# Geico Cavemen = Black Peps? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317 "2007-07-27T02:08:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/1 "2007-07-27T02:08:59Z")
[What now?](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070726/D8QK93DG1.html) Never caught this, did I miss something? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/2 "2007-07-27T02:12:53Z")
Geico Cavemen = Canceled before Halloween ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/3 "2007-07-27T02:17:18Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Lance Murdoch] Geico Cavemen = Canceled before Halloween [/QUOTE] Dunno, this is more of a stretch than 3rd Rock? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/4 "2007-07-27T02:29:02Z")
I’m baffled by the ‘black’ comparisons the journalists were making. If anything, I would have thought ‘redneck’. I think this might be someone attempting to create an issue where it doesn’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/5 "2007-07-27T02:29:29Z")
Geico Cavemen = Black Peps? Black Peps? What am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/6 "2007-07-27T02:32:18Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] Geico Cavemen = Black Peps? Black Peps? What am I missing? [/QUOTE] hehehehe, the last 10 years or so? ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/7 "2007-07-27T02:43:43Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] Geico Cavemen = Black Peps? Black Peps? What am I missing? [/QUOTE] I think the OP meant black Peeps. The Halloween kind shaped like black cats (or was it bats?) ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/8 "2007-07-27T05:06:08Z")
I thought you said Black Pepsi. ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/9 "2007-07-27T11:26:45Z")
That Black Pepsi is nasty. Or was it Coke? Still nasty. And didn’t make me peppy at all. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/10 "2007-07-27T11:37:02Z")
Blak Pepsi? The one with coffee in it? I thought the cavemen were stand ins for intellectuals in a McCulture. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/11 "2007-07-27T12:01:49Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] hehehehe, the last 10 years or so? [/QUOTE] Gosh, you must be cuter and hipper than everybody in the room. Answer the question: What the Hell does “Peps” mean? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/12 "2007-07-27T12:07:23Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] Blak Pepsi? The one with coffee in it? [/QUOTE] Yes, that’s right. The Cavemen are an obvious allegory to coffee-infused cola drinks. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/13 "2007-07-27T12:27:05Z")
Black peeps, as in people. Not peps. The OP was careless in the spelling. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/14 "2007-07-27T12:32:32Z")
_Hi, Caveman, what’s your name?_ He doesn’t say anything cause he’s a coffee-infused cola drink. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/15 "2007-07-27T12:50:15Z")
at any rate, I don’t think they are meant to be Cro-magnons. They look more like the TLC australopithecus than Homo sapiens ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/16 "2007-07-27T12:54:46Z")
Apparently, there are some obvious paralells to minorities and the cavemen in the series (for example, they are offensively refered to as “cro-maggers”), but there have been some complaintst that the cavemen, as depicted in the pilot episode, represent negative black stereotypes- they are lazy, good at sports, and prone to violence. The cavemen, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/17 "2007-07-27T13:06:10Z")
I think they are only “passing” as cavemen. Watching the “Party Balcony” commercial last night, I am more convinced than ever that they are wolfmen. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/18 "2007-07-27T15:37:47Z")
It was always pretty obvious to me that the Cavemen were always meant to portray a generic assimilated but still aware and offended minority. I found it pretty funny because I could easily see myself, were I an adman, falling into much the same situation Geico did regarding Roma. I’d make some commercial featuring gypsies dancing around in scarves telling fortunes and throwing around curses, and then later have to apologize to some thoroughly annoyed Roma yuppies over mango salsa. Like the Geico guy, I was shockingly ignorant of their continued existance as a cultural group. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/19 "2007-07-27T19:39:40Z")
Sounds like the “Ghost” criticism from years ago: Evil shadows are black, thus movie is saying blacks are evil. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geico-cavemen-black-peps/413317/20 "2007-07-27T20:02:27Z")
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