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* FeudingFamilies: The circus gets caught in the middle of a centuries old feud between two families, the [=MacDuffs=] and the [=MacNeils=], in "The Clan [=MacDuff=]".
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* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: In "The Clan [=MacDuff=]", the patriarch of the eponymous clan arrives at the circus playing his bagpipes, which spooks the animals. Ben and Tony get in a fight with his sons-in-law in attempt to get him to stop.
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* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Ben does this in "The Good Fight", disarming the villainous foreman leading a lynch mob by shooting him in the gun hand.
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* NewOldFlame: Ben encounters one in "The Good Fight". She is now the widow of a CattleBaron who is attempting to drive out a peaceful religious community so she can take their land.
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* InconvenientlyVanishingExoneratingEvidence: In "Quick Shuffle", Ben catches a crooked dealer cheating him in a poker game. The dealer pulls a derringer and Ben shoots him. Another gambler kicks the derringer under a cupboard to get Ben arrested so he can use a doctored IOU to claim ownership of the circus.
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* HighDivingHijinks: In "Never Won Fair Lady", a major part of the plot is driven by Casey trying to find someone who is willing to undertake his new high-diving act. Eventually, a milksop [[IWantToBeARealMan attempting to prove his bravery]] to win the heart of the female lion tamer takes up the challenge.
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* HighDivingHijinks: HighDiveHijinks: In "Never Won Fair Lady", a major part of the plot is driven by Casey trying to find someone who is willing to undertake his new high-diving act. Eventually, a milksop [[IWantToBeARealMan attempting to prove his bravery]] to win the heart of the female lion tamer takes up the challenge.
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* HighDivingHijinks: In "Never Won Fair Lady", a major part of the plot is driven by Casey trying to find someone who is willing to undertake his new high-diving act. Eventually, a milksop [[IWantToBeARealMan attempting to prove his bravery]] to win the heart of the female lion tamer takes up the challenge.
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* CircusBrat: Of the regulars, Ben was born into the circus and has been with circuses all his life. It is mentioned that several of the other performers coming from multiple generations of circus folk.
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* CircusBrat: Of the regulars, Ben was born into the circus and has been with circuses all his life. It is mentioned that several of the other performers coming come from multiple generations of circus folk. folk.
* ClearTheirName: In "Quick Shuffle", Ben is accused of murder and arrested. Casey and Tony have to find some way to prove that Ben acted in self-defence before the local HangingJudge sentences him to swing.
* ClearTheirName: In "Quick Shuffle", Ben is accused of murder and arrested. Casey and Tony have to find some way to prove that Ben acted in self-defence before the local HangingJudge sentences him to swing.
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* IWantToBeARealMan: In "Never Won Fair Lady", Red Buttons plays the milksop son of a famous general sent to the circus to toughen him up. After falling in love with the female lion tamer, he decides he wants to become brave.
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* TheSoCalledCoward: In "Never Won Fair Lady", Red Buttons plays a milksop sent to the circus by his father in order to toughen him up. Although the idea of physical violence makes him ill and he allows himself to be bullied by one of the performers, he eventually performs a stunt that no one else in the circus will perform (and decks his tormentor with a single punch).
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* RecruitingTheCriminal: At the end of "Mighty Like Rogues", Casey hires Mrs Jukes to use her criminal skills to protect the circus from other thieves.
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* EvilMatriarch: In "Mighty Like Rogues", a family of thieves joins the T & T Circus and attempts to pick it clean. The main instigator is the mother, who urges her less willing children into crime.
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* LameExcuse: In "Mighty Like Rogues", ConMan Georgie Jukes claims to have a bad back that prevents him doing any heavy work.
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* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Jukes, a family of thieves and con artists, attempts to take the T & T Circus for everything they can in "Mighty Like Rogues".
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Cato in "Coals of Fire". Obsessed with finding the Union officer who killed his master, Cato joined the Confederate army in hopes of running across. After the war ended, he devoted his life to searching for him. When he eventually learns the officer's name and hometown, he joins the T & T Circus because it will be traveling there. Tony makes multiple attempts to make him see how empty his quest is, and how a man of his talents could do so much more with his life. But it isn't until Cato confronts his target and sees how pathetic he has become that he comes to his senses and leaves without killing him.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Cato in "Coals of Fire". Obsessed with finding the Union officer who killed his master, Cato joined the Confederate army in hopes of running across.across him. After the war ended, he devoted his life to searching for him. When he eventually learns the officer's name and hometown, he joins the T & T Circus because it will be traveling there. Tony makes multiple attempts to make him see how empty his quest is, and how a man of his talents could do so much more with his life. But it isn't until Cato confronts his target and sees how pathetic he has become that he comes to his senses and leaves without killing him.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: In "The Inheritance", an arrogant Japanese acrobat and judo expert joins the troupe. He is constantly getting into fights with anyone who does not follow his Japanese customs, and quickly alienates the rest of the circus. Ben eventualy brings him down a peg or two.
