History WesternAnimation / TheRomanHolidays

This animated series from Creator/HannaBarbera is about a DomCom family in "ancient" Rome. As on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', AnachronismStew is an essential part of this series--but the starting point is later. It aired only in the 1972-73 season on Creator/{{NBC}}.

* AnachronismStew: Like its sibling shows, the Romans have a lot of things that did not exist in the real Roman era.
* AncientRome: This is the setting of the show albeit with technology that a modern audience would recognise but are Roman themed.

* ComicBookAdaptation: Four issues were published by Creator/GoldKeyComics (February–November 1973). The first three were drawn by Pete Alvarado; the final issue was drawn by Jack Manning.

* FateWorseThanDeath: When Gus is looking for someone to take Evictus's daughter Snobbia to the prom, he tries to get a date for her by asking a teen that he (Gus) had saved from drowning years ago. When Gus asked him for the favor, the teen asked Gus if he would instead throw him back in the lake to drown.
* FeudingFamilies: A not as violent example comes in the rivalry between the Holidays and Groovia's family in "Hectic Holiday"
* FlintstoneTheming: Names will follow on some kind of joke about Roman era objects.

* NamesToRunAwayFrom: A landlord named Evictus who had a daughter named Snobbia.

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%%* AncientRome: This is the setting of the show.

%%* BigEater: Brutus eats all the time, much to Gus's trouble.
%%* BowlingForRatings: Gus goes bowling in a few episodes.
%%* CanisLatinicus: It mostly ties in to the Meaningful Names of the characters.

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Precocia has her moments.
%%* FamilyTitle

%%* {{Gonk}}: Snobbia, Evictus' daughter.

%%* PunnyName: The Holiday son Happy.
%%* RecycledInSpace: ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' in AncientRome!

* ShesGotLegs:
** Groovia in her toga shows off her legs.
** In "Cyrano de Happius", we also get her friend, Curvia. And with a name like that, you know ''exactly'' how this trope applies.
** Laurie Holiday has a pretty youthful body for a middle-aged mother of two.

* AncientRome: This is the setting of the show.

* BigEater: Brutus eats all the time, much to Gus's trouble.
* BowlingForRatings: Gus goes bowling in a few episodes.
* CanisLatinicus: It mostly ties in to the Meaningful Names of the characters.

* DeadpanSnarker: Precocia has her moments.
* FamilyTitle

* {{Gonk}}: Snobbia, Evictus' daughter.

* PunnyName: The Holiday son Happy.
* RecycledInSpace: ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' in AncientRome!

** In ''Cyrano de Happius", we also get her friend, Curvia. And with a name like that, you know ''exactly'' how this trope applies.

* PantyShot: Precocia in "Hectic Holiday." More a case of innocent panties.

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[[caption-width-right:212:The modern Iron Age family.]]

* AnachronismStew: Like its sibling shows the Romans have a lot of things that did not exist in the real Roman era.

* BambooTechnology: As typical, a cat is the bank's siren by pulling its tail, elephants help with construction, etc.

* DawsonCasting: In-universe. Fortysomething Gus must try to pass as a teenager in one episode. It's as convincing you'd expect.
* DeadpanSnarker: Precocia has her moments of this.

* MaleGaze: Somewhat. Groovia and Laurie have more... detail... drawn into their bodies than typical women in a Hanna Barbera Cartoon. It's not something kids would pick up on, but adults would.

** In ''Cyrano de Happius" we also get her friend, Curvia. And with a name like that you know exactly how this trope applies.

* TwinSwitch: Used more than once. In "The Lion's Share", the corrupt owners of the pound switch Brutus with another lion, that happens to be Brutus's father. Then in "Star for a Day" Hap finds he is an exact duplicate of Davey Cassius and ends up switching places with him.
* UglyGuyHotWife: As per usual for Hannah Barbera cartoons. While Gus certainly isn't ugly, he's fairly non-descript, whereas Laurie is drawn noticeably curvy and beautiful.

* DawsonCasting: In-universe. Gus must try to pass as a teenager in one episode. It's as successful you'd expect.

* MaleGaze: Somewhat. Curvia and Laurie have more... detail... drawn into their bodies than typical women in a Hanna Barbera Cartoon. It's not something kids would pick up on, but adults would.

* WackyRacing: The ending climax of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Chariot Wash" is a chariot race with plenty of shenanigans.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: While most of the episodes usually feature Gus as the main character, several episodes instead make the show more about Happius and Groovia. In ''Cyrano de Happius'', a beta teen couple is also introduced and the show feels much closer to the similar WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones teen shows.

* RecycledInSpace: [[WesternAnimation The Flintstones]] in AncientRome!

* ShesGotLegs: Groovia in her toga shows off her legs.

* WackyRacing: The ending climax of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Chariot Wash" is a chariot race with plenty of shenanigans..

* SandalPunk: Like [[StonePunk The Flintstones]] and [[RaygunGothic Jetsons]] before it, a sitcom version of the genre.

* SandalPunk: Like The Flintstones and Jetsons before it, a sitcom version of the genre.

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This animated series from Creator/HannaBarbera is about a DomCom family in "ancient" Rome. As on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', AnachronismStew is an essential part of this series--but the starting point is later. It aired only in the 1972-73 season on NBC.

* BambooTechnology: As typical, a cat is the bank's siren by pulling it's tail, elephants help with construction, etc.