Cavemen

By Jacob With the new season of American Idol just around the corner, Fox is looking to follow it up with another crack at ”Cavemen”, the story of a trio of Neanderthals struggle to live in modern day America. Based on the characters featured in a series of television ads for Geico Insurance.  Fo...

By mlmusings My brother-in-law and I were discussing modern culture, or some related deep subject, when he commented that his favorite commercials on TV were the GEICO ads that showcase cavemen.  He told me he thought the commercials were so funny that he was willing to switch insurance companies “ju...

By gchen(gchen@syracuse.com) Lee Gechas "Cavemen" By Lee Gechas, 53, Syracuse 8 p.m. Tuesdays on ABC Oct. 2 and Oct. 9 episodes I was prepared to hate "Cavemen." After all, it¹s a television series "inspired by" an insurance commercial. How crass is that!... Lee Gechas "Cavemen" By Lee Gechas, 53, Syracuse 8 p.m. Tuesdays on ABC Oc...

By Emily Kulkus / The Post-Standard(ekulkus@syracuse.com) Dale Elster By Dale Elster, 41, Auburn 8 p.m. Tuesdays on ABC So stupid, even a caveman shouldn't view it.... Dale Elster By Dale Elster, 41, Auburn 8 p.m. Tuesdays on ABC So stupid, even a caveman shouldn't view it....

 NH One of Huntington's most unusual past roles was being cast as a replacement for the short-lived ABC-TV comedy series "Cavemen," loosely based on the popular Geico TV commercials. "I actually came in as a re-cast for the series. ...

 MO Hannibal Caveman Kyle Gaedele, center, high-fives his teammates after scoring in the third inning. The Cavemen scored three runs in the third. By JOE BARKER The Hannibal Cavemen finally got the big hit it was looking for Wednesday night. ... Sliders cave at home The State Journal-Register

The run snapped the scoreless skid, and was the first one scored in Caveman history. “It's nice to be able to say I had the first Cavemen RBI,” Burton said. “I've been working very hard as a hitter to produce runs for my team. ... Offense missing link for Cavemen Hannibal.net

Curtis Ford Jr. did reach base to leadoff the game after getting plunked by a pitch from DuPage's Brad Riegler — a painful way to become the first Caveman to reach base. In the bottom of the second, first basemen Matt Gaudet reached base a more ...

 CA This short-lived (and much-reviled) ABC sitcom got its start as a series of ads for the auto-insurance company Geico. The commercials pitched the idea that Geico's website was so simple, even a caveman could use it. Somehow, those ads turned into a ...

 UT In the top of the third, Bramble drilled a leadoff triple but was held on base when Caveman third baseman Peterson faked a throw to first on Marchant's single. With one out, Talk singled to the fence, scoring both runners to give herself a 4-1 cushion. ...

By tcstew Let’s get this place started off with something everyone has seen.  This is about the billionth Caveman commercial (actually number 16).  Geico did such an excellent job with its marketing on this campaign that they even got their own spin-off sitcom, which was utterly awful and even the G...

 CA - The actor may be best known as one of the Cavemen in the long-running Geico Insurance commercials (and the doomed sitcom that followed Cavemen) but he's ...

By betmidler Unlike Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Beasts, Cavemen combines CGI with actors to portray the characters in the story of man. Initially this seems to make it far less technically impressive than the earlier programs–memories of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 are inevitable–but fortunately the a...

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By wilsonrofishing So, on to mindless pop culture. First stop, Cavemen. I love the Geico commercials with the cavemen. Yes, I would imagine the TV show sucked, since it came and went so fast, but the commercials are pretty funny. Caveman angst rules. I love the latest Geico commercial featuring these guys,  rolli...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 10.30 Rising Damp 11.00 Cavemen 11.30 Corner Gas 12.00 The Venture Bros. Cavemen. It's a bit too preaching (which can get embarrassing) but this is still one of the very best episodes. In this one, Joel is trying to bounce back from his break-up with Kate. When he hears that she hated his clothes he gives his wardrobe a total overhaul, and the entire plot thread yields many laughs. It's a good storyline. It captures truth: The moment after a relationship has ended when you still bump into your ex a lot and try to give yourself a total make-over so they will take you back. Highlight? Kate's mom talking about Joel's clothes.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Cavemen. "Nick Sick" Nick gets sick and think he is dying. Meanwhile, Kate decided to dump Joel (for no apparent reason) and move on. She neglects to tell him this, of course, and he spends the episode chasing her to find out what is going on. It's a funny episode. Nick Kroll gets all the best lines/moments but Sam Huntington and Bill English are pretty close behind him. At this stage in the production, all three actors have a total handle on their characters and are able to get laughs by just reacting to stuff. Nick has no insurance, so he pretends to be Joel for a while. Stephanie Lemelin (who is incredibly hot) gets lots of good screen time in this one (which is incredibly wonderful). Her adorable character, Thorne, is nice to Joel through out the whole b...   [read the full post]

