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8	->''"Captaiiiinnnn...'' '''''CAAAAAAAVE-MAAAAAANNNNN!!!'''''"
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10	-> ''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...''
11	-->-- The OpeningNarration
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13	''Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels'' was introduced as part of ''Scooby's All-Star WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' on [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] in 1977. When not competing on Franchise/ScoobyDoo's team, Cavey and his trio of beauties solved mysteries in yet another variation of the Scooby format. Cavey, a caveman SuperHero frozen in a block of ice until thawed in the 20th century by the Teen Angels, kept many gadgets and live dinosaurs inside his fur. He also possessed superhuman strength, and (thanks to his club) could even fly; those powers were prone to giving out at unwelcome occasions. The Teen Angels are (left to right): smarty pants leader Dee-Dee Skyes, flirtatious Taffy Dare, and nervous wreck Brenda Chance.
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15	Voice talent included Creator/MelBlanc, Laurel Page, Marilyn Schreffler and [[Creator/VerneeWatson Vernée Watson-Johnson]].
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17	In later series, Captain Caveman was shown living alongside WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones. The early 1980s ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneComedyShow'' starred Cavey in his own segment, as Bedrock's resident superhero, often accompanied on adventures by newspaper reporters Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble. On ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneKids'', Captain Caveman and his son were the stars of a ShowWithinAShow.
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19	While initially aired as part of ''Laff-a-Lympics'', the series would spin off into its own thing for Season 3, mixing in reruns from the first two seasons, while some airings (specifically, the ones on Creator/{{Boomerang}} and Creator/TeletoonRetro) would mix in the live-action segment ''Mystery Island'' from ''The Skatebirds'' into rotation.
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21	In the modern era, Cavey has made appearances in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}''.
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24	!!''Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels'' provides examples of:
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26	%%* BambooTechnology: Cavey's various Stone Age gadgets in his club, plus the spinoffs set in the Flintstones' era.%%Are examples how?
27	* BeachEpisode: "The Old Caveman and the Sea" takes place entirely at a beach and in the ocean.
28	%%* BlackAndNerdy: Dee Dee Skyes
29	* ButtMonkey: Brenda. Not only does she always get captured by the villains or ends up becoming the butt of a joke or a victim of Cavey's antics, but she's picked on by her so-called "friends".
30	* CaptainSuperhero: Captain Caveman himself is one.
31	* CoolCar: The motorhome with Cavey's own home on top of it. This in itself is also pretty much making them the only ones among their fellow meddling kids to actually live in their vehicle.
32	* CowardlyLion: Brenda. Pretty as she may be, she's scared of everything.
33	* DeadpanSnarker: Captain has his moments when he snarks with modern sensibilities.
34	%%* TheDragAlong: Brenda Chance.
35	* DrivesLikeCrazy: The Buffalo Man nearly runs the Teen Angels' motorhome off the road with his reckless driving of a stolen jeep.
36	* ExtremeOmnivore: Cavey often eats large quantities of food and stuff that isn't supposed to be edible. The cartoon's intro shows him eating a safe box in a single bite.
37	* FourFingeredHands: Captain Caveman has them because of his cartoony design in contrast to the realistically designed Teen Angels.
38	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Brenda is frequently bullied and stepped on by Dee Dee and Taffy.
39	%%* GenkiGirl: Taffy Dare.
40	* HairyHammerspace: Captain Caveman's fur contains multitudes of random objects alongside multitudes of actually living dinosaurs.
41	%%* TheLeader: Dee Dee fills this role in this series.
42	* MsFanservice: The Teen Angels. One episode, "The Old Caveman and the Sea", featured them all in bikinis. Turning the eyes of the show's male audience, Taffy wore the brightest shade of green. That is one lucky caveman. Issue #13 of the ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics'' comic book features a page of Taffy in a skimpy green bikini. Issue #9 of the Marvel run of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' has all three Teen Angels (making a guest appearance with Cavey) in bikinis.
