History Main / SaintBernardRescue

* In PDQBach's "half-act opera" ''The Stoned Guest'', a St. Bernard appears right on cue after Don Octave says "For who can save us now?", and the cast sings its praises until they get around to discovering that the cask around its neck has been drained of its contents.

* A strange case where it can be {{Justified}} happens in one of the ''{{Doraemon}}'' movie. In that movie, Nobita and co time-travelled to the pre-historic era to stop a time-criminal who have established a personality cult of cavemen, and his temple is in a snowy mountain. A blizzard descended upon them and they fainted one by one (what where they thinking?). However, Nobita is rescued by a ''mammoth'' that dispenses a strange liquid that resuscitates him, via its flail, in the spirit of St. Bernard dogs. Later, it turns out that that mammoth is actually TimePolice robot in disguise, who has been tailing the fellowship to find out the criminal's hideout.

[[DeadUnicornTrope The monks of the Saint Bernard Hospice deny that this was ever used]] in RealLife, and instead the early depiction came from [[http://itsthedogslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/78166.jpg an early painting]].

A common gag in cartoons involves the dogs actually taking swigs of the brandy for themselves.

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

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The idea that the dogs could do this, or that a drink could even save someone from hypothermia was examined and busted by the ''MythBusters''. Alcohol would, in fact, endanger their lives because the warming effect is caused by increasing heat flow to the extremities, which would lower the core body temperature. (That said, dogs are often trained to be able to sniff and dig out people trapped by natural or man-made disasters.)

* In the show ''{{Topper}}'', a perpetually drunk St. Bernard named Neil lost his life trying to save George and Marion Kerby; leaving all three to haunt Cosmo Topper.

* A ''DonaldDuck'' comic had Donald stranded in the mountains with his car, when eventually a St. Bernard with a barrel came to him. He chugged the liquid, only to spew it back out, because the liquor was WAY too hard for him. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Then the dog pointed out that it was gasoline for the car.]]

[[DeadUnicornTrope 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.

The idea that the dogs could do this, or that a drink could even save someone from hypothermia was examined and busted by the ''MythBusters''. Alcohol would, in fact, endanger their lives because the warming effect is caused by increasing heat flow to the extermities, which would lower the core body temperature. (That said, dogs are often trained to be able to sniff and dig out people trapped by natural or man-made disasters.)

** One with a guy in an outhouse in the middle of nowhere, yellign for help, cutting to a Saint-Bernard with a roll of toilet paper around its collar (The caption is "Far away on a hillside, a very specialized breed of dog heard the cry for help.").

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[[caption-width-right:296:Lucky punk should be glad he lives somewhere where the legal drinking age is only 18.]]

* A ''DonaldDuck'' comic had Donald stranded in the mountains with his car, when eventually a St. Bernard with a barrel came to him. He chugged the liquid, only to spew it back out, because the liquor was WAY to hard for him. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Then the dog pointed out that it was gasoline for the car.]]

* ''PoliceSquad!'': As an unexplained sight gag, a boxer's drunk girlfriend has a pet St. Bernard with a cask of brandy on its collar.
* At one point, during episode 19 of KamenRiderDouble, Shotaro is not amused to find [[ItMakesSenseInContext Philip pretending to be a St. Bernard]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHOEiCPU7JU barrel and all]].

* At one point, during an episode of KamenRiderDouble, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHOEiCPU7JU Philip is seen in a St. Bernard costume, barrel and all]].

The idea that the dogs could do this, or that a drink could even save someone from hypothermia was examined and busted by the ''MythBusters''. (That said, dogs are often trained to be able to sniff and dig out people trapped by natural or man-made disasters.)

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.

The idea that the dogs could do this, or that a drink could even save someone from hypothermia was examined and busted by the ''MythBusters''.