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Anyone watch ABC's "Caveman?"

primetime52

primetime52

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It premiered tonight at 8pm and I'd like thoughts from anyone else who watched it. All in all, I wasn't really disappointed or pleased. It was kind of like I expected: Basically a 22 minute long version of the commercials.

I've basically joined the cult following for the Geico Caveman commercials, so I feel like I'm a little bit too biased to objectively judge the first episode of the new show. I'd love to see the show last for a long time, but I have a feeling that it won't make it through the entire first season. I don't think enough people out there have enough appreciation for the commercials to really "get" the show.

Thoughts from anyone who watched it?
 
Captain Hank

Captain Hank

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I saw a few minutes of it. Honestly, I wasn't thrilled. I'll give it another chance in a bit, but my first impression was kind of "meh."
 
hoppypooh

hoppypooh

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I watched because caveman "Joel" is a high school friend of my cousin. It wasn't great and it wasn't awful. It's basically a longer version of the commercials with some funny moments.
 
palmage

palmage

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Those commercials had hard to watch for 30 seconds let alone 22 minutes.
I give it six episodes before the ax falls.
I like the Gecko.
 
primetime52

primetime52

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As I said before, I'm a little biased because I've been obsessed with the commercials since they started..... but I watched the episode for a second time last night on my TIVO and I must say that it was alot funnier the second time around. I noticed some jokes and subtleties that I didn't catch the first time. The dialogue is clever IMO and I'm a big fan of the sarcasm. I think the downfall of the show will be the fact that the concept of cavemen in the modern world is so far out of left field that people will have trouble "getting it" and probably won't give it a chance.
 
Eeyore

Eeyore

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palmage said:
Those commercials had hard to watch for 30 seconds let alone 22 minutes.
I give it six episodes before the ax falls.
I like the Gecko.
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I like the gecko too. I'd probably watch a show about him :lol: but not the cavemen. I find them irritating.
 
Shere_Khan

Shere_Khan

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I thought the commercials were hillarious.

Well mostly the one where the guy on TV says "It's so easy a caveman can do it."

And the caveman sitting on the couch says "That's really condescending."

But I have no idea what possessed them to make an entire show out of it.
 
WDWFREAK53

WDWFREAK53

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Opie and Anthony were talking about the show this morning...and I completely agree with them.

It's not funny to have a caveman "intelligent" because it's just a hairy person.

It would've been MUCH funnier if it was today's business world and they had a group of guys that were actually cavemen running around with clubs and dragging women down the street by their hair and feet. Learning how to make fire...and accidentally starting an inferno in the city...and perhaps walking by an electronics store and seeing the log burning on the tv screen and wondering how it's doing it. (Imagine seeing two cavemen sitting in front of a tv in Best Buy or Circuit City with the log burning on the fire being shown on the screen and the cavemen trying to cook their meat on it!)
 
WDWFREAK53

WDWFREAK53

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If you want to make a show based on characters from a TV commercial...

Make a show about the Guiness guys...now that show would be...BRILLIANT!
 
primetime52

primetime52

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palmage said:
Enlighten me.
What is there to "get" :shrug:
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For example I told my mom to watch it, she did, and couldn't make heads or tails of it. She didn't understand why there were cavemen living in modern times (not understanding the point that you aren't supposed to understand why they live among us.) I distinctly remember her asking me "are they from another planet?" She couldn't get past the premise that the show was about cavemen, and thus couldn't enjoy the episode because of it. Most viewers prefer to watch shows that are presented in a realistic universe (not one featuring creatures that don't actually exist in the real world.)
 
MouseRight

MouseRight

Active Member
Ratings are in. The writing is on the wall. If audience drops again next week, it will be cancelled.
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ABC's new 'Cavemen'
falls 24 percent

For a second-week decline to a 2.5 rating in 18-49s

By Toni Fitzgerald
Oct 10, 2007


Media buyers had expected viewers to do some heavy sampling of ABC’s much-hyped, though critically maligned, new sitcom “Cavemen” in week one but also expected a dropoff in week two after the gawkers had satisfied their curiosity. And it looks like that’s exactly what happened.

“Cavemen’s” second outing averaged a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating, according to Nielsen overnights, down 24 percent from last week’s 3.3 overnight in its premiere.

The network’s “Carpoolers,” “Cavemen’s” 8:30 p.m. lead-out, also slipped 18 percent, from a 3.4 to a 2.8, though it once again grew out of its lead-in.

“Cavemen” got lots of attention leading up to its premiere because of its unique, and some argued absurd, concept. It’s an adaptation of the popular Geico commercials that featured cavemen being offended by the company motto, “So easy a caveman could do it.”

Media people felt the show would have a solid debut, because many viewers would want to see what was generating all the buzz, which was especially heavy online. But they also said the quality of the show was such that many would not return in the following weeks.

It remains possible that a chunk of “Cavemen’s” opening-week audience time-shifted the show, as digital video recorder ratings won’t be out for several weeks yet. Media people have cautioned that until the DVR ratings are out, it’s impossible to get a full picture of how a show performed because Nielsen’s DVR household sample has more than doubled since this time last year.
 

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