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Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels is an animated series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from September 10, 1977 to June 21, 1980 on ABC.

The first and second seasons were originally broadcast as segments on the package shows Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars from 1977 to 1979 and the third season featured Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels in their own half-hour timeslot in 1980.

Summary[link]

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels centers on the mystery-solving adventures of the Teen Angels—Brenda, Dee Dee and Taffy—and their friend Captain Caveman (or Cavey for short), a prehistoric caveman whom the girls discovered and thawed from a block of ice. The concept and general plot for the show was seen as a parody of Charlie's Angels (which also aired on ABC). It also borrowed heavily from other Hanna-Barbera shows such as Scooby-Doo and Josie and the Pussycats, among others. Captain Caveman was also on the "Scooby Doobies" team on Laff-a-Lympics.

Captain Caveman's powers include super-strength, a variety of useful objects hidden inside his fur, and a club that allows him to fly and from which pops out different tools he uses to fight crime. His trademark is his battle cry of "Captain CAAAAAVEMAAAAAAANNNN!" Captain Caveman's voice was provided by Mel Blanc.

The first and second seasons of the show remained part of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars through 1979. Cavey and the girls also participated in sporting competitions as part of "The Scooby Doobies" team on the half-hour "Laff-A-Lympics" segment. In March 1980, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels were given their own half hour show with 16 new episodes combined with reruns from 1977–1979. A total of 40 11-minute episodes were produced (16 in 1977–1978, 8 in 1978–1979 and 16 in 1980).

Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained an inferior laugh track created by the studio, one of their last productions to do so.

Main characters[link]

Captain Caveman[link]

Captain Caveman (voiced by Mel Blanc) is the main character, a caveman who is thousands of years old (his exact age is never disclosed). He can pull various objects from his body hair. He can also fly, but his flying power always seems to fail him at the worst possible moment. Sometimes he would attribute this mishap to an energy shortage ("Uh oh! Bad time for energy crisis." CRASH!), which was a pun on the gasoline rationing shortages of the late 1970s. He speaks in stereotypical "caveman-talk", replacing subject pronouns with their object equivalents and dropping articles such as "the" (for example, "Me know where bad guys are hiding."), and often mumbles the nonsense phrase "unga bunga". He also has a bad habit of occasionally eating large non-food objects in one gulp (i.e. bicycles, TV sets, safes, table lamps), and the Teen Angels occasionally have to stop him from eating potential clues that will help them to solve the mystery.

The Teen Angels[link]

Dee Dee Skyes[link]

Dee Dee Skyes (voiced by Vernee Watson) is the brains of the Teen Angels, is the group's sole African-American, and acts as their unofficial leader. Dee Dee and the rest of the Teen Angels found the frozen Captain Caveman and defrosted him. She wears her hair in an afro and usually wears a red turtleneck sweater with a blue skirt and red knee high boots. Both her dress style and her knack for solving mysteries make her similar to Velma Dinkley of Scooby Doo fame, while she also bears a resemblance to Valerie from Josie and the Pussycats.

Brenda Chance[link]

Brenda Chance (voiced by Marilyn Schreffler) is a cowardly brunette who is always scared of the demons, monsters and phantoms that she encounters. She usually wears a pale pink top and a pair of hot pink flared trousers with a white belt.

Taffy Dare[link]

Taffy Dare (voiced by Laurel Page) is the blonde member of the group, renowned for her cry of "Zowie!" whenever she comes up with a plan (or "Another Daffy Taffy Plan" as Brenda and Cavey would call it) to catch the culprits. In spite of her usually zany plans, Taffy is actually very capable and clever. She has the ability to sweet-talk Caveman into acting as bait for her plans to capture the culprit. She usually wears a green dress with matching shoes. It is revealed that Captain Caveman has a crush on her.

