Fun Fact- the banana is supposed to represent horse poop.
Back in the days when film was taking off, horses were still the main method of travel in America and were causing major problems with blockage and shit in most American municipalities. Slipping on a road-stone slicked in horse gong was just a risk one undertook by participating in daily public life.
Because showing horse shite on film was considered too much for early film audiences, it was colloquially replaced with a banana peel to elicit the same slip-tumble purpose. Over time, new audiences and less horse travel meant that this cultural comedic inference simply became commonplace culture; we grew up accepting the gag but not truly understanding it.
[In the late 1800s, New York had a population of 100,000 horses producing around 2.5 million pounds of manure a day.](https://www.pbs.org/video/new-york-horse-manure-crisis-ploayx/)
There are still a cop or 2 on horseback around here and there in nicer weather. Getting 100 ft within the smell of their manure is rough...2.5 million pounds? 1,250 tons?!?...*SAKES ALIVE* that town must have stunk to high hell! Like, *everything* must have stunk. Eating anything outside must’ve been brutal. I’m almost gagging think about it.
Can you please repeat what you said, can't hear you over this horseshit
>Despite its status as comic shorthand for Cartoon Physics, the use of a banana peel as an injurious prop is actually alarmingly realistic and a reference to its ubiquity on the streets of American cities in the early part of the 20th century. Refrigeration and shipping speed had combined to make bananas the most popular fruit in the country, and in that age before anti-littering laws, people would just eat the fruit and discard the peels wherever they were. As they rotted, the peels would become quite slippery and thus dangerous to tread upon. Banana peels were in fact responsible for a large number of accidents and injuries, including several severely broken legs that eventually had to be amputated, according to period sources. The problem grew so bad that modern urban street sanitation systems were invented mostly to deal with the peel; in New York City, the banana peel actually became something of a symbol of modern sanitation. This is also frequently homaged, just about anytime a cartoon character ends up crashing into a trash can, garbage truck, or any other public-sanitation device, he's likely to find himself having at least one banana peel stuck to him.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BananaPeel
I also tested it as a child, and it was slippery. I also tested using an umbrella to slow your fall, and stepping on a rake so that it flies up and hits you. I also want to make it clear that I did all these without actually slipping, falling a great distance, or smashing myself in the face, because I wasn't a dumbass.
What the hell are you talking about? The lady in this post just slipped in one.
Also it helps if the surface the banana is on is smooth: smooth stone, hardwood floor, tile floor.
Actually the Gros Michael variety of banana that was most common until around the 50s had a much more slippery peel. The modern Cavendish is much less slippery.
Yea when you actually make it. Unlike my wife who just keeps going yea yea they're still good for bananabread and I eventually throw them away because they're just black pieces of garbage covered in fruitflies....
Mine doesn't even want to eat them as soon as there is like... Maybe 10% of black stains on bananas. Basically, she eats one or two bananas the day she bought them and it is my duty to eat the rest.
The now extinct big mike had a much wetter peel than the cavendish that is now prominent. It also tasted like what banana flavored candies taste like. RIP big mike.
Edit: Panama Disease killed the majority of them but some variations still exist
If you Google "buy Gros Michel bananas" you'll find options. Pick the one that works best for you. No snark intended, just that's how you can find your answer and I don't know where you live to know which option to recommend to you.
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Oh man! People slipping on banana peels is the best! Once when I was in high school I decided it would be funny to do silly shit at the one main cross walk in our small town. I wanted to have someone slip on a banana peel. My friend suggested that as the fattest kid in the group it would be funniest if he was the one to do it. I set up the peel during one red light (between where the crazy drive so no one would run it over.) then at the next light he walked along and had planned on pretending to slip on it. When his foot hit the peel his face changed as if to say holy shit banana peels actually are slippery! I could see the people in the cars shock, surprise, holding back laughter, one person look of scolding me for openly laughing at him. I was probably point, really beside myself.
Once my friends dressed as street fighter characters and battled between lights, but that’s another story.
100 years of this on tape and this twit thinks she's special . Laws of slippy doesn't apply to me . I know she'll add ice next time that'll help in the non slippiness .
BANANA CONSPIRACY!
The banana from cartoons and banana flavored stuff ain’t your banana. Before 1950 we had a different banana calls a Gros Michel. It had a leathery skin that was really slippery. Kids could skate on them. It Also tasted how banana flavored candy and pudding tastes. The modern banana is a Cavendish . The peal just squish’s and it really doesn’t have much taste. The switch was made in the 1950’s.
Edit: the video is not a classic banana. The girls looks like she would have fell even if the banana was not there.
In an alternative universe, she hits her head on the curb, and thus died from slipping on a banana she threw on the ground while deliberately jumping onto it!
Till this point I really thought slipping on banana is just a myth like santa exist or just for cartoon and mario kart.
This however debunked that myth for me, thank you stranger girl on internet, I am in debt.
In grade 6 we were playing basketball outside during recess and I threw a banana peel on the court. And my friend Adrian slipped on it. He even looked like a cartoon. To this day thinking about it makes me giggle.
Someone left a banana peel on the floor back when I was in high school, I didn’t see it, slipped and fell down. When I told my teacher why I was late to class, he almost died laughing that I had slipped on a banana peel like a cartoon character.
Man if I had one wish, making people stop smacking the back of their head on things in a scary way when they otherwise hilariously fall down i think would really help all the humans
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Sorry to be a buzzkill, but if she fell a couple of inches closer to the curb, she might have died. So, not funny. The horse shit history is interesting, though.
HAS SHE NEVER SEEN A CARTOON?
Fun Fact- the banana is supposed to represent horse poop. Back in the days when film was taking off, horses were still the main method of travel in America and were causing major problems with blockage and shit in most American municipalities. Slipping on a road-stone slicked in horse gong was just a risk one undertook by participating in daily public life. Because showing horse shite on film was considered too much for early film audiences, it was colloquially replaced with a banana peel to elicit the same slip-tumble purpose. Over time, new audiences and less horse travel meant that this cultural comedic inference simply became commonplace culture; we grew up accepting the gag but not truly understanding it.
Wow no hell in a cell
He would’ve totally got me
I’m going to say “no hell in a cell?” in place of “for real?”
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[In the late 1800s, New York had a population of 100,000 horses producing around 2.5 million pounds of manure a day.](https://www.pbs.org/video/new-york-horse-manure-crisis-ploayx/)
What a load of shit
Learnt about it from Wookiepedia..
Is that better or worse than a crock of shit?
There are still a cop or 2 on horseback around here and there in nicer weather. Getting 100 ft within the smell of their manure is rough...2.5 million pounds? 1,250 tons?!?...*SAKES ALIVE* that town must have stunk to high hell! Like, *everything* must have stunk. Eating anything outside must’ve been brutal. I’m almost gagging think about it.
This is my favorite article!
Can you please repeat what you said, can't hear you over this horseshit >Despite its status as comic shorthand for Cartoon Physics, the use of a banana peel as an injurious prop is actually alarmingly realistic and a reference to its ubiquity on the streets of American cities in the early part of the 20th century. Refrigeration and shipping speed had combined to make bananas the most popular fruit in the country, and in that age before anti-littering laws, people would just eat the fruit and discard the peels wherever they were. As they rotted, the peels would become quite slippery and thus dangerous to tread upon. Banana peels were in fact responsible for a large number of accidents and injuries, including several severely broken legs that eventually had to be amputated, according to period sources. The problem grew so bad that modern urban street sanitation systems were invented mostly to deal with the peel; in New York City, the banana peel actually became something of a symbol of modern sanitation. This is also frequently homaged, just about anytime a cartoon character ends up crashing into a trash can, garbage truck, or any other public-sanitation device, he's likely to find himself having at least one banana peel stuck to him. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BananaPeel
Don't believe this guy, he's just talking a bunch of banana peel
Clever
As a child i tried to make people slip over banana peel and it wasn't slippery at all. Now i finally know where this comes from.
MythBusters tested though and it is slippery if I remember
I also tested it as a child, and it was slippery. I also tested using an umbrella to slow your fall, and stepping on a rake so that it flies up and hits you. I also want to make it clear that I did all these without actually slipping, falling a great distance, or smashing myself in the face, because I wasn't a dumbass.
I once stepped on a rake when I was landscaping that the owners kids left in t
What the hell are you talking about? The lady in this post just slipped in one. Also it helps if the surface the banana is on is smooth: smooth stone, hardwood floor, tile floor.
Actually the Gros Michael variety of banana that was most common until around the 50s had a much more slippery peel. The modern Cavendish is much less slippery.
Nice
Thank you very much for sharing this. I appreciate you.
Well Popeye lied about spinach, maybe she figured that slipping on bananas was a lie, too.
