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Gunsmoke

518 statements
101 feature instances
39 referencing feature instances

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Gunsmoke	label	Gunsmoke
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Gunsmoke	comment	A long, long running Western series about the adventures of U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon and the citizenry of Dodge City, Kansas. It started as a radio series, then moved to CBS television (with a completely different cast) in 1955. It lasted to 1975.At 20 seasons, the TV version was/is the longest-running live-action prime time American dramatic series (Law & Order tied this record in 2010, though Gunsmoke produced more episodes, and the 20-year record was finally beaten in 2019 by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, though again, with fewer episodes) and the archetypical television example of the Western genre. It still holds the record for longest-running prime time live action series, although The Simpsons has long since taken the overall record (it surpassed Gunsmoke's episode count in April 2018).The show's cast included some of the most memorable characters in television history, including Marshal Matt Dillon and the sassy Miss Kitty. A good example of its impact: the planet on which the "Space Western" manga/anime series Trigun is set is called "Gunsmoke".
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Gunsmoke / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Gunsmoke / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Matt Dillon in the post-series tv movies.
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Gunsmoke / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Gunsmoke / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: For all the times people are getting shot, you'd think there'd be more blood.
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Gunsmoke / int_150994fe	type	Title Sequence Replacement
Gunsmoke / int_150994fe	comment	Title Sequence Replacement: Gunsmoke got a few, but for the first nine seasons the exact same title sequence was retained, with only the music changing around seasons four and five. Season 10 was the first new title sequence. It changed significantly for season 11 when for the first time Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis and Milburn Stone were added to the opening credits, and then again for season 12 when the show moved from black and white to color and Roger Ewing was added. Season 13 no longer had Roger Ewing and featured a rearrangement of the theme tune. The final season got yet another new title sequence since Amanda Blake was no longer on the show.
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Gunsmoke / int_15666da9	type	The Rustler
Gunsmoke / int_15666da9	comment	The Rustler: People who steal livestock.
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Gunsmoke / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Gunsmoke / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Happened in the first episode! Matt was gunned down and nearly killed in the series premiere, and several more times in the series. Matt may have been a head taller than most everyone, a fast draw and usually a better fist fighter than most but there were a fair few who could equal him, not to mention a few that were willing to cheat.
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Gunsmoke / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Gunsmoke / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: There were five made-for-television movie sequels to the series, including one that introduced the character of Matt's daughter. The first has several returning cast members from the series, while the rest only feature James Arness playing Matt Dillon later in life when he's no longer a US Marshal.
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Gunsmoke / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
Gunsmoke / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Mr. Amber and Simon kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Amber" Two men shoot each other to death in "Sweet and Sour".
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Gunsmoke / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Gunsmoke / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Subverted in “The Judgment.” The antagonist of the episode claims “Old sins leave long shadows” is a biblical quote, but the woman he’s talking to points out it’s not.
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Gunsmoke / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Gunsmoke / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: A few of the bad guys have had scars and such.
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Gunsmoke / int_2828fd9a	type	Promotion to Opening Titles
Gunsmoke / int_2828fd9a	comment	Promotion to Opening Titles: the entire cast other than James Arness got promoted in season 11. For 10 years, only James Arness was named in the opening sequence, but season 11 introduced a new title sequence with the actor's face, name and character they played over the background of Dodge City.
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Gunsmoke / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Gunsmoke / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Even when killing off characters a few minutes after they're introduced, there's often at least some effort at characterization.
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Gunsmoke / int_324385bb	type	We Have to Get the Bullet Out!
Gunsmoke / int_324385bb	comment	We Have to Get the Bullet Out!: In an episode where an outlaw gets shot, they remove the bullet. Actually a frequent bit of surgery any time someone got shot and the bullet didn't go straight through- but likely necessary to facilitate proper healing.
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Gunsmoke / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
Gunsmoke / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: Matt took bullet after bullet, yet healed up like he was in a video game.
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Gunsmoke / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
Gunsmoke / int_34bd7be2	comment	Super Drowning Skills: Shoving someone's head under water for 5 seconds on this show was enough to kill them.
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Gunsmoke / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
Gunsmoke / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: Probably among the most famous of these.
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Gunsmoke / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
Gunsmoke / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly-Disguised Pilot: Subverted, despite a spinoff series having been produced. Dirty Sally was a followup series involving the two characters from the season 16 two-parter "Pike", but it went into production in 1974, 3 years after the episodes aired. It only lasted 13 episodes, in part because it was aired in the same time slot as The Odd Couple and Sanford and Son.
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Gunsmoke / int_3e007d5d	type	Title, Please!
Gunsmoke / int_3e007d5d	comment	This actually happens with a lot of episode titles - though as the titles weren't regularly shown on screen until season 13, it wasn't a problem on first airing.
