History Main / BarSlide

* The 1983 Midway arcade game ''{{VideoGame/Tapper}}'' featured this as a game mechanic. The force of the mug sliding the customer out of the bar is the only way to get them out of your hair.

*** Amplified awsome because the milk appears on the counter top a ''split second'' after George orders it!

* In ''HudsonHawk'', when Eddie orders a cappucino, the bartender slides it down the bar to him.

* In ''Film/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.

* Used as a gag in an Italian movie: the [[ButtMonkey main character]] asks for a beer while in a spanish bar/restaurant. The barman slides a very large mug of beer down the bar, hitting him squarely in the face.

* Naturally, the episode of ''SlyCooper'' ''Thieves in Time'' set in the WildWest features this as a minigame. With [[FrothyMugsOfWater Sasparilla]], apparently.

* In ''TheSimpsons'' NES game ''Bart vs. the World'', a minigame includes jumping over drinks that Moe slides down his bar, while catching the power-ups.

* The 1983 Midway arcade game ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_Beer_Tapper Root Beer Tapper]]'' featured this as a game mechanic. Earlier editions of this game are just called ''Tapper'' and feature Budweiser logos on the taps and in the in-game bar. The [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer version]] is presumably to placate MoralGuardians.

* 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.

* Occurs in "The Trouble With Tribbles" in StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.

** George goes into Lou's Cafe and orders chocolate milk; Lou slides the drink to him on the bar counter.

* ''TheThreeStooges'' used this in a number of shorts, often with one of the Stooges bending over at the edge of the counter and the drink (or perhaps bowl of soup) spilling on his back.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles''. A cowboy is slid down the buffet counter of the Warner Bros. commissary. When he gets to the end, the register clerk charges him based on the splashes of food on his clothing.

* A task in Season 6 of ''TheAmazingRace'' had the teams do this while aiming for a target on a bar made entirely of ice.

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* Bethany in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' slides herself down the length of the bar in order to reach the sink, which she's been ordered to bless.
* In ''Film/BillAndTed'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.
* ''SecondhandLions'' uses the fight scene variant when BadassGrandpa Hubb is fighting a group of thugs in a diner (?).
--> '''Walter:''' But there's four of 'em! * thug thrown over the bar* ''Three'' of 'em!
* In ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'', Momma slides a thug down the counter of a coffee shop.
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles''. A cowboy is slid down the buffet counter of the Warner Bros. commissary. When he gets to the end, the register clerk charges him based on the splashes of food on his clothing.
* Happens in ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'' during the "country" portion of the closing musical number.

* In ''Film/{{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.
* The title character does this to a sleazy stalker in the opening scene of ''TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane''.

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* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "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.

* Gwaine from ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' was slid across the bar during a brawl in 3x08.

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* Subverted in Freddy fish, an inexperienced bartender slides an ice cream float to Freddy and it smashes on the floor.
* The 1983 Midway arcade game ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_Beer_Tapper Root Beer Tapper]]'' featured this as a game mechanic.
** Earlier editions of this game are just called ''Tapper'' and feature Budweiser logos on the taps and in the in-game bar. The [[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer version]] is presumably to placate MoralGuardians.

* A primitive Game & Watch-style clamshell portable, ''Western Bar'', required the player to move back and forth to avoid getting hit by thrown ashtrays and plates while shooting plates and bottles being barslid by the 'tender. It also had bossfights with some mean-looking cowboys.

* In ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'', one can order bartender a drink which must be caught before it slides off.

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* [[http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/archive.php?today=573&comic=563 This]] ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' comic.

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* Does sliding a Girl Scout down the bar count? If so, then add ''{{Airplane}}!'' to the list.

* The basis for one of the physical challenges on ''[[DoubleDare1986 Double Dare]]'' - though with a "[[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer-like substance]]", of course (and later green slime).

* Bethany in ''{{Dogma}}'' slides herself down the length of the bar in order to reach the sink, which she's been ordered to bless.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fulz4ytZ54 I Love This Bar]] by Toby Keith. The opening scene is a pretentious yuppie chewing somebody out over his cell phone as he strides into a blue-collar bar. He barks an order at the bartender, who slides it down. The yuppie misses. The glass continues down the bar, knocking the beers from the hands of two heavily tattooed, mustached, [[SunglassesAtNight sunglasses-wearing]] blue-collar bad boys. There is a collective [[OhCrap gasp]] from the bar at this faux pas. The regulars refuse to take it well, and the song begins as the yuppie starts receiving an ass-beating. [[ItGotWorse It gets stranger from there.]] [[spoiler: the two regulars also use the second version of the trope by sliding the yuppie down the bar-much to the barkeep's dismay.]]

* [[http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/archive.php?today=573&comic=563 This]] ''Girls With Slingshots'' comic.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7ifSxp9xU I Love This Bar]] by Toby Keith. The opening scene is a pretentious yuppie chewing somebody out over his cell phone as he strides into a blue-collar bar. He barks an order at the bartender, who slides it down. The yuppie misses. The glass continues down the bar, knocking the beers from the hands of two heavily tattooed, mustached, [[SunglassesAtNight sunglasses-wearing]] blue-collar bad boys. There is a collective [[OhCrap gasp]] from the bar at this faux pas. The regulars refuse to take it well, and the song begins as the yuppie starts receiving an ass-beating. [[ItGotWorse It gets stranger from there.]] [[spoiler: the two regulars also use the second version of the trope by sliding the yuppie down the bar-much to the barkeep's dismay.]]

** The saloon tender slides Marty [=McFly=] a gun right before the big showdown in ''BackToTheFuture 3''.

** Earlier editions of this game are just called ''Tapper'' and feature Budweiser logos on the taps and in the in-game bar. The root beer version is presumably to placate MoralGuardians.

* sliding other items and/or objects directly into somebody's hand across a bar or other flat surface.

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

* In ''SpyKids'', Gregorio Cortez slides a ringbox across the railing of the Eiffel Tower to Ingrid to propose to her.
* Bethany in ''{{Dogma}}'' slides herself down the length of the bar in order to reach the sink, which she's been ordered to bless.

* ''BlazingSaddles''. A cowboy is slid down the buffet counter of the Warner Bros. commissary. When he gets to the end, the register clerk charges him based on the splashes of food on his clothing.

* The title character does this to a sleazy stalker in the opening scene of ''TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane''.

* Happens in that one ''Series/{{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.

* Subverted in Freddy fish, an inexperienced bartender slides an ice cream float to Freddy and it smashes on the floor.

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

* In ''TheTownWithNoName'', one can order bartender a drink which must be caught before it slides off.

* Godot from ''PhoenixWright AceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations'' has this down to an art with mugs of Coffee across his prosecutor bench.

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