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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 ~~Improvemen~~]]''t: 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.

* ''[[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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{{quote|'''Jo Brand:''' When I was in college I slid down a ''barrister''.

'''Phill Jupitus:''' Did you hit yourself on the knob at the end? }}

== Newspaper Comics ==