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Gunsmoke / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Gunsmoke / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Downer endings were the frequent ones, happy endings not so common, and this happened quite a bit in between. Especially so if an innocent man is sentenced to hang for a murder he didn't commit- the real killer might be caught, but perhaps not in time to clear the innocent man.
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Gunsmoke / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Gunsmoke / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: The episode "The Widow and the Rogue". Her husband dies. This actually happens with a lot of episode titles - though as the titles weren't regularly shown on screen until season 13, it wasn't a problem on first airing.
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Gunsmoke / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Gunsmoke / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Seen pretty often, understandable since many episodes would not have lasted through the first commercial break if Matt or the townspeople had simply taken the pragmatic approach. One notable example is an episode where the gunslinger Will Mannon comes to town while Matt is away, and makes no secret of the fact that his only reason for being there is to kill Matt Dillon in order to build his reputation. He's a well-known gunslinger, deadly fast and accurate, and proceeds to bully the entire town. Festus is one of his first victims, as he shoots him before even getting to town in order to steal his horse. The townspeople are just waiting for Matt to get back so he can deal with the problem, but Festus shoots that idea down, saying that the gunslinger is much faster than Matt and Matt won't stand a chance. Festus says the best thing to do in order to save Matt is have someone snipe him with a rifle. Both Doc and Kitty glare at Festus when he says this, their facial expressions and body language making it look like he just said they should piss on the American flag, shred the constitution, poison the well water, and probably kick every dog in town for good measure. Clearly they are okay with Matt getting killed so long as the gunslinger asshole doesn't get shot in the back. Can't have no back-shootin' in Dodge, Matt wouldn't like it. Of course, Matt would be alive to disapprove, but that's not the point. Nice work, Kitty and Doc. Matt sure appreciates you taking the moral high ground.
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Gunsmoke / int_476302df	type	You Are a Credit to Your Race
Gunsmoke / int_476302df	comment	You Are a Credit to Your Race: In "Sins of the Father", one man sees Rose Daggit passing by on the street and says, "For an Indian, she's quite a looker."
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Gunsmoke / int_4789f57e	type	Syndication Title
Gunsmoke / int_4789f57e	comment	Syndication Title: The half-hour TV episodes were retitled Marshal Dillon in order to differentiate them from the hour-long episodes that were later made.
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Gunsmoke / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Gunsmoke / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: When Festus first showed up we were given the impression that the Haggen family were primarily criminals and that he only worked with Matt because he wanted revenge on an uncle for the death of his twin brother during a botched bank robbery. There was also an implication that the Haggen family would disown him for what he'd done. When he showed up in season 9 he leans more towards honest work and associating with Matt, and in the season 11 opener he was ready to take the job of Marshal when he thought Matt had been killed. He's appointed temporary deputy as needed (as explained why Chester wasn't a deputy, the US government wouldn't authorize pay for deputies unless there was an emergency) until season 13 where it seems more permanent. The rest of the Haggen family also held him in high regard- they thought he was the "smart" one of the family (which considering how most of the Haggens behaved, wasn't too far from the truth). Elbert Moses, a hill man from later seasons, was originally a scumbag who beat his cousin Merry Florene mercilessly and tried to rob the general store, even willing to take hostages and threaten to kill. In his second appearance after getting out of the work farm he was sentenced to, he was more of a comedy character, with his abuse to Merry toned down, and in his third appearance is even more of a goofy comedic individual, still willing to commit crime but only harmless ones, and seems almost protective of Merry.
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Gunsmoke / int_499499e6	type	Written-In Absence
Gunsmoke / int_499499e6	comment	Written-In Absence: Many later-season episodes barely feature star James Arness at all, a concession to his physical ailments (war injuries and his height led to chronic leg and joint pain). Often, Matt Dillon would be featured only in the opening and closing scenes, with his absence in-between explained by some out-of-town errand. Several episodes' worth of these brief scenes would be filmed in a few days, giving Arness more rest time between Dillon-heavy episodes. This also happened a few times even in earlier episodes. Matt would show up at the beginning and end of the episode only. It's worth noting that despite these brief appearances, James Arness is the only actor to appear in every last episode of Gunsmoke. Milburn Stone's 1971 heart surgery caused his absence for a number of episodes. His character, Doc Adams, was said to have unexpectedly left town for updated medical training after he believes his rural isolation and lack of newer skills contributed heavily to the death of a young girl.
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Gunsmoke / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Gunsmoke / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: A lot of the earlier episodes had these, before Reverse Cerebus Syndrome set in. At least from season 1 through 10, downer endings were the norm- happy endings were the rare ones.
