Timothy Falleinwell
Oct. 15th, 2010 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lumineauxA while back I documented this name for the herald's April Fool's letter. Now someone may be using it. Squee! So, in honor of that dubious achievement, I note for the record that Timmy never actually fell in a well during the entire run of the Lassie TV series. What he did do has been cataloged by www.tvtropes.org at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimmyInAWell from which I quote behind the cut:
"The trope is named for Lassie, who was always alerting the humans to any trouble in the area. Please note however, that the phrase is a Beam Me Up Scotty, as Timmy never actually fell into a well. He fell into a lot of things, but never a well. Here's a short list
of things Timmy has done that Lassie has saved him from:
"The trope is named for Lassie, who was always alerting the humans to any trouble in the area. Please note however, that the phrase is a Beam Me Up Scotty, as Timmy never actually fell into a well. He fell into a lot of things, but never a well. Here's a short list
of things Timmy has done that Lassie has saved him from: - let a rabid dog out of a cage ("Graduation")
- ate deadly nightshade berries ("Berrypickers")
- threatened by an escaped female circus elephant ("The Elephant")
- hides out in the treehouse when he has pneumonia ("Spartan")
- threatened by a mother wolf ("The Wolf Cub")
- falls into the lake ("Transition" and ?The House Guest")
- develops a high fever from the measles ("The Crisis")
- is almost shot by Paul ("Hungry Deer")
- ignores severe stomach pains; he?s diagnosed with appendicitis ("Hospital")
- is trapped in an abandoned house with Boomer ("Trapped")
- wanders into a live mine field ("Junior GIs")
- is menaced by a bear ("Campout" and ?The Renegade")
- is trapped in a mine ("Old Henry")
- gets a black eye playing football ("Growing Pains")
- nearly flies a home-made glider off a cliff ("Flying Machine")
- runs into a burning house to save a neighbor lady and passes out ("The Whopper")
- is endangered by dynamite picked up by an escaped lab chimp ("The Man from Mars")
- is locked in a shed with Lassie by an armed robber ("Star Reporter")
- runs away from home believing he and a friend killed someone ("Alias Jack and Joe")
- is exposed to radiation ("Space Traveler")
- gets trapped on a cliff with Rudy and Don ("Explorers")
- is trapped in a pipe ("Wrong Gift")
- is caught in quicksand ("The Fog")
- is trapped on a ledge ("The Rescue")
- is out in the woods hunting a dangerous tiger ("The Gentle Tiger")
- is tossed out of a little racing car and knocked out ("Big Race")
- is trapped in a mine with Cully ("Fool?s Gold")
- is threatened by a bull ("White-Faced Bull")
- is threatened by a rabid dog ("Mad Dog")
- freezes while on a narrow path at the Grand Canyon ("Lassie at the Grand Canyon")
- is threatened by a killer collie ("Mysterious Intruder")
- is trapped in a badger hole ("Badger Game")
- is knocked out ("Hike")
- is stalked by a presumably dangerous tiger ("Lassie and the Tiger")
- with Lassie, is carried off in a balloon, must survive in the wilderness, and almost drowns ("The Journey")
- almost drowns ("Disappearance" part 1)
- is caught in an earthquake and threatened by a dam spillover ("Moving Mountain")
- is struck by a hit and run driver ("Hit?n'Run")
- The fact that Timmy never fell down a well is amazing seeing as how most of that stuff is A) generally lethal and B) things no normal child of average intelligence should ever have to deal with. "
- The fact that Timmy never fell down a well is amazing seeing as how most of that stuff is A) generally lethal and B) things no normal child of average intelligence should ever have to deal with. "
