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Recycled SNL Sketch + Misguided Optimism = Potential Sitcom - Jenna_Bird - 03-05-2007
As much as I love the Geico Caveman advertisements, this is overkill...and probably a bad idea.
The article from CNN.
The Associated Press Wrote:Geico cavemen could star in TV series
POSTED: 10:51 a.m. EST, March 5, 2007
Story Highlights• ABC has ordered pilot for comedy starring Geico cavemen
• Characters have starred in popular advertisements
• No guarantee pilot will be picked up for series
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Those Geico "cavemen" shouldn't be so upset after all -- they may get their own television series.
ABC said Friday it had ordered a pilot for a comedy, tentatively titled "Cavemen," that features the characters used in a series of ads by the insurance company.
In the ads, cavemen appear insulted by a Geico pitchman's claim that the company's Web site is so easy to use that "even a caveman can do it."
The potential series, one of 14 pilots that will be produced by Touchstone Television this spring, features the cavemen as they "struggle with prejudice on a daily basis as they strive to live the lives of normal thirty-somethings in 2007 Atlanta."
It's unusual for characters from an advertising campaign to move into shows of their own, but not unprecedented. The CBS comedy "Baby Bob" featured a talking baby that had been used in several advertisements, according to Daily Variety.
The advertising copywriter who helped create the "cavemen" ads is writing the pilot, the studio said.
A pilot order is no guarantee a show will make it on the air; in fact, the majority of pilots don't make it that far.
-Jenna
- farmerdan - 03-05-2007
I'd probaly watch it to see if it's any good
- hotmetal401 - 03-05-2007
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. "
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I miss you Phil Hartman...
Cheers,
Pat
- opiated - 03-05-2007
hotmetal401 Wrote:"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever.. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. "
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I miss you Phil Hartman...
Cheers,
Pat
brilliant sketch!!
as for the Geico thing, I love the commercials, but not sure a sitcom is a good idea
- BulletRiddled - 03-05-2007
Well, they managed to turn Crazy Frog into a chart topper twice, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if this becomes a smash hit.