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| 14 | [[caption-width-right:350:Allons-y, pard'ner.]] |
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| 16 | An OutOfGenreExperience when a series other than TheWestern picks up a six-shooter, dons a Stetson and [[RidingIntoTheSunset rides off into the sunset]]. In other words, a non-Western temporarily becomes a Western (or at least a pastiche thereof). |
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| 18 | This can be done through TimeTravel, virtual reality, some form of historic re-enactment, a DreamSequence or, for works set in the right period but wrong location, a trip out West. This can be motivated by, or turn into, a QuestToTheWest. The effect can also be achieved with a FantasyCounterpartCulture. |
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| 20 | Can count as a {{Costumer}}. |
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| 22 | !!Examples: |
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| 26 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 27 | * ''Animation/DziwnePrzygodyKoziolkaMatolka'': The episode "Czarny Bill" ("Black Bill") has the protagonist finding himself in a typical Wild West town menaced by a typical bandit. It's unusual, since the series is set in modern day, but then again AnachronismStew is heavily present in the original books as well. |
| 28 | * ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Season 9 episodes 32 and 33 involve Careless S. as a cowboy in the Wild West. |
| 29 | [[/folder]] |
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| 31 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 32 | * In episode 13 of ''Anime/TheBraveExpressMightGaine'', Might received a case to take out bad guys located within a western theme park in The United States, which he stayed a bit longer afterwards sporting a full Cowboy gear to enjoy the atmosphere |
| 33 | * The title of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' refers to how the protagonists are bounty hunters, [[FutureSlang which are often called "cowboys" in-series]], but some episodes have a distinct SpaceWestern theme: |
| 34 | ** "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession1AsteroidBlues Asteroid Blues]]" is essentially ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] |
| 35 | ** "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession17MushroomSamba Mushroom Samba]]" sees Ed and Ein chase down a bounty on a terraformed Europa that's very Old West-looking. Oddly, it's also a BlaxploitationParody. |
| 36 | ** "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession22CowboyFunk Cowboy Funk]]" has Spike become rivals with Andy, a "cowboy" in the traditional sense, complete with hat, revolver, horse, lasso and everything. |
| 37 | * The original Toei ''Manga/GetterRobo'' Anime had one in episode 21, featuring Texas Mack's debut (and, until later spinoffs, only) appearance. Texas Mack being a giant robot with Cowboy apparell, including gun, lasso and a cowboy hat (which is its own hoverjet piloted by the Texas Mack's pilot's sister). |
| 38 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 39 | ** 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 [[CaptainColorbeard Blackbeard]]. |
| 40 | ** 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. |
| 41 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has one during the Orange Islands season. Ash, Misty, and Tracey meet a cowboy named Ethan who has a Jolteon he uses like a cattle dog to keep track of his 'herd' of Magnemites. Team Rocket tries to steal them of course, so they can harness their electricity and give it to the Boss. |
| 42 | * Done in the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' TV series, ''Anime/TenchiUniverse''. After Tenchi's been kidnapped by the bounty hunter bent on defeating Ryoko, the two agree to meet at a location suspiciously similar to a small western town, complete with tumbleweed, saloons, and an eerie sunset. Whether Tenchi's status as [[DistressedDude the male version of]] the BoundAndGagged DamselInDistress is PlayedForDrama or PlayedForLaughs generally depends on the viewer's opinion. |
| 43 | ** Washu actually created the western town specifically for the duel [[InvokedTrope to invoke the trope]]. She seemed pretty proud of it. |
| 44 | ** Speaking of ''Tenchi Muyo'': Its spinoff ''Anime/MagicalProjectS'' has one episode featuring a Wild West theme park in competition with a ninja theme park. [[spoiler: It ends with them joining forces to build a deliberately anachronistic [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot cowboy ninja]] theme park. "The kids will love it!"]] |
| 45 | * This trope frequently appears in the works of Creator/LeijiMatsumoto, with characters visiting a planet patterned after the old west (which may be named "Gun Frontier"). Appropriately enough, the series ''Gun Frontier'' was a Cowboy Spinoff genre shift for ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'', featuring the wacky Western misadventures of the space pirate's [[IdenticalGrandson Identical Ancestor]]. |
| 46 | * ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' had the Crashtown arc, where Yusei goes to Crashtown, where it resembles the old west and the duelists there tend to use cards that emulate the old west. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' did a story where Shaman, Snowbird, and Talisman time travel to [[CanadianWestern 19th century Canada]] to confront a supernatural threat. |
| 51 | * ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': No cowboys to be seen in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing'' (since it's 50 BC), but it's close enough with every InjunCountry cliché in the book being brought in that album and its AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixConquersAmerica''. |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' have had a few stories where the Avengers have travelled through time to meet up with Marvel's western heroes. |
| 53 | * DC's late 90's time travel series ''ComicBook/{{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).'' |
| 54 | * ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'': |
| 55 | ** The Eighth Doctor strip "Wormwood" took place in a WildWest town on the Moon (ItMakesSenseInContext). |
| 56 | ** The later Eighth Doctor strip "Bad Blood" plays the trope entirely straight, with the Doctor encountering a recurring villain trying to raise an EldritchAbomination in the West, and Sitting Bull and General Custer mixed up in the events. |
