Holy Mr. Slate, Batman! I have just spent 15 grueling minutes forcing myself to watch ABC’s new show “Cavemen.” Do yourself a favour and stay away from this show. A better way of spending your time would be to continually slam a desk drawer on your hand, coincidentally this is exactly the same thing you’ll find yourself doing after the first 5 minutes of the show. Save yourself the pain and skip to slamming the drawer on your hand!
The show is (apparently) centred around 4-5 cavemen which live in…some city and their daily lives. The first 15 minutes of the show are chockfull of cliched pop-culture references, so much so that you will think you’re watching Dawson’s Creek. ‘Cavemen’ is pitched by ABC as a “unique buddy comedy that offers a clever twist on stereotypes and turns race relations on its head.” I can just see the conversation that led up to this hidious waste of money:
“Hey let’s make a show about how hard it is for people of a different race to integrate in American society!”
“Yeah! That’s a great idea. So glad it’s never been done before! But what race are we going to use? African Americans?”
“No, it’s been done.”
“The French?”
“Zee French would never come here.”
“Muslims? No wait, Canada has a popular show with that….who could we use and totally put in stupid situations who won’t be offended…hmmm?”
“I KNOW! Let’s use those Cavemen from the Geico commercials!”
“Perfect!”
I can’t continue describing this show since I’m experiencing dry heaves just thinking at the utter exercise in imbecility (yeah I think I made that up) which it represents. I’m going to go ahead and call it right now: ‘Cavemen’ won’t make it past season 1!
0 / 10 fireball shots
