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In 2002, GEICO unveiled its new ad campaign characters: cavemen. GEICO's slogan was "It's so easy, a caveman could do it!", which would immediately offend a caveman who was just walking by. Becoming incredibly popular, a few years later, ABC decided that it was enough to warrant a half-hour sitcom.The series, like the ad campaign it was based on, centers on three cavemen who live in a modern apartment, as cavemen were integrated into Homo sapiens as a separate sub-group.It was cancelled after only six episodes.
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The Artifact
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The Artifact: The unaired pilot took place in Atlanta, Georgia, where everyone spoke with a Southern accent. The series proper takes place in California, but everyone still speaks in a Southern accent.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The prejudice suffered by cavemen is based on that suffered by minorities in the real world. In "Andy the Stand-Up", Andy tries stand-up at Nick's open mic night and his character of a stereotypical dumb caveman, based on his uncle Roy, becomes very popular. Nick is extremely annoyed as he thinks that Andy is perpetuating negative caveman stereotypes. Andy revels in his newfound fame until he discovers that his sapiens fans think that he is really as stupid as Uncle Roy. He then realizes that Nick was right.
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Contemporary Caveman
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Contemporary Caveman: Cro-Magnons (who resemble Neanderthals) still live alongside Homo sapiens.
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Non-Indicative Name: The cavemen don't live in caves anymore.
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Friends with Benefits
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Friends with Benefits: In "Caveman Holiday", Andy and Thorne hook up and become friends with benefits, having wild sex at every opportunity.
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Conspiracy Theorist
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Conspiracy Theorist: In "Rock Vote", the caveman candidate in the city council election, Red Goldreyer, believes that the presence of gluten in bread and other food is part of a conspiracy to weaken people's immune systems and poison their minds. He tells Andy that world peace can only be achieved if gluten is removed from everyone's bodies.
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Dead Animal Warning
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Dead Animal Warning: In "The Cavewoman", Heather sends Nick a dead possum in the mail after he breaks up with her.
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Historical Longevity Joke: In the unaired pilot, Nick asks the elderly and slightly senile Mrs. Winston what it was like to sleep with Theodore Roosevelt.
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Hiding Your Heritage
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Hiding Your Heritage: In "The Shaver", Nick becomes convinced that their new neighbor Jake is a caveman who shaves his body hair every night to pass as homo sapiens. He hates "shavers" as he thinks that they make it harder for cavemen to be accepted. However, it turns out that he is a sapiens with a prominent brow and hairy body.
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Fictional Counterpart
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Fictional Counterpart: The Swedish furniture store Nörskbild where Joel works is based on IKEA. In "Her Embarrassed of Cavemen", Nick mentions a social media site called Facespace. In "The Mascot", the video of Nick beating up a high school student is posted on VidzWeb and gets over 140,000 views.
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Like a Duck Takes to Water
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Like a Duck Takes to Water: The entire basis for the show.
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Fantastic Slurs
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Fantastic Slurs: "Magger" being used as a stand in for..... that word. Some cavemen refer to Homo sapiens as "sapes" and "smoothies" (because of their smooth foreheads and comparatively little body hair). In "The Shaver", cavemen who pass as sapiens are called "shavers."
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N-Word Privileges
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N-Word Privileges: In the pilot, Joel objects to Nick saying "magger" but Nick tells him that it is okay for cavemen to use it.
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Sudden Name Change
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Sudden Name Change: In the unaired pilot, Joel's younger brother is named Jamie. In the series, his name is Andy.
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Auto Erotica
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Auto Erotica: In "Her Embarrassed of Caveman", it is mentioned that Andy's girlfriend Susan had sex with a guy in his car while Andy was at the dentist.
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The Whitest Black Guy
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The Whitest Black Guy: The unaired pilot has two of the main cavemen making fun of one working as a news weatherman for acting like a stereotypical white human. (In the actual first episode, there's a throwback with Andy exclaiming "I love this guy!" when the character appears on TV.)
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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In "Andy the Stand-Up", Andy tries stand-up at Nick's open mic night and his character of a stereotypical dumb caveman, based on his uncle Roy, becomes very popular. Nick is extremely annoyed as he thinks that Andy is perpetuating negative caveman stereotypes. Andy revels in his newfound fame until he discovers that his sapiens fans think that he is really as stupid as Uncle Roy. He then realizes that Nick was right.
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All Cavemen Were Neanderthals
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All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: Joel, Andy and Nick have the appearance of Neanderthals but claim to be Cro-Magnons.
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Never My Fault
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Never My Fault: Nick is extremely lazy and apathetic but always blames things that are clearly his fault on anti-caveman prejudice. For instance, in "Nick Get Job", he is fired from Nörskbild as he spent all of his time slacking off, listening to music and ignoring customers. He responds by suing Nörskbild for wrongful dismissal and discrimination.
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Been There, Shaped History
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Been There, Shaped History: The opening credits show cavemen inserted into a number of historical events.
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Cross-Cast Role
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Cross-Cast Role: In "Cave Kid", Kelly Stables played the cave boy Rocky.
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Alternate History
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Alternate History: Cavemen have survived into the present day and exist as a minority group alongside Homo sapiens.
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Take That!
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Take That!: In "The Shaver", Nick tells Andy that John Tesh is secretly a shaved caveman who got full brow reduction surgery. In "Cave Kid", Nick describes Angelina Jolie as a "limousine liberal" because she is adopting a cave kid to impress her friends. Also in "Cave Kid", there is a rumor that Charles Bronson was a caveman.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Do not say "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" around Nick.
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Dropped After the Pilot: Kate's father Tripp McKinney only appears in the unaired pilot, though he is mentioned in several later episodes.
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In Spite of a Nail
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In Spite of a Nail: Human history seems to have been entirely unaffected by the survival of cavemen into the 21st Century.
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Cute Monster Girl: On the rare occasion that a cavewoman is seen, she looks like a normal, attractive human with a slightly pronounced brow.
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Fictional Holiday: In "Caveman Holiday", the cavemen celebrate the ancient holiday Long Night. It commemorates the coldest night in their history 70,000 years ago when a miracle cow appeared, providing their ancestor with enough food to survive the terrible winter conditions. Long Night is traditionally celebrated by eating a whole cow and chugging grain alcohol. It is against the caveman creed to turn anyone away from their home on Long Night, even enemies.
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