I'm a little surprised no one's mentioned the root source of banana-peel-slipping: fraud. https://sundaymagazine.org/2010/11/26/the-woman-the-banana-peel-and-t

I'm a little surprised no one's mentioned the root source of banana-peel-slipping: fraud. https://sundaymagazine.org/2010/11/26/the-woman-the-banana-peel-and-the-damage-suits/ https://sundaymagazine.org/2010/11/26/the-woman-the-banana-p... TL;DR - At the turn of last century, suing for personal damages experienced a peak where people would fake an injury. It's literally where the trope in the old moves came from.