History Main / CowboyEpisode

* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': "Showdown in Tiny Town", where Bud, unable to watch his favorite cowboy TV shows, lives out his own Wild West adventure by making himself the sheriff of a tiny town of insects.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': "Showdown in Tiny Town".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E10WhereTheBuggaloRoam Where the Buggalo Roam]]" is a Western parody set on Mars, including Martians who [[FantasyCounterpartCulture closely resemble American Indians]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'':

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode “[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E18Frontierland Frontierland]]”. Sam and Dean go [[TimeTravel back in time]] to Old West Wyoming, get a magical gun from Samuel Colt, have a [[ShowdownAtHighNoon High Noon]] moment with a phoenix, and return to the present still dressed in cowboy paraphernalia (which Dean very likely kept, as he has “a fetish” for western wear).

* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' had a dude ranch episode.

* ''Series/GoodEats'' featured this in the episode about chili
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': "Bunfight at the OK Tearooms"
* ''Series/HappyDays'' had a dude ranch episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In "The Good, the Bad, and the Tigger", Tigger loses control of Christopher Robin's toy train, and he and Pooh are put on trial as train robbers.

** In "The Good, The Bad, and the Wallaby", Rocko visits his Uncle Gib's cattle ranch. Heffer tags along, and gets sold to market with the rest of the herd, leaving Rocko and his childhood horse, Jezebel (who's been dead for six years) to save him.
** "The Fatlands" focuses on Bloaty and Squirmy, a pair of parasites living on Spunky travelling to newly discovered lands due to Spunky's weight gain with a western theme.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': "The One With The Breast Milk"

* ''Film/GingerSnapsBackTheBeginning'', a prequel to the first two ''Film/GingerSnaps'' films, moves the action from modern (early 2000s) StepfordSuburbia to a 19th century fur trading post on the Canadian frontier, complete with all the archetypal characters of the Canadian Old West: {{Hunter Trapper}}s, traders, Cree natives, and Hudson Bay Company officers, all amidst the [[DontGoInTheWoods thick boreal forest]] of the Great White North.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E12TheLastestGunInTheWest The Lastest Gun in the West]]" has Bart befriend a washed-up Western star, which includes Bart threatening his classmates into dressing like cowboys.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': The episode "[[RedDwarfSeasonVIGunmenOfTheApocalypse Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]" involves the characters entering a virtual Western town that serves as a metaphor for Kryten's struggles with computer virus. The episode even ends with Starbug [[RidingIntoTheSunset flying off into the sunset]].[[note]]Creator/PatrickStewart said that when he saw this episode on TV in England, it was so similar to "A Fistful of Datas" (see below), which he himself directed, that he almost called his lawyer to sue for plagiarism until he realized how funny it was. It's clear he meant it as a joke.[[/note]]

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'', especially in the Golden Age, would occasionally have a western themed issue with Diana going to Texas with Etta, who is from Texas and whose parents run a cattle ranch there.

# ''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.'

* Banaro Island in ''Manga/OnePiece'' has a cowboy theme, with Wild West architecture and period clothing. Appropriately enough, this was the site of the duel between [[TheAce Ace]] and [[BigBad Blackbeard]]. The entire Skypeia saga could count as an extended Cowboy Episode too, as Shandians resemble Native Americans and part of the issues surrounding the region is their takeover and subjugation by the Caucasian-looking Skypeians and Bilkans.

* ''Film/GingerSnapsBackTheBeginning'', a prequel to the first two ''Film/GingerSnaps'' films, moves the action from modern (early 2000s) StepfordSuburbia to a 19th century fur trading post on the Canadian frontier.