Comments on: new show review: Cavemen http://www.screenwriterguy.com/2007/10/03/new-show-review-cavemen/ musings of a wannabe comedy writer Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:54:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: screenwriterguy http://www.screenwriterguy.com/2007/10/03/new-show-review-cavemen/comment-page-1/#comment-525 screenwriterguy Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:17:20 +0000 http://www.screenwriterguy.com/2007/10/03/new-show-review-cavemen/#comment-525 I'm all for premises that push past yet-another-family-sitcom. And I admit that some of my issue with the show comes from its origins as a commercial. After all, if they're that desperate for ideas, I have stuff they can use! But ultimately, the premise just doesn't quite feel right as a sitcom. Funny concept for a thirty-second ad, yes. But this does not 22 episodes a year make. There was almost zero reason for these guys to be cavemen. It was a source of some conflict, but it didn't create humor. If you're going to have a non-sequitor randomness in your story, it should at least be funny.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('525','screenwriterguy'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('525','screenwriterguy','I\'m all for premises that push past yet-another-family-sitcom. And I admit that some of my issue with the show comes from its origins as a commercial. After all, if they\'re that desperate for ideas, I have stuff they can use!\r\n\r\nBut ultimately, the premise just doesn\'t quite feel right as a sitcom. Funny concept for a thirty-second ad, yes. But this does not 22 episodes a year make. There was almost zero reason for these guys to be cavemen. It was a source of some conflict, but it didn\'t create humor. If you\'re going to have a non-sequitor randomness in your story, it should at least be funny.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I’m all for premises that push past yet-another-family-sitcom. And I admit that some of my issue with the show comes from its origins as a commercial. After all, if they’re that desperate for ideas, I have stuff they can use!

But ultimately, the premise just doesn’t quite feel right as a sitcom. Funny concept for a thirty-second ad, yes. But this does not 22 episodes a year make. There was almost zero reason for these guys to be cavemen. It was a source of some conflict, but it didn’t create humor. If you’re going to have a non-sequitor randomness in your story, it should at least be funny.

Reply – Quote
]]> By: StudioPicturesSuck http://www.screenwriterguy.com/2007/10/03/new-show-review-cavemen/comment-page-1/#comment-524 StudioPicturesSuck Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:41:08 +0000 http://www.screenwriterguy.com/2007/10/03/new-show-review-cavemen/#comment-524 Where a majority of sitcoms have exactly the same premise -- goofy, immature husband and his smarter wife have problems raising the kids -- I don't know why you are so against a show that stems from a pretty clever series of commercials... Glad to see that it threw you for a loop. :) And thanks for the interesting history, I hadn't read about that.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('524','StudioPicturesSuck'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('524','StudioPicturesSuck','Where a majority of sitcoms have exactly the same premise -- goofy, immature husband and his smarter wife have problems raising the kids -- I don\'t know why you are so against a show that stems from a pretty clever series of commercials... \r\n\r\nGlad to see that it threw you for a loop. :)\r\n\r\nAnd thanks for the interesting history, I hadn\'t read about that.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Where a majority of sitcoms have exactly the same premise — goofy, immature husband and his smarter wife have problems raising the kids — I don’t know why you are so against a show that stems from a pretty clever series of commercials…

Glad to see that it threw you for a loop. :)

And thanks for the interesting history, I hadn’t read about that.

Reply – Quote
]]>