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Gunsmoke / int_4fe1aa4c	type	Gorgeous Period Dress
Gunsmoke / int_4fe1aa4c	comment	Gorgeous Period Dress: Kitty's entire wardrobe.
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Gunsmoke / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Gunsmoke / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: The show never entirely specified what the relationship between Matt and Miss Kitty was, but it seemed generally understood by the rest of the cast that they were somehow involved. A number of episodes feature crooks kidnapping Kitty or threatening her because she's "the Marshal's girl." The producers toyed with having them get married, but ultimately held off as they thought it would change the formula too much, in those days when Status Quo Is God was absolutely the norm. In one episode, Kitty spells it out this way: "Matt Dillon has no strings attached to him, but he's more mine than anyone else's."
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Gunsmoke / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Gunsmoke / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Festus is not academically smart, but he's much more intelligent than he seems.
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Gunsmoke / int_548abd8c	type	Not Like Other Girls
Gunsmoke / int_548abd8c	comment	Not Like Other Girls: In "Night Visitor", Timmy tells Dillon that White Fawn is "fun for a girl".
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Gunsmoke / int_5526b660	type	Humans Are White
Gunsmoke / int_5526b660	comment	Humans Are White: No doubt a result of southern stations unwilling to air shows with non-whites as the show began before the civil rights movement. Season 1's "Lute Bone" did have a black character with a speaking role, but it would be quite some time before another would appear. Aside from Indian characters, and a single Chinese character, we didn't get a non-white main character until season 8 (Quint, and even then he was half white), and African-American characters were almost unheard of until season 9, where the episode "The Promoter" featured the character of black prize fighter and former U.S. soldier Johnnie Towers. A few non-speaking Chinese character appear in the background on occasion. The episode "Gunfighter R.I.P." from season 12 featured as a main character a Chinese woman named Ching Lee running a laundry. It wasn't until late in the 14th season that the show began to feature more African-Americans characters, first in "Mark Of Cain" and then a group of ex-slaves in "The Good Samaritans". Despite this, non-white characters were generally treated with respect whereas a few racist white characters were often killed or humiliated. The main exception to this rule are members of various Indian tribes whenever they appear in an episode. The show does not shy away from depicting racism, which is often on display in the way some white characters talk about and treat Indians. Quint is often the target of bigoted behavior because he's half-Indian. In particular, the first season had an episode about a Chinese character and the racism he had to endure day after day.
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Gunsmoke / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
Gunsmoke / int_56635771	comment	Recurring Character: Quint Asper was more this than a main character - he wasn't seen every episode, and between seasons 8 and 10, was only in around 50 episodes total. Both Festus and Thad started as this before becoming main characters. Chester was more this in seasons 8 and 9, being seen only around half the episodes before vanishing. Various Dodge businessmen- Mr. Botkin, Mr. Jonas, Moss Grimmick (who vanished from appearing when his actor died, becoming an off-screen mention afterwards), Ma Smalley, etc. A few attempts were made to add such characters, only for the character to appear twice and never again. Cale was one example, as well as a criminal defense attorney who tried to set up shop in Dodge. Later seasons had Merry Florene, Elbert Moses and their family show up on occasion, a group of hill people who made the Haggens look civilized.
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Gunsmoke / int_57d42f3f	type	The Bride with a Past
Gunsmoke / int_57d42f3f	comment	The Bride with a Past: Several episodes revolve around a married woman who used to work in a saloon or on a riverboat, and the consequences that could ensue if their husband finds out about their past.
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Gunsmoke / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Gunsmoke / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: wife-beating is common occurrence around Dodge (but don't try it in front of Matt), and abuse of children is also seen from time to time.
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Gunsmoke / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
Gunsmoke / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois: The show features mountain and desert landscapes. In Kansas. The Great Plains were known as The Great American Desert until modern irrigation techniques made planting sustainable crops possible. However, the definition of desert in this case was defined by the fact that the air is dry and summer temperatures could be extremely hot during a time period when it wasn't possible to cool off easily. Some kinds of cactus can grow in Kansas, but not the same as you'd see in Arizona.
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Gunsmoke / int_5d5fb8e2	type	Clueless Deputy
Gunsmoke / int_5d5fb8e2	comment	Clueless Deputy: Festus Haggen. Though despite acting as an unofficial deputy for several seasons, he was not officially deputized, badge and all, until the season 13 episode "The Pillagers". Chester more or less served as this in the first few TV seasons, although the character was never officially deputized. Both were only "clueless" if the script called for comedic moments- given half the chance, both of them could be quite competent and skilled at their jobs- Chester especially so. Thad could be this at times, generally because he grew up in a peaceful Oklahoma town and took some adjustment to get used to life in Dodge. Averted with Newly- he knew the law, was educated and was an expert gunsmith. He was first seen with a badge in season 14, though he acted as an unofficial deputy earlier than that.
