When hiking in known “bear country”, which would be the primary reason a “bear trap” would be in use, it’s always best to hike with a slow running, tasty-looking, friend. just sayin’
I guess that’s true, but to be fair even with people getting caught in bear traps Lassie wasn’t a very exciting show.
Back to the thread Jon Provost, the original ‘Timmy’ wrote a book ‘Timmy’s in the Well: The Jon Provost Story’
So the meme seemed to catch even the people that were involved in the series.
Here is a list of situations Timmy did find himself in.
I don’t get no respect. Why, when I was a kid I was so ugly. . . .
How ugly were you?
I was so ugly I had no friends; my mother hung a pork chop around my neck so the dog would lick me.
Other than size, female and male rough collies look the same. There is the smooth-coated collie, but there are males and females in that breed, too.
Gee, maybe that’s typical of dog breeds in general?
All except the Transylvanian hound.
At the end of the Mad Magazine Flipper parody we see Flipper unzipping the porpoise suit to reveal that he is being played by Lassie. So, same thing.
I never remembered a well either. I remember the old phone, though.
Because this book was published 19 years before the first “Lassie” story was: Lad, A Dog - Wikipedia
I imagine the Australian version of Timmy fell down a few mineshafts…
“Wots that Skippy (squeaky noises), you say Timmo has fallern down a moine shaft”…
You know though I must have watched a gazzilion episodes I have retained no memory of the show but the theme song.