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PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE 14: THE HISTORY OF SLIPPING ON BANANA PEELS. (Patreon)

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Hey everybody! Jon here. Six years and change after the 13th episode of Pretty Good, the 14th is finally here. Beware of banana peels. They are capable of inflicting great physical harm. Even worse, they might own you so badly that you'll need to make a 33-minute documentary about them several years later simply to purge yourself of the abject shame and humiliation.

This series is back thanks to all of you who've subscribed to this Patreon, and we couldn't be more grateful. Those who haven't subscribed will be able see this video on our YouTube channel in December or so, but y'all get it right away.

Oh, and if you've just now subscribed and are new here? You've already got tons more exclusive stuff waiting for you. Scroll down our page and you'll find my three-part docuseries REFORM!, the first episode of Secret Base's new podcast The Annex, a Dorktown column, a mailbag column, and an extra early-release Rewinder. We're dropping a whole lot more stuff in the weeks and months ahead, too, including more brand-new episodes of Pretty Good. Hope you enjoy.

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bryan

hell yeah it's like when twin peaks came back

Conaire

you know it’s gonna be good when jon pulls out google earth

Derek Nadeau

gonna eat one trillion bananas to celebrate

Gocubbies

We have arisen to Cloud 9. Many thanks Jon and co as well as the many of supporters!

Tim 🦆
>>139809574

Jon is always on Google Earth it just isn't always obvious (fr all his vids are in Google Earth)

Jonathan Witmer

already know this is gonna be pure cinema. putting on a suit for this like it’s a movie premiere

moonview

We're making it out of bodybuilding.com with this one

Brandon Kuhn

This is already really funny

Devin Weinbrecht

MINOR SPELLING MISTAKE DETECTED 🚨

Michael Adams

RETURN OF THE KING BABEYYYYY

Luna

chambers street callback!!!!

Bo Underwood

everyone liked that

pav

This video is bananas!

vee

we're so back

Ryan Petriello

You know shit's going down when "L'espace-temps" starts playing

Michael Canter

As a Brooklynite, Broadway is my least-favorite street on Earth. Hell to drive on, loud, dirty, constantly traffic-clogged... it's a nightmare.

DrChillbrain

Happy pride month to the "Queer Trio of Frauds"

Tim 🦆

Hype (I thought Reform was technically an episode of Pretty Good)

Joshua Beard

I think William Lytle might be one of my favorite stories I’ve ever heard. Thank you Jon

Deacon Shininger

Hi just two quick questions regarding High Oafhood 1) do they have to be multiple types of oafish acts, for example is will lytle considered a high oaf even though his only oafish acts are those related directly to banana slip-and-falls 2) if they oaf-ish acts are intentionally induced are they negated or are all oaf acts, regardless of origin, credible for this honor

Sera

This is what I am glad to pay for

Brandon Kuhn

This is jons magnum opus

Rixon Lane

Death, taxes, and watching every Jon Bois project to completion the day it airs

Sam

does jon’s sandwich shop sell bananas

Martin C

"There will be many more" could NOT have prepared me for the amount and manner of death involved

Adrian Walker

This time, it’s personal

Sebastien Rempel

Blowback needs to make a new season about US imperialism in Latin America haunting us in the form of the banana peels strewn across our country’s soil like land mines waiting to be triggered

buoy

okay, abandoning my career and dedicating my life to becoming a high oaf

Myf

I have been laughing hysterically for the last half hour and my girlfriend keeps looking at me funny (not sure if y'all are looking for corrections but slight error at 26:40 - looks like the date of the previous news article was used)

William Sniegowski

I stepped on a banana peel once in Boston, but I did not slip. Instead, I just looked down and laughed defiantly. Bananas can't bring me down.

Terry

There’s a timeline out there where slipping on a banana peel killed Gerald Ford.

