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Encyclopedia > Cavemen (TV series)
Cavemen
Format Comedy
Created by Joe Lawson
Starring Bill English
Nick Kroll
Sam Huntington
Kaitlin Doubleday
Jeff Daniel Phillips
Country of origin  United States
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 6 (List of episodes)
Production
Camera setup Single-camera setup
Running time Approx. 22 min.
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run October 2, 2007 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Cavemen was an American television show created by Joe Lawson and set in San Diego, California.[1] Inspired by the GEICO Cavemen advertisements made for the American vehicle insurance company GEICO that were written by Lawson, the show is described by the network as a "unique buddy comedy that offers a clever twist on stereotypes and turns race relations on its head."[2] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A comedy is a dramatic performance of a light and amusing character, usually with a happy conclusion to its plot. ... Joe Lawson is the writer and creator of Geicos Cavemen commercials and TV series. ... Bill English (born in Rochester, New York) is an American actor. ... Nick Kroll is an actor, writer and comedian. ... Sam Huntington (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor. ... Jan Kaitlin Len Doubleday (born July 19, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress. ... Jeff Daniel Phillips is one of the actors who plays the cavemen in the GEICO cavemen commercials. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The following is an episode list for the situation comedy Cavemen. ... The single-camera setup (aka, single-camera mode of production) is a method of shooting films and television programs. ... This article is about the American broadcast network. ... is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Joe Lawson is the writer and creator of Geicos Cavemen commercials and TV series. ... San Diego redirects here. ... This article is about the fictional characters and marketing campaign. ... An accident resulting in damage to a car. ... The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. ...


Produced by ABC Studios and Management 360, the series began on October 2, 2007 and aired on Tuesday nights at 8:00/7:00c on ABC.[3] On November 20, 2007 the show was put on hiatus by ABC. It is unknown if or when it will return to ABC.[4] ABC Studios (formerly Touchstone Television Productions, LLC and ABC Television Studio) is a television production company formed in 1989 and renamed in May 2007 to its latest inception. ... is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... This article is about the American broadcast network. ... is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Look up ABC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Contents

Synopsis

In the series, Cavemen (i.e. Neanderthals) never went extinct through competition with ancestors of modern humans, but integrated into Homo sapien civilization as a separate ethnic sub-group. Cavemen are a small but widespread minority group that have been present in every global civilization since the dawn of recorded history (a montage scene in the opening credits shows Cavemen in Egyptian hieroglyphs, when George Washington crossed the Delaware River, standing with Abraham Lincoln, participating in the space program, etc.) Effectively, Cavemen form another ethnic minority (actually, a different species and genus) in the modern world, which faces several prejudices from Homo sapiens (sometimes referring to humans by the derogatory term "Smoothies" in reference to their relative lack of hair).


Cavemen have prominent brow ridges and more body hair than Homo sapiens, but beyond their appearance they actually are not that much different from modern humans in terms of behavior or physical abilities. Male Cavemen are very hairy, have thick long beards and wear their head-hair shoulder-length. A Cavewoman that was appeared on the show also had a prominent brow ridge and comparatively more body hair than a human female.


The central humor of the show is that Caveman characters are not brutish primitives, but fully-integrated into white-collar jobs; the central Cavemen characters are effete modern city-dwellers.


The series focuses on three Cavemen who are roommates that share a condo: Joel, his brother Andy, and their cynical and self-absorbed roommate Nick.


Characters

  • Joel - The responsible straight-man of the group, a successful assistant-manager at a fashionable Norwegian furniture store (a parody of Ikea). However, in the pilot episode, Joel starts dating a Homo sapien woman named Kate, and through subsequent episodes Joel tries to handle the hangups that come with inter-species dating.
  • Andy - Joel's weak-willed and childish, though well-meaning, brother. Andy is a trained accountant but is typically between jobs during the time period of the series, and he is perpetually morose about being dumped by his ex-girlfriend and hoping she'll take him back. Andy is very timid, but ironically he is prone to outburts of road rage when he is driving.
  • Nick - Joel and Andy's roomate, is cynical, self-absorbed, and narcissistic, as well as pathologically lazy. Nick has no real job, though he claims to be "working on my dissertation", and tends to just mooch money off of Joel. The theme of Nick's rambling dissertation is essentially to prove that modern popular culture is all just a rip-off of things Cavemen already did, and appears to have no real merit. Nick doesn't even spend much time actually writing his dissertation, and "tends to just sit around watching TV and editing wikipedia" (sic). Nick has very effete and cultured tastes, believing himself to be intellectually superior to most people he meets, and overlooks the fact that he is simply lazy and doesn't believe in doing real work. Typically, Nick will blame his own failures (which are due to his innate laziness) on Caveman-based prejudice; case in point, when he filed an unlawful-termination lawsuit against Joel's furniture store when they fired him after he worked there a few days, claiming that they were prejudiced against him as a Caveman, but the store then revealed security-camera footage which shows that Nick sat around listening to music all day and not working.
  • Kate - Joel's Homo sapien girlfriend who he starts dating in the first episode. Joel is initially worried that she doesn't like him because he is a Caveman, and then is left with the fear that she might like him simply because she has a fetish for Cavemen. Nonetheless, Kate and Joel seem to have developed a stable relationship.
  • Kate's mother - Kate's eccentric mother is not on good terms with her husband, and each of them is actually cheating on the other without Kate's knowledge (Kate's father with the local weather-report girl, Kate's mother with a pool boy). Kate's mother is also the landlord of the condo complex that Joel, Andy, and Nick live in. A running gag is that in a parody of stereotypes of racism, Kate's mother cannot tell the difference between individual Cavemen. She doesn't try intentionally to be racist and is embarrassed that she appears to "think all Cavemen look the same", but nonetheless she does.
  • Maurice - another Caveman-about-town who is a friend of Joel, Andy, and Nick and frequently plays squash with them, as well as cruising around in his sports-car trying to pick-up women. Maurice is actually played by the actor (Jeff Daniel Phillips) who plays one of the cavemen in the original GEICO Caveman commercials from which the series was spun-off.