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Gunsmoke / int_5dc04c4e	type	Brownface
Gunsmoke / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: Most of the Indians on this show are played by non-Indian actors. Leonard Nimoy played a native American Indian in "Treasure of John Walking Fox" just a few months before Star Trek: The Original Series. Angie Dickinson played an Arapaho woman in "Sins of the Father".
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Gunsmoke / int_60f0d6e0	type	Convenient Terminal Illness
Gunsmoke / int_60f0d6e0	comment	Convenient Terminal Illness: Painter from "Anyone Can Kill A Marshall" only took the job to shoot Matt as he was dying from illness and needed the money to help a friend - he probably had no real intention of even killing Matt as he aimed for the legs and figured getting shot to death was better than wasting away.
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Gunsmoke / int_60f992e8	type	Florence Nightingale Effect
Gunsmoke / int_60f992e8	comment	Florence Nightingale Effect: There's an episode where a woman cares for a wounded prisoner and falls in love with him.
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Gunsmoke / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Gunsmoke / int_6201e8b0	comment	When notorious outlaw and murderer Jude Bonner takes the town hostage and demands information about Matt's family/friends in order to force the release of his brother, a murderer about to hang, Festus won't give anything up, despite being shot, beaten, and threatened with worse. After Bonner shoots Miss Kitty, Festus saddles up with Matt to go after him, bullet wound and all. He and Matt even have a Big Damn Heroes moment at the end.
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Gunsmoke / int_6acb79b2	type	Episode Title Card
Gunsmoke / int_6acb79b2	comment	Episode Title Card: the show does not use these for 10 and a half seasons. The two part story from season 11, "The Raid", is the first time an episode's title appears on-screen. But the series does not show another title on screen until the final two part story from season 12, "Nitro!". Beginning in season 13, the episode titles are a regular feature of the show.
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Gunsmoke / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Gunsmoke / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Mrs. Stoner in "Reward for Matt" may have motivated a desperate young man to assassinate Matt promising the reward money on the marshal's head, but she had a good reason behind it. She's bitter about Matt shooting her husband down but she's right. Matt has killed hundreds of people on and off screen, and Mrs. Stoner wants him to get out of Dodge City before he kills any more.
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Gunsmoke / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Gunsmoke / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Word of God says that Miss Kitty is this. The television show never states what she does for a living, but in one episode of the radio series it was hinted that Miss Kitty is a prostitute (which would have been pretty edgy back in 1952).
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Gunsmoke / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Gunsmoke / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Matt Dillon. One episode had Kitty berating him for all the times he'd broken a date with her for a reason related to his job as Marshal. His answer was that his job was just that important, and that that's just the way it was.
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Gunsmoke / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Gunsmoke / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: The show opened with a voice-over introducing the show and James Arness as Matt Dillon. Seasons one and two often opened an episode with a voiceover by Matt Dillon, walking through the graves on Boot Hill, musing on how people that ended up there had died. Seasons three through five continued this opening narration with new footage, though the sequence appeared less often than it had during the first two seasons. The fifth season was the last time the Boot Hill opening was used.
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Gunsmoke / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Gunsmoke / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Season nine's "Comanches is Soft" was a flat-out comedy about Festus and Quint going to get a bellows and getting involved with a dance hall girl they pick up on the way. Season 13 has the comic episode "Hard Luck Henry" featuring four of Festus's cousins coming to him to decide what to do with a chest of Confederate gold they've found, which some rival hillbillies are trying to steal.
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Gunsmoke / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
Gunsmoke / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Lena and Emmett in "The Big Broad". Lena is boisterous, harsh and domineering, and Emmett is small, scrawny and unassuming.
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Gunsmoke / int_8da65890	type	Commuting on a Bus
Gunsmoke / int_8da65890	comment	Commuting on a Bus: Chester during seasons 8 and 9. Dennis Weaver was ready to move on from Gunsmoke, feeling that there was nothing else to do with the character. He had not quite jumped ship yet, so Chester appears only in every third or fourth episode. None of the other characters comment on his frequent absences, nor is he given a send-off for his final episode.
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Gunsmoke / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Gunsmoke / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: White Fawn in the Season 1 episode "Night Incident", a Cheyenne girl who doesn't talk at all throughout the episode.
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Gunsmoke / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Gunsmoke / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Wife beaters who got shot by the abused spouse, or much any psychopath who either beat women, abused their kids or was on some deranged moral crusade that Matt had to shoot. It was obvious that Matt hated having to arrest certain people when the victim was such an absolute monster who was asking for it.