| 57 | * Some of the Creator/DCComics "Pulp Heroes" 1997 annuals were under the banner "Weird Western Tales. Most just had [[NewOldWest Western tropes in the modern setting]], but ''ComicBook/{{Impulse}}'' Annual #2 had Bart and Max visit a dude ranch run by retired Western-themed hero the Vigilante. |
| 58 | * ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' #198-199 has four amnesiac superheroes (ComicBook/ElongatedMan, Franchise/TheFlash, Franchise/GreenLantern and ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}) being dumped in the WildWest. |
| 59 | * ''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. |
| 60 | * ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' had one in #370, flashing back to the Old West to tell a story about Thor and Loki trying to find the Golden Apples of Idunn with which Asgardians maintain their immortality. |
| 61 | * ''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. |
| 62 | * ''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. The best example may be "[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 The Legend of Rainbow and Stardust!]]" where Diana, Etta, the Heyday triplets, and the Candy family and ranchhands sit around a fire telling stories while dressed in plaid, cowboy boots, hats and handkerchiefs and then fight some rustlers. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
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| 65 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 66 | * ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': The "Butch Cassidy Rides Again!" arc. A staged western re-enactment almost proves fatal when one of the players is hit with live ammunition. Things take a stranger turn when Willie identifies the leading culprit as being the original Butch Cassidy’s double. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 70 | * ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has "Time Terror", where Calvin has to rescue the other main characters and [[GetBackToTheFuture get back to (or from) the future.]] Socrates [[PrisonEpisode ends up in jail]] in this timeframe. |
| 71 | ** An [[WhatCouldHaveBeen unused concept]] for an episode ("Cowpokes") would have Calvin dreaming of being a sheriff after watching several cowboy movies in order to deal with Moe. The rest of the cast would have been in various roles, and the TwistEnding would be that [[spoiler:Hobbes was the desperado and [[FightingYourFriend he and Calvin would have to face off]]]]. |
| 72 | * ''Fanfic/ThePiratesverse'' has "An Adventure With Pioneers", where the crew comes to the Old West in search of gold and Albino Pirate helps a struggling town defend itself from bandits. |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
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| 75 | [[folder:Films — Animated]] |
| 76 | * ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': The first film was about a late 19th century family of Eastern European Jewish mice emigrating to New York City. In this one they move again, in the wild West. |
| 77 | [[/folder]] |
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| 79 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 80 | * ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' is mostly set in the Old West, and while dealing with the characters' various attempts to get [[TitleDrop back to the future]] plays with many of the genre's stock characters and situations. |
| 81 | * ''Film/CarryOnCowboy'' features the usual cast of 'Film/CarryOn'' actors and characters transplanted into a not very convincing version of TheWildWest. |
| 82 | * ''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 a CanadianWestern: {{Hunter Trapper}}s, traders, Cree natives, and Hudson Bay Company officers, all amidst the [[DontGoInTheWoods thick boreal forest]] of the Great White North. Only UsefulNotes/TheMounties don't show up, and that's because the film takes place before they were created. |
| 83 | * 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 ''Film/TheOutlawsIsComing''. |
| 84 | * ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'': This film is a prequel set in the Old West showing the residents of Perfection (back then, a mining town known as "Rejection") having their first encounter with the [[SandWorm Graboids]] (called "dirt dragons" here) that would plague the town again [[Film/Tremors1 a century later]]. |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 88 | * The ''Literature/AToZMysteries'' book ''The Ninth Nugget'' takes place on a dude ranch. |
| 89 | * In ''Literature/DeathOfADude'', the normally citybound Literature/NeroWolfe has to relocate to the wilds of Montana to investigate a murder on a dude ranch. |
| 90 | * The ''Literature/ErastFandorin'' novella ''Dream Valley'' sees Fandorin travel to [[TwilightOfTheOldWest Wyoming in 1894]] and fight off a gang of gunslinger outlaws. The whole story is an explicit homage to Washington Irving's ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow''. |
| 91 | * ''Literature/TheFourHorsemenUniverse'': The ShortStory "The Last Guardsman" has a revolver-packing BountyHunter with a cowboy hat go on a hunt for an alien SerialKiller. |
| 92 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' borrows tropes from across all genres, and Death's subplot in ''Literature/ReaperMan'' borrows heavily from westerns. After his forced retirement, Death starts a new life in a small farming community on the plains under an assumed name ("Bill Door"), but must reluctantly face his past in a climactic duel (though it's [[WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve at midnight]] rather than [[ShowdownAtHighNoon high noon]]). |
| 93 | * ''Literature/SherlockHolmesAndDoctorWasNot'': In "The Forlorn Death of Sally at the Crossroads", Holmes teams up with Doc Holliday to solve a murder in a small town in TheWildWest. |
| 94 | * 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. |
| 95 | [[/folder]] |
| 96 | |
| 97 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 98 | * An episode of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' takes place at what is explicitly a recreation of an old west town, but Lois and Jimmy act as if they think the danger from the black-hatted baddie is real. |
| 99 | * ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' has "Cowboy Android!". After the BattleTram runs out of gas in the middle of the desert, The Aquabats stumble across a peculiar Old West-styled town hidden in the hills. Soon discovering the town is actually a realistic theme park whose visitors have been held captive by a malfunctioning robot gunslinger (an homage to the 1973 movie ''Film/{{Westworld}}''), the band tries to devise a plan to save everyone from his clutches, enlisting the help of a flying naked mole-rat monster along the way. |
