- Adaptation Displacement: Even the 1943 film Lassie Come Home is overshadowed by the TV series, let alone Eric Knight's original novel. The popular image of Lassie is a Heroic Dog saving people in trouble, though the novel was not about that at all. This concept of heroic collies named Lassie predates the novel by about 50 years.
- Common Knowledge: For all of the other trouble he got into, Timmy never did fall down a well. That was actually Jeff in the first 3 seasons of the show.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In the finale to the "Timmy and Lassie" portion of the series, it's bad enough that the Martins went to Australia and had to leave Lassie because of quarantine regulations. The Sequel Series, The New Lassie, makes things even worse: Ruth and Paul had to leave Timmy behind too, because the adoption had been screwed up.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: In the 2005 film, Rowlie, who's played by Peter Dinklage, would remark a couple times how "winter is coming." Those would be the Arc Words for a show he would begin starring in six years later.
- Memetic Mutation: Timmy in the Well.
- Viewer Species Confusion: Lassie is not a Shetland Sheepdog as many believe, but a Rough Collie. While the breeds do look superficially similar to confuse people, there are differences
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