<p>I forgot about “talking Tina”. DH and I used to use that quote as a joke.</p>
<p>coureur, are you sure about “Old Yeller”? I remember the movie exactly as you described the book.</p>
<p>I certainly remember Yeller dying in the movie–at the end, there are some new puppies, I think.</p>
<p>Could there be an edited version?</p>
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<p>I live in London, United Kingdom but when I grow up in Jamaica. When I was child I use to watch a cartoon about a dog who was scared of everything. I forgot what its called but it honestly scared the hell out of me.</p>
<p>If you’re pretty young, that could be “Courage, the Cowardly Dog.”</p>
<p>The Exorcist. Saw it with my dad when I was in the third grade. I slept with a bible for about a month afterward.</p>
<p>I was pretty much freaked out by any horror movie, no matter how cheesy. The blob, Attack of the 50 Foot woman (one of the local NY channels showed ‘Creature Feature’ movies every weekend)</p>
<p>You know, if they really wanted to scare people, they should make a movie in which the main character finds out he has to take a final exam in a class he thought he dropped, and then he can’t find the room where the test is being given.</p>
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<p>You guys are right. I was misremembering the appearance of the new puppy happy ending as Yeller somehow recovering from the rabies. I guess I was so young then and/or so old now that my memory jumbled the story.</p>
<p>What WAS different between the movie and the book was that in the movie they waited for Yeller to actually get sick with rabies before putting him down. I remembered being jarred by the book when the kid shoots a perfectly healthy-looking dog merely on the expectation that he might get rabies in the future.</p>