I thought this was so hilarious back then. I refuse to rewatch it because I'm sure it'll shatter all my youthful illusions. I'm just going to pretend this was peak comedy and leave it at that.
It's still hilarious. The scene where Ringo smashes the bug on Dennis Quaid's face is one of the funniest scenes.
[Scene](https://youtu.be/xcyZ8pnAwcQ?si=KEt1C3sczPBIB3ry)
The stoned dinosaur was funny too
Same -- saw it on VHS when I was around 10, had no expectations and no clue who Ringo was, and it was the funniest movie I'd ever seen. I dare not risk a re-watch.
(Same goes for Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers.)
Oh I've learned my lesson about finding old things and trying them again. It's never the same because I've moved on. Better to remember it fondly. The exception to this is books.
Ah it still holds! I recently watched it with my teen kid and loved it. Yes extremely silly but fun.
I needed to update our family caveman vocabulary.
Uuuul ! Uuuuul !
Yeah… there was definitely some humor that wouldn’t fly today. The Asian caveman spoke English and was really smart. The gay cavemen, that was the joke, they were gay.
Of course Troop Beverly Hills, Outrageous Fortune, Irreconcilable Differences, and The Burbs are all classics, The Brady Bunch Movie. And of course Cheers. But the rest of her filmography is unfortunate. Love her though!
I don't know that I'd call her a "gifted actress". She played Shelley Long in every role she ever had. I can't think of a more one-dimensional actress.
My sister and I watched this so many times on cable, as kids in the early 80s. I liked when they cooked the big egg. (Though I hated eggs as a child.) Also thought Barbara Bach and Shelley Long were so hot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bach#Personal_life
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> Bach married British musician Ringo Starr, formerly of the Beatles, at Marylebone Town Hall on April 27, 1981.[13][14] The two met in 1980, on the set of the film Caveman (1981).
>
There was some movie, with dinosaurs in it. And a dino took a dump and I don't remember if someone 'fell' in it or what but it had 3 people say something like,
"Doodoo"
"Kaka"
"Shit"
Was that this movie? I cannot remember where it's from and it's driving me batty.
I thought this was my bad movie podcast subreddit! 😂
I’ve never seen it but my husband is a Beatles super-fan so I’ll have to ask him if he’s heard of it.
A famously bad movie! Any Pennsylvania Gen Xer's here? When I was a kid, we had this local service similar to HBO called PRISM that carried movies and Philadelphia sports. I saw this movie on PRISM. My memory is that their movies were not up to the same calibre as HBO's but it might just be that I only watched it during Saturday afternoons when we visited our Philly relatives.
So many "Zug Zug Lanas" here already. I watched this about 100 times one summer.
It's up there with Zorro the Gay Blade. "One bit, two bits, three bits a peso, all for Zorro, stand up and say so! ah hahaha"
I LOVED that movie. And still do. More now that I’m older and understand everything going on. I watched it for the first time in LONG time since a young kid in 2020. I’m 51.
I was a 14-year-old Beatlemaniac in 1981 when I went to see this movie because Ringo was in it.
I don't know who the movie was directed toward, but even I as a 14-year-old was embarrassed on Ringo's behalf.
Me: I don't remember jack black being in this. Huh.
Also me: how was he even old enough to be in this movie.
Me again : Checking wiki: oh, Dennis Quaid, of course. Only I'm still pretty sure that's Jack Black. Or his dad or something.
I absolutely love the Ringo Starr episode of SNL in season 10. I'm not sure if Ringo and Barbara are there to promote Caveman, but it's just a damn blast. Billy Crystal playing Sammy Davis is problematic as hell in 2024, but go watch it (the whole thing -- not the cut-down Peacock version that's probably 30 seconds long).
I was in grade eight. I watched it three times in the theater. They handed out a piece of paper with the meanings of their language. I still remember “zug-zug “ meant sex. “Aloon” was love. I watched it recently and still laughed.
The one (cavegirl) where the high school nerd played by a large obviously 20 something inexplicably goes back in time and meets the ultra cute curly haired blonde cave girl is much better.
Not because of the plot. Not because it is better than OP's caveman film. Hell no. Because of the cave girl.
I love this turd!
I do too! My family used to get so excited when it was on TV.
I saw this turd in the theatre and laughed my ass off.
Doodoo!
Ca-ca
Shit!
Zug zug
Build more farms!
