Remember the 3 Geico cavemen?

Well they've got a TV series being developed by ABC.
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No I'm not kidding.

ABC developing 'Cavemen'
Comedy pilot based on Geico ads
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER

Winner for most unusual piece of development this pilot season goes to ABC, which has turned a series of quirky Geico commercials into an actual half-hour comedy project.

"Cavemen" will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle prejudice as they attempt to live as normal thirtysomethings in modern Atlanta.

Project, from ABC TV Studio, is penned by Joe Lawson, an advertising copywriter who was behind the "Caveman" ads -- as well as other Geico commercials (think the cockney-speaking Geico gecko, and the reality TV spoof "Tiny House").

Daniel Rappaport, Guymon Cassady, Will Speck and Josh Gordon are exec producers. Speck and Gordon, commercial directors who recently helmed the Will Farrell feature "Blades of Glory," are on board to also direct.

The single-camera laffer pilot is based on the Geico ads that promote the insurance company's Web site as so user-friendly that even "a caveman could do it." The spots follow cavemen in modern settings, reacting with offense to the derogatory slogan. In one, a Geico spokesman apologizes and takes the Neanderthals out to dinner.

Other blurbs include the sensitive, modern cavemen peeved at the offending slogan while encountering Geico ads in everyday life, including the airport.

The caveman commercials were created through the Richmond, Va.-based Martin Agency. Jeff Daniel Phillips and Ben Weber play the cavemen in the Geico spots; no word if they'll make the transformation to the TV project.

Few TV shows have come out of the commercial sphere; more frequently, TV characters live on in 30-second spots long after their shows are canceled (think "ALF").

But it's not without precedence: The 2002 CBS comedy "Baby Bob" revolved around a talking baby character that was first seen in a series of dot.com ads. After the Eye canceled "Baby Bob," the character returned to its commercial roots, spending time as a pitchman (pitchbaby?) for Quizno's Subs.

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No word yet if Val Kilmer is interested in playing one or all of the cavemen.

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Oh god...why?

 

That Ad honestly isn't even remotley funny....

 

What about the gecko? When does he get his own show, huh? When? WHEN???

 

QFT.

 

What did we do to deserve this?

 

The should get the guy that plays Ted Sprauge (the radioactive guy) on Heroes.

 

These commercials are now ruined.

 

Besides Val Kilmer I think they should get Heath Ledger cause in Lords of Dogtown he was lookin' like Val Kilmer who looks like a caveman.
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Hell yeah, I always thought he should be the Geico caveman.

 

I hate those cavemen commercials...

 

Giving commercial pitchmen their own TV shows just shows how absent they are for ideas. What if they gave Mr. Whipple or that "Time to make the donuts" guy their own shows back in the day?

 

Great Scott!!! The TV industry is now OFFICIALLY run by chimpanzees on low-grade meth.

 

I'd like to see those pepto bismal dancers in a sitcom.

 

Me too.

 

please be a hoax...

 

Okay, first of all. I'm not a 100% in love with your tone right now.

 

I like the Geico cavemen ads.


Doubt I'd watch a show based on them, though.

 

Behold the coming apocolypse.

 

Surely this is the greatest idea ever for a sitcom pilot.

 

Me too.

 

ABC did this? I can see FOX or Comedy Central...but, ABC?

 

Now?

 

Wait, wha - ?

 

Yeah, you wouldn't expect this from the station that's brought us Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy.