History WesternAnimation / Barnyard

* HorrorHunger: Freddy the Ferret is constantly trying to resist himself from eating his best friend Peck the Rooster. He ends up turning this on the coyotes when biting one of them apparently tastes like chicken

* AnAesop: "A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others."

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After a boy tries cowtipping some cows along with his friends, the cows respond with boytipping him.
%%* CoolOldGuy: Ben and Miles.
* CowTipping: After a boy tries cowtipping some cows along with his friends, the cows respond with boytipping him.

* HorrorHunger: Freddy the Ferret is constantly trying to resist himself from eating his best friend Peck the Rooster.
%%* HumiliationConga: Dag gets a rather satisfying one. He never bothers the farm animals again.

* MoodWhiplash: A probable reason for the movie's meddling reception is its tone being a bit uneven. On one side it wants to be a kids movie about silly farm animals being funny, on the other it's got a genuine VileVillainSaccharineShow badguy who serves a darker and more somber subplot about legacy and family. This is best encapsulated how early on the animals have a big party with Biggie Cheese singing, while shortly after also showing [[spoiler: Ben's tragic LastStand]].
* MookChivalry: Averted. The coyotes dogpile Ben.

* AnimalGenderBender: Contrary to popular belief, "male cows" don't have udders. To be fair, bulls have nipples, but they don't have udders (and showing actual genitalia wouldn't fly). Director Steve Oedekerk admits that he put udders on the steers because he thought [[RuleOfFunny "it'd be funny to give them the incorrect anatomy"]], and he had figured that city folk thought that all cows would look like this. Muddying things even further is there's a scene with a bull -- no, not a male cow, an actual ''bull'' -- riding a mechanical man. [[WildMassGuessing Perhaps bulls and cows are separate species in this universe.]]

* ArcWords[=/=]MeaningfulEcho: "A strong man stands up for himself. A ''stronger'' man stands up for ''others''."

** Miles also counts.
* BigDamnHeroes: In the finale all the farm animals do this to Otis.

* CoolOldGuy: Ben and Miles.

* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler: Daisy names her and Otis' son after Ben.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: "THAT'S CALLED ''BOY TIPPING''!! HA HA HA!!"

* DownInTheDumps: The coyotes have a base in one.
* DropTheCow: Happens to a group of coyotes in the final battle.

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Ben is not actually the birth father of Otis: he took the latter in when he was just a calf. Although they do have their fights (most of them concerning the ManChild nature of Otis), it's clear that both of them love each other, and Otis is absolutely devastated when Ben dies.]]
** Also, Otis and Daisy raising her child (and his adoptive stepchild) Ben together at the film's end.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: For the first half-hour or so of the film, it's an entertainingly silly WackyFratboyHijinks plot with cows. Then [[spoiler: Otis' father]] dies and it becomes a dark revenge Western story...with cows.

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Otis, after being beaten by the coyotes.]]

* HumiliationConga: Dag gets a rather satisfying one. He never bothers the farm animals again.

* ManipulativeBastard: Although not shown much, Dag has some shades of this. It's most notable when he taunts Otis, making him feel terrible about not helping his father on the night he died, and afterwards proposing Otis a deal: he and his pack would only take a few animals each night, but if Otis tries again to stop them, they will slaughter every single one of them.
** Also, when he says Otis that he will be seeing him around by the next nights. When he returns to the farm, it's during the day, relying on Otis only counting on him return at night as he had always done.

* NewOldWest: As mentioned above, this is less the wacky animal comedy that [[NeverTrustATrailer it was advertised as]] and more of a modern Western (with [[RecycledInSpace farm animals]]). Most of the animals (especially the chickens) are the innocent frontier townsfolk, Dag and his pack are the roving posse of bandits that threaten the town's safety and livelihood, and Ben is the Sheriff who keeps the bandits at bay and the town -- er, farm -- safe from them. Otis' ComingOfAgeStory is completed by him [[spoiler: functionally becoming the new "Sheriff" after Ben's death.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: Ben isn't Otis' actual father, as mentioned above, but adopted him and raised him as his own. Later, [[spoiler: Otis himself adopts Daisy's child as their own, bringing things full circle.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Otis attempts one. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well.]]

* ThoseWilyCoyotes: Dag

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Otis' father Ben was killed by Dag while he was protecting the chickens.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Coyotes do not travel in packs and are actually highly territorial, though it's implied that the other coyotes joined Dag because they were impressed with his skills at hunting chickens. And let's not even get to the male cattle with udders, which they do not have in real life.

* {{Gonk}}: Most of the human characters are weird-looking. The snotty-boy in particular has a very ugly appearance.

''Barnyard'' (also marketed as ''Barnyard: The Original Party Animals'') is a 2006 Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} animated comedy-drama film written and directed by Creator/SteveOedekerk, and starring the voices of Creator/KevinJames, Creator/CourteneyCox, Creator/SamElliott, Creator/DannyGlover, Creator/WandaSykes, Creator/AndieMacDowell and Creator/DavidKoechner.