By RikerDonegal(podcast@mail2tv.com) Cavemen. Episode 7. "Nick Work, Andy Jerk" Nick Kroll is usually the best thing about this show, and he's very good in this episode, but the most laughs come from Sam Huntington as Andy gets a really strong storyline. He's gotten himself a job, knee-deep in corporate America, and he doesn't quite fit in. Andy (being Andy) runs around trying to make friends with everyone. Which leads to meetings on "personal space" and so forth. Very funny and (as is often the case with this show) very insightful. Meanwhile, back on the homefront, Joel and Nick have a fight over Kate and Nick's treatment of her. Eventually Joel moves out and Nick becomes a total slob. While it covers ground familiar to anyone who has ever seen a sit-com before - to the show's considerabl...   [read the full post]

 - Laura Saltman catches up with the “Cavemen” after “Dancing With The Stars” to talk about their new show that premieres on ABC, Oct 2, 2007. ...

 - Laura Saltman catches up with the “Cavemen” after “Dancing With The Stars” to talk about their new show that premieres on ABC, Oct 2, 2007. ...

 - Laura Saltman catches up with the “Cavemen” after “Dancing With The Stars” to talk about their new show that premieres on ABC, Oct 2, 2007. ...

 - Laura Saltman catches up with the “Cavemen” after “Dancing With The Stars” to talk about their new show that premieres on ABC, Oct 2, 2007. ...

 - Laura Saltman catches up with the “Cavemen” after “Dancing With The Stars” to talk about their new show that premieres on ABC, Oct 2, 2007. ...

 - Laura Saltman catches up with the “Cavemen” after “Dancing With The Stars” to talk about their new show that premieres on ABC, Oct 2, 2007. ...

NBC, CBS & ABC ‘Stand Up’ Against Cancer  - Laura Saltman catches up with the “Cavemen” after “Dancing With The Stars” to talk about their new show that premieres on ABC, Oct 2, 2007. ...

ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” may have topped TelevisionWeek’s semiannual Critics Poll of best shows, but one of the network’s other freshman efforts was crowned the worst. Famously born from a series of insurance company ads, the ABC sitcom “Cavemen” received twice as many votes as the clos...

A few moments ago, we were perusing the official Cavemen Website at ABC.com (like we do several times an hour as it is set as our browser's homepage), and we were disappointed to notice that the network has not yet scheduled a return ...

By mikefrey Like “The Onion” once did with John Leguizamo’s abysmal sketch show “House of Buggin’,” we’re going to provide weekly recaps of “Cavemen” until it gets canceled. Joel: "What? No, Pebbles was the baby." Kate: "Not on The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show!"

Cavemen: They said it couldn't be done, but at press time, it looks like it will be: a third episode (introducing a cavewoman) of fall's most critically lambasted series. 7 p.m., WFAA/Channel 8 Dancing With the Stars: If Cavemen and Carpoolers can stick around another week, then Mark Cuban,...

By beehive Despite my wanting to wish nothing but the best Nick Kroll in this, the show as a whole…sheesh, bad - even the help of one of the funniest people around in the form of Nick Swardson couldn’t help save this show. ...

By Alan Sepinwall Sometimes, I try to have a common theme when I do multiple shows in one post. Today's theme is a simple one: Stuff I Either Watched In Advance Or Got Through Before Falling Asleep On Wednesday Night, Plus "Cavemen." (Got all that?) Unconnected spoilers of varying lengths for, in order, "Push...

By Sam “Cavemen” got its premiere on Tuesday night on ABC to so-so ratings and poor critical reviews. The show stars Bill English, Sam Huntington, Nick Kroll, Kaitlin Doubleday, Stephanie Lemelin and Julie White. I actually missed it and forgot to DVR it. I was too busy catching up on the SCI FI Chan...

By Eric Deggans Here's what he said in an email today: "Second were two series debuts on ABC --sitcoms Cavemen (6.5/10) and Carpoolers (6.3/10), which dropped, on average, by a significant 49 percent compared to Dancing With the Stars (a year ago) (12.5/19 from 8-9 p.m. on Oct. 3, 2006) .  While no one expected th...

