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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.''|''[[Discworld (Literature)/Maskerade|Maskerade]]''}}
 
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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{{quote| '''Magenta:''' [[Puntated For Emphasis|You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky, we're all lucky!]]<br />
'''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 (Filmfilm)|Across the Universe]]''.
* ''[[Octopussy (Film)|Octopussy]]'': Bond slides down a banister while firing a gun, saw the newel post at the end, and blew it off just in time to avoid a ballistic groin impairment.
* Chow Yun-Fat's Tequila does a bannister slide of his own with [[Guns Akimbo]] in a classic shot from the first shootout of [[John Woo]]'s ''Hard Boiled''.
* ''[[Sister Act]] II'': Whoopi Goldberg does this dressed as a nun.
* ''[[The Avengers (1998 (Filmfilm)|The Avengers 1998]]''. Mrs. Peel does a short one during her sword duel with Steed.
* ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]''. Colonel Sanders, Dark Helmet and President Skroob do this to get to the [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]'s cancellation button.
* In ''[[The Thief and The Cobbler (Animation)|The Thief and Thethe Cobbler]]'', Tack and the Thief go down the banister of a labyrinthine staircase in the Sultan's palace.
* In ''[[Starship Troopers (Filmfilm)|Starship Troopers]]'', Carmen Ibanez does a short one while running to a shuttle.
* In the 1982 film ''[[Annie (Theatre)|Annie]]'', Miss Hannigan, Rooster and Lily slide down a bannister during the Easy Street number.
* ''[[Toy Story]]''. As Andy is playing with Woody near the beginning, he sends Woody on a banister.
* Provides an important plot point in ''[[Thirteen13 Ghosts (Film)|Thirteen Ghosts]]'', as {{spoiler|it is the place where the money is hidden}}.
 
 
== Comic Books ==
* [[Mad Magazine]]'s spoof of the 1991 ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]'' movie had, in one panel, a disembodied bum sliding down a banister.
* In Volume 5 of ''[[Scott Pilgrim (Comic Book)|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.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* The sharp object variant occurred in the ''[[Quick- Draw McGraw]]'' short "El Kabong": The villain Don Chilada waited at the bottom to jab the banister-sliding Quick Draw with the tip of his sword.
** Also done in at least one ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' short.
* The opening sequence to each episode of popular Czech bedtime story ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kZR15n191k&feature=related Mach a Sebestova]'' shows the boy sliding and blinking with his ear to signal turns.
* The opening sequence to the ''[[Dennis the Menace US|Dennis the Menace]]'' cartoon showed Dennis doing this. He may have done it a time or two in the live-action TV series as well.
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