Geico's Cavemen Getting a Comedy Series
Source: Variety
March 2, 2007
ABC has turned the series of quirky Geico commercials featuring caveman characters into an actual half-hour comedy project, reports Variety.
"Cavemen" will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle prejudice as they attempt to live as normal thirtysomethings in modern Atlanta.
The project, from ABC TV Studio, is written by Joe Lawson, an advertising copywriter who was behind the "Caveman" ads -- as well as other Geico commercials like the cockney-speaking Geico gecko.
Daniel Rappaport, Guymon Cassady, Will Speck and Josh Gordon are executive producers. Speck and Gordon, commercial directors who recently helmed the Will Farrell feature Blades of Glory, are on board to also direct.
Jeff Daniel Phillips and Ben Weber play the cavemen in the Geico spots; no word if they'll make the transformation to the TV project.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
The first one with the cavemen watching TV and being offended by the Geico commercial was mildly amusing... three years ago.
Arrested Development gets cancelled, and this shit gets on the air? God damn. I want to fucking suckerpunch someone in the balls for this.
Hopefully it will last about as long as The Mullets did. Eh, who am I kidding? This is going to be like The War at Home, and still be on the air two years later even though no one fucking watches it!
Speaking of that POS, it still pisses me off that that's on, and Fox has killed so many good shows early on: Arrested Development, The Tick, The Lone Gunmen, probably ten others I never even had the chance to see before they were canned.
BTW, it's not just me: the fucking Gecko suddenly got a cockney accent only a few months ago for some totally unknown reason, right?
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
I thought he had some kind of British accent, but it's gotten more Cockney recently. But he also used to hate Geico and now he's working for them. Fuckin' hypocrite.
I think the caveman commercials can be mildly funny, but that's because they're 15 seconds long. This show isn't going to work.
I thought Lone Gunmen got the axe cos of the fact that there was that one episode that was EXACTLY like 9-11, and in the episode the government was behind it, but that would just be a theory of mine
and about the Geico tv show, look on the bright side, maybe sometime soon there'll be a RANCH show, or maybe "Ther Adventures of Burger King"
My mother-in-law and brother-in-law came up last night. I'm convinced my MIL is a little slow. I don't want to tell my wife that, but she is not bright. And she acts like she's about ten a lot of times. Plus, she goes through drawers and closets whenever she has a chance, just to be fucking nosey, and will do stupid shit like tell us where something is that we've misplaced, even though it's admitting she was looking somewhere that no reasonable human being should be looking in another's house.
No biggie--as much as it bugs me, I've learned to keep my mouth shut. (The way it basically works is my wife can say anything about my family she wants, and I'm supposed to not say a word. But if I, for instance, tell my MIL that the property tax bill is not an appropriate toy for the baby, I'm a materialistic self-centered asshole. Never mind that my wife should know that we'd be out on our asses if that doesn't get paid, so it's probably not a good idea to actually take it out of a drawer and let the baby use it as a chew toy.)
My BIL is a lot cooler, and quite intelligent, but he's so incredibly laid-back that sometimes I wonder if he ever thinks things through. Like last night, he slept in the room with the computer, and he played online well into the night. Eh, no big deal. But I come online earlier to check my mail (and make stupid jokes at Snigtad's expense), and the Google Toolbar is staring me in the face.
I. HATE. TOOLBARS. Stupid shit that purports to be helpful, but in reality does nothing but monitor which ads to bombard you with. I have no qualms with the internet being supported by advertisers. I'm so private, though, I'm just barely okay with cookies. I don't like the idea of a program that actively sends all my info to some other computer so it can figure out what ads should show up on sites I go to. Yeah, probably overly paranoid, but I just don't like the idea.
So I ask Mrs Anarky when she installed it. I figured maybe a Java update, or Flash update, or something, knowing that every update out there tries to con you into getting some toolbar or another. Maybe she didn't click off it.
She didn't install it.
So, I'm wondering what the hell he installed that came with Google Toolbar. Again, thinking it was probably some Flash update necessary to see some page. But it could be something else, and the idea of someone downloading software on another person's computer is a little strange. So I run all the anti-virus, anti-spyware software I have. Other than cookies, nothing.
I look for unfamiliar programs. Again, nothing. Yeah, there's lots of shit here that I have no fucking clue what it is, since every stupid-ass new version of Windows makes it tougher to get information that would seemingly be so incredibly basic as what the fuck the software on your computer does. But nothing that wasn't there a few days ago.
So I dig through the history. Turns out, at 8:31 last night, he actually Googled the Google Toolbar to install it.
I'm not going to say anything to him, since it's only a really minor inconvenience. Just a quick "Add/Remove Programs" dealio, really.
But it's kinda nagging me that someone would install software on someone else's computer, which they use no more than a few hours a month at absolute most, to essentially customize basic settings?
All in all, though, I'm just glad that it was the Google Toolbar he liked, and not IE 7.0.
*--For behavior unbecoming anyone, perpetrated in real time over an extended--AH, FUCK IT! MORE MALIBU, BITCHES!!
Stupid fleshling Sleazer been here more than year, long enough to know not use "R-word" here. Me Grimlock fix this time, but next time, Grimlock have to blast into carbon with twin-barrel laser!
"Among the winners, there is no room for the weak."
