Rinse the Blood Off My Toga

[ExcelsiorProduction1]

Shuster and Wayne



[zdt53]

I told him "Julie It's the Ides of March, beware already.." Classic New York Latin.

[tprdfh51]

Cullen...you are looking so lean and hungry!

[mychobbo]

dude i read and hear the original one you missed some parts

[lorawsome]

JULIE!!!! dont go!!!! lol

[MissIzzcat]

omg i love this!!!!!! im reading julius caesar in class so this is soooooooooooo funny!!!!!

[AliceTRoyal]

Does anyone know where I can find the full version of this?

[pokedude720]

My latin teacher had us listen to this on the Ides.

[crazyaboutwildlife]

give me a martinus... you mean martini

if i want two i'll ask for them

hahaha love it!! this would be a great latin inside joke!! :D

[zanneish]

heeeeeeeeheheeeeheeee. i just have to giggle. too funny.

[mordythahn]

Give me a martinus. You mean a martini. If I want two I'll ask for them.

[stevenlburke]

A perfect watch for today, the ides of March.

[Flyboy243]

I played the role of Marc Antony in 8th Grade High School. Was memorable and funny....especially when I died

[julesl16]

It's great to see this on YouTube and to read everyone's positive comments. But please, if you are going to quote Sylvia Lennick's infamous line, please quote the correct line!

I grew up with it -- most people think I was named after the skit, but it was written after I was born.....

thanks all!

[jp2ily]

i remember this when i was a kid i had it on a record..Loved it

[jp2ily]

i remember this when i was a kid i had it on a record..

[Angierox113]

I saw some kids do this as a Forensics skit! it was funny!

[PieFights]

Classic Wayne and Shuster skit one of my all time favourite

[piratesephiroth]

the retarded laughter almost ruins it

[bandgeek5195]

@piratesephiroth almost

[DunkinDudeable]

I just did that for a class play and i was calphurnia :S

[bluesun7777]

@paintballing4life32 Hey, are you the one that did that? The one I'm thinking of? If so, you were fantastic!

[crazy50128]

@bluesun7777 no, your prob thinking of the National Champion in 2005.

[thoth4]

IXIVLLCCDIXMV = 1627

[MtheGate]

Flavius Maximus reminds me of someone... I can't put my finger on it...

[AliceTRoyal]

@MtheGate I was just thinking that, actually.... my first thought was an older, shorter version of Bill Nye the Science Guy....

Aren't there some bits that are cut out in this version?

[Paool3107]

The greatest production in the history of man kind.

[BiLoGLOvER2006]

this is in my senior production :D Karlea is playing flavius and DAMN she does awesome at the accent :D

[cutterTML]

Actually, the black and white version was way better and longer.

[Sorcoral]

but can I be trusted

[paintballing4life32]

lol im doing this for my HI

[tehsuperepicpwnzor]

@paintballing4life32 I have GOT to use this for mine next year =D

[iCamilleoxox]

WE DID THIS PLAY!!! lolz i was flavius :)

[Nonvisual]

In the original version, the bartender Cicero (played by Paul Kligman) is stabbed just as he is about to tell Flavius the identity of the murderer. Dying, he moans "Ooo! Eee! Ooo! Ah-ah!" Camera goes close on Flavius's face. He says "The Witch Doctor?" This is a reference to a song then on the hit parade, by David Seville (same guy who gave us the original Chipmunks).

[cutterTML]

I thought Flavius said "It sounds Greek" about the identity, must've been the 58 version.

[Nonvisual]

One part of the original sketch that never appears in these restorations is the Roman fire department: ten guys in Roman soldier get-ups standing in a row side by side. They're asked to sound off, so one by one, they speak their numbers: Eye; eye eye; eye eye eye, eye-vee, etc, until they come to the last guy, shorter than the rest with a bass voice: X . I laughed so hard at that, I missed the next couple of gags.

[Mac3622]

That was a different sketch. Johnny played the chief centurion, and Frank played the fire chief. Nero was featured in that one. Can't remember the name of that sketch though.

[Nonvisual]

Our Latin teacher in high school told us that Calpurnia was actually saying Julius's name almost correctly in Latin: using the vocative case ("you" grammatically speaking), she would have addressed him as Juli (pronounced Yew-lee), very much like "Julie".

