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.
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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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