| 100 | * ''Series/Batman1966'': The two-part "Come Back, Shame"/"It's How You Play The Game" featuring Western-themed bad guy Shame. |
| 101 | * The original ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode "The Lost Warrior" involved Apollo stumbling across a world with a small human colony that had a very DaysOfFuturePast Western aesthetic to it. |
| 102 | * The ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "Once Upon a Time in the West" features the duo solving a poisoning at an Arizona dude ranch resort, while pretending to be honeymooners there. As expected, it features a wide array of western-themed tropes, including the reason for the murder. |
| 103 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' episode "The Good, The Bad and The Cursed" sees Prue and Cole time traveling back to the Wild West in an attempt to break a time loop, whilst Piper and Leo investigate the same town in the present - where it has been abandoned due to all the residents being trapped in the loop. |
| 104 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': |
| 105 | ** [[Recap/CommunityS2E23AFistfulOfPaintballs The second paintball episode]] is an AffectionateParody of {{Spaghetti Western}}s and Westerns in general; though the community college setting doesn't change, everyone dresses and acts as though they're in a Western while playing a paintball game that's taken [[SeriousBusiness very seriously]]. |
| 106 | ** "[[Recap/CommunityS2E21ParadigmsOfHumanMemory Paradigms of Human Memory]]" showed that the study group went to an authentic Wild West ghost town [[NoodleIncident for some reason]]. |
| 107 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "The Good, the Bad and the Dominatrix", Lady Heather is dressed as a saloon girl when she is assaulted by a client dressed as a cowboy and left for dead on the grounds of a WildWest theme park. |
| 108 | * ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'': Rob gets knocked out for a dental procedure while worried about a sketch Alan Brady wants for the show. He dreams he's a wild west sheriff and Alan is "Big Bad Brady," a local outlaw who calls him out for a Showdown At High Noon. After he wakes up he realizes it's perfect for the sketch, and asks his dentist to put him out for just FiveMoreMinutes so he can remember what he dreamt. |
| 109 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 110 | ** Done surprisingly rarely: just twice in fifty years. The First Doctor visited in 1966's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]]", and the Eleventh in 2012's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy A Town Called Mercy]]". |
| 111 | ** Played with in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut The Impossible Astronaut]]"; the Doctor summons Rory, Amy and River to meet him in Utah. The Doctor show up wearing a Stetson hat, given to him in the previous episode. Just as he mentions to Rory and Amy, "I wear a Stetson now," River shoots the hat off his head, cowboy-style, with a six-shooter. |
| 112 | * On ''Series/FamilyMatters'', Carl [[AllJustADream dreams]] he's a sheriff in the Old West who has killed the father of the town's most annoying gunslinger, "Two-Gun" Urkel. |
| 113 | * ''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 SmallTownTyrant 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). |
| 114 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Played with in "The One With The Breast Milk" when Joey is working as a cologne spritzer and develops a rivalry 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. |
| 115 | * ''Series/GilligansIsland'': |
| 116 | ** "The Sweepstakes": Mr. Howell dreams he is a prospector in the old west. |
| 117 | ** Another episode has Gilligan dream he's a sheriff protecting his [[ItMakesSenseInContext new pet duck from the other castaways.]] |
| 118 | * ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' had the 3 part "Girl Meets Texas" where the gang head back to Lucas' home town for him to compete in a bull riding competition. It was pretty much a dude ranch episode. |
| 119 | * ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "Bunfight at the O.K. Tearooms", The Goodies are broke, so they go out prospecting and find a cream mine. But Graeme gets greedy and wants all the cream to himself, leading to a tomato ketchup stained showdown between the three of them at the O.K. Tearooms. |
| 120 | * ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'': In "Fastest Gun in the East", Jeannie blinks Major Nelson back to the old west. |
| 121 | * ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Season 1 had "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E11TheMagnificentEight The Magnificent Eight]]", and Season 2 had a SequelEpisode, "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E6OutlawCountry Outlaw Country]]". Both involve the Legends [[TimeTravel travelling]] to the Old West and teaming up with classic Creator/{{DC|Comics}} Western character ComicBook/JonahHex. |
| 122 | * ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' has two Wild West dream episodes: "Serenity", where Mac falls asleep while watching a western and dreams that he is DeterminedHomesteader and Murdoc and Pete are trying to force him off his land, and "[=MacGyver=]'s Women", when [=MacGyver=] dreams that he's back in the WildWest town of Serenity and has to defend three women from outlaws. |
| 123 | * ''Series/ManFromAtlantis'': In "Shoot-Out at Land's End", Mark is mysteriously drawn to a location and finds himself in the Old West. |
| 124 | * ''Series/{{Matlock}}'' had an episode called "The Nightmare", in which the show's title character gets knocked out and finds himself in a Wild West setting. |
| 125 | * ''Film/MessageFromSpace: [[RecycledTheSeries Galactic Wars]]'' has the episode "Rise! The Warrior of the Wasteland!", where the heroes go to the desert part of Planet Cita where an Old-West styled town is suffering under the Gavanas Empire's occupation, and are helped by a local drifter who guns down the mooks with a six-shooter instead of the usual laser guns or martial arts. |
| 126 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E3 Blood on the Saddle]]" featured Wild West recreationists; at least one of whom took the hobby way too seriously. |
| 127 | * ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' had the episode "Wild West Rangers" where Kimberly is sent back to 1880 during Angel Grove's Wild West era. |
