A Sitcom about the Geico Cavemen

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Press Release: Over the last hundred thousand years, mankind has evolved from primitive creatures into the sophisticated beings we are today, with the exception of a small minority who unfortunately didn't physically evolve. Meet Lauren, his younger brother Jamie, and his best friend Nick, three sophisticated cavemen living in modern-day Atlanta. These cavemen continually find themselves at odds with contemporary society as they struggle to overcome their physical appearance and the accompanying stereotypes. Lauren is content with his life while pursuing the American dream, and has recently become engaged to Kate, a lovely Southern Caucasian girl. However, he must constantly vie for the respect of her conservative parents. Lauren's relationship with Kate and his personal contentment are constantly being put to the test by Nick and Jamie's emotional demands. Basing the show on their popular GEICO "cavemen" commercials, Joe Lawson, Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory) have created a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America. Lawson wrote the pilot and is attached to co-executive produce. Speck and Gordon will executive produce and direct. Also attached to executive produce are Guymon Casady and Daniel Rappaport (Office Space).

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― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

So much wrong.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/bob.jpg

― Tape Store, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

Basing the show on their popular GEICO "cavemen" commercials, Joe Lawson, Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory) have created a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America.

Basing the show on their popular GEICO "cavemen" commercials, Joe Lawson, Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory) have created a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America.

Basing the show on their popular GEICO "cavemen" commercials, Joe Lawson, Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory) have created a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America.

Basing the show on their popular GEICO "cavemen" commercials, Joe Lawson, Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory) have created a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America.

Basing the show on their popular GEICO "cavemen" commercials, Joe Lawson, Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory) have created a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America.

Basing the show on their popular GEICO "cavemen" commercials, Joe Lawson, Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory) have created a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America.

Basing the show on their popular GEICO "cavemen" commercials, Joe Lawson, Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory) have created a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America.

― A B C, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:49 (eighteen years ago)

it always seemed a bit cruel how freeinternet.com sold baby bob off to quiznos

― A B C, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

always

― A B C, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

Man.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

And *I* thought the Geico Lizard CGI film would be money.

― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

I am consistently amazed whenever I discover that someone actually likes the caveman commercials -- especially when there are other geico commercials that are sooooo much funnier (THE LITTLE RICHARD ONE!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PEOPLE!)

― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

Are there people who actually likes these commercials? It seems like Geico is sort of desperately pushing too hard and too quickly for the caveman to become some sort of Panic-Button-style viewer-loved advertising meme.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, likes = like.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

i likes them

― Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Gracias for the testimony, Big Wrink.

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

???

― Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

skimming through threads too quickly i read this as A Sitcom about the Geir Caveman

― Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

i don't especially like the caveman commercials per se (though the royskopp one is mildly amusing at least when they don't go too far with the follow-up one), but the caveman talking head one was the best commercial of last year

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

it was more a talking head commercial than a caveman commercial, though, i guess

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

the one with the shrink is decent, too

as for the show

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

NOOOOOOOO

Goddamn I hate these commercials. How could TV executives be so fucking stupid?

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

> How could TV executives be so fucking stupid?

Have you ever seen TV?

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Bring back the Miller Lite "Evil Beaver"

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Have you ever seen TV?

I actually avoid almost all sitcoms and comedies b/c they are dumb. I was just really hoping this ad campaign would end soon. now. . .ugh, I can't bear to think of it.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

> I actually avoid almost all sitcoms and comedies b/c they are dumb.

Very wise. The only exception I make is The Office.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

still better than the oversized-head from the burger king king

― deej, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I would love a show about that dude. Whiney, self-absorbed caveman, not so much.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

ol' Wrink P OTM, these are pretty funny. I liked the restaurant one best.

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Think of how much better "Entourage" would be if the four main characters outside of Ari were cavemen.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

you just blew my mind

― Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

now can we talk about GET ZWINKY! because it is my favorite commercial ever?

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

GET ZWINKAY! GET ZWINKAAY! GET ZWINKAAAAY!

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

sweet, zwinky is on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbEZlnl9WQ

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

So when do the California Raisins guest star?

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Hey wtf is ZWINKY supposed to be, apart from nightmarish?

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

I would ask google but I am that frightened.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

it's a cool toolbar! (why is it 33MB though??)

