Every time I hear someone on the show refer to an LEO as "Johnny Law," I cringe. I think it's been said in every episode I've seen. "Buffaloed" (as in, "I buffaloed him with my gun butt") was running a close second at first, but Johnny Law has clearly outdistanced it.
We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream
A lot of westerns used that phrase.
share"John Law" is annoying (sure, they might have used it in the Old West, but in almost a lifetime studying frontier history I don't think I've encountered it once whereas on this show they use it in almost every episode); but the thing that I notice is the use of "Mister." Granted it was a more formal time than it was now, and I can see where Wyatt would want to be polite to the middle- and upper-middle-class townsmen he found himself among in Wichita, Dodge and Tombstone; but it's hard to believe that after working as Wyatt's deputy in both Kansas and Arizona* Shotgun Gibbs is always addressed as "Mr. Gibbs" instead of "Shotgun."
The series is being rebroadcast on CoziTV, and they poked fun at this by showing a scene with Wyatt confronting Mannen Clements, and Clements calls Wyatt "Mr. Earp" and Wyatt calls him "Mr. Clements." The announcer says, "Boy, who knew they were so formal in the Old West?"
*I'm talking about the semi-fictional world of the TV show, not real life.