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Gunsmoke / int_9eaffefb	type	U.S. Marshal
Gunsmoke / int_9eaffefb	comment	U.S. Marshal: Matt Dillon
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Gunsmoke / int_a06b62b7	type	Frozen in Time
Gunsmoke / int_a06b62b7	comment	Frozen in Time: 1883 somehow managed to last for 20 years.
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Gunsmoke / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Gunsmoke / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: There's a boy whose father is killed, and says the man never loved him. He is chastised by a judge, who shows him that his father did love him, he just didn't know how to show it.
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Gunsmoke / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Gunsmoke / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Real world example; frequent guest actor Jack Elam suffered injury to his left eye as a child, leaving his eye pointing sideways. He was usually tasked with playing outlaws and other vicious characters, though he did have a few heroic roles- his eye condition was finally lampshaded in season 16's "Murdoch", his character had suffered an eye injury after being shot in the head. After years of appearances it was the first time it'd been acknowledged on screen. Bounty Hunter Louis Stark, from season 16's "Stark" had a similar condition- a gun had blown up in his face, leaving his left eye blinded and his right eye cloudy. One episode featured an outlaw with one eye and a scar over this face. While attempting to break into Doc's office to kill a witness, said witness threw a knife at the window, shattering the glass which lodged in his one good eye.
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Gunsmoke / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Gunsmoke / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Festus, of all characters, initially showed up in a single episode of season 8, out to kill an uncle who had shot Festus' twin brother. Prior to that, Ken Curtis had played other characters in previous episodes, and even played a different character in the season 9 opener before Festus was brought back as a permanent character. Also happened with Clayton Thadeus Greenwood- he first showed up as an Oklahoma deputy after wanted men, only to be invited to move to Dodge at the end of the episode. He eventually appeared again, became a recurring character, and was elevated to main cast status when added to the show's opening credits in season 12. Newly started the same way before becoming a full cast member.
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Gunsmoke / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
Gunsmoke / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: Zig-zagged. Dillon is shot in the first episode and operated on. People who are shot don't always die, and if the shot does kill them, it's not always instant. However many other characters who are shot just fall over.
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Gunsmoke / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
Gunsmoke / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: Any man who hit his wife in front of Matt Dillon didn't fare too well.
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Gunsmoke / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Gunsmoke / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Chester, when Matt wasn't around, could handle himself in a fight.
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Gunsmoke / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Gunsmoke / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: At one point in an episode, Festus is shocked at a newspaper story Thad reads to him that talks about how women in a neighboring town are allowed to vote. This would be shocking to men in the 1800s, when women weren't given the right to vote in Kansas until 1912, decades from then.
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Gunsmoke / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Gunsmoke / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Shootouts would be boring if nobody ever died.
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Gunsmoke / int_ae0e2472	type	Contrasting Replacement Character
Gunsmoke / int_ae0e2472	comment	Contrasting Replacement Character: Both Quint Asper and Festus Haggen were intended as replacements for Chester once Dennis Weaver decided to leave the show. Chester is affable and a bit eccentric in his views at times, while Quint is often angry and intense, and discriminated against due to his half-Indian heritage. Festus comes from a big family of less-educated country folk, and there are some criminals in his family. Quint is the more serious character, while both Chester and Festus can be serious and capable, but are also written and played for humor. In the end, Burt Reynolds left the show a season after Dennis Weaver, leaving Ken Curtis as the sole occupant the long-term character slot left vacant by Chester's departure.
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Gunsmoke / int_ae52ace3	type	Actor Swap
Gunsmoke / int_ae52ace3	comment	Actor Swap: Several recurring characters such as Mr. Jonas or Moss Grimmick are always played by the same actor, but some characters are seemingly played by whoever is available that week. Mr. Botkin, the banker and Bill Pence, co-owner of the Long Branch, are often played by different actors from episode to episode.
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Gunsmoke / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Gunsmoke / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: It was clear that the earlier episodes of the show had yet to establish when the series was set... 1873 seems to be the official year, but some of the headstones on Boot Hill in the early episodes had dates of death in the 1880s. One episode took place shortly before the battle of Little Big Horn... which was 1876. A grave marker in season 9 has a date of death of 1878 on it, then a marker in season 15 has a date of 1874! To make it even worse, starting around season 13 they start mentioning that certain characters have been in town at their jobs for X number of years- the same as the show had been running, which would indicate a passage of time. In the season 9 episode "Friend", when asked how long he's been a lawman, Matt says that it's been about eight years.
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Gunsmoke / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Gunsmoke / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: The episode "Annie Oakley" had this when a woman in an unhappy marriage deliberately tries to start one of these to make herself seem more desirable to the men of Dodge, which results in her murdering her current husband and trying to get a man who insulted her hung in order to keep up the appearance.
