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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' has "The Once and Future Thing, Part 1: Weird Western Tales", in which Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern pursue time-traveling villain Chronos to the old West, where they encounter as many characters from classic DC Old West comics as they can cram into a half-hour episode, as well as a {{retool}}ed version of Superman villain Terra-Man. Includes a specific ShoutOut to the comics when Jonah Hex recognizes the heroes as being from another time, referencing the character's brief stint as a time-displaced Film/MadMax {{Expy}} in the 1980s.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' episode "Unnatural Alliances". When Terra-Man, a villain from the future, arrives in the 31st century to hunt down a child, the Legion quickly acts to save the boy and keep him clear of Imperiex's obvious plot. However, after Imperiex proves to be the boy's protector, the Legion must uncover why.

* Both ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and its spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' have at least one episode covering this theme. In ''Rugrats'', it happens at least three times. Tommy and Angelica go to the "Graham Canyon" with their parents, Tommy, Chuckie, and Susie imagine themselves as cowboys and a cowgirl on a very hot day, and Tommy and Chuckie have a run-in with the "Junk Food Kid", who's a worse playground bully than Angelica. The spin-off has the entire group go to a Dude Ranch.

** In "Paw and Order," the cast puts on a play about "The Legend of Sheriff Piglet," where he must save the town of Rickety Gulch from Nasty Jack and his group of horse thieves (that is, horses who steal things.) "Comprendo?"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': "Out West". Ren and Stimpy find themselves amid the Wild West, where they run up against a Sheriff and Deputy who's favourite past-time is hanging people

** In "Long Gone Silver", Radio/LoneRanger fan Bobby orders a pin from his hero's fan club. Marlon attempts to turn the pin into real silver, but instead brings the Lone Ranger's horse to the Brady's tree house.

* ''WesternAnimation/SootysAmazingAdventures'' had "Hopalong Sooty". Sweep wants to go back in time to the Wild West via the trapdoor, but once he and the rest of the gang get there, they encounter a criminal named "Filthy Ted" and Sooty tries to sort him out.

* ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' has the episode "Fastest Brolly in the West", which focuses on Lennox Brown's and Lamb's [[IdenticalGrandson great-grandparents]], who are traveling across the West in 1870 and end up becoming sheriffs tasked to protect a small town after being MistakenForBadass. [[spoiler:In the end, they're driven away by the townsfolk who prefer the approaching criminals to their petty bureaucracy and regulations.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Pest of the West". [=SpongeBob=] learns the story of his western ancestor, SpongeBuck, and how he saved Bikini Gulch from the evil hands of Dead Eye Plankton.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' has an episode titled "Batman: Dead or Alive" where the heroes visit the [[DaysOfFuturePast cowboy-themed]] planet of Texacana, there it has 2 Showdowns, 1 featuring Wonder Woman and a Robot Cowboy and another one featuring Batman and [[ThheTropeKid The Capricorn Kid]].

* Film/TheThreeStooges has a number of Cowboy Episodes, including ''Goofs And Saddles'', ''The Three Troubledoers'', ''Out West'', ''Punchy Cowpunchers'', ''Shot in the Frontier'' and the feature film ''FilmTheOutlawsIsComing''.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Pest of the West".
* ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'': "Gumfight at the S'Okay Corral"

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' has an episode titled "Batman: Dead or Alive" where the heroes visit the [[DaysOfFuturePast cowboy-themed]] planet of Texacana, there it has 2 Showdowns, 1 featuring Wonder Woman and a Robot Cowboy and another one featuring Batman and The Capricorn Kid.

* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs Wild West Town''

* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' episode "Showdown".

* The original series of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' (from 1962) had an episode titled "Dude Planet".
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' episode "Johnny the Kid".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': "Let's Play Cowboys and Indians" and Episode 88.
* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' episode "Unnatural Alliances".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Chicken Boo gets one in "The Good, the Boo and the Ugly". As usual, the OnlySaneMan attempts to point out that TheDriffter is actually a giant chicken.
* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'' has the episode "Rodeo Robots".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' had two cowboy episodes: "Polka Palace Party" and "Riding the Range".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBradyKids'' had two: "Long Gone Silver" (guest-starring Radio/TheLoneRanger) and "Give Me a Home Where the Panda Bears Roam and the Dog and the Mynah Bird Play".

* ''Creator/CosgroveHall'' seemed fond of these. ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' had 'Deadeye Duck', ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo'' had 'Cowboys and Indiscipline', ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' had two, 'The Wild, Wild West Story' and 'High Doom' and Sooty's Amazing Adventures had 'Hopalong Sooty.'

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** Banaro Island has a cowboy theme, with Wild West architecture and period clothing. Appropriately enough, this was the site of the duel between [[TheAce Ace]] and [[CaptainClolorbeard Blackbeard]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]'' was based on [[EagleLand European stereotypes of the USA]] and features plenty of Wild West imagery despite being set in the 1930s.
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' #198-199 has four amnesiac superheroes (ComicBook/ElongatedMan, Franchise/TheFlash, Franchise/GreenLantern and ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}) being dumped in the WildWest.

* ''ComicBook/LadyMechanika: La Dama de la Muerte'' takes Lady Mechanika on a gunslinging adventure in rural Mexico; far from her usual haunts of SteamPunk London.
* DC's late 90's time travel series ''Chronos'' (about Walker Gabriel, the hero named Chronos, not the supervillain of the same name) set one of its first story arcs in 19th century Kansas visiting [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Pa Kent's]] ancestors (the cast of DC's then-recently completed miniseries ''ComicBook/TheKents).''
* ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' did a story where Shaman, Snowbird, and Talisman time travel to [[CanadianWestern 19th century Canada]] to confront a supernatural threat.

* ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': The "Butch Cassidy Rides Again!" arc.

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* Film/TheThreeStooges has a number of Cowboy Episodes, including ''Goofs And Saddles'', ''The Three Troubledoers'', ''Out West'', ''Punchy Cowpunchers'', and ''Shot in the Frontier''.

* ''Literature/TheFourHorsemenUniverse'': The ShortStory "The Last Guardsman" has a revolver-packing BountyHunter with a cowboy hat go on a hunt for an alien SerialKiller.
* The second half of the very first Literature/SherlockHolmes story, ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet,'' is set on the American frontier. As it is a flashback of the murderer's backstory, Holmes and Watson sadly do not head there themselves.

* ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' has "Cowboy Android!".

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Played with in "The One With The Breast Milk" when Joey is working as a cologne spritzer and develops a rivaly with another spritzer. They're selling different versions of the same Western-themed fragrance and have to wear [[GoodColorsEvilColors white (Joey) and black (the rival)]] cowboy outfits. The storyline ends with them having a ShowdownAtHighNoon over who gets to spray cologne on the first customer of the day.

* ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' has two Wild West dream episodes: "Serenity", where Mac falls asleep while watching a western and dreams that he is homesteader and Murdoc and Pete are trying to force him off his land, and "[=MacGyver=]'s Women", when [=MacGyver=] dreams that he's in the Wild West and has to defend three women from outlaws.

* "Paul Revere" from the Music/BeastieBoys' debut album ''Music/LicensedToIll'', which provides the extremely 80s-Brooklynite Beasties with an inexplicably Wild West-themed OriginStory involving horses, shotguns and running from the sheriff. As a matter of interest, the Beasties would later record a [[https://dangerousminds.net/comments/country_mikes_greatest_hits_the_beastie_boys_secret_country_album full-length country album]], ''Country Mike's Greatest Hits,'' as a Christmas present for friends and family.

* ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' has the episode "Fastest Brolly in the West", which focuses on Lennox Brown's and Lamb's [[IdenticalGrandson great-grandparents]], who are traveling across the West in 1870 and end up becoming sheriffs tasked to protect a small town after being MistakenForBadass. [[spoiler:In the end, they're driven away by the townsfolk who prefer the approaching criminals to their petty bureaucracy and regulations.]]

* ''WebVideo/TheGreatNerfWar'': "Reanimation Starvation!" Is filmed in back and white and has a much more Wild West feel to it then the rest of the series.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': "West to Mexico".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': "The Legend of Kid Friendly".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Chicken Boo gets one in "The Good, the Boo and the Ugly".

* DC's late 90's time travel series ''Chronos'' (about Walker Gabriel, the hero named Chronos, not the supervillain of the same name) set one of its first story arcs in 19th century Kansas visiting [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Pa Kent's]] ancestors (the cast of DC's then-recently completed miniseries ''The Kents).''

* ''Series/GilligansIsland'' had an episode ("The Sweepstakes") where Mr. Howell dreamt he was prospector in the old west.
** Another episode had Gilligan dream he was a sheriff protecting his [[ItMakesSenseInContext new pet duck from the other castaways.]]

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': "The Wild Wild Witch."

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' has "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E07HomeOnTheRemains Home On The Remains]]" (in which the crew find themselves on a mining colony with lots of Western stereotypes, including prospectors, an eye-shielded gambler, and a CorruptHick in charge), and "Different Destinations" (which is an SF version of Westerns with a small group of cavalry besieged by Indians in a fort, complete with a group of nuns to protect).

** [[Recap/CowboyBebopSession1AsteroidBlues "Asteroid Blues"]] is essentially ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]

* DC's late 90's time travel series ''Chronos'' (about Walker Gabriel, the hero named Chronos, not the supervillain of the same name) set one of its first story arcs in 19th century Kansas visiting [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Pa Kent's]] ancestors (the cast of DC's then-recently completed miniseries ''The Kents).''
* ''Comicbook/AlphaFlight'' did a story where Shaman, Snowbird, and Talisman time travel to [[CanadianWestern 19th century Canada]] to confront a supernatural threat.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' has "[[{{Recap/FarscapeS02E07HomeOnTheRemains}} Home On The Remains]]" (in which the crew find themselves on a mining colony with lots of Western stereotypes, including prospectors, an eye-shielded gambler, and a CorruptHick in charge), and "Different Destinations" (which is an SF version of Westerns with a small group of cavalry besieged by Indians in a fort, complete with a group of nuns to protect).

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E6SpectreOfTheGun}} Spectre of the Gun]]", in which the main characters are forced to re-enact the gunfight at the O.K. Corral on an alien world.

** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' has "[[{{Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS03E09NorthStar}} North Star]]", featuring a planet populated by the descendants of settlers who had been kidnapped by aliens in the 1860s.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' had "Showdown at Red Gulch," when Dr. Wily discovers a meteor near a Western town with crystals that can supercharge his robots.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has an episode that is basically a normal episode of the show, but in the Old West. The girls become the Steamypuff Girls.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': "Out West.

* ''Series/WayneAndShuster'': "A Fistful of Fingers", which was a send-up of {{Spaghetti Western}}s. They also did an episode long parody of the ''Series/KungFu'' TV show.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': No cowboys to be seen in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing'' (since it's 50 BC), but it's close enough with every InjunCountry cliché being brought in that album and its AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixConquersAmerica''.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': No cowboys to be seen in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing'' (since it's 50 BC), but it's close enough with every InjunCountry cliché being played in that album.

* Music/CivilWar's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFFZPOWeOdE "Tombstone"]] tells the story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral from Doc Holliday's perspective. Civil War usually sings about military history (they were formed by four former members of Music/{{Sabaton}}).