A scene from Home on the Range 2004
Alameda Slim

[laughing]

5,000 Texas Longhorns. Not bad for one night's work.

Phil

Pick a color. [He and Bill are playing with a cootie catcher]

Alameda Slim

I said, not bad for one night's work. [Phil and Bill pay attention to Slim and clap] Thank you. And judging by the ear mark, I'd say these are the last of Big Mike Donald's herd.

Gil

Big Mike Donald had a farm?

Phil and Bill

E-l-E-l... [Slim bashes them on the heads with his fists] Ohh...

Alameda Slim

That's right. He had a farm. [He goes to his dressing screen stock and puts on his Yancy O'Del disguise] Now that all his cash cows have disappeared, that poor sap's gonna be flat broke. Perfect time for a certain upstanding land owner to step in and take all the land.

Phil

[screams]

Who are you?!

Bill

What did you do with Uncle Slim?!

Phil

Put up your dukes, Mr. Fancy Britches! [Slim grabs his fingers] Aah-aah-aah-aah-aah-aah!

Alameda Slim

It's me. Hello! [Slim takes off the glasses and the blue top hat and holding a cane] This here is the disguise I use to sneak into all them auctions and buy all the land, you brainless monotone monkeys.

Gil

Shoot, you got to be the richest land baron in the the west. [Phil and Bill clap]

Alameda Slim

Yes, but the part that really warms my heart is watching those homesteaders suffer. [He grabs a branding iron and brands Mike Donald's Farm and the Dixon Farm on the map] Back in the day, I worked the highfalutinest ranches you ever seen, but those stuck-up ranch bosses couldn't appreciate my talents.

Phil

Maybe they just didn't like your singing.

Alameda Slim

My singing?! [Bill cover's Phil's mouth] Songbirds sing. Saloon gals sing. Little bitty snot-nosed children sing. I yodel! And yodeling IS AN ART!!!!

Bill

Well, maybe they just didn't like your yodeling.

Gil

[Phil cover's Bill's mouth and Slim tries to hit them with his branding iron, but misses them when they duck]

He didn't mean it, Uncle Slim. Everybody likes yodeling.

Alameda Slim

Hmm?

Gil

Why, it's one of the funniest, cornball, goofy, silly sounds in the whole west.

Alameda Slim

[Slim tries to hit Gil with his branding iron, but misses as Gil ducks, then Slim sees Patch of Heaven on the map as it's unauctioned as he twitches]

Uh, Gil?

Gil

Uh-huh?

Alameda Slim

Am I correct in assuming that each and every time we brought a herd back to this secret lair you've managed to sit in the exact same spot, blocking that choice piece of property from my view?!

Gil

This is my comfy place. [beat] What? [Slim grabs him by the neck as he unintelligible gets choked on]

Phil

It's called Patch of Heaven, Uncle Slim. Goes on auction Thursday morning.

Alameda Slim

[his fury quickly replaced by eagerness]

Perfect! [He hits Gil on the head with his branding iron and lets him go] Pencil it in. Thursday morning... right after we sell off this herd.

Bill

But it's just a little old dirt farm.

Alameda Slim

Ah, what's the difference? When you're talking revenge, every last acre counts. [He brands Patch of Heaven on the map with his branding iron]

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