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* ''[[Nyan Koi]]''. Junpei and Kaede's first meeting involves her trying to rescue a cat from a tree and using Junpei as a landing pad.
* ''[[Chi's Sweet Home|Chi's New Address]]''. Yohei's friend Ryu gets Chi down from a tree, and gets over his fear of cats as a result.
* The first episode of ''[[Strike Witches (Anime)|Strike Witches]]'' has Yoshika try to rescue one of her friend's cats from a tree.
* Invoked in the chapter name of Hinagiku's first appearance in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', though that time she's returning a baby bird to it's nest, she later does rescue cats from trees. Rescue in this case is a matter of opinion though, since she's afraid of heights, so she becomes stuck in the tree as well. But at least she has the ability to summon someone who will help her escape (with the cat), as opposed to the cat being alone stuck up in the tree.
 
 
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* In one of the ''[[Police Academy]]'' movies, an old woman asks Tackleberry to get her cat out of a tree. Tackleberry obliges by shooting the cat out of the tree.
* In ''[[Doctor Dolittle]]: Million Dollar Mutts'', Maya Dolittle, who can talk to animals, rescues an old lady's cat, but the cat refuses to leave the tree as long as the old lady stops giving him baths.
* [[Kick -Ass (Filmfilm)|Fuck you, Mr. Bitey!]]
* ''[[Roxanne]]'' has an example of the second type, except the firemen-in-training are incapable of even doing this. C. D. comes along and gets the cat down with a can of tuna.
* In the ''[[Inspector Gadget (Filmfilm)|Inspector Gadget]]'' movie, Chief Quimbly refuses to take his new cyborg inspector seriously and assigns him to easy good-publicity missions, including rescuing a cat from a tree using his telescoping arms.
* The climax of [[Winnie the Pooh|''Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too'']] involves Tigger bouncing up to the top of a tree and being unable to get down, and as a result the Narrator steps in to get him down ''by literally tilting the book so he slides down the page he is on!''
* [[Spy Kids|After leaving the OSS]], Juni takes on neighborhood jobs for pay, including saving cats in trees. (A bit of trivia: the cat Juni rescues in that scene is his actor Daryl Sabara's own cat!)
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In episode 1 of the UK version of ''[[Who Wants to Be Aa 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 ''[[The Sims]]'', if you had the ''Superstar'' and ''Unleashed'' expansion packs, you could read a story in the tabloid paper saying a movie star had gotten a cat down.
* [[Sim City]] 3000 had a news ticker headline: "[[Inverted Trope|Tree stuck in cat]]. Firefighters baffled"
* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight (Video Game)|Mitsumete Knight]]'', this situation can happen during a date at the Tree-Lined Path. Most of the girls will get a favourable impression if you volunteer to get the cat down.
* 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 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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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* And in [http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF061-Kitty_Stuck.jpg this] ''[[Perry Bible Fellowship]]''.
* Appears in [http://buttersafe.com/2010/01/28/the-tragic-life-of-annabelle/ this] ''[[Buttersafe]]'' strip.
* ''[[Hark! aA Vagrant (Webcomic)|Hark a Vagrant]]'' shows us how [[Wonder Woman]] [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=225 deals with this]!
* Shows up in [[Rescuing Dara|Rescuing Dara.]] But it's not a cat, it's a Teddiursa.
{{quote| '''Chivai:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|...Seriously?]]}}
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* During the World Split arc of ''[[Ink City (Roleplay)|Ink City]]'', [[Winnie the Pooh|Tigger]] is chased up his tree-home by a bunch of [[Little Shop of Horrors|Audlings]]. [[Katamari Damacy|Ichigo]] attempts to save him by ramming the tree with her katamari to shake them loose, much to Tigger's dismay. Ultimately, he's forced to make a [[Leap of Faith]] to escape, with Ichigo clearing a landing strip for him.