43	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Taffy Dare's design obviously was based on Creator/FarrahFawcett, and Brenda Chance's hairstyle resembles that of Jaclyn Smith.
44	* OneSteveLimit: Seemingly averted in "Cavey and the Kabuta Clue". The Teen Angels are meeting with one of their friends. His father's name is clearly Winston Downes and his uncle is Walton Downes. During the wrap-up Taffy responds to the friend with "We sure do Win." Implying their friend is probably a Winston Downes Jr. Although this is a rare example where the friend of the YouMeddlingKids did not have their name dropped at the beginning of the episode.
45	* OpeningNarration: Creator/GaryOwens' opening narration (see above) describes how Captain Caveman became an ally to the Teen Angels
46	%%* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: An episode features a snow wolf monster that in all honesty resembles a yeti more than a werewolf.%%So how is it an example?
47	* PrimitiveClubs: Played with. Captain Caveman wields a big wooden club as his primary weapon, but it also enables him to fly and is a SwissArmyWeapon that contains numerous tools that can be deployed to get him and the Teen Angels out of a jam.
48	* RummageFail: Among other instances, Captain Caveman once stuffed Brenda into his fur and couldn't get her out.
49	* RapidAging: Happens to a man during "The Creepy Claw Caper" as ransom for a chest of gold coins. It later happens to the Teen Angels. They get better at the end. Amusingly, despite Cavey also being hit with the beam, he winds up [[TheImmune immune]] to the effects thanks to being from the prehistoric days.
50	* SayMyName: Captain's trademark is to yell his own name before his heroics.
51	* ScoobyDooHoax: Used many times, but sometimes averted in favor of run-of-the-mill crooks disguised mostly in shadow.
52	* ShoutOut: Despite being mostly based on the Franchise/ScoobyDoo format, the show also references Series/CharliesAngels, featuring a trio of female investigators. As mentioned above, Taffy was clearly modeled after Farrah Fawcett, who played Jill on that series.
53	** The Brazilian dub goes along, naming the Teen Angels as "As Panterinhas" (Charlie's Angels were named "Panteras") and they got a DubNameChange to match the original Angels: Dee Dee became Sabina (after Sabrina), Taffy became Gilda (after Jill) and Brenda became Nelly (after Kelly). Sabina's voice actress is the same of Sabrina, Sumara Louise.
54	* SpoofyDoo: Basically ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', but with three teen girls instead of Fred, Shaggy, Velma, and Daphne, and with Captain Caveman in place of Scooby.
55	* TimeTravel: "Prehistoric Panic" has the gang go back in time to visit Cavey's parents.
56	* TwinSwitch: An odd location example, in which there are Twin Lodges the crook attempts to lead them to a staged scene in the second lodge to make them think a scepter was stolen.
57	* VehicularSabotage: The titular villain in "Cavey and Baffling Buffalo Man" has a tendency to do this to his victims, the Teen Angels fall victim to this when he steals the wheels of their van. While Cavey is able to rig up some wooden replacements, they soon find out that [[MagicBrakes the brakes have also been cut]]. Cavey saves the day again by stopping the van from the back, but not without some AgonyOfTheFeet in the process.
58	%%* WhyAreWeWhispering: This happens in at least one episode.
59	* WouldYouDoItForAScoobySnack: Taffy can sweet talk Captain Caveman into just about any daffy Taffy plan.
60	* ZanyScheme: If Taffy is given a close up with sparkles around her, it usually means she's coming up with one of these.
61	-->"Not another daffy Taffy plan!"
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63	!!The ''Captain Caveman'' segments on ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' provide examples of:
64	* ClarkKenting: Captain Caveman himself did this to disguise himself as Chester, wearing glasses and a bowtie and raising his voice an octave.
65	* DamselInDistress: Wilma and Betty were often reduced to this, usually by trying to stop the villain themselves and getting in over their heads.
66	* DaEditor: [[Series/LouGrant Lou]] [[PunnyName Granite]], editor-in-chief of "The Daily Granite".
