Line #93 Main/SlipperySkid


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6	[[quoteright:350:[[Franchise/{{Tintin}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tintin_marbles_4.png]]]]
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8	->''"Slide on the soap! (runs up soapy slope, slides back down)\
9	Slide on the soap! (runs up soapy slope, slides back down)\
10	Slide on the soap! (runs up soapy slope, slides back down)\
11	Slide on the soap! (runs up soapy slope, slides back down)"''
12	-->-- '''Ed''', ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''
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14	Something slick like oil, or slippery like a jar of marbles, is poured out on to a floor, and a targeted character or vehicle slips, skids and falls/crashes, typically backwards.
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16	Seen often in [[{{Slapstick}} broad physical comedy]], as well as vehicular action sequences. In chase scenes, it is guaranteed that when small spherical objects are scattered, the enemy in chase will step on them and immediately fall down, giving the hero ample time to escape.
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18	A standard cause of ThePratfall. In more cartoonish variations it's accompanied by a common StockSoundEffect.
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20	BananaPeel is a subtrope of this. When done from a car against another car, it's usually an OilSlick. Compare FrictionlessIce. Contrast StickySituation.
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23	!!Examples:
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27	[[folder:Animation]]
28	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In the beginning of episode 495, Wolffy walks down a red carpet to head to a show. Another character drops their watermelon on the carpet and Wolffy trips on it and falls.
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31	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
32	* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey'': (Manga only) During the diner chase between Doraemon and friends as well as Hachi's gang, one of Hachi's accomplices who stole Syami's necklace tries losing his captors by grabbing a customer's bowl of stew and spilling it on the floor behind him, causing a pursuing Doraemon to skid and fall.
33	* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'': Josuke's Stand "Soft And Wet" has the ability to "take" things and properties from anything that it can hit with a bubble. When fighting an enemy on the next floor up, Josuke [[ItMakesSenseInContext "takes" the friction from the floor above him, sending the enemy sliding around the apartment]].
34	* ''Anime/LupinIIICrisisInTokyo'': [[GentlemanThief Lupin]] uses ball bearings on [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Zenigata]] to prevent pursuit, and later uses them again on the trucks in the security convoy, causing a massive accident.
35	* ''Anime/MeatOrDie'': In the episode "Naomi", Yans and Gans attempt to make the title character (a giant rabbit) slip on an oil slick so they can eat her while she's down. It works... but the pair get squashed under her because they got caught in the trap when she fell.
36	* ''Anime/OhSuddenlyEgyptianGod'' has Set attempting to use a BananaPeel to slip up Horus. The trope ends up subverted when Otter arrives to the rescue wearing ice skates, turning Horus' mishap into an impromptu pair figure skating scene.
37	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': In the manga, Ranma, after becoming annoyed by Ryōga [[TwoTimerDate trying to date Akari and Akane at the same time]], pretends to be Ryōga's maid. She intentionally waxes the floor so Ryōga will slip and Akane will discover what he's been up to.
38	* ''Manga/SPYxFamily'': In a bonus chapter, Anya sets up a few traps in a restaurant for a Red Circus {{Mook}} who survived Yor's latest assassination job and is trying to kill her in revenge, starting with filling an entire hallway with olive oil to make him slip.
39	* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': weaponized by [[SeaMonster Ayakashi]], whose hide and interiors are coated in oil so slippery it can deflect pretty much any single attack directed at it. [[spoiler: Ushio has to remove the PowerLimiter from the Spear to kill it.]]
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42	[[folder:Comic Books]]
43	* There's one early-ish issue of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'', before things got DarkerAndEdgier, where the floor gets covered in pool balls. DD, having the Radar Sense, is able to run and jump around anyway. His opponent, not so much. Daredevil remarks in thought caption that it's easier to recover from defeat than humiliation.
44	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': Sexton sets up some marbles as a trap for his and Death/Didi's captor in ''ComicBook/DeathTheHighCostOfLiving'', hoping he'll slip and break his neck, but it ends up being sprung on the wrong person. (Nonlethally.)
