One could make the argument that the whole movie is a big CMOF.
Some highlights:
- At the beginning, when all villagers are gathered, the narrator wonders if the audience needs to be reintroduced to the famous inhabitants of Asterix's village (the Gauls all look very proud). When asking if anyone hasn't heard of the Gauls, dozens of hands go up (the Gauls all make a sad face).
- Asterix demonstrating how the movie has been translated in every language by saying hello in almost every major language.
- As usual, the Romans' attempt to conquer the village results in a brief, but utterly hilarious Curb-Stomp Battle with the Romans on the receiving end. What makes the whole thing especially funny is that the centurion's discussion with one of the soldiers clearly implies that this is not their first attempt. They know it's gonna fail, but Caesar's orders are to be followed, and they cling onto the thinnest thread of hope that maybe this time it will work. Surprise surprise, it doesn't.
- Caius Tiddlus's way of walking involves bopping his head forward at every steps in a silly way, that contrasts a bit with his constant stoic expression. Obelix also quickly starts to imitate his way of walking when he and Asterix follow Caius Tiddlus to the trials.
- Asterix's race with Asbestos the Greek. It gets so crazy so quickly that Asbestos literally turns into a rocket. It gets crazier, Asbestos goes so fast, the background ends up shattering leaving nothing but a white void. What stops him? Hitting an apple tree.
- Cylindric the German, from the huge door for a small guy, to his funny accent, to the hilarious way he curbstomps Obelix, to how he's defeated.
- Obelix versus Mannenkenpix, the Chef of The Titans, who is legendary for his enormous meals that no mortal could possibly finish. It ends with the chef leaving, bawling his eyes out because Obelix ate every last crumb of food in the kitchen. Then Obelix complains that the chef left when he'd only had his starters.
- Asterix versus Iris, the Egyptian hypnotist. He defeats him by distracting him with comments about how useful his glowing eyes must be for reading in the dark, and gets him to hypnotise himself into thinking he's a boar.
- The Cave of the Beast segment: Asterix and Obelix have to get out of the titular place alive, which houses a terrifying creature that nobody ever saw and survived to came back and tell the tale. Cue a series of creepy and surreal moments, until they finally get at the threshold of the Beast's cave... and immediately we switch to a typical bright Roman town. Asterix and Obelix just get out of a sewer grate and sit next to Caius Tiddlus, the clerk who's accompanying them on their journey, who's already waiting for them in a tavern. The kicker comes when Tiddlus asks them what the Beast was like...Obelix: Very tasty! Waiter! I'd like a drink!
- And among those surreal moments in the cave? One second, they're exploring the eerie cave, the next second? The lights come up and suddenly they wind up in a modern-day subway station!
- The scene as a whole has genuinely creepy imagery, but it's punctuated by Asterix and Obelix being utterly unfazed and talking to each other.
- Everything that happens in The-Place-That-Sends-You-Mad. Especially Obelix's mental breakdown and when Asterix outsmarts the place's office drones (which also counts as a Moment of Awesome for Asterix)
- In more detail, Asterix sends the office workers on a wild goose chase for a made up form and sure enough they’re the ones going mad. And when Asterix finally gets the proper permit from the head prefect, the man realizes what just happened and he finally goes mad himself.
- Asterix's increasing frustration when he finds out he has to fill out a pink slip in some window. The feathers droop on his helmet and steam rises from his head.
- The whole thing is especially hilarious for any person who's ever been confronted by a daunting bureaucracy.
- Asterix and Obelix give up on walking in an invisible tightrope and just jump into a crocodile-filled river, aware they can actually beat up the crocodiles, with funny music playing as the reptiles are thrown onto that same rope.
- The Old Man of the Mountain and his riddle. The whole ordeal ending in a detergent commercial is already hilarious, but the contrast between the Old Man's attitude and that of Asterix and Obelix underscores the whole scene.Old Man: Do you know, foolish men, that if you fail to give me the right answer you will be banished instantly into the infernal depth of Hell?Obelix: After climbing all this way?! Not likely! I've got better things to do.
- Asterix pulling an unwilling but nonetheless awesome instance of Talking the Monster to Death with the ghost Centurion after reaching his Rage Breaking Point with all the crap he's had to put up with during the whole day. He basically acts like the ghost was a noisy neighbor who won't turn down his music, not even being scared or realizing that he's talking to a ghost.Asterix: Do you know what time it is?!
- Made funnier by the undead Centurion losing his dramatic Voice of the Legion and awkwardly trying to explain the ghosts' presence to an incensed Asterix and an apologetic Obelix.
- After the above, the empty field is replaced by Rome. Obelix wonders if the city was built in a day.
- The whole of the Circus Maximus sequence.
- Impedimenta is searching for something in her bag while being chased by a trident-wielding gladiator. She stops after pulling... a rolling pin out of it. Then she chases the gladiator back, bashing his butt with it as said gladiator runs in fear.
- Vitalstatistix doesn't want to get off his chieftain shield during the battle and asks for Romans to be thrown at him like balls. The other Gauls oblige and send Romans in his face, which makes him fall off the shield repeatedly.
- Cacofonix finally has a chance of thwarting an attempt by Fulliautomatix to knock him out and taking some due revenge along the way, by putting a gladiator helmet on his head at the last second, causing Fulliautomatix to hurt his hand instead.
- The Circus Maximus being turned into a literal modern circus by the Gauls.
- Every time a Roman speaks in the Italian dub, he does so in Rome's modern dialect.
- The ending. Especially this exchange where Obelix actually invokes the laws of cartoon-physics!:Obelix: Are we really the rulers of Rome, Asterix?
Asterix: Well sure Obelix. It's an animated movie, anything goes!
Obelix: Anything goes? (And poof! Obelix is suddenly on the Island of Pleasure!) - Caius Tiddlus, in the ending, has lost himself on the Island of Pleasure, being nothing like his usual self.