67	%%* GoingForTheBigScoop
68	%%* IntrepidReporter
69	* MonsterClown: Clownfoot is a bank-robbing circus clown who, at his circus hideout, rigs a high-wire's bicycle that Betty and Wilma are riding to fall apart over a pit of man-eating saber-toothed tigers.
70	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Each segment had a different villain, whose name [[AntagonistTitle was the name of that segment's episode]].
71	* NaturalDisasterCascade: Considering that the weather-controlling villains want to conquer the world by gaining control of the global weather...
72	* SecretIdentity: Cavey has one as Chester, which is in itself kind of a parody of this trope.
73	* ShoutOut: Mostly to the Superman mythos:
74	** [[ClarkKenting Captain Caveman's secret identity of glasses-wearing Chester]].
75	** Wilma's and Betty's positions as reporters akin to ComicBook/LoisLane.
76	** ''The Daily Granite'', a spoof of ''The Daily Planet''.
77	** "Lou Granite" is likely a reference to Lou Grant of ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', as well as the ''Series/LouGrant'' spinoff series (''Lou Grant'' and ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' both aired in [[TheEighties the early 1980s]], on CBS and NBC, respectively). In that spinoff, Grant was also the editor of a newspaper.
78	* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: The 20th-century villain Futuro's goal was robbing Bedrock of random stuff to sell in his own era as valuable "antiques."
79	* TransformationSequence: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsXbe-Ujwd8 Spoofed.]] It was so loud that literally everyone in the city could hear it, and visually it featured explosions, rockets and an array of rainbow stars, but all that actually happened was that Chester took off his glasses and unfolded his bowtie into a cape.
80	** Sometimes (especially in the second season) there were variations on this sequence, including Chester using a different coat rack, wearing a different outfit, and even ''halting the sequence in the middle'' because Wilma and Betty were walking past.
81	* WalkThePlank: Pinkbeard forces Wilma and Betty to walk the plank over a sea with many dangerous animals. When they take too long to jump, Pinkbeard's crocodile cuts off the plank. Fortunately, Captain Caveman arrives just in time.
82	* WeatherControlMachine: The villains Stormfront and Weathergirl steal a weather satellite to launch into orbit to amplify the range of their weather-controlling powers to cover (and conquer) the entire planet. A different villain constructs such a device in an episode of ''The Flintstone Kids''.
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84	!!The Captain Caveman segments on ''The Flintstone Kids'' provide examples of:
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86	%%* ArchEnemy: Mr. Bad
87	%%* ChasteToons: Subverted.
88	* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Usually not on Captain Caveman's side but on the villains', who at times forgot about his abilities. In one episode, a villain makes both Cavey and Junior to fall in trap doors, and a second later they fly out, with Captain Caveman even saying 'You forgot we fly'; AvertedTrope in a later episode when the heroes fly to escape a villainous army and they get ambushed by two clever criminals in BambooTechnology helicopters.
89	* GeniusDitz: Something he showed on earlier incarnations but became more noticeable in this show. Despite his usual dumbness, Captain Caveman was actually a competent superhero and many times found simple yet smart ways to defeat his enemies; other times, of course, he is more like an AccidentalHero.
90	* LegionOfDoom: A team-up of the segments' various villains (spearheaded by Mr. Bad) is seen in one episode.
91	* MissingMom: Captain Caveman must have married ''someone'' in order to produce Junior, but his wife is never seen.
92	* {{Narrator}}: Kenneth Mars.
93	* PaperThinDisguise: The duo once disguised themselves as villains by donning domino masks. Since this was in an AmnesiaEpisode, the amnesiac Captain Caveman decides that since he's wearing such a mask, he must be a villain, and then proceeds to steal so much stuff that there's nothing left for all the other criminals to steal.
94	* SuperHeroOrigin: For both Captain Caveman (in a flashback episode) and his son, Cavey Jr. (the pilot showing that he was allowed to join his father in crimefighting once he became old enough).
95	* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Captain Caveman frequently talked to the Flintstone kids.
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