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Gunsmoke / int_b89938b1	type	Frontier Doctor
Gunsmoke / int_b89938b1	comment	Frontier Doctor: Doc Adams.
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Gunsmoke / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Gunsmoke / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: When the series was first screened in Britain it was retitled Gun Law (and the title sequence had to be slightly reshot to put in the new title, with a double for James Arness). It was later shown (on The BBC in the '90s, and now on TCM and CBS Actionnote TCM shows black-and-white episodes, CBS Action colour ones) under its original title.
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Gunsmoke / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
Gunsmoke / int_ba907fe2	comment	Entitled to Have You: Kyle Stoner from "Prime of Life" comes across like this, murdering a girl's boyfriend in cold blood while deliberately provoking him to take a swing, and then the very next night coming back to try and force himself on the girl, apparently not even caring that she wouldn't want him after he murdered the man she loved. Many of the men on this show have this attitude towards women, never taking no for an answer and putting their hands on a woman despite their attention clearly not being welcome.
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Gunsmoke / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
Gunsmoke / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: When the show switched to color for season 12 in 1966, some... interesting wardrobe choices were made to show it off. Matt wore a reddish-purple shirt with yellow vest. Festus wore a lot of bright blue. Miss Kitty wore purple.
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Gunsmoke / int_bd406737	type	Anxiety Dreams
Gunsmoke / int_bd406737	comment	Anxiety Dreams: Matt has one in "Bloody Hands". Chester catches him talking in his sleep about shootouts he thinks he's having.
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Gunsmoke / int_be5e459b	type	The Bartender
Gunsmoke / int_be5e459b	comment	The Bartender: Sam, Miss Kitty's right-hand man, who was eventually killed in a bar fight.
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Gunsmoke / int_c1c07d6f	type	Rejection Affection
Gunsmoke / int_c1c07d6f	comment	Rejection Affection: Miss Kitty makes no secret of her romantic interest in Matt. She repeatedly says to him with tongue-in-cheek that she's growing tired of waiting for him to come to his senses. He shrugs off all her advances with either a chuckle or no acknowledgement at all (see Chaste Hero above).
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Gunsmoke / int_c209fc7	type	Chaste Hero
Gunsmoke / int_c209fc7	comment	Chaste Hero: Matt Dillon is this. He rarely shows any interest in the opposite sex. To the point that he will not even join in when Chester and Doc ogle attractive women from a distance. Likewise, few women make any advances toward him except for Miss Kitty which she does repeatedly. He shrugs off all her advances with either a chuckle or no acknowledgement at all (see Rejection Affection below).
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Gunsmoke / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Gunsmoke / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The show treats all departing characters this way. One episode they're present and integral to the series, the next they're gone with no mention of their absence by the remaining characters. Chester disappears without explanation in season 9, as does Miss Kitty in season 20. She did come back for the first TV movie, which explained that she left Dodge because she could no longer stand watching Matt take injury after injury in the pursuit of his duty, and had to get away. Quint Asper vanishes without a word in season 10. Quint's leaving without mention was finally averted in season 12, when Festus says their current blacksmith is the best they've had since "the Comanche" left. Thad's final appearance as a regular member of the cast was the 2-parter that ended season 12, "Nitro!". He has an uncredited cameo and a single line in "The Prodigal" in season 13, only because the episode was held over from the previous season. Anyone remember that Kitty was once co-owner of the Long Branch Saloon with Bill Pence? After a certain point, Bill simply stops appearing and stops being mentioned. It's as though he never existed.
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Gunsmoke / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Gunsmoke / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: One of the posters in Dillon's office is for Lewt McCanles
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Gunsmoke / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Gunsmoke / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Matt's office has two cells in the back, with one in the back and one along the wall. Except for one episode in season 10 where a 3rd cell pops up for no reason in a area that's usually walled off, only to vanish after that episode. This happens again in season 11- one episode has the mystery third cell added back in, and another rearranges the cells to move the office's back door into the cell room, all for plot convenience. Matt's office was a main room with 3 doors, and a rear room with two cells- but plot reasons would change the layout as needed. Even though many episodes would lampshade the fact they only had two cells. Doc's office for the first 9 seasons featured a door immediately to the right of the entrance that led to a back bedroom. There was a window there and a fire rope. In season 10 that door is gone, replaced by a door in the back wall opposite the entrance, with the bedroom through that door. Another episode featured Matt's home- even though every other episode implies that he lives out of the office. It was never seen after that episode. In the season 12 opener he rents a room at the Dodge House, instead of going to his house from the earlier episode.
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Gunsmoke / int_cacbab76	type	Wake Up Fighting
Gunsmoke / int_cacbab76	comment	Wake Up Fighting: Matt wakes up pulling a gun on Chester in "Bloody Hands". Chester stops him, though.
