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7 | [[caption-width-right:350:The modern Iron Age family.]] |
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9 | ->''"When in Rome you do like the Romans do\ |
10 | You play like the Romans play together!\ |
11 | You're all invited, so right this way\ |
12 | You’re gonna, Meet the Roman Holidays!"'' |
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14 | This animated series from Creator/HannaBarbera is about a DomCom family in [[TheThemeParkVersion "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}}. |
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16 | The head of the family is Augustus "Gus" Holiday. He has a wife, Laurie; a daughter, Precocia, and a son, Happius, or "Happy"/"Hap" for short—much like ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' (although unlike that show, this family features an older brother and younger sister). Their pet lion, Brutus, is a BigEater. |
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18 | !!'''Tropes''': |
19 | * AnachronismStew: Like its sibling shows, these Romans have a lot of things that did not exist in the real Roman era. |
20 | * AncientRome: This is the setting of the show, albeit with Roman-flavored 1970s technology. |
21 | * BambooTechnology: As per typical, a cat is the bank's siren by pulling its tail, elephants help with construction, etc. |
22 | * 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. All four issues were adaptations of TV show episodes; "Double Date", "Star For A Day" (renamed "Friends, Romans, & Cassius" in the comic), "Switch Is Which", and "That's Show Biz" (renamed "The Man Tamer" in the comic). |
23 | * DawsonCasting: In-universe. Fortysomething Gus must try to pass as a teenager in one episode. It's as convincing as you'd expect. |
24 | * 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 Gus had saved from drowning years ago. When Gus asked him for the favor, the teen asked Gus if he would throw him back in the lake instead. |
25 | * FeudingFamilies: A not-as-violent example comes in the rivalry between the Holidays and Groovia's family in "Hectic Holiday" |
26 | * FlintstoneTheming: Names will follow on some kind of joke about Roman-era objects. |
27 | * HappilyMarried: Gus and Laurie are a pretty happy couple together. |
28 | * 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. |
29 | * MeanBoss: Mr. Tycoonius has his moments and even more so his client in "Switch is Which?" manages to be this to Gus, Tycoonius and the landlord Evictus. |
30 | * MeaningfulName: Their landlord is named Evictus, and Gus' boss at the marble quarry ([[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones déjà vu?]]) is Tycoonius. |
31 | * NamesToRunAwayFrom: A landlord named Evictus, who has a daughter named Snobbia. |
32 | * PlayingCyrano: Hap tries to do this for his friend Tremulus and manages to bungle things up in epic fashion. |
33 | * 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. |
34 | * PrinceAndPauper: In one episode, Happius switches places with a famous musician named [[Creator/DavidCassidy David Cassius]]. |
35 | * SandalPunk: Like [[StonePunk The Flintstones]] and [[RaygunGothic Jetsons]] before it, a sitcom version of the genre. With a side of SwordAndSandal. |
36 | * ShoutOut: The title is a pun on the film ''Film/RomanHoliday''. |
37 | * SingleIssueLandlord: Evictus is sometimes this. He sometimes comes in on a crusade to get the Holidays kicked out of the apartment for one specific reason. |
38 | * 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. |
39 | * UglyGuyHotWife: As per usual for Hanna-Barbera cartoons. While Gus certainly isn't ugly, he's fairly non-descript, whereas Laurie is drawn noticeably curvy and beautiful. |
40 | * WackyRacing: The ending climax of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Chariot Wash" is a chariot race with plenty of shenanigans. It fits as Gus' voice actor, Dave Willock, was the narrator on ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces''. |
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