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Podcast: The S1E1 Podcast
Episode: S1E1: Cavemen
Description: The Chicago Tribune listed "Cavemen" as one of the 25 worst TV shows ever, The New York Post declared the show "extinct on arrival", & TV Guide listed it at #22 on their list of 25 Biggest TV Blunders. But in 2004 an advertising campaign for the auto insurance company GEICO featuring Cavemen living among us in modern day took the world by storm. After 3 years of continued success ABC gave a pilot order to turn the characters into a full fledged sitcom... And about a month after the show first premiered it was cancelled. 15 years later the show has basically been forgotten in...