NEWS: Geico Ads Launch Sitcom Pilot

Don't forgot about the love interest that's introduced in the pilot (or sometimes the first episode), then something happens to prevent a relatioinship from going any further....or see it seems? Then, nope, definitely not going to happen, or maybe....

I love the Geico cavemen too, but I don't know if they can hold up for a whole show. It'll be something to see, anyhow.

However I just cannot stomach the idea of a feature film based on the Burger King. Do you have any idea how many people are going to run screaming from the theatres?

Until the third season, where they finally do hook up and the audience gets what they've been waiting to see... Until they break up on the season finale of the fourth season. Estranged, but stabalizing "friendship" in the fifth season...And then the suprise proposal one episode before the series finale that TOTALLY came out of nowhere.

Holy shit, thank you for posting the most amazing piece of entertainment news I ever heard. And I'm serious.

I'd give the Caveman show a shot. The ad campaign is consistently funny. Though so far it's only a pilot episode in development, and a shitload of pilots never get seen, let alone run on TV. So we'll see what happens.

I just want to know, though, when they're going to make a animated series based on that Esurance chick.

No, it's definitely cockney. Australian is a dialect as well.

I always thought that he bore an unholy resemblance to Val Kilmer.

I bow to your superior linguistitsu.

It'll never see the light of day. They make over a hundred pilots every year and few make it on the air.

I'm sure Geico is paying for much of the cost of the pilot. That's how those things work, now. That's why horrible ideas like this make it to the pilot stage, because the studio is not dealing with the risk by putting up any money.

They won't use any of the guys from the commercial because they will be looking for a "name" - it will be some kind whose "hot" that America has never heard of but Hollywood is shitting themselves over.

I think thi could be a great idea, if its done right. It most likely won't be but, hey, nothings gained if nothings tried. Besides, I haven't had my fix of prehistoric humor since they canceled Dinosaurs!

You have got to be fucking shitting me.

If the cavemen on this show are anything like Link in Encino Man things should be ok. Link was Brandon Fraser's best and career defining role because he was stupid, simple, and loved big boobs -- or was it gazongas? the smug or aloof (or manic-depressive) caveman bit doesn't have much play beyond 30 seconds as every Geico caveman ad after the very first one proves. So get Val Kilmer to play the lead Link (good call RudieCantFail), hire Fraser as his acting coach, and hire Pauly Shore to write the pilot and we've got a green light.

That'll be five dollars plzkthxbye.

I'd prefer a show about the gecko.

Thanks. You can leave tips in the hat. I'll be here all week.

Oh god, so wasn't the premiere of this yesterday or something? Did anyone watch it? Was it as horrible as I would imagine? I NEED ANSWERS!!!

I did watch the episode that was on last night, although I'm not sure if it was the premiere or not.

So, at the risk of losing whatever backwash dregs of cool I may have left in me, I have to say it was overall pretty funny. Not 100% awesome, but far better then the trainwreck I was expecting.

Then again, I find almost all of the Geico caveman commercials to be hilarious, whereas apparently most other people loathe them. But fuck it, any show that features the line "Keep your penis in your genus" gets 30 minutes of my time.

I didn't see it and I don't know if I plan to, but I never figured out why people seemed to consider this significantly worse an idea than about 90% of the other shitty premises that get aired every week. Backwash cool dregs be damned for me too, but there's no conceivable way this could be any worse than Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader,CSI: Whatever, Desperate Housewives, Two and Half Men, take your pick.

I saw it. Wasn't bad at all. There were quite a few good jokes in there. The humor is extremely dry though, so it's definitely not a show that everybody is going to like. I could see this becoming a quality show if it's given a decent shot by the network. The real train wreck was the show that followed Cavemen. Carpoolers. Now that was bad.

I want to believe.

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