Geico Cavemen Get Their Own TV Show?!

[Pak-Man]

Yeah, but Wilma and Fred weren't designed to sell the cigarettes they were peddling. I can accept ads IN entertainment, just not ads AS entertainment. :^)

[torgosPizza]

Yeah, but Wilma and Fred weren't designed to sell the cigarettes they were peddling. I can accept ads IN entertainment, just not ads AS entertainment. :^)

Well what about when Reese's pieces were in ET? Huh? Sounds like product placement to me, man. 

[Pak-Man]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ie5i7dmxdFI" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/ie5i7dmxdFI</a>

Again, ET wasn't created to sell Reece's Pieces. :^)

[Rude]

Not since the last SNL sketch-turned movie has a stupider concept been extended this far beyond its means.

Actually... didn't SNL already do this concept with  Phil Hartman as Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer?

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and was later thawed by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me!"

-Rude

[kodiakthejuggler]

The ONLY way that even the last shred of hope for humanity in general can be spared from this is if they never plug Geico. When the line between entertainment and advertisement becomes THAT blurred, humanity is doomed.

Oh there's no way in hell they'd center the show around the three Cavemen's plight to seek revenge from Geico for their misdeeds. It's just the concept, and hopefully the same type of humour present in the commercials themselves.

I don't think anyone could handle an actual TV series as one big advertisement for Geico. And I also hope the show isn't just a reason to play the same Geico commercials non-stop during every commercial break!   

[BEERxTaco]

I keep forgetting that you guys are (for the most part) too young to remember a show like It's About Time. It never made it to syndication, but trust me, it was the Gilligan's Island of caveman-themed sitcoms! 

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

like the mars and tyco chocotastic robotic toy hour?

seriously no one got the simpson reference?


I cant beleive this thread is real its just too stupid. 

[Pak-Man]

I got it. Just wasn't sure what to do with it. :^)

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

its weird that something that was basically a joke on the simpsons (and one i thought that was pretty far fetched) is now gonna be a show, and not just a kids show but a show for adults 


Big WTF

[Moose]

When the line between entertainment and advertisement becomes THAT blurred, humanity is doomed.

I can accept ads IN entertainment, just not ads AS entertainment. :^)

its weird that something that was basically a joke on the simpsons (and one i thought that was pretty far fetched) is now gonna be a show, and not just a kids show but a show for adults 

ermmmm......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_Generation_1

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

actually this would be a better example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayce_and_the_Wheeled_Warriors

[Moose]

I dunno, that's kind of a Tron moment. The toys and cartoon both supported each other, according to that article the toys were just released the christmas before the show began airing...

(Elaboration - There was a trivia question on a video games tv show a while back that asked what the first game based on a film was, which was apparently Batman, but I insisted it was Tron. Aparrently, Tron doesn't count because the movie & game were based on each other and released together, whereas Batman was literally based on the film.)

... whereas Takara were doing the TF toyline since 1980, and it was only in 1984 that Hasbro bought the rights to them and made a cartoon around them. So the toys definately came first, there.

[Pak-Man]

The '80s toons teetered CLOSE to what I'm describing, but weren't actively trying to sell the toys. They just gave the toys a backdrop.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

- There was a trivia question on a video games tv show a while back that asked what the first game based on a film was, which was apparently Batman, but I insisted it was Tron. Aparrently, Tron doesn't count because the movie & game were based on each other and released together, whereas Batman was literally based on the film.)

actually wouldnt it be ET?

[Bob]

I am sure this is all a joke........... at least, I hope so.

Finished watching a Netflix disc of the cancelled Fox show "Keen Eddie" the other day, then I see this tread.   I am going to lay down until the pain and voices in my head stop.