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Cast

Bill English (born in Rochester, New York) is an American actor. ... Nick Kroll is an actor, writer and comedian. ... Sam Huntington (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor. ... Jan Kaitlin Len Doubleday (born July 19, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress. ... Jeff Daniel Phillips is one of the actors who plays the cavemen in the GEICO cavemen commercials. ... John Heard John Heard (born March 7, 1945 in Washington, DC, USA) is an American actor. ... Stephanie Lemelin (born June 29, 1979 in Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian actress. ... Julie White is an American actress. ... Nick Swardson Nicholas Swardson is an American actor and stand-up comedian from Minneapolis, MN. He was asked to write then wrote the original screenplay for Malibus Most Wanted after being noticed by Jamie Kennedy. ...

Production history

Conception

In March 2007, ABC gave a pilot order to a script written by Joe Lawson which was inspired by the GEICO Cavemen advertisements. Lawson would be executive producer alongside Guymon Casady, Josh Gordon, Daniel Rappaport and Will Speck. Gordon and Speck directed the pilot.[7] Later in the same month, Bill Martin and Mike Schiff joined the staff as executive producers.[8] ABC gave the series an early pick-up and a thirteen-episode order on May 11, 2007.[9] March 2007 is the third month of the year. ... This article is about the American broadcast network. ... Joe Lawson is the writer and creator of Geicos Cavemen commercials and TV series. ... This article is about the fictional characters and marketing campaign. ... Will Speck is an American film director. ... A television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. ... Bill Martin (born William Wylie Macpherson, 9 November 1938, Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish songwriter, music publisher and impresario. ... is the 131st day of the year (132nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...


Casting

When the pilot was approved by the network in March, it was unclear if the original actors, Jeff Daniel Phillips and Ben Weber, who played the cavemen in the advertisements, were going to be part of the series.[7] This wasn't to be when it was later reported that Nick Kroll, Kaitlin Doubleday, and Bill English had all landed roles in the series in the same month.[8] Dash Mihok and Stephanie Lemelin were respectively cast in April as Jamie, Joel's younger brother, and Thorne, a party girl.[10] John Heard rounded up the regular cast when he was chosen to play Trip in the same month.[11] Mihok was replaced by Sam Huntington and the character of Jamie was re-named Andy in July. Tony Award winner, Julie White, was also promoted to a regular cast member as Kate's mother in the same month.[5][6] Jeff Daniel Phillips is one of the actors who plays the cavemen in the GEICO cavemen commercials. ... Nick Kroll is an actor, writer and comedian. ... Jan Kaitlin Len Doubleday (born July 19, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress. ... Bill English (born in Rochester, New York) is an American actor. ... Dash Mihok (born May 24, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actor. ... Stephanie Lemelin (born June 29, 1979 in Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian actress. ... John Heard John Heard (born March 7, 1945 in Washington, DC, USA) is an American actor. ... Sam Huntington (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Julie White is an American actress. ...


In July 2007 it was announced that Jeff Daniel Phillips had been cast for the series.[12] He subsequently appeared in the first broadcast episode playing Maurice, a friend of the three main characters.


Pilot episode controversy

The initial limited screening of the pilot episode was met with a less than favorable reception. The pilot was accused of being racially insulting towards black people[13], because some critics thought the Cavemen were being used as a metaphor for blacks.[14] The series subsequently underwent a major creative "retooling", which included changing the show's venue from Atlanta, Georgia to San Diego, California.[15][16] The pilot episode has remained unaired on ABC. This box:      Racism has many definitions, the most common and widely accepted is that members of one race are intrinsically superior or inferior to members of other races. ... Though most indigenous Africans possess relatively dark skin, they exhibit much variation in physical appearance. ... Atlanta redirects here. ...


Broadcasting

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Reception

In terms of reception from the media the show has been "critically savaged".[18] The Chicago Tribune listed it as one of the 25 worst TV shows ever,[19] and Adam Buckman of the New York Post declared the show "extinct on arrival."[20] Ginia Bellafante of the New York Times wrote "I laughed. But I laughed through my pain. “Cavemen,” set in some version of San Diego where people speak with Southern accents, doesn’t have moments as much as microseconds suspended from any attempt at narrative."[21] // The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by the Tribune Company. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...