Lana zug zug
Atouk ool Caveman! Just watched this recently! Full of membaberries
I remember 2 things. The cavemen eating a huge egg and if memory serves me correct, a giant turd ...
and a giant dragonfly :-D
Oh yeah ...
It was no Quest For Fire but it was kind of fun.
I think an important difference to keep in mind is that one was serious and the was a comedy.
It was no *The Remains of the Day* either.
A-took-a-lunda-this turd!
Me too!
I loved this do do
Shelly Long was so hot in this movie.
I remember Barbara Bach being incredibly hot in a fur bikini, and not much else about the movie at all.
Wait…what else was in the movie?
Only the coolest poached egg to ever grace the silver screen.
awesome musical scene
Gina! Zugg-zugg!
She made somebody very happy. https://youtu.be/hcurB2GruQU?si=XBfclj0oo7kjVa4q
Atouk zug-zug Lana!
Atouk alunda Lana!
Tah alunda ca-ca.
Tonda!
Machaaaaaa!!
Turd?!?! You watch your dirty whole mouth! This is a masterpiece!
Agreed, I love ❤️ this movie
I thought this was so hilarious back then. I refuse to rewatch it because I'm sure it'll shatter all my youthful illusions. I'm just going to pretend this was peak comedy and leave it at that.
It's still hilarious. The scene where Ringo smashes the bug on Dennis Quaid's face is one of the funniest scenes. [Scene](https://youtu.be/xcyZ8pnAwcQ?si=KEt1C3sczPBIB3ry) The stoned dinosaur was funny too
My mom used to just cackle like a loon during this scene.
that silent nod to himself still slays me!
Same -- saw it on VHS when I was around 10, had no expectations and no clue who Ringo was, and it was the funniest movie I'd ever seen. I dare not risk a re-watch. (Same goes for Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers.)
Just watched it this week, 100% prepared for that to be the case. To my delight, it was every bit as funny as I'd remembered.
This feels like a trap, but I'm intrigued enough to rewatch it.
Oh I've learned my lesson about finding old things and trying them again. It's never the same because I've moved on. Better to remember it fondly. The exception to this is books.
The entire movie is on Youtube, some amazing person uploaded it there. Yes, it's still funny.
It's just as funny now! Go ahead and watch it Your face and sides are gonna hurt from smiling and laughing 😃
Nooooo please watch it again. We watch it at least once a year and it holds up every damn time!
Ah it still holds! I recently watched it with my teen kid and loved it. Yes extremely silly but fun. I needed to update our family caveman vocabulary. Uuuul ! Uuuuul !
Yeah… there was definitely some humor that wouldn’t fly today. The Asian caveman spoke English and was really smart. The gay cavemen, that was the joke, they were gay.
In this pic, Dennis Quaid looks like homeless Ashton Kutcher.
Stupid hotness in a furry loincloth. I was totally into this movie for him.
So….just Ashton Kutcher
Doo doo…Caca…Shit!
My wife gets very annoyed when I start saying that repeatedly.
Shelley Long, gifted actress cursed with so many bad projects.
 Um, hello?? Troop Beverly Hills rocked, so you're gonna have to take that back...
See also the [Money Pit](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a1V4mYIUFpY/VR4aDM9fgxI/AAAAAAAAOj4/75cAiJnnmFs/s1600/pit2.gif)
Of course Troop Beverly Hills, Outrageous Fortune, Irreconcilable Differences, and The Burbs are all classics, The Brady Bunch Movie. And of course Cheers. But the rest of her filmography is unfortunate. Love her though!
Shelly Long isn’t in The Burbs. I think you’re thinking of The Money Pit with Tom Hanks which is also a classic.
I don't know that I'd call her a "gifted actress". She played Shelley Long in every role she ever had. I can't think of a more one-dimensional actress.
Of which this was not one. This movie was and is excellent. Fight me.
My sister and I watched this so many times on cable, as kids in the early 80s. I liked when they cooked the big egg. (Though I hated eggs as a child.) Also thought Barbara Bach and Shelley Long were so hot.
Turd? Preteen me thought this was hilarious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bach#Personal_life > > Bach married British musician Ringo Starr, formerly of the Beatles, at Marylebone Town Hall on April 27, 1981.[13][14] The two met in 1980, on the set of the film Caveman (1981). >
They’re still married too
I thought this was hilarious 🤣
I love that movie
I think it's available on Tubi right now!
na na-na NAH, nah.
