History Main / BananaPeel

** In episode "Cunning Stunts", Bill (who's trying to kill himself) is seen throwing a tableload of banana peels on the ground just so he can slip all over them as part of his entry in the Eurovision Loony Contest. When this doesn't work, he lies down on a ConveyorBeltODoom. Graeme and Tim race to stop him and end up slipping over the skins also.
** And a [[RuleOfFunny mimed banana peel]] causes a nasty accident in "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express".

** 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).

* ''[[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.

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': During UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, the Flash 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.

* ''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 surprised 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 ''[[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 ''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.

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* Features in the opening theme animation (and song) to ''Anime/ExcelSaga''.

* 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.

* 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 affects (among other unlucky things) wind up painfully slipping on banana peels that just seem to appear off-screen.

* In ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', a Negatone gives the Cures bad luck, which makes them both slip on spontaneously-appearing banana peels and makes them fall ass-over-tea kettle.

* In the Competition mode of ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]'', a banana peel is one of the items one player can use against another.

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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** Gumshoe slips on some of these in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', 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 ''VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3''. Apparently Larry taught him the trick.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesAllowanceDay Allowance Day]]", the plane taxis across one as Launchpad brings it in for a landing, causing yet another crash.

* ''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/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'': 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.

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* MAD Kids did a magazine cover that featured [[Anime/{{Naruto}} Naruto Uzumaki]] slipping on a banana peel

* MAD Kids did a [[ https://i.redd.it/xgrx1tjo2hs71.jpg magazine cover]] that featured [[Anime/{{Naruto}} Naruto Uzumaki]] slipping on a banana peel

** One episode has Skrawl use a banana peel as a form of attack. Snap laughs this off at first, saying it's one of the oldest gags ever, but he shortly falls for it just the same.

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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

** Issue number five of ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAndRobinAdventures'' (a tie-in comic to ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'') features the story "Second Banana", which begins with ComicBook/TheJoker trying to beat a man to death with bananas ("Bananas are funny. Death by bananas is a positive riot.") for [[DisproportionateRetribution welshing on a trivial bet over a baseball game]], complains how long it took for him to do so, and states that he'll bring plantains next time. Cue about ten or so pages of him trying to kill The Riddler, who had been declared smarter than he was. After an old bait-and-switch, he comes to kill Riddler for real... [[BrickJoke with plantains this time]]. The peel itself comes in at the very end, where The Joker, about to shoot Batman with a HandCannon, slips on it and falls, allowing the Caped Crusader to haul him back to Arkham.
** ''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. (This is also a StealthPun: Joker referred to the banana as a "Big Mike", and "God's top gun"--referring to both the ''Gros Michel'' banana and the Archangel Michael, making it fitting that it's used to defeat a SatanicArchetype.)

* 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.

* Discussed in ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'', where Lt. Eckhardt, asked by a reporter about two Hoodlums found beaten up by Batman, simply responds that those two just slipped on a banana peel.

* 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.

* ''Film/TheDiamondArm'' uses a watermelon rind instead of a banana peel (bananas were much rarer than watermelons in TheSixties' USSR), but to the same result: the protagonist slips on a rind right in front of [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub the contrabandists' pharmacy]] and is mistaken for the actual courier.

* In ''Fanfic/FateGenesis'' VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog uses one to trip up [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Berserker]] when the UnskilledButStrong Servant is chasing him. The tumble sends Berserker down a flight of stairs and into someone's car, and the narration notes that Sonic was BornLucky for such a cartoonish ploy to work.

** ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': During the minigame Tree Stomp, Ukikis will eat bananas and throw the peels into the scene where the solo character tries to dodge the spiky belts of the other three characters' wooden robots. If the solo player slips due to the peel, they'll lose balance and be in danger of being touched by the rivals' spikes. However, if a robot from the trio slips, then ''it'' will lose balance and move rapidly (which, depending on the case, may or may not be a good thing for the solo player). Either way, it's a difficult minigame for the solo player, as they'd have to survive for 45 seconds against the three rivals ''and'' the Ukikis.

** In the climax of the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Tigger'', Tigger stops the runaway train entirely by throwing a banana peel onto the tracks, causing said train to crash.

* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'': 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]].

* Banana peel gags are a recurring gag in ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'', but one 12-panel strip takes it to it's logical extreme when Chiu decides to prank Master Q in the first 3 panels by throwing a peel from behind the wall and laughing as Master Q slips. So Master Q decides to retaliate... by dumping a dustbin of peels on Chiu when he next shows up. [[OverlyLongGag Cut to Chiu slipping over peels for 9 panels]].