At the start when Joe was watching the cowboy show it has some music in the background, now I can't remember what it was but I'm sure it was from Thunderbirds (If not Scarlet but I'm almost sure it was Thunderbirds) what was the music?

It was from Thunderbirds. It was a very common theme, heard as Scott chases Ned Cook in Terror in New York City

Watch the shots of the ink bottle and Joe's drink exploding when they are shot. Each time, a hand is moving towards them to use them, and the hand is whipped away when the shot is fired and the glass is shattered. If you happen to be incredible sad , then watch it frame by frame, and you see frames of the hand approaching the object, then the hand completely vanishing as the glass shatters. In the case of the teller and the ink pen, his hand is out of the shot for a whole frame before the ink pot explodes.
Like I said, you have to be really sad...

Joe told the Doc to keep an eye on the WIN gang, so what does he do when Joe leaves, he goes to sleep

>>It was from Thunderbirds. It was a very common theme, heard as Scott chases Ned Cook in Terror in New York City<<
Ah yes, The Sunprobe collision music, one of the greatest piece of Thunderbirds music in my opinion (If not the greatest)

The voice actors must have really enjoyed themselves with this one! Just good clean fun.

After seeing Joe taking on the brain patterns of various adults, and carrying out hazardous missions with cool precision, it was rather disconcerting to see him sitting in front of the television, dressed in his little cowboy outfit.

It could be put down to Joe slipping in and out of a doze before finally falling deeply asleep, but they showed Shane Weston in a Western outfit on the television, and a signpost marked "Joesville."

After getting slapped down by the grownups for daring to intrude on their argument, it's easy to see why Joe would make them the bad guys of his dream. But making his father a drunken slob...how cruel!

I liked Shane and Sam's Western outfits.

I suppose that they made it a later Western, with cars and telephones, because of the difficulty in making horses that would match the realism of the human puppets.

I realize that it was the good guy entering the saloon, but when Joe came in, I flashed on an old "Far Side" cartoon: A banjo player hissing to the piano player, "Bad guy coming in, Ernie! Minor key!"

Joe ordered milk "on the rocks", but it wasn't. Does Joe even know what "on the rocks" means?

The episode guide said that the barmaid and the piano player were called Sylvia and Gerry, but it sounded as though Joe called the barmaid, "Sue".

Having Sylvia/Sue shout at Gerry to keep on playing, while bullets flew about him, was priceless.

Always keep custard pies on hand in case of a bar fight. (Someone should let those Western film directors know this.)

Joe kept alternating what he called his deputy--"old timer", and "Doc".

When the WIN gang was at the crossroads, arguing about what to do, do you suppose the real three were still arguing loudly in the next room?

When Shane got knocked off of the car, and they showed him yelping, I was hoping they'd show that he landed on a cactus....

I would have liked to have heard the grownups' reaction to Joe's dream.

BTW, after watching it again, I think that Joe called the barmaid "Syl" which is why it sounded like "Sue" to my ear.

I loved those shots with Mac, looking slightly cross-eyed and hopelessly confused.

The scene where Shane got clobbered with a chair and keeled over backwards was well done.

I also liked the jail scene, where Sam was fishing for the keys. Mac would have been too drunk to manage it, and Shane, with his eye patch, would have lacked depth perception. Although how he avoided waking the deputy when he missed the first time, I'll never know.

There are some little shots that I noticed that really show the puppeteers' attention to detail.

In the car, when they are arguing about how they are going to catch up with the train, Sam suddenly reaches forward and pulls on the "Supercharger". Well before he does so, you can see him looking intently at the dashboard.

After they speed up, Sam, who up to now has been sitting casually in the middle of the back seat, is suddenly shown frantically gripping the side of the car.

After Shane goes overboard, they show Sam looking over Mac's shoulder. His head suddenly turns aside and up. The view is a little obscured by the frame of the car, but I got the distinct impression that he was rolling his eyes. It fit the situation perfectly. "How did I get into this mess?"

There are probably lots and lots of these little details, but by now you've probably figured out that I've become a confirmed Sam-watcher.

I think that this was my favorite dream sequence (which probably isn't saying much). A vast improvement over Supercar and Stingray!

Probably my favorite Joe 90 episode. It was mentioned above that Joe making his dad a drunk was cruel - it was, but I think most kids would do that. He was angry at all three of them, but I think he would be the hardest on his dad.

I loved the comment about Mac's driving - "stop trying to fly this thing and just drive it" or something like that.

Some believe that our dreams are a reflection of our subconscious. If so, I find the end of Joe's dream interesting. The WIN gang car collides with the train Sheriff Joe is on, surely injuring him, maybe killing him. Does Joe has a subconscious (and not unreasonable, in my opinion) fear that WIN, and specifically Mac, Sam and Shane, are going to get him injured or killed?

Hmmmmm....

Actually, I saw this episode again recently. (My 80-year old Mom loves these puppet shows - except Supercar, she really hates Supercar! - so when there's nothing good on TV - which is most of the time - we pop these in a lot.) I noticed something which could perhaps explain Joe's "Mac the drunk" fantasy. In the first few minutes, when the WIN guys are sitting at the table fighting, there is only one drink on the table, and it's in front of Mac. Maybe Joe just picked up on that. Or maybe in his frustration, Mac has been hitting the bottle a bit!

Was it a rule in these old Westerns that you had to have a drunken sot in there somewhere?

Try to visualize Shane or Sam in the drunk role. It's rather hard to do.

True, there had to be a drunk and an "old timer".

Another interesting thing about Joe's dream - granted, the WIN guys were all outlaws, but Shane in particular was downright mean. He had Sam and Mac tie up the deputy and then he set the sheriff's office on fire. If Joe hadn't shown up, the deputy probably would have died.

Setting fires seemed to be his "trademark".