Funny / OverSimplified - The First Punic War

• The Punic Wars is preluded by the Mamertines invading Messana and slaughtering its inhabitants. One Mamertine soldier kills a homeowner and immediately behaves like the head of the household, such as calling himself the kids' father, and referring to the wife as "dear". When the deceased's family understandably rejects him, the soldier laments that he's now stuck in this marriage, but still refuses to leave the house.
• The darkly hilarious scenes depicting the Carthagian schoolteacher crucifying a general for failing their campaigns or losing battles in front of his students.
  Teacher: Oh, you better BELIEVE that's a crucifixion! (kids cheer)
• The multiple depictions of Rome's inexperience with naval warfare. Among them:
  • A soldier is shown diving into the water of the Ionian Sea... And promptly drowning because he can't swim. Another soldier simply stares at the whole thing.
  • Later, a captain does just the same, with the same results, except now there's dialogue:
    Captain: (as he's drowning) Tell my kids... I love them...
    A soldier: (smiling) We're gonna need a bigger boat!
    Another soldier: What's a boat?
    The same soldier: (distressed) I don't know.
• One of the attempts at building a boat is simply tying a fish to a chariot, with a soldier whipping it while the fish just flops about.
• Rome losing fleets to storms becomes a Running Gag, always with the same shot of the roman soldiers hanging for dear life in the sinking ships. Pure Black Comedy as it was all Truth in Television.
• When the Romans turn their war efforts towards Carthage, we get this "inspiring" speech from a Carthaginian General.
  Carthaginian General: Okay guys, looks like the Romans are coming straight for us this time. And what will they do when they get here? They'll kill us all.
  (Crowd gasps)
  Carthaginian General: They'll massacre each and every last one of us. They may even chop our pets in half.
  Rob: That's barbaric!
  Carthaginian General: No, Rob, it's actually pretty normal for the time. We'd do the same to them.
  Mary: Who will protect us?
  Carthaginian General: Funny you should ask, Mary. That's kind of why I called this meeting. Who will protect us? Protect our families, our homes, our children? You guys? Ha, don't make me laugh. Why, you're just a bunch of stupid and weak farmers. Simple-minded buffoons, cowards, fools. Rob here thinks enslaving women and children is barbaric. You're a snowflake, Rob. Yes, you are. The fact is if the Romans manage to land on African soil, we're all gonna die a terrifying, hideous, unspeakably painful death.
  Rob: Is that the end of that speech?
  Carthaginian General: Yes.
  (Crowd panics)
• When Regulus was inching closer and closer to Carthage, and the city panics with the influx of refugees, the general makes a similarly "inspiring" speech:
  Carthaginian General: DON'T PANIC EVERYONE!
  (Crowd stops in their tracks)
  Carthaginian General: Look, I know you're all starving, but I still have food... for me. So, you know, it's not all bad.
  (Crowd becomes angry and boos while throwing tomatoes at the General)
  Carthaginian General: Whoa! You're wasting your tomatoes. And you idiots wonder why you're starving! OH WELL, IT'S JUST MORE FOOD FOR ME! (starts munching on some of the thrown tomatoes)
• Claudius Pulcher consulted the Sacred Chickens to see if conditions are favorable to attack Drepana by sea, but since they didn't eat the seeds (a bad omen):
  Pulcher: Well, if they won't eat, then let them drink! STUPID CHICKENS! (tosses the chickens overboard) We'll observe the weather instead! Gods! Give me a sign! (cue a thunderstorm) Uh, ignore that. Okay, how about this? If I can get this piece of paper into that trash basket, we'll win! (wads the paper into a ball in an attempt to throw it, misses) Okay, if I can stand here silently for five seconds and do nothing, WE'LL WIN! (Beat, farts not even five seconds in) DAGNAMMIT!
• When Regulus goes to the Roman senate to tell them not to surrender — even though he knows it'll lead to his death — the senators are playing Giant Jenga.
• The portrayal of Regulus being tortured to death: being sandwiched between two boards of nails while going "Owie owie owie."
• Hamilcar Barca's epic oath of vengeance is slightly undermined by the fact Hannibal is still a baby and is too busy playing with a rattle, giggling and pooping himself to comprehend why his father is ranting about him growing up to destroy Rome.
• The Romans dressing one of their soldiers up as a war elephant, rationalizing that since they built a warship, they can build a war elephant.
• The NordVPN ad asks the viewer if they like having people steal their data and selling it to advertisers, who would then spam the viewer with the ads until they die. The 'data' in question is the viewer's poop-related searches, and throughout the ad, the viewer is labeled as someone 'who likes to poop'. The gravestone of the dead viewer later reads, "Here lies OverSimplified Viewer. He likes to poop."

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