History Main / BananaInTheTailpipe

%%* Appeared in the short-lived ''WesternAnimation/AceVentura: Pet Detective'' series.

* * In ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', there was an [[NoodleIncident offscreen]] incident where Sophia did this to ''a cop''. Blanche had to cover for her, which she later uses as blackmail material.

%%* ''ComicBook/BillyTheCat'' uses it too.
* Messed with in one of the early issues of the comic ''ComicBook/SpyBoy'', where Bombshell stops a (moving) car of bad guys by tossing what ''appears'' to be a lit cigarette into the tailpipe. The car blows up several blocks later. Considering that Bombshell is an explosives expert, however, [[JustifiedTrope it's not quite as far-fetched]].

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** A car is disabled by -- wait for it -- [[spoiler:a pair of panties. MAGICAL panties]]. [[spoiler: To the relief of one and all, the person who they were stolen from (yes, stolen from) doesn't wear them; they're part of a BagOfHolding-type act. But that doesn't make the choice of prop any less disturbing...]]

* There is an interview with Creator/TerryPratchett where he imagines the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' subversion of this: someone on stakeout on horseback, and someone else (the Librarian?) sneaking up behind them with a banana. Something similar actually happens in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}''. Except instead of a horse, it's an ox. And instead of a banana, it's a handful of fresh ginger. And instead of making the animal [[HilarityEnsues stop moving]]...

* In the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' game for [=PlayStation=], you have to close several smokestacks with covers, to cause an effect "like a banana in a tailpipe". In the sillier What If? mode, the tops of the covers actually have giant bananas on them.

* Averted in favour of the more realistic option in, of all things, ''Series/{{Glee}}'' when Mercedes stuffs tater tots up the exhaust pipe of Sue Sylvester's Le Car and does several thousand dollars' worth of damage.

* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': In "Blood at the Wheel", Phyrne sabotages Jack's car by stuffing her stocking into the exhaust pipe. Of course, finding a silk stocking stuffed in his exhaust tells him who was responsible immediately.

* Used in an episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' to stop a car thief from reaching 200 mph in a stolen car and thus getting away with murder.

* The line from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' is referenced directly in ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVSKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'', where [[DaChief Commander Hilltop]] and [[RobotBuddy Jim Carter]] put on costumes that reference various American films (including ''Film/{{Robocop}}''), with Jim threatening a suspect of shoving a Banana in ''his'' "[[AssShove tailpipe]]".

* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' features a joke about destroying the Death Star by stuffing a "giant three-eyed Kinyenian potato" into the same thermal exhaust port that Luke shot with a proton torpedo in [[Film/ANewHope the movie.]]

* In the 1996 live-action version of ''[[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 101 Dalmatians]]'', raccoons put a large nut in the tailpipe of the bad guys' truck. The pressure does shoot the nut out eventually -- when the bad guy is examining the tailpipe.