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== Real life ==
* There are some comical posters with images of cats hanging from a tree branch and messages that read "Hang in there, baby."
* Parodied in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029044521/http://www.streetwithaview.com/ Street With a View] project: [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.457426,-80.00882&spn=0,359.995177&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.457513,-80.008852&panoid=A1Z-2srducKbCKzzWX-o3Q&cbp=12,273,,0,24.32 see here].
* Rescuing cats from trees (or tops of telephone poles, chimneys, etc) is pretty standard fare on Animal Planet's various animal-rescue reality shows. Acknowledged as a genuine life-and-death emergency rather than a gag, particularly when power lines are in close proximity.
** One of these involved the cat being stuck up a extremely tall palm tree and requiring a trained tree surgeon to climb the tree with his equipment and grab the cat.
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