History Film / SupportYourLocalSheriff

''Support Your Local Sheriff'' is a 1969 Western spoof from Creator/UnitedArtists, directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Creator/JamesGarner.

* CoinTargetingTrickshot: Parodied. McCullough demonstrates his ImprobableAimingSkills by tossing a washer into the air and shooting at it. It comes down untouched and he claims he shot the bullet through the hole in the washer. When he isn't believed, he sticks a piece of tape over the washer and repeats the trick. When he catches the washer, there is a hole in the tape.

* BoringButPractical: how [=McCullough=] gets Joe to stay in a jail with no bars while he and Jake are out prospecting. (He handcuffs him to the stove.)

* HypocriticalHumor: Prudence denounces the town council for throwing an "unarmed girl" (ie, herself) out of a public meeting.. after she showed up at said meeting brandishing a shotgun, which was wrestled away from her.

* [[JustEatGilligan Just Leave Town]]: Lampshaded and zig-zagged. Everyone thinks the sheriff leaving, instead of fighting a final battle, is a good idea. But then there wouldn't be a climax.

* [[JustEatGilligan Just Leave Town]]: Lampshaded & zig-zagged. Everyone thinks the sheriff leaving, instead of fighting a final battle, is a good idea. But then there wouldn't be a climax.

Garner plays the calm and hyper-competent Jason [=McCullough=], who becomes the sheriff of a rowdy boomtown, mostly because he needs the money. With the questionable assistance of his scruffy deputy Jake (Creator/JackElam), he defeats the local robber baron (Walter Brennan), cleans up the town and gets the girl (Joan Hackett), casually subverting most standard western tropes in the process.

-->'''Jason [=McCullough=]''': [fingering dented badge] That must have saved the life of whoever was wearin' it.\\

Garner plays the calm and hyper-competent Jason [=McCullough=], who becomes the sheriff of a rowdy boomtown, mostly because he needs the money. With the questionable help of his scruffy deputy Jake (Creator/JackElam), he defeats the local robber baron (Walter Brennan), cleans up the town and gets the girl (Joan Hackett), casually subverting most standard western tropes in the process.

Two years later, more or less the same production crew and cast made ''Support Your Local Gunfighter'', which--despite the carry-over and the title--is not a sequel. This time around, Garner is con-artist Latigo Smith, who slips off a train in the jerkwater town of Purgatory and finds himself embroiled in the no-holds-barred race between two mining concerns to claim the local motherlode of gold. Again with the "help" of Elam's character Jug May, he finds the gold and gets the second girl (Creator/SuzannePleshette).

** SYLG has this one when Latigo, mounted on a donkey, goes out to face Swifty Morgan:
--> '''Morgan:''' You can't gunfight a man sitting on your ass!

-->'''Tom Danby:''' He stuck his finger in the end of your ''what''?! [[note]]The object in question was a gun, as pictured on the poster[[/note]]
-->'''Pa Danby:''' Would you shut up? Everybody'd be looking!

--> '''Jake:''' "I feel like a jackass."\\
'''Jason''' (after "redistributing the weight"): "That oughta do it. Come on, Jack."\\
'''Jake:''' "Jake!"

Three years later, more or less the same production crew and cast made ''Support Your Local Gunfighter'', which--despite the carry-over and the title--is not a sequel. This time around, Garner is con-artist Latigo Smith, who slips off a train in the jerkwater town of Purgatory and finds himself embroiled in the no-holds-barred race between two mining concerns to claim the local motherlode of gold. Again with the "help" of Elam's character Jug May, he finds the gold and gets the second girl (Creator/SuzannePleshette).

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Garner plays the calm hyper-competent Jason [=McCullough=], who becomes the sheriff of a rowdy boomtown, mostly because he needs the money. With the questionable help of his scruffy deputy Jake (Creator/JackElam), he defeats the local robber baron (Walter Brennan), cleans up the town and gets the girl (Joan Hackett), casually subverting most standard western tropes in the process.

Three years later, more or less the same production crew and cast made ''Support Your Local Gunfighter'', which despite the carry-over and the name is not a sequel. This time around, Garner is con-artist Latigo Smith, who slips off a train in the jerkwater town of Purgatory and finds himself embroiled in the no-holds-barred race between two mining concerns to claim the local motherlode of gold. Again with the "help" of Elam's character Jug May, he finds the gold and gets the second girl (Creator/SuzannePleshette).

* BaldOfAwesome: Creator/ChuckConnors, though he really doesn't do anything really awesome... he never even gets his boots off.

* HumanPackMule: As noted, Jake gets loaded down with all the equipment during his and the sheriff's (very unsuccessful) gold-mining expedition.

* MrSmith: Half the town in ''SYLG"' is convinced Garner's character is using an alias because he gave his name as Smith. According to the hotel owner half her tennants are using it as a fake name. It turns out to be his real name.

* ATeamFiring: The gunfight at the end of ''SYLS''. (To a degree; people do actually get shot.)

* DoubleEntendre: Subverted; when the Sheriff is trying to compliment Ms. Prudy, she thinks every word coming out of his mouth is a double entendre. Of course, the whore walking out of the whore house after it got blown to hell in the end plays it straight.

* LastSecondWordSwap: "..if someone's cra- ''willing'' to take the job.."
** Also Jake's previous job of "[[CurseCutShort shoveling horse--... working in the stables]]."

* TakeThat: The town brothel in ''SYLS'' is named after a Creator/WarnerBros executive with whom Garner had recently clashed.
** It coincidentally happens to be a PunnyName as well ("Madame Orr's House" [Whorehouse] )

* UnPaused: [=McCullough=] escapes a brawl at a restaurant by yelling "Hold it!" and quietly stepping to one side, taking his food with him. Once he's out of harm's way, he says "Okay, go ahead on!" and the brawl resumes exactly where it stopped.

* WhatTheHellHero: Parodied when [=McCullough=] announces he is considering [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere just skipping town]] instead of facing a massive gunfight, and Prudence replies, in total sincerity, that she thinks that's an excellent and highly mature idea.

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: How Mayor Perkin clears out the unimportant hangers-on for the Sheriff's job-interview.

* LazyAlias: Parodied early in ''SYLG''. Half the town is convinced Garner's character is doing this based solely on the fact he gave his name as "Smith". While there is a CallBack to it later (three other people in his hotel alone are apparently using it as a fake name), it's just his name.

** The sheriff criticizes his love interest for actually shooting to kill. Also, despite the deaths the number of enemies is the same after the fight as before it, and the bodies disappear from where they fell.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Subverted, inverted, lampshaded and played straight. All in the same 30-second scene.