[jazzhole86]

"I told him 'Julie, don't go, but would he listen to his own wife? Julie, don't go!' "

"I'm starting to realize why he went"

Classic! This brings back so many memories :)

[USRoute66]

Excellent all the way.

[Doogs1]

The original recording had more in it.

When he yells out to Brutus "we'll throw in an onion on a spear!!"

The Marc Antony part was great!

"I said friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"

"What do you have in the bag?"

"Ears!"

If I recall Marc Antony sounded like Yogi Bear?

[theShadowviking]

Yup- it also had more of the Rome saying (You like it? It's yours!) and the setup for "stabbed in the portico" (Julius was stabbed in the rotunda... very painful place, I had a splinter there once)...

[loves2Bcrazy]

Haha someone I know directed this play at my school and I stage managed. This is the best play ever

[tm12567]

big julie was dead!?!?!?!?!?!?

[xanie17]

"Julie, don't go! I told him, 'Julie, don't go!'But he didn't listen! I told him, 'Julie, don't go!'"

[sureenakay]

where's the marc antony part?

[xanie17]

like everything else in this world. down the drain.

[sureenakay]

lol you silly pants.

[xanie17]

well, if you don't believe me, you'll end up just like caesar. well, maybe less intense, but still.

sureenakay, don't go!

[sureenakay]

ya think so? such dudes are dangerous.

altho i don't really think mr. turner thinks too much...he's married, remember?

[sabbath723]

Calpurnia....she's a riot.

[QuashedByWatermelons]

This is great--I love this, too! I heard it on the radio years ago and never forgot Big Julie! Thanks!

[cablecorkpipeSBTB]

I LOVE THIS

[tm12567]

my licence # is IXIVLLCCDIMV also camoes in handy as an eye chart! If you can read it, you don't need glasses, but if you can pronounce it your polish! CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[sez1703]

haha i am playing brutus in our local repertory club.. should be fun!

[hookalakah]

So hip, so smart, so funny.

[GESSO217]

"Julius Cezar Murdered?! I couldnt believe my ears! Big Julie was Dead!" Classic.

[MrCriticOfAll]

As much as i love wayne and schuster this version really sucks it does not compere to the album version

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[markojameow]

I don't think so. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, though. This version does remind me of the detective shows that were so popular at the time it aired. For a classic TV buff, this is heaven.

[charltonian]

Pity they didn't use the original script! I have it on record. Classic!

[markojameow]

Wayne and Shuster (originally Shuster and Wayne) began their homegrown comedy careers while they were at Toronto's Harbord Collegiate (incidentally, my cousin's alma mater) in the 1930s. By the time of their first TV appearances in 1954, they were already established performers, and their comedy series and specials held their own in the ratings against American shows for the next 36 years. Johnny Wayne died of cancer in 1990, aged 72; Frank Shuster died 12 years later, aged 85.

[gustival]

I remember watching these guys on CBC when I was growing up. The Wayne and Schuster specials were always a treat to watch. Its great to see this classic sketch again!

[markojameow]

"Julie, don't go! Julie, don't go! But he wouldn't listen!" A classic Canadian comedy moment, first aired in 1976. (P. S. This sketch was first performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Wayne and Shuster appeared on that series 67 times.)

[BlastFurnaceCanada]

The "give me a 'martinus'" bit got a huge laugh when it was first performed on Sullivan -- it had so much effect that for a few weeks after, bars all over America had 'martinus' specials. Too bad the joke would go over the heads of most people today which says a lot about the state of education.

[markojameow]

Let's face it, jokes get stale after a while. But one thing's for certain: the education system is not what it used to be considering that many kids graduate high school and even college without basic literacy skills. It scares me just thinking about it.

[DardaZiza]

@markojameow

It's also on one of their LPs.  When we studied Shakespeare in high school English in 1968, the teacher played it for the class. Mrs Smith was a GREAT teacher!!

[markojameow]

@DardaZiza I remember reading Arthur Hailey's Flight into Danger in Grade 8, back in 1982. The original 1956 CBC teleplay starred James "Scotty" Doohan as a former military pilot who mans an airplane to safety after many passengers and crew develop food poisoning during a flight. A classic CBC moment, back when the CBC produced really good shows on a shoestring (by New York and Hollywood standards). Sadly, the CBC is unwatchable now.

[jackaL85PL]

Great :)

[cardhalya]

Brilliant classic comedy!  Great to see again. Thanx

[youcancallmeTI]

LMAO

[fitzro]

pretty funny