Be it a comic pratfall, a cartoon cliché or the most annoying thing in Mario Kart since Luigi’s “Waaaaaa…!!!” noise, the joke is the same: you slip on a banana peel and you bite it, bust your ass, slip-trip-fall, or spin out and find yourself looking at Donkey Kong’s rear cheeks for the rest of the race around Moo Moo Meadows. At some point, as a kid, I’m willing to bet that you tried to catch up a sibling with a banana peel, acting like Wile E. Coyote with some awesome trap. I did…and my grandmother wore my back end out when she figured out what I was up to.

So what’s Hoonigan doing with tons of bananas and an Audi RS5? Testing a theory, it appears. The Audi is a spiritual descendant of the original Quattro, a two-door with good power and four wheels gripping. What better machine to see the impacts of a truck bed’s worth of banana peels laid out on a section of Willow Springs?