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Spyware is bulky!

― David R., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

The local plasma donation place has "even a caveman can do it" on their marquee right now.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

"a lovely Southern Caucasian girl"

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://cdn-80.cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users12/jrw0517/default/Quiznos_Ad--large-msg-115553453823.jpg

HELLO TV EXECUTIVES SUCCESS IS CALLING.

― John Justen, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to see a sitcom starring the people from the Head On commercials walking around a small, confined space mumbling incomplete sentences and bumping into each other for 23 minutes.

― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

I really like these commercials.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to see a sitcom where Tom Delay and Trent Lott are roped together, each given a dull, rusty knife and told that neither one will be allowed to eat, drink or sleep until one of them is dead.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Or is this too much to ask?

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

John, I hate you.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

John Justen OTM.

I like the geico caveman OK, but I dont want to live in a world where he gets his own sitcom and the quizno's hamsters get yanked off the air before the campaign is even over.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

"campaign"

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

we like the mooooon

-- quiznos hamsters, Tuesday, May 14, 2007 4:12 PM (54 seconds ago)

hamsters OTM

― Jordan, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

a hilarious and thought-provoking social commentary on race relations in today's America.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6494/castsr1.jpg

(maybe not so "hilarious", tho'.)

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hamsters be a day behind.

xp

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

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WHAT????
The second, "Mexican Boarders" (1962), revolves around Speedy trying to protect Slowpoke from Sylvester the cat, but in the end, Slowpoke demonstrates his ability to hypnotize Sylvester into becoming his slave. This short (which was later edited into Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales) contains a possible allusion to a marijuana habit when Slowpoke sings La Cucaracha. English Translation of what Slowpoke Rodríguez says: "The roach, the roach, can't walk any more, because it needs, because it needs, marijuana to smoke"

― mizzell, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

serious question: do cavemen drink Moolattes?

― kenan, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

For shit's sake, his only line of dialogue is "meep meep."

He also does that tongue-waggling noise thing, which is hilarious.

― Phil D., Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I thought about that one! Great stuff.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 26 July 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Nr4xnx8xs

― and what, Thursday, 30 August 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― latebloomer, Thursday, 30 August 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh. Now I feel like I have to retroactively hate the original commercials, which I liked quite a bit.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 August 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

i don't see how you could not get this from the commercials

― tremendoid, Thursday, 30 August 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

(crazy pills wearing off...sigh)

― tremendoid, Thursday, 30 August 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I never saw that Slowpoke Rodriguez one before. The twist ending is pretty fabulous, if the Cavemen show was out of left field like that I would actually be sort of interested.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 30 August 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

thing is, if it were actually about black people, it still would be too obvious to be funny. The only way this could work is if the cavemen had specific caveman problems, like having a really weird diet or not understanding how modern tools work, etc.

― kenan, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/images/2007/09/28/cavemen.jpg

The latest BS:

ABC’s new sitcom, inspired by the Geico insurance ads, is scheduled to debut at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, but advance copies haven’t been made available to critics, leading some to suspect the show is DOA.
Not true, says an ABC spokesman. Copies haven’t gone out because they’re not done. “They’re not ready,” the spokesman said. “They want the finishing touches” completed before critics take a peek, and that won’t happen before the premiere. “That’s all there is to it.”
The show revolves around a clutch of hairy, prehistoric men who struggle to be understood in the modern world. It got a cool reception at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills this summer for playing too much like a clunky racial allegory. Since then, one of the leads has been recast and the pilot reshot. New writers and consultants have also been brought on board.
ABC will find out soon enough whether the revisions work. Working heavily in the show’s favor: No other new program has such instant recognizability thanks to those TiVo-defying Geico ads.
The ABC spokesman has seen a rough cut, and admits to being biased, but says that naysayers may be surprised: “I think it’s funny.”

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't know "clutch" is the group noun for hairy, prehistoric men.

― Abbott, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Fun fact: one of the lead "cavemen" played a thinly veiled hybrid of Ryan Schreiber and Brent DiCrescenzo on Human Giant.

Seems fitting.

