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Line 2: [[File:BananaPeels.jpg\|link=Donald Duck\|frame\|[[What an Idiot!\|How did you not notice that]]?]] {{quote\|''"A banana has two uses: food, and entertainment."''~~\|'''Garfield''', ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)\|Garfield]]'' [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/02/04/ February 2, 1982]}}~~ \|'''Garfield''', ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)\|Garfield]]'' [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/02/04/ February 2, 1982]}} Guaranteed to send a character into a [[Slippery Skid]], a Banana Peel is one of the most dangerous things you can encounter in a cartoon. Just stepping on one will inevitably lead to [[The Pratfall\|a pratfall]] or some variety of injury, often capped by a case of [[Circling Birdies]]. Line 10 ⟶ 11: It has been claimed that the trope actually originated in the time before cars with combustion engines and electric trams, when almost all public transport was powered by horses. And the huge amount of horse manure that piled up in the streets became a serious slipping hazard. When film was invented, this was considered inappropriate to show, so the banana peel became a substitute. Note, however, that the slippery banana peel trope is often used ~~unrealistically -- a~~unrealistically—a ''fresh'' banana peel is hardly slippery at all. One episode of ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'' makes the point that you're more likely to slip on a dog turd. Even so, they are still not an inconsiderable ~~risk -- for~~risk—for example, in 2001 Great Britain recorded over 300 banana-related accidents, most of which were caused by slipping on a peel. And the rest? ''[[Tempting Fate\|Well...]]'' {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == Anime &and Manga == * While ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' never showed a banana, much less a peel, Osaka mentions slipping on a banana peel as something she wants to try. * ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has chimpanzees appear out of nowhere just to spill banana peels all over the place. In Episode 9, Haruhi slips on one of them, setting up a dashing rescue by one of the [[Schoolgirl Lesbians\|St. Lobelia Academy]] girls. Not so much in the manga, though. Line 31 ⟶ 32: * In an episode of the anime adaptation of ''[[Kochikame]]'', a banana on the subway platform tracks caused a train to derail with hilarity reaction. * In ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', Nanami slips on a banana peel discarded by Chu-Chu. * Ranma from ''[[Ranma ½~~\|Ranma One Half~~]]'' slips on a banana peel, causing a chain reaction which results in the creation of a clone of his [[Gender Bender\|girl-side]] possessed by a ghost, stepping from a [[Magic Mirror]]. After much trouble, the twin (who wasn't so much evil [[Screw Yourself\|than horny]]) is sealed again in the mirror, at which point Ranma slips on a banana peel in the ''exact same place'', resulting in a clone of his male side. * In a variation, when {{spoiler\|Shouma}} from ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'' steps on a discarded bottle in episode 15, it has the same effect as if he had stepped on a banana peel. * A banana peel appeared in ''[[Nichijou]]'' during one episode, in which a karate person [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=HD21N1me52I slipped on that banana peel.] * Su from ''[[Love Hina]]'' sometimes leaves these around. Sarah also tries to deliberately throw one in front of Keitarō once. * A chapter of ''[[To Love Ru Darkness]]'' involved experimenting to analyze Rito's [[Accidental Pervert]] tendencies, in hopes of developing a cure. A fresh banana peel was dropped in front of him; he pointed out that he could see it [[Tempting Fate\|and knew to avoid it]] — and ''WHOOPS''.... Line 66 ⟶ 68: * In [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Sleeper (film)\|Sleeper]]'', the future has produced giant-sized bananas. Naturally, two characters have lots of trouble staying standing when the peels are left on the ground. * In the movie version of ''[[The Colour of Magic (film)\|The Colour of Magic]]'', the wizards try to kill Trymon by using a banana peel {{spoiler\|as a distraction so that he would die because of wet cement covering him; it fails}}. Later on, during the climactic battle atop the Tower of Art, {{spoiler\|Trymon slips on a banana peel and is hit by his own spell}}. * In the football game of ''[[~~Horsefeathers~~Horse Feathers]]'', one of Chico and