Alfred has a dream in which he is the hero in a cowboy movie. He arrests bandits and deals with old enemies. But then Dolf returns to take over the city.
Tropes:
- Artistic License – Gun Safety: Alfred's finger is on the trigger while he blows smoke from the barrel. He also twirls them around. Later he does the same with a large rifle, finger on the trigger to boot.
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Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: King Franz suddendly appearing as a movie director which implies Alfred is dreaming he's in a movie, but then dissappears and is never brought up again. - Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Alfred does this to Krabnagel's guns.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- In-universe/within-a-dream example: While riding to postcart, Henk explains to Winnie that Alfred's father and brothers weren't really shot and that this is all just a dream.
- In the same scene Alfred explains to Winnie that he has to go to fight in Tombstone of the dream will become so boring that nobody will want to watch it. Henk agrees and says that dreams have to be exiting.
- When Alfred has been pinned down during the firefight, Dolf tells his nen to kill Alfred already, since the show is ending soon. Alfred responds that he's not going to give up even in the last minutes.
- And immediately after:Dolf: Next week i will become this show's hero, and the amount of watchers will skyrocket!
- Shortly after, Dolf has a dream to in-universe real world example, when smells Winnie cooking in the real world.
- But Now I Must Go: After arresting Krabnagel Alfred goesaway, leaving behind the town,Henk, Tom, and Winnie.
- Cartoon Creature: The three brothers are Radboud's/Franz's royal guards, and as specieless and incomprehensible as before.
- The Cavalry: The literal cavalry acts as this by driving away the native americans who are attacking the postcart.
- Cowboy Episode
- Dream Episode
- Dual Wielding:
- Krabnagel shoots two revolvers at once.
- Also Ollie in the postcart fighting scene.
- And Dolf by the end of the final battle.
- Dub Name Change:
- The finnish dub renames the town of Tombstone "Kalmala" ("kalma" is an old finnish word for death or related folklore things, while "-la" is a common surname and place name suffix).
- The brothers who shot Alfred's father and brothers in the dream are renamed the Kolhonen brothers in the finnish dub.
- The finnish dub has the place Dolf was imprisoned in named "Tallas".
- The Dying Walk: It's left extremely ambiguous whether or not the keader of the brothers died before/after falling out of frame when he collapsed at the bar, though any of the tree are never referred to for the rest of the runtime. If he died it's a straight variant, if he lived it's a nonlethal variant.
- Famed In-Story: Famed in-dream. Lots of random people seem to recognize the westener Alfred by appearance.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-universe example: When Henk watches the television in the beginning, we see dust flying out of the television screen. Henk doesn't react to this.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- The drunk and the budgie at the train station are the redshirts Alfred and the company ran into while escaping from the National Crows' Party in episode 23.
- The coat Dolf wears in the train (that he quickly tosses off) looks like a westener version of his second NCP uniform's coat.
- Frothy Mugs of Water: Alcohol is replaced with milk, but this might be intentional. One of the brothers threatens to kill Henk for not ordering milk and says that milk is healthy, and we even see a drunk at the strain station chugging milk straight from the bottle. Geppe tells the drunk that he's going to get a diarrhea from all that drinking.
- Good Hair, Evil Hair: Dolf has an evil one. However he doesn't have the usual hitler mustache in this episode, instead having an outsticking pencil mustache. Suitably enough, since this is a western and the pencil mustache was/is common with western villains.
- Gun Twirling:
- Alfred does this while holstering his revolver, and when he plays with the gun later in the same scene.
- Later he proceeds to do the same with a rifle about as tall or taller than his own body.
- In the postcart fight, Henk does this - in the middle of a firefight!
- Hammerspace: Henk is apparently carrying a gun, but said gun is almost the same size as his body, with no realistic place for him to put it.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Nobody hits anything in the final battle.
- Never Bareheaded: Dolf keeps wearing a white stetson the whole time, leaving it unclear if his dream self has hair or not.
- Never Trust a Title: This episode barely has american indians (or the other indians), and nobody seems to be a cowboy either. The finnish title, "Alfred as a westener hero" is much more accurate.
- Police Are Useless: The sheriff version of inspector Sherlock in the dream sleeps in his chair instead of trying to do something about Krabnagel, even when he proably hears the gunshots and commotion just outside.
- Posse: Alfed strongly believes he can form a large posse to fight Dolf and his gang. However, the people either don't care or tell him to bug off, which leaves him completely alone when even Pikkie flees.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Alfred wears a pink bandana for most of the dream. Dolf also wears one when he shows up, and so do a few background male characters.
- A Round of Drinks for the House: The leader of the brother trio call for a round before going out to fight Alfred, telling them that they will be drinking to Alfred's death.
- Smoking Barrel Blowout
- Unexpected Character:
- Krabnagel shows up (but only in a dream) after last appearing in season 1 episode 13, nineteen episodes ago.
- Geppe, who was a rather minor character in the Crows' Party episodes never heard before or since, appears as one of Dolf's gang. Geppe does play an important part in the Grand Finale again.
