History Main / BarSlide

** ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaMicrogames'': One of the microgames in the game is to catch a drink being slid down the bar. The speed and timing will vary depending on the difficulty level.

* 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.
** ''[=WarioWare=]: D.I.Y.'', meanwhile, brings this game back and allows you to draw in whatever you want for the object sliding across.

The bartender slides the cup, mug or shot glass across the bar to a patron. Sometimes, the patron may fail to catch it and it falls off the bar, revealing that he has never visited a bar before.

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[[folder:Film]]
* In ''Film/Penelope2006'', the heroine has left her house for the first time in her life and has gone into a bar to get the "real" experience. The bartender cheerfully slides her over a beer, but she is so insulated that she does not even know she is supposed to catch it and stares at the glass in surprise at it slides off the bar and shatters on the ground. The bartender explains that she is supposed to catch it and slides her another on the house.

* In ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'', Lou tries this to a girl. She's staring at him but ignores the shot-glass, which shatters on the wall next to her. As does the second one.
* In ''Film/{{If}}'', the girl in the cafe slides the coffees across the bar to Wallace and Travis, possibly in a haughty response to the way Travis tries to flirt with her.

* One of Earl's deeds in ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' was to fix the bar; otherwise, whenever someone tried to do this, someone had to grab the beer half-way through and move it over the dent in the bar.

* One episode of ''Series/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.
* Happens in ''Series/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.

* A task in Season 6 of ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' had the teams do this while aiming for a target on a bar made entirely of ice.
* The basis for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBbjsfJamCc&t=4m54s one of the physical challenges]] on ''Series/{{Double Dare|1986}}'' - though with a "[[FrothyMugsOfWater root beer-like substance]]", of course (and later green slime).
* A cute female bartender does this with a glass of root beer she serves the underage Eric on ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''.
* Happens in Russ Abbot's ''High Noon'' parody. The bartender slides a metal mug of beer to Russ, but it stops short, so he produces a large horseshoe magnet to pull it the rest of the way.
* Used in the title card for ''Series/BarRescue'', with a full glass smashing into the camera.

* Happened in an episode of ''Series/TheMonkees''. The bartender slides Micky a bottle, but he fails to catch it, and then asks the bartender to sling him a sponge.

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* The video for Music/ArtOfNoise's cover of The ''Series/PeterGunn'' Theme opens with a dingy private detective in a dingy bar. The barman has several goes at sliding him a drink, which he misses every time.

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* Godot from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'' has this down to an art with mugs of coffee across his prosecutor bench.

* The Super NES game ''VideoGame/BugsBunnyRabbitRampage'' had bartenders sliding beers in level 2.1, which took place in a saloon.

* The Wild West chapter of ''VideoGame/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.
* 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.
* In ''VideoGame/FableII'', the bartender job consists entirely of filling frothy mugs and sliding them down the bar.
* In ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'', one can order a drink which must be caught before it slides off.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsBartVsTheWorld'', a MiniGame includes jumping over drinks that Moe slides down his bar, while catching the power-ups.
* The videogame adaptation of ''VideoGame/CoolWorld'' had an odd sequence where the player had to activate a bar slide of a bottle, navigate through a bit of platforming to get past the bottle, then catch it at the last moment so it can be given to another character.
* Naturally, the episode of ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'' set in the WildWest features this as a minigame. With [[FrothyMugsOfWater Sasparilla]], apparently.
* ''VideoGame/TequilaAndBoomBoom'': To get the Dragonbreath drink at the saloon, you need to have Tequila catch it as it slides down the bar; it can take a few tries to succeed for first-time players.

[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* In the Creator/TexAvery cartoon "WesternAnimation/TheShootingOfDanMcGoo," a beer thus slid navigates a sharp curve, then stops at a miniature intersection to let other beers cross.
* In one of the ''ComicBook/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.

* In one of the US ''Kirby's Dreamland 2'' commercials, Coo causes one of the customers to slide across the bar, ending in Kirby's mouth.

[[folder:Film]]
* 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/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'', Momma slides a thug down the counter of a coffee shop.
* ''Film/BlazingSaddles''. Taggart 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|1980}}'' during the "country" portion of the closing musical number.

