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* [[Doing in The Wizard]]: The album ''L'esprit d'Eloi'' (A pun on Montesquieu's "The spirit of the laws"). There is no ghost, of course.
* [[Eagle Land]]
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: [[Shout
* [[Expy]]: Saint-Ogan's ''[http://www.bedetheque.com/Couvertures/MonsieurPoche2_17082005.jpg Monsieur Poche]''.
* [[Fatherland]]: Zôtrland in the album ''Le Roi des Zôtres''
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* [[Police Are Useless]]: Greg didn't like them and projected a part of himself in Papa Talon who keeps a flag of the "Wild Anarchists Federation" in the attic.
* [[Punny Name]]: Does a character have a name? Then it's a pun: Achille Talon (Achilles Heel), Hilarion Lefuneste (hilarious the fatal/disastrous), Séraphin Dumonde (it's the end of the world), Hector Pedeau the auto mechanic (Torpedo, a kind of car), Doctor Fo-Pli (crease)... Talon even ''lives'' on the corner of the Rue Tilante (shiny) and l'Avenue Dumessie (the Coming of the Messiah).
** Séraphin Dumonde is another example of [[Multiple Reference Pun]]. Lefuneste suggests that he [
* [[Recycled in Space]]: In ''L'esprit d'Eloi'', Rheingard Van Daag's project is to shoot "[[Dracula]] {{smallcaps|In Space}}", [[Special Effects Failure|in a forest]].
* [[Ring Ring CRUNCH]]: In ''La Traversée du Disert'', Achille Talon tries to get an annoying transistor radio to shut up by smashing it against a rock ([[Percussive Maintenance|all it does is change the station]]) and feeding the pieces to his pet duck. Unfortunately, the radio keeps working from inside the duck's belly. And at the beginning of ''Viva Papa!'', Lefuneste gets his alarm clock to stop by striking it with a hammer.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: a common gag in the Polite strips, involving the comic authors and the less-than-patient Goscinny.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The trademark of the comics. Lampshaded when an accountant complains to Achille Talon that the translation fees for his comics are double the usual rate.
* [[Shout
* [[Sim Sim Salabim]]: Lampshaded with the Nayghorjo-ray ("Nosethroatear") in ''[[Artifact of Doom|La main du serpent]]''. It's a modern country using submarines and a computer-selected crew for their operations... and a fakir.
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Achille and Lefuneste.
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* [[Word Puree Title]]: The name of the series is actually supposed to be spelled ''Ach!lle Talon''.
* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Just about every fight has the participants make comments in a conversational tone, related to whatever weapon they're holding.
* [[Zero
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