Tropes associated with this episode:
- Berserk Button: If you call the Cartwrights yellow, Joe is not going to take it well.
- Big Brother Instinct: Hoss has done this many times for Joe when he was in trouble, and this is just the latest example. In this case, it begins as an Inverted Trope, when Joe asks Charlie a simple innocent question about his view of Hoss.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Charlie Powers and Ross Dugan.
- The Boxing Episode: "The Fighters" centers around an aging boxer who is about to retire after one last match and a young, tough-talking, arrogant fighter who goes around picking fights with the locals.
- Turn the Other Cheek: Precisely what Hoss is hoping to do with regards to Charlie. Then Little Brother Instinct kicks in.
- Vocal Dissonance: He might be tall and muscular, but Charlie's nasal voice would do credit to Abraham Lincoln or Mike Tyson.
