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Saint-Bernard Rescue
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In the 11th century AD, the Christian archdeacon (and later saint) Bernard of Menthon founded a monastery/hostel/hospice high in the Swiss Alps, along one of the major mountain passes used by pilgrims traveling to Rome. The monks looked after travelers seeking to cross the pass into Italy and rescued any who got into trouble. Sometime in the late 1600s, the monks acquired a number of dogs, and eventually began using them in rescue work. These rescue dogs were bred into a mastiff-type dog which was large, friendly, intelligent, and uniquely colored. These eventually became known as "Saint Bernard's dogs", or more simply "St. Bernards." Unfortunately, fact became mixed with legend, as it often does, and as a result St. Bernard dogs are often depicted in media as carrying small barrels of brandy (or, in more kid-friendly media, hot chocolate) around their necks. Supposedly, the brandy would be used to warm rescued victims from the cold. The monks of the Saint Bernard Hospice deny that this was ever used in Real Life, and say instead that the idea came from an early painting of a St. Bernard dog. 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 and accelerate the onset of hypothermia, though if rescue was imminent it might have the benefit of delaying frostbite. (That said, dogs are often trained to be able to sniff and dig out people trapped by natural or man-made disasters. The handlers of the dogs often carried brandy to try to warm up the people the dogs dug up before getting them to safety, which is probably how the myth got started.) A common gag in cartoons, especially Warner Bros. and MGM cartoons, involves the dogs actually taking swigs of the brandy for themselves or the brandy making the survivors drunk. For other types of animal rescues, see Heroic Dog, Timmy in a Well and Pet Gets the Keys. |
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Two cartoons of The Far Side toy with the idea: One with a guy in an outhouse in the middle of nowhere, yelling 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."). Another is "Some of our more common rescue animals", featuring among others: a Saint-Bernard with a keg of brandy, a dolphin with a pair of swim trunks, a snake with car keys, and a rhinoceros with a pizza. |
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Inverted with the alien dog Sweet Boy from Saga. His owner uses him as an assassin, and the barrel around his neck sports a skull and crossbones. | |
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In the Tom and Jerry episode "The A-Tom-Inable Snowman," each time Tom suffers an accident 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. | |
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When the polar bear Doc from The Whiteboard thinks Jinx and Kasi got buried under snow he is going to be the rescue dog: | |
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Eberron: In the Talenta Plains, blink dogs (intelligent, friendly magical dogs with teleportation powers) are said to rescue travelers in danger. This is why House Ghallanda, the House of Hospitality, uses a blink dog as part of their crest. Per Word of God, this was all a direct reference to the famous Saint Bernards. | |
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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. | |
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Played with by the Ohulan Cutash Rescue Off The Mountain Team in the Discworld tie-in Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook: while they do have a rescue dog (and a rescue dragon), the brandy barrels are around the necks of goblins. Like all goblin liquors, the brandy is made from snails. | |
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In a Skin Horse Sunday wallpaper showing craft beer labels for all the main characters, the label for Sweetheart's Canadian IPA shows her with a barrel round her neck. | |
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A Donald Duck 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. Then the dog pointed out that it was gasoline for the car. | |
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In LittleBigPlanet for the Play Station Portable, you have to find Clock Hans' youngest but biggest child in, "Dogged Determination" with the help of a Saint Bernard. It does not have the brandy, however. | |
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After the climatic bobsled chase in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, James Bond is found by a St Bernard. Bond jokingly berates it for pawing him, telling the dog to go get the brandy instead, and make it five-star. | |
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In the Mystara setting for Dungeons & Dragons, lupins are canine humanoids, who come in various breeds. The Glantri Mountaineer is a lupin based on the St Bernard, and has Healing Hands. | |
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There's at least one Bugs Bunny cartoon with the Saint Bernard — but instead of sharing his brandy with others, he drinks it himself and shows up drunk at his rescues. In the short "Piker's Peak," the barrel contains a minibar. The dog uses the contents to mix himself a martini. The same animation was reused (with slight retouching, so the frozen-solid man would not be recognizable as Yosemite Sam) in "Dog Tales," the following year. In Cracked Ice (Tashlin, 1937), a St. Bernard uses his wares to assist an ice skater who had fallen through the ice. W.C. Squeals (a pig avatar of W.C. Fields) sees it and first feigns drowning to obtain some of the dog's booze. Failing that, he schemes to steal the flask around the dog's neck. |
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Popeye: One short features a Saint Bernard rescuing Popeye. Upon recognizing him from the comics, the dog gives him spinach instead of brandy. | |
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The Pokémon Stoutland may resemble a Scottish Terrier more than a Saint Bernard, but it seems to be partially based on one, with its tubby build and habit of rescuing people trapped in snowy mountains. This being a kids' game, it doesn't make any mention of brandy or similar. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! Christmas Episode has one of these saving Timmy's Bumbling Dad from a snow-in. The barrel around its neck contains eggnog, conveniently allowing the writers to skirt the depiction of booze in a kid's show. | |
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Lampshaded in The Yiddish Policemen's Union when Landsman is rescued from certain death by either exposure or being shot by The Men in Black. He asks the examining doctor where the "big dog with the little thing of brandy around his neck" is. The doctor wants to know if Landsman is craving a drink or just likes large, salivating dogs. | |
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The cover of the 2018 collected edition of Alex shows Alex, lost in the snow with a dying iPhone, delighted to see a St Bernard with a charger round its neck. | |
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A 1949 Punch! magazine cartoon. A man has a St. Bernard and several puppies, all of which wear neck casks. The man says "Of course, I only breed them for the brandy." | |
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In The Wizard of Id: In one strip, the French ambassador is lost in the snow. They send out a Bernard with gin and a poodle with tonic. At least once, Town Drunk Bung has resorted to getting in trouble on a mountain so that he'll be rescued by a Saint Bernard and he can drink its brandy. |
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In Kill la Kill, the Makanshoku family's pet Gattsu sorta pulls this in episode 20. We don't exactly know the contents of his flask, however. | |
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Police Squad!: As an unexplained sight gag, a boxer's drunk girlfriend has a pet St. Bernard with a cask of brandy on its collar. | |
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The Mighty Mouse cartoon "A Swiss Miss" has a rhyming St. Bernard stating his mission to rescue Pearl Pureheart but failing to execute it. He accidentally uses the contents of his flask to aid Oil Can Harry, who had fallen into an icy lake. | |
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In the Noveltoons cartoon "A Mutt in a Rut", Dogface the Dog mistreats a homeless kitten and wishes he was dead. His spirit ascends to Heaven, where he is put on trial at The Pearly Gates for his crimes. His case is proceeded by a St. Bernard judge who gives Dogface a harsh "The Reason You Suck" Speech filled with verbose legal jargon. When the St. Bernard runs out of breath, he relieves himself by pouring a glass of brandy from the barrel around his neck. | |
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Mentioned but not seen in the I Love Lucy episode set in the Swiss Alps. | |
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At one point, during episode 19 of Kamen Rider Double, Shotaro is not amused to find Philip pretending to be a St. Bernard, barrel and all. | |
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