The Wedding of Mashire

[Ripred the Gnawer]

Strange. My mom has watched that movie, and she said that when Timmy fell into the well, Lassie barking at her owners, and they said something like, "What? Timmy fell into the well? Okay, then, we'll go fish him out."

[Mara the Wolf]

I was talking about the TV series. I'm not sure about the movies.

[Russa Nodrey]

Yup. 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. The fact that Timmy never fell down a well is amazing, seeing as how most of the trouble he got into is A) generally lethal and B) things no normal child of average intelligence should ever have to deal with. Clearly, falling down a well was too mundane for him. John Provost, who played Timmy, titled his autobiography Timmy in the Well: The John Provost story, after the phrase. Here's a short list of things Timmy has done that Lassie has saved him from:

Spoiler

• lets a rabid dog out of a cage ("Graduation")
• eats deadly nightshade berries ("Berrypickers")
• is threatened by an escaped female circus elephant ("The Elephant")
• hides out in the treehouse when he has pneumonia ("Spartan")
• is 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")

[close]

Timmy is immortal.

[Kade Rivok]

He must be destroyed.

[Russa Nodrey]

But how? D:

[Ripred the Gnawer]

He must be destroyed.

Nevaaaaaaaaah!

[Kade Rivok]

Wrongo, friendo

But how? D:

We must aim for the source of his power...

Lassie

[Ripred the Gnawer]

No double posting, Kadie Wadie! 

[Booklover]

He probably pressed quote instead of modify or something. I've done that before.

Also, who is Timmy? Do you mean the little lamb with a lot to learn, or the kid on the back of the bike?

[Mara the Wolf]

The kid owner of Lassie in the novels, most movies, & TV series.

[Flib Bigboat]

I thought that was Joe...

[Cornflower MM]

No double posting, Kadie Wadie! 

*Blinks* Double post? I see no double post.

[Mara the Wolf]

I thought that was Joe...

In the TV series, Lassie was the pet of Jeff Miller (Tommy Rettig), and in later seasons Timmy Martin (Jon Provost), of "What's that, Lassie? Timmy's fallen down a well?" fame — although a well was one of the few things Timmy didn't fall down in the course of the series.

[Kade Rivok]

No double posting, Kadie Wadie! 

*Blinks* Double post? I see no double post.

Witch.

[Cornflower MM]

Why thanks. How'd you know?