Movie of the Week: The Neanderthal Man

"The story concerns a deranged scientist (Shayne) who develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results." from wikipedia

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-Swinebread

Caveman

My work schedule doesn’t allow for certain shows and that includes Caveman. Well, due to a temporary change, I was able to catch the third episode of the GEICO commercial inspired show. The Verdict… It’s bad, but not as bad as the critics would have you think. It’s lame and rightfully deserves to be cancelled but I can’t help thinking that most, if not all network sitcoms suck and this show simply exposes this. The last sitcom that I that I thought was actually funny was ah… News Radio. OK and maybe the first few episodes of Dharma and Greg and That 70s Show. It’s been awhile for me.

One of the reasons I feel most folks don’t like Caveman is because it actually shows how stupid and insipid American sitcoms are. My SO said this is just like any other comedy except they are cavemen, what’s the point. Exactly, what is the point? By making the main characters cavemen ABC has nicely uncovered how primitive and silly these types of programs are …at least on network television. The situations and plot are no different than any other show but it’s less funny when they have false foreheads? Please. People don’t like realizing something they like is dumb. That’s the problem with Caveman plain and simple.

Sitcoms are so dumb a Caveman can do it …and now they have.


-Swinebread

P.S. ABC really should have used they guys from the commercials, it would have been better.

The Original Cavemen Could Do It

Of course you knew about the new Caveman sitcom inspired by the Geico commercials, right? The mildly amusing ones that feature cavemen suffering the “racial” indignities of Geico’s insurance ads, which feature the slogan: “it’s so easy a caveman could do it.” Well who knows if the show will be any good, but it’s worth a shot to try something new I guess. From this NY Times article:

The sitcom inspired by the Geico cavemen — titled, in a startling burst of Hollywood creativity, “Cavemen” — is getting a prominent time slot, leading off the ABC Tuesday lineup at 8 p.m. The half-hour series will have a different cast from the seven commercials that have appeared since the campaign was introduced in 2004 by Geico

What… A different cast? The guys from the commercials are great. I'm amazed... do they want the show to fail?



-Swinebread