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{{trope}}
[[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]}}
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And the rest? ''[[Tempting Fate|Well...]]''
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* In an episode of the anime adaptation of ''[[Kochikame (Manga)|Kochikame]]'', a banana on the subway platform tracks caused a train to derail with hilarity reaction.
* In ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena (Anime)|Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', Nanami slips on a banana peel discarded by Chu-Chu.
* Ranma from ''[[Ranma
* In a variation, when {{spoiler|Shouma}} from ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum (Anime)|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 (Manga)|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.]
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* In the ''[[Marsupilami]]'' comic series, there is an evil businessman who wants to make profit out of banana plantations, and his henchmen try to find original product ideas. One suggests making lubricant out of the banana peels since its slippy factor would be of great advantage, but this idea is already heavily patented. Another henchman suggests making concrete out of the banana peels, but another one points out that the concrete would be very slippery.
* In the comedy comic series ''Nabuchodinosaure'', there is an episode where the title character has to outrun another dinosaur and is carrying a lot of bananas. Therefore, he throws the banana peels at his pursuer so he keeps on slipping. The end of the story is him being [[Balloon Belly|bloated up]] because he ate all the bananas that he peeled since he doesn't like wasting food.
* ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]''
** ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' has one villain set a banana peel as a trap for Tintin. Snowy takes notice and moves the banana peel right next to the man's foot, and he gets [[Hoist By His Own Petard|Hoisted By His Own Petard]].
** In ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'', Tintin attempts to foil security guards with banana peels. He manages to foil two of them, but the third manages to turn the tables.
* ''[[Batman]]''
** Issue number five of ''[[The Batman and Robin Adventures]]'' (a tie-in comic to ''[[Batman:
** Even Batman himself can be [http://comicsmakenosense.blogspot.com/2009/12/delivered-straight-to-your-cell.html laid low by a banana peel].
** A recent issue has The Joker facing off against the equally villainous Dr. Simon Hurt. He places a gun just out of his reach and they have a contest to see who can get to the gun first, but Hurt fails to notice the banana peel Joker had left on the stone steps; he ends up slipping on it and cracking open his skull, allowing The Joker to bury him alive.
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** Played straight and subverted. In an early scene, the main character and his coach watch a women trip on a banana peel, they then cut to a shaolin temple where a monk trips, catches himself and procedes to jump across a field banana peels, landing on each one and using it as a jumping point.
** There's a callback to this at the end of the movie, when a woman slips on a banana peel and catches herself spectacularly, starting a chain of scenes showing that now the main character {{spoiler|and his girlfriend}} are now world-famous and have started a craze for learning amazing martial arts skills.
* ''[[
* ''[[Monty Python]] Live at the Hollywood Bowl'' subverts the banana peel joke as part of the "Custard Pie Lecture" sketch. Rather than slipping on the skin, Michael Palin picks it up and stuffs it down Terry Jones's overalls.
* In ''[[Singin in The Rain (Film)|Singin in The Rain]]'', Donald O'Connor sings that one of the ways to "Make 'em Laugh" is to slip on a banana peel.
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* 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.
* [http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g85/122885/122885_1232429325_large.jpg This image] is made of this trope, [[Steampunk]], and win.
* One ''[[
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** 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 (Animation)|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 (Animation)|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.
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