Harpo's plays involves the use of banana peels for offensive ~~blocking -- but~~blocking—but Harpo is enjoying it so much, he tosses one under teammate Zeppo, who is running with the ball. * In ''[[Billy Madison]]'', 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... [[Brick Joke\|until the end of the film]] when the [[Jerkass]] O'Doyle family's car drove onto and swirves around and ends up driving off the cliff. * One of [[African Terrorists\|Sam Boga's men]] slips on a large bunch of them in ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]''. It was pretty much inevitable, considering the guerrillas were camped out in a ''forest'' of banana trees. Line 74 ⟶ 76: == Jokes == * A very old joke: {{quote\| '''Q:''' What do you call two banana peels?~~<br />~~ '''A:''' A pair of slippers! }} Line 80 ⟶ 82: == Literature == * Mentioned in ''[[Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]'', 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. {{quote\| "Not bad. Maybe not up there with [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp\|slipping on a raballa peel]], but still pretty funny."}} Line 92 ⟶ 94: ** And a mimed banana peel causes a nasty accident in "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express". [[It Makes Sense in Context]] (sort of). * An episode of ''[[Good Eats]]'' featuring bananas and plantains spoofed this multiple times. * The ''[[~~Myth Busters~~MythBusters]]'' tested this trope by building a field full of banana peels and running an obstacle course over it. For comparison, they also had a similar field coated in animal birthing lubricant (which Jamie [[Crazy Prepared\|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. [[Tropes Busted By Myth Busters\|You know what that means...]] * RV Robo falls victim to this in an episode of ''[[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]]''. Yes, you read that right: the [[Humongous Mecha]] ''slips on a banana peel''. ** Even more ludicrous, ''[[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters]]'' has a gorilla mecha that fires banana missiles; the peels pop off right after the launch and immediately become hazards. That's right, even giant metal banana peels are slippery. Line 99 ⟶ 101: == Music == * "Fallin' Never Felt So Good" by Shawn Camp: {{quote\| ''Now I'm a guy that does what he feels~~<br />~~ ''But I never seem to spot that banana peel~~<br />~~ ''With eyes shut tight and nerves of steel~~<br />~~ ''I'm takin' the plunge, baby, head over heels~~<br />~~ ''Fallin' never felt so good… }} == New Media == * [http://validator.w3.org/ W3C markup validator] displayed the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160314183114/http://vi-server.org/vi/_/footer.jpg banana peel] (actually half-eaten banana) at the bottom. == Newspaper Comics == * ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)\|Garfield]]'' Garfield makes the following observation about bananas: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110811012754/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/02/04/ It's good for food and entertainment.] Subverted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110810231324/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1996/05/26/ this strip]. It could be argued it's [[Double Subverted]], though, because after Jon picks up the peel and comments on [[Lampshade Hanging\|how lame an attempt it was]], he then falls into a hole that Garfield sawed into the ground. * ''Il agente secreto'' Played with in this Spanish strip: in one gag, the main character slips on a banana peel... in the middle of a frozen river in the South Pole. Yet another strip shows the main character trying to infiltrate in one house by walking right up the façade. It works well, until he slips on a banana peel. * ''[[The Far Side]]'' One ~~''[[The Far Side\|Far Side]]''~~ comic features a penguin slipping on a banana peel in the middle of a vast plane of ice. Another shows the inside of a factory that produces bananas, ball bearings, roller skates, and floor wax, clearly showing this combination makes for a ''very'' [[Dangerous Workplace]]. * An old ''New Yorker'' cartoon by [[Charles Addams]] shows a banana peel lying innocently on a busy city sidewalk, cordoned off by "caution" signs. * 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''. == Video Games == * The ''[[Mario Kart]]'' series features banana peels as an item; crashing into one causes you cart to spin out and possibly lose coins. * The PC racing game ''Crazyracing Kartrider'' also features a banana peel item. * ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' has banana peels as items, and also Diddy Kong can drop them any time. Sometimes players will [[Scrappy Mechanic\|trip]] even without slipping on one though. * ''[[Mother 3]]'' Fassad is both very fond of bananas and rather careless about where he throws the peels, and it's possible to slip on them. {{spoiler\|This bites him in the ass at the end of Chapter 5.