Patrick Grant

William Lytle is a hero

Peter

Did you consider the introduction and meteoric rise in popularity of pre-packaged snacks as one of the factors insulating us from the banana menace? I think the introduction of the Twinkie in 1930 - just as the pace of banana-implicated injuries begins to slacken - is too perfect a correlation to be explained away by coincidence. What keeps me up at night is the thought that we may have made a deal with the devil. Trading the ravages of the banana peel for the illusion of safety provided by single use plastics. If fertility collapse brought on by microplastic-induced endocrine disruption puts an end to the human race, we'll have nothing to blame but our own cowardice.

MercyArts
>>139815144

I’m so fucking happy that other transbians use these videos as bonding time, my partner and I are gonna watch this after i clean and I’m super excited

John Smith

Pretty good 6 years later is still pretty good

CandGoods (and Services)

the primary takeaway: man, late 19th century/early 20th century America sure was lousy with haphazardly discarded banana peels

Rob Heaton

Anna Banana, patron saint of Secret Base

Sera
>>139810792

Well, it's not really an episode per se; it's more like an intermission

Érico Lotufo

While I have never slipped on a banana peel, I have slipped on a half-eaten papaya left over from a farmer’s market once. I will watch this video to understand if the slipping-on-fruit experience is universal among all kinds of fruit. Thank you for making this.

Stefan Preiml

One thing not discussed in the video and I would find interesting seeing the lack of banana-related injuries after the 1950s is because perhaps the peel of the Gros Michel Banana was more slippery than that of the Cavendish. Before the 50s most bananas were of the Gros Michel cultivar but a plague wiped out a lot of the crop and banana plantations switched to using the Cavendish cultivar instead.

Stefan Preiml
>>139818237

And a quick goolge search later it seems that indeed the peel of the Gros Michel is much more slippery. We managed to mono-culture us into accidentally creating much fewer (banana-related) accidents.

TheNarwhalGal

Can’t believe I’m already considered a high oaf. How has it come to this? Also this was a great video. Love that the total tally of slips looks like a banana itself. Nice detail lol.

Seth Gould

I wonder if the transition from the Gros Michel cultivar to the Cavendish cultivar contributed to the decline of incidents. I'm no expert, but the Gros Michel looks a lot more dangerous than the Cavendish in this regard.

Landon Kerouac

William Lytle is officially enshrined into the PRETTY GOOD Hall of Fame, with the likes of Bob Bearman, Bob Gibson, Dave Steib, etc.

Colton Moore

I was a little sad to relisten to 6:19 some five or six times and come to the conclusion that Jon said "they will bring catastrophe" instead of the gold line I thought it was: "they will bring potass-trophe"

Noah T

Orange Apple as a banana peel victim is one of the simplest yet greatest works of non-fiction given to us

Macon

This minor oaf salutes your work, Jon. I await the glorious day I fall off of a turnip truck

Katie

I may only be a minor oaf (chair broke when I sat down) but it was at a Brazilian steakhouse and they refunded our meals, so I am a profitable oaf

lolplatypi

Hey I liked this video. Thought you should know.

Connor Freidhoff

"Secret Base presents: Pretty Good" So great to see that again

PsyMar

Do I get high oaf for two versions of sitting on a chair that breaks? In one case, I merely sat with sufficient force to break a chair I myself had assembled but which was insufficiently sturdy. In the other case, my father -- bless his heart -- had sat on the wooden chair first amd broken it with his weight, only to maneuver the pieces back into the general shape of a functional chair, but without adding any glue nails or other mechanisms to support the chair, and also without warning the rest of the family before I sat in it completely unaware.

mweepigeon

hey that was pretty good

PsyMar
>>139829036

It occurs to me that I may have another qualifying act. In youth baseball we had a drill where we were to run backwards past a traffic cone, then circle around it to run forwards. I went first, and ran backwards with the perfect angle for the traffic cone to hit right between my buttcheeks, taking me down instantly.

Dylan Borghardt

This is your best pretty good! Thanks!

Robert Williams

Anyone else remember the Jonathan Creek episode where he is insistent slipping on a banana skin can't be done, only to succeed at the very end? It was pretty good. Hey Jon, keep making these, they're splendid. P.S. Charles Gardner had it coming.

David L. Lebovitz

I pay $5 a month specifically for deep dives into stories that don't matter all that much and I am getting 100% of my money's worth here.

