Okay, one last parody of Asterix and I stop...
I wouldn't have done this without a handy little Youtube video of the original classic:
Now, that is clever cartooning. You laugh a scene like this when you are a kid but when you see it as an adult, you laugh even harder because you know what it's all about. If you're french, "la maison qui rend fou" is called "préfecture", if you're american it has the dreaded initials; D-M-V. If you're Canadian, it's a double-headed dragon with one head being called Service Canada, and the other being Service New-Brunswick if you're in Moncton, or Service Québec if you're in Montreal, or Service Ontario if you're in Toronto...and of course, no matter where you are in the Great White North, the two are never in the same darn building.
In short, this little segment says all about those guys' genius at blending jokes about the ancient World and our own. A lot like I try to mix animality and humanity in my characters ("citizenship collar").