}} There is an item called an "Ancient Banana", which can be used in battle to make an enemy trip and lose HP. * Pipo Monkeys from ''[[Ape Escape]]'' occasionally drop these. * In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', if your character eats [[Commonplace Rare\|a banana]] and then continues adventuring in the same area, you will eventually trip over the peel. There is a [[Bragging Rights Reward\|trophy]] for doing this multiple times. Line 137 ⟶ 140: * ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)\|Kingdom Hearts]]'' The Bouncywild enemies in the first game occasionally toss banana peels. Should Sora step on one, he will slip, fall on his ass, and lose a ton of munny. In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories\|Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories]]'', they lost the banana peels, and in its [[~~Play Station~~PlayStation 2]] remake, it was re-added, although Sora will now lose Moogle Points instead. ** Also, in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' 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. * During one phase of the final boss in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', 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. * ''[[Water Warfare]]'' has banana peels as an item that make you slip if you run over ~~them--rather~~them—rather difficult to distinguish from the pick-up-able item, too. Strangely, they make you unable to turn your head as well, which we're ''still'' working out. * Subverted in ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police\|Sam and Max Freelance Police]] Season 3: The Penal Zone''. Max's psychic visions hint very heavily that a thrown-away banana peel is important, and that the heavy they're trying to dispose of ends up falling down a manhole. If the player opens the manhole and places the banana peel in front of it, the heavy comes over to tell them 'no littering', and while he's distracted, Max runs up behind him and bangs two dustbin lids together, stunning the heavy into the hole. {{quote\| '''Sam:''' Oldest trick in the book!}} * ''[[Luigi's Mansion\|Luigis Mansion]]'' has banana peels which can be sucked by your vacuum cleaner. * In at least one ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'' game, if you take a wrong turn, one message you can get it is, "Your search is fruitless, other than the banana peel you slip on." * In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', many Hozen (monkey-like [[Funny Animal]]s) mooks throw banana peels at the players, which causes a Stun effect if you contact one. == Visual Novels == * Gumshoe slips on some of these in ''[[Ace Attorney\|Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations]]'', in the stairs leading to the Heavenly hall. The peels were left in there by Larry, who advises to be careful when going back because the peels would still be there. ** Becomes one of Phoenix Wright's attacks in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''. Line 155 ⟶ 159: * In the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)\|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'' 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 [[Dojikko\|almost every time she appears]]. * Odd [[Inverted Trope\|inversion]] in Spanish webcomic ''Un millón de monos'': [http://monos.fadri.org/023-el-momento-mas-ironico see for yourself]. * Zigzagged in this ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' comic [https://explosm.tumblr.com/image/93528847726] {{spoiler\|a guy dressed like a banana kills himself and someone slips on his blood}} == Web Original == * Chuckles the Clown, a superhero from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' is armed with (among other things) a gun that spits out banana peels, with predictable effects against his enemies. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718004411/http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g85/122885/122885_1232429325_large.jpg This image] is made of this trope, [[Steampunk]], and win. * One ''[[FUNimation]] Update Quickie'' takes this to truly ''ridiculous'' extents in one of its [[Crowning Moment of Funny\|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 [[All Just a Dream]]... which in return was [[All Just a Dream]] Chris Sabat had before getting hired by Funimation.}} Line 172 ⟶ 176: In the episode "Funny Pants", Patrick slips on the same banana peel several times. Exaggerated in the episode "The Bully", where Flats drives a truck trying to run over SpongeBob but the truck slips on a banana peel and flip over. * On ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' ~~Eddy\|Ed, Edd n~~ Eddy]]'', Kevin slips on a banana peel in the episode "See No Ed". {{quote\| '''Kevin:''' Man, that's old.}} * A [[Subverted Trope\|subversion]] from ''[[Family Guy]]'': 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. * ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' Subverted in a "Behind the scenes" of [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)\|the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica ~~Classic]]~~'']]: we see a montage of clips of the Cylon actors falling over in the costumes in a variety of interesting ways, culminating with a lone Cylon taking his time to walk down a hallway towards a banana peel on the floor. Just as he's about to reach it he's hit by a wrecking ball and sent flying through the hull into space. Played straight...er when Jesus slipped on a banana peel while walking on water. * ''[[Futurama]]''. Fry gets tiny, tiny fruit as a gift. He throws a near-microscopic banana peel on the floor. Amy Wong slips and falls on it. Of course, Amy IS''is'' a klutz.... * ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' got turned into a cyborg super-investigator ([[Fake Ultimate Hero\|sort]] [[Inspector Oblivious\|of]]) after he seriously injured himself by... slipping on a banana peel. * ''[[Metalocalypse]]'': The band gets an in-house therapist who reinforces good behavior with banana stickers (the sort of thing one would reward to preschool kids) - when they have enough of him and give him his notice, he rushes them in a fit of rage, but slips on a banana sticker, and plummets out a window. * Occasionally used in ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''; the Chuck Jones shorts featured this fairly often. * A very early ''[[Popeye (comic strip)\|Popeye]]'' cartoon has him squaring off with Bluto, who owns a produce cart pulled by a mistreated horse. A bunch of bananas gets thrown to the pavement, and things go naturally from there. * In the ''[[Eek! ~~the~~The Cat]]'' special "It's a Very Merry Eeks-mas", [[Santa Claus]] slips on a banana peel and gets severely injured after he complains about the mob of angry reindeer. * The title character on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes\|Jimmy Two Shoes]]'' manages to weaponize this in a fight against [[Monster Clown\|the Rodeo Clowns]]. * Zelda defeats a dragon this way (while Link is trying to defeat it) in the ''[[The Legend of Zelda (animation)\|The Legend of Zelda]]'' episode "Kiss N'Tell". * ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': In "Operation: S.N.O.W.I.N.G.", Numbuh One throws some banana peels before a quadruped [[Humongous Mecha]] (straight out of ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''). The mecha pilots burst into laughter at this sight, but then their vehicule steps on a peel in the snow... and it immediately topples to the side. * In ''[[Richard Scarry]]'s Best Learning Songs Video Ever'', Freddie Fox slips on one after his song about numbers. [[Epic Fail]] ensues. * In ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold\|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', Batmite use this to take out Gorilla Grodd, while pretending to be Batman, in "Legends of the Dark Mite!" ("Irony' good.") * One episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)\|Arthur]]'' has Brain slip on a banana peel resulting in a badly sprained ankle on one leg and a torn knee ligament in the other. * In the ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' episode, ''Tazmanian Lullaby,'' during one scene, Francis X Bushlad tried tons of things, but the screen kept shaking. The camera then focuses on Francis to reveal that Francis [[Epic Fail\|slipped on a banana peel three times.]] Line 202 ⟶ 206: {{reflist}} [[Category:Amusing Injuries]] [[Category:Zany Cartoon Tropes]] [[Category:Comedy Tropes]] [[Category:Mario Plush Forever]]▼ [[Category:Practical Joke]] [[Category:Older Than Television]] ~~[[Category:Banana Peel]]~~ [[Category:Fruit and Vegetable Tropes]] [[Category:Tropes Examined by the Mythbusters]] ▲[[Category:~~Mario Plush Forever~~{{PAGENAME}}]]