Insom

Would you consider reuploading the lost episode 4 of Pretty Good as a Patreon exclusive?

Mitch Okun

FYI, my wife the genealogist confirmed not only the existence of the Orange Apple article, but confirmed that he was, in fact, a JUNIOR as implied in said article based on his obituary (RIP July 10, 1949).

MM

Signed up for this exactly. Great doc.

ji

Mario Kart is a documentary

Trenchgun

now I *have* to ask, what level of oaf is William Lydel?

Phegan

Jon does not miss

Griffin Jones

Really stunned by the amount of Slippin Jimmy-esque fraud in this one.

Adam Jordan

I watched this video and immediately went on a walk. Right after I set out and crossed the street, someone else crossed over from the other side directly in front of me with a backpack. That backpack had, I kid y’all not, a Dole logo on it. Before watching this, maybe I’d have been afraid of what could’ve fallen out of that bag onto the concrete in front of me. But instead, I walked with head held high unafraid of the obsolete danger of banana peel slippage.

Daniel Groh

Chicago man runs slip and fall scam operation? The true Slippin Jimmy origin story? This chicanery?

ThatOneGuyThere

I absolutely love both the idea of this video and its execution.

Mylo Grams

Now the question arises; will there be an increase in reporting banana peel slips on social media following the release of this? As well, I wonder if people stopped reporting their banana peel slips since it'd be embarrassing, but now it can be a method of fame to an extent?

Santiago Pinzon

I never thought I would hear someone be described as "the Michael Jordan of banana peel fraud" and yet I wholeheartedly agree

SethMightExist

It's a shame that JUICE wasn't launched circa 13000BC so that he could have tracked that rake back in Jon's teen years. Ah well.

Michael Roston

This very afternoon I saw an Instagram video from some dude with a little handheld mic insisting banana peel slips never actually happened and I just wish I could put this link in the comments

JD Rasco

I slipped on a banana peel senior year of high school. I was eating a banana with friends after school when someone asked if it was possible to slip a la those cartoons. We tried and failed for a few minutes and gave up when it didn't work. But as teenagers, we did not pick up after ourselves. We just let the banana peel sit there. So as we go to leave a while later, I decide to take one last crack at it. I step on the peel with my heel, making sure my weight was unbalanced to maximize the chance of a fall. I ate shit. I really wasn't expecting it. It hurt a lot. Probably the funniest thing that will ever happen to me.

Giulio Motta

A few years back I saw a banana peel on the ground and thought it would be funny to try and step on it. While I didn't get injured, I was incredibly ashamed by almost falling right down on my back. And then I knew, the danger was real.

Charles Daigle

how do you do your research? Do you go to media archives and just tirelessly scan for keywords?

17Se7enteen Games

Is there any chance we'll get the lost Stanislav Petrov episode on here, or a remake? I did a whole paper on him in college and didn't even realize that's where i remembered the name from.

Caleb Shaw

Oh my god I didn’t realize how good it would feel to get this much new Pretty Good until just now. I haven’t had this kind of pleasant surprise since I found out I was indeed fertile.

Nick A

These stories are, indeed, bananas

Chase Malechek

As someone who has flipped, ass over tail, from inadvertently stepping on a banana peel - yeah. You absolutely get chosen. No breaks, but man… I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the cause.

Jack Pelmoter

HELL YEAH, WE AINT SCARED OF YOU BANANAS

skrrt vonnegut

We gotta bring back "Malignant Idiot"

amdsports

Best piece of content I’ll probably watch all summer. Thanks Jon

1Raisin

William Lytle is a hero. He slipped so that we could remain standing.

Terakahn

I one day wish to also aspire to high oafhood. I think the global anti-littering campaign is what really did it in.

Hope Woodward
>>139853657

He said in the newsletter that the original version is such a copyright nightmare that it’ll never be rereleased

KeegoTheWise

i’ve watched a random piece of paper caught by the wind hit my dad flat in the face like a cartoon. i believe you when you say you slipped on a banana peel

O O

William Lytle is a true american hero

Kyle Felter

Uhh…is it just me, or is this not political commentary on the trustworthiness of media?

