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| 7 | [[quoteright:316:[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BananaPeels.jpg]]]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:316:[[FailedASpotCheck Donald, how did you not notice those?]]]] |
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| 10 | ->''"A banana has two uses: food... and entertainment."'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''Garfield''', ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1982/02/04 February 4, 1982]] |
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| 13 | Guaranteed to send a character into a SlipperySkid (of which this is a SubTrope), a Banana Peel is one of the most dangerous things you can encounter in a cartoon. Just stepping on one will inevitably lead to [[ThePratfall a pratfall]] or some variety of injury, often capped by a case of CirclingBirdies. Sometimes part of a TrashLanding. |
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| 15 | Despite its status as a quintessential part of Slapstick and CartoonPhysics, the use of a banana peel as an injurious prop is actually [[RealityIsUnrealistic alarmingly realistic]] and a reference to its ubiquity on the streets of American cities in the early part of the 20th century. Refrigeration and shipping speed had combined to make bananas the most popular fruit in the country, and in that age before anti-littering laws, people would just eat the fruit and discard the peels wherever they were. As they rotted, the peels would become quite slippery and thus dangerous to tread upon. Banana peels were in fact responsible for a large number of accidents and injuries, including several severely broken legs that eventually had to be amputated, according to period sources. The problem grew so bad that modern urban street sanitation systems were invented mostly to deal with the peel; in New York City, the banana peel actually became something of a symbol of modern sanitation. This is also frequently homaged, just about anytime a cartoon character ends up crashing into a trash can, garbage truck, or any other public-sanitation device, he's likely to find himself having at least one banana peel stuck to him. |
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| 17 | 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, it is 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. Whether or not it was hilarious to onlookers is not recorded. |
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| 20 | !!Examples: |
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| 24 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 25 | * Played straight in a ''Advertising/CNCity'' bumper in which [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 Mojo Jojo]] tosses the peel on the ground after eating the banana, causing [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Mandark]] to slip on it a few seconds later. |
| 26 | * Averted in a Domino's commercial where a man carrying one of their pizzas sees the peel before he can step on it and puts it in a garbage can - only to drop the pizza when a skunk pops out and startles him. |
| 27 | * Played straight in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaxEkYEZ58 this Rexona commercial]] when a woman slips on a banana peel she just dropped. |
| 28 | * Subverted in [[https://youtu.be/60rIrCm0n70 a Red Bull commercial]]. Three people notice the peel and carefully step over or around it. However, the guy who drank Red Bull uses it as a skateboard. |
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| 31 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 32 | * ''Animation/FourAngies'': In episode 14, Kai-chan has a dream multiple times throughout the episode about her slipping on a banana peel and being dragged back up from the ground by a boy, who she assumes to be her true love. |
| 33 | * ''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. |
| 34 | * ''Animation/GGBond'': In Season 12 episode 5, GG Bond notices the city hasn't been cleaned and slips on a banana peel that's among the trash. He slides out of control, avoiding several obstacles in a row before flying over a city resident, slipping again on a watermelon slice, and then running into a traffic light. |
| 35 | * In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "The Chase", Lamput morphs into a banana peel and makes Specs Doc and Skinny Doc, who are trying to capture him and bring him back to their lab [[RoadRunnerVsCoyote as usual]], slip into some nearby trash cans. |
| 36 | * In the ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' episode "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E46DoubleTrouble Double Trouble]]", Dozegury slips up Noonbory with a banana peel to stall for time. |
| 37 | * The first episode of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: The Athletic Carousel'' shows that Wolffy has invented robotic banana peels that he intends to use to slip up the goats. He falls victim to one of his own banana peels instead, showing that they electrocute anyone who slips on them. |
| 38 | * In ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass: Travel Around the World'' episode 20, Wolffy slips on a banana peel and only barely lands on his toes. |
| 39 | [[/folder]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 42 | * In ''Manga/ArakawaUnderTheBridge'' episode 5, this trope is averted by Kou but played straight for P-Ko. Kou does not slip on a banana peel even after deliberately stomping on it. |
| 43 | -->'''Ric:''' [[DiscreditedTrope Sorry, but nowadays people don't even slip on these in comedies.]]\ |
| 44 | '''P-ko:''' No way! They're clearly just broken! Usually, as soon as I set foot on one... ''[sets off banana-peel SlipperySkid chain reaction]'' |
| 45 | * While ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' never showed a banana, much less a peel, Osaka mentions slipping on a banana peel as something she wants to try. |
| 46 | * Happens in episode 7 of ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'''s second season. 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. |
| 47 | * It happens early on in ''Literature/{{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. |
| 48 | * One of Metaletemon's attacks, from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. Yes, a mega-level move is to throw a banana peel. |
| 49 | * 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. |
| 50 | * 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.)]] |
| 51 | %% Needs Context * Features in the opening theme animation (and song) to ''Anime/ExcelSaga''. |
| 52 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': |
| 53 | ** One strip has America tripping on one. He breaks his leg even though he landed on his face. |
| 54 | ** It also happens to South Italy (Romano) in an old strip when he tries to charge at Germany. He trips on the peel, but winds up with a skinned arm and forehead from landing on his face. |
| 55 | * ''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. |
| 56 | * Used in ''Literature/HumanityHasDeclined'' to create [[{{Pun}} a time slip]]. |
| 57 | * In episode 32 of ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'', Tata magically makes a bunch of banana peels appear on the race track so that the other competitors slip on them. Dian uses a magic spell to blow the peels towards Tata, and he ends up slipping on one himself and loses the race as a result. |
| 58 | -->'''Tata:''' Mukii! This is so bitter-damon!\ |
| 59 | '''Miria:''' Just what you get for playing dirty! |
| 60 | * In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'', this is invoked as Aisho Dainenjiyama slips on a banana peel created by the stand Paisley Park. |
