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* ValuesDissonance: After learning that Watziznehm fell on his head when he entered the village, one of the Gauls remarks "And not for the first time, judging by that bandage on it!" in reference to his turban. A joke like this would be considered unacceptably racist nowadays.
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* ValuesDissonance: After learning that Watziznehm fell on his head when he entered the village, one of the Gauls remarks "And not for the first time, judging by that bandage on it!" in reference to his turban. A joke like this would be considered unacceptably racist nowadays.

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* AudienceAlienatingEra: While not considered as horribly flawed as the four stories that would follow, with this story's main fault being its disjointed and derivative feel, most fans agree that it marked the beginning of a downward spiral that the series wouldn't break out of until Albert Uderzo retired.



* DorkAge: While not considered as horribly flawed as the four stories that would follow, with this story's main fault being its disjointed and derivative feel, most fans agree that it marked the beginning of a downward spiral that the series wouldn't break out of until Albert Uderzo retired.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The characters have arrows shot at them while flying over the city of Tyre, and nobody ever explains why.[[note]]Tyre, in French, is pronounced the same as "tire", meaning "shoot", i.e., shoot arrows.[[/note]] It's something of a BrickJoke from ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'', in which Asterix and Obelix run into various tribes (Assyrians, Medes etc.) who invariably greet them with a hail of arrows before apologizing and explaining that they took them for members of another tribe.

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* AlternativeJokeInterpretation: The scene where the carpet is shot at with arrows when flying over Tyre was intended to be a pun on "Tyre" in French being pronounced like "tire" (the word for shooting arrows), but it could also be taken as a BrickJoke from ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'', in which Asterix and Obelix run into various tribes (Assyrians, Medes etc.) who invariably greet them with a hail of arrows before apologizing and explaining that they took them for members of another tribe.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The characters have arrows shot at them while flying over the city of Tyre, and nobody ever explains why.[[note]]Tyre, (It makes more sense in French, the French version, where "Tyre" is pronounced the same as "tire", meaning "shoot", i.e., shoot arrows.[[/note]] It's something of a BrickJoke from ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'', in which Asterix and Obelix run into various tribes (Assyrians, Medes etc.) who invariably greet them with a hail of arrows before apologizing and explaining that they took them for members of another tribe.)
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* DorkAge: While not considered as horribly flawed as the four stories that would follow, with this story's main fault being its disjointed and derivative feel, most fans agree that it marked the beginning of a downward spiral that the series wouldn't break out of until Albert Uderzo retired.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The characters have arrows shot at them while flying over the city of Tyre, and nobody ever explains why.[[note]]Tyre, in French, is pronounced the same as "tire", meaning "shoot", i.e., shoot arrows.[[/note]] It's something of a BrickJoke from ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBlackGold'', in which Asterix and Obelix run into various tribes (Assyrians, Medes etc.) who invariably greet them with a hail of arrows before apologizing and explaining that they took them for members of another tribe.
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