― Melissa W, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

"Tivo-defying"?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Does tivo refuse to fast forward through them? (See: Tuesday's Colbert Report)

― Abbott, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

This eyeroller is finally premiering tonight. I do think the first episode will get decent ratings just on the watercooler factor alone.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently a "clutch" is a term for chicks (as in birds (not as in girls, as in the real kind)), not cavemen. I'm just saying.

― Will M., Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

ILX needs a bookee. Anyone giving me 2:1 on this getting renewed for a second season is on.

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

woah terrible. so hard to watch.

― chaki, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

You're a far braver man than I, sir.

― en i see kay, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

i do my own version of best week ever in my basement. i need to know this stuff.

― chaki, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

Which of the cavemen is the funny caveman?

― Clay, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

This was a lot better than I would have thought it would be. I'm not saying it was great, but it wasn't really all that horrible, and certainly better than say oh "Back to You" or "According to Jim."

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, not as horrible or cheap-looking as I expected (lighting-wise it almost looked like it was shot as a drama).

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

"Back to You"

The amount of side-of-the-bus ads I've seen for that thing with Kelsey Grammer's evilly grinning mug and Patricia Heaton looking tart make me want to kill all the white people.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

WELCOME TO MY WORLD NED RAGGETT

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

LET US MURDER TOGETHER

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

uh ned?

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

I thought you just said you wanted to kill all the white people too!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

Is this srsly the only way for white guys to publicly talk about race?

Gill's right about the lighting, though -- it's nice.

― vermonter, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

Is the Geico sitcom the only white guy method of discussing race, or mass genocide:?

― Abbott, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

why do they have to mutually exclusive?

― max, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 05:49 (eighteen years ago)

So then was it rong to laugh when the caveman fell into the bourgie country club fire and enacted the caveman stereotype?

This seems to fall into the 'queasy racial comedy' category, along with 'Black Knight' and 'Bringing Down the House.'

― vermonter, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

it was terrible. the lighting looked like geico commercials. wtf you guys are dumb. even nick swardsen wasnt funny.

― chaki, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 05:56 (eighteen years ago)

i watched this for one minute. unfunny and lame.

― omar little, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

I actually had some hope for this. Somehow, someway, I think it could be pulled off. But from watching last night, it seems that the creators decided to go lowbrow.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

And why are there so many cavemen?

― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

look! cavement texting. craaaaaaazy.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

who the fuck thought it was a good idea to make the gecko switch to full-on cockney? he sounds like nigel tufnel

― kingfish, Monday, 25 August 2008 03:14 (seventeen years ago)

i kind of like the cockney. don't like this crap with the faux nature show guy following him though.

― latebloomer, Monday, 25 August 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

I first saw this one when I was traveling through Prague.

― soup kitchen electro (omar little), Friday, 12 December 2008 21:43 (seventeen years ago)

unsurreal!

― Aimless, Saturday, 13 December 2008 02:02 (seventeen years ago)

may 2007? weird. this seems like it happened like, 3.2 years ago.

never saw a bit of this.

― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Saturday, 13 December 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

Hoping for DVD set in my stocking this Christmas.

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 13 December 2008 03:51 (seventeen years ago)

misread: A Sitcom about Geir Hongro

― M.V., Saturday, 13 December 2008 04:56 (seventeen years ago)

Also: Am waiting for Geico mashup wherein cavemen eats gecko.

― M.V., Saturday, 13 December 2008 04:57 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe the cavemen could also eat anyone who's been to fucking Jared.

― Bill Magill, Saturday, 13 December 2008 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

I didn't mind the commercials much at first, and even the show was kinda-sorta OK, but after its failure it seems kind of ridiculous that they're back to making cavemen commercials again. Those dudes need to just go away.

― Piney G. Pinefoxen (some dude), Saturday, 13 December 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

not to be the antagonist, but I absolutely love those cavemen (and I hate the lizard). The caveman at the tennis match - classic. The caveman at the airport where I first heard the royksopp song - classic. Whatever the hell this one is that I just found on youtube - fucking class act.

I think what I dig about the caveman is that:
1) He's a caveman
2) He is living in another era
3) He is pissed off and so stupid that he doesn't even realize he is losing his tennis match to billy jean king by 665 points (take a gander at the scoreboard)

hilarity ensues, yada yada yadas, I wonder if the actor really has extremely hairly legs...

― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 13 December 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

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