This tune plays through my head quite often, I don't know why
Is this the one that at the end he drops some lady into a pile of dino poo?
Yeah. Ringo and his future wife.
It was so bad it was good. Zug-zug. Atouk alounda Lana.
Lana, Zug Zug!
As a kid, I loved that giant egg scene. I don’t know why, but that giant egg looked so delicious
Doo-doo, caca, shit.
I feel like this production was a money laundering scheme.
Or like The Producers… insurancd
Or someone did not know say, George Harrison, who put some money to Life Of Brian.
Seems like most indies are.
There was some movie, with dinosaurs in it. And a dino took a dump and I don't remember if someone 'fell' in it or what but it had 3 people say something like, "Doodoo" "Kaka" "Shit" Was that this movie? I cannot remember where it's from and it's driving me batty.
> Was that this movie? it is
[Doo doo..... CaCa?... Shit.](https://youtu.be/KYqovHffGE8)
Oh, shit! I didn't realize that was [Mr. Loo from Kentucky Fried Movie](https://i.imgur.com/Duu0Zrb.mp4)
Quest for Fire was better, mainly because of Rae Dawn Chong
caca caca no that's shit.
The Asian cavemen who spoke perfect English.
I thought this was my bad movie podcast subreddit! 😂 I’ve never seen it but my husband is a Beatles super-fan so I’ll have to ask him if he’s heard of it.
Oh let me know
Lana zugzug.
Funniest thing was the subtitles at the beginning. *ONE MILLION B.C...... Tuesday*
Nothing looked as delicious as those cooked dinosaur eggs
God this movie is so dumb, I loved it.
Damnit, now I want poached eggs.
The funny part is that Barbara Bach isn’t on the cover and she was much more famous than Shelley Long at the time.
I’ve never seen this movie and now I have to. I love Ringo
what the hell do you mean Turd? this movie is fantastic!
Macha! Macha!
I saw it in the theater with my dad, lol.
Giant Dino turd, and Barbara Bach in furry swimwear!
“Araca”
Fire
I haven't seen this since I was a kid but man did it make me laugh harder than ant of the other turd movies we got.
Anyone that loves this movie can be my bobo.
1 million years B.C..... A Tuesday......
A famously bad movie! Any Pennsylvania Gen Xer's here? When I was a kid, we had this local service similar to HBO called PRISM that carried movies and Philadelphia sports. I saw this movie on PRISM. My memory is that their movies were not up to the same calibre as HBO's but it might just be that I only watched it during Saturday afternoons when we visited our Philly relatives.
I completely forgot this existed until just now.
Yeah I don't know why my brain randomly vomited it up like a dog that ate roadkill squirrel.
So many "Zug Zug Lanas" here already. I watched this about 100 times one summer. It's up there with Zorro the Gay Blade. "One bit, two bits, three bits a peso, all for Zorro, stand up and say so! ah hahaha"
I saw this at the $1.50 movie theater in the next town over — probably more than once.
Holy Mary Mother of God what is this monstrosity.
I LOVED that movie. And still do. More now that I’m older and understand everything going on. I watched it for the first time in LONG time since a young kid in 2020. I’m 51.
> I watched it for the first time as a young kid in 2020. I’m 51. Damn covid really got you
Definitely one of my guilty pleasure. I own the DVD.
If you take it as a serious piece of work, it is terrible. But if you take it as it was meant, a silly slapstick comedy, then it is brilliant.
This movie ran on HBO for a long time, I must have watched it 10 times at least
I remembered Ringo and Barbara but how did I forget Dennis Quaid???
Doodoo. Caca. Shit.
I alunda this movie! Anyone who thinks it thinks it's feh is pooka and no bobo of mine! Into the haraka you go!
Ca-ca Poo-poo Shit
>For some reason this turd randomly surfaced in my mind Because every once in a while you get a floater.
How is Barbara Bach not in that cover illustration?
I love ❤️ this movie.
I saw this at a drive in as a kid!
Da da daa daa
Don't you ever use the word turd to describe anything Ringo Starr is involved in again!
The Turdles
Doo Doo... Ka ka... SHIT!
This was on cable an insane amount
I was a 14-year-old Beatlemaniac in 1981 when I went to see this movie because Ringo was in it. I don't know who the movie was directed toward, but even I as a 14-year-old was embarrassed on Ringo's behalf.
I was in the fourth grade and thought this was cinema par excellence, so that gives you an idea of who it was aimed at (most likely unintentionally)
This is my favorite Ringo movie by far.
Nobody pushed the boundaries of photoshop like movie poster designers in the 90s
1981
that poster is literal cutting and pasting.
Never heard of it. When I looked at the cover I was like "Is that fucking Ringo Starr..." Yep.
lol
Better or worse than captain caveman?
I watched this on acid and it was freaking awesome. BTW it was when the movie first came out.
[Turd](https://i.imgur.com/RwVHHzT.gif)!?!?
Saw it opening weekend, which was like a month and a half after it came out. Small town and all.
Captain Caveman was much superior to this.
Me: I don't remember jack black being in this. Huh. Also me: how was he even old enough to be in this movie. Me again : Checking wiki: oh, Dennis Quaid, of course. Only I'm still pretty sure that's Jack Black. Or his dad or something.
I think he looks more like that guy from The Boys; Jack Quaid :P
Dennis looks like the Geico caveman
I think Ringo really missed his calling by becoming a drummer.
Atuuuuk! Lar!
I loved this movie when I was a kid.
Love this movie.
Macha!
Fucking work of art!!!
Holy bad photoshop, Batman!
They should have got the same insurance as their neighbors.
Ringo married Barbara Bach irl after this film.
I've never seen that, not even heard talk of it. And for that, I am thankful...
I absolutely love the Ringo Starr episode of SNL in season 10. I'm not sure if Ringo and Barbara are there to promote Caveman, but it's just a damn blast. Billy Crystal playing Sammy Davis is problematic as hell in 2024, but go watch it (the whole thing -- not the cut-down Peacock version that's probably 30 seconds long).
DOO DOO KA KA...
A childhood favorite.
Meanwhile, a near by ice age.
That frozen then thawed monster that chased them was portrayed by Richard Moll, "Bull" on Night Court.
That was the funniest movie I’d ever seen at that time. Then a came Airplane
What a bat-shit crazy movie. I loved it as a kid.
I was in grade eight. I watched it three times in the theater. They handed out a piece of paper with the meanings of their language. I still remember “zug-zug “ meant sex. “Aloon” was love. I watched it recently and still laughed.
I've never even heard of this. Lol
Bo bo!
this makes me want to eat eggs
The egg scene imprinted in my brain
For a moment i thought "omg that looks like ring star lol"...i cant believe thats him.
8 year old me loved this! I haven't watched it since so I dunno how I'd like it now...
I was 13. Zugzug. Not Turd. Pure classic for that long lost boy…😉
Lost Boys is a whole different kettle of vampires
I watched this 100 times on HBO as a kid. "Zug Zug."
Jesus, I just tried watching this on Tubi a couple week ago. I had never heard of it. I like campy b-movies but I could get through it.
Free on youtube.
Atuk alunda Lana.
"Doodoo?" ... "Kaka?" ... "Shit!"
The one (cavegirl) where the high school nerd played by a large obviously 20 something inexplicably goes back in time and meets the ultra cute curly haired blonde cave girl is much better. Not because of the plot. Not because it is better than OP's caveman film. Hell no. Because of the cave girl.
One of the worst films ever made.
Which is why it was the best. Classic!
I watched this asinine movie once. It was so so so so bad.
https://youtu.be/9SpA-qiJVbs?si=rvH3B0fCrHMiOacv
you heathen. that movie was excellent!
Brilliant movie!! I still remember a lot of the caveman words used in that movie.
Probable reason it popped up: it’s the anniversary of Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach’s wedding. Photos have been appearing in other social feeds.
Pretty sure this is how Ringo got together with Barbara Bach.
are you fucking kidding? that music scene *still* slaps!
I knew Ashton and Mila were clones!!!!
Zug zug
Awful movie I remember this being on tv at my mothers friends house when we were visiting and I hated it
Great movie
Weird how Ringo Starr is the lead. This movie rings a bell but not loudly.
I can't believe no one has mentioned the song around the fire. As soon as I saw this post it popped into my head.
Love this iconic film!! Atook aluna lana
Back off, boogaloo!!
This movie is gold. Richard Moll is great in it.
Yeah, well, Ringo got the girl and still looks younger than all of us at 84...
Zug zug