How lame.

[Heathansson]

ABC's making a sitcom about the cavemen from the Geico commercial.

[Sebastian]

I love the Geico caveman! I particularly love the commercial where is walking on the moving sidewalk in the airport. It's sublime.

[Fatespinner]

I cannot watch it. I work for State Farm. The corporate spies would know.

[Durendal]

Heathansson wrote:

ABC's making a sitcom about the cavemen from the Geico commercial.

Well, that's it then. The joke is dead. Too bad, in occasional 30-second doses it was quite good.

[Cosmo]

Hooray.

We're at a point that the networks are looking at commercials for inspiration for "new" ideas.

I'll admit that the Geico caveman idea was clever and funny at first, but it's a one-joke premise and it has gotten stale in the subsequent commercials.

How can they expect it to support a thirteen episode series?

Heathy got it spot on in the thread title.

[Fake Healer]

But wwe can't get a good fantasy adventure tv show to watch? An episodic dungeon crawl? Something gritty and magical?
A friggin' caveman can figure out that the show about them will fail miserably.

FH

[Sebastian]

Cosmo wrote:

How can they expect it to support a thirteen episode series?

As a culture, we've only scratched the surface of caveman related humor. If not for Saturday Night Live's Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, I myself might have chosen a different profession.

(It'll probably suck, but most network television does suck, and most sitcoms more than the rest, but I still love the airport commercial. You'll never take that from me Cosmo. NEVER!)

[Messageboard Bug!!!]

Fake Healer wrote:

A friggin' caveman can figure out that the show about them will fail miserably.

I resent your implication, sir!

[Cosmo]

Sebastian wrote:

You'll never take that from me Cosmo. NEVER!

I'll try, though...

And that's what matters most.

[Heathansson]

Captian CAAAAVEMAAAAAAAN!!!! wrote:

Fake Healer wrote:

A friggin' caveman can figure out that the show about them will fail miserably.

I resent your implication, sir!

LOL!!!

You know, this whole post is funnier than that show is gonna be.
I'm GLAD they're making it now. It provided the impetus for this thread. Lemons...lemonade...da da da...

[Steve Greer]

Yeah, gotta admit, I'm looking forward to this. I love those goofy commercials.
Think Phil Hartman in the old SNL sketch "Caveman Lawyer" (it may have had a longer name involving being frozen). It can be done, man. Just don't expect more than one season (maybe not even an entire one).

[Steve Greer]

Sebastian wrote:

I love the Geico caveman! I particularly love the commercial where is walking on the moving sidewalk in the airport. It's sublime.

My favs are the meetings with his shrink ("psychiatrist" if there are any on these boards). The one with the little cave doll he's supposed to role-play with is a hoot.

[Steve Greer]

Sebastian wrote:

...Saturday Night Live's Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer...

D'oh! Yeah, that's the name of the sketch.

[Tegan]

They have a cool apartment too.

Spoiler:

Enter the bathroom and flush the toilet, it's hilarious!

[farewell2kings]

While it might be cool, I'll never know because if my wife doesn't watch it, I'll never go to the effort to watch it myself.

[Celestial Healer]

Honestly, it's no worse than most of the other ideas the networks have come up with. And they wonder why network TV ratings are down.

I hope it stars Paul Reiser. Just to make sure nobody watches it, you know.

[Heathansson]

Aren't there any more good British sitcom's to rip off the premise to, like a guy who has to pretend to be gay so he can room with two ladies or something? Is Great Britain THAT TAPPED OUT?!? Come on England; we need t.v. sitcoms!!! We're scraping up friggin' Geico Cavemen commercials!!!
I'm shooting my t.v. tomorrow. I'd do it now, but the wife and kids are sleeping.

[Dr. Skull]

THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH.

http://abc.go.com/fallpreview/cavemen/index?u=0

I was going to watch this show, but unfortunately I have an appointment to be dunked in a bathtub full of toxified goat urine while having my eyes forcibly removed by a sweaty overweight Turkish man.

[Cosmo]

Heathansson wrote:

Aren't there any more good British sitcom's to rip off ...?

Ahem.

Spoiler:

Granted... it isn't premise, per se, that makes this show great. It's Simon Peg, who would later make Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, but this show is AWESOME. And all but one episode is available right there on good ol'Google video. God bless the interwebs.

Who needs network TV, anyway?

[Dirk Gently]

Reason #256 not to watch television.
That and the subliminal messages.

[Jerk Gentry]

BUY MY PRODUCT

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

And now, back to our...

[Jerk Gentry]

BUY MY PRODUCT

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

... feature presentation.

[Dirk Gently]

Jerk Gentry wrote:

BUY MY PRODUCT

Must...own...iPod...and...drink...Pepsi...obey...the...government.

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

Dirk Gently wrote:

Jerk Gentry wrote:

BUY MY PRODUCT

Must...own...iPod...and...drink...Pepsi...obey...the...government.

Must...join...army...fight...unpopular...war.

Seriously, though,

Why does everything suddenly start with a pronoun?

Just think-- iPod, YouTube, MySpace, whatever else is out there.

Any thoughts?

[Dirk Gently]

MyThings. MeStuff. That's all it is. Plus, Apple and Google are trying to enslave us. ;)

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

I'm just surprised that Blackwater Corporation hasn't gotten in on the action.

They are living proof that Shadowrun will become a reality.

[The Jade]

Sebastian wrote:

(It'll probably suck, but most network television does suck, and most sitcoms more than the rest, but I still love the airport commercial. You'll never take that from me Cosmo. NEVER!)

Funny, I never liked those commercials but the one you mention actually impressed me. They 'conveyed' an absurd and palpable pathos, and they did it well.

[waltero]

I'm with Sebastian on this one and look forward to the show, however briefly it may last.

I get a chuckle from all of those commercials. I like the one where a caveman loses his appetite at a fine restaurant.

[Vattnisse]

Cosmo wrote:

Heathansson wrote:

Aren't there any more good British sitcom's to rip off ...?

Ahem.

Now THIS is customer service! I love Spaced, but I've never found it on this side of the Atlantic. Thanks!!!!!

[kobold assassin]

I know a good show: Attack of the Geico Geckos!!!
Dun Dun DUN!!!!!

[Ultradan]

kobold assassin wrote:

I know a good show: Attack of the Geico Geckos!!!

Dun Dun DUN!!!!!

Now imagine that show with Geico commercials in it... Man... Too much!

Ultradan

[James Keegan]

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Why does everything suddenly start with a pronoun?

Just think-- iPod, YouTube, MySpace, whatever else is out there.

Any thoughts?

All inclusive. Things like "I", "You" and "My" are at the same time completely neutral and refer in some way to the customer. It's a marketing department's collective dream.

In the case of YouTube and Myspace, it also refers to the people making the content on the website.