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[[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]}}
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]].
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And the rest? ''[[Tempting Fate|Well...]]''
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== Anime
* 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.
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== Music ==
* "Fallin' Never Felt So Good" by Shawn Camp:
{{quote|''Now I'm a guy that does what he feels
''But I never seem to spot that banana peel
''With eyes shut tight and nerves of steel
''I'm takin' the plunge, baby, head over heels
''Fallin' never felt so good… }}
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** 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
** One 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]].
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