Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a romantic tragic play written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1591 and 1595.
It told the story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, teenagers who met each other at a masked ball, and fell in love, despite the fact that their families had been feuding for years. They are eventually married by Friar Laurence, but the play ends tragically when various circumstances lead to them both committing suicide.
The play has been performed onstage many times since it was written, including performances by high school and college students. There have also been numerous movie versions, including a modern version from 1996. The musical West Side Story is a contemporary version of the play, substituting rival street gangs for the Capulets and Montagues. The star-crossed lovers were even mentioned in the songs "Fever" by Peggy Lee, "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" by The Reflections, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult, "Fire" by The Pointer Sisters, and "Cherish" by Madonna.
The play has been spoofed several times in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
== The Huckleberry Hound Show ==
* "Phony-O and Juliet" has Hokey Wolf and Ding-a-Ling trying to find Juliet.
== The Flintstones ==
There were three episodes devoted to the play:
* "The Most Beautiful Baby in Bedrock" began with the Flintstones and Rubbles seeing "Rockeo and Julieta" at the drive-in. Later, the families had a feud of their own when the Water Buffalo Lodge decided to have a Beautiful Baby Contest. The bickering only ended when Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm ran away together.
* "Dino and Juliet": Dino fell for Mr. Loudrock's pet female dinosaur. As a result, Fred and Mr. Loudrock fought each other relentlessly until the female dinosaur bore a litter of fifteen baby dinosaurs.
* "Curtain Call at Bedrock" had the Flintstones and Rubbles trying to perform a stage production of "Romeorock and Julietstone", which met with one disaster after another. A running gag had Fred repeatedly saying "toes" instead of "woes".
== The Yogi Bear Show ==
* The Snagglepuss episode "Remember Your Lions" has Major Minor playing Juliet to Snagglepuss' Romeo as a ploy to bag him at the local theater. In another Snagglepuss episode, the lion says, "What light through yonder window breaks? Who threw that stone?"
== The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series ==
* The story gets a mod twist in the Touché Turtle and Dum Dum segment "Romeo, Touché, and Juliet". 
** The Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har segment in the same episode is titled "Romeo Rabbit" and features a despondent bunny who doesn't want to live without his true love. 
== The Peter Potamus Show ==
* "Marriage Peter Potamus Style" had Peter and So-So ending up in Verona, Italy. After accidentally landing on Romeo and hurting him, leaving him bandaged up and wheelchair-bound, Peter tried to convince Lord Capulet to let Juliet marry Romeo, but he refused, so Peter blew him far away with the Hippo Hurricane Holler. Romeo and Juliet tied the knot and borrowed the balloon for their honeymoon.
== The Perils of Penelope Pitstop ==
* In "Carnival Calamity", as they enter the tunnel of love, Penelope Pitstop and the Ant Hill Mob pass a diorama of Romeo and Juliet. Pockets comments on the Hooded Claw being an ugly Juliet, and Yak-Yak replies that he feels sorry for Romeo.
== Goober and the Ghost Chasers ==
* In "Venice Anyone?", the ghost of Don Giavanni is trying to prevent Carlo from marrying Julia. Goober and the Ghost Chasers try to find out who's behind this diabolical scheme.
== The Kwicky Koala Show ==
* A Bungle Brothers segment is titled "The Romeo and Juliet Act".
== The Smurfs ==
* In "Romeo and Smurfette", all the Smurfs, Papa Smurf included, want to marry Smurfette. An evil spell cast upon Smurfette by Gargamel provokes a rivalry between Hefty and Handy that keeps escalating until Papa Smurf and Gargamel switch bodies.
 
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