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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the phrase "the fastest gun in the west."
• When watching a documentary about the homeless, Homer says that he's sick of the Tarzan movie.
• The book Bart shoves into Rover's mouth is titled America's 2nd Best Short Stories, a reference to the annual collection The Best American Short Stories.
  • One of the destroyed pages ends with the line "All in all, it had been a weird, weird lottery.", a line from "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson.
• When Buck McCoy introduces himself to Bart, the opening of the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Ennio Morricone plays.
• Buck McCoy mentions his movie Gunfight at the Museum of Natural History, a reference to the Western film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
• Buck McCoy says that the trick he uses on dogs also worked on film producer David O. Selznick.
• The inside of Buck McCoy's house is based on the inside of Will Rogers' house in Will Rogers State Historic Park.
• Buck McCoy has a poster for the film Texas Rangers Ride Again, a reference to the Texas Rangers Major League Baseball team.
  • McCoy starred alongside Bob "Tex" Allen, a real B-movie Western actor.
• Frank the Wonder Horse is a parody of Francis the Talking Mule, who starred in famous films in the 1950s.
• When Buck McCoy rides Frank the Wonder Horse to the laundry room, the "William Tell Overture" by Gioachino Rossini plays. This was the theme song for The Lone Ranger TV series.
• Buck McCoy starred in the films Wyatt Earp Meets the Mummy, a reference to the biographical Western film Wyatt Earp, and Six Brides for Seven Brothers, a reference to the musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
• McCoy has a metal lunchbox featuring his film Six-Gun Lullaby, a parody of the Western film Six-Gun Serenade.
• McCoy says he learned a lasso trick to grab food in The Wild Lunch, a reference to The Wild Bunch.
• One of Buck McCoy's shows was McTrigger, in which all he does is shoot hippies, a reference to the TV series McCloud. McCloud starred Dennis Weaver, who voiced McCoy.
  • One episode was titled "'Scuse Me While I Kill the Sky", a reference to the lyric "'scuse me while I kiss the sky" from the song "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix.
  • McCoy says McTrigger wrote him out of the show and it became Room 222. Room 222 was created by The Simpsons producer James L. Brooks.
• At the school playground, Ralph plays the piano like Schroeder from Peanuts.
• When the Western craze comes to Springfield Elementary, Lisa dresses as sharpshooter and folk heroine Annie Oakley, and Nelson dresses as actor Kevin Costner, who starred in several Westerns, including Wyatt Earp.
• Apu, Bart, Ralph, Milhouse, Lisa, and Homer sing "A Kwik-E-Mart Sing-Along", which is a parody of the song "Don't Fence Me In" by Cole Porter.
• When Bart and Lisa ask Krusty to put Buck McCoy on his show, Lisa mentions that they also represent singer and musician Billy Joel.
• When McCoy shoots the cutout of Krusty in the crotch, Krusty says "Oooh, right in the panhandle!" This is a reference to what Johnny Carson said on The Tonight Show when Ed Ames hit a mannequin in the crotch doing a tomahawk throw.
• Krusty tells Buck that he grew up watching his horse operas at the Bijou Theatre.
• Krusty tells Buck that TV Guide's "Cheers and Tears" editor will be watching.
• The sketch with Mr. Teeny (dressed as a woman) tied to the railway tracks is a parody of a similar scene in the silent comedy Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life.
• Homer creates a poster of himself in a bathing suit that mimics the famous Farrah Fawcett pinup poster from the '70s.
• The John Ford Center for Alcoholic Cowboys is named after film director and producer John Ford, who was renowned for his Western films. It's also a reference to the Betty Ford Center, a rehabilitation center in California.
• The Prospector who dances during the therapy session is a parody of Howard, played by Walter Huston, in the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
• The weapons that Snake and his gang use in the bank robbery are the M41A pulse rifles from Alien.
• McCoy tells Homer that he's "no Howard Hawks." Hawks was a film producer during the classic Hollywood era.
• At the end of the episode when Buck goes into his house, the theme music from the film The Magnificent Seven plays.

Trivia

• When Grampa shows Bart his Junior Buckaroo badge, it's entitled "Little Grampa Simpson."

Continuity

• The clips in the The Krusty the Clown Show intro include:
  • Krusty talking to Johnny Carson ("Krusty Gets Kancelled")
  • Krusty singing "Send In the Clowns" ("Krusty Gets Kancelled")
  • Krusty's duet with Bette Midler ("Krusty Gets Kancelled")
  • Krusty singing in the 70s ("I Love Lisa")
  • Krusty's interview with Robert Frost ("I Love Lisa")
• Dr. Foster is presiding over the session at the John Ford Center for Alcoholic Cowboys ("Hurricane Neddy")

Goofs

• During the first time the dog chased Bart to the Simpsons' house, he bit Bart's clothes through a mail opening on the door, but after that scene, the mail opening is gone.
• When Bart first goes to Buck's mansion, it is at the end of a dead-end road. However, at the end of the episode, Buck's mansion is shown to be on a normal road.