| 61 | * The 43rd episode of ''Anime/KiraKiraHappyHirakeCocotama'' has a girl named Yuuka slip on a banana peel and lose one of her shoes. |
| 62 | * 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. |
| 63 | * Su from ''Manga/LoveHina'' sometimes leaves these around. Sarah also tries to deliberately throw one in front of Keitarō once. |
| 64 | * 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.]] |
| 65 | * In the ''Manga/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. |
| 66 | -->'''Franky:''' Should I be worried here, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny 'cause that was funny.]] |
| 67 | * The ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' anime uses banana peels 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. |
| 68 | * The 28th episode of the ''Anime/PaRappaTheRapper'' anime has the witch accidentally free [=PaRappa=] from the cage she locked him in when she slips on a banana peel and ends up throwing the key into the lock. |
| 69 | * 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. |
| 70 | * In ''Literature/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. |
| 71 | * In the ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' 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. |
| 72 | * ''Anime/PrettyCure'': |
| 73 | ** 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. |
| 74 | ** ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': In Episode 34, Candy has the MonsterOfTheWeek weakened after consuming a giant banana and tossing its peel to make the Akanbe slip. |
| 75 | * 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. |
| 76 | * In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Nanami slips on a banana peel discarded by Chu-Chu. |
| 77 | * 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. |
| 78 | * ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'': Pan Saruhara cheats in a race by throwing down a banana peel to make her oppenents slip. |
| 79 | * 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. |
| 80 | * 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. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/UndeadUnluck'': In her first meeting with Andy, Fuuko's attempt to flee causes her to slip on a banana that fell from a crate on top of Andy after it was brought by her Unluck. |
| 82 | * The first training to make Sumika more clumsy in ''Manga/WhisperedWords'' is this. Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in its status as DiscreditedTrope. |
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| 85 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 86 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 87 | ** Even Batman himself can be [[http://comicsmakenosense.blogspot.com/2009/12/delivered-straight-to-your-cell.html laid low by a banana peel.]] |
| 88 | ** Issue number five of ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman and Robin Adventures]]'' (a tie-in comic to ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'') features the story "Second Banana", which begins with the Joker 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 when the Joker, about to shoot Batman with a HandCannon, slips on it and falls, allowing the Caped Crusader to haul him back to Arkham. |
| 89 | ** ''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.) |
| 90 | * ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': |
| 91 | ** The cover of volume two, issue 34 showed a heavily armed gorilla (Monsieur Mallah) walking along the street pushing a baby carriage and about to slip on a banana peel. |
| 92 | ** Volume two, issue 50 has Crazy Jane slip on a banana peel because of Brotherhood of Dada member Number None. |
| 93 | * ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': During MediaNotes/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. |
| 94 | * 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. |
| 95 | * 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. |
| 96 | * 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. |
| 97 | * ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': |
| 98 | ** ''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]]. |
| 99 | ** 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. |
| 100 | * 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 a lot, much to the fear of the students for his syringe. |
| 101 | * 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]]). |
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| 104 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 105 | * 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''. |
| 106 | * ''Anacleto agente secreto'': |
| 107 | ** 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. |
| 108 | ** 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. |
| 109 | * One ''ComicStrip/BigNate'' Sunday strip sees Nate and Teddy test this out. Neither of them slips on the peel, and they take that as proof that the trope doesn't happen in real life, only for Mrs. Godfrey to walk in and slip on it herself. |
| 110 | * ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': One comic features a penguin slipping on a banana peel in the middle of a vast plane of ice. |
| 111 | * 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''. |
| 112 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': |
| 113 | ** Garfield provided the page quote. |
| 114 | ** Taken up to eleven in [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1990/05/13 this comic,]] where Garfield eats a whole string of bananas, leaves the peels, and Jon slips on every single one of them. |
| 115 | ** Subverted in [[http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1996/05/26 another strip.]] It could be argued it's DoubleSubverted, though, because after Jon picks up the peel and comments on [[LampshadeHanging how lame an attempt it was]], he then [[KansasCityShuffle falls into a hole that Garfield sawed into the ground]]. |
| 116 | ** Garfield's alter ego, [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1990/05/15 Banana Man,]] brings humor to the world by spreading peels around and voilà, instant fun! |
| 117 | * 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. |
| 118 | * An old ''[[Magazine/TheNewYorker New Yorker]]'' cartoon by Creator/CharlesAddams shows a banana peel lying innocently on a busy city sidewalk, cordoned off by "caution" signs. |
| 119 | * In [[https://www.creators.com/read/rugrats/04/17/199830 this]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' comic strip, Angelica uses a banana skin to make Tommy slip. The joke backfires when he likes it, and gets his friends to join in. |
| 120 | [[/folder]] |
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| 122 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 123 | * One of Makoto's pranks that he tries to pull on Yuuko in ''Fanfic/CanonInG'' is leaving a banana peel; she can't believe he actually thought she would fall for it. |
| 124 | * In ''Fanfic/FateGenesis'' Franchise/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. |
| 125 | * 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. |
| 126 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13870818/29/A-Harmonious-Beginning?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pW86uq_pJbUcwBTKVjZY1bY1wkiW5uYbStenkHod8u0-1640388594-0-gaNycGzNCD0 A Harmonious Beginning]]'' someone pranks Lockhart by making him slip on a banana peel on a greased floor and knock down a bunch of bowling pins, after which "Strike!" flashes on the wall. |
| 127 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14079828/1/Hedwig-s-Little-Adventure Hedwig's Little Adventure]]'' Voldemort slips on a banana peel while casting the Killing Curse at Harry and ends up cursing himself. |