Other critics were more forgiving: H.T. Strong ("Hercules The Strong"), a regular columnist at Ain't It Cool News declared that the show's third episode "made me laugh aloud a number of times!".[22] Pulitzer prize winning columinst Dorothy Rabinowitz also said that the show "has its charms . . . The chief source of that charm is the unmistakable hint of wit in the writing. Only a hint -- but it's steady, which is enough to seduce." [23] Screenshot of Aint It Cool News. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Dorothy Rabinowitz is U.S conservative journalist and commentator. ...


Episodes and U.S. ratings

Weekly

In the following summary, "rating" is the percentage of all households with televisions that tuned to the show, and "share" is the percentage of all televisions in use at that time that are tuned in. When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are often referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ... When TV viewers or entertainment professionals in the United States mention ratings they are often referring to Nielsen Ratings, a system developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the audience size and composition of television programming. ...


Unless otherwise cited, the overnight rating and share information comes from Zap2It[24] The following week, the nielsen numbers from TVWeek.com.[25] Additional ratings information, including the 18–49 rating, comes from BroadcastingCable[26] and finally weekly overall ratings come from ABC Medianet [27]


Season One

# Title Air Date Rating Share 18-49 Viewers Rank
(Timeslot)		 Rank
(Overall)
1 "Her Embarrassed of Caveman" October 2, 2007 6.1 10 3.3/10 9.06[28] #1 #34
2 "Nick Get Job" October 9, 2007 4.5 8 2.5/8 6.96[29] #3 #59
3 "The Cavewoman" October 16, 2007 4.6 8 2.7/8 6.92[30] #3 #64
4 "The Mascot" October 23, 2007 4.5 7 2.2/6 6.55[31] #4 #71
5 "The Shaver" November 6, 2007 3.4 5 1.7/5 5.51 [32] #4 #83
6 "Rock Vote" November 13, 2007 3.3 5 1.6/5 4.6 [33] #4 #84

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References

  1. ^ ABC.com [1]
  2. ^ ABC UNVEILS 2007-08 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE The Futon Critic
  3. ^ Cavemen at The Futon Critic
  4. ^ "Cavemen" and "Carpoolers" on Indefinite Hiatus, Comedy Centric, November 20, 2007
  5. ^ a b Andreeva, Nellie. "Huntington joins "Cavemen" as series revamps", The Hollywood Reporter, 2007-07-09. Retrieved on 2007-07-09. 
  6. ^ a b Andreeva, Nellie. "White sticks with "Cavemen"", The Hollywood Reporter, 2007-07-17. Retrieved on 2007-07-17. 
  7. ^ a b DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 2 The Futon Critic
  8. ^ a b DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: FRIDAY, MARCH 30 The Futon Critic
  9. ^ Sullivan, Brian Ford. "ABC ADDS 10 NEWCOMERS, RENEWS 'NOTES,' 'ROAD'", The Futon Critic, 2007-05-11. Retrieved on 2007-07-09. 
  10. ^ DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: MONDAY, APRIL 2 [2]
  11. ^ DEVELOPMENT UPDATE: WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY, APRIL 4-5 The Futon Critic
  12. ^ http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070726/D8QK93DG1.html
  13. ^ http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/jonathan_storm/20071002_Jonathan_Storm___Hard_to_say_whos_the_stupidest.html
  14. ^ http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/columnists.nsf/gailpennington/story/470803A52D3CACF08625734F007C9D64?OpenDocument
  15. ^ Chris Kaltenbach. Will 'Cavemen' have more than 30 seconds of laughs?. Baltimore Sun. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
  16. ^ ABC's "Cavemen" Retooled, SciFi Wire, July 9, 2007.
  17. ^ Seven - Cavemen No1 in 18-49s. ebroadcast. Retrieved on 6 October 2007.
  18. ^ http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Overnights_50/ABC_s_Cavemen_sinks_to_a_season_low.asp
  19. ^ http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-071024worst_tv,0,1040095.story?coll=chi-leisure-utl
  20. ^ http://www.nypost.com/seven/10032007/tv/its_a_cave_in_.htm
  21. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/arts/television/04bell.html?_r=1&ref=television&oref=slogin
  22. ^ http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34453
  23. ^ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119275538027864299.html
  24. ^ TV Ratings on Zap2it. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
  25. ^ TVWeek.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
  26. ^ TV Ratings on BroadcastingCable. Retrieved on 2006-11-14.
  27. ^ http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/progcal/progcal.aspx
  28. ^ Fast Nationals; Change when finals are published. Prime-Time Ratings: Tuesday 10/02/07
  29. ^ Fast Nationals; Change when finals are published. Prime-Time Ratings: Tuesday 10/09/07
  30. ^ Fast Nationals; Change when finals are published. Prime-Time Ratings: Tuesday 10/16/07
  31. ^ Fast Nationals; Change when finals are published. Prime-Time Ratings: Tuesday 10/23/07
  32. ^ http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/26410448
  33. ^ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117975992.html?categoryId=14&cs=1

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