45	* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'', [[spoiler:this is how [[BigBad Eggman]] [[LaserGuidedKarma gets his comeuppance]] at the climax of the [[ZombieApocalypse Metal Virus Saga]]. After causing so much trouble with his [[TheVirus Metal Virus]] bioweapon, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Eggman himself contracts it]] [[EpicFail via slipping and falling on an infected]] [[TeamPet Froggy]].]]
46	* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': Tintin cracks open an abacus in a chase scene from ''[[Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn The Secret of the Unicorn]]''.
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49	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
50	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had a "Ball Bearings, Bananas, Roller Skates & Floor Wax" factory, where numerous people were suffering pratfalls and slippage.
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53	[[folder:Fan Works]]
54	* In ''Fanfic/BrilliantLightsWillCeaseToBurn'', Izuku has Rain and Flower cover the ground with wet petals after being outmatched by Fight. When Fight tries to step forward, she slips, allowing Izuku to slam the pommel of his sword into her head to knock her out and let him seal her.
55	* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/6355736/ Here]]:
56	-->"Marbles? CAREFUL!"\
57	A moment after the warning, arms flailed and armour rattled as the tiny orbs got underfoot, causing soldiers to trip and fall, who in turn tripped up more of the pursuers. From one instant to another, the group of hunters was a mess of angry bodies sprawled over each other.
58	* The eponymous hero of ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' uses transfigurated bearing balls during battles.
59	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': In a flashback to Haara's slave years, a Genasi teenager plays a prank on her by using ''shape water'' to create an invisible ice slick on the ground, causing her to wipe out and shatter most of the expensive dishware she was transporting.
60	* During the climax of ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', John instantly coats the rooftop of the warehouse with wet ice, causing everyone except him to lose their footing and go crashing down, thus rendering them incapable of casting spells at him while he races to the trap door in the roof.
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63	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
64	* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixInBritain'' has a RunningGag of messengers sent to General Motus always arriving at his headquarters after the floors have been waxed, resulting in slips, slides and crashes into various marble statues (explaining why so many Greco-Roman era statues in museums nowadays are broken).
65	* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsHolidaysUnwrapped''. Rainbow Dash notes that she doesn't use her SuperSpeed in the winter because she would slip on the icy roads and crash. From the tone of her voice, it sounds as if Rainbow found this out the hard way.
66	* In the film ''Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea'', the Pokémon Ranger of the title causes several EvilMinions to slip and fall by overturning a basket of potatoes (yes, potatoes!) under their feet.
67	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'', Rodney fights Fender in a tug of war to get his foot back, with the pair of them fighting while trying to keep their balance on a large number of ball bearings. Fender eventually loses his balance and falls over, losing his head quite literally in the process.
68	* Two kids crack open a barrel of oil during a chase scene in ''WesternAnimation/TintinAndTheLakeOfSharks''.
69	* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'':
70	** In the opening cartoon, Roger slips on both a rolling pin and a bar of soap.
71	** Judge Doom pours "the dip" on the road, causing Benny the Cab to skid. Although given that Benny screams and crashes and his tires look shredded, the dip is probably actually burning Benny's wheels off.
72	** Later, Judge Doom himself slips on some Toon "Eye Balls" and falls, making the Weasels laugh.
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75	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
76	* ''Film/ThreeNinjas'' does this with an oiled wooden floor and jelly beans.
77	* In ''Film/AnimalHouse'', they used marbles during the end parade.
78	* ''Film/{{Argylle}}'': A climactic gunfight in a pumping station results in an oil slick covering the entire floor, ensuring that nobody on either side has good footing. Elly attaches knives to her boots and somehow manages to "ice-skate'' on the crude oil, allowing her to keep fighting while everyone else can barely stand up.
79	* ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. LaResistance in Latvia cause a Soviet military vehicle to crash by pouring hot water on a snow-covered road.
80	* In the film ''Film/{{Casper}}'', Carrigan tries to kill Dibs, who covers the floor with what appears to be oil. Sure enough, Carrigan slips on the oil and goes skidding across the floor before crashing out the window.
81	* In ''Film/DiamondsOnWheels'', Ashley goes charging into the fight only to trip on a broom and go sliding face first only the trail of slippery foam Bobby has sprayed on the floor.
82	* ''Film/DoctorSeries'':
83	** In ''Film/DoctorAtSea'', Captain Hogg slips on some French chalk on the deck prior to the ship's dance.
