Rinse the Blood Off My Toga

lol im doing this for my HI

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

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).

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.

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.

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".

"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 :)

Excellent all the way.

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?

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)...