Feels like its gone the way of caves. Cars used to be decliffed from an unfortunately placed banana peel (see Billy Madison)

  • BowserBasher@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    You are correct, I recently watched this one. A single banana peel just doesn’t do what you saw in films and slapstick routines. I think that had a load on the floor and got the same result. It wasn’t until, like you said, that they engineered a floor and surface so slippery that it was more than just the bananas causing the slipping.

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      7 days ago

      What if the reason was because the type of banana that was prominent when this trope became popular was different than the one that is popular now?

      Not the most likely explanation but I wonder if people have considered it.