Opening and closing credits[link]

The opening credits for each episode consisted of voice-over narration by Gary Owens:

Set free by the Teen Angels from his prehistoric block of glacier ice comes the world's first superhero, Captain Caveman! Now the constant companion to the Teen Angels—Brenda, Dee Dee and Taffy—in their hilarious, and sometimes scary mystery missions. Get ready for Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels!

The music heard in the closing credits is the CB Bears theme. After the first three screens, the end credit roll is from the original two-hour version of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics.

Episodes[link]

Season 1 (1977)[link]

Season 2 (1978)[link]

Season 3 (1980)[link]

Later appearances[link]

The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980–82)[link]

In November 1980, Captain Caveman began to star in segments of his own on The Flintstone Comedy Show, one of many spin-offs of Hanna-Barbera's popular prime-time show The Flintstones, often in a role similar to that of Superman. Captain Caveman worked at The Daily Granite newspaper with Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble. His "secret identity" was Chester, the office boy. To disguise himself as Chester, Captain Caveman wore a pair of glasses and a tie. Despite the simplicity of his disguise, he required a coat rack and an elaborate transformation sequence to become Captain Caveman.

The Flintstone Kids (1986–88)[link]

In 1986, Captain Caveman appeared in a backup segment of The Flintstone Kids called Captain Caveman and Son with his son, Cavey Jr. (voiced by Charles Adler). In this case he appeared on a show-within-a-show that the younger versions of Fred, Barney, Wilma, and Betty enjoyed watching; the Captain's mumbled "unga bunga" became a catchphrase that the kids would shout before watching each "episode" of the show. The show would involve a lesson the Flintstone kids were trying to learn in the prologue. The whole "secret identity" idea was also ignored or forgotten.

Other appearances[link]

• A very similar pair of characters, the Slag Brothers, made an appearance in the earlier Hanna-Barbera series Wacky Races.
• In the Pinky and the Brain episode "The Luck of Pinky," Captain Caveman makes a cameo appearance as a small statue.
• Captain Caveman later appeared in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "The Evolutionary War" with Captain Caveman voiced by Chris Edgerly and Cavey Jr. voiced by Maurice LaMarche. His son Cavey Jr. was teased at school because his existence proved the Theory of Evolution.
• Captain Caveman appeared in the Robot Chicken episode "Ban on the Fun" voiced by Breckin Meyer. In a segment that parodies the Laff-A-Lympics in the style of the Munich massacre, Captain Caveman and Shaggy Rogers confront Daisy Mayhem and Captain Caveman blows her up with the wrong club.
• Captain Caveman appeared as an enemy in the 8-bit computer game Renegade III: The Final Chapter.
• In the Halloween 2008 episode of Homestar Runner, Homsar disguises himself as Captain Caveman. He then exclaims "Daaa!! AaAah'm the Captain Caveman of the graveyard train!"
• In the Family Guy episode named "Perfect Castaway", Peter expresses how much he misses Captain Caveman, and vows that he will see him again once he gets off the island.
• Captain Caveman also makes a cameo appearance in a episode of Adventure Time with Finn and Jake where he is seen as a stuffed doll in Finn's room.
• Captain Caveman appears in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals" voiced by Jim Cummings. He and the Teen Angels appear alongside other Hanna-Barbera detective teams in a fever dream of Scooby-Doo's. When the teenage sleuths are kidnapped by Lord Infernacus, it's up to their sidekicks to save them.

Home media releases[link]

A PAL videocassette of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels containing 13 episodes was released only in Europe in 1997. The series has not yet been released on DVD for the Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection from Warner Home Video.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Freddy Corven's Captain Caveman Page
• Captain Caveman at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 9, 2012.
• Cartoon Legends' Captain Caveman
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels at Big Cartoon DataBase
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels at the Internet Movie Database
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels at TV.com

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Illustration of a caveman hunting a brown bear

A caveman or troglodyte is a stock character based upon widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved. The term caveman, sometimes used colloquially to refer to Neanderthal people, originates out of assumptions about the association between early humans and caves, most clearly demonstrated in cave painting or bench models.

