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Banana in the Tailpipe
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Hey! Mind outta the gutter, please. You've got someone on your tail. Could be a cop, the local bully, or a very persistent Loan Shark. You could try to slow them down by shoving a banana (or potato, or similar sized object) in the tailpipe or muffler of their car. That way, you could give yourself time to escape and have a good laugh at the victim's expense as their car sputters and churns and fails to go anywhere. If the script calls for it, the car might even explode. If only it worked like that in real life. A banana or a single potato jammed into the tailpipe will probably be ejected at high speed. Completely blocking the tailpipe of a car with something that can't simply be blown out (which can be as simple as more bananas) will smother the engine, but will not set the car on fire. A subtrope of Vehicular Sabotage. Contrast Weaponized Exhaust, which this sort of thing should theoretically prevent. Compare Finger in a Barrel, which applies the principle to firearms. |
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The normally law-abiding Frank of The Hardy Boys does this with a potato to the tailpipe of a police car in the Casefile book Brother Against Brother so he can steal another vehicle. Don't worry, he had a good reason... | |
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In one episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will mentions that some students at his old school once keyed a teacher's car and stuck a potato in the tailpipe. His cousin Hilary hears this and is later caught rubbing a potato on her rival's car and leaving her keys in the tailpipe. | |
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: In "Blood at the Wheel", Phryne sabotages Jack's car by stuffing her stocking into the exhaust pipe. Of course, finding a silk stocking stuffed in his exhaust tells him who was responsible immediately. | |
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Psych: At the climax of "Shawn and Gus in Drag (Racing)," Shawn harnesses the power of tailpipe vegetables to stop a car thief from reaching 200 mph in a stolen car and thus getting away with murder. | |
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Not in the game itself, but in a Diddy Kong Racing promo video from Nintendo Power, at one point, the host mentions someone stuffed a bag of acorns into the tailpipe of Krunch's plane, with Conker being the primary suspect. | |
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When the MythBusters tried this, everything they stuffed up the tailpipe shot out immediately when Jamie started the engine. | |
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Subverted in Minder, in which a potato was used in this manner to shoot out and smash the window of another car. | |
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Happened in Tee Off, Mr. Bean when the eponymous character hits a golf ball into a car's tailpipe, causing it to churn and sputter for several seconds before shooting the ball out at high speed. | |
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Cross Ange: Hilda sabotages Ange's mecha by clogging the tailpipe with lingerie. This causes the mecha to under-perform and almost get Ange killed when the engine eventually quits, causing the mecha to crash. | |
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Rolling with the Ronks!: "The Ronk Race" has a scene where Flash resorts to cheating in the race by jamming a banana in one of the thrusters of Rob's ship. | |
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Irregular Webcomic! features a joke about destroying the Death Star by stuffing a "giant three-eyed Kinyenian potato" into the same thermal exhaust port that Luke shot with a proton torpedo in the movie. | |
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Columbo: In "Death Lends a Hand", the murderer Brimmer's car fails at a crucial juncture. When Kennicut muses about how Brimmer’s car was out of action at such a crucial stage, Columbo spins him a merry yarn about how his misspent youth, putting cars out of action with a potato up the exhaust, must have played a part in him wanting to become a lawman, so he could make amends for these misdemeanours. The enigmatic Lieutenant then turns tail to leave the garage. A bemused Kennicut turns to look at the car exhaust, checks himself, then spins on his heel and follows Columbo’s lead as credits roll… | |
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A variant occurs in a Flash game based on the cartoon Catscratch. Because Gordon, Waffle, and Mr. Blik are in a monster truck with very large tailpipes, the tailpipes are stuffed with watermelons, pumpkins, or an entire bunch of bananas instead. | |
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In American Dad!, Hayley's attempts to stop industrialists from bulldozing a forest include shoving a banana in the exhaust pipe of a bulldozer, but she's interrupted by a group of eco-terrorists who ask her to join them. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (2016): In "Man Up 2: Still Man-ing", Buttercup stops Manboy's weaponized lawnmower by clogging the exhaust pipe with a bottle cap, which makes the engine explode. | |
