Alfred is now an adult and too big for Henk's house, meaning he has to build his own home. Ollie gives him an antique bottle as a housewarming gift, but it unbeknownst to them, the bottle actually comes from a middle eastern country and it has an evil spirit trapped inside. A spirit that will be free at midnight.
Continued in De Heilige Tulband (The Strange Bottle)
Tropes:
- Animate Inanimate Object: The magic carpet seems to have some kind of sapience, at least comparable to a real world animal.
- Corpse Land: The sheikh's narration briefly shows a scene where the ground is littered with corpses when he mentions the plagues.
- Bowdlerise: English dub removes direct references to islam, while the finnish dub has the middle eastern characters explicitly talking about and praying to Allah.
- Deus ex Machina: Thousands of years ago, god trapped the Evil Genie of Darkness in his bottle. It's unclear why god can't/won't do it again.
- Divine Intervention: The Genie's evil was so abhorrent that the actual Almighty God directly intervened to imprison him.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Pikkies grownup design is glimpsed briefly in a crowd scene near the end of the episode.
- Even More Omnipotent: Genie claims to be omnipotent. However, there is a far more powerful God who imprisoned him when it could no longer tolerate his crimes.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Genie remembers his ecncounter with the sheikh's ancestor only vaguely, seeming to only recall that he was almost free but then something happened.
- The Napoleon: Henk's not usually this, but reacts this way whenbDolf mocks him for being short.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: The magic bottle serves as a prison for the Evil Spirit of Darkness.
- Series Continuity Error: Henk is shown painting the inner walls of Alfred's new house green, but every other subsequent episode shows the walls being the unpainted color.
