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Common variation of this trope is that the cat [[Unwanted Rescue|really dislikes whoever's coming to rescue it]] and goes all [[Looney Tunes|Tazmanian Devil]] on the rescuer in a whirl of claws and enraged meow-shrieking.
This is [[Truth in Television]], if not as common as media would have you think. By the by, if your cat does go up a tree (or on a roof), call a tree service or your local animal control department/shelter/what have you. The fire department has better things to do. Like, you know, [[Captain Obvious|putting out fires.]] If you do call these agencies, they'll tell you to leave it--it got up there, it will find its way down when it gets hungry.
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* In episode 1 of the UK version of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Superhero]]'', in the final round auditions before Sam and Mark chose the 13 who would enter the lair, the kids were given a task of building a contraption to get an old lady's cat down from the tree. Safely.
* [[The Andy Milonakis Show]] puts an interesting twist in the "cat up a tree" scenerio: instead of a cat, it's [[Full House|John Stamos]] that's stuck in a tree.
* Used as a dating ploy by Hilda on [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina, The Teenage Witch]]: she convinces Salem to plant himself in a tree in order to get a date with a firefighter.
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* In ''[[Okage]]: Shadow King'', Stan decides to get a start on terrifying the townsfolk of Tenel into submission by a display of his awesome power by rescuing a trapped kitty.
* ''[[Hero Smash]]'' allows you to both rescue cats from trees (if you're a hero) or chase them ''up'' trees (if you're a villain).
* A quick way to gain some points in ''[[Nightshade]]'' is to coax "Tibbles" off of a telephone pole and return him to an old lady.
* The single most demanded player request in the beta test of ''[[Champions Online]]'' was a chance to rescue a kitten stuck in a tree. You can rescue a lost kitten in the tutorial mission, although its not stuck in a tree.
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* Rita, from the Rita and Runt segments of ''[[Animaniacs]]'' once got herself stuck in a tree.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': After a [[Lock and Load Montage]] of Kim donning her supersuit, [[Played for Drama|played up]] as if she were preparing to take down Drakken once and for all, [[Mission Control|Wade]] tells her the mission is a cat stuck up a tree. This hardly seems like "a supersuit job", until it turns out to be a puma.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' rescue a cat from a tree. It's [[Running Gag]] because it's the same little old lady with the same cat every time. There's also the occasion where the cat was the episode's [[Big Bad]]. He ended up in a tree, stuck, but nobody came to help him because he was a Bad Kitty.
* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' has Blue Beetle doing the 'rescuing the cat from the tree' bit.
* In ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' Cosmo turns himself into a cat and gets into a tree on purpose to make Tommy (Timmy's older brother who only exists because of a wish) rescue him.
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