History Recap / TheWildWildWestS3E2TheNightOfTheFirebrand

* EyepatchOfPower: Durain's {{Dragon}} Briscoe (Russ [=McCubbin=]) is (in "Ted Bloom"'s words) a "one-eyed rattler".

** Pernell Roberts as supposed Irishman Sean O'Reilley. He ends up giving listeners a linguistic tour of the British Isles, with occasional quick stops back in his native Georgia.

West arrives at Fort Savage just ahead of an angry group of Iroquois. The fort's commanding officer, Major Jason (Len Wayland), has dispatched a report about operations in the area by a Canadian revolutionary named Sean O’Reilley (Pernell Roberts). However, West finds that the fort is already under O’Reilley's control and that the rebel is being assisted by Shiela "Vixen" O’Shaugnessy (Lana Wood), a senator's daughter who had been reported kidnapped. West manages to prevent the fort from being blown up while Gordon sets about infiltrating the revolutionary group; together they work to foil O’Reilley's plans, which they must do within 48 hours if they want to prevent a massacre.

Disguises used by Artie: [[http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/l8dreamr/media/bWVkaWFJZDoxODcwMDMyNw==/?ref=1 Ted Bloom/Bluebeard, Trapper]]; [[http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/l8dreamr/media/bWVkaWFJZDoxODcwMDMyNw==/?ref=1 Jacques Beaumont, Canadian Emissary from Durain]]

* WouldntHitAGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:Jim uses an {{Expy}} of the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan nerve pinch]] whenever Vixen is getting above herself, so no prizes for guessing what leads to the final freeze frame in the upper right hand corner above.]]

* FrenchJerk: Andre Durain (Paul Lambert), O'Reilley's second-in-command, is a genuine example. Artie's persona "Beaumont" exploits this trope.

* EvilLaugh: Durain frequently chuckles at Ted Bloom's antics.

West arrives at Fort Savage just ahead of an angry group of Iroquois. The fort's commanding officer, Major Jason (Len Wayland), has dispatched a report about operations in the area by a Canadian revolutionary named Sean O’Reilley (Pernell Roberts). However, West finds that the fort is already under O’Reilley's control and that the rebel is being assisted by Shiela "Vixen" O’Shaugnessy (Lana Wod), a senator's daughter who had been reported kidnapped. West manages to prevent the fort from being blown up while Gordon, posing as crazed mountain man "Ted Bloom", sets about infiltrating the revolutionary group; together they work to foil O’Reilley's plans, which they must do within 48 hours if they want to prevent a massacre.

* AxCrazy: Artie's "Ted Bloom" persona, whose unhinged behavior leads Durain to recruit him.

* EyepatchOfPoweer: Durain's {{Dragon}} Briscoe is (in "Ted Bloom"'s words) a "one-eyed rattler".

* FrenchJerk: Andre Durain (Paul Lambert), O'Reiley's second-in-command.

West arrives at Fort Savage just ahead of an angry group of Iroquois. The fort's commanding officer, Major Jason, has dispatched a report about operations in the area by a Canadian revolutionary named Sean O’Reilley. However, West finds that the fort is already under O’Reilley's control and that the rebel is being assisted by Vixen O’Shaugnessy, a senator's daughter who had been reported kidnapped. West manages to prevent the fort from being blown up while Gordon, posing as crazed mountain man "Ted Bloom", sets about infiltrating the revolutionary group; together they work to foil O’Reilley's plans, which they must do within 48 hours if they want to prevent a massacre.

* EvilLaugh: Durain frequently chuckles at ed Bloom's antics.

* FrenchJerk: Durain.

West arrives at Fort Savage just ahead of an angry group of Iroquois. The fort's commanding officer, Major Jason, has dispatched a report about operations in the area by a Canadian revolutionary named Sean O’Reilley. However, West finds that the fort is already under O’Reilley's control and that the rebel is being assisted by Vixen O’Shaugnessy, a senator's daughter who had been reported kidnapped. West manages to prevent the fort from being blown up while Gordon sets about infiltrating the revolutionary group; together they work to foil O’Reilley's plans, which they must do within 48 hours if they want to prevent a massacre.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Artie's alter ego sometimes Ted Bloom refers to himself as "this child".

* WouldntHitAGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:Jim uses an {{Expy}} of the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan nerve pinch]] whenever Vixen is getting above herself, so no prizes for guessing what leads to the final freezeframe in the upper right hand corner above.]]

** An ''intentional'' example in the teaser - when O'Reilley is pretending to be the colonel in charge of the fort that he and his men have taken and he's putting on an American accent, he reverts to Irish when the man shaving him almost cuts him ("Crocker, ye blasted butcher!").

** An ''intentional'' example in the teaser when O'Reilley is pretending to be the colonel in charge of the fort that he and his men have taken and he's putting on an American accent, he reverts to Irish when the man shaving him almost cuts him ("Crocker, ye blasted butcher!").

* WouldntHitAGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:Jim uses an {{Expy}} of the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan nerve pinch]] whenever the GirlOfTheWeek is getting above herself, so no prizes for guessing what leads to the final freezeframe in the upper right hand corner above]].

* WouldntHitAGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:Jim uses an {{Expy}} of the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan nerve pinch]] whenever the GirlOfTheWeek is getting above herself]].

* WideEyedIdealist: Vixen is very enthusiastic about her ideals, which supposedly involve "relieving the downtrodden" and suchlike. She's willing and eager to die for them - and also quite willing to kill. She's even okay with letting women and children be massacred. Jim calls her out on this hypocrisy.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Seems to be the message of the episode. Vixen is painted as something of a wide-eyed idealist who has to be brought back to reality; on the other hand, her ideals aren't exactly of the highest, so ridding her of them may not be such a bad idea...

West travels to Fort Savage to help prevent a revolution in Canada that outlaw Shawn O'Reilley has plans to incite. Once there, however, he finds that O'Reilley is in control of the fort and is holding the fort's major and his men captive.

* FightingIrish: Sean O'Reilley, Vixen O'Shaughnessy, and their men.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Seems to be the message of the episode.