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Gunsmoke / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Gunsmoke / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Compared to the Gunsmoke radio series. Almost all of the early episodes use a Recycled Script from the radio show, and though many don't change much, others soften the ending or omit some of the more violent elements.
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Gunsmoke / int_cf7ccd79	type	Orphanage of Fear
Gunsmoke / int_cf7ccd79	comment	Orphanage of Fear: Pleasant Valley Orphanage sees its headmistress and her husband beat the girls in their care to the point of scaring for minor slights, often lock them in their rooms without food, and force them to knit things for the two to sell and put in their own pockets. They even beat Lady, a young girl, purely out of spite when Dodie manages to escape. Fortunately, Dodie returns with Matt, who not only saw her scars, but after taking one look at the conditions inside and hearing the girls out, arrests them both on the spot.
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Gunsmoke / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Gunsmoke / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: In the episode "Susan was Evil", Susan is selfish and unkind because she always got whatever she wanted. When it appears as if she isn't going to get her way, she betrays her aunt's fiance to bounty hunters.
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Gunsmoke / int_d2725671	type	Still Fighting the Civil War
Gunsmoke / int_d2725671	comment	Still Fighting the Civil War: several episodes feature a character either looking for revenge for something that happened during the war, or who can't accept the outcome and is living in exile, such the Colonel, who lives in Mexico, hates Yankees, and keeps the Confederate battle flag on his wall. He refuses to help Matt since Matt fought on the Union side during the war, and has his "sergeant" take him to the border at gunpoint.
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Gunsmoke / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Gunsmoke / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: There are times when Matt takes actions that Chester just can't quite believe, such as shooting criminals from ambush. In a world where shooting someone in the back is considered an unthinkable act of cowardice, Chester's reaction is understandable.
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Gunsmoke / int_d609b01a	type	Carnival of Killers
Gunsmoke / int_d609b01a	comment	Carnival of Killers: In "Reward for Matt", a woman offers a $1,000 reward to the man who kills Matt Dillon after Matt killed her husband while attempting to bring him in for murder. This was a Recycled Script from an episode of the radio show.
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Gunsmoke / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Gunsmoke / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Doc Adams and Festus. Much of the show's humor lies in their constant bickering and sarcastic snarking, but just let one or the other get sick/injured or in any kind of trouble, and their underlying affection and respect becomes apparent. In one episode Doc gets bitten by a snake, and Festus is deeply distressed at the thought he might not survive. In "Prime of Life", Festus is beaten up badly, and a later scene shows an emotional Doc telling the unconscious Festus that he'd better not die. This was also frequent between Doc and Chester. Festus and Quint start out this way before settling down into a more obvious friendship, with Festus frequently calling Quint "Comanche" in a good-natured way.
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Gunsmoke / int_da06866e	type	Old Cop, Young Cop
Gunsmoke / int_da06866e	comment	Old Cop, Young Cop: Not played in the traditional sense, but present in the show as both Thad and Newly are young and inexperienced as deputies compared to the older, much more experienced Matt Dillon.
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Gunsmoke / int_da4f8f0	type	The Blacksmith
Gunsmoke / int_da4f8f0	comment	The Blacksmith: Quint Asper, played by a young Burt Reynolds.
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Gunsmoke / int_da79f321	type	The Seven Western Plots
Gunsmoke / int_da79f321	comment	The Seven Western Plots: The definitive marshal story, following the exploits of Marshal Matt Dillon and his deputies as they try to keep the peace in Dodge City, Kansas.
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Gunsmoke / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Gunsmoke / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Chester's surname went from "Proudfoot" in the radio series to "Goode" in the TV version. Doc Adams had the first name "Charles" in the radio series, which was changed to "Galen" in the tv series.
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Gunsmoke / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Gunsmoke / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Matt and Miss Kitty. The two of them definitely seem to have feelings for each other, but they never officially become a couple.
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Gunsmoke / int_ddeaea82	type	Miscarriage of Justice
Gunsmoke / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: In the episode "Old Man" the titular old man is framed for a murder. He's convicted and hanged for the crime, even though the audience is well aware that he's innocent. The real killer is caught due to his drunken rambling, but not until after it's too late. In one episode, a thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit. Another time, a man is convicted of stealing a horse that he paid for. It's subverted in that Matt believes he's innocent, and doesn't.
