"In the series, cavemen were never really fully supplanted by modern humans, but integrated into Homo sapiens civilization as a separate species sub-group. "

is it just me or is the premise kind of interesting? I feel like something could be done with that

[–] edge@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Possibly, but it would basically have to be about the thousands of years of discrimination and oppression by Homo sapiens that they would have inevitably faced. Maybe a good metaphor for racism or even ableism, but also maybe not so fun.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

God I remember that. They really thought the Caveman bit was the funniest thing ever and tried hard to make it more than it was.

That same show replaced Lopez Tonight and George Lopez said something like “just goes to show that a Mexican can’t be on TV but a caveman can.”

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I watched a couple episodes of it

The one joke they had was just taking stereotypes of black people and having other characters assign them to the Cavemen

This would be followed by one of the Cavemen saying "Oh, so all Cavemen do X?"

Laugh track, drum roll, fade to black

[–] edge@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

just taking stereotypes of black people and having other characters assign them to the Cavemen

Weird, it’s not like if we don’t have unique stereotypes for cavemen already, that’s what the ads were about. I can definitely see where there would be some overlap from the general sentiment of the target group being “inferior”, but the unique cavemen stereotypes would already be the natural thing to focus on.