Danni Silversmith

Stellar work Jon. Next time I’m at an NBA game, I’m bringing a banana peel with your name on it to throw onto the court ✨

disproportionately massive dwayne johnson from the end of furious 6

I genuinely slipped on a banana peel on my way to the dentist 5 months ago. I decided to walk since it was a short 15 minute walk from work, and had no idea the peel was even there until I did a stomach-dropping Heelies slide for a few feet. I'm with you in this intro, man. I feel you

Dave K

If i was a man who slipped on a banana peel, fell backwards out of my house/apartment window, 40 feet, landed perfectly on my feet and was okay afterwards, my friends would have to spend a solid 2 days afterwards convincing me not to do increasingly dumb stunts. "cmon let me stand in front of a cannon! i swear, im invincible!" kinda stuff.

Adrian

I smoked up before watching and now, if I tell people what I watched, I'll sound about twice as high as I am.

Kevin Griggin

gotta say, that was pretty good.

Shawn Breezy

Secret Base is finally successful enough that Jon Bois can make the videos that he actually wants to and can stop talking about sports

Warren Commission Test Skull

I’m going to be seriously let down if there isn’t a discussion about how the original common variant of bananas - the gros michel - had a peel that was much slicker and greasier on both sides. It also tasted better. Like a banana runt, or any other artificial banana candy flavor. A fungus wiped out the plantations out and replaced by the burlier but inferior Cavendish that we’ve all known since childhood.

Myf
>>139815144

fun fact we actually started our romantic relationship when we as best friends were CUDDLING ON HER BED watching the Dorktown Vikings series and she turned to me and said "hey what are we doing here?" lesbians,,,

Jesse Clarke

Incredible work, really great video, made me laugh a lot. One mention that may not be relevant to the overall point but interests me: I believe the traditional cartoon depiction of the slippery peel is not the worst orientation. By that I mean outside of the peel facing up, slick inside facing down. It seems to me it would be far slipperier with the slick side facing up for your shoe to lose grip on, and possibly the worst on its side, with two layers peel sliding against one another, slick side to slick side. Just a theory

Nathaniel Lowry

genuinely incredible. I never realized just how deadly the common banana is. Personally i've always had more of a problem with stairs. I think there was a point where I average 1 accelerated trip down the stairs per week

luther

the emperor of all bananaladies

Kevin Wilson

I felt bad for William Lytle. Not just because he slipped on a banana peel so many times, but because he and his girl didn't wind up together in the end.

Cody Gerard

Does falling off a bike into a patch of stining nettles qualify for High Oaf as an alternative to rolling down a hill into a briar patch? Because if so I qualify

Sera
>>139853657

Basically a remake could only happen if literally everything went right

Aaron Larson

Is there a database available of all the incidents?

Graham Manson

I'm willing to bet that the number of people who've been injured slipping on a banana peel is much closer to the number of newspaper articles about people slipping on banana peels than it is to the total number of people who've slipped on banana peels.

Edward Burnell

I've seen it claimed that the Gros Michel banana was much slipperier; its decline seems to correspond with the change in slope? (don't think this is where I saw it originally, but here's a link: https://www.slicedcoconut.com/extinct-slippery-banana/) [that said I have also slipped and stumbled on a cavendish banana peel and it was, as Jon says, bewilderingly rapid]

sno
>>139916177

actually it doesnt taste like artificial banana, thats a common misconception

Edward Tischler

My naive brain thought the news was too busy covering the war in 1940-45 and just didn't have the time or the care to report on some dude slipping on a banana peel. Jon: Yeah so there just weren't as many bananas around because of the war.

Geoffrey M

I remember a Jon tweet years ago specifically referencing his banana peel slip, garden rake mishap, and wanting to have an incident involving a turnip truck. I wonder if this video started production then, or if he borrowed that line from his tweet

Jackson

John, next video, please remove the dramatic tinking in the start of the video. The girl I’m seeing hates the sound and won’t let me watch your video in bed with her. I am now in the dog house

Michael Karkar

you will never believe what i am eating while watching this video

Martin Hamberger
>>139818237

I was going to comment this possible explanation, glad you already did. Your german sounding name suggests we may have this knowledge from the same source. "Geschichten aus der Geschichte" Podcast listener?

