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This show is funny. I mean for all those who dont like it, just ease up. You cant expect too much, its just a kids cartoon. And for something that is made for kids I find it pretty hilarious.

As a kid, I loved "Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels", but there was one thing that always bothered me. In the opening credits, they call the Teen Angels, "BRENDA...DEE DEE... and TAFFY". Yet when they say BRENDA, they show a picture of Dee Dee, and when they say DEE DEE, a picture of Brenda pops up! This was so confusing to me as a kid! It took me a few episodes before I finally knew who was who...

CAPTAIN CAVEMAN AND THE TEEN ANGELS was probably one of the stupidest animated programs ever. This lame attempt to cash in on the "Charlie's Angels" craze by teaming three pretty girls with a prehistoric caveman with a big magic club jumped from day one. Three girls and a caveman solving mysteries? I don't think so.

What awful drivel this was... poorly animated, horribly voiced (that blonde girl sounds as if she was being raped and simultaneously choked by someone who just ripped out one of her vocal cords and punctured her left lung), and with absolutely no shade of a "plot" - I'm ready to bet a nice sum that there was only one "script" - probably "written" by a dog pressing its nose on a typewriter smeared with kielbasa and bacon to attract it - in which only names were changed from episode to episode. Every damn ep was the same! "Sounds like another daffy taffy plan!", "Get'im, Cavy!", "Uh-oh, bad time for power loss!", "And now to unmask the villain", "Zowie [whatever that was], it's a clue that solves this mystery!", "Now for some quality intimate time between the three of us and your big, long, hard club, Cavy..." - hmm, maybe that last one *wasn't* used that often. Or ever. Too bad, it could've saved this lame show.

It was stupid from the start, but it had one good running gag: Cavey's power club would conk out during his first flight of an episode, and he'd say, "Unga Bunga. Bad time for power failure!"

Never jumped in its original form,a Charlie's Angels clone to be sure[Brenda resembled Jaclyn Smith and Taffy resembled Farrah Fawcett]but nevertheless entertaining. Originally a segment of the 2 hour 1977 series Scooby's All Star Laff A Lympics[later trimmed to 90 minutes and retitled Scooby's All Stars in its 2nd and final season]then reran by ABC in the summer of 1980 before being added to NBC's The Flintstone Comedy Show,where the vivacious Teen Angels were dropped and replaced with Wilma and Betty and Cavey was reduced to being a Superman clone! It got worse in the 1986 series The Flintstone Kids as mentioned earlier here when he was paired with his son Cavey Jr.[voiced by Charlie Adler,who now does all the major voices on Cow And Chicken],not only was this segment beyond bad,but they had Cavey speak perfect English!! Give me Cavey cruising around in the prehistoric looking van with The Teen Angels solving mysteries. A few years ago this series was repackaged for Boomerang with the live action serial Mystery Island[from the short lived Hanna Barbera CBS series Skatebirds,onlt the credits for Captain Caveman run at the end of the show as the Mystery Island credits ran in the Skatebirds closing credits]and it still pops up from time to time on Cartoon Network's early Saturday morning Boomerang block and I still enjoy it. go get 'em Cavey! Zowie!

this show was fantastic originally. then it became "Captain Caveman and Son" and, a la Scrappy Doo, it went downhill. i'm not sure if it was just because Junior was on it that it totally sucked, or more because CC was in "super hero" form all the time. he lost his secret identity, which meant the show lost a lot of its humour (he changed "clothes" behind a ridiculously thin coat-rack, and no-one knew he was Captain Caveman even though who the hell else could have been, given their physical similarities). As with Hong Kong Phooey, that sort of "suspend disbelief because it's so ridiculous" running gag was one of the key attractions to the show. without that, it was really just a slightly silly show about an unlikely hero and his VERY annoying sidekick who solved all the mysteries and saved the day (which has been done to death, and is never really funny). Schmoo (sp?) seemed to disappear when the Son came along too - i liked Schmoo...

One of my favorite cartoons as a kid, second to Scooby Doo in over all cool IMO. Cavey kicked major ass! And BTW, there were THREE Teen Angels: Brenda, the brown-haired Shaggy-type coward (but still a tasty in her tank top and bell bottoms), DeeDee, the smart black chick and unofficial leader of the group (one fine lookin' sista in her skin tight red sweater, miniskirt, and knee-high boots), and Taffy, the ditzy blonde Farrah Fawcett(sp) look alike in a short lime-green dress that had the hots for our hero(?!). Zowie, was she smokin'! If I was CC, I'd ungga-bungga her every night of the week! ( I can't believe I remember their names and what they looked like since Cartoon Network NEVER aired this series.)Anyway, in closing,Captain... CAAAVE-MAA-AAA-AAA-AAA-AAAN!!!!!

This show never jumped the shark. I watched it all the time when I was little, and I loved it. I always liked to hear Captain Caveman scream, "Caaaaaptain Caaaaaveman!" I always thought it was funny to see him pull a club out of his fur that turned into a flying machine, and I loved Cavey Jr.

I was born in 1972 and I,m not sure what age Mr childhood innocence is exactly talking about but when I was 8 9 or 10 I can very distinctly recall this show being inexorable crap.Yes back then I did think gee this animation is crap, and how come every episode seemed to be resolved by someone ripping the fiendishly clever rubber mask off some fiend.That and some concern for the woman voicing the blonde chick .She sounded like she'd been up all night with Tom Waits,drinking whiskey and smoking cigarettes and no that isn't what I thought back then.I just thought it was a bit disturbing and wished the banana splits or the beachcombers were on.

what i don't get it how anyone who was young at the time, now older and "wiser", can put down this cartoon. i'm sure if i saw it now, i'd breeze it off as silly and beneath me. but plenty of things i liked as a kid are, or seem, beneath me now. do people who liked these kind of cartoons, now older, complain about them or were they, at a young age watching, intellectually above them? if so that's sad. being silly-brained as a child was the funnest and freest time of life - and anyone who claims they were kids and hated Cavey and Yogi and Fred and Scooby and Tom Slick is lying. or were you in your twenties at the time the cartoons came out, and now fifty commenting on them? if so that's sad too. as for me, i'm thirty and am glad to have grown up with Captain Caveman, that one cartoon Shark (forget his name), the Animalympics, Land of the Lost, Scooby Doo and the rest (the Professer and Mary Ann), instead of having to be subjected to these too-smart-for-their-own-banality Nick cartoons, written by thirty-seven year olds who, to amuse each other and not kids, put in references to things that once perplexed them in their sullen, nerdy teenage years. thank God for Hannah and Mel and all the rest...P.S: I grew up with Chewbacca, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, nowadays these poor kids have JarJar Binks to amaze them... Captain Caveman ruled! long the youth and the sweet, silly memories of it... ignorance is bliss, and bliss is essential...amen!!!!!!!

The wooden club, UNGA BUNGA!! What better super hero can exist. Besides, he's got two babes, and can fly. The Cap rules!!

Captain Caveman was a great character and Mel Blanc was the perfect Voice Artist for him. And the Teen Angels weren't a bad idea, either. The problem was network attitudes were too restrictive in the late 70's. The characters never interacted, the Teen Angels would do their thing, then Cavey would do his. Like two separate cartoons. Imagine this concept done in the 60's or 40's. Hey, imagine it today, somebody call Cartoon Network and tell them to revive the idea.

Who else could pull a goddamn BUS out of his fur? This was brilliant t.v.

This classic Hanna Barbara cartoon could have been better, but for the fact that they added Cavey Jr. (captains' son) and like Scooby with Scrappy,etc....the cartoon was predictable and ruined. The real brilliance of this cartoon was the interaction between Captain Caveman and his "sexy" cavegirls. Captain...CAAVVEEEMAAANN!