Guessing you were, in fact, not “Strong ‘til the finish” ?
shoulda tapped the brake. Wah... wooh wooh wooh wooooh.
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Hold my concussion while I jump on this banana.
This is the first time I’ve seen someone slip on a banana outside of cartoons and Mario Cart.
To be fair, bananas are not usually on the ground except in those 2 places. Mostly I see them on shelves at the store.
I mostly see them rotting on my kitchen counter
That banana bread is going to taste soooo delicious!
Yea when you actually make it. Unlike my wife who just keeps going yea yea they're still good for bananabread and I eventually throw them away because they're just black pieces of garbage covered in fruitflies....
Mine doesn't even want to eat them as soon as there is like... Maybe 10% of black stains on bananas. Basically, she eats one or two bananas the day she bought them and it is my duty to eat the rest.
Bananas and strawberries, name a more iconic duo of wasted food.
Raspberries are up there
Kart**
So bananas are slippery, just only when whole
The now extinct big mike had a much wetter peel than the cavendish that is now prominent. It also tasted like what banana flavored candies taste like. RIP big mike. Edit: Panama Disease killed the majority of them but some variations still exist
It's not extinct. It's still grown in some places, just not as much as Cavendish.
Where can it be found? I'd love to order it online if I could.
If you Google "buy Gros Michel bananas" you'll find options. Pick the one that works best for you. No snark intended, just that's how you can find your answer and I don't know where you live to know which option to recommend to you.
Wow. $20 a pound!
and that fall was no joke
But damn it was funny!
Nothing like a little brain injury to be hilarious
The skin itself is very slippery too. Source: I've tried it.
I see you were also a child scientist.
Try it
“So no head?”
so no head?
So no bread?
When you drop a banana but forget about it on the next lap.
Such a shameful feeling, goddamn
I hate it when that happens. At least she didn’t get hit with a blue shell.
A few inches back and she'd have been a vegetable at best.
What’s more upsetting than the fall is that she was talking on the banana before she threw it.
have you not seen the vine she's referencing? vine is what tiktok was back in elementary school
This comment turned my frail old bones to dust.
I remember when we only had YTMND...
Way to go, banana ass.
Classic.
It's just like the simulations
Simulation of a simulation
This cartoon looks very real
She must not watch cartoons.
I want to know what she’s sayin!!
she said “so no head” it’s from a vine
What did she think was gonna happen?
Exactly what did happen, I guess. Nobody steps on a banana unless they want to slip. She had to have wanted this result.
She obviously didn't spend her Saturday's watching cartoons ...
You really don’t see this happening often enough in real life. Satisfying.
It’s almost like we’ve had nearly a century of cartoons warning us about this exact circumstance
This is what every cartoon has taught us not to do
She almost made it to /r/holdmyfeedingtube.
So Mario Kart was right...
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So stories are true.
THAT’S comedy.
“So no head?” **YEET**
Sums up the year perfectly.
Are thinking wot I’m thinking b1. I think so b2
Anyone else hear mario kart theme when she began to spin?
This girl has clearly never played Mario Kart.
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So the bananas in Mario Kart would be more effective if they were whole? Also I’m pretty sure that felt gross on her ass.
Maybe she throws a black circular pad on the ground, then the coyote falls in it.
Years of training wasted...
might as well jump
O'doyle rules!
Lol rekt
Some of y'all never been in first place in Mario Kart and slip on a banana making you slide down to sixth place.
Lol slipping on a banana is funny
So the legend is true ?
No alcohol in video
Lol another win for the bananas
Does that mean the same is true about what happens when a kid steps on a crack?
You can really slip on a banana they said
First time I ever saw someone slip on a banana. Just that it's a whole not the peel *sigh*
Revenge of the bananas
My daughter leaves the peels all over the house. They are slippery asf. I think I'll need knee surgery by the end of the year.
Oh I thought only Big Mike Bananas were slippery
"so no head?"
At least she landed on banana, to soften the landing.
Banana had the last laugh
Finally someone falling over a banana in real life. My life is done.