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In Season 19 Episode 2 of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson and James May did this to Richard Hammond's Dodge Viper before they raced to the Mexican border.note The person to finish last would be forced to cross the border into Mexico and do a review of a Mexican supercar for an upcoming segment. The presenters had also made unfortunate comments about said car (and Mexicans in general) in a previous series. Since the car had enormous tailpipes, and two of them at that, they were forced to add more and larger fruits to clog it down. Hammond removed the tailpipe fruit salad before attempting to set off, only to find they'd sabotaged the car in other ways as well. | |
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The potato version is used in the Jungle Doctor story, "Jungle Doctor Pulls A Leg" to prevent a con-man/thief from escaping before the authorities can arrive to arrest him. It works perfectly, possibly because the ancient vehicle wasn't able to generate sufficient compression to push the vegetable out of the exhaust pipe. | |
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In Arthur, the family car was disabled by a toy rattle in the tailpipe. The family only figured it out after Arthur called Car Talk. | |
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In Tree From My Youth, Salsa is able to destroy a Pig Mask tank by shoving what is implied to be his own feces in the tailpipe. | |
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In The Sims 4, you can attempt to "Stuff a Fruit in [the] Exhaust Pipe" of a rocket ship. Trying to fly a rocket ship this way will almost certainly cause your Sim to crash and burn to death. | |
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In Transformers: Prime, Jack and Smokescreen return from a mission together laughing their heads off. Smokescreen asks what Jack put in his boss's exhaust pipe, and Jack responds with "Pizza". They specifically dump fast food on people's cars as a way of circumventing the fact that they shouldn't be violently hurting people for petty reasons. Arcee is less than impressed. | |
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In the first episode of Dad's Army, while having a discussion of how to take on a tank with improvised weapons, Jones suggests plugging the exhaust with spuds (potatoes). Mainwarring points out that it wouldn't work because tanks have long, thin exhaust pipes. Jones asks why they can't use long, thin spuds. | |
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This is the only reason DazzlingAddar can think of for the little car in Donkey Kong 64 to have a Golden Banana, though whether he thinks of the car doing this to other cars or to itself depends on the level. | |
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Death in Paradise: In "Written in Murder", DI Mooney stops a suspect from escaping by stuffing a banana up the tailpipe of his motor scooter. He comments that a potato would have been better, but he made do with what he had to hand. | |
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Realistically deconstructed in Glee, when Mercedes stuffs tater tots up the exhaust pipe of Sue Sylvester's Le Car and does several thousand dollars' worth of damage. | |
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Happened in Eastenders, with a potato. A man put it in his enemy's car's tailpipe and sniggered as the car sputtered. He stopped laughing when the pressure ejected the potato into his shop window. | |
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In an episode of Goof Troop, Max and PJ lie to their fathers about joining the baseball team, so they try various methods to keep them from going to the games and finding out the truth. One of those methods is filling Goofy and Pete's exhaust pipes with cement. | |
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In the second case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney A car is disabled by — wait for it — a pair of panties. MAGICAL panties. To the relief of one and all, the person who they were stolen from (yes, stolen from) doesn't wear them; they're part of a Bag of Holding-type act. But that doesn't make the choice of prop any less disturbing... During the course of that case, something similar happens to Klavier Gavin's motorcycle; his bike's tailpipe gets clogged due to him using the wrong oil. |
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In Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, Zack disables Carmen's flying machine by shooting an arrow into the exhaust port. | |
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Referenced on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode where they watched Warrior of the Lost World; when the Warrior is hanging on underneath Megaweapon to sabotage it, Joel muses that he's putting a potato in Megaweapon's exhaust pipe. | |
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SpyBoy: Messed with in one of the early issues of the comic, where Bombshell stops a (moving) car of bad guys by tossing what appears to be a lit cigarette into the tailpipe. The car blows up several blocks later. Considering that Bombshell is an explosives expert, however, it's not quite as far-fetched. | |
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Spider-Man (2000): In the game for the PlayStation, you have to close several smokestacks with covers, to cause an effect "like a banana in a tailpipe". In the sillier What If? mode, the tops of the covers actually have giant bananas on them. | |