| 128 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9963013/14/He-s-Not-Dead-Yet He's Not Dead Yet]]'' states that during the duel between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, Grindelwald slipped on a banana peel and accidentally threw his wand at Dumbledore. |
| 129 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13551951/26/Into-the-Unknown Into the Unknown]]'' Harry uses a spell that creates a banana peel during a duel and Snape almost slips on it. |
| 130 | * In ''Fanfic/TurningANewLeaf'', Izuku actually gets Bakugo to slip on one while chasing him. |
| 131 | -->'''Bakugo:''' YOU DID '''''NOT''''' JUST BANANA PEEL ME, YOU FUCKER! |
| 132 | * During the events of ''Fanfic/BeingFemale'', Uncle Vernon climbs onto a coffee table and attacks the protagonists with [[KatanasAreJustBetter a samurai sword]], only to slip on one of these ([[DeusExMachina where it even came from and why it was on the coffee table are never explained]]), which causes him to [[MadeOfExplodium fall onto the TV and die in an explosion]]. |
| 133 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13106883/4/The-Daisy-Chain The Daisy Chain]]'' Daisy's mindscape is heavily based on ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. Sir Robin throws banana peels at intruders as one of the defenses. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 137 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', [[InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous Sigmund Freud]] steps on one. That's right, a [[VisualPun literal]] FreudianSlip. |
| 138 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway''. While chasing Roddy, Spike and Whitey notice and ''very'' carefully step around a banana peel despite it being bigger than they are, allowing their target to get a good distance away from them. Immediately afterwards, they slip on a pair of much smaller slugs. |
| 139 | * ''[[Franchise/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. |
| 140 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', Hacha Chacha's plan for world domination involves littering the city with banana peels so people will slip on them. |
| 141 | -->''My name is Hacha Chacha, and here is my spiel,\ |
| 142 | A diabolical plan with lots of ap-peel,\ |
| 143 | Spreading out bananas far and wide,\ |
| 144 | And fixing up the folks for a slippery slide!'' |
| 145 | * ''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. |
| 146 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' has an example that plays out the same way it does in the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' series. The [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Kong]] who escorts Mario, Peach, and Toad through the Jungle Kingdom grabs and eats a banana during the drive before tossing the peel onto the road. Swanky Kong ends up driving over the peel and careening off the road. |
| 147 | * 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. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 151 | * In ''Film/AquamanTheCastOfTheAngler'', Aquaman slips on one of the Angler's discarded banana peels and has trouble with a guard as a result. |
| 152 | * Discussed in ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'', where Lt. Eckhardt, asked by a reporter about two Hoodlums found beaten up by Batman, responds that those two just slipped on a banana peel. |
| 153 | * 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. |
| 154 | * 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. |
| 155 | * {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in Chaplin's film ''Film/TheCircus'' when the Tramp slips on a banana peel on a tightrope, [[MischiefMakingMonkey placed there by a monkey]]. |
| 156 | * 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]]. |
| 157 | * ''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 the contrabandists' pharmacy and is mistaken for the actual courier. |
| 158 | * In ''Film/FattysTintypeTangle'', a random passer-by drops a banana peel right in front of Creator/FattyArbuckle's porch just as Fatty is leaving home. |
| 159 | %%* Played straight in the 1917 Creator/HaroldLloyd short ''The Flirt''. |
| 160 | * 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 that was being shredded by machine gun fire. |
| 161 | * 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. |
| 162 | * ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' has a banana peel joke in the final scene. Ethel Merman is the victim. |
| 163 | * ''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. |
| 164 | * ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'': |
| 165 | ** Played straight and subverted. In an early scene, the main character and his coach watch a woman trip on a banana peel, they then cut to a shaolin temple where a monk trips, catches himself and proceeds to jump across a field of banana peels, landing on each one and using it as a jumping point. |
| 166 | ** There's a callback to this at the end of the movie, when a woman slips on a banana peel and catches herself spectacularly, starting a chain of scenes showing that the main character [[spoiler:and his girlfriend]] are now world-famous and have started a craze for learning amazing martial arts skills. |
| 167 | * In ''Film/SherlockJr'' (1924), Creator/BusterKeaton sets a banana peel trap for his rival but ends up [[HoistByHisOwnPetard slipping on it himself]]. |
| 168 | * In ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', Donald O'Connor sings that one of the ways to "Make 'em Laugh" is to slip on a banana peel. |
| 169 | * In Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'', the future has produced giant-sized bananas. Naturally, two characters have lots of trouble staying upright when the peels are left on the ground. |
| 170 | * An especially goofy example occurs in the Creator/BobHope 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''. |
| 171 | * In ''Film/TheSonOfTheSheik'', Pincher the mischievous vaudevillian deliberately chucks a banana peel under the strong man's feet during his act. The strong man falls down, and in the process reveals that his supposed heavy barbell is really hollow. |
| 172 | * In ''Film/Transylvania65000'', Fejos carries banana peels in his pockets and throws them on the ground and then attempts to slip on them in an effort to prove his comedic talents to Gil. However, he keeps falling over before he even reaches the peels. |
| 173 | * 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. |
| 174 | * 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. |
| 175 | * 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. |
| 176 | * 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. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 180 | * A very old joke: |
| 181 | -->'''Q:''' What do you call two banana peels?\ |
| 182 | '''A:''' A pair of slippers! |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 186 | * ''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. |
| 187 | * According to the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} Fools' Guild Diary'': |
| 188 | -->'''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? |
| 189 | * The ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''The Fran That Time Forgot'' had Franny wind up in a BadFuture where her teenage self was planning to terrorize everyone with an army of elephant monsters as a result of Franny's short-sighted effort in changing her EmbarrassingMiddleName and telling her infant self that there is nothing worse than being laughed at when she time-traveled back to the day she was born. When restrained by one of the elephant monsters, Franny breaks free by shoving cheese from her voice-activated cheese cannon up the monster's trunk and having him tripped up by a banana peel that had been lying there all this time from her years of neglecting to clean her room. |