Cavemen are frequently represented as living with dinosaurs in popular culture, despite the fact dinosaurs became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, some 65 million years before the emergence of the human species. One of the earliest portrayals of cavemen and dinosaurs together is D. W. Griffith's Brute Force, a silent film released in 1914, while more recent examples include the comic strip B.C. and the television series The Flintstones.

Basis of archetype[link]

Caveman-like Heraldic "wild men" were found in European and African iconography for hundreds of years. During the Middle Ages, these creatures were generally depicted in art and literature as bearded and covered in hair, and often wielding clubs and dwelling in caves. While wild men were always depicted as living outside of civilization, there was an ongoing debate as to whether they were human or animal^{[citation needed]}.

Cavemen are portrayed as wearing shaggy animal hides, armed with rocks or cattle bone clubs, unintelligent, and aggressive. The image of them living in caves arises from that fact that caves are where the preponderance of ritual paintings and artifacts from pre-historic cultures have been found, although this most likely reflects the degree of preservation that caves provide over the millennia rather than an indication of their typical form of shelter. Expressions such as "living in a cave" have become cultural metaphors for a modern human who displays traits of extreme ignorance or uncivilized behavior.

Stereotypes in culture[link]

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912) ape-men are depicted in a fight with modern humans. Edgar Rice Burroughs adapted this idea for The Land That Time Forgot (1918). A genre of caveman movies emerged, typified by D. W. Griffith's Man's Genesis (1912); they inspired Charles Chaplin's satiric take,^[1] in His Prehistoric Past (1914) as well as Brute Force (1914), The Cave Man (1912), and later Cave Man (1934). From the descriptions, Griffith's characters can't talk, and use sticks and stones for weapons, while the hero of Cave Man is a Tarzanesque figure who fights dinosaurs.

Depictions of the Paleolithic in the media[link]

In fiction, especially as pure entertainment or satire, cavemen are sometimes depicted as living contemporaneously with dinosaurs, a situation contradicted by archaeological and paleontological evidence which shows that non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, at which time true primates had not yet appeared.

In popular culture, the comic strips B.C., Alley Oop and occasionally The Far Side and Gogs portray "cavemen" in that way. (Larson, in his The Prehistory of the Far Side, stated he once felt that he needed to confess his cartooning sins in this regard: "O Father, I Have Portrayed Primitive Man and Dinosaurs In The Same Cartoon".) The animated television series The Flintstones, a spoof on family sitcoms, portrays the Flintstones not in caves, but in 1950s–1960s ranch-style homes that suggested caves and had stone fittings.

Stereotypical cavemen are also often featured in advertising, including advertisements for Minute Maid. More recently, GEICO launched a series of television commercials and attempts at viral marketing, collectively known as the GEICO Cavemen advertising campaign, where GEICO announcers are repeatedly denounced by modern cavemen for perpetuating a stereotype of unintelligent, backward cavemen. The GEICO advertisements spawned a short-lived TV series called Cavemen.

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Documentaries[link]

• Walking with Cavemen
• Walking with Beasts

Caveman characters[link]

• Alley Oop
• Anthro
• B.C.
• Captain Caveman
• Chuck Rock
• The Flintstones
• Gogs
• Land of the Lost (1974 TV series)
• Mightor
• Stig of the Dump
• The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw
• Tor
• Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, a Saturday Night Live sketch
• Yahoo in Gulliver's Travels
• The 2000 Year Old Man, a series of comedy skits by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner comedy skit with both caveman and ancient history jokes

Movies[link]