* Mocked mercilessly in the [[Whateley Universe]] when Generator proposes using [[Person of Mass Destruction]] Tennyo as 'Radioactive Condor Girl', claimng that if Radioactive Condor Girl tried to save a cat in a tree, the cat would get irradiated to a cinder.
* Rescuing cats from trees is discussed as a thought exercise in explaining how video games usually present moral choices in [[Zero Punctuation]].
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* The Dad bear does this in ''[[Berenstain Bears]]'' while campaigning for mayor.
* Parodied by ''[[Futurama]]'' in ''Less Than Hero''. Leela becomes a superheroine and comes to the aid of a distressed alien whose cat is stuck in a tree. After she gets the cat down safely, its owner [[Alien Lunch|promptly eats it]].
* Rita, from the Rita and Runt segments of ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|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: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|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.
* In ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'', Buster Baxter becomes a local hero by rescuing a cat. {{spoiler|Actually, it was attracted to his fish-flavored ice cream, and thus wasn't saved at all, which Arthur and co. ''brutally'' exploit when they set up a chance encounter with a robotic kitten just so Buster will fail.}}
** They did this because he became a total egotistical jerk once the incident was popularized and he was lauded as a hero.
* Sent up in ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' when Scaredy Bat has to try to rescue Doom Kitty from a tree. Scaredy is so terrified of heights (among other things...) that Doom ends up rescuing ''him''.
* In ''[[Superman: Doomsday]]'', Supes rescues an old lady's kitten, only to tell her ([[Jerkass|rather forcefully]]) that if a real emergency arose, he couldn't deal with it because he was saving her kitty. {{spoiler|Actually, it was Supes's clone}}.
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Brian Goes Back to College", Peter and the gang as ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'' rescues a family's cat from a tree by shooting out the trunk of the tree until the whole tree collapses. The cat flees in terror, and the family is not amused.
* [[Darkwing Duck]] was a victim of the "whirlwind of claws" variety of cat rescue.
* Spoofed in a Justice Friends short on ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]''. [[Dumb Muscle|The Infraggible Krunk]] is seen trying to get a little girl's cat out of a tree... by ''throwing things at it''.
* In [[Recess]], Spinelli was accused of [[Serious Business|throwing a rock in a dirt-clod fight.]] She maintains her innocence the whole time, finally admitting she couldn't have...because she was rescuing a kitten from a tree. When nobody believes her, she reveals that it happened to be ''Ms. Finster's'' kitten. After she gives the specifics, everyone realizes she's telling the truth.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', in which a fireman puts cats up a tree due to a disease that is thought to be transmitted by them.
* Invoked by [[Flight|Rainbow Dash]] in an episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', with Rarity's cat, Opal, in order to get the [[Ten -Minute Retirement|then-despairing]] Rarity out of her house.
* The MGM short ''Officer Pooch'' has a [[Dogfaces|Dogface]] policeman continuously saving a kitten who keeps getting itself chased up a tree [[Furry Confusion|by a dog]].
* In [[Tex Avery]]'s ''Three Little Pups'', the wolf/dogcatcher puts on a cat hand puppet to lure out Droopy, who sets out a wind-up toy mouse - the cat puppet abruptly chases it wildly, runs into a bulldog, hisses in fear, and streaks up a telephone pole, dragging the wolf behind it all the while.
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' The Titans East have arrived in the city and are making themselves notable by rescuing people, foiling bank heists, and preventing a train from careening over a cliff. All except for Speedy. While his teammates use their powers to rescue people in dangerous situations, he saves a cat stuck in a tree. Stupid kid couldn't even get his name right afterwards!
* Parodied on ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'', in the episode "The Beak".
{{quote| '''Buford:''' Help! My nerd is stuck in a tree!}}
* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', Mr. Incredible is asked to rescue a cat just as he is supposed to intercept a fleeing robber. He picks up the tree and shakes the cat out, then slams the tree in front of the robber's car.
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