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I should probably be ashamed to admit this, but I think this could actually be funny. I love these commercials, and thought the Caveman Crib website was hilarious.

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Unfrozen caveman sitcom?

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yeah this could actually be a good idea... surprisingly.
everyone i know loves those commercials.

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I'd watch it. It could be really funny or just a blatant attempt to capitalize on their popularity. Nothing wrong with that, mind you.

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I hope this is one of those pilots that, if not picked up, is "leaked" onto YouTube. If they do it right, this could be hilarious -- but executives may not "get it."

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I applaud their decision to keep it realistic and set this in Atlanta. As we all know from watching tv and movies, prejudice in all its forms (even apparently anti-cavemanism) has been eliminated in every part of the country except for the south.

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This will be the funniest thing since or the stupidest thing since ... there will be no middle ground.

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If they play the caveman shtick like in the commercials and the web site -- an elitist, oppressed minority -- it has huge potential. No origin story, though; just pick up on a Tuesday or whatever and roll with it.

The Phil Hartman caveman lawyer sketches years ago on SNL were really funny but more of a one-note gag.

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Wow are they that desperate for new ideas. I doubt this will last more than an episode or two.

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I love the GEICO Caveman commercials . . . they always make me laugh . . . but I'm not sure that would translate into a 22-episode-a-season sitcom.

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I wouldn't read too much into the decision to set it in Atlanta. I mean it could be a stereotype about southern bigotry, or it could just as easily be about Atlanta being one of the more "accepting" cities these days (there's a huge gay community there if I'm not mistaken). Maybe the cavemen live there because it's more tolerant.

Or more likely it was a relatively arbitrary decision having more to do with all the play the city has been getting in recent music and media. Seems to me that every other hip hop song these days is from, about, or set in Atlanta...

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"Despite the lowered brow, they're clearly bipedal and have mastered the use of simple tools"

They might be too advanced to live in the South

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I think this idea has potential. We're so sorely in need of good sitcoms. There are so few good ones today.

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Baby Bob anyone?

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Now we just need to get the lizard and the duck on the show and we will be all set!

I don't see a problem with this, be funny to watch the show and then watch them on the commerical breaks too. :)

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Ugh (if you'll pardon the pun).

I like the ads too, but they're only 30 seconds long. Stretching this bit out to 23 minutes - for 24 episodes?

Yabba-dabba-don't.

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I can see ABC milking this thing to the max. They could start with the two cavemen in their prehistoric setting ...maybe 2-5 episodes. They could poke fun of the global cooling debate back then. Of course, eventually they would show them being frozen and just in time for sweep week, they would be brought back to life in modern Atlanta.

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Guess I must be in the minority because I find the cavemen commercials unbearable. And this is coming from someone who loved the unfrozen caveman lawyer bits.

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This script opens with a dream sequence of one of the cavemen being chased through a mall and being shot by a santa clause... he's then recounting this dream to the other cavemen and the racist says: "You dreamt you were a jew?" End of cold open.

As a whole, the script is simply not funny and it's insulting that someone would waste money to make this pilot.

I wish I was kidding about the above.

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I agree with the reporter of this story: I'm inclined to favor the Geico Gekko. Why can't we have a show starring this personable East End Londoner? Perhaps the BBC will develope one and export it to the U.S. to join such excellent shows as "Prime Suspect."

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