History Main / FirehouseDalmatian

* ''Film/DieHard'': John McClane promises to kiss their Dalmatian when he sees them approaching the building.

SubTrope to AnimalOccupationStereotypes. Compare SaintBernardRescue and SledDogsThroughTheSnow.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseBroken'' episode, "Who Got Burned?" Honey beats one up trying to get to a house fire to save The Gray One.

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[[caption-width-right:350: Always there when times are [[{{Pun}} ruff]].]]

You know Dalmatians, right? Those adorable white dogs covered in several black spots.

* ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'': The episode, "Where's the Firedog?", has a Dalmatian named Blaze who keeps escaping from the fire station, much to the agitation of firefighter Sam and the chagrin of the other firefighters. As it turns out, the reason for Blaze's constant escapes is so he can visit another dog named Sparky at the animal shelter, whom he has made friends with, so Sam decides to adopt Sparky so that Blaze won't run away ever again.

* [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the 2007 film, ''Film/FirehouseDog'', as the dog (who is the movie's main protaginist) in question is an Irish Terrier named Rexxx.

* ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'': In the episode, "I Can Be a Firefighter!", Firefighter Frank visits the school with his pet Dalmatian, Chief, though the latter spends a lot of time lying down in the classroom offscreen.

** Played straight in the CGI series with Radar the Dalmatian, who is not just the mascot of the team, but also a rescue dog who is very brave, loyal and loveable.

Sometimes, the dog will assist firefighters in their rescue missions. This is something much more common in fiction, though it can happen in RealLife.

Compare SaintBernardRescue and SledDogsThroughTheSnow.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Inhuman Torch" has the Planet Express crew take over as New New York's firefighters. To look the par,t they paint their ship firetruck red, and their mascot Nibbler (partially) white to resemble a firehouse Dalmatian.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Too Pooped to Puff", when the girls rescue several citizens from a burning apartment building, a fireman uninterestingly praises them and asks them to take Spot, his pet Dalmatian, for a walk, much to their chagrin.

** The plot of "Crook and Ladder" kicks off when Homer's antics get the entire fire department covered in chili, and leading to them getting mauled by their hungry Dalmatians.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Inhuman Torch" has the Planet Express crew take over as New New York's firefighters. To look the part they paint their ship firetruck red, and their mascot Nibbler (partially) white to resemble a firehouse Dalmatian.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Brother's Little Helper", Milhouse meets the Springfield Volunteer Fire Department's Dalmatian at a fire safety event at the school. He asks Moe if the dog can do any tricks, but Moe says the dog's so inbred that he can barely stand up, and surely enough the dog collapses on the ground.

* Played with in anthro webcomic ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard''. The local fire department is full of dalmations, but is currently run by a German Shepherd and also has at least a few cat members, as shown [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1574.html here]].

* The titular characters from ''WesternAnimation/Hoze Houndz'' are anthropomorphic firefighting Dalmatians, even though they are [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything rarely, if ever, seen doing any actual firemen work]].

* The titular characters from ''Hoze Houndz'' are anthropomorphic firefighting Dalmatians, even though they are [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything rarely, if ever, seen doing any actual firemen work]].

* Most of the comedy in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' was mined from almost-identical scenes played painfully straight in ''Film/ZeroHour1957''; alongside scenes where the pathos was twisted into jokes, some shots were left nearly or even exactly the same to genuinely heighten plot tension. In both movies, as Ted is coming in for his final approach to the airport, with anxiety high all around, there's a brief shot of two firefighters perched on their engine near the runway with a firehouse dog between them, waiting to respond. In ''Film/ZeroHour1957'' the dog is a collie, but in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' they fully invoked this trope and made the dog a Dalmatian--not because it was hilarious but because hitting the trope-beat dead-on was more effective for the overall parody. (See the shots side-by side [[https://youtu.be/8-v2BHNBVCs?t=704 here]].)

* Most of the comedy in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' were mined from almost-identical scenes played painfully straight in ''Film/ZeroHour1957''; alongside scenes where the pathos was twisted into jokes, some shots were left nearly or even exactly the same to genuinely heighten plot tension. In both movies, as Ted is coming in for his final approach to the airport, with anxiety high all around, there's a brief shot of two firefighters perched on their engine near the runway with a firehouse dog between them, waiting to respond. In ''Film/ZeroHour1957'' the dog is a collie, but in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' they fully invoked this trope and made the dog a Dalmatian--not because it was hilarious but because hitting the trope-beat dead-on was more effective for the overall parody. (See the shots side-by side [[https://youtu.be/8-v2BHNBVCs?t=704 here]].)

* Most of the jokes in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' were mined from almost-identical scenes played painfully straight in ''Film/ZeroHour1957''; alongside scenes where the pathos was twisted into jokes, some shots were left nearly or even exactly the same to genuinely heighten plot tension. In both movies, as Ted is coming in for his final approach to the airport, with anxiety high all around, there's a brief shot of two firefighters perched on their engine near the runway with a firehouse dog between them, waiting to respond. In ''Film/ZeroHour1957'' the dog is a collie, but in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' they fully invoked this trope and made the dog a Dalmatian--not because it was hilarious but because hitting the trope-beat dead-on was more effective for the overall parody. (See the shots side-by side [[https://youtu.be/8-v2BHNBVCs?t=704 here]].)