When Linda and Bob suggest the kids do chores, the family ends up in a showdown.
Tropes:
- Both Sides Have a Point: The parents (mostly Linda) and the kids (mostly Louise) raise some pretty valid points on the chore debacle. As Linda puts it, she's worried that the kids are going to turn into delinquents with no respect for anyone as they get older and it would be good for them to help out their parents. As Louise puts it, the kids already work in the restaurant every day for free aside from their meager allowance so it's not as though they don't have a right to expect some compensation.
- The Bus Came Back: Though she had a minor cameo in the movie's end credits, this episode marks Marshmallow's first appearance in the show proper since "The Bleakening" as the scorekeeper for the quick-draw competition.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Downplayed, as Linda doesn't actually tell off Gloria for being so judgmental, but she at least gets to express it in a story she tells her kids. It's the first and only time we see Linda express any sort of rebellion against her awful mother.Linda: This is our town. These are our people. And that tart, onion-y odor is our smell. And sure, us sheriffs may not always do what we’re supposed to do, but we do what we need to do. For the good of this town. And I’m gonna be a better sheriff if I listen to my gut, and not someone else’s gut who doesn’t even live here. And right now, my gut is telling me back off, Big G.
- Cool Horse: Pepperoni the Pony, who is super buff yet humble about it.
- Derailed Fairy Tale: What starts out as a bedtime story about a pony quickly becomes a Wild West saga about the townspeople (the kids) rebelling against the "married sheriffs" (the parents) as each family member takes turns adding to the story.
- Didn't Think This Through: Bob and Linda attempt to punish the kids' refusal to do chores by barring TV access, realizing too late this limits their TV access as well.
- Exactly What I Aimed At: Mr. Goldoeder claims to be a sharpshooter, but every time he fires, he just claims that whatever gets hit is what he was shooting at.
- Extreme Doormat: Bob is always spineless, but he's even more so here. Even when his kids drive his wife to tears, he does nothing to lecture or correct his children's behavior, nor does he make a real effort to support or console Linda when she needed it. Even when Linda makes a valid point that their kids could grow up as delinquents, Bob admits that they could pretend they don't know them if that were to ever occur. Ultimately he wasn't willing to confront nor discipline his kids when they really could have used it.
- Food as Bribe: Bob and Linda convince the kids to do their chores by appealing to their Sweet Tooth and offering candy as payment.Gene: As usual, candy solves everything.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Implied and Invoked with Gloria in both the episode and the story itself. Linda and Louise's clash ultimately boils down to Linda feeling pressured by Gloria's nagging and Louise's defiance isn't personally directed at Linda, as it is towards her grandmother, whom Louise doesn't personally respect nor like. In their bedtime story, Linda and Louise even team up together against 'Big G' (Gloria), the real antagonist of the story.
- Henpecked Husband: Bob isn't as invested in making the kids do chores as Linda is, and seems to only be going along with it because Linda is making him (especially because Linda got the idea from her mother Gloria).
- Jerkass Ball: The kids are probably at their worst here, even Tina and Gene. Louise especially carries it firmly throughout the entire episode. While it's in character for her to be defiant and disrespectful to her parents, it's to the point where her refusal to listen to her mother comes off as incredibly petty and unreasonable and she even drives Linda to tears. Although Louise does actually apologize for it and Linda quickly forgives her once they both make it clear that their argument wasn't anything personal.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Gloria's criticisms are usually petty, but she's not completely wrong about how kids should do at least some chores as a means to helping out their parents. While it's implied that she and Al weren't very kind about it, most parents would agree that some kids could stand to do chores to pitch in. Her point gets undermined when Louise reminds her parents that they've already got the kids working in the restaurant, which Gloria either forgot or doesn't acknowledge as pitching in.
- Kids Hate Chores: The plot of the episode is sparked by Bob and Linda (mostly the latter) trying to get the kids to start doing chores, which they naturally push back against.
- No Ending: The story ends abruptly just as Sheriff Bob is about to fire a bean cannon, as the kids have fallen asleep by this point.
- Noodle Incident: Louise alludes to a time she called child welfare, which Bob wasn't (and still isn't) particularly happy about.
- Pec Flex: Tina insists that Pepperoni the Pony be really buff, and Pepperoni is shown flexing his pecs a couple of times.
- The Piano Player: Gene takes this role in the story. However, he has a portable player piano, basically a period-appropriate version of his keyboard, because it's "edgy".
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The episode title is a reference to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- Push Over Parents: The Belcher kids have so little respect for their parents' authority, they won't brush their teeth or even go their rooms when ordered to. Bob is his typical indifferent self and Linda raising her voice has zero effect. Even after the kids have a Jerkass Realization, they don't agree to do chores until they are bribed with candy.
- Shout-Out:
- When Louise adds a quick-draw competition to the Belchers' story, Bob compares it to The Quick and the Dead. Louise admits to watching it while Bob was asleep.
- During their final showdown, Married Sheriff Linda yells at Louise, "Everything I do, I do it for you!" Gene then adds, "Okay, Bryan Adams!"
- Unusual Ammo: Instead of guns, everyone carries bean shooters. Things get serious when everyone starts using lima beans.
