- “Captain CAVEMAN!”
- ―Captain Caveman's catchphrase.
Captain Caveman is a superhero and one of the main characters of The Flintstone Comedy Show, The Flintstone Kids, and Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs, the three spin-offs of the original series, The Flintstones.
Background[]
Captain Caveman was the world's first superhero thousands of years ago in the past, using various club shaped gadgets to help him out. In The Flintstone Comedy Show within his early days, he had the secret identity of Chester, an office boy, where he worked at the Daily Granite in Bedrock with reporters, Wilma and Betty and his boss, Lou Granite for a time.
In the segments, Captain Caveman and Son featured in The Flintstone Kids continuity, he also appeared in a TV show that young Wilma Slaghoople and Betty McBricker along with their childhood friends Freddy Flintstone, Barney Rubble and Philo Quartz would watch, suggesting that these adventures were in separate continuities.
Captain Caveman attending Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's wedding in art for I Yabba-Dabba Do!.
Although Captain Caveman was not seen during the events of I Yabba-Dabba Do!, he was shown to have attended Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's wedding reception in promotional art where he was happily seen chowing down on some wedding cake.
Captain Caveman's final mention in the original Flintstones continuity prior to the deaths of Hanna-Barbera would be in Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby, where Cavey was apparently now a movie star in Hollyrock, where he would be playing the lead role in the film Lizard of Oz which was being shown at the Granite's Chinese Theater.
Presumably some time after these escapades, Captain Caveman likely became frozen in the Ice Age, a state he would remain in for eons until eventually being thawed out by the Teen Angels and having many mystery solving adventures with them in Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels.
Personality[]
Captain Caveman has a strong sense of justice and is always enthusiastic to help fight evil and do good, usually after shouting his own name in a dramatic fashion. When disguised as Chester, Captain Caveman is a very humble and pretends to be clumsy and cowardly so as to avoid suspicion to his real identity. Regardless of his identity, Captain Caveman is a very courageous and friendly individual who will always do what is right. He notable had a very close friendship with Betty and Wilma in both of his identities and was already to protect the girls and help them with anything they or their families needed.
Centuries later, Cavey would remain the same after being defrosted by the Teen Angels, however he would become quite smitten with his new friends and would dutifully obey their requests, although he would after have trouble understanding their modern world lingo.
In The Flintstones Kids, a more fatherly side to Captain Caveman was shown where he was a devoted father to his son Cavey Jr. who in turn greatly admired his father.
Physical Appearance[]
Captain Caveman is an oval-shaped caveman with tan-brown hair, cat-like whiskers and hair strands, black eyebrows and black eyes and fair skin on his hands, feet and a big Neanderthal-like nose. He also wears an orange and black spotted loin cloth cape and he has a club as a weapon with a small pterodactyl in it that shoots like a jet-pack.
Appearances[]
- The Flintstone Comedy Show
- 101(d). "Clownfoot" (first appearance)
- 102(d). "The Masquerader"
- 103(a). "Gold Fever"
- 103(d). "The Animal Master"
- 104(d). "The Mole"
- 104(g). "Out of Their League" (cameo as Chester)
- 105(a). "Be Patient, Fred"
- 105(d). "Rollerman"
- 106(d). "Vulcan"
- 107(a). "The Rockdale Diet"
- 107(d). "Punk Rock"
- 108(d). "Braino"
- 109(d). "The Incredible Hunk"
- 110(d). "Iceman"
- 111(b). "Put Up Your Duke"
- 111(d). "The Mummy's Worse"
- 201(a). "The Great Bedrock Air Race"
- 201(d). "Pinkbeard"
- 202(d). "The Blimp"
- 203(a). "The Not-Such-A-Pleasure Cruise"
- 203(c). "Dino and the Zombies"
- 203(d). "Futuro"
- 204(d). "Mr. Big"
- 205(a). "In a Stew"
- 205(b). "Barney and the Bandit"
- 205(d). "Stormfront and Weathergirl"
- 206(a). "Fred vs. the Energy Crisis"
- 206(d). "Crypto"
- 207(d). "Presto"
- The Flintstone Kids
- 102(c). "Freezy Does It"
- 103. "Heroes for Hire"
- 104(c). "Invasion of the Mommy Snatchers"
- 106(c). "The Ditto Master"
- 108(c). "I Was a Teenage Grown-Up"
- 110(c). "Grime and Punishment"
- 112(c). "A Tale of Too Silly"
- 114(c). "To Baby or Not to Baby"
- 116(c). "Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow"
- 118(c). "Day of the Villains"
- 120(c). "Curse of the Reverse"
- 122(c). "Capt. Caveman's First Adventure"
- 124(c). "Leave It to Mother"
- 126(a). "Bedrock'n Roll"
- 126(c). "Greed It and Weep"
- 201(c). "Captain Knaveman"
- 202(c). "Attack of the Fifty Foot Teenage Lizard"
- 205(c). "The Cream-Pier Strikes Back"
- 206(c). "Captain Caveman's Super Cold"
- 207(c). "The Big Bedrock Bully Bash"
- 208(c). "Captain Cavedog"
- I Yabba-Dabba Do! (only appears in promotional art)
- Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (mentioned in a Hollyrock film advertisement)
- Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs
- "Caveman Begins" (last appearance)
Notes/Trivia[]
- His design was based loosely on that of the twins, Rock and Gravel Slag from Wacky Races.