History Main / BarSlide

*** An outtake of this has him put his hand down in the wrong place. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]], and a change of clothes, [[HilarityEnsues ensue.]]

* In ''[=~Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure~=]'', Bill and Ted are slid down the bar and into a wall where some dancer girls are. Unsurprisingly, they try to go back for another peek after being pulled out.

* ''[[ImGonnaGitYouSucka I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]''. Momma slides a thug down the counter of a coffee shop.

* In ''Superman II'' at the end Clark goes back to the diner they he got into a fight with a trucker jerk after having his powers taken away and getting himself beat up. After letting the guy hit him and hurt himself doing it he puts him on his food try and slides him down into the bar into a pinball machine before paying them for the damage and leaving.

* Happens in that one ''{{Friends}}'' episode where Joey is hired to be a perfume sample guy in a department store...wearing a cowboy outfit. Made even better by the fact that Chandler has squeezed a juice box into a tumbler for full effect.

* ''HowIMetYourMother'' had an extended homage to ''{{Cocktail}}'' which involved this. Predictably, Barney and Ted broke a lot of glasses.

* The ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Trouble With Tribbles".

* A weird example in ''{{Castlevania}}: [[CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin Portrait of Ruin]]'', where a skeleton bartender does this ''as an attack''. Not to mention ''his death animation''.

* The Wild West chapter of ''LiveALive'' features one of the bad guys ordering a glass of milk and sliding it to the chapter's protagonist, the Sundown Kid. You can choose to slide it back.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fable II}}'', the bartender job consists entirely of filling frothy mugs and sliding them down the bar.

* In one of the LuckyLuke cartoons, a bartender sends Luke his beer at the other end of the bar. Along the way, it swerves several times and even splits itself in half to go around a mug before being snatched up by one of the saloon girls.
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* The basis for one of the physical challenges on ''[[DoubleDare1986 Double Dare]]'' - though with a "root beer-like substance", of course (and later green slime).

* ''{{Torchwood}}'', "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang": Captain John slides Captain Jack across the bar as they fight, smashing the glasses he's been drinking out of as he does so.
* The ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' episode "The Trouble With Tribbles".

* One episode of ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' had Colin playing Sound Effects as an Old West sheriff. When the bartender starts slinging beers too fast, he blows up a glove cartoon-style and catches it, earning a round of applause from the audience.

* The ''BackToTheFuture'' trilogy:

* Happens in ''TheGoodies'', specifically the [[TheWestern Western]] parody "Bunfight at the O.K. Tearooms". The surly barmaid slides two dainty teacups down the bar to Tim and Bill, who fail to catch them.

* In ''{{Fable}} 2'', the bartender job consists entirely of filling frothy mugs and sliding them down the bar.

* Sam from ''{{Supernatural}}'' is a fan of the first variant, often sliding whatever is in his hand over to Dean. Dean does the reverse, but not as often.

* In ''HotTubTimeMachine'', Lou tries this to a girl. She's staring at him but ignores the shotglass, which shatters on the wall next to her. As does the second one.

* One of the microgames in the first ''WarioWare'' game is to catch a drink being slid down the bar.
** Its sequel, ''Warioware: Twisted!'', has you passing a drink to the patron by physically tilting the bar itself.

* {{Genesis}}' music video for their 1983 song "Illegal Alien" -- which is about [[TheIllegal exactly what you think it's about]] -- features one of these, with all three (British) band members dressed as Mexicans seated at a bar...[[EpicFail and all three miss the glass.]]

* a person being slid across the bar in a bar fight scene.s

* In ''{{Penelope}}'', the heroine is at a bar, and doesn't catch the cup. The bartender gives her another on the house, though.

* a person being slid across the bar in a bar fight scene.

* In "{{Superman II}}" at the end Clark goes back to the diner they he got into a fight with a trucker jerk after having his powers taken away and getting himself beat up. After Letting the guy hit him and hurt himself doing it he puts him on his food try and slides him down into the bar into a pinball machine before paying them for the damage and leaving.

A common trope in {{Western}}s.

* Happens in ''TheGoodies'', specifically the {{Western}} parody "Bunfight at the O.K. Tearooms". The surly barmaid slides two dainty teacups down the bar to Tim and Bill, who fail to catch them.

* Happens in ''{{Xanadu}}'' during the "country" portion of the closing musical number.

* In "{{Superman II}}" at the end Clark goes back to the diner they he got into a fight with a trucker jerk after having his powers taken away and getting himself beat up. After Letting the guy hit him and hurt himself doing it he puts him on his food try and slides him down into the bar into a pinball machine before paying them for the damage and leaving.

* ''I'm Gonna Git You Sucka''. Momma slides a thug down the counter of a coffee shop.

* An episode of ''{{Cheers}}'' revolved around Sam's bar slide, which had never been seen before nor was ever seen again.

* In ''Penelope'', the heroine is at a bar, and doesn't catch the cup. The bartender gives her another on the house, though.