Cowboy: Difference between revisions

 

Some say that the Cowboy is the third faction in the war between the [[Pirate]] and the [[Ninja]], but the Cowboys work for a living, thank you kindly. Besides, they're more concerned with their traditional enemies: [[Cowboys and Indians|Indians]], [[Determined Homesteader|farmers]], [[Acceptable Targets|sheepherders]] and [[The Rustler|rustlers]].

 

* When Philip Morris decided to rebrand its Marlboro cigarettes from a hoity-toity "ladies' smoke" to a man's cigarette, they could think of no better symbol of rugged American manliness than the cowboy. This ad campaign was wildly successful, and the Marlboro Man ads ran for decades. [http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marlboro.asp And yes, "he" died of lung cancer.]

 

* Most of the characters in ''[[The Cowboys]]'', naturally. The chief difference is that most of them are underage because of a labor shortage (a normal ranch would of course have one or two teenagers just learning their first job of course but not like that). They are basically of the "working cowboy" sort, though one has a guitar and likes Vivaldi and thus might count as a "singing cowboy".

 

* Again, nearly every Western-set television series ever.

* On ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'' Francis worked as a dude ranch cowboy for a while. One episode had Francis and Otto (the ranch's German owner) run afoul of a pair of working cowboys who kept tearing down the Grotto's fence to let their cattle through.

* [[Nickelodeon]] show, ''[[Hey Dude]]'', was set on a dude ranch.

* ''[[Horrible Histories (TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'' had a musical number describing what the life of a working cowboy was actually like.

== [[Music]] ==

* There is an entire subgenre of "cowboy songs", many of which were created and sung by actual cowboys (some lost forever, now) while others have been made up from whole cloth in more recent times.

 

== [[Radio]] ==

* ''[[Have Gun — Will Travel]]'' often featured cowboys as guest characters. In one particularly memorable episode, Paladin befriends a lone cowboy who happens to be Native American—then accepts a fee from [[Corrupt Hick|a big spread rancher]] to force the small rancher to sell his land. {{spoiler|Paladin had spotted that metal deposits on the land were slowly poisoning the cattle, making the spread worthless for ranching.}}

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Cowboy Stackhouse from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''

* Quickstrike from ''[[Beast Wars]]'', a villainous metal [[Mix-and-Match Critters|scorpion/cobra hybrid]] has the personality if not the looks, with a generous helping of Redneck added to the mix.

 

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