So not funny, even a caveman could write it

I don't know how many people even knew the premiere of ABC's "Cavemen"--the show spun off of Geico's "so easy, even a caveman could do it" tagline--but I wasted my time tuning in to legitimize my feeling that a show based off an overplayed series of commercials would never last.

And I'm going to go wiiiiith I'm right.

Minus a few funny one liners ("Hey, R Kelley, get out of the closet, we're going out"), I barely laughed at all. In fact, I couldn't wait for the show to be over so I could collect my thoughts and rip on it.

The way the caveman-look was done is definitely different from the way it was in the commercials; if anyone listened to Preston and Steve yesterday morning, Steve was right--they do look like hippies. Hairy, dirty, hippies.

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To make matters worse, I was having a hard time telling any of them apart when the scenes switched--they all looked alike! And in developing each character's traits, the writers did too much and the cavemen didn't seem very realistic...even if they weren't prehistoric creatures living in the year 2007.

And for a show that wasn't supposed to be about race, the entire thing was a veiled social commentary, which I think was mostly aimed at African Americans. For example, one of the cavemen, Joel, is dating a "sape"--what the cavemen call homosapiens--and doesn't want his friends to know because it's frowned upon. Once his friends find out, they convince him that his girlfriend is trying the "forbidden fruit" and expecting him to give her a sexual experience she can't have with homosapien (or white) man. There's also the incident with the (white), homosapien landlord in the cavemen's building who doesn't know which caveman is which, and urges them to stop their "primal grunting" because she is trying to get people to move across the hall.

No wonder the network didn't preview it to critics. Highly doubtful that this show will be successful. The commercials were funny when they first came out, but will quickly vanish now that this abominable show is on TV.