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Gunsmoke / int_e0443d9a	comment	Criminal Doppelgänger: Festus had one in the 1972 episode "Alias: Festus Hagen." The criminal (Ken Curtis in a dual role) is Frank Eaton, a bloodthirsty outlaw who is wanted for bank robbery, murder, sexual assault, kidnapping and many other crimes. The whole town is horrified at the thought that Festus was cleverly concealing a double life, but Matt immediately realizes something is amiss and convinces the U.S. Marshal who arrested Festus to do some investigating. In the end, Matt finds Frank Eaton and is taken captive. Meanwhile, on the morning of his trial, when Matt fails to return with evidence that the wrong man has been arrested, Festus escapes jail and goes looking for Matt, and runs right into Eaton. The two get into a huge brawl, and when Eaton is winning, the U.S. Marshal who arrested Festus in the first place arrives in time to save our dim-witted hero. In the end, Festus has no hard feelings for the Marshal: He even invites him to a birthday party in the show's closing act.
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Gunsmoke / int_e0a077fa	comment	Miss Kitty: Miss Kitty Russell is now more or less universally assumed to be a Madam as well as saloonkeeper, and her impeccably dressed and coiffed girls up to more activity than just dancing and playful flirting. (The producer-director is quoted in a 1953(!) Time magazine interview: "We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple." And Amanda Blake said in an interview in 1960, "When I first started, a reporter asked me what Kitty was, anyway? I said, ‘Why, she’s a tramp.’ I thought it was common knowledge. But CBS screamed. I almost lost my job.”) But these implications were subtle enough to go over the heads of younger and more naive viewers. Oh, and she's the Trope Namer, too.
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Gunsmoke / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: "Dead or Alive" usually comes with a reward.
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Gunsmoke / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Forrest Tucker shows up at one point, playing a semi-comedic cavalry officer who's pretty clearly a stand-in for his role as Sergeant O'Rourke on F Troop.
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Gunsmoke / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Gunsmoke / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Matt Dillon. When he is pursuing a criminal, he simply will not stop until he catches him or the man dies.
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Gunsmoke / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Played straight at times, subverted others when Matt either suffered from a severe bullet wound, or came close to death.
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Gunsmoke / int_e9a3a1ed	comment	Never Learned to Read: Festus' illiteracy is often brought up; sometimes it serves as a critical plot point, but often is used as comedic fodder, particularly as a target of Doc's sarcastic mockery. This can come off as insensitive to modern-day viewers; however, such humor was not unusual in the show's broadcast era, and illiteracy would have hardly been uncommon in the 19th Century frontier setting. It wasn't so much Festus being unable to read that drew Doc's mockery, so much as his stubborn refusal to admit it. This went as far as refusing to learn to read, as that would require admitting that he couldn't read in the first place, and once creating his own language just so throw the mockery back at Doc for not being able to read it. In one episode, Thad askes Festus when he's going to let him teach Festus to read. Festus just glares at him.
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Gunsmoke / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Gunsmoke / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In the episode "The Joke's on Us", Frank Tillman finds a neighbor's horses running loose and tries to return them. The neighbor and his friends, who have been having horses stolen, decide this means that Frank is the horse thief and hang him, only finding out after he's dead that he was telling the truth. Trying to do a good turn for his neighbor got Tillman lynched.
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Gunsmoke / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Many examples. When notorious outlaw and murderer Jude Bonner takes the town hostage and demands information about Matt's family/friends in order to force the release of his brother, a murderer about to hang, Festus won't give anything up, despite being shot, beaten, and threatened with worse. After Bonner shoots Miss Kitty, Festus saddles up with Matt to go after him, bullet wound and all. He and Matt even have a Big Damn Heroes moment at the end.
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Gunsmoke / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Gunsmoke / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Festus for Chester. Both fill the "deputy" or "sidekick" role for Matt Dillon, both have eccentric relatives that visit town from time to time, both sometimes appear clueless but can be quite capable when needed, and both engage in a war of verbal insults with Doc despite being good friends. It's to the credit of Dennis Weaver and Ken Curtis that characters who were similar on paper appear quite different on screen due to the performance.
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Gunsmoke / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Gunsmoke / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The food in Dodge City restaurants (often Delmonico's) is routinely panned by the main characters. Played with in season 6's "The Cook." A virtuosic cook starts working at Delmonico's until he accidentally kills a disgruntled patron and is arrested. The townspeople go so far as to threaten to shoot up the town unless Marshal Dillon releases the cook so he can go back to cooking again. Matt and Doc begrudgingly drink Chester's coffee daily despite complaining about the taste. Chester insists his coffee is some of the best in town and is constantly experimenting with methods to improve it.
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Gunsmoke / int_ffaa675b	comment	Asian Speekee Engrish: Played with in season 1's "The Queue." When the Chinese immigrant first arrives in Dodge, he talks this way, but later, when Matt speaks to him in Doc's office, it turns out that he speaks perfect English, but he intentionally speaks that way as he claims people expect him to, and it makes for less trouble with racists.
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