| 190 | * In ''Literature/MissBindergarten Has a Wild Day in Kindergarten'', Danny falls victim to this in the cafeteria. |
| 191 | * In ''The Pal Patrol'', a book based on ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', 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. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In "No Littering, Roys Bedoys!", Maker slips on a banana peel while skating. |
| 193 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': 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. |
| 194 | -->'''Nick Rostu:''' Not bad. Maybe not up there with [[CallARabbitASmeerp slipping on a raballa peel]], but still pretty funny. |
| 195 | * MAD Kids did a magazine cover that featured [[Characters/NarutoNarutoUzumaki Naruto Uzumaki]] slipping on a banana peel |
| 196 | * 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.]] |
| 197 | * ''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. |
| 198 | [[/folder]] |
| 199 | |
| 200 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 201 | * ''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]]. |
| 202 | * On an episode of ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'' Creator/TomBergeron introduces a banana peel as "a great source of pratfalls" as he drops one at his feet. The series of clips that follows are pratfalls, but none involving banana peels. |
| 203 | * 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. |
| 204 | * 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. |
| 205 | * ''Series/{{Cheers}}:'' One season 2 episode has [[TheKlutz Coach]] trying to break his record for least amount of glasses broken. As the timer starts running out, he begins cavalierly breaking glasses left and right, much to Carla's horror. Coach reassures her even he can't be that clumsy... the next act break ends with Coach sitting in defeat, staring at a banana peel. |
| 206 | -->'''Coach:''' Damn exotic drinks... |
| 207 | * 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 knows 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.]] |
| 208 | * In season 4, episode 1 of the French series ''Series/DixPourCent'' Charlotte Gainsbourg, playing herself, falsely claims to have slipped on a banana peel... and then actually slips on said peel and goes flying down the stairs. |
| 209 | * ''Series/TheGoodies'': |
| 210 | ** In episode "Cunning Stunts", Bill wants to commit suicide, so enters the Eurovision Loony Contest. One scene has him coming across a table piled with bananas, which he proceeds to eat and throw the peels on the ground so he can slip on them. Graeme and Tim race to stop him and end up slipping over the skins also. |
| 211 | ** And a [[YourMimeMakesItReal mimed banana peel]] causes a nasty accident in "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express". |
| 212 | * An episode of ''Series/GoodEats'' featuring bananas and plantains spoofed this multiple times. |
| 213 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': A series of flashbacks reveal that the gang once decided to test this by dropping a banana peel on the floor of [=MacClaren=]'s and having Barney step on it. Barney insists it won't work but ends up slipping. This turns out to be a good thing, as he falls he bumps into a woman who was about to choke and the jolt clears her throat. |
| 214 | * ''Series/JonathanCreek'': |
| 215 | ** 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. |
| 216 | ** Another character complained about the use of this trope in an unaired TV commercial, especially since it depicted a ''bicycle'' slippping on the peel. |
| 217 | * In the ''Series/LazyTown'' episode "Robbie's Dream Team", Robbie Rotten demonstrates this to the title 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. |
| 218 | -->'''Robbie:''' Now watch, and learn, here's the deal! He'll slip and slide on this banana peel~!\ |
| 219 | ''[watches in utter disbelief as his lookalikes step on the peels themselves and slip over]''\ |
| 220 | '''Robbie: ''[[SuddenlyShouting WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!]]''''' |
| 221 | * ''MediaNotes/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]]. |
| 222 | * The ''Series/MythBusters'' [[JustForFun/TropesExaminedByTheMythbusters 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. |
| 223 | * In ''Series/OddSquad'', Nana Banana is a villain with the ability to fire bananas out of her hands. The floor of her lair is littered with banana peels, which causes Agent Olympia and the Stitcher to slide crazily when they race in an attempt to grab the Stitcher's notebook in "Who is Agent Otis?". |
| 224 | * The opening credits of each episode of ''Series/ResidentAlien'' feature [[FurnitureAssemblyGag Ikea instructional manual style instructions]] on how for a HughMann alien to blend into human society. The credits for "[[Recap/ResidentAlienS2E5FamilyDay Family Day]]" depict this, the twist being that simply taking the banana peel and throwing it in the trash gets the red X because the gag is that you're supposed to slip on the banana peel. |
| 225 | * The anti-embarrassment spell from ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' involves a magic banana peel that when slipped on, causes the embarrassee 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. |
| 226 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': |
| 227 | ** RV Robo, a HumongousMecha, falls victim to this in an episode of ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''. |
| 228 | ** ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'' has a gorilla mecha that fires banana missiles; the peels pop off right after the launch and immediately become hazards. |
| 229 | * ''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. |
| 230 | * In the Canadian public TV series ''Today's Special,'' a female mime illustrates why dropping banana peels is a bad idea: [[https://youtu.be/Q4zScTgsNA4?t=881]] |
| 231 | * "Nutrition" (a.k.a. "Good, Healthy Foods"), a 1981 season episode of ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'': |
| 232 | -->'''Christine:''' ''[eating a banana]'' You know, bananas just might be nature's original "take-out" food. Get it? "Take out"? ''[silence]'' Anyway, you can still have a lot of fun with the skin. Watch this. ''[tosses the peel onto the floor in front of her; Ross walks by and slips on it, causing a gigantic offscreen crash]'' |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[folder:Manhua]] |
| 236 | * 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 a 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]]. |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 240 | * "Fallin' Never Felt So Good" by Shawn Camp: |
| 241 | -->''Now I'm a guy that does what he feels\ |
| 242 | But I never seem to spot that banana peel\ |
| 243 | With eyes shut tight and nerves of steel\ |
| 244 | I'm takin' the plunge, baby, head over heels\ |
| 245 | Fallin' never felt so good...'' |
| 246 | * A PlaygroundSong set to the long-ago Chiquita advertising jingle: |
| 247 | -->''I'm Chiquita Banana, and I'm here to say\ |
| 248 | Get rid of your teacher the easy way.\ |
| 249 | Just put a banana peel on the floor\ |
| 250 | And watch her go sliding out the door.'' |
| 251 | * The girl in the first verse of Music/{{Psychostick}}'s "It's Just a Movie, Stupid" slips on a banana peel but is saved from falling by a guy who's described in the song as "[[TallDarkAndHandsome tall and dark, and strong and kind, and sensitive with washboard abs]]". |
| 252 | * Music/WallOfVoodoo: Stan Ridgway has his "Salesman" slipping on a banana peel (it's only metaphoric, though). |
| 253 | * Music/{{Steppenwolf}}'s "Twisted": |
| 254 | -->While climbing up Mt. Everest to get away from all the noise\ |
| 255 | I slipped on a banana peel and almost got destroyed\ |
| 256 | And I was worried all the way down to the ground\ |
| 257 | When it comes to holding safety nets\ |
| 258 | Nobody seems to be around |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 262 | * In the video for Music/{{Mastodon}}'s "Show Yourself", an incompetent GrimReaper (who's been failing to kill the band for the whole video), discards a banana peel into the street which somehow manages to make Mastodon's tour bus skid out of control and crash, killing all of them. |
| 263 | * In the video for "Psycho" by Music/PuddleOfMudd, a Banana Peel causes a lethal slip to happen in a shower similar to a famous scene from the movie the music video was based on. |
| 264 | * This happens to Ivy Levan in the video for her song "Hot Damn" after she's defeated most of a gang of criminals who were menacing the diner she works at. |
| 265 | * Happens to the female protagonist in the clip for White Town's "Your Woman". |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 269 | * Referenced in the opening of the ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' episode "Street Cleaning Day". |
| 270 | [[/folder]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 273 | * On Magnificent Championship Wrestling's Fourth Anniversary show, Space Monkey defeated Kwan Chang when they latter held the former up for a power slam or something... and then slipped on a banana peel, pinning himself. |
| 274 | * During a Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam match, Super Sasadango Machine put a banana peel on his face when Wrestling/KazushiSakuraba leaped to [[FinishingStomp double stomp it]], causing Sakuraba to slide off. |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 278 | * 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'.''" |
| 279 | * In ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' this trope is in play when the Swedish Chef's demonstration of making a banana split by chopping a banana is continually interrupted by a Mexican musical conga line passing by at different times. At the end of his patience, he gets his revenge by throwing a (spotty!) peel on the ground in front of his counter and luring the conga line to make another pass, and they all fall on their faces. |
| 280 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'': |
| 281 | ** In a 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 still manages anyhow. |
| 282 | ** On one of the recurring "Monster Clubhouse" segments, a Muppet comes into the clubhouse asking for the "National Slip-on-the-Banana-Peel Club". |
| 283 | ** In the ''Series/ElmosWorld'' episode about Shoes, Elmo watches the Shoe Channel, which tells him the story of when shoes were first invented. In prehistoric times, cavemen tried to make shoes out of banana peels, which caused them [[WatchOutForThatTree to slide into trees]]. |
| 284 | ** In Episode 5023, Joey and Davey toss their banana peels on the ground, and Zoe, who attempts a ballet leap, slips on them, [[InjuredLimbEpisode breaking her arm as a result]]. |
| 285 | [[/folder]] |
| 286 | |
| 287 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 288 | * The "Homebrewed" [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/printthread.php?t=122824&pp=40 Falling Anvil]] discipline for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' version 3.0/3.5 contains three different maneuvers related to this, ranging from dropping a single banana peel near you from your hand, to causing banana peels to rain from the sky for thirty feet around you. |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 292 | * Discussed by Ella in ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'': |
| 293 | -->''Is it a crime to tell him or is it a crime not to?\ |
| 294 | Is it "you mustn't" or "you've got to?"\ |
| 295 | Should you say, "Hey watch out for that banana peel, Bud,"\ |
| 296 | Or just remain silent, then laugh as he crashes with a thud?'' |
| 297 | * In Creator/SamuelBeckett's ''Krapp's Last Tape'', Krapp eats a banana, drops the peel on the floor, and [[BrickJoke later]] slips on it. |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 301 | * Within Ride/SuperNintendoWorld, the wet floor signs are styled as giant ''VideoGame/MarioKart''-style banana peels |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 305 | * ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': |
| 306 | ** 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. |
| 307 | ** Becomes one of Phoenix Wright's attacks in ''VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3''. Apparently Larry taught him the trick. |
| 308 | * Pipo Monkeys from ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'' occasionally drop these. |
| 309 | * There is a powerup called Banana Peel in ''[[VideoGame/BackyardSports Backyard Hockey]]'' which sends the opponent into a Slippery Skid, even though there is no actual banana peel in the powerup except for the icon. |
| 310 | * 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. |
| 311 | * The PC racing game ''Crazyracing Kartrider'' features a banana peel item. |
| 312 | * In the ''[[VideoGame/DarkwingDuckCapcom Darkwing Duck]]'' LicensedGame for the Platform/{{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. |
| 313 | * During one phase of the final boss in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', you have to make him slip on giant banana peels. There are also parts earlier in the game where running over a banana peel results in slipping on it. |
| 314 | * ''VideoGame/FallenAces'' allows you to pick up banana peels and ''weaponize'' them. Especially in fights, where you can throw the peel you're holding at your target's feet to induce a SlipperySkid on them. |
| 315 | * ''Flood Runner'' 3 and 4 have an achievement for slipping on a certain number of banana peels. |
| 316 | * In ''VideoGame/GarfieldLasagnaParty'', when it's one player's turn to roll, the other players can choose to spend two coins if they have them in their inventory to use the banana peel. Each banana peel used takes one space away from the total number of the player's roll. |
| 317 | * 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. |
| 318 | * ''VideoGame/Hitman3'': Agent 47 can throw a banana on the ground. Characters who slip on it lose consciousness, including targets. |
| 319 | * ''VideoGame/HuniePop'': [[http://kopianget.deviantart.com/art/Stupid-banana-508591996 This art]] by the Character Designer features a SuperDeformed [[AlphaBitch Audrey]] having slipped on one of these. |
| 320 | * ''VideoGame/InStarsAndTime'': Slipping on the banana peel on the north side of Dormont will kill Siffrin, allowing them to loop. |
| 321 | * 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. |
| 322 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': |
| 323 | ** 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. |
| 324 | ** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'', they lost the banana peels, and in its [[Platform/PlayStation2 PS2]] remake, it was re-added, although Sora will now lose Moogle Points instead. |
| 325 | ** 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. |
| 326 | * 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. |
| 327 | * ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' has prank bananas that can [[EdibleAmmunition somehow]] be fired from Zael's crossbow at [=NPCs=] and party members, leading to much hilarity. |
| 328 | * In ''VideoGame/LuckBeALandlord'', the Banana Peel is a potential symbol, selectable directly or generatable if a Banana is consumed by a Monkey or Mrs. Fruit. If a Thief is near it, both it and the Thief will be destroyed, with a comical sound resembling that of a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' character running. |