• Man's Genesis, 1912
• Brute Force, 1914
• His Prehistoric Past, 1914 Charlie Chaplin silent film
• Three Ages, 1923 Buster Keaton silent film
• Flying Elephants, 1928 Laurel and Hardy silent film
• One Million B.C., 1940
• Mysterious Island (half a dozen films)
• Teenage Caveman, 1958 Roger Corman film and 2002 TV series
• Eegah, 1962
• One Million Years B.C., 1966
• It's About Time (TV series 1966-67)
• When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, 1970
• Planet of Dinosaurs, 1971
• The Land That Time Forgot, 1975
• The People That Time Forgot, 1977
• The Missing Link, 1980
• Caveman, 1981
• History of the World, Part I, 1981
• Quest for Fire, 1981
• Luggage of the Gods!, 1983
• Iceman, 1984
• The Clan of the Cave Bear, 1986
• Encino Man, 1992
• The Flintstones, 1994
• Encino Woman, 1996
• Bikini Cavegirl, 2004
• The Man From Earth, 2007
• Homo Erectus, aka National Lampoon's Stoned Age, 2007
• 10,000 BC, 2008
• Year One, 2009

Novels[link]

• The Story of Ab, 1897
• The Village in the Treetops, 1901
• Quest for Fire, 1911
• The Lost World, 1912
• The Cave Girl, 1913
• The Land That Time Forgot 1918
• Dian of the Lost Land, 1935
• The Inheritors, 1955
• Dance of the Tiger, 1980
• Earth's Children series
  • The Clan of the Cave Bear, 1980
  • The Valley of Horses, 1982
  • The Mammoth Hunters, 1985
  • The Plains of Passage, 1990
  • The Shelters of Stone, 2001
  • The Land of Painted Caves, 2011
• Eden series
  • West of Eden, 1984
  • Winter in Eden, 1986
  • Return to Eden, 1989

See also[link]

• Cro-Magnon
• Human evolution
• Neanderthal
• Paleolithic
• Neanderthals in popular culture

References[link]

Teen Angels (or TeenAngels) are an Argentine pop band formed during the development of the Cris Morena Group series Casi Ángeles in 2007 until 2010. The band featured five members — Lali Espósito (Marianela "Mar" Rinaldi), Gastón Dalmau (Ramiro "Rama" Ordóñez), Peter Lanzani (Thiago Bedoya Agüero), Nico Riera (Juan "Tacho" Morales) and Eugenia Suárez (Jazmin "Jaz" Romero). By the end of the 4th and last season of Casi Angeles, when the band was about to start its 2011 World Tour, Eugenia Suárez left the band and was replaced by Rochi Igarzábal, who portrayed Valeria "Túmbera" Gutierréz in the TV series.

Other cast members who recorded songs for albums include Emilia Attias (Angeles Inchausti / Paz Inchausti-Bauer), Nicolás Vázquez (Nicolás Bauer), Pablo Martínez (Simón Bruno Arrechavaleta) and Rochi Igarzábal (Valeria "Vale" Gutierrez).

Teen Angels have spawned 4 studio albums, 3 live albums (from live theatre shows), one special album for Coca Cola, one studio album in Spain with remixed songs, and another in Israel. In the series´ last season, a CD+DVD edition was released gathering all their best songs and videos. Teen Angels 2007 was the 12th best selling album in Argentina in 2007, while Teen Angels 2008 was the 3rd in 2008.^[1] Teen Angels 2007 and Teen Angels 2009 were certified Platinum,^[2] while Teen Angels 2 earned double Platinum certification.^[2] The band´s 2010 studio album was nº 1 in sales in various countries.

[edit] Teen Angels 2007

[edit] Teen Angels 2008

[edit] Teen Angels 2009

[edit] Teen Angels 2010

[edit] Teen Angels 2011

Other releases[link]

[edit] Casi Ángeles en vivo desde el Gran Rex 2009

[edit] Coca Cola Interactive Music

Singles[link]

Other original songs[link]

In the middle of the second season, a rival band, called ¡Man!, their music style is pop-rock and is formed: it included Simón (Pablo Martínez), Nacho (Agustin Sierra), Vale (Rocío Igarzabal), Tefy (Candela Vetrano) and Melody (María del Cerro). ¡Man! had two singles which were not included in any album: Dieciseis and ¿Lobo Estas?. In this band, sometims is inclused Luca (Victorio D'Alessandro), but in the original band he isn't a member of ¡Man!