| 128 | * ''Series/MIHigh'': In "Dark Star", an old enemy of Frank breaks out of prison and comes gunning for him. Colt Winchester (really Colin ''from'' Winchester) and his men have adopted cowboy outfits and affectations and the whole thing plays out like ''Film/HighNoon''. |
| 129 | * ''Series/MissionImpossible'': In "Gunslinger", the IMF go undercover in an old west tourist attraction run by a villain with a cowboy fixation. Includes a gunfight between Jim Phelps and both the BigBad and TheDragon. |
| 130 | * ''Series/ModernFamily's'' third season opener was a dude ranch episode. |
| 131 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': In the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans episode, the entire show takes on a WildWest motif, including a huge herd of cows backstage. |
| 132 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' has episode "Mild Mild West" in which Buffalo Bill Cody comes to Toronto with his road show. A stunt goes wrong, and it's concluded it was a murder. |
| 133 | * ''Series/MyFavoriteMartian'' used TimeTravel in the two-part "Go West, Young Martian". |
| 134 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E8HeartsDesire Heart's Desire]]" takes place in the Oregon Territory in 1872. |
| 135 | * ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'': "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE14LivingInHarmony Living in Harmony]]" takes place in an apparent {{Elseworld}} Wild West setting. Number Six is a sheriff who turns in his badge and gun and tries to leave town. It turns out to be a VirtualRealityInterrogation created in-universe with a stage set and hallucinogenic drugs. |
| 136 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' had Shawn and Gus investigating a murder in an old-west theme park. They, of course, dress up in cowboy clothes and start playing Sheriff...the whole episode them because an exploration of various old-west tropes, even a ByWallThatIsHoley example. |
| 137 | * In ''Series/QuantumLeap'' Sam leaps into a man just about to have a ShowdownAtHighNoon - but it turns out it's just an old man in a Wild West recreation. But then his old partner shows up demanding a ''real'' showdown, claiming the man Sam leaped into has stolen his life story for the sake of a few dollars. |
| 138 | * ''Series/RedDwarf'': The episode "[[Recap/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]] |
| 139 | * ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In "The Wild Wild Witch," Sabrina is sent to a lawless town in the Old West because she's unhappy with all the rules she has to abide by. |
| 140 | * ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'': When Roxton happens upon a hangman's noose dangling from a lonely tree in the jungle in "Dead Man's Hill", he's suddenly transported back to the American West where he finds himself at the end of the rope. |
| 141 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has several: |
| 142 | ** ''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. |
| 143 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E8AFistfulOfDatas A Fistful of Datas]]" where a holodeck simulation of the Old West [[HolodeckMalfunction goes wrong]]. |
| 144 | ** ''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. |
| 145 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 146 | ** "[[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). |
| 147 | ** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS13E06Tombstone Tombstone]]": Sam, Dean, Castiel, and Jack work a case in Dodge City, which gives Dean ample opportunity to play cowboy, geek out over cowboy lore, and irritate Castiel. |
| 148 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E17 Welcome to Winfield]]", two people fleeing an agent of Death end up in an old west town. |
| 149 | * ''Series/UnhappilyEverAfter'' did a Western episode that {{lampshade|Hanging}}d the fact that this type of episode often takes place entirely in one saloon: "This was a one-set town." |
| 150 | * ''Series/TheVetLife'': In "Turnin' Texan," the three veterinarians take a break from their practice to visit a ranch where they don cowboy hats, ride horses, herd cattle, and are served a camp-style meal. |
| 151 | * ''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/{{Kung Fu|1972}}'' TV show. |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
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| 154 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 155 | * "Paul Revere" from 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. |
| 156 | * ''Music/RubberSoul'' was Music/TheBeatles' first foray into PsychedelicRock, but "What Goes On" is still unmistakably a {{Country|music}} song. |
| 157 | * Music/{{Civil War|Band}}'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}}). |
| 158 | * In the ''Music/PreschoolPopstars'' song "Hair Cut Strut", it's in country style and the girls are wearing cowgirl hats. |
| 159 | [[/folder]] |
| 160 | |
| 161 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 162 | * ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' has the end episode 9 and beginning of episode 10, in which the girls get sent to a Wild West dimension by Gemini--the first in a series of dimensional hops. |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 166 | * ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' has the episode "Fastest Brolly in the West", which focuses on Lennox Brown's and Lamb's [[IdenticalGrandson great-grandfathers]], 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.]] |
| 167 | * ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'': |
| 168 | ** During the 2008 election cycle, it had great fun with a panel segment entitled "''Wait Wait'' on the Trail!", the standing intro for which involved normally strait-laced newscaster Carl Kasell performing a cowboy yell (to great hilarity) followed by a different [[TheWestern Western ]] song quote or cliche. (Hear one from Jan. 19, 2008 [[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18236418 here]].) |
| 169 | --->'''Peter:''' And now it's time once again for the segment we call... "''Wait Wait'' on the Trail!"\ |
| 170 | '''Carl:''' ''[cowboy music plays]'' YEEEEEEEHAW!! [[Series/TheVirginian Git along little dogies, git along]]. |
| 171 | ** When Korva Coleman stood in as guest announcer and scorekeeper, she got a turn too and approached it with great relish, also to the audience's delight. |
| 172 | --->'''Korva:''' ''[cowboy music plays]'' YEEEEEEEHAW!! [[Theatre/AnnieGetYourGun I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night!]]\ |