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Futurama In the episode "The Honking", Leela plans to kill the were-car by shoving a silver potato in its tailpipe. Unfortunately, it doesn't have one, "thanks to Ed Begley Jr.'s electric motor, the most evil propulsion system ever conceived!" In "Into the Wild Green Yonder", the Feministas sabotage a sweeper by pouring sugar in the fuel tank and shoving an organic potato (crawling with worms) in the tailpipe. |
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The line from Beverly Hills Cop is referenced directly in Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger, where Commander Hilltop and Jim Carter put on costumes that reference various American films (including RoboCop (1987)), with Jim threatening a suspect of shoving a Banana in his "tailpipe". | |
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In the fictional town of Lake Wobegon (as heard on A Prairie Home Companion), everyone buys either Fords or Chevys, depending on religion. This is mandatory. In one case, someone who bought foreign couldn't get his car started the next day 'cause someone had stuck a potato up the tailpipe. | |
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In the 1996 live-action version of 101 Dalmatians, raccoons put a large nut in the tailpipe of the Jasper and Horace's truck. The pressure does shoot the nut out eventually — when Horace is examining the tailpipe, giving him an Ash Face. | |
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At the end of the Bump in the Night episode "It Sang from Beyond the Stars", Mr. Bumpy puts a potato into the tailpipe of Sleemoth and Gloog's UFO after tricking them into leaving. This causes their spaceship to explode and the two aliens to drift off into space. | |
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In Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation, the hero, Roger Wilco, is being stalked by a gynoid that's out to kill him for alleged mail fraud. How does Roger Wilco save himself? By hiding in a log, then, when the gynoid lands on top of said log, sticking a banana-like fruit in the exhaust pipe of her jet pack, causing it to explode. | |
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A variation was used in Pushing Daisies: the murderer shoved a potato into the tailpipe of Ned's car to fill the car with exhaust and knock out Ned and Emerson during a stakeout. Such a thing could only happen if the exhaust system already had a leak up near the passenger compartment, which they would have noticed when the car suddenly became louder because the muffler was being bypassed. | |
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In the [AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC] job simulation in Job Simulator, one of the things you can do to mess with cars is stick bananas in the tailpipes. | |
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In The Golden Girls, there was an offscreen incident where Sophia did this to a cop. Blanche had to cover for her, which she later uses as blackmail material. | |
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There was an episode of the Little Lulu anime where Wilbur's butler was replaced by a stricter butler who anticipated all of the tricks that Lulu and the others were going to pull on him. Finally, they come up with a plan to work together to get rid of the mean butler. One of the tricks involved Tubby stuffing a handkerchief in the tailpipe of the limousine, and when the mean butler checked the tailpipe, the handkerchief came loose and he wound up with a face full of smoke and soot from the tailpipe. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Viewer Mail No. 2 (Point of Stew)", Stewie attempts to stuff a Twinkie in Brian's tailpipe, only to have it shot back to his face and ends up on an unexpected ride with Brian. | |
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MacGyver (1985): In "A Prisoner of Conscience", Mac stalls the car of the secret police who are tailing him by sticking a potato in the exhaust pipe. | |
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This trope also occurred in an episode of Diagnosis: Murder, this time with a wad of cash. | |
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In an episode of Burn Noticenote "Official Business" (Season 6), Fiona stuffs a folded woven belt (clearly shown as porous and not something that could cause a complete blockage) into the exhaust pipe of an SUV. It doesn't cause the car to blow up or even keep it from being driven but causes sufficient damage that the bad guys have to limp to the nearest service station...which was the point of the exercise, as the good guys needed to hide tools in the SUV for the next step of their plan. | |
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In the story "Overheated" of the Facing the Future Series, during the climactic battle with Burner who had used a mountain of junk to create a giant scrap lizard, Sam stops it by jamming a giant ecto-potato construct into its tailpipe smoke stack. | |
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In a Code Lyoko comic, Odd tries to do this to a bunch of bulldozers pipes. It works as well as one would expect. | |
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