Basic Trope: An otherwise non-western series has an Out-of-Genre Experience episode about The Wild West in some form.
- Straight: Alice and Bob is a live action sitcom, but one episode has them go to Texas.
- Exaggerated: Not just Alice and Bob, but the entire cast are randomly acting like cowboys for no reason.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob has an episode where they won a trip to Wild West Park.
- Justified: Alice and Bob are interested in cowboys and want to see how they live.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob is normally a Western series, but in one episode they head to the city.
- Subverted: We see a long pan of the desert, followed by Alice appearing in a cowboy hat. Bob tells her to take that silly thing off, because today they'll be acting like they're in space.
- Double Subverted: Alice is upset because they'll be acting as cowboys next week and Bob is getting ahead of schedule.
- Parodied: Only Alice and Bob are acting like cowboys. Everyone else is just confused.
- Zig-Zagged: The episode is formatted as a Sketch Comedy show. Some of the segments are Western-themed and the other ones aren't.
- Averted: Nobody acts like a cowboy.
- Enforced: The creators fill a story with Western cliches that practically write themself.
- Lampshaded: "The Wild West is so cool!"
- Invoked: "Let's act like cowboys!"
- Defied: Alice and Bob don't like cowboys and don't want anything to do with them.
- Discussed: "Do you think this is really like what the Wild West was like?"
Ride your mighty steed past the desert cacti to get back to Cowboy Episode.
