In the segment "Mortal Remains", Thigpen begins to tell the story of The Midnight Caller. In True Grit (2010), Mattie asks if LaBoeuf and Cogburn would like to hear a story with the same name, but the story itself is not heard. See more

Goofs

When the book "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" is first opened, the copyright date is shown as 1871, so none of its stories could have happened later than that year. This makes it difficult to understand why Buster would refuse to play the poker hand left behind by the player who dropped out--two pair, aces and eights, is not that bad a hand. Of course, it's also the notorious "dead man's hand" held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was fatally shot--but there's no way Buster could have known that. Wild Bill died in 1876--five years (at least) after Buster picked up the cards. See more