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Cavemen
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Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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Posted 4 years ago # -
Horse Chestnut
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Cavist.
Posted 4 years ago # -
wildgoose77
Not at all creative.
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Saw this last night, and now all I can think about is race relations.
Are the cavemen supposed to be black?
I'm thinking of the sex joke in which it's implied that 'Sapiens girls have a taboo fetish for cavemen.
Also, the realtor who suggests they should put different colored ribbons in their hair so she can better tell them apart.
I mean, really?
Maybe the jokes are about racism in general, and because the predominant race issue in America for the last two hundred years has been Black - White, in order to satire that you can't help but call upon some of those stereotypes and repackage them in a Neanderthal - Homo Sapiens context.
BTW, are they supposed to be Neanderthals? Cro-Magnons? Homo Erectus? Or what?
On the other hand, are the cavemen supposed to be white?
The job at IKEA, the squash game, the macchiato and cranberry biscotti, the Wii, all symbols of neo-urban white hipster affluence.
What if you had a story about four black dudes from south Philly who relocate to San Diego and start listening to Damien Rice while working on their dissertations? Would the same "fish out of water" story be told?
Plus, the actors are all white. Can a black actor play a caveman? Does this pose any "origin of the species" problems? Do whites have a monopoly on early human ancestry, wherein they are perceived as the "neutral" race?
Overall, I thought the show had some good moments and funny jokes. Thankfully, without a laugh track. Can't wait 'til next Tuesday.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Coremodels
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Well, that was my take on it. Let's make cavemen instead of black guys so we can still break out every stereotype and race joke but not get in trouble.
BTW, groundbreaking shows highlighting these types of things were shows like All in the Family...not this.
Posted 4 years ago # -
wildgoose77
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Slate wrote By the time Cavemen (ABC, Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET) finally materialized, it felt as if it had been with us since the Pliocene epoch. In March, ABC confirmed that it had ordered a pilot for a sitcom derived from a series of car-insurance commercials, the self-reflexive Geico ads that imagined Neanderthals live among us and take offense when we culturally privileged humans demean their intelligence. The news variously caused eyebrows to rise, temples to throb, and sphincters to tighten. Here was a new kind of water-cooler show: Instead of excitedly jawing about what happened last night on Lost, you could disbelievingly gab about what things had come to.
Posted 4 years ago # -
DJAnimosity
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Just had a chance to watch the first episode of this online, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I laughed out loud quite a few times and the show seemed to pick up steam as it went on. I like that the producers brought back one of the actors from the commercials (his name is Maurice on the show) as I always thought he was a riot.
Can't wait till the next episode.
Posted 4 years ago # -
lifeliberty
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watched it last night, i think it is something that could be really funny, but it wasn't.
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