History Main / BananaPeel

** ''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 ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'', Tintin attempts to foil security guards with banana peels. He manages to foil two of them, but the third manages to turn the tables.

* A short comic bit at the end of ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' has V lock a guy out onto an 18 inch ledge, where the guy slips on one of these.

* In ComicStrip/Frazz, one girl tries to slip on a fresh banana peel. Reality ensues.

* It would be easier to list the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons that ''don't'' use this trope than the ones that do. Still not a short list, though.

* 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.

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

* Yes, [[TruthInTelevision that really happens]]. Yes, [[https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/trol/7/3/7_147/_article it was studied]]. Yes, [[http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2014 they got a Noble prize for it]].

!!Examples

* In an episode of ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'', Giroro distracts Keroro with a banana peel. Keroro being the big showoff 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.
* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''

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

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''

* ''Anacleto agente secreto''

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

* ''ShaolinSoccer''

* In the pilot episode of ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' (called "Pilot"), George goes to collect a soul and the banana peel on the floor of the bank is the subject of debate, as she thinks she is GenreSavvy enough to know that this will be the cause of someone's death--[[spoiler:and even after the bank is held hostage and shot up, she turns out to be right.]]
* ''Series/JonathanCreek''

* ''Series/TheGoodies''

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai''

** ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'' has a gorilla mecha that fires banana missiles; the peels pop off right after the launch and immediately become hazards.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''

* In the adventure game ''{{Gobliiins}}'', one of the player characters can make a werewolf novelist laugh by intentionally slipping on a banana... just a banana.
* ''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/KingdomHearts''

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Season 3: The Penal Zone''. Max's psychic visions hint very heavily 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.

* The first secret hot spring scene in ''RivieraThePromisedLand'' was a simply walk-in-and-witness scenario. The PSP remake, however, adds [[ThatOneSideQuest a very difficult quicktime event challenge]] by having an utterly BadAss Grim Angel struggles almost hopelessly over a randomly placed banana peel.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney''

* Chuckles the Clown, a superhero from the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' is armed with (among other things) a gun that spits out banana peels, with predictable effects against his enemies.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''

* Used liberally in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Gorilla". Beast Boy (turned into a gorilla) throws them at Robin as a RunningGag. And Raven somehow slips on one while ''levitating'' above the ground.

* ''ProfessorLayton and the Unwound Future'' 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.

* The first secret hot spring scene in ''RivieraThePromisedLand'' was a simply walk-in-and-witness scenario. The PSP remake, however, adds [[ThatOneSideQuest a very diffecult quicktime event challenge]] by having an utterly BadAss Grim Angel struggles almost hopelessly over a randomly placed banana peel.

* In ''[[Film/FattysTintypeTangle 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' got turned into a cyborg super-investigator ([[FakeUltimateHero sort]] [[InspectorOblivious of]]) after he seriously injured himself by... slipping on a banana peel.

* It would be easier to list the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons that ''don't'' use this trope than the ones that do.

Note, however, that the slippery banana peel trope is often used unrealistically -- a ''fresh'' banana peel is hardly slippery at all. One episode of ''Series/JonathanCreek'' makes the point that you're more likely to slip on a dog turd. Even so, they are still not an inconsiderable risk -- for example, in 2001 Great Britain recorded over 300 banana-related accidents, most of which were caused by slipping on a peel.

* Bobby Leech did numerous death-defying stunts like swimming down Niagara in a barrel. One day he slipped on an orange peel, fell, broke his leg so badly it was amputated, and eventually died. Bananas and oranges: the difference between hilarity and gruesome, horrible death.

* Many marathons offer bananas to runners late in the race. Bananas are a tasty and digestible source of energy. And there's nothing like having dozens of discarded banana peels ''in the middle of a footrace.''

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia''

* Referenced in the opening of the WelcomeToNightVale episode "Street Cleaning Day".

** As mentioned, the first episode saw the title character experimenting with this after seeing a commercial making use of it; after taking a good run at it, he ended up slipping on dog muck instead.
** Earlier on, another character complained about the use of this trope in an unaired TV commercial, especially since it depicted a ''bicycle'' slippping on the peel.

* The ''Series/MythBusters'' tested this trope by building a field full of banana peels and running an obstacle course over it. For comparison, they also had a similar field coated in animal birthing lubricant (which Jamie [[CrazyPrepared happened to have in the shop]]). While the peels were definitely more slippery than solid ground, it was nowhere near as slick as the lubed ground and (assuming you know the peel is there) it was certainly not an automatic slip like you'd see in a cartoon. [[JustForFun/TropesExaminedByTheMythbusters You know what that means...]]

** RV Robo falls victim to this in an episode of ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''. Yes, you read that right: the HumongousMecha ''slips on a banana peel''.
** Even more ludicrous, ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'' has a gorilla mecha that fires banana missiles; the peels pop off right after the launch and immediately become hazards. That's right, even giant metal banana peels are slippery.

* The ''Series/MythBusters'' tested this trope by building a field full of banana peels and running an obstacle course over it. For comparison, they also had a similar field coated in animal birthing lubricant (which Jamie [[CrazyPrepared happened to have in the shop]]). While the peels were definitely more slippery than solid ground, it was nowhere near as slick as the lubed ground and (assuming you know the peel is there) it was certainly not an automatic slip like you'd see in a cartoon. [[TropesBustedByMythBusters You know what that means...]]

* The first hot spring scene in ''RivieraThePromisedLand'' was a simply walk-in-and-witness scenario. The PSP remake, however, adds [[ThatOneSideQuest a very diffecult quicktime event challenge]] by having an utterly BadAss Grim Angel struggles almost hopelessly over a randomly placed banana peel.

* The first hot spring scene in ''RivieraThePromisedLand'' was a simply walk-in-and-witness scenario, the PSP remake, howver, adds [[ThatOneSideQuest a very diffecult quicktime event challenge]] by having an utterly BadAss Grim Angel struggles almost hopelessly over a randomly placed banana peel.

* 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 struggles almost hopelessly over a randomly placed banana peel.