84	** In ''Film/DoctorInClover'', Dr. Grimsdyke steps on a patient's meal that has fallen onto the floor and slips backwards into the wall where he sets off a fire extinguisher as he tries to steady himself.
85	** ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'': When inspecting the floor Dr. Burke had just polished, Captain Spratt slips on it and goes flying onto his back.
86	* The 2008 ''Film/GetSmart'' movie does this with a fallen hanging bead curtain.
87	-->'''Maxwell Smart:''' I set that up.
88	* Used with gumballs and basketballs in the 1998 ''Film/{{Godzilla\|1998}}''.
89	* ''Film/TheGoonies''. Data's "Slick Shoes" lead to some nut-crunching acrobatics by the Fratelli brothers.
90	* ''Film/HomeAlone'':
91	** In the [[Film/HomeAlone1 first film]], Kevin sprays water on the outside steps that froze into ice, in addition to placing VideoGame/MicroMachines in front of the inside stairway.
92	** In the [[Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork sequel]], he buys some cheap necklaces from a street vendor and spills their beads onto the sidewalk, which the bandits promptly slip on. Later, Marv steps onto a slippery floor (courtesy of Kevin), struggles to keep his balance, manages to stop himself for just a moment, and then ''finally'' loses his balance... [[RuleOfFunny propelling him forward into a shelf loaded with paint cans in spite of the laws of physics.]] Finally, Kevin ''himself'' slips on ice, getting himself caught.
93	* ''Film/{{Hook}}'' features an elaborate marble/bead-shooting apparatus.
94	* The villains in ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' use this to make the protagonist's car slip, eventually making it flip over and tumble.
95	* ''Film/JamesBond'': In ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', James Bond uses an oil slick device in his CoolCar to send a pursuing Mook car to its doom.
96	* ''Film/JohnnyEnglishStrikesAgain'':
97	** On the boat, Johnny and Bough delays a pair of sailors by throwing minutes marbles under their feet.
98	** In the castle, Johnny inside a suit of armour which he had overflowed with oil earlier in an attempt to remove it, slips on top of the stairs and then skids on his back all the way to the bottom, and then through the whole conference room, up to the doors that he accidentally closes behind him.
99	* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', it turns out the spilt detergent that almost sends Van Pelt into a skid is actually intended to allow a '''rocket-mounted canoe''' to slide across the floor.
100	* In ''Film/TheMadAdventuresOfRabbiJacob'', Victor Pivert is chased by bad guys inside a bubblegum factory. When cornered, he opens up a huge holder of bubblegum beads, sending them rolling under his pursuers' feet. After doomed efforts at staying upright, they finally fall and skid down some stairs, and then down a chute to end up into a vat of green liquid gum.
101	* ''Film/TheReturnOfCaptainInvincible''. A {{newsreel}} of Captain Invincible's exploits shows bootleggers firing on him with tommy guns, only for the bullets to hit a keg of beer which sprays all over the floor. The bootleggers then slip while trying to flee, leaving them easy prey for our hero.
102	* In ''Film/SpiderMan1'', Mary Jane Watson is walking through the school cafeteria but slips on some spilled juice -- sending her and her tray of food flying. Luckily, Peter is there to not only catch her with his enhanced reflexes, but [[DesperateObjectCatch also catches her tray and all her food]].
103	* The first step of defeating the witch in the wraparound story of ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' is having her slip on marbles.
104	* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', Frank pours motor oil onto the garage floor (and all over ''himself'') to fight a gang of {{Mooks}}, using cleats improvised from bicycle pedals to keep his footing.
105	* ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils'': When Henry and George are hiding in the ward kitchen cupboard with their cooking paraphernalia (to not let Nurse Beamish know they have brought in outside foot), George accidentally puts his foot in a frying pan with an omelette in it, which causes him to slide through the door and into the table right in front of Nurse Beamish.
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108	[[folder:Literature]]
109	* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Dustbringers and Edgedancers can both manipulate the Surge of Abrasion, which controls all forms of friction. We have seen it used to let a heavily-armored knight run through waist-deep water as easily as dry land, let a girl slide around a palace on her butt as if she was greased, and to run very very fast by ignoring air resistance.
