It's one more thing for me to laugh hysterically at while she wonders what she ever saw in me: Variety is reporting that the cavemen from the Geico ads are being developed for a sitcom on ABC.
The frustration that guy feels -- the fruitless battle for respect. It kills me. Every. Single. Time.
(Yes, I'm kind of ashamed.)
Rob
Monday, March 05, 2007
News That Will Horrify My Wife
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I have to vote with your wife on this one. It's rather horrifying. It also won't last- it's kind of a one-joke story, ain't it?
I doubt it'll last, too. But while I think the concept is limited (and certainly more focused than your standard tubby-doofus-with-hot-wife comedy), I think there's plenty of humor to mine in a caveman in modern society -- beyond the skewed look at race and sensitivity issues the commercials give us. ("Charlie the Australopithecene" was one of my favorite features of the Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip. Plenty of fun there.) It'd probably be better suited for cable, though -- at ABC, with network-level audience expectations, it's pretty much doomed to failure.
Actually, at best I give it a 10% chance of any sort of success. But I do really love the commercials -- I watch them, even the ones I've seen, whenever I see one as a fast-forward. And giggle like a maniac at the poor guy.
I love 'em, too!
"tubby doofus with hot wife..."
Hmmmm.....
Hasn't escaped my notice, believe me...
Yeah... the ladies make some good points. To get me to watch this, they'd have to have the celebrity "interpreters" from their other commercials (Little Richard, Peter Graves, voice-over artiste Don LaFontaine, etc.) guest every week for wacky adventures.
Now, if Phil Hartman had lived and made an Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer show, I would've been there for that every week.
If Phil Hartman had lived and done any show, I probably would've been there any week.
What a loss.
There's a reason why you and Chris R. are best friends. He loves those guys. And like Heath Bars, I love 'em too!!
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