The Chans stop by a ghost town and find a book with someone resembling Jackie on the cover and read the story of "The Hong Kong Kid".
This episode provides examples of:
- And the Adventure Continues: The book ends with Jackie, Jade, and Uncle's counterparts heading off into the sunset, expecting to sell more goods and clean up more towns.
- Big Damn Heroes: Uncle's peddler uses his digestion elixir to melt Mayor Valmont's gun."Good for digestion, bad for everything else!"
- Cat Up a Tree: Sheriff Jackie's first act is to save a cat (Black Bart) from a roof.
- Combat Pragmatist: Mayor Valmont attempts to kill Sheriff Jackie with a shotgun rather than fighting him hand to hand. He is only stopped because the peddler melts his gun.
- Cowboy Episode: A story detailing Jackie's ancestor's immigration to America, working on the railroad, and "promotion" to sheriff.
- Dramatic Irony: The audience sees that Mayor Valmont and his mooks are working for Shendu, but as the book's narration never does or could acknowledge the demon, the Chans remain unaware of his role in the plot.
- Fantastic Racism: To railroad workers, which are a parallel to Asians when they immigrated to America after the Europeans and Africans.
- Hidden Depths: Jackie's ancestor was set up to fail as sheriff on the basis of him being klutz held in contempt, but like his descendent, he demonstrates far more physical skill and perseverance than expected.
- Language Fluency Denial: Jade's counterpart eavesdrops on Mayor Valmont and his lackey's criminal activity. When they catch her, she starts speaking in Chinese to make them think she can't understand English and doesn't know what they're up to.
- Literal-Minded: Uncle at first refuses to explore the ghost town because ghosts attract bad chi. Later, he casts a spell around the car.
- Narcissist: Uncle is only interested in the story when a character resembling him comes along.
- Never Say "Die": Mayor Valmont says he "took care" of the last sheriff to ensure no one would be interfering in his business.
- Noodle Incident: Assuming the story is real, how did the Horse Talisman go from being in the Wild West to Mount Rushmore in present day? And how exactly did the author even know of the Horse Talisman, assuming they knew about it at all?
- Poor Communication Kills: Shendu said he wanted "the horse" off the stagecoach. The mooks came back with a literal horse instead of the horse talisman.
- So Much for Stealth: Tohru's counterpart spies on the gathering of villains and learns what they're up to. After the others leave, Shendu chastises Tohru for spying on them and zaps him.
- Unreliable Narrator: Parodied at times. The narration occasionally makes Sheriff Jackie out to be an imposing badass enforcing the law, but then we see him simply chastising a guy breaking littering laws by tossing apple cores to the ground after feeding a mule. His niece is also described as a tall young woman, fifteen years of age, but Jade dismisses it as a typo, after which she is replaced with a lookalike of Jade.
