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Joel, his cynical best friend, Nick, and easy-going little brother, Jamie, are contemporary cavemen who live in the suburban south and simply want to be treated like ordinary thirty-something guys. Despite their attempts at assimilation, Nick doesn't believe mainstream society will ever completely accept them, Jamie seems to take it all in stride and Joel straddles the middle, torn between his friends, his more traditional values and his loving fiancée.
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- E1 Her Embarrassed of CavemanNext upOct 2, 2007 · 30 min
Synopsis
Joel thinks that his girlfriend is embarrassed to tell her friends that she is dating a caveman.
Guest stars: Nick Swardson, James Adomian (Waiter #1), Jelynn Sophia (Delta)
- E2 Nick Get JobOct 9, 2007 · 30 min
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Nick gets a job at Norkbild, a home improvement center, through Joel. But when Nick is quickly fired for being a terrible worker, he considers his firing to be a discrimination act against him and immediately files a lawsuit against the company. Meanwhile, Andy scares a woman in an attempt to prove that he is not scary.
Guest stars: Octavia Spencer, J.P. Manoux
- E3 The CavewomanOct 16, 2007 · 30 min
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Joel, Nick, and Andy visit a frozen-yogurt shop, and Nick falls for the hot cavewoman who works there.
Guest stars: Kim Director (Heather)
- E4 MascotOct 23, 2007 · 30 min
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Nick takes a job as a substitute teacher and discovers that the school's mascot is an offensive, stereotypical caveman -- which leads him on a quest to have the mascot removed. Meanwhile, Andy's search for an accounting job comes to an end when Leslie hires him to balance her books. But he's torn about what to do when he discovers that Leslie has been dabbling in some creative financing for her lover that could both estrange her from her family and land.
Guest stars: Leon Frierson, Amy Farrington (Mrs. Collins), Elizabeth Blanco (Mimi)
- E5 The ShaverNov 6, 2007 · 30 min
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Joel gets a new Homo Sapien friend, Jake, but Nick suspects he's a caveman trying to blend in. Also, Nick considers Jake to be a shaver, a person who shaves his body hair to differentiate himself from cavemen. Meanwhile, Thorne is attracted to the beast in Andy.
Guest stars: Eddie Shin, Jim Pirri
- E6 Rock VoteNov 20, 2007 · 30 min
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Andy has people coming at him from two different directions: Nick and Joel want him to vote their way in the next election, while Thorne wants him to buy a gun after a burglary.
Guest stars: Ethan Phillips, Robert Curtis Brown
- E7 Nick Work, Andy JerkDate to be announced · 30 min
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Nick causes problems for Joel when his girlfriend Kate refuses to spend the night. Joel starts spending more time at her place and finds he'd rather be with his roommates. In the end, Joel moves back home and they all make compromises to get along. Andy starts working for SodaCo and his coworkers find him rather annoying. The entire office is forced to go through a series of seminars starting with "boundary training" because of him. He figures out that they can't fire him and continues to do all of the good-natured but annoying things that made everyone upset.
- E8 Cavemen's HolidayDate to be announced · 30 min
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Nick goes to see the student health centre with paresthesia in his buttocks, where he is advised by the caveman doctor to exercise more. While there, he learns that his CRP is up but he his told not to worry. However, he does research on the internet and finds out it could be a sign of leukocytosis. worried, he pretends to be Joel and uses his insurance to see a HMO who tells him he has appendicitis and schedules him for an appendectomy. Meanwhile Joel and Kate are having relationship troubles, with Kate using far-fetched excuses not to sleep with Joel and avoiding him. Their relationship has lasted three months, which is when Kate traditionally dumps her boyfriends. Joel's boss finds out about the surgery for Nick when the insurance calls, but believes it to be for Joel and so gives him time off. When Kate comes to break it off with Joel, she learns of his major surgery and rushes to the hospital where Joel, disgusted that she only came when she thought he was having surgery breaks it off with her.
- E9 Nick SickDate to be announced · 30 min
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The boys are throwing a party because it is Long Night, a cavemen holiday that remembers when the cavemen did not die in the coldest day in history.
- E10 Andy and the Stand-UpDate to be announced · 30 min
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Andy participates in Nick's open mike night, and becomes famous for his character of a dumb caveman.
- E11 Cave KidDate to be announced · 30 min
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Neighbors who adopt a cave kid ask Joel, Nick and Andy to be his mentor.
- E12 Hunters and GatherersDate to be announced · 30 min
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Joel runs into trouble when he parks in an executive's parking space. Nick competes with Maurice for the attention of his ex-girlfriend, Heather, after Maurice explains his own charm with women in terms of hunter and gatherer roles, classifying himself as a hunter and Nick as a gatherer.
- E13 The Country ClubDate to be announced · 30 min
Cast & crew
Sam Huntington
Stephanie Courtney
Jeff Daniel Phillips
Bill English
Kaitlin Doubleday
Julie White
Nick Kroll
Stephanie Lemelin
Kelly Stables
John HeardImages · 3
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UnexpectedCheeseSep 5, 2026
*Cavemen* is a perfect example of a joke being stretched far beyond its breaking point. The GEICO cavemen worked because the commercials were short. Turning that concept into an entire sitcom only demonstrated how little material there actually was. The characters are irritating, the jokes rarely land, and the attempts at social commentary are about as subtle as you would expect from a sitcom based on an insurance commercial. Even a talented cast, including an early Nick K… Read more
roll, can't do much with the material they're given. There are occasional moments that almost work, but mostly *Cavemen* feels like a bizarre artifact from 2007 that should have remained a series of 30-second commercials. It might be worth watching an episode simply to experience one of television's strangest creative decisions. Beyond that, extinction was probably inevitable.