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: In "The Inheritance", an arrogant Japanese acrobat and judo expert joins the troupe. He is constantly getting into fights with anyone who does not follow his Japanese customs, and quickly alienates the rest of the circus. Ben eventualy eventually brings him down a peg or two.
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* CaptiveDate: Don Diego does this to Naomi in "Naomi Champagne": staging a romantic dinner for her that she has no choice but to attend.
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* GoGoEnslavement: "Naomi Champagne", the {{bandito}} Don Diego dresses the showgirl Naomi in a very feminine gown when he forces her to have dinner with him.
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* ElCidPloy: In "Naomi Champagne", Ben hoists the the dead body of {{Bandito}} leader Don Diego over his shoulders and holds a gun to his head. He threatens to 'kill' him in an attempt to bluff his way past Don Diego's men.
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* ScarpiaUltimatum: In "Naomi Champagne", {{Bandito}} leader Don Diego tells Naomi he will release Ben and the other prisoners if Naomi agrees to marry me. He goes so far as to have Ben [[WhatADrag dragged behind a horse]] in order to force her hand.
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* WhatADrag: In "Naomi Champagne", Don Diego has Ben dragged behind a horse in order to force Naomi to acquiesce to his ScarpiaUltimatum.
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: {{Bandito}} leader Don Diego plans to have his way with the pretty showgirl Naomi when he captures the stagecoach in "Naomi Champagne".
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* YouGotSpunk: {{Bandito}} leader Don Diego says that he admires Naomi's spirit after she slaps him in the face during his IHaveYouNowMyPretty scene in "Naomi Champagne".
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* {{Bandito}}: Ben and a group of stagecoach passengers are captured by a gang of banditos in "Naomi Champagne".
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* ArrogantKungFuGuy: In "The Inheritance", an arrogant Japanese acrobat and judo expert joins the troupe. He is constantly getting into fights with anyone who does not follow his Japanese customs, and quickly alienates the rest of the circus. Ben eventualy brings him down a peg or two.
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* AsianRudeness: In "The Inheritance", a Japanese acrobat and judo expert joins the circus, and quickly alienates the rest of the circus with his arrogance.
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* BullyingADragon: In "The Inheritance", a group of cowhands decide to pick a fight with a judo master. Who had already wiped the floor with them earlier in the episode.
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* GooldOldFisticuffs: Both Ben and Tony are shown to be masters of bare knuckle brawling. This trope comes into play in "The Inheritance" where Ben is able to beat a judo master with nothing but his natural pugilistic talent.
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* GooldOldFisticuffs: GoodOldFisticuffs: Both Ben and Tony are shown to be masters of bare knuckle brawling. This trope comes into play in "The Inheritance" where Ben is able to beat a judo master with nothing but his natural pugilistic talent.
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* GooldOldFisticuffs: Both Ben and Tony are shown to be masters of bare knuckle brawling. This trope comes into play in "The Inheritance" where Ben is able to beat a judo master with nothing but his natural pugilistic talent.
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* ParentalSubstitute: In "The Inheritance", Casey 'inherits' custody of a pair of almost adult children.
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* OneOfTheBoys: "Stopover in Paradise". The only child of a rancher, her mother dies when she was few months old and her father raised her like he would a son.
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* OneOfTheBoys: Amy in "Stopover in Paradise". The only child of a rancher, her mother dies when she was few months old and her father raised her like he would a son.son.
* OutdoorBathPeeping: In "The Inheritance", Hideko comes up on Casey and Duffy while they are bathing in a lake, offering to scrub Casey's back. Casey has to keep telling her to turn around.
* OutdoorBathPeeping: In "The Inheritance", Hideko comes up on Casey and Duffy while they are bathing in a lake, offering to scrub Casey's back. Casey has to keep telling her to turn around.
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* HangingByTheFingers: At the climax of "Calamity Circus", the saboteur is left dangling by one hand from the trapeze, before slowly losing their grip and falling to their death.
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* HandOfDeath: This technique is used in "Calamity Circus" to conceal the identity of the saboteur.