Danny K

Dang this video was pretty good :)

Paul Herberger

I slipped on a banana peel circa 2007. I was working at an ice cream place in college. Banana splits on the menu combined with employees trying to throw them into the garbage (from downtown) led to peels regularly being on the ground. One night I was taking an order and happened to stand on a peel with one foot. When I lifted my other foot to turn around and hand off the order slip I immediately fell. I was fine though, no loss of limb, life, or livelihood.

Merkwerdichliebe

This is the epic documentary journalism we need.

Casey K

❤️❤️❤️ love it, is there a chance we could have the option to download these? I’m spending a lot of time pulling weeds in a field this time of year, and I’m happy to just re-listen to the history of the mariners for the 38372th time, but it would be great to have the option to listen to the new stuff too 😊

Mister Magpie

Did... did anyone notice that the graph of total falls looks like half a banana?

Michael Lelli

So, how many of the fatalities included guns? Since it's telling that the first two you mentioned included them.

hildyhoff

William Lytle is my spirit animal

Charles Wheeler

When this was announced, I messaged my friend saying "it's so stupid that this will be really good", and I was right

Xavier Kriege

I hadn't yet joined Jon Bois Nation when the original Pretty Goods were happening and hoped that one day a new season would start up and I'd get taken to the Google Earth matrix inside of Jon's mind. Totally worth the wait!

Senne

I decided to some preliminary research on Lexis+ (a legal case database) and discovered there are 616 cases that come up when you search for "banana peel". The most recent court case in the United States involving someone slipping on a banana peel appears to be Ouedraogo v. Walmart Stores E., LP Ouedraogo v. Walmart Stores E., LP, 2023 Fla. Cir. LEXIS 3024

Sam Kaplan-Goland

The journalist who wrote the article about William Sanders went to the World's fair after he quit, like "I know one place this guy's not going to"

Zach King

jon jon bo-bon, banana fana fo fon fee-fi-mo-mon, jon!

Steve Bunting

That pronunciation of Norfolk was like half as offensive as I'm used to

tonyy!

Lytle is the gift that keeps on giving my god, everytime I thought it would end it just kept going

Michael Epp

I’ve been watching pretty good since I was like 13, in almost 22 & I’ve missed these lol

Jacob Trewe

There are some historians that claim that "banana peel" was newspaper euphemism for horse manure, which was much more common on city streets in the late 1800s, prior to adoption of the automobile.

Jacob Trewe
>>142453561

I might be wrong and half-remembering an old episode of QI: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/48294/did-the-slipping-on-a-banana-peel-gag-plausibly-originate-as-a-reference-to-ho

Robert

I slipped on a single pickle working at a subway after high school. Took me out.

Ben

Starting at 32:12 goes so hard. It feels like such a true statement of the politics of today. Jon’s right, we won. We did this. And that’s a pretty cool feeling at the end of it all. And the music hits too. Great ending.

Jacob Hur

Lytle is my spirit animal

Ben
>>139870537

I think it’s multiple things at once, but I agree that there’s some meta-commentary about reporting both illuminating and obscuring history in this video. Like the story of William Lytle, or the story about the guy who flipped backwards out of a 40-foot high window and landed on his feet. What do we do with those stories? Are they true? What is truth anyway? And have we lost or gained access to the truth as newspapers flourished and then died off in America, to be replaced by social media? Jon has given us an entertaining way to engage with those questions. At least, that’s my take.

Misfit Torah

I am once again so glad I get to pay Jon Bois money to do whatever the f*ck he wants

Hunter Dyar

This is a story about trash cans

Thomas Loy

Small world. I grew up in Kentucky and currently live in Louisville, but for three years I lived about half a mile from where Jon Bois - spoiler alert - ignominiously slipped on a banana peel.