Callie saw a play in which the characters faced outrageous and silly situations. One character slipped on a banana peel and slid into the door. Another character got dressed in the dark and wound up wearing his wife's pajamas to work.
What is the best label for this type of play?

By definition:

this would be called a farce play, which is "a comedy that aims at entertain the audience through situation that are highly exaggerated.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing