Romeo! is an American/Canadian television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2006. The show revolves around the antics of Romeo Miller, an aspiring rapper, his musical family, and his record-producing father, Master P. Romeo is part of a hip-hop band, along with his siblings Jodi (Erica O'Keith), Louis (Noel Callahan), and Gary (Zachary Isaiah Williams), and the show primarily follows the adventures that the family, along with Romeo's nanny, Marie Rogers (Victoria Jackson) and stepmother, Angeline (Natasha Williams) get involved in.
After it ended in 2006, with 53 episodes, the series continued to aired until 2007. It also aired reruns on BET, The N (now as TeenNick) and MTV2.
This series contains the following tropes:
- Badly Battered Babysitter: The first nanny introduced in the pilot that the Miller children managed to run off with their behavior.
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Broken Aesop: During the scene from "Da New Hotness", in which Romeo's older sister got a boyfriend. She is lectured on how she is not mature enough for a relationship. Later, when the boyfriend comes over for dinner, he eats some Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce and reacts hilariously. The sister dumps him and it's presented as her being "mature." However, what would be truly mature is not breaking up with your boyfriend over something so minor. - "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Romeo Miller, who is a rapper in real life, raps the theme song.
- Drop-In Character: Myra, who stops by on occasion to annoy Romeo and the family.
- Garage Band: The Miller kids were part of one, with Romeo leading and rapping.
- Gasshole: The first Nanny from the pilot episode embodies this trope. While the other three are rejected for their generally obnoxious demeanor, she's incredibly polite and enthusiastic. She'd have been a perfect fit... were it not for her tendency to rip a loud fart every time she was onscreen. It's her absolutely shameless manner that really sells the scene - she makes no attempt to hide her farting. To the contrary, she almost seems to take pride in it. Of note, she's the only one of the four to leave such an impact that she gets a mention after the interview scene.Gary: "Please don't let that lady with the gas come back!"
- Imagine Spot: Romeo would have daydreams that he was in a video game and these sequences would be animated. These were dropped after season 1.
- Laugh Track: Despite this being a single-camera series not filmed in front of a live audience, a laugh track was present. This too was dropped after season 1.
- Put on a Bus: Mrs. Rogers does that in a season one finale, where she attends vet school, and she was being replaced by Angeline in season two.
- Token White: Louis, Romeo's foster brother. He is the one of two regular white characters on the series before Victoria Jackson left after season 1.
