12/14/2023 0 Comments Timeless tv tropesThis is a part of Suguri's backstory: she was kidnapped when she was 4, but managed to be rescued when a dog (Lupin's "grandfather") alerts the neighbourhood kids and brought them to the place where she was kept.At the end he delivers two Christmas presents. Pao from Deep Love knows exactly where the train station is even though he's never been there and fetches Ayu.In this GEICO commercial, a guy tries to get a cat to do this and, of course, fails.The scene cuts to Skippy fetching a policeman ("What's that, Skip? Someone's pushed the boys down the billabong? Who could've done that?") while looking guilty. Spoofed in a Rolo ad, where Skippy is in the Outback with two kids, one of whom gives his last Rolo to the other instead of to Skippy. about the benefits of adopting a dog from the local shelter. When "Jimmy" would get in whatever predicament he found himself in (including finding himself in a well), Sassie would run off to tell people. Another parody was the series of "Sassie" radio PSAs from around 2010.The last part is even mentioned by the father saying "I didn't know we lived near a volcano!" as he and his wife are running out to the truck. The truck plays the role of the dog and notifies the parents of their kid falling down a well.then getting stuck in a cave.then in the belly of a whale.then a balloon, then a VOLCANO. Parodied mercilessly in a Chevrolet pickup commercial.Her efforts grow increasingly elaborate (at one point, she draws a picture of the man at the bottom of the well, and the ad ends with her dialing 911), while the owner keeps Comically Missing the Point. An ad for Capital One credit cards features a collie trying to tell her owner about an old man who literally fell down a well.Lassie and Timmy encounter a mountain lion, whereupon Lassie saves the day by showing off her incredible martial arts skills. Spoofed in a black-and-white TV spot for General Electric Security Services.What's that, Tropey? Some examples fell down the index?! See also Pet Gets the Keys (when the pet retrieves the keys for its imprisoned master), Saint-Bernard Rescue (when a dog saves a person in a cold climate), Speech-Impaired Animal (when the animal can talk, but with a speech impediment), and Come Back, My Pet! (when a person replaces a pet but the pet wins them back by saving the day). The animal who features in this trope is often a dog, though since many animals have doglike characteristics in fiction, the central critter can be anything from a goldfish to a T. See the Live Action TV folder for a comprehensive list. note Incidentally, while Timmy was menaced by many things over the course of Lassie, he somehow never ended up at the bottom of a well. Still, expect a riff on "What is it, girl? Is Timmy in the well?" when one character isn't sure what another character is trying to tell them. Parodied to the point of being a Discredited Trope by now, maybe even a Dead Horse Trope. A joke dating back to the original airing of LassieĪ Stock Plot in which Little Billy falls into danger and the family pet or another animal (usually domesticated) takes the initiative to either rescue Billy or (more commonly) summon an adult character to help him.
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