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*DeusExMachina: For the pioneers, who end up sucked into a twister that drops them off into the western United States.

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* PoesLaw: It is such an AffectionateParody of western films that the gags are deliberately silly, and it even satirizes depictions of Native Americans in films at the time. This didn't prevent the film from being banned from TV ''because'' of its satirical depiction of Native Americans.

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*BattyLipBurbling: "Crazy Horse" is depicted doing this while wearing a horse collar.
*PersonalRaincloud: Chief "Rain-in-the-Face" is depicted with one in front of his face. It lets out a thunderstorm when he learns of the presence of the pioneers.
* PoesLaw: It is such an AffectionateParody of western films that the gags are deliberately silly, and it even satirizes depictions of Native Americans in films at the time. This didn't prevent the film from being banned from TV ''because'' of its satirical apparently racist depiction of Native Americans.



* SavageIndian: Parodied, like so many other Western tropes; Goofy's wagon train is being pestered by a whole tribe of them, many of whom are {{Visual Pun}}s!



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* VisualPun:VisualPun: Many of the Native Americans in this short are puns on actual Native American tribes and names. A "Blackfoot" is shown with actual black feet, "Ol' Patchy" is a {{Pun}} on the Apache tribe and is depicted as a chieftain with patched-up clothes and an EyepatchOfPower, "Crazy Horse" is shown wearing a horse collar and engaged in BattyLipBurbling, and Chief "Rain-in-the-Face" is shown with a PersonalRaincloud in front of his face. The short even manages to throw in a "Cleveland Indian," based on the baseball team now known as the Cleveland ''Guardians''.
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''Californy 'er Bust'' is a 1945 cartoon starring WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}. The short's story follows Goofy on a westward trail with [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals Goofy lookalikes]], whereupon they get ambushed by Indians, who are also Goofy lookalikes.

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*AffectionateParody: Of western films, which were pretty popular in TheForties.
*ArtisticLicenseGeography: PlayedForLaughs; the states' names are modified possibly to make them sound more Southern in a jocular way, such as Californy, Nebrasky, Florady, Pensavaney, Wash., Organ, Idyho, and Nevady. There's also the fact that "Nebrasky" borders "Florady" here, when in real life they do not.
*PoesLaw: It is such an AffectionateParody of western films that the gags are deliberately silly, and it even satirizes depictions of Native Americans in films at the time. This didn't prevent the film from being banned from TV ''because'' of its satirical depiction of Native Americans.
*RecycledAnimation: The two horned Native dancers would reappear in a PaletteSwap in the 1953 short ''How to Dance''.
*SavageIndian: Parodied, like so many other Western tropes; Goofy's wagon train is being pestered by a whole tribe of them, many of whom are {{Visual Pun}}s!
*StockSoundEffect: The horn fanfare that was heard in this short was later recycled in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''.
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*TheWildWest: Set in 1848 or '49, as the narrator states.

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