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* MadDoctor: Doc Urkel was allegedly quite insane, to the point where he gave Eddie a lobotomy when he just wanted to treat a hangnail. When Carl announces that he shot and killed the doctor, everybody cheers.
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* ShoutOut: Befitting of a CowboyEpisode, the episode title is a play on ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
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* TheGhost: Steve's father, both in reality and within the dream, is the reason the conflict happens in the first place, yet he never appears onscreen.


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* PlotTriggeringDeath: Sheriff Carl shoots and kills Doc Urkel offscreen, setting off the conflict with Two-Gun.
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* WhatTheHellHero: The entire saloon turns on Carl after he shoots Urkel, and the guilt is enough to wake him up at the end.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Two-Gun confronts Sheriff Carl for shooting his father, and challenges him to a duel to the death to avenge him. It's a metaphor for Steve defending his dad after Carl wallops him.

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* YouKilledMyFather: Two-Gun confronts Sheriff Carl for shooting his father, and challenges him to a duel to the death ShowdownAtHighNoon to avenge him. It's a metaphor for the real Steve defending his dad after Carl wallops him. him.
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* TheWildWest: The setting of Carl's dream. Rachel's Place is now a popular saloon named ''Miss'' Rachel's Place, Steve is an infamous cowboy named "Two-Gun Urkel", and Carl himself is the town sheriff.

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* TheWildWest: The setting of Carl's dream. Rachel's Place is now a popular saloon named ''Miss'' Rachel's Place, Steve is an infamous cowboy named "Two-Gun Urkel", and Carl himself is the town sheriff.sheriff.
* YouKilledMyFather: Two-Gun confronts Sheriff Carl for shooting his father, and challenges him to a duel to the death to avenge him. It's a metaphor for Steve defending his dad after Carl wallops him.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Eddie mocks Two-Gun for his ridiculous snort. Urkel retaliates by pulling out his revolver and forcing ''him'' to snort.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Two-Gun Urkel may be Steve as a cowboy, but he's also a dangerous sharpshooter that the entire town [[TheDreaded dreads]].
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Sort of. Carl ultimately shoots Two-Gun, who melodramatically makes his way ''up'' the stairs before tumbling off the balcony.
* FinalSpeech: PlayedForLaughs. Every time the dying Urkel shares his FinalWords, he passes out, then jolts back to life to talk some more. Carl eventually tells him to wrap it up and die already.


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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Carl feels incredibly guilty after killing Steve in his dream, and is overjoyed when he wakes up to find that Steve is alive and well.

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* SaloonOwner: Rachel's Wild West counterpart, Miss Rachel, owns a jaunty saloon where all the characters hang out.



* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Used as a RunningGag. The characters get increasingly confused whenever a dramatic [[{{Sting}} musical sting]] plays, and Two-Gun wonders where the heck it's coming from. It gets even stranger when the music plays ''outside'' of Carl's dream, leaving him and Steve totally bewildered at the end.

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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Used as a RunningGag. The characters get increasingly confused whenever a dramatic [[{{Sting}} musical sting]] plays, and Two-Gun wonders where the heck it's coming from. It gets even stranger when the music plays ''outside'' of Carl's dream, leaving him and Steve totally bewildered at the end.end of the episode.
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After getting into a feud with Steve, Carl dreams of a Wild West fantasy where he's the sheriff and Steve is an infamous gunslinger.
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* CowboyEpisode: Most of the episode takes place in Carl's dream, which places the characters in a Wild West saloon.
* GoodNewsBadNews: Sheriff Carl barges into the saloon to relay the good and bad news to everyone. The bad news: he just shot a man. The good news: it was Doc Urkel.
* TheGunslinger: Carl dreams that Steve is a highly-skilled gunslinger named Two-Gun Urkel, who challenges him to a duel to avenge his slain father.
* ShowdownAtHighNoon: Carl and Two-Gun face off in a good, old-fashioned duel at the stroke of noon. Carl wins, but Urkel makes sure he feels ''really'' bad about it before he dies.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Used as a RunningGag. The characters get increasingly confused whenever a dramatic [[{{Sting}} musical sting]] plays, and Two-Gun wonders where the heck it's coming from. It gets even stranger when the music plays ''outside'' of Carl's dream, leaving him and Steve totally bewildered at the end.
* TheWildWest: The setting of Carl's dream. Rachel's Place is now a popular saloon named ''Miss'' Rachel's Place, Steve is an infamous cowboy named "Two-Gun Urkel", and Carl himself is the town sheriff.

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