My notes for my review of Caveman (ABC's new sitcom all about the Geico Cavemen, who live in SAN DIEGO).
So there you go, it's in San Diego because they mention it's in San Diego and because there is a San Diego caveman weatherman on TV talking about the weather in San Diego (this would have been a VERY opportune time to make fun of the fact that it's just always sunny in San Diego, so does the weather man have a purpose? Maybe a crisis of weatherman faith? But no, he's just a zany weatherman in front of a typical looking weather background that predicts RAIN for two days by the way).
They work at Ikea, but it's not Ikea and they get to say funny words in Swedish.
Swedish words are hilarious.
Hey that guy is kind of funny... he's not one of the caveman.
They are smart Cavemen, because they write dissertations and play Nintendo Wii.
Hey so they are supposed to be in San Diego but they don't go to the beach, nor do they show the beach or talk about the beach. They don't even mention those quirky things about San Diego, like everyone wearing sandals all the time or traffic for no reason on The 8, or lots of tans. You know what made Sex and the City interesting? (besides the sex... yep you got it, THE CITY. I know I'm biased, but COME ON, it's SAN DIEGO, fairly cool place to live).
Phone's ringing. It's my Mom. She wants to know how our cat is doing. We had to take him to the hospital because he was having bladder problems. My mom begins the phone call, and I quote "so I was trying to watch this Caveman sitcom and it sucks." Mom's review is not good. I'm still giving it a chance to get better.
And now they are playing squash and talking about deformed cats (oh poor kitty). And now they are going to some very generic fancy restaurant to confront hot blonde girl who... is a Caveman collector apparently. She knows what she likes and she likes it Cro Magnon (I had to, I'm sorry).
And it's over. Something about how blonde girl might have fetish or something, nice (not really).
If I was the Gecko I'd be SO PISSED that THIS is the sitcom Geico went with (do I smell cameo anyone?). Maybe Carpoolers will be better.
...it's not...
*In truth, the show might actually play better if they just put it in LA. LA with it's incredible self conscious way of judging and presenting itself. Could you imagine Cavegirls with bleach blonde hair? Buying a million pairs of huge bug looking sunglasses? Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears jokes (which you can never go wrong with?). I don't know why they chose to move the sitcom from the midwest to San Diego, when really you'd get so much more story out of the LA landscape. At this point it doesn't seem to matter to them where it takes place... or if it's funny. It did make me want to watch the show Pushing Daisy's though. Compared to what I was watching, those commercials made the show look like the most interesting and amazing thing on ABC. So Pushing Daisy's it is, if only it was set in San Diego. *
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