* The title character does this to a sleazy stalker in the opening scene of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane''.
* A Girl Scout does the Bar Slide during the bar Brawl scene in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.
* In ''Film/Seven1979'', Ed slides Mr. Lee the length of his boardroom table and [[DestinationDefenestration out the penthouse window]].

* 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.

* During the "bar room tidy" in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Backwards", Lister is at one point pulled across the bar, with glasses jumping back into place in his wake.

* LJN's ''[[VideoGame/BackToTheFuture1989 Back To The Future]]'' for the NES has Marty [=McFly=] being slid down the counter of Lou's Café and straight toward the door if he fails to stop Biff's goons from reaching the counter.

* In the Creator/TexAvery cartoon "The Shooting of Dan [=McGoo=]," a beer thus slid navigates a sharp curve, then stops at a miniature intersection to let other beers cross.

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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "Look at the Princess" a Scarran does this to Aeryn Sun even through they're actually fighting in his own quarters and there's no shortage of bars on the Royal Planet.

* In the Creator/TexAvery cartoon "The Shooting of Dan [=McGoo=]," a beer thus slid navigates a sharp curve, then stops at a miniature intersection to let other beers cross. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpfXBhaMwk Starts at 2:12.]]

* The video for Music/TheArtOfNoise's cover of The ''Series/PeterGunn'' Theme opens with a dingy private detective in a dingy bar. The barman has several goes at sliding him a drink, which he misses every time.

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->''Gimme a drink, bartender!''
-->--'''The Man With No Name''', ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName''

* When Kiryu has a chance to brawl inside of a bar in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series, he has a specific Heat Move involving the bar's counter, where he has some poor schmuck clean it's contents with their bodies. In ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' he uses it with a [[HumanHammerThrow giant]] [[WrestlerInAllOfUs swing]], but in later installments he just slams them onto the counter and slides them across the counter.

* When Kiryu has a brawl inside of the bar, he has a specific Heat Move involving the bar counter, where he has some poor schmuck clean the stuff on it with their bodies. In Yakuza 2 he uses it with a [[HumanHammerThrow giant]] [[WrestlerInAllOfUs swing]], but in later installments he just slams them onto the counter and slides them across.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "Look at the Princess" a Scarran does the brawl version to Aeryn Sun, not in a bar (despite no shortage of bars in this series) but his own quarters!

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In "Look at the Princess" a Scarran does this to Aeryn Sun, not in a bar (despite no shortage of bars in this series) but his own quarters!

* One ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' strip have the titular character in a bar, where an obnoxious bartender slides Master Q's drink only to nearly slide it off the counter, if Master Q didn't grab and catch it in time. The bartender pretends not to see a thing, so Master Q drinks maybe half a mug, and slides it back while sending the mug bouncing off the counter... into the bartender's face.

* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}' 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.]]

* Music/{{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.]]

[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* In the Creator/TexAvery cartoon "The Shooting of Dan [=McGoo=]," a beer thus slid navigates a sharp curve, then stops at a miniature intersection to let other beers cross. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpfXBhaMwk Starts at 2:12.]]
* In one of the ''ComicBook/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.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In "Let's Play Cowboys and Indians", Kaeloo and Quack Quack visit Stumpy's bar and order a soda and a yogurt respectively, both of which Stumpy slides across the countertop. Kaeloo catches her drink just fine, but Mr. Cat shoots Quack Quack's yogurt before he can catch it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Homespun," Luna talks about how the family house is so dilapidated, they're able to slide the gravy boat between the two dinner tables using the slanted floors.
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** George in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture first film]] goes into Lou's Cafe and needs some liquid courage. So he orders... a chocolate milk; [[MundaneMadeAwesome Lou slides the drink to him across the bar counter]] the second he orders it. In the HilariousOuttakes, the glass bounces off Creator/CrispinGlover's hand and falls off the counter.

** The bartender in "Jeff" performs a completely unnecessary one: sliding a bottle and galss along the bar to Dave, who is less than a foot away.

* LJN's ''[[VideoGame/BackToTheFuture1989 Back To The Future]]'' for the NES has Marty [=McFly=] being slid down the counter of Lou's Cafe and straight toward the door if he fails to stop Biff's goons from reaching the counter.