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Rustlers' Rhapsody

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Rustlers' Rhapsody is a 1985 Western comedy written and directed by Hugh Wilson.Rex O'Herlihan (Tom Berenger), the Singing Cowboy, rides his wonder-horse Wildfire into yet another small frontier town to dispense a dose of non-lethal justice to the local Cattle Baron, Colonel Ticonderoga (Andy Griffith). Only this time, reality finally catches up with Rex, and things do not go entirely as planned...The film was a parody of many classic Western conventions, such as the singing cowboy films of the 1930s and 1940s. It was inspired by Wilson's experiences working at CBS Studio Center, once the lot of Republic Pictures, whose library is now owned by the film's distributor Paramount, whose current parent Paramount Global also now owns CBS Studio Center in addition to the CBS network itself, but is planning to sell off CBS Studio Center to Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management.
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Railroad Baron
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Railroad Baron: The villain of the piece along with the Cattle Baron.
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Genre Savvy
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Genre Savvy: Rex has been through the standard B-western plot so many times he knows exactly what's going to happen. This time it's different because the villains get Genre Savvy too. They figure out that, as villains, they must subvert the standard formula to have any chance of winning. Since the good guys always win, they hire themselves a good guy to stand against the hero.
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In the Back
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In the Back: Blackie's mooks accidentally shoot him in the back.
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Accidental Aiming Skills
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Accidental Aiming Skills: Rex tries to teach Peter how to light his cigarette by shooting the tip. Nervously, Peter cocks the revolver and fires ... only to shoot Rex's hat off his head. In the climactic gunfight, Rex has been wounded in his shooting arm, and his nemesis Bob is about to finish him off. Rex raises his gun, fires, and:
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Parody Sue
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Parody Sue: Rex, naturally.
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The Sheriff
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The Sheriff: "A corrupt old coward who takes his orders from the Colonel."
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands
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Blasting It Out of Their Hands: This is the only way Rex ever shoots at anyone. Except for the one time he misses his opponent's hand. Good thing it was a lawyer he shot.
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Invincible Hero
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Invincible Hero: Subverted. Like most B-Western heroes, Rex seems, and believes himself to be, invincible, yet in this town the villains have a new trick up their sleeve.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: The Colonel.
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Battle-Interrupting Shout
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Battle-Interrupting Shout: Averted - Rex shouts until the gunfight stops, only to realize that it stopped because everyone had already shot each other.
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Evil Lawyer Joke:
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Audible Gleam
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Miss Tracy is so golden, she doesn't actually have sex with anyone. She just talks dirty to them. Until Rex "gets better" at the end of the film..
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Technical Pacifist
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Technical Pacifist: Rex only shoots villains in the hand.
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I Like Those Odds
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I Like Those Odds: Four Mooks stroll into Rex's camp in the middle of the night. Just to be semi-fair, Rex only uses one gun.
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Sex as Rite-of-Passage
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Sex as Rite-of-Passage
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Cattle Baron
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Cattle Baron: Colonel Ticonderoga. Though as the film explicitly points out, you never actually see any of his cattle, just hear some mooing in the background.
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What a Drag
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What a Drag: Happens to the Cattle Baron's daughter.
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Contractual Genre Blindness
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Contractual Genre Blindness: Rex, who considers it his "karma" to ride into a town and "help the good guys, who are usually poor for some reason, against the bad guys, who are usually rich for some reason," and ride out again.
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Delayed Narrator Introduction: "Now this is the story of the day when a most wonderful thing happened to Rex. He met me."
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Took a Level in Badass
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Took a Level in Badass: Rex, after he takes care of becoming a Confident Heterosexual, and has a "This time, it's personal!" moment.
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: When the two Mooks and Blackie confront Rex in the saloon at the beginning, the Mooks don't bother checking if Blackie is in their line of fire before they draw and shoot.
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Cool Horse
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Cool Horse: "I wish my horse could do that!"
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Celibate Hero
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Celibate Hero: Rex. Until he finds out that the Good Cowboy has to be a Confident Heterosexual, which he has to resolve before the final shootout.
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Karma Houdini: The Colonel never got any punishment for the crimes he committed.
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Nearly anyone who shoots at Rex, outside of the Final Boss.
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Land in the Saddle: This is part of Peter's sidekick training.
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Improbable Aiming Skills
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Not only can Rex consistently shoot the guns out of their hands, he can do so from 100 yards away, shooting casually from the hip while mounted.
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Seen It All
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Seen It All: How Rex O'Herlahan knows the future. The same thing keeps happening over and over again in every town he visits.
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Badass Longcoat
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Badass Longcoat: Lampshaded by the narrator, who is envious of the guys in spaghetti westerns because "they all got to wear those great raincoats, even when it was 110 in the shade."
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Unlimited Wardrobe: Rex; he has a good-sized wagon for storing all his outfits.
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The Blacksmith
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The Blacksmith / Intrepid Reporter / Schoolmarm: All mentioned at one point, but none of them actually appear in the film.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: When Rex teaches Peter how to be a sidekick, one of the lessons is "jumping out of a second story window onto your horse".
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Romance-Inducing Smudge
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Romance-Inducing Smudge: Spoofed where the cattle baron's daughter has been dragged behind her horse for hours. When Rex rescues her, she has only a tiny smudge on her cheek to show for it, which Rex tenderly wipes away.
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Have a Gay Old Time
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Have a Gay Old Time: "Throw another faggot on the fire", said by Colonel Ticonderoga to order his men to put another log on the fireplace. Intentional on the part of the filmmakers, as Colonel Ticonderoga is Ambiguously Gay.
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: The Colonel's daughter is dragged behind a galloping horse for miles. This results in not one bruise, broken bone, or scratch, just a single smudge on her face for the hero to clean off.
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