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* ''[[Shrek]]'' does this facing forward, and has to deal with the finial problem the hard way. Fortunately, ogres are tough.
* Magenta does this in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' causing the famous [[Audience Participation]] line --
{{quote|'''Magenta:''' [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky, we're all lucky!]]
'''Audience:''' [[No Indoor Voice|THE BANISTER'S LUCKY!]] }}
* Utilised by multiple fraternity boys (admittedly, most likely drunk and stoned at the time) during a musical number in ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]''.
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* In ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'', Carmen Ibanez does a short one while running to a shuttle.
* In the 1982 film ''[[Annie]]'', Miss Hannigan, Rooster and Lily slide down a bannister during the "Easy Street" number.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. As Andy is playing with Woody near the beginning, he sends Woody on a banister.
* Provides an important plot point in ''[[13 Ghosts]]'', as {{spoiler|it is the place where the money is hidden}}.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[The Tenth Kingdom|The 10th Kingdom]]'', the false Prince Wendell enters his coronation party by jumping on a banister and sliding down into the crowd.
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'': when Tim's mother moves out of the house Tim grew up in, Tim reminisces about sliding down the bannister. His brothers comment that Tim was the only one brave enough to go down facing forward, to which Tim replies that he ''was'' able to have kids anyway. Later, he takes a "slide down memory lane," and answers the door with a falsetto voice.
* In ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'', Paul Merton claimed that "sliding down the banister" was the appropriate method before toilet paper was invented. When it was pointed out that this would make the bannister unusable for its intended purpose, he retorted that "of course you had your shit bannister and then you had your hand bannister. You don't see them nowadays because they were all melted down during [[World War Two]] to make Spitfires".
* Red Skelton told a story about his son Richard sliding down the banister. Richard says, "You know that vase with 'Whistler's Mother' on it? The old girl just had a nervous breakdown!" Red goes on to say that Richard told him he wouldn't do that again- "I was going south and I met a splinter going north!"
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== Theatre ==
* Alice in ''[[You Can't Take It
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