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[[File:lassie-timmy_6686.jpg|frame|Lassie and Joe, from the 2005 movie.]]

 

 

The franchise began with the 1943 film ''Lassie Come Home'' (based on a novel by Eric Knight), but really took off with the [[Lassie (TV series)|long-running TV series]] ("[[Common Knowledge|What's that, Lassie? Timmy's fallen down a well?]]").

** ''Lassie's Pet Vet'' (2007). A reality television show. Lasted 1 season, 13 episodes.

* Animation

** ''Lassie'' (2001) by Yoshihiro Takahashi. A short-lived series, only 2 volumes.

 

 

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* [[Tropey Come Home]]

 

* [[Animals Lack Attributes]]: Lassie is a female dog (note the root of the name is ''Lass'' not ''Lad'') played by males with their belly fur coiffed very carefully to cover up the naughty bits.

* [[Amplified Animal Aptitude]]

 

{{examples|References in other works:}}

 

* On ''[[The Jimmy Dean Show]]'' in the 1960s, Dean's co-star [[The Muppets|Rowlf the Dog]] several times mentioned how much he admired Lassie, and Lassie made two guest appearances on the show. In the episode with Lassie's second guest appearance, Rowlf did a skit in which he acted out a Lassie-like scenario narrated by Dean, heroically fighting through hostile terrain, swimming across a raging river, and racing up the other bank to stop the criminals about to dynamite the bridge! ... at which point, Rowlf stopped the skit and complained that it would have been nice if somebody had mentioned the bridge ''before'' he swam across the raging river.

* ''[[It's Garry Shandling's Show]]'' did a parody, involving a dog named [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|Laffie]].

* Two in ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'': one suggestion for the ever-popular ''Scenes From A Hat'' game was "what Lassie is really trying to say", and later on an actual Lassie became the only animal guest on the show.

 

* "Sassy the Wonder Dog" is a series of radio ads from The Shelter Pet Project, where Timmy and Sassy often pause from helping one of Timmy's luckless friends out of the well in order to tell the listeners about adopting a dog from local animal shelters.

 

* Spoofed in the "Mindy and Buttons" segments of ''[[Animaniacs]]''. Its [[Title Sequence]] was a direct parody of the ''[[Lassie (TV series)|Lassie]]'' opening.

* ''[[Martha Speaks]]'' features the in-show TV program "Courageous Collie Carlos", of whom Martha is a major fan.

 

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