| 329 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 330 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioKart'': The series features banana peels as an item; crashing into one causes you cart to spin out and possibly lose coins. |
| 331 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'': |
| 332 | *** Two of the junctions on [[PalmtreePanic Koopa's Seaside Soiree]] do not let the player choose which way to go, instead having a Ukiki throw down a banana peel that the player slips on, whisking them off in one of two random directions. |
| 333 | *** 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. |
| 334 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioParty5'': The minigame Mass A-peel, hosted by Donkey Kong, pits all characters in a square area with lots of bananas, but also empty peels. The objective is to gather as many bananas as possible while avoiding tripping with the peels (as that would make them waste time). When the minigame ends, the bananas gathered will be traded for coins for each character. |
| 335 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyStarRush'': In Bowser's Shocking Slipup, if players hit the Roulette Blocks at the wrong time, instead of shocking Bowser with lightning, the blocks will instead dispense banana peels that cause any characters that step on them to slip and fall. |
| 336 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioParty'': Trip Navigator is a minigame where player must race to the center of the stage, but banana peels are scattered all over the place, and will slow down any players that slip on them. |
| 337 | ** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' has banana peels which can be sucked by your vacuum cleaner. The green ghosts tend to drop them to make Luigi slip and lose coins after falling. |
| 338 | * ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': In one of the magazines, Roary Scrawl accidentally trips on a banana peel and gets stew on his girlfriend Tyra Fangs's head. |
| 339 | * ''VideoGame/Mother3'': |
| 340 | ** 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. |
| 341 | ** 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)]]. |
| 342 | * 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. |
| 343 | * ''VideoGame/Pikmin4'': Bananas are treasures, and are referred to as the "Slapstick Crescent" as a reference to the gag of somebody slipping on banana peels. Olimar even mentions that such a thing happened to him once. |
| 344 | * ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' has enemies that throw banana peels. Stepping in these causes player to slip. |
| 345 | * ''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. |
| 346 | * ''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. |
| 347 | * ''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. |
| 348 | * 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. |
| 349 | * 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. |
| 350 | -->'''Sam:''' Oldest trick in the book! |
| 351 | * In the handheld electronic game ''Slip 'n' Slide'', you controls a street sweeper trying to stop suicidal banana-eating/skin-discarding pedestrians from killing themselves by stepping on these. |
| 352 | * In the Competition mode of ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', a banana peel is one of the items one player can use against another. |
| 353 | * 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. |
| 354 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' 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. |
| 355 | * 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. |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/TouchDetective'': In Episode 2, after Mackenzie figures out Chloe was the one who ransacked Penelope's room as she carried one of her signed bananas, Chloe tries to eat the evidence and tosses away the peel, only to immediately slip and fall. |
| 357 | * ''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 to Lammy being flung through the air after having her belt get caught on the door and the result location to a/an (presumably more humid) island. |
| 358 | * ''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. |
| 359 | * In ''VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject'', during the battles against Darkdeath Evilman, you can attempt to run away from the [[spoiler:[[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight Seemingly]]]] HopelessBossFight. When you try to do this in the early parts of the game, the main character slips on a banana peel and dies. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 363 | * {{Bait and Switch}}ed in ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie 9''. A banana peel lies on the ground, then [[AnthropomorphicFood a banana]] walks over and is shocked. |
| 364 | * ''WebAnimation/AstroLOLogy'': |
| 365 | ** "Pinheads" has Gary distracting Taurus while he's bowling so that Gerry can put a banana peel in his path to mess him up. |
| 366 | ** "In the Zone" has Sagittarius eating a banana while playing a video game, then throwing the peel on the ground behind her, unknowingly making Aries trip when he came in to try to rob her and got chased around by her dog. |
| 367 | ** In "Slow and Steady", Aquarius tries to use this to cheat in a race, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard only to end up slipping on it himself]]. |
| 368 | * ''WebAnimation/BadDays'': ComicBook/TheJoker takes out Franchise/{{Batman}} with a well-placed banana peel (atop a building) in the season 3 premiere. |
| 369 | * ''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. |
| 370 | * 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. |
| 371 | * 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. |
| 372 | * ''WebAnimation/TheMostEpicStoryEverToldInAllOfHumanHistory'': Little Miss Epic slips on one during “The Most Epically Inspirational Sports Movie Ever” when she’s practicing her skateboarding skills. [[RuleOfFunny How the banana peel magically appeared on her skateboard in the first place isn’t addressed though]]. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 376 | * 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]]. |
| 377 | %%* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/01/banana-peels.html totally do this.]] |
| 378 | * ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': On visiting another dimension, Buckaress discovers a comedy show with a character caricaturing herself, "Evelyn the Jester", [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=853-the-arts whose very entrance is slipping on a banana peel.]] |
| 379 | -->'''Buckaress:''' They turned me into a bubbling idiot!\ |
| 380 | '''Defendress:''' To be fair, that happened to you twice last week.\ |
| 381 | '''Buckaress:''' I told you they weren't there before I stepped on them!\ |
| 382 | '''Defendress:''' I'm not having this argument again. |
| 383 | * Odd [[InvertedTrope inversion]] in Spanish webcomic ''Un millón de monos'', where an anthropomorphic banana [[http://monos.fadri.org/023-el-momento-mas-ironico slips on a human's skin]]. |
| 384 | * ''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. |
| 385 | * This trope is a RunningGag in Brazilian webcomic ''[[http://http://ryotiras.com Ryot IRAS]]''. The [[https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qS4ONe4i6Is/UEPVuaOA7TI/AAAAAAAABN0/2oTakitvbmk/s1500/capaCOLOR.jpg cover]] for the Omnibus book even {{exaggerate|dTrope}}s this by showing the AuthorAvatar and many other characters about to make each other suffer a mass slippage. |
| 386 | [[/folder]] |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 389 | * ''[[http://michaeldashow.com/portfolio/escape-plan-b/ Escape Plan B]]'' is a {{Steampunk}} artwork, where the protagonists on a OneWheeledWonder tries to trip a pursuing HumongousMecha with banana peels. |