• Guarda tu fe

The song, sang by Emilia Attias, was used during the second season and also on the live musical on Teatro Gran Rex. It's included in the live CD released in 2008.

• Todos para uno

This song was never played live and was not included in any of the CDs but was played during the TV broadcast of the second season. It was performed by the Teen Angels. Although it was used a lot as background music in the second season, it was not included in any CD and was not presented live.

• Un paso (original version)

The original version of the song, which was played in the first months of the second season. It had a completely different chorus than the version used on the CD (which used the chorus of Vivir a Pleno). On the CD, most of the second season (with the exception of the first few months), the DVD and in all live performances (with the exception of the Punta del Este concert in the beginning of 2008, where the song was first heard), the album version, which had the chorus of Vivir a Pleno instead of the original one was used.

• Vivir a pleno (original version)

The song, performed by Teen Angels, was played in the first episodes of the second season as background music. The chorus of the song was used in the album version of Un Paso and in all live concerts. The song is not included in any of the CDs or DVDs and, after episode 30, was rarely used in the show again.

• 16 (Dieciseis)

In the last part of the second season, a new band, Man, was formed with cast members Rocio Igarzabal, Maria del Cero, Candela Vetrano, Pablo Martinez and Agustin Sierra. 16 was their first single which was played lots of times during the show and also on the live national tour (although not at the Buenos Aires concerts). It is not included in any CD.

• ¿Lobo Estas?

The second single of Man. It was performed several times during the show and also on the live tour (although not at the Buenos Aires concerts). It was also used in the third season. It's not included in any CD or DVD.

• Nene

This song was a parody of Nena which was sung by Mariana Esposito to Juan Pedro Lanzani, which is the interpret of the original version.

• Hay un lugar - Nena

This medley, performed by Juan Pedro Lanzani and Mariana Esposito, was played several times during the second season.

• Casi angeles (techno)

A techno version of the Casi Angeles song was presented the first time during the live presentation of the second season in Luna Park stadium. Later, it was used in the show and also performed live by the Teen Angels in Gran Rex and on the live tour. While the vocals in the original version were mostly done by Emilia Attias, this version was sung by the Teen Angels. The original version of the song was only performed in 2007, in all subsequent presentations during 2008 and 2009, the techno version was used. It's included on the live CD and on the live DVD.

• Tan alegre el corazon (reggeton)

While the original version of Tan Alegre el Corazon was mostly sung by Emilia Attias, this new version is performed by the Teen Angels. It was used during the second season, the national live tour, the 2009 Teatro Gran Rex concerts and several times on the second and third season (most notably in the second season finale).

• Hoy Quiero

Coca Cola summer anthem, performed by the Teen Angels. It was performed several times during their 2009 summer concerts and also in the Teatro Gran Rex 2009 concerts.

• Que Mis Ojos

This song was first used on the third season episode where Rama (Gaston Dalmau) goes blind. In the show, the song is performed by him while in the 2009 Teatro Gran Rex concerts are sung by Emilia Attias and Mariano de la Torre in duet.

• ¿Donde Estas Amigo?

Performed by Benjamin Amadeo and used during the third season and also on the live 2009 performances.

Cover versions[link]

Videoclips[link]

First Season[link]

• Voy por Más
• Dos Ojos
• Casi Ángeles
• Escaparé
• Reina Gitana
• Nenes Bien

Second Season[link]

• A Decir que Si
• A Ver si Pueden
• Hay un Lugar
• Señas Tuyas
• Nena
• Un Paso
• Hoy quiero

Third Season[link]

• Que Nos Volvamos a Ver
• Vuelvo a Casa
• Pensando en Vos
• Casi un Sueño
• Cada Vez que Sale el Sol
• Navidad
• Hoy Quiero

Fourth Season[link]

• Vos ya Sabés
• Miedo a Perderte
• Bravo Por la Tierra
• Estoy Aquí otra Vez

Fifth Album[link]