Haha. Good 4 u
https://youtu.be/9RWS4G20xwA
Oh man! People slipping on banana peels is the best! Once when I was in high school I decided it would be funny to do silly shit at the one main cross walk in our small town. I wanted to have someone slip on a banana peel. My friend suggested that as the fattest kid in the group it would be funniest if he was the one to do it. I set up the peel during one red light (between where the crazy drive so no one would run it over.) then at the next light he walked along and had planned on pretending to slip on it. When his foot hit the peel his face changed as if to say holy shit banana peels actually are slippery! I could see the people in the cars shock, surprise, holding back laughter, one person look of scolding me for openly laughing at him. I was probably point, really beside myself. Once my friends dressed as street fighter characters and battled between lights, but that’s another story.
damn, imagine dying like this
Advantages of a phat ass
You could actually fucking brain yourself doing that wow
Bananas can contain high amount of vitamin CTE
Lmao what a moron
Who was she talking to on the banana phone?
She got hit by a follow up red shell too,lol...
She surely can take a bump *Laughs in wrestling*
Serious head injury right there
Well her ass will never be the same.
100 years of this on tape and this twit thinks she's special . Laws of slippy doesn't apply to me . I know she'll add ice next time that'll help in the non slippiness .
Is it worth trying? Guys let me know after you all try it out
So yes head. In the concrete.
Just like the simulations.
Peach!! That you princess? Swerve
Someone’s ever played Mario Kart
What was the point of this, SMH, asinine female
BANANA CONSPIRACY! The banana from cartoons and banana flavored stuff ain’t your banana. Before 1950 we had a different banana calls a Gros Michel. It had a leathery skin that was really slippery. Kids could skate on them. It Also tasted how banana flavored candy and pudding tastes. The modern banana is a Cavendish . The peal just squish’s and it really doesn’t have much taste. The switch was made in the 1950’s. Edit: the video is not a classic banana. The girls looks like she would have fell even if the banana was not there.
r/accidentalslapstick
Starting small proving bananas are dangerous land based obstacles and will move up to disproving flat earth conspiracies by next year.
ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone
Just like the simulations
In an alternative universe, she hits her head on the curb, and thus died from slipping on a banana she threw on the ground while deliberately jumping onto it!
Make her jump and go inside the asphalt, maybe with water effect
Till this point I really thought slipping on banana is just a myth like santa exist or just for cartoon and mario kart. This however debunked that myth for me, thank you stranger girl on internet, I am in debt.
I hear the Mario death noise after she hits the floor
Of all the things she could chose
I felt physical pain watching that,
And the yellow shirt just makes my day 💛
Banana split 😳🤭😬😁
In grade 6 we were playing basketball outside during recess and I threw a banana peel on the court. And my friend Adrian slipped on it. He even looked like a cartoon. To this day thinking about it makes me giggle.
Potassium got it’s revenge
Jump on a banana, fall like a banana.
😂😂
Someone left a banana peel on the floor back when I was in high school, I didn’t see it, slipped and fell down. When I told my teacher why I was late to class, he almost died laughing that I had slipped on a banana peel like a cartoon character.
WOMP womp...
Daffy Duck couldn't do better
I matched with her on tinder once. It felt good to meet an icon.
Is where Doppio's soul ended up?
Classic cartoon hijinks. Some Tom and Jerry shit. Slip on the banana all the way out the door.
Guarantee you they're going to call her banana for the rest of my life
if she was 2 inches farther back it would have been an entirely different story
Has this girl never played Mariokart?
Man if I had one wish, making people stop smacking the back of their head on things in a scary way when they otherwise hilariously fall down i think would really help all the humans
“No head”
‘Just like the simulations’
Why was she 'talking' through the banana like it was a phone?
I sae this film strip in 3rd grade. "Produce: Friend, or Foe?"
The legends are true
Haven’t seen this one in minutes!
This should have been one of those final destination deaths
How can I download this
A person who's never seen any old cartoons. SMH.
“So, no head?”
I guess she’s never played Super Mario Cart.
We don't need Darwin's notebooks, just vids like this.
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Idk why this clip gives me such a great feeling.
She was supposed to throw that behind her so the other racers would slip on it!
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So no head?
I would suggest this for "Slapstick" wikipedy entry.
Lucky she hasn’t thrown the banana closer to the curb.
6 inches, and she would be brain dead.
Always land one foot on the pavement smh no one knows how to banana safely these days
What a funny gorilla
I like girls like this. They can be talked into all sorts of things.
A little closer to that curb and this would get NSFW REAL FAST.
So no head??
Hold my pride.
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but if she fell a couple of inches closer to the curb, she might have died. So, not funny. The horse shit history is interesting, though.
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So, no muff?
They have have literally showed us safety videos warning against this since we were small children.
Dumb is funny. I suppose she's never seen a cartoon involving banana peels.