Support Your Local Sheriff
- The local pack of dogs wandering around and walking right across Millard Frymore's casket mid-funeral gives the viewer an early idea of what they're in for. The dogs continue to be seen at various points throughout the movie.
- Jason pulls the "shoot through a washer hole" trick in his job interview. The understandably skeptical Perkins makes him do it again with tape over the washer. What's funny is Perkins suddenly very respectful attitude after Jason hands him the washer with a hole through the tape.
- Jake and Joe Danby's chat just after Mr. Danby's failed Jailbreak attempt.Joe: (about his father) He's got a heart as big as the whole outdoors, but he don't have one brain in his poor old head.
- This exchange:Mayor Perkins: I wanted you to meet my daughter, Sheriff. She's a good cook, a mighty fine-looking girl. Takes after her dear, departed mother.
Jason McCullough: Mother died, huh?
Mayor Perkins: Nope, she just departed. - The Brick Joke of Prudy naming her gold mine after the guy whose funeral was disrupted by its discovery.
- Prudy is just trying to make her way through town, except almost every guy along the way keeps groping her until she finally winds up in a fight in the middle of town, in a huge mud puddle, beating at people with a plank. When she sees the new sheriff, her first words to him, in that condition, are "You want to grab something too?"Jason: Everything looks too slippery.
- When she later tries to explain the situation, he's completely nonchalant about it. It's something any young lady might occasionally find herself in the middle of.
- Right before the big climactic gunfight:Jason: You understand the plan?
Jake: Oh, yeah yeah! [crouches lower, muttering] Keep out of the line of fire whenever I can... - The reveal at the end of exactly how the Mayor and Town Council were staying out of the way of said gunfight: when Madame Orr's is shot by a cannon, they clamber out in their Longjohns right alongside the girls.
- Jake's mandatory last lines.Jake: Now the way this story ends... is that they get married, and he goes on to become governor of the state. Never gets to Australia, but he keeps readin' a lot of books about it. I get to be sheriff of this town... and then I go on to become one of the most beloved characters in Western folklore.
- Suuure Jake.
Support Your Local Gunfighter
- In order to try and outsmart the true "Swifty" Morgan. Latigo confronts the angry gunman, while mounted on a donkey. Unfortunately, while the audience might be amused... "Swifty" clearly is not."Swifty" Morgan: You can't gunfight a man sitting on your ass!
- After he's injured, "Swifty" pleads with a man to help him get his boots off before he dies. So as to not "die with his boots on". In the end, "Swifty" survives, though he never does manage to get his boots off.
