History YMMV / Rescue911

** This keeps happening for "University Pipe Bomb," which took place in 1991. It became significantly scarier after the domestic terrorism of TheNineties, the [[TheWarOnTerror September 11 attacks]], the wave of school attacks like Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook, and the Boston Marathon bombings.

** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlc7cAoDxA "Runaway Boxcars"]], you can briefly see the EMD GP38-2 locomotive from the start of the episode pushing the boxcars and the car down the track (at 3:19 in the [=YouTube=] upload).

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlc7cAoDxA "Runaway Boxcars"]], you can briefly see a train engine pushing the boxcars and the car down the track.%%When?%%

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Pretty much the entire soundtrack, which helps turn even the most basic of tasks into a pulse-pounding race against the clock.

* ActorShipping [=/=] ShipSinking: The Website/YouTube comments for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIaxYmLhO24 "Allergic Reaction at Prom"]] supported Nick and Amanda (the episode's teen couple) getting together thanks to Nick's chivalrous actions during the episode. However, the teens' remarks during the interviews at the end of the episode made it sound like Nick [[LetsJustBeFriends ended up in the Friend Zone]], and years later, one of Amanda's friends left a comment on [=YouTube=] and said that Amanda had married another guy and had a family.

* {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}: [[Heartwarming/Rescue911 Has its own page.]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyvnKYadRM4 The main theme]] Don't you just want to join an ambulance crew now?

%%** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlc7cAoDxA "Runaway Boxcars"]], you can briefly see a train engine pushing the boxcars and the car down the track.%%When?%%

%%* TooDumbToLive: "Sealant Overdose," PlayedForDrama BIG time.

*** A somewhat meta case: the toddler from "911 Snake Baby" grew up and [[http://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2009/06/snakebite_victim_finally_gets_to_thank_those_who_saved_his_life.html became a paramedic himself]] because of what happened.

-->"Bob! Get yer gun! There's an alligator with kid in its mouth!"

-->'''Student''': The lobby...had quieted down. Most of the guys were going to bed. A regular...normal...run-of-the-mill night...at JRP. ''[Looks down and sighs sadly]''

** "University Pipe Bomb" did a reasonable job with its reenactment of the explosion, but the crater immediately afterward wasn't smoking and didn't look as big as the narration described, and in fact only looked like a little hole that someone had dug in the ground.

* TooDumbToLive: "Sealant Overdose," PlayedForDrama BIG time.

** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlc7cAoDxA "Runaway Boxcars"]], you can briefly see a train engine pushing the boxcars and the car down the track.

** This keeps happening for "University Pipe Bomb," which took place in 1991. It became significantly scarier after the domestic terrorism of TheNineties, the [[TheWarOnTerror September 11 attacks]], the wave of school attacks like Virginia Tech, and the Boston Marathon bombings.

* HellIsThatNoise:
** The tone in "Mystery Dispatch."
** The buzzing made by the swarming bees in "Swarm Save" and "911 Honeybee Horror."

-->"Bawb! Getcher gun! Dere's an alligaduh widda kid in its mouf!"

* WhatAnIdiot: Some of the accidents are caused by stupidity. Naturally, the show lampshaded this and showed how to learn from it.

** A couple of girls decide to play in the trunk of a car, and one of them closes it. (To be fair, though, they ''were'' kids...)

-->"Bob, get yer gun! There's an alligator with a kid in his mouth!"

** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlc7cAoDxA "Runaway Boxcars"]], you can briefly see the locomotive from the start of the story pushing the boxcars and the car down the track. This proves CBS and the producers were too lazy to put a green tarp over the locomotive in order to edit it out in post-production.

** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlc7cAoDxA "Runaway Boxcars"]], you can briefly see the train engine pushing the boxcars and the car down the track.

* GatewaySeries: While not the first show of its kind, people who watched crime and rescue shows started with this show.
** While there isn't an exact figure, it's safe to say there are quite a few people who were inspired to become dispatchers, firemen, paramedics, or police officers because of shows like this.

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: They mention that a pig is a ''very'' unusual pet. This is deliberately invoked in an episode where a pig has to be rescued.

* SpecialEffectFailure: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC9-RP4AWNU#t=112s This]] lightning strike from "Lightning Lads."
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqlc7cAoDxA Runaway Boxcars]], you can briefly see the train engine pushing the boxcars and the car down the track.

** "Balcony Fall", where two teenage girls decide to sneak out of their fifth-story vacation condo by climbing down the balcony railings.

** "University Pipe Bomb," which took place in 1991, is significantly scarier after the domestic terrorism of TheNineties, the [[TheWarOnTerror September 11 attacks]], and the wave of school attacks like Virginia Tech.

* {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}: A lot of them.

* HarsherInHindsight: At the end of "911 Stalker Save," the victim and the police officers express the belief that once the stalker's jail sentence was up, he'd be back. Horrifyingly, [[http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Stalker-seen-near-home-held-again-3159778.php that's exactly what happened]] when the stalker made parole.

* HellIsThatNoise: The tone in "Mystery Dispatch."

* {{Narm}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djbr2ihSp0M#t=2m23s "Bob, get yer gun! There's an alligator with a kid in his mouth!"]]

** "Roller Coaster Rescue," where a teenager mistakenly put his foot on the track to push a roller coaster onto the track. [[spoiler:He ends up with a mangled leg after being dragged around the track.]]