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{{quote|''It is the fate of all banisters worth sliding down that there is something nasty waiting at the far end.''
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Any comedy whose set includes an elaborate staircase with a long, swooping banister will inevitably require someone to slide down that banister. Such slides are always rear-end first.
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* ''[[Yotsuba&!]]'': Yotsuba does this while racing her dad down the stairs to a [[Shrines and Temples|shrine]].
== Comic Books ==▼
* ''[[Mad Magazine]]''{{'}}s spoof of [[The Addams Family (1991 film)|the 1991 ''Addams Family'' movie]] had, in one panel, a disembodied bum sliding down a banister.▼
* In Volume 5 of ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', the hero does this, ending with a flying kick to the face of his own brother, whom he had mistaken for Gideon. The panel even features the word "[[Unsound Effect|BUTT-SLIDE]]" in large text.▼
== Film ==
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* Provides an important plot point in ''[[13 Ghosts]]'', as {{spoiler|it is the place where the money is hidden}}.
* Ebeneezer Scrooge slides down the banister of his house as part of his celebration of joy at having made it through all the spirits in ''[[Scrooge]]'', the 1970 [[The Musical|musical]] version of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''.
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* ''[[Mad Magazine]]''{{'}}s spoof of [[The Addams Family (1991 film)|the 1991 ''Addams Family'' movie]] had, in one panel, a disembodied bum sliding down a banister.
▲* In Volume 5 of ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', the hero does this, ending with a flying kick to the face of his own brother, whom he had mistaken for Gideon. The panel even features the word "[[Unsound Effect|BUTT-SLIDE]]" in large text.
== Literature ==
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* ''The Queen's Museum and Other Fanciful Tales'', short story "The Christmas Truants". The boy Tomtit does one of these while the title characters are trying to escape the castle of a band of robbers.
▲== 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.
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* Nemo and Flip slide down a very long and winding banister in ''[[Little Nemo]] in Slumberland'', which ends up going in zig-zags, wavy bumps, and cork screws. It was later also done in the movie.
* Among the [[Loads and Loads of Rules]] in [[GURPS]] 3rd edition are rules for sliding down
▲== Tabletop RPG ==
▲* Among the [[Loads and Loads of Rules]] in [[GURPS]] 3rd edition are rules for sliding down bannisters, including the [[Groin Attack|consequences of colliding with the finial]].
== Theatre ==
* Alice in ''[[You Can't Take It with You]]''.{{context|reason=Is Alice the slider or the finial?}}
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Moonwalker]]'': Done as an attack animation in the [[Sega Genesis]] port.
== Western Animation ==
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