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Culture: Television: Sitcom
Ecce Romani - the Series!   (+6)  [vote for, against]
A bit after the Flintstones, and long before the Simpsons...

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.htm
This 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



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