| 173 | '''Peter:''' Bullseye, Annie! |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 177 | * ''Roleplay/JourneyThroughTheMultiverse'' had Linkara's World as a Cowboy Episode. The setting even echoes that of a wild western setting, though without the HumongousMecha that the villains for the episode were given. Not to mention that Linkara's hometown is based off another town from a Cowboy Episode mentioned here. |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 181 | * While the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is normally based in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] version of a 1950s {{Zeerust}} RetroUniverse, ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' combines that style with old Westerns. Six-shooters and lever-action repeating rifles are far more prolific than in other games, one will find Sunset Sarsaparilla soft drinks in addition to the ubiquitous Nuka-Cola, the various towns and characters in the Mojave Wasteland bear plenty of Western tropes, the "Honest Hearts" expansion is set in the popular Western shooting location of Zion National Park, the "Dead Money" expansion is inspired by the film ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'', and the eastward expansion of the New California Republic is heavily inspired by America's own westward expansion. |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has a chapter called "The Wanderer" which is a classic Western story taking place in a dried up town under attack by a gang of outlaws, and the chapter's hero is an [[TheExpyWithNoName Expy With No Name]]. |
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| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 186 | * ''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. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 190 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' episode, "Git Along Little Doggies!", the Rockhopper crew visits Planet Roo-Tin Too-Tin to help get Wild Bill Quasar's cows back. |
| 191 | * ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': In "[[Recap/AaahhRealMonstersS3E11FistfulOfToenailsBlindLoveMonsterLove A Fistful of Toenails]]", Ickis, Krumm and Oblina find a box full of discarded Western movies. When they watch the movies despite the Gromble's protests, they start acting like cowboys and a cowgirl. After Zimbo rats them out to the Gromble and gets them punished, the Monsters challenge Zimbo to a showdown at High Moon. |
| 192 | * ''WesternAnimation/AceVenturaPetDetective'': "Go West" sees Ace follow a group of horse thieves out into the desert and come upon an 1800s-like town, so he plays cowboy while looking for the stolen horses. The twist is that all the residents are actually robots (not that they know it or even have any idea what a robot is), with the thieves having been reprogrammed by the true VillainOfTheWeek. |
| 193 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': In the episode, "The Magnificent Sonic", Sonic becomes the Sheriff of Tranquil Gulch after defeating Six-Gun Pete, one of Dr. Robotnik's robots. |
| 194 | * ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'': There's an episode that consists entirely of Alfred dreaming that he is a sheriff in the Wild West (and because this is a kid's show, the saloon only has FrothyMugsOfWater) and has to take down several dangerous gunmen including Krabnagel and Dolf. |
| 195 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': "West to Mexico". Stan becomes a wanted man running from Roger the bounty hunter, and ends up in a town in need of a good guy to help Principal Lewis (who works as a barber/dentist/prostitute), Francine (who works as a saloon girl), Steve (who works as the saloon's piano player), and Hayley (who is the sole heiress to her family's water well). |
| 196 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': "The Legend of Kid Friendly". Norb drags Dag, who doesn't want to go, to a western theme park based around the legendary Kid Friendly, the grinning gunslinger who "kills ya with kindness" and folksy humor. When the Kid Friendly robot goes berserk, all that stands between Norb and a grinning demise is Dag's bad attitude. |
| 197 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Chicken Boo gets one in "The Good, the Boo and the Ugly". In a parody of {{Spaghetti Western}}s, Chicken Boo takes on the role of "the man with no personality." As usual, the OnlySaneMan attempts to point out that TheDrifter is actually a giant chicken. |
| 198 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'' has the episode "Rodeo Robots". Dr. Cerebral has kidnapped Robo Betty and reprogramed her to attack the real Betty, who is at a rodeo with her family. |
| 199 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "Zuko Alone" has a very western feel, with the classic plot of a mysterious stranger helping a town in need. |
| 200 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' had two: |
| 201 | ** In "The Wild, Wild West Story", Professor Boring (a cheery fellow) and his wife Euphoria (a depressed woman) have their time machine's transanium crystal stolen enabling Doom to send Harry Slime back to the old west to stake claims on all the gold. |
| 202 | ** In "High Doom", the old Doc relates a tale from the Wild West, where Beauregarde Doom and his gang try and rob a bank and some penguin lawmen try to escape Humungously Big Mad Joe. |
| 203 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' had two cowboy episodes: |
| 204 | ** In "Riding the Range", Cowboy Tyrone is on his way to Texas for a hoedown. He has mistakenly taken Uniqua's jumprope. Thinking a bandit stole it, she, Tasha, and Pablo head west. In the end, the trio learn that the bandit was actually Tyrone. |
| 205 | ** In "Blazing Paddles", Uniqua is the sheriff of Ping Pong Mesa, a small western town. Tyrone is the town saloon barkeep, Tasha is the bar-room dancer, and Austin is the deputy. When the Ping Pong Bandit (Pablo) arrives and beats each resident in a game of ping pong, he steals their paddles. When the town residents get Uniqua, even she cannot beat him. Pablo steals her paddle, too, and he even names himself the new sheriff of the town. However, Uniqua decides to practice her ping pong skills in the desert and returns to the town in disguise as the Pink Fury to beat Pablo. |
| 206 | * The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE13Showdown Showdown]]" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback showing ComicBook/JonahHex battling Ra's Al Ghul in the Old West. |
| 207 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' had "Pest Of The West," with Beetlejuice taking Lydia (who looked very cute in her goth western garb) to a Neitherworld Wild West town and dealing with outlaw Bully The Crud. |
