An animated cartoon sitcom featuring a family in ancient Rome.
It occurred to me that the title of my daughter's Latin book, "ECCE ROMANI" basically means "Hey Look, It's The Romans!" - which struck me as a good title for a TV sitcom.
In keeping with the Flintstones/Jetsons/Simpsons tradition, this show would focus on a working-class family, rather than the Caesars and Ciceros - although occasional walkons by a Virgil or Ovid would be a nice touch. Maybe to make it more relevant to today, it should be placed in the Later Empire, when things were starting to fall apart a bit... and everybody was getting worried about those nasty barbarians...-- smendler, Oct 02 2009 Up Pompeii! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Pompeii [DrBob, Oct 02 2009] Ever read the Marco Falco novels? http://www.lindseyd...uk/publications.htmThis is the author's official website. [Aristotle, Oct 04 2009] (btw: no Animation or Cartoon categories? Or did I miss one?)-- smendler, Oct 02 2009 Categories get created when there's ideas to put in them - if we have a whole bunch of cartoon sitcom ideas, it'll show up.-- jutta, Oct 02 2009 neat concept, maybe a sketch of an episode to give us an idea of the realizac'ion.-- WcW, Oct 02 2009 Could be useful for teaching Latin-- hippo, Oct 02 2009 I could use this in about twenty minutes. Could you have it done by then or estne nixor horribile manis pictororum?-- nineteenthly, Oct 02 2009 [Lurkio] "The prologue..." [/Lurkio]-- DrBob, Oct 02 2009 <Kenneth Williams>
"Infamy ! Infamy !"
</Kenneth Williams>-- 8th of 7, Oct 02 2009 Yes, as one who has used Ecce Romani! to try and learn Latin, I would watch this. English subtitles I presume?-- pocmloc, Oct 02 2009 "ROMANI ITE DOMUM" ?-- 8th of 7, Oct 02 2009 I much prefer the somewhat less accurate:"ROMANES EUNT DOMUS".("People called Romanes they go the house.")-- Jinbish, Oct 02 2009 I can totally see this as a cartoon.-- kevinthenerd, Oct 04 2009 The only thing I can think of offhand that would approach it is the Emperor's New School.-- RayfordSteele, Oct 04 2009 // Carry On Cleo. // Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?-- tatterdemalion, Oct 04 2009 "placet", shirley?-- pertinax, Oct 05 2009 Verbatim.-- tatterdemalion, Oct 05 2009 I have a whiff of a memory of something resembling this, featuring an eternally bored and sarcastic talking lion.-- BunsenHoneydew, Oct 10 2009 "Mr.Peabody" was the dog, who with his pet boy <name> wandered through time to provide history lessons to kids who weren't paying attention in school.-- FlyingToaster, Oct 11 2009 Sherman-- dentworth, Oct 12 2009 Ah, no, I'm well aware of Sherman and Peabody's adventures with the (original) Wayback Machine. What I'm dimly recalling definitely had a bored, cynical (and somewhat camp?) talking lion, and may or may not have been set in classical Rome. No time travel.-- BunsenHoneydew, Oct 27 2009 random, halfbakery