110	* ''Literature/SummerKnight'': Subverted. Harry spreads marbles out in front of his supernatural enemy. It steps on them and crushes them underfoot rather than going slipsliding away. His ''ally'' badly hurts her ankle, and is not amused.
111	-->'''Murphy:''' That's not a plan, Harry, that's a Looney Tune.
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114	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
115	* Mr Mash and Mr Lucas staged one of these in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' in an attempt to get Mr Lucas off work for the day. Mash makes a big show of spilling cleaning fluid on the stairs, then loudly moans in Mr Lucas' direction that he hopes no one slips on it.
116	* A blooper in the ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episode "Animals" has Avon running into a room waving a gun, only to slip on some papers scattered on the floor before quickly regaining his poise. Given the NoBudget of the series, there wasn't a second take.
117	* Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}:
118	** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "Graduation": When Angel tries to sneak into where Buffy is searching for clues, he slips and stumbles through the door. Buffy lampshades both his smooth moves and Angel's clumsiness as he feebly makes excuses.
119	** Happens to Wesley on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' after the title character attempts -- and fails -- to use his SuperStrength to crush coffee beans still in the bag. Results in a classic [[ThePratfall pratfall]], something Wesley's actor is apparently quite fond of.
120	* Subverted in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "Robot". The Doctor tosses ball bearings into the path of the title robot, only for it to squash them flat.
121	%%* ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' has done it a few times.
122	* In ''Series/{{The Flash\|2014}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E7KillerFrost Killer Frost]]", [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]] takes out Comicbook/TheFlash by freezing a wet road, causing him to slip.
123	* KITT from ''Series/KnightRider'' does this regularly. One spectacular use of it involved causing a pursuing Armoured Assault Vehicle to slide out of control and unable to stop, and at the last minute turbo boosting over a storage depot while the pursuer plowed into it, blowing the depot and itself up in the process.
124	* ''Series/TheMagician'': In "Nightmare in Steel", Tony is being chased through a ship when he causes his pursuers to skid and crash by spraying machine oil on the floor. Later in the same episode, he causes the leader of the pirates to trip and fall by tossing a handful of bullets under his foot.
125	* Variant in the first season of ''Series/SweetValleyHigh'': Jessica ''removes'' a warning sign from a freshly waxed diner floor. Lila slips, twists her ankle ''inward,'' and plops on the ground. All for the sake of an appearance in what later turns out to be a local ''commercial.''
126	%%* ''Series/{{Wipeout\|2008}}'' is a game show that pretty much entirely runs on this.
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129	[[folder:Music Videos]]
130	* In the video of Music/{{Pink}}'s "Please Don't Leave Me", it's those darn marbles again. Upstairs. Twice.
131	* In Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Like a Surgeon", one of the surgery attendants slips on the still-beating heart that escapes from the clumsy surgeon's hands.
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134	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
135	* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': Lady Penelope's Rolls-Royce limousine, the FAB 1, is equipped with an oil slick. It also has some heavy weaponry if bad guys pursuing it proves too persistent to be deterred by this.
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138	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
139	* Because of the nature of {{Tabletop RPG}}s, smart players can use anything from grease to marbles to set traps.
140	* The vehicles in Steve Jackson Games' ''TabletopGame/CarWars'' have this as an optional extra. For a little extra, it can be ON FIRE.
141	* The ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' supplement ''C.L.O.W.N.'' has this twice. Merry Andrew's Banana Gun squirts out banana oil that causes opponents to go slip sliding away, and Marbles can throw her marbles into a character's path and send them skidding away down the street.
142	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
143	** The first-level ''grease'' spell exists for this purpose since ''AD&D1'' expansions and on.
144	** Psions in 3rd edition have their own version of ''grease'', also called ''ectoplasmic sheen''.
145	** Also a dedicated magical item -- the Oil of Slipperiness.
146	** Ball bearings are sold in sets of 1,000, and the description lists this trope as their intended use.
147	** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' of ''AD&D2'' era added ''grease slick'' that has greater area and duration, is cast silently, and instead of one surface sprays everything. Which sometimes is worth a spell of the same level as ''fireball''.
