past a guard, they run into the same guard later on when he catches them coming out of a restricted area. They have to kill him on the spot and throw his body down a stairwell, rubbing the banana on his shoes and leaving the peel to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
* According to the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} Fools' Guild Diary'':
-->'''15 Offle''': On this day in the Year of the Running Stoat, the first banana was off-loaded at the docks in Ankh-Morpork (according to the ''Histories'' of Marcellus) and the first banana-skin joke took place eighteen minutes later. Question for students: how often do you see banana-skins in the street?

* 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.

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* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/01/banana-peels.html totally do this.]]

* In the ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' fan web-manga ''[[http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/31 Atashi wa Docchi Da!]]'', which [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderizes]] all the characters it can and invents new traits for everyone else, Ginga Nakajima slips on a banana peel [[CuteClumsyGirl almost every time she appears]].
* Odd [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in Spanish webcomic ''Un millón de monos'': [[http://monos.fadri.org/023-el-momento-mas-ironico see for yourself]].

* [[http://michaeldashow.com/portfolio/escape-plan-b/ This image]] is made of this trope, {{Steampunk}}, and win.
* The ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-movie-tv-show-references-that-were-impossible-to-get/ "5 Pop Culture References Nobody Got in Movies and TV Shows"]] states that the origin of the banana peel gag is how filthy 19th-century streets were.
* [[http://validator.w3.org/ W3C markup validator]] displayed the [[http://vi-server.org/vi/_/footer.jpg banana peel]] (actually half-eaten banana) at the bottom.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has one story (called [[Series/{{Lazytown}} "Now Watch and Learn, Here's The Deal"]]) where a Foundation staffer who needs to be euthanized chooses to be killed by SCP-173 (a statue that breaks your neck if you stop looking at it). Before he closes his eyes to trigger it, he knocks over a crate of banana peels. [[spoiler:After it trips, SCP-173, instead of breaking his neck, ''bitch-slaps'' him to death.]]

** The second Comics-Based Games episode start off with a parody of [[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Barbara Gordon / Oracle]]'s OriginStory, showing how Commissioner 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).

* Used in ''LightNovel/HumanityHasDeclined'' to create [[{{Pun}} a time slip]].

* 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.

* 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 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 the ''Franchise/OnePiece'' movie ''Anime/OnePieceFilmGold'', Baccarat's Luck-Luck Devil Fruit power allows her to [[WindsOfDestinyChange alter her own or another person's luck]] and the Straw Hats she effects (among other unlucky things) wind up painfully slipping on banana peels that just seem to appear off-screen.

* 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 ''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.

* ''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.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has one story (called [[Series/{{Lazytown}} "Now Watch and Learn, Here's The Deal"]]) where a Foundation staffer who needs to be euthanized chooses to be killed by SCP-178 (a statue that breaks your neck if you stop looking at it). Before he closes his eyes to trigger it, he knocks over a crate of banana peels. [[spoiler:After it trips, SCP-178, instead of breaking his neck, ''bitch-slaps'' him to death.]]

* In the Anime/OnePiece movie "Anime/OnePieceFilmGold", Baccarat's Luck-Luck Devil Fruit power allows her to [[WindsOfDestinyChange alter her own or another person's luck]] and the Straw Hats she effects (among other unlucky things) wind up painfully slipping on banana peels that just seem to appear off-screen.
-->'''Franky:''' Should I be worried here, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny cause that was funny.]]

* In the Anime/OnePiece movie "Anime/OnePieceFilmGold", Baccarat's Luck-Luck Devil Fruit powers allows her to [[WindsOfDestinyChange alter her own or another person's luck]] and the Straw Hats she effects (among other unlucky tings) wind up painfully slipping on banana peels that just seem to appear offscreen.

* 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.