| 208 | * WesternAnimation/BugsBunny has quite a few, usually going up against WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam. |
| 209 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBradyKids'' had two: |
| 210 | ** In "Long Gone Silver", Radio/TheLoneRanger 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. |
| 211 | ** In "Give Me a Home Where the Panda Bears Roam and the Dog and the Mynah Bird Play", the kids go on a CattleDrive. As usual, Marlon's magic makes a mess of things |
| 212 | * ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In "High Plains Garbage Eater", it's Western Week at camp and the gang finds themselves in the middle of a good ol' fashioned showdown with mutant raccoons, over garbage! |
| 213 | * ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': In "Two-Gun Goofy", Goofy is a bumbling cowboy who crosses paths with "Pistol Pete" and [[AccidentalHero quite accidentally brings him to justice]]. |
| 214 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': |
| 215 | ** "Operation: R.O.B.B.E.R.S." is set on a school bus as homework bandits invade and rob the kids on board at (pop)gunpoint. The main characters are on this bus and have to stop the bandits before the bus reaches the school. |
| 216 | ** "Operation: M.E.S.S.A.G.E." is packed full of Western tropes with Numbuh 2's attempt to deliver fourth grade president's message being played like a PonyExpressRider crossing hostile territory. |
| 217 | ** "Operation: N.U.G.G.E.T." involves Numbuh 4 finding [[MiningForCookies a gold mine of chicken nuggets]], and a western town is set up near it. The Delightful Children From Down the Lane claim it for themselves, leading Numbuh 4 to have a showdown with them. |
| 218 | * ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' had "Deadeye Duck". It's a cold and draft day at Castle Duckula, and the Count desires for a place that is warm and in the sun. He and his man-servants are now located in the state of Colorado where they meet sheriff Quiet Earp. |
| 219 | * ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has "Cowboy Courage", in which Courage and Muriel fantasize about being in the Old West. Courage portrays the sheriff, who defends the town from an undead outlaw know as "The Whip" (portrayed by Eustace). |
| 220 | * ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge'': in the episode "Go West, Young Monkey", Hundley falls asleep and dreams that he was a sheriff in an Old West town. |
| 221 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': In "A Fistful of Penfolds", in Penfold City, Professor Squawkencluck's secret testing ground is a western town filled with Penbots, new 'Tenfolds' are being developed to become better sidekicks than the original Penfold. |
| 222 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanVs Wild West Town'': It's high noon for Dan when a chintzy dude ranch refuses his request for a refund and he sets out on a treasure hunt in the desert, pursued by nefarious gunslingers. |
| 223 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode "Wrath of Canasta" is set in a Wild West theme park called Vacationworld, and is basically an excuse to reuse the costumes and concepts from the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes shorts ''Dripalong Daffy'' and ''My Little Duckaroo''. |
| 224 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode ''Ducks of the West''. Scrooge's oil wells go dry, and he heads out to Texas with Huey, Dewey and Louie in tow. |
| 225 | * Timmy Turner in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' tries to save a Western ghost town from destruction by going back in time to its hey-day in search of its deed. Along the way, he encounters his friends' Western ancestors, assumes the role of a Lone Ranger {{Expy}} and battles a gunslinger ancestor of Vicky...in an intense match of RockPaperScissors! |
| 226 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 227 | ** "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E10WhereTheBuggaloRoam Where the Buggalo Roam]]" is a Western parody set on Mars, including Martians who [[FantasyCounterpartCulture closely resemble American Indians]]. |
| 228 | ** The third act of "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E14TheSilenceOfTheClamps The Silence of the Clamps]]" is set in an Old West-like town on the Moon, and includes a parody of a ShowdownAtHighNoon with Zoidberg. |
| 229 | * At least seven episodes of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had Jon and his pets visit a dude ranch called "Polecat Flats" ("polecat" basically meaning "skunk"), which happens to be run a by cowboy-friend of theirs who goes by "Cactus Jake," and who's revealed to have three sons named Cactus Joe, Jimmy and Josh and a daughter named Cactus Jackie. |
| 230 | * ''WesternAnimation/GetBlake'': In "Get West!", Blake and Mitch go to spend the weekend in the frontier town of Authenticville, only to be pursured by the Squalliens in the form of a [[Film/{{Westworld}} black clad robotic gunslinger]]. |
| 231 | * The ''WesternAnimation/HaileysOnIt'' episode "The Wild, Wild, Mess" is about Hailey becoming "sheriff for a day" at Cowpoke Corral and having to save the town when a biker gang shows up (thanks to Scott breaking the ranch's no-phone rule and posting videos of his bike stunts) |
| 232 | * ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' episode "Showdown". While driving out West, the Puffy bus gets caught in a dust storm and smashes into a building – where three cowboys crawl from the rubble. It isn’t until later that the girls realize that the cowboys are the infamous Burlap Boys. |
| 233 | * ''[[WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange The High Fructose Adventure of Annoying Orange]]'': "Spaghetti West" has the fruits travelling to a Western town where Orange becomes sheriff and takes on an {{Outlaw}} ball of spaghetti. |
| 234 | * ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' has an episode about identical relatives of the main cast living in the Old West. |
| 235 | * The original series of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' (from 1962) had an episode titled "Dude Planet" where Jane needs a break from all the button-pushing house chores, so she takes a vacation on Beta Three Dude Planet. |
| 236 | * ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' episode "Johnny the Kid". Johnny and his family go on vacation to a dude ranch on Susan and Mary's choice (since Gil was vacationing there as well), but it is invaded by a motorcycle gang shortly after they arrive. |
