Captain Caveman

Captain Caveman
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Member of	Teen Angels Scooby Doobies Falcon Force
Affiliation	Taffy Dare Brenda Chance Dee Dee Skyes
Occupation	Superhero Mascot Sleuth Sports competitor Journalist
Works for	Daily Granite
Goals	To solve mysteries
Father	Mentioned
Mother	Grandma Cavemom
Marital status	Single
Son(s)	Cavey Jr.
First appearance	CC&TTA: "The Kooky Case of the Cryptic Keys" (1977)
Played by	Mel Blanc (1977-1988) Chris Edgerly (2005) Jim Cummings (2010) Tracy Morgan (2020) Tom Megalis (2020) Jim Conroy (since 2021)
File:SDMI Captain Caveman.png Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Aquaman/Jabberjaw Special
Scoob!
Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs
Jellystone!

Captain Caveman, or simply "Cavey" for short, is a small, hairy caveman and the main title character of the Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels animated television series. He is the mascot of the Teen Angels, and usually carries a cub that enables him to fly, among its other functions. Billed as "the world's first superhero," he was unfrozen in the modern day to solve supernatural-related mysteries. His voice was originated by Mel Blanc.

Character description

Captain Caveman is a short man with brown hair that mostly covers his entire body. He has a long, bulbous nose, large hands and feet, and long hair strands on top of his head and cheeks. He wears an orange cape with spots, which that of a prehistoric loincloth.

He is an innocent, but wild individual who gets unpredictable at times. Although he is incredibly strong, his enthusiasm to modern conveniences – all completely new to him – leads to many comedic situations. But in spite of his limited knowledge of the modern world, Cavey is good-natured and always strives to help out his friends and others when needed. He also has the occasional bad habit of eating non-food objects (e.g. bicycles, TV sets, safes, table lamps). His trademark is his battle cry of "Captain CAAAAAVEMAAAAAAANNNN!" 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".

In the film "Scoob!", Captain Caveman is portayed differently from his usual depictions, as he is adorned with a combat uniform and is capable of speaking proper English.

Abilities

Cavey has super strength, in addition to invulnerability, super speed, the ability to pulling various things from his hairy body, and the ability to eat large objects in a single gulp. He also posses a large, wooden club, which houses various gadgets from inside – such as his flashlight, which consists of a bird holding a candle – and grants him the ability to fly, albeit temporarily, as it would always seem to fail at him at any possible moment. Along with the Teen Angels, he has an experience in being a detective.

Appearances

TV series

• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
  • 1.1 "The Kooky Case of the Cryptic Keys"
  • 1.2 "The Mixed Up Mystery of Deadman's Reef"
  • 1.3 "What a Flight for a Fright"
  • 1.4 "The Creepy Case of the Creaky Charter Boat"
  • 1.5 "Big Scare in the Big Top"
  • 1.6 "Double Dribble Riddle"
  • 1.7 "The Crazy Case of the Tell-Tale Tape"
  • 1.8 "The Creepy Claw Caper"
  • 1.9 "Cavey and the Kabuta Clue"
  • 1.10 "Cavey and the Weirdo Wolfman"
  • 1.11 "The Disappearing Elephant Mystery"
  • 1.12 "The Fur Freight Fright"
  • 1.13 "Ride 'Em Caveman"
  • 1.14 "The Strange Case of the Creature from Space"
  • 1.15 "The Mystery Mansion Mix-Up"
  • 1.16 "Playing Footsie with Bigfoot"
  • 2.1 "Disco Cavey"
  • 2.2 "Muscle-Bound Cavey"
  • 2.3 "Cavey's Crazy Car Caper"
  • 2.4 "Cavey's Mexicali 500"
  • 2.5