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[[File:Pobarvaj-si-voz-Paint-Your-Wagon-DVD-_8305.jpg|frame|Does this poster, by chance, remind anyone of that for ''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heavens Gate]]''?]]
Remember the ''Simpsons'' clip show episode "All Singing, All Dancing" where Bart and Homer rent a [[Clint Eastwood]] and [[Lee Marvin]] movie titled '''''Paint Your Wagon''''' and expect it to be a bloody shoot-em-up Western (much like ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' or ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]''), only to discover it's a cheesy, flaccid musical?
[[Aluminum Christmas Trees|Yeah, the Simpsons writers didn't make that up]].
This somewhat obscure 1969 movie [[The Musical|musical]] was based on a Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe (the authors of ''[[Brigadoon]]'' and later ''[[My Fair Lady]]''), with which it shares a number of characters and songs but not much plot.
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* [[Everything's Better with Cows]]: The golden calf and the bull.
* [[Fashion Dissonance]]: Very much averted with the local hippies who were used as extras for the film (this ''was'' made in [[The Sixties]], remember). Their clothes and hair were already so in tune with the Gold Rush aesthetic that they didn't even need costumes or makeup.
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* [[Gold Fever]]: The motivation behind most of the hilarity that ensues, especially for Ben Runsom.
* [[No Name Given]] / [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Ben's Pardner (until the end, anyway).
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