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* [[Accidental Aiming Skills]]: Parmenter is notorious for his inability to hit a target. Instead, he wins gunfights by accidentally making ludicrously complicated trick shots, followed by his men pretending they were deliberate. He ends up with a [[Accidental Hero|reputation as a sharpshooter]] as a result.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Agarn's distinctive hat is a [[Shout
* [[Action Girl]]: Wrangler Jane, obviously.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]
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* [[Blind Mistake]]: Happens regularly with Private Vanderbilt, thanks to his 20/900 vision. He once allowed two Indians wearing feather head-dresses to enter the fort unchallenged, and later explained "I thought they were turkeys." (Vanderbilts inability to distinguish Indians from turkeys is actually a [[Running Gag]], though it's usually played the other way.)
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Private Vanderbilt, the fort lookout. Subverted in that his vision is horrible even when he ''is'' wearing his glasses.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: B. Wise from "Spy, Counter, Counterspy" is essentially Maxwell Smart from ''[[
* [[Casting Gag]]: Trooper Duffy (Bob Steele) is an elderly cavalryman who claims to be the sole survivor of the Alamo, and regularly recounts his exploits there. Steele was previously a 1930s and '40s Western movie star, and had once been in a movie about meeting Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
** Sergeant O'Rourke is played by Forrest Tucker, who once portrayed a similar "O'Rourke" Cavalry Sergeant on ''[[Gunsmoke]]''. In real life, he also served as a member of the United States Army Cavalry under George S. [[Patton]].
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* [[Cowboy|Cowgirl]]: Wrangler Jane.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Inverted with Wrangler Jane, a twenty-something woman played by 15-year-old Melody Patterson. She got the part by initially lying about her age. The truth was not revealed until an on-set tutor pointed out her real age to one of the producers.
** This gave the producers a bit of trouble, as once her true age had been found out and due to a host of ethical/legal/[[
* [[Door Step Baby]]: Chief Wild Eagle leaves Captain Parmenter one after he accidentally saves the chief's life in "A Gift From the Chief".
* [[Double Vision]]: Used no less than ''five'' times on the show. Because Larry Storch was good with accents, he played three of Agarn's "long lost" cousins, one from Mexico, one who was French-Canadian, and one from Russia, in three separate episodes. Forrest Tucker and Ken Berry also got one episode each where they had to play opposite themselves.
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