| 390 | * An old Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} flash game called "One Fine Day on Main Street" had the player dropping banana peels on a busy sidewalk to trip the various people walking by. |
| 391 | * [[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. |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 395 | * 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. |
| 396 | * ''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.]] |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 400 | * One ''Creator/{{Funimation}} Update Quickie'' takes this to truly ''ridiculous'' extents in one of its 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.]] |
| 401 | * The Wall Street Journal's video review of the Apple Watch 4 had a stuntwoman slip on a banana peel to test the watch's emergency alert function. |
| 402 | * ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'': |
| 403 | ** For the review of ''VideoGame/DrakeOfThe99Dragons'', to show [[NintendoHard 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. |
| 404 | ** The second comics-based games episode starts off with a parody of [[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Barbara Gordon / Oracle]]'s origin story, 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). |
| 405 | ** Subverted in the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' episode, where Fred's final trap for the Red Ghost is to drop a banana peel on the floor. When the Red Ghost comes close, instead of slipping it stops... and complains that people should put banana peels into a trash bin, it's just dirty. |
| 406 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IifP_edmLw One episode]] of Creator/RoosterTeeth's ''Immersion'' series involved trying to re-create the ''Mario Kart'' version of this trope. To nobody's surprise, trying it with five banana peels had no effect; the attempt using a literal thousand banana peels went a little differently. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 410 | * Seeing as how ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has the walking talking Banana Joe, this joke was going to happen. |
| 411 | ** 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. |
| 412 | ** 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. |
| 413 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Beavemaster" had a scene where Tor slipped on a banana peel and fell down a cliff. |
| 414 | * 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. |
| 415 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': |
| 416 | ** Batmite use this to take out Gorilla Grodd, while pretending to be Batman, in "Legends of the Dark Mite!" ("Irony' good.") |
| 417 | ** Falseface slip on Detective Chimp's discarded banana peel in "The Golden Age of Justice!". |
| 418 | * 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. |
| 419 | * In Creator/RichardScarry's ''Best Learning Songs Video Ever'', Freddie Fox slips on one after his song about numbers. EpicFail ensues. |
| 420 | * 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. |
| 421 | * The ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'' episode "Remote Outta Control" has a scene where Bunsen, Mikey, Darcy and Amanda have to make their way through various obstacles in Amanda's Smart House, one of which is a trail of banana peels. As with the other hazards, Amanda isn't successful in avoiding them. |
| 422 | * In "Upside-Down Frown Cake" from ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'', Ms. Marmalady slips on one left lying around by Spork and Spatch. |
| 423 | * ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'': |
| 424 | ** The original ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' pilot at one point has Rudy draw a banana peel in the path of Bully Nerd to trip him up. |
| 425 | ** "Double Trouble" has Skrawl's minions the Beanie Boys 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. |
| 426 | * ''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. |
| 427 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/ColorClassics'' cartoon "Tears of an Onion", a banana takes off its peel to swim, then comes out and slips on its own peel. |
| 428 | * 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. |
| 429 | * ''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. |
| 430 | * ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': |
| 431 | ** The 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. |
| 432 | ** There is also "Apes of Wrath", which takes 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 accidentally slips on a banana peel and comments, [[LampshadeHanging "Well, you knew someone had to do it."]] |
| 433 | * ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'': In "The Wizzer of Odd", when Dennis and Ruff wind up in the Land of Odd, they are advised by the Munchies to see the Wizzer by following the Yellow Banana Road if they want to make their way back home. As they follow said road, they slip on banana peels. |
| 434 | * 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. |
| 435 | -->'''Doc [=McStuffins=]:''' Looks like you two are perfect together. |
| 436 | * 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! |
| 437 | * True to its ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' roots, ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' features this gag: |
| 438 | ** 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. |
| 439 | ** 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. |
| 440 | * ''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. |
| 441 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': |
| 442 | ** Kevin slips on a banana peel in the episode "See No Ed". |
| 443 | --->'''Kevin:''' Man, that's old. |
| 444 | ** 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]]. |
| 445 | --->'''Jimmy:''' Sarah, owie!! |
| 446 | * 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. |
| 447 | * A [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': After Cleveland found out Quagmire was sleeping with his wife, Mayor Adam West gives Quagmire a banana to protect him from an angry Cleveland, the implication being that Quagmire would use it to slip Cleveland up. When the big chase scene comes to use the fruit, Quagmire instead throws the entire banana at Cleveland. It does what it would do in real life. |
| 448 | * ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'': |
| 449 | ** Yo trips Fanboy with a banana peel in the episode "Prank Master". |
| 450 | ** Mr. Mufflin trips on a banana peel at the end of "Funny Face". |
| 451 | * ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'': In "The Wishing Well", Elvis attempts to throw a banana peel into the bin from over his shoulder, but misses the mark, and Station Officer Steele slips on it and pratfalls. |
| 452 | * ''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). |
| 453 | -->'''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?]]\ |
| 454 | '''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! |
| 455 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Fry gets tiny, tiny fruit as a gift. He throws a near-microscopic banana peel on the floor. Amy Wong who was CarryingACake, slips and falls on it. Of course, Amy IS a klutz.... |
| 456 | * 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]]''. |
| 457 | * ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': |
| 458 | ** 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.]] |
| 459 | ** Happens in the ''Orson's Farm'' segment, where aliens arrive to steal away the Earth's comedy, since it's considered a deadly weapon for their race. The animals try everything to make them laugh in order to get rid of them, 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 (literally) burst with laughter. |