| 237 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' has "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E12WeirdWesternTales The Once and Future Thing: 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. |
| 238 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': |
| 239 | ** In "Let's Play Cowboys and Indians", the buddies are playing a game of Cowboys and Indians. Kaeloo and Quack-Quack are on their way to a conference, but Mr. Cat kidnaps them. |
| 240 | ** In Episode 88 ("Si on jouait aux desperados"), three desperados, Pecos Marmaduke (Stumpy), Quicksilver (Quack Quack) and Cat Robertson (Mr. Cat), try to find the Golden Sheep, but they have to deal with Kaeloo, a creepy undertaker. |
| 241 | * ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'': In the 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. |
| 242 | * ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'': |
| 243 | ** "Not Home on the Range" serves as an Australian take on the trope, taking place on an Australian dude ranch and teaching about jackaroos. |
| 244 | ** "Way of the Gaucho" focuses on Argentinian cowboys, aka gauchos. |
| 245 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' episode "Showdown at the Rascal Corral" wasn't set in the Old West as such, but Alfalfa did play cowboy. |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'' had "Showdown at Red Gulch," when Dr. Wily discovers a meteor near a Western town with crystals that can supercharge his robots. |
| 247 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' had "Wilder West," where the cast went to a dude ranch. The plot focuses on [[OnlySaneMan Zack]] getting a GirlOfTheWeek who's a descendant of Calamity Jane, and acting [[LoveMakesYouStupid unusually reckless]] to impress her. Also InUniverse, as [[CoolBigSis Sara]] spends the episode obsessing over the fact that said ranch was apparently the set of a Cowboy Episode of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Doctor Zone]].'' |
| 248 | * ''WesternAnimation/MrBenn'': In "Cowboy", the Indians have always beaten the cowboys in a weekly game of hide-and-seek. When Mr Benn joins in as the cowboy to hide, he helps the cowboys to win for the first time by exposing the very clever hiding place of the hidden Indian. |
| 249 | * ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'': |
| 250 | ** In "The Great Cookie Robbery", Nanny tasks Gonzo with giving each of his friends one cookie from a box of cookies she gives him while she prepares lunch. Gonzo, however, keeps all the cookies for himself and [[AteItAll eats every last one of them]]. To help his friends get their minds off their upset stomachs, Kermit takes them for a ride on his toy train. An ImagineSpot takes place where the train is apprehended by One-Eyed Jake, a robber who is after the babies' cookies. To make up to his friends for keeping the cookies for himself and eating them all, Gonzo takes on the identity of The Lone Weirdo and defeats Jake. |
| 251 | ** "The Green Ranger" involves Kermit imagining himself as a western hero after his favorite cowboy show, ''The Range Rider'' gets cancelled. |
| 252 | * ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'': |
| 253 | ** In "The Good, The Bad, and the Froggy", after Kermit hurts his knee in a tricycle race and no longer wants to ride a tricycle, the babies go on a Wild West adventure where Galloping Gulch has its juice boxes stolen by Gonzo the Kid and Sundance the Potato. Sheriff Kermit must ride his tricycle again so he can defeat Gonzo the Kid and save his friends. |
| 254 | ** In "Chicken Round-up", Animal forgets to put Camilla, Priscilla, and Beep back in their coop, and the chickens run away. The babies go on a Wild West adventure to round them up again, and Animal also needs to learn the importance of keeping his promises, as he breaks them every time he gets distracted. |
| 255 | ** The first ImagineSpot in "Library Leapfrog" depicts Piggy and Summer as the Ponytail Bandits, who rob the train the boys are riding by stealing the boys' animal crackers. When Robin accidentally gives the girls his video game instead of his animal crackers, the boys have an adventure to get it and their animal crackers back, starting with chasing the girls into Dead End Canyon. |
| 256 | ** In "Rootin' Tootin' Sheriff Showdown", Kermit and Fozzie open their own milk and cookies saloon, and need a sheriff to keep their milk and cookies safe from the Bad Eggs. Gonzo and Piggy get into a showdown with each other to see who can be the better sheriff, with each of their events ending in a tie. During the competition, the Bad Eggs steal the milk and cookies while the rest of the babies aren't looking, but Animal has witnessed their heist, and when he tells the rest of the babies, Gonzo and Piggy realize that they need to work together to get the milk and cookies back. |
| 257 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 258 | ** The episode "Over a Barrel", in which the cast come to Appleloosa to deliver a tree, and end up resolving a conflict between the resident ponies and the buffalo tribe. |
| 259 | ** "The Last Roundup" from Season 2 also features a decidedly Old West setting. |
| 260 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': |
| 261 | ** 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?" |
| 262 | ** 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. |
| 263 | * The ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' episode "Pups Save Dude Ranch Danny", where the Patrol and a few friends go to a ranch and ride some horses. The robot horse Danny attempts to ride goes haywire and splits, leaving the Patrol to go catch them. |
| 264 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' don't go to the Old West, but they go cowboy in at least two episodes: |
| 265 | ** "The Magnificent Few" had them driving cattle through Danville, including along the highway and through the mall. |
| 266 | ** "Robot Rodeo" had them running a rodeo with robotic cattle in the backyard. |
| 267 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has an episode that is basically a normal episode of the show, but in the Old West. The girls become the Steamypuff Girls. |
| 268 | * The ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Lone Star", where Sydney tells the others about the legend of a pioneer named Lone Star that built the town's first observatory. It has also has Western-flavored songs and doubles as a MusicalEpisode. |
| 269 | * ''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. |
| 270 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': |
| 271 | ** In "[[Recap/RockosModernLifeS1E10TheGoodTheBadAndTheWallabyTrashOMadness 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. |
