Cavemen, Chicanos, Situation Comedies, Warner Brothers, ABC and other Lunatics from Showbiz

The proverbial shit is hitting the Latino Cultural Studies Fan tonight as the George Lopez Show was cancelled off ABC for a pilot featuring the GEICO.COM caveman. No joke! In other Latino/a ethnic mannequin news, America Ferrera, ABC's UGLY BETTY had her teeth insured. Comments on all this madness soon! I promise!

Here's a quick shot at Lopez (probably not safe for play in your cubicle unless you are using noise-damping headphones), and, his, er, replacement.





Not to play Mengele with the clipboard and the calipers, but am I the only one that has noticed that these "cavemen" are more closely modeled on the physiognomy of a hodgepodge of Aborigines than "cavemen" proper--Neanderthal? Cro-Magnon? It strikes me that there is more than you need there for an Ethnic Studies conference panel that should not waste the time of anyone.



UPDATE 9:22am 5/15/2007
The LATimes is online now with the story.