Julius Caesar and Vercingetorix each tell their version of the Gallic Wars fought between The Roman Republic and an alliance of Gallic tribes (58-50 BC).
Tropes:
- Anachronism Stew: Caesar presenting a modern paperback book version of Commentaries on the Gallic War.
- Artistic License – History: Discussed. Vercingetorix points out how he's often represented with a mustache while he was actually most likely clean-shaven, how "Gauls" were actually a myriad of different tribes, how they wore iron helmets without wings (obviously referring to Asterix), and how they had great craftmanships unlike their Roman-inspired depictions as barbarians. He's also baffled by Caesar's deliberate inaccuracies in Commentaries on the Gallic War.
- Chromosome Casting: Only male characters are featured in this episode.
- Cool Helmet: At one point, Vercingetorix shows off a seldom-seen Celtic iron helmet, to contrast the outdated "winged helmet" depictions of Gauls.
- Cultural Posturing: Caesar considers Roman culture superior to that of the Gauls because Gauls haven't developed writing.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Not counting The Beauty Tutorial of Agnès Sorel, it is the shortest main episode, clocking in at just 10 minutes. Most of the following ones generally clock in at around 30 minutes.
- There's no Shout-Out to speak of outside of the veiled/subdued yet obvious references to the depiction of Gauls in Asterix.
- Product Placement: A parody of it, with Caesar advertising his book.
- Slave Market: A fictional Roman slave merchant named Dominus Bonus is also interviewed, about the mass enslavements of Gauls that happened in the wake of Caesar's conquests. He even shows a child slave to the interviewer, asking him if he'd like to buy the child.
- Unreliable Narrator: Unsurprisingly, Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War are full of deliberate inaccuracies and self-aggrandizing propaganda.
