I know some idiots still want to criticize this show for even having the temerity to exist, but the scripts and the characterizations on this show are such gemlike delights from second to second that I feel a need to comment on it all.
First of all, thanks to Julie White for existing. Her work as the snobby, clueless, effortlessly immoral and cavist mother of the girlfriend of one of our boys (and his co-op manager) is INCREDIBLE. She was superb in the original unaired pilot that you'll have to search out, and she's superb here. What line readings, what a comedienne.
(BTW, the original pilot was somewhat more of a conventional sitcom. This tweaked version is definitely better, but they're both great. I just wish everyone could have seen the boys' Comedy of Embarrassment trials in that pilot. When they got stuck at the cavist country club and our hero accidentally falls into the fire pit and brandishes a branch like a club and is reduced to hideous grunts like, you know, a caveman--it's hilarious.) The other actors are each so distinct and so insightful in their delicate characterizations of each caveman. It's ironic that 3-episode guest star J.P. Manoux is back to his nerdy "type" here when he was so funny as a caveman himself in "Phil of the Future." I think the best caveman here, by a nose, is actually our boys' friend Maurice, played by Jeffrey Daniel Phillips. He was so funny in some of the Geico ads and in the cavemanscrib Web site. There is just something so incredibly caveman about him. He's a rebel, a hipster, a righteous dude, and assuredly one for the ladies, if you get my drift. It's like his eyes have seen everything there is to see and he's back for more.
First of all, thanks to Julie White for existing. Her work as the snobby, clueless, effortlessly immoral and cavist mother of the girlfriend of one of our boys (and his co-op manager) is INCREDIBLE. She was superb in the original unaired pilot that you'll have to search out, and she's superb here. What line readings, what a comedienne.
(BTW, the original pilot was somewhat more of a conventional sitcom. This tweaked version is definitely better, but they're both great. I just wish everyone could have seen the boys' Comedy of Embarrassment trials in that pilot. When they got stuck at the cavist country club and our hero accidentally falls into the fire pit and brandishes a branch like a club and is reduced to hideous grunts like, you know, a caveman--it's hilarious.) The other actors are each so distinct and so insightful in their delicate characterizations of each caveman. It's ironic that 3-episode guest star J.P. Manoux is back to his nerdy "type" here when he was so funny as a caveman himself in "Phil of the Future." I think the best caveman here, by a nose, is actually our boys' friend Maurice, played by Jeffrey Daniel Phillips. He was so funny in some of the Geico ads and in the cavemanscrib Web site. There is just something so incredibly caveman about him. He's a rebel, a hipster, a righteous dude, and assuredly one for the ladies, if you get my drift. It's like his eyes have seen everything there is to see and he's back for more.