Lemonade Joe

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Not to be confused with "Ragtime Cowboy Joe".

Musician: Lemonade Joe! Do you know how silly you are?
Lemonade Joe: No, that I do not.

Lemonade Joe, or the Horse Opera (Czech: Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera) is a 1964 Czech film. It's a ruthless, hilarious musical parody of The Western and a veritable landmine of deliberately planted tropes.

Straight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joe's endorsement of Kolaloka lemonade as the refresher that assures deadly aim convinces the Arizona sin-town to abstain from alcohol, but Trigger Whiskey maker Duke Badman's brother, the devious gunslinger Hogofogo, comes to save his sibling's saloon from Joe's allies, father and daughter temperance revivalists, the Goodmans.


Tropes used in Lemonade Joe include: