![]() ![]() He lived in a cave, which perched on top of The Teenmobile, a large van equivalent of the Magical Mystery Machine that they travelled around the country in, solving crimes. Once defrosted, the walking hairball decided that he would hang around, and use his big club to impress them (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). However, a hearty shout of ‘Captain CAAAAAAAAAVEMAAAAAAAAN’ would normally restore his oomph levels.Ĭavey owed his modern day existence to The Teen Angels, a group of sassy girls who had found and freed him from his long-term imprisonment in a block of ice. Cavey did have the occasional problem with his club’s power failure, which sometimes he would blame on an ‘energy shortage’ (a sly allude to America’s gas rationing in the 1970s) and his adventure would invariably end with him crashing to the ground. ![]() His companion and mechanic, Cave Bird, lived inside the club and was in charge of gizmo maintenance. The end of the club would pop open, and out would come either a useful gadget or a set of propellers, enabling the hairy one to fly up and away. He carried with him a big wooden club, which came in handy for not only hitting things with, but as a multi-crime-fighting tool and a means of transportation. ![]() Kind of like Mary Poppins’ carpet bag, only Captain Caveman was his own bag. Occasionally he had to be stopped from devouring clues that could be useful in solving their current mystery.Īs a more useful talent, Captain C was also able to pull out all manner of objects from deep within his body hair, including things bigger than he was, such as dinosaurs. Cavey (as he was known to his Teen Angels, more of whom in a minute) would munch on non-food objects such as televisions, lights and bicycles, more often than not gulping them down in one bite. And when I say anything, I mean anything. He was also very similar to both components of another Hanna-Barbera creation: Wacky Races’ the Slag Brothers (that obviously wasn’t as offensive in the 1960s as it now sounds).Īgain I’m not sure if this can be anthropologically backed up, but if Captain Caveman was based on fact then it would appear that prehistoric man’s body was adaptive enough to be able to eat anything, not just raw meat and plant life. Voiced by the supremely talented Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, Foghorn Leghorn and countless others) Captain Caveman was actually quite cute, if the hairy look is one you go for. Me find food’) alongside the occasional utterance of ‘unga bunga’ (nope, nobody was meant to know what that meant). One other difference from Cousin IT was that Captain Caveman did actually have a vaguely visible face through his mane you could see his eyes, a long pink nose and a mouth large enough for either hollering his own name loudly or mumbling accepted caveman speak (‘Me hungry. #Captin caveman skinHe was short, covered in hair from his scalp to his lower legs a bit like Cousin IT from The Addams Family, although instead of a funky hat he chose to adorn his hirsute look with a fetching animal skin cape (this was orange with large black spots so I’m not entirely sure which animal it was supposed to be from). ![]() #Captin caveman seriesThe eponymous crime-fighting hero of the series was exactly what his name would suggest: a caveman, although you wouldn’t find anyone who looked like him in anthropology books. Mostly because I liked repeatedly making my parents jump by standing behind them unnoticed and then screeching ‘Captain CAAAAAAAAAVEMAAAAAAAAN!’ but also because it was just a plainly daft show. WarnerBros.Despite Hanna-Barbera Productions having a lot of bigger cartoon names in its stable ( The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, The Jetsons, Wacky Races and Scooby Doo to name just a few) Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels was by far my favourite. ![]()
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