• Que Llegue Tu Voz
• Loco
• Mírame, Mírate

Sexth Album[link]

• Baja El Telon
• Llega En Forma De Amor

DVDs[link]

Tours[link]

Teatro Gran Rex

Tour Almost Angels 2008

Tour Almost Angels 2009

Tour Almost Angels "Goodbye" 2010

Tour Teen Angels 2011

Tour Teen Angels International

Awards and nominations[link]

Training[link]

• Gaston Dalmau - vocals
• Mariana Esposito - vocals
• Rocio Igarzabal - vocals
• Nicolas Riera - vocals
• Pedro Lanzani - vocals

Attendees[link]

• Pablo Martinez
• María Del Cerro
• Candela Vetrano
• Agustín Sierra

See also[link]

• Casi Ángeles

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Sony BMG - Music Entertainment
• Web Premios 40 Principales

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Angels Online (or Angel Love Online) is a free-to-play PC and PlayStation 3 2D massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by UserJoy Technology in Taiwan, and published by Q Entertainment.

The Windows version was released in Taiwan in June 2006. A Japanese version of the game was released in December 2006. The PlayStation 3 version was released, on the Japanese PlayStation Store, on September 25, 2008. It's free to download and uses the same pay-per-item model as its PC counterparts.

Story[link]

Long, long ago, the archangel Lucifer fell in love with a girl. Unfortunately, she was already in love with another angel. Lucifer lost his mind and in order to separate the two lovers forever, transmuted her into dew and him into starlight. Knowing he would be punished sooner or later, he gathered a rebellious army and attempted to overthrow the reign of Jupiter. However, he and his followers failed, and were expelled to Hell.

Ever since then, he has been planning his revenge. He is now expanding his evil forces, and has founded a demon training camp with the sole purpose of destroying the Garden of Eden. So, all of the Little Angels there have undertaken special training, and have descended to Earth so that the battle can commence in Eden.

The land of Eden includes four realms that are home to the Aurora, Steel, Shadow and Beast factions. Each has its own seat of power. Aurora City stands between the seacoast and a fertile plain. Due to its location, it's plagued by pirates, so the king has decided to engage valiant chevaliers to drive them out. Iron Castle rises above a barren desert. Resources extracted from mines in the nearby mountains fuel its economy and its centuries-long war against a hated rival. The inhabitants of Dark City are highly proficient excavators, their expertise honed over generations of digging out large caverns. Right now, they're concerned about a mysterious hole. Its origin is unknown, as is the depth to which it extends. The residents of Breeze Jungle love their home and wish to protect it from being ravaged by powerful giants.^[2]

Job System[link]

There are 14 classes available in Angels Online. Each has six different skills. All the classes are divided into one of the following systems - Fighting, Magic or Production. Players can also change their skills by talking to the Skill Angel (there are certain exceptions). Due to this, everyone's character can be truly unique. The only thing to take into account before changing a skill is how the two skills match.

The game has a unique double class and skill system. Players are able to change or match skills after having chosen a class, which helps make characters distinctive. Different classes are able to have the same skills. For example, a character from the fighting class is able to have the magic skill. However, some special skills cannot be matched with each other, such as the chaos and the earth skills.

A skill may be leveled up by using it, but can never be higher than the character's level. Players can change skills after reaching level 20, but need a special item called a skill crystal to do so.^[3]

Gameplay[link]

Every player starts in the Angel Lyceum, a college to train Little Angels (the players) to become Angel Protectors to guard Eden against Lucifer (requirement). Once the player finishes the tutorial, they are teleported to the campus of the Lyceum where they can accumulate student credits on campus by doing lessons (composed of either defeating a certain number of a monster or collecting/manufacturing a certain amount of an item). The student credit's primary purpose is to determine whether a student can now graduate or attend the Top Student Training. When a player graduates they become an Angel Protector and choose a faction and city.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Angel Online official website (English)
• Angels Online guide at StrategyWiki