The gang receive a weekend vacation package to Cyber Gulch, a Wild-West-themed amusement park populated with lifelike animatronics to cater to every dream the visitors have. However, one set of animatronics, the local outlaws, seem to have slipped their Restraining Bolts.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Anachronism Stew: John Lawman turns out to be Myron Scrim, a computer nerd who reinvented himself. In the flashback of himself as a bullied kid, he appears with a laptop computer.
- Brick Joke: In the beginning, Fred irritates Daphne by bringing up a Fantasy Elvis Camp that he apparently attended in the past. After he kicks the head off the Cold Steel android, impressing Daphne, he remarks that he learned that from the same camp, only Elvis had to do it while holding a guitar.
- The Bus Came Back: Gibby Norton, who's appeared in multiple previous episodes, returns.
- Captivity Harmonica: While locked up, Dr. Fleg plays the harmonica.
- Cowboy Episode: The episode focuses on the gang spending a weekend at a western theme park where customers are able to ride robotic horses, brand cattle, ride coaches, and fight outlaws. One character, professional Western authenticator Leora Lasswell, continually points out how unrealistic everything is.
- Foreshadowing:
- Fred, Velma, and Daphne come across blueprints for an android resembling Dr. Fleg and assumes that the scientist intends to make a robotic double of himself. It later turns out that Dr. Fleg himself is a robot and that John Lawman is human and the real founder of Cyber Gulch.
- Fred, Daphne, and Velma catch Gibby Norton messing around with the controls after the light goes out. He turns out to have caused the problem while trying to uncover the robots' secrets to build his own theme park.
- Hair-Trigger Avalanche: A beneficial example. When Cold Steel finds the gang as they're climbing out of a canyon, Scooby's terrified yelping brings down an unsteady rock formation on him.
- Hostile Animatronics: The "manimatrons" of outlaw Cold Steel and his men have apparently gone out of control, attacking and imprisoning the gang and even their apparent creator, Dr. Fleg.
- Robotic Reveal: The alleged creator of the Cyber Gulch animatronics Dr. Fleg turns out to be a robot himself when Velma destroys him by catching him with some of the water she threw at the sheriff.
- Unrobotic Reveal: John Lawman at first seems to be one of the animatronics created by Dr. Fleg for Cyber Gulch, even having a scene where he stutters and repeats himself as if he were malfunctioning. When Dr. Fleg is revealed to be a robot once Velma shorts him out with a splash of water, the same water does not affect John Lawman, revealing that he's human and the true founder of Cyber Gulch.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Velma doesn't blink an eye at "killing" Dr. Fleg with water, despite how he appears to be a sentient, emotive being. Although it is possible Mr. Lawman later repaired him.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The Episode is loosely based on the 1973 Film WestWorld.
- You Just Ruined the Shot: When a pair of outlaws stop the train and demand everyone give them their valuables, Fred jumps on one, knocking him into the other and sending them both crashing to the ground. Then one of the girls reads from the brochure that a train robbery was included in the vacation package.
- You Meddling Kids: After being revealed as the human founder of the town, John Lawman talks about the gang's meddling causing all the trouble. However, all of them deny it. Fred says that, for once, they weren't meddling.