By tube talk girl Cavemen Premiere date: October 2, 2007 Airs: Tuesdays @ 8 pm on ABC I admit it. Curiosity got the best of me. That’s my only excuse for watching the new ABC show Cavemen, based on the Neanderthals from the Geico Insurance commercial. ...

By Melanie McFarland It is your friendly neighborhood TV critic's duty to inform you that ABC has two new sitcoms premiering tonight, "Cavemen" and "Carpoolers." And the premiere of "Cavemen," a half-hour comedy spun off from those Geico commercials, isn't going to change the network's comedy fortunes.

As the thin, ink-stained front line between America’s TV viewers and the forces of evil that wish Television harm, the Television Critics Association takes its duty to protect our homeland from “Cavemen” quite seriously. Pray that we are successful.

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My plans to watch the new show "Cavemen" have been cancelled. Now why didn't you use the original "Cavemen"? They were the funny guys. Why are you using "newbies"? They just look like men needing a good shave and haircut. I think that was a big

By JM Jordan With fall about a month away, TV fans find themselves shouting in exhaustion, "It's about time!" Let's face it, reruns make us long for the days before television existed, when people entertained themselves by listening to radio shows or (gasp!) talking to their families. Now, as August...

By tvgal@seattlepi.com (Melanie McFarland) Nope, they sent in the "Cavemen," presumably because all the clowns in town were booked. Other series cavorted through too, but "Cavemen" was the one that really tickled our fancy. This is the sitcom spun off of those Geico ads, and as a number of stories reported, the idea of making cavemen s...

By Mark The show is supposed to explore race relations by the trials and tribulations of the cavemen characters, but some critics say all the "Cavemen" stereotypes—athleticism, sexually prowess, laziness, etc.—remind them of one race's stereotypes in particular. Critics ask the panel if "Ca...

By Mark Andy will replace Jamie, Joel's easygoing little bother character played in the pilot by Dash Mihok. [...] The ABC Studios-produced "Cavemen" will not launch with the pilot but with another yet-to-be-filmed first episode, which is said to be delving more into the cavemen's backstories.

By Mark Sam] Huntington will play a new caveman character, Andy, who is the younger brother of Joel (Bill English). Andy, who lives in their small hometown, comes to Atlanta to visit his brother after breaking up with his girlfriend. Andy will replace Jamie, Joel's easygoing little bother charac...

I will pour sulfuric acid into my eyes and shatter my ear drums with an ice pick before I ever watch one second of this show. Scout

There's no way this Caveman show can be bad. The 30 second commercials have more content packed into them than any 30 minute show on network TV and probably more content than the entire runs of the King of Queens or that series with the mullet-topped Jim Belushi. I can't wait for their sidespli...

By Mark Cavemen" is literally a thirty second commercial expanded to twenty-two minutes. But... it's actually much worse than that. Just like their source material, the origin of these domesticated Cro-Magnons is never explained. I guess "Encino Man" is part of the prequel trilogy. We meet these hum...

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By Seth Of the 54 comedies in development, 16 are set in the workplace (à la "The Office" and "30 Rock"), and many are based on characters or ideas that seem fresh on the surface, at least, for the small screen. Think "Cavemen" on ABC (yes, based on the popular Geico ads); "I'm With Stupid," about disa...

By Seth The LAT takes a look at the roughly 12,000 network pilots currently in development, trying to make sense of any trends that emerged from last season. What we know: Serialized storytelling is out, except when it's in; viewers love a heavy dose of lighthearted quirk with their hour-long, fa...

By Mark Perhaps the most notable of the 3,000 sitcom pilots born out of ABC's "Greenlight 'em all and let God sort 'em out" comedy development strategy for the 2007 fall TV season is Cavemen, the prospective series based on a series of commercials featuring insurance carrier Geico's second-mos...

By Mark The initiative for the cavemen pilot came from Joe Lawson, the writer behind the cavemen commercials and a Martin Agency employee, who decided in late fall to pursue a TV show. With Geico's approval, the ad firm hired entertainment services agency Management 360 to shop the idea to networ...

By Mark A spokeswoman for the ABC Television Studio, which will produce the pilot, said no executive would speak about the project because "it's way too premature to comment." She cautioned that there is no guarantee "Cavemen" will result in a prime-time show. ABC has ordered 15 other comedy pilo...