History Main / SaintBernardRescue

* The ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddparents'' ChristmasEpisode had one of these saving Timmy's BumblingDad from a snow-in. The barrel around its neck contains [[UsefulNotes/ChristmasInAmerica eggnog]], conveniently allowing the writers to skirt the depiction of booze in a kid's show.

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** Another is "Common rescue animals", featuring among others: a Saint-Bernard with a keg of brandy, a dolphin with a pair of swim trunks, a rhinoceros with car keys.

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-->'''Alfred Hitchcock''' "Ah! Man's best friend! [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And a dog]]!"

A common gag in cartoons, especially Creator/WarnerBros and [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] cartoons, involves the dogs actually taking swigs of the brandy for themselves or the brandy making the survivors drunk.

* At one point, during episode 19 of ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'', Shotaro is not amused to find [[ItMakesSenseInContext Philip pretending to be a St. Bernard]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHOEiCPU7JU barrel and all]].

* In WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry episode The A-Tom-Inable Snowman, each time Tom suffers an accident [[RunningGag the Saint Bernard helps him... almost all of the time making him drunk.]] This culminates in the Saint Bernard appearing in a tropical island and Tom, being drunk, hopping into the sunset, while Jerry and the Saint Bernard wave byebye at him.

Saint Bernard dogs are often depicted in media as carrying barrels of brandy around their necks, which was used to warm rescued victims from the cold. The monks of the Saint Bernard Hospice deny that this was ever used in RealLife, and instead the early depiction came from an early painting.

For other types of animal rescues, see TimmyInAWell and PetGetsTheKeys.

* ''Little Cesario'', one of the WesternAnimation/MGMOneShotCartoons,involves a clumsy St. Bernard puppy who has never successfully saved anyone, but looks up to the heroic Big Alexander, a veteran St, Bernard rescue dog. Later on Big Alexander gets stuck in a blizzard, and it's up to Little Cesario to save him.

* The TropeMaker for this is a Victorian artist named Edwin Landseer. He drew romanticized paintings of St. Bernard's with brandy barrels saving people.

* In the 1990s AppleMacintosh skiing game ''VideoGame/MacSki'', every fifth object that the player collides with will result in him temporarily being incapacitated while a Saint Bernard trudges onscreen to rescue him.

* In WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry episode The A-Tom-Inable Snowman, each time Tom suffers an accident, the Saint Bernard helps Tom, almost all of the time making him drunk. This culminates in the Saint Bernard appearing in a tropical island and Tom, being drunk, hopping into the sunset.

** There are at least two WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry shorts with similar gags.

A common gag in cartoons, especially Creator/WarnerBros and [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] cartoons, involves the dogs actually taking swigs of the brandy for themselves.

* You can buy the kegs for your Saint Bernard pet, though it's not recommended you have liquid in them for hygiene reasons due to the dog's tendency to slobber. If you do however, alcohol is actually a good filler due to its antiseptic qualities.

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* You can buy the kegs for your Saint Bernard pet, though it's not recommended you have liquid in them for hygiene reasons due to the dog's tendency to slobber. If you do however, alcohol is actually a good filler due to its antiseptic qualities.
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* You can buy the kegs for your Saint Bernard pet, though it's not recommended you have liquid in them for hygiene reasons, due to the dog's tendency to slobber.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Mysteria}}'' setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', lupins are canine humanoids, who come in various breeds. The Glantri Mountaineer is a lupin based on the St Bernard, and has HealingHands.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Mysteria}}'' setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, lupins are canine humanoids, who come in various breeds. The Glantri Mountaineer is a lupin based on the St Bernard, and has HealingHands.