cavemen/carpoolers - season premiere(s)

[Slow Play Ray]

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should see a decent drop-off in next week's numbers...

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*ding*

[Badger]

Rate them.

[ckmo]

maybe I have low standards and expectations but I thought Cavemen was decent. I'd rather have shows like that on primetime than those terrible reality shows any day.

Carpoolers was garbage IMO. Only watched it hoping Jerry Minor was going to save it somehow.

[Poofler]

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Couple things about Cavemen:

- The guys in the commercials are not in the show.

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One of them (Jeff Daniel Phillips) is in the show. According to http://imdb.com/name/nm0680489/board/nest/70771823 he's the one who is in the following Geico commercials:
Airport/Royksopp spot-people mover
Mango-Salsa-"no appetite" caveman
CNN-type interview
Penthouse Party-the caveman in the white jacket.
The caveman in www.cavemanscrib.com

He only has a small part in the show. He's the one who couldn't drive the other guys to the club because he drove his Boxster. And he said to the chick on the curb.

Overall, I thought that was one of the worst TV shows I've ever seen. I didn't laugh once. None of the humor of the commericials is there.

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Ah yes, the angry one, my favorite. I think I'd like the show if the characters had more exaggerated personalities, like the commercials. Not just typical sitcom guys with lots of hair.

[BuckyK]

So ABC cancelled Knights of Prosperity and In Case of Emergency for these shows?

Carpoolers may end up good, but neither compares with Knights.

[gusmahler]

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Ah yes, the angry one, my favorite. I think I'd like the show if the characters had more exaggerated personalities, like the commercials. Not just typical sitcom guys with lots of hair.

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Exactly! There is nothing in the episode that suggested the fish out of water situation shown in the commercials. Just regular (boring) guys.

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Caveman was quite possibly the WORST show I've ever seen (and I'm not exagerating).

[jafeather]

Cavemen was awful. Didn't watch Carpoolers.

Did anyone else notice that with VERY VERY little exception, the Cavemen could've been just normal everyday humans and the script wouldn't have needed changing? If the purpose is to pass along the socio-political point "Just because they look different doesn't mean they are different" then it was acheived. If the point, however, was comedy....total failure.

EDIT:apparently everyone in the last fifteen minutes noticed it.

[DCJ311]

I can't possibly understand why anyone would find anything related to the Geico Cavemen funny.

The characters are near blatant rip offs of Phil Hartman's character in his 'Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer' SNL skit. Basically the same concept; middle-aged cavemen living and working in an upper class society, with cocky, modernistic attitudes.

The difference is the SNL skit was somewhat original and entertaining, while these clowns are pathetic.
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer

[hiho]

Re: Cavemen, just wait till the third episode, trust me...