148	** Some cold or ice spells can be used to this effect too by icing the floor. Notably ''sleet storm'', which covers a larger area than ''grease'' '''and''' obstruct vision to boot.
149	* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' does this twice.
150	** Adventure ''Vapors Don't Shoot Back''. During Mission 1, while the [=PCs=] are fighting in the warehouse boxes will break open and spill ball bearings all over the floor, which will make slipping and falling very likely.
151	** Adventure ''Send in the Clones''. During the Sewerworld segment, the [=PCs=] enter an old TV studio with boxes of ping pong balls. The boxes break open, spilling the ping pong balls all over the floor and tremendously increasing the [=PCs=]' chance of slipping and falling.
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154	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
155	* In the former ''Ride/TheFuntasticWorldOfHannaBarbera'' at Ride/UniversalStudios, the water generated from a broken hydrant in the ''Flintstones'' scene causes the Bedrock's fire department to slip and hit the ground.
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158	[[folder:Video Games]]
159	* A powerup in ''VideoGame/BackyardHockey'' causes the other team to do this.
160	* This is a method of escaping pursuers in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}''.
161	* In ''VideoGame/CarriesOrderUp'', leaky pipes start leaving puddles on the diner floor. You can walk right through them with ease, but [[SpectacularSpinning trying to spin through them]], which normally lets you avoid colliding with customers, will leave you flat on your butt.
162	* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' you can do this to zombies. Yes, it is as funny as it sounds.
163	* In ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'', grenade launchers can be loaded with "slip rounds" which release an oil-like substance on impact.
164	* Subverted by the ''VideoGame/{{Glider}}'' series, in which spilled jars of grease make it ''safe'' to land on surfaces, and while sliding in grease you can stop on a dime.
165	* You could install one in the second ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' game. Lay some slick down and watch the fun.
166	* In ''VideoGame/{{Machinarium}}'', one of the early puzzles involves throwing some duck shots on the floor so one of the bad guys could slip.
167	* Sub Zero could ice a patch of the ground in some of the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' games. Typically the victim would slide forward.
168	* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/OrcsMustDie'', the old master War Mage meets his end by slipping on monster blood and suffering a fatal head injury as a result, leaving the defense of the realms to his apprentice.
169	* In ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooNightOf100Frights'', there are areas which are covered in oil or are just generally slippery, which hinder Scooby's progress until he manages to find the professor's Plunger invention - after which walking on slippery surfaces becomes a cinch. Ruins going down the slide in the playground, mind you.
170	* ThatOneLevel for some of the ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur'' campaign modes would have the floor act like this. Even worse when it's just you skidding all over, whereas the opponent is as solid as a rock.
171	* The vintage arcade game ''VideoGame/SpyHunter1983'' has a car that can deploy oil slicks (see below).
172	* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' character Hakan uses a fighting style based entirely on covering himself with oil and being slippery.
173	* One of the options in the first ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' "Death Match" matches is two spots of oil or grease.
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176	[[folder:Webcomics]]
177	* ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'':
178	** Prestige Perkins uses a ''grease'' spell against their tantacallis pursuers, sending them sprawling. Although the usual material component calls for butter, [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-5-18/ she uses margarine instead because she's watching her weight.]]
179	** An upside-down cake, put judiciously in the path of a troll, produces a FacePlant.
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182	[[folder:Web Videos]]
183	* In ''WebVideo/TFSAtTheTable'', the Natural Wonders manage to kill a hulking ''Vampire Paladin'' this way. At the start of the fight the Vampire Paladin charges at our heroes while wielding a ten-foot-long burning cross. In response, [[GuileHero Ezra]] throws down a handful of ball bearings, hoping to make the terrain a little harder for the vampire to navigate. The vampire winds up [[HumiliationConga slipping on the ball bearings, landing flat on his back, accidently tossing his weapon into the air which then crashes on top of him, sending him plummeting through the floor of the ship they're on and sending him to the bottom of the ocean where he gets torn apart by mako sharks.]] [[EpicFail All without getting in a single swing at the Wonders.]] The icing on the cake to all this was the fact that, right before trying this, Ezra said that throwing down the ball bearings was probably a stupid idea.