| 272 | ** "[[Recap/RockosModernLifeS3E7ISeeLondonISeeFranceTheFatlands 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. |
| 273 | * ''Franchise/{{Rugrats}}'': |
| 274 | ** In [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 the original 1991 series]], it happens at least three times. Tommy and Angelica go to the "Graham Canyon" with their parents in [[Recap/RugratsS1E13GrahamCanyonStuMakersElves the eponymous episode]], Tommy, Chuckie, and Susie imagine themselves as cowboys and a cowgirl on a very hot day in "[[Recap/RugratsS5E9TheWildWildWestAngelicaForADay The Wild Wild West]]", and Tommy and Chuckie have a run-in with the "Junk Food Kid", who's a worse playground bully than Angelica in "[[Recap/RugratsS2E4ShowdownAtTeeterTotterGulchMirrorland Showdown at Teeter Totter Gulch]]". |
| 275 | ** ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' has the entire group go to a Dude Ranch in "Dude, Where's My Ranch?". |
| 276 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats|2021}}'' (2021) has the families go to the Tot Springs ranch to celebrate [[BirthdayEpisode Charlotte's 40th birthday]] in "Tot Springs Showdown". There, Angelica meets her four-and-a-quarter-year-old cousin Simon, who's a worse bully than her, even to the point of attempting to sabotage Charlotte's cake, and Didi reveals to everyone that she's pregnant with her second child. |
| 277 | * Episode XXIX of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' is set on a train, where Jack is pursued by a (married) couple of bounty hunters. |
| 278 | * ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' had "Dead Justice", where the ghost of Crystal Cove's first sheriff returns to town to oust Sheriff Stone from the job. [[spoiler:It turns out to be one of Stone's deputies in a Dead Justice costume.]] |
| 279 | * ''[[Series/TheSootyShow Sooty's Amazing Adventures]]'' 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. |
| 280 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': "Showdown in Tiny Town", where Bud, unable to watch his favorite Westerns, lives out his own Wild West adventure by making himself the sheriff of a tiny town of insects. |
| 281 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 282 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E12TheLastestGunInTheWest The Lastest Gun in the West]]" has Bart befriend a washed-up Western star, and includes Bart threatening his classmates into dressing like cowboys to help him revive his career. |
| 283 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E18DudeWheresMyRanch Dude, Where's My Ranch?]]" has the Simpsons [[VacationEpisode vacation]] at a ranch, though it was as much about rural living as western-themed. |
| 284 | * 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. |
| 285 | * ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'': In "Gumfight at the S'Okay Corral", Grandpa Squirrel tells Rodney a story about a mysterious gumfighter who saves a Wild West town from a no-good sheriff. |
| 286 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E21TheQuestion The Question]]", Ruby decides she needs some time to herself after an argument with Sapphire. She's inspired by a wild-west comic Steven finds in Greg's comic collection to spend it dressing and acting like a cowboy. |
| 287 | * ''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 [[TheTropeKid The Capricorn Kid]]. |
| 288 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' had a few such episodes; 'Butch Mario and the Luigi Kid', 'the Great Gold Coin Rush', 'The Provalone Ranger' for example... |
| 289 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' episode, "Citizen Khan", Baloo, Kit, and Wildcat wind up in the western town of Boomstone while attempting to deliver Carnuvian kumquats. Boomstone is owned by Shere Khan Industries and run by the corrupt Sheriff Gomer Cleghorn, who forces its townsfolk to mine for urgonium, a strange mineral with powerful explosive properties. When Wildcat accidentally causes an explosion with it, the black marks on his face and his dislodged cap cause him to be mistaken for Shere Khan himself by the miners. When the miners hold Wildcat for ransom, Cleventine Clever calls Shere Khan industries to report the kidnapping, unwittingly getting the real Shere Khan on the line, who soon puts an end to Gomer's corrupt ways. |
| 290 | * ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'': The guys go on a mission to help out the notorious Billy the Kid, who is literally acting like a baby and needs to get straightened out and become a real outlaw. To do this, Tuddrussel makes Larry, Otto and Billy start their own gang and begin robbing trains and banks. This part is successful, as the sheriff, or The Man With No Name of ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' fame, comes after them and this leads to a chase that runs all over the Western states. |
| 291 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': The episode "High Toon" involves Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton visiting Prairie Junction and defending it from a gang of coyote outlaws. |
| 292 | * ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' has a pair of examples: |
| 293 | ** The first, "The Ballad of Little Joe", gives this theme to [[Literature/BookOfGenesis the story of Joseph]]. The idea came from a disagreement between Bob and Larry on what the episode should be; the former wanted a Bible story while the latter wanted a Western. So they agreed to make the episode [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a Western Bible story]]. |
| 294 | ** The second, "Moe and the Big Exit", was a direct sequel to the above. Larry thought the Western Bible story idea worked out well, so he wanted to do it again with [[Literature/BookOfExodus the story of Moses]]. |
| 295 | * ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo'' had "Cowboys and Indiscipline". After a failed hold-up at a drive-in movie theatre, the brothers hitch a train ride to Tombstone, Arizona (by driving on the railway tracks), where they drive local bandit Black Jake mad with animal impressions and make a new "friend" in the form of the town's Marshal, Wyatt Eartle. |
| 296 | * ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': "El Oso" takes place in turn-of-the-century Mexico, and features Charlie the Sasquatch getting involved with a group of bandits. |
| 297 | * ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': The episode "Go West, Young Scoob" had the gang visit an animatronic Wild West theme park called Cyber Gulch, and investigate why the robots have turned evil. |
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