| 460 | * ''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. |
| 461 | * ''WesternAnimation/GodRocks'': In the ''[=BibleToons=]'' episode "Lava-Java Rescue", Chip slips on a banana peel trying to stop a Lava-Java from playing with the grocery store food. |
| 462 | * ''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. |
| 463 | * ''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. |
| 464 | * ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' got turned into a cyborg super-investigator ([[FakeUltimateHero sort]] [[InspectorOblivious of]]) after he seriously injured himself by... slipping on a banana peel. A surprisingly realistic depiction for a children's cartoon. |
| 465 | * The title character on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' manages to weaponize this in a fight against [[MonsterClown the Rodeo Clowns]]. |
| 466 | * 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. |
| 467 | * Zelda defeats a dragon this way (while Link is trying to defeat it) in the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'' episode "Kiss N'Tell". |
| 468 | * ''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). |
| 469 | * 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. |
| 470 | * ''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. |
| 471 | * ''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. |
| 472 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Muppet Babies|2018}}'': |
| 473 | ** 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. |
| 474 | ** 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]]. |
| 475 | ** 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. |
| 476 | ** 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. |
| 477 | ** In "Tarzanimal", the babies put banana peels on their feet to use as roller skates. |
| 478 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 479 | ** In season 3 episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]", this is one of the mean pranks done by Babs Seed to the Cutie Mark Crusaders during TheVillainSucksSong. |
| 480 | ** In season 7 episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E6ForeverFilly Forever Filly]]", part of the puppet show Rarity and Sweetie Belle attend has a gag involving the puppets sliding around on a banana peel. |
| 481 | ** In season 9 episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E14TheLastLaugh The Last Laugh]]", one of Cheese Sandwich's comedy factory's projects is a banana peel that goes into a SlipperySkid all across the floor, tripping up everyone it slides under. |
| 482 | * A CGI ident for Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s Nicktoons block had its orange blob mascot slip on one of these at the end. |
| 483 | * ''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. |
| 484 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': In "Little Zoo Coupe", the lemurs challenge the penguins to a race around the zoo. Just as it looks as if the penguins are about to win, Phil, who is part of the audience, tosses a banana peel onto the track. The penguins slip on the banana peel, resulting in the lemurs winning the race. When Kowalski calls Phil out for this, Mason tells Phil that Kowalski's right; it's not like [[DungFu throwing poo]]; there are consequences. |
| 485 | * 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. |
| 486 | * ''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. |
| 487 | * 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. |
| 488 | * ''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. |
| 489 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Mars Rock For Mom", Sunspot slips on a banana peel that Jet tossed away. |
| 490 | * ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Final Desmithation", one of the mooks Rick shoots blank fortune cookies at steps back and also closes his mouth, avoiding suffering a random fate as his comrades did. Unfortunately, he then trips on a banana, one of his transformed coworkers, breaking his neck. |
| 491 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': |
| 492 | ** 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. |
| 493 | ** Played straight...er when Jesus slips on a banana peel while walking on water. |
| 494 | * ''WesternAnimation/RollingWithTheRonks'': "The Flying Dodo" ends with Walter slipping on a banana peel. |
| 495 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 496 | ** In the episode "Funny Pants", Patrick slips on the same banana peel several times. |
| 497 | ** 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. |
| 498 | ** 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. |
| 499 | * 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.]] |
| 500 | * 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 a peel while ''levitating'' above the floor. |
| 501 | %%* Occasionally used in ''Franchise/TomAndJerry''; the Creator/ChuckJones shorts featured this fairly often.%% Zero-context example. |
| 502 | * 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. |
| 503 | * 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. |
| 504 | * ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'': |
| 505 | ** In the short "Strange Things", the robot museum has on display "the most dangerous thing in the world", a banana peel. (At the end, the custodian decides to replace it with [[WalkingDisasterArea his assistant]] instead.) |
| 506 | ** "Boid n' Woim" has Woim do this to Boid during a RollercoasterMine chase. Appropriately [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Woim... |
| 507 | --->'''Woim:''' ''[eating a banana, [[BreakingTheFourthWall to the audience]]]'' You know what I'm gonna do with this banana peel, don't ya? |
| 508 | * The ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'' episode "Thoroughly Moodern Lily" had Cody slip on a banana peel. |
| 509 | * ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'': |
| 510 | ** 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. |
| 511 | ** 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]]. |
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| 513 | |
| 514 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 515 | * Creator/CharlieChaplin was once asked how to do a perfect banana peel gag. He replied that a woman should be walking along, see the banana peel, [[BaitAndSwitch step over and continue walking until she falls down an open manhole.]] |
| 516 | * Bobby Leach 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 ''(from gangrene complications)''.'' Bananas and oranges: the difference between hilarity and gruesome, horrible death. A related accident saw a French mountain climber, who had conquered most of the highest peaks in the world without injury, die in an accident at home. He fell off a chair in his kitchen whilst attempting to change a light bulb. |
| 517 | * Guy Delisle tells in ''Shenzeng'' when he saw, in real life, a man slipping on a banana peel and he was surprised because it was just like in "comics". |
| 518 | * 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 (and decaying) banana peels ''in the middle of a footrace.'' |
| 519 | * 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 an Ig Nobel prize for it.]] |
| 520 | * The "Banana Peel Challenge" which appeared on the Internet in March 2016 has teens trying to exploit a banana peel slip to see if they can pull one off. |
| 521 | * There are multiple legal cases of people suing public places (stores, train stations, and so on) for slipping and falling on fruit, [[https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/torts/torts-keyed-to-prosser/negligence/anjou-v-boston-elevated-railway-co/ particularly banana peels.]] |
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