184	* ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}'': This is the principle behind the [[GoneHorriblyRight infamous]] Merilwen's Meat Grinder. A combination of the Grease spell with the Spike Growth spell sent a group of hapless guards skidding uncontrollably through a patch of spikes, killing most of them in the process.
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187	[[folder:Western Animation]]
188	* Creator/HannaBarbera's ''The Adventures of Gulliver''. In the episode where he takes on pirate captain Cutler, Gulliver uses a bar of soap on the ground to send a pirate careening on a long slide into a lifeboat.
189	* ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'': In Season 3 "[[Recap/CentralParkS3E05GoldenOwenManagerDamager Golden Owen: Manager Damager]]", when Bitsy wants her hallway floor polished, she asks Helen to rehire her floor cleaner who was previously fired for using her bathroom without permission. [[TheDogBitesBack As revenge for being fired previously]], the floor cleaner puts too much wax on the hallway, causing Helen, Bitsy and even Shampagne to slip and fall on their backs, unable to get back up.
190	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In Operation: P.I.R.A.T.E., Numbuh 3 tries to trip up some Candy Pirates by throwing gumballs on the floor. Rather than trip on them, the pirates simply [[SweetTooth start eating the gumballs]].
191	* In the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short\|s}} "Mickey's Service Station", a hydraulic hoist pops out of its shaft with a car on it -- Goofy grabs it, and while struggling to hold it up, gets caught on a puddle of spilled oil and goes into a slipping maladroit dance.
192	* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
193	** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Lampshaded by the Joker while making his escape from Arkham in "Joker's Wild":
194	--->'''Joker:''' Step right up and play everybody's favorite game: "What's the Joker got in the pail?" Maybe a deadly poison... or maybe just something to make the floor nice and slippery!
195	** Subverted in the first ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' crossover with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. The Joker throws a bunch of marbles on the floor to make good on his escape from the pair. Superman thinks he must be kidding, but it's quickly revealed that these are exploding marbles, and the good guys are forced to make a hasty escape.
196	** Joker does it again in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', this time to the Flash. First he slips on the beads, and ''then'' they blow up, sending him flying.
197	** Used in TheMovie of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' to knock down the Didis.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS episode "Monster in the Monastery". Jonny shoots arrows to break oil bags hanging from the ceiling, and the chief yeti slips in the oil, rolls down some stairs and [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]].
199	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
200	** Done hilariously in a cartoon where Sylvester greases up Elmer Fudd's stairs and thumb-tacks his walkway in an attempt to deter him from interrupting his caterwauling. The hilarious part is that after having going through all that, Elmer then runs through it again to go inside and get his shotgun, and then runs through it a ''third'' time. (Funny how he doesn't bother to put on shoes.)
201	** Bugs uses grease in his ''coup de grace'' in "WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs".
202	** Wile E. Coyote uses grease either to immobilize the Road Runner or to generate speed for himself -- it never works out well.
203	** And, of course, the many shorts that have {{Banana Peel}}s.
204	* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 The Return of Harmony]]", Discord turns all of the dirt roads in Ponyville into soap, leading to a lot of slipping and sliding.
205	-->'''Corrupted Pinkie Pie:''' ''[skates by]'' This may look like fun, but it's ''not!''
206	* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'': At one point in “Melody Makers”, Louis somehow slips and slides on ''dust'' as if it were marbles.
207	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': The episode "Crime and Punishment" has Chas meet a traffic cop named Naomi and invite her to the Pickles' house. Upon seeing the babies outside, he tries to bring them back in, [[ItMakesSenseInContext only to slip in some mud]].
208	* A subversion in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer attempt to injure himself in order to skip work, by slipping on some oil. Instead, he only manages to skid through the entire plant unharmed.
209	* Another subversion as ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' unleashes bowling balls onto the floor of a sporting goods store in an attempt to stop The Rhino. [[GenreSavvy "This always works in the cartoons!"]] It doesn't work.
210	* ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'': In the episode "Mind Trap" Snaptrap predicts Dudley and Kitty coming into the base with the mind reading helmet so he throws a bunch of marbles right where they're coming from and they trip.
211	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'': When Birdie is in danger of being baked into a pie by the royal chef during Ronald and friends' trip to the middle ages in "Have Time, Will Travel", one of her efforts to escape is tripping the chef up using a bowl of nuts.
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