In a flashback to long ago, Charlie has an adventure in the Mexican desert.
Tropes:
- Anachronism Stew: The old west Mexicans Charlie encounters in 1913 keep describing him as the legendary Chupacabra, though
the Chupacabra myth wouldn't start to exist until the 1970's, and the word itself wouldn't be coined until the 1990's. - Boss Subtitles: Each of El Oso's fellow bandits is introduced with subtitles. When Charlie makes up a bandit name, it appears as a subtitle, with a question mark.
- Chekhov's Skill: Charlie is shown to have a great talent for mimicking things early on for a gag, and it winds up saving his and El Oso's lives during the climax.
- Chupacabra: The Mexicans refer to Charlie as a chupacabra, due to him misinterpreting his attempt to hug goats as trying to eat them.
- Cowboy Episode: This episode takes place in the deserts of turn-of-the-century Mexico, and features Charlie having a run-in with some banditos.
- I Owe You My Life: El Oso is grateful to Charlie for saving him from dying of thirst in the desert and tells him this.
- Ironic Nickname:
- El Oso (The Bear) suggests someone who's big and menacing. He's actually mild-mannered and of average size.
- Chuckles is actually The Quiet One, saying nothing other than "Si".
- Line-of-Sight Name: When making up a name to fool El Oso's gang, Charlie chooses Cactus Amigo, after the cactus he met earlier and the Spanish word for friend (which El Oso just called him). Later, he makes up a story of killing a sheriff, whom he names Tablefloor. The lead bandit says that couldn't be true... because he killed Sheriff Tablefloor. So Charlie amends it to Tabledoor.
- Meaningful Name: El Oso is Spanish for "the bear", foreshadowing Charlie's future friendship with the Bears.
- Really 700 Years Old: The episode takes place in 1913, yet Charlie looks exactly the same as he does in the present, meaning he's at least more than a century oldnote . One of his impressions is of a dinosaur bellowing (namely the Stock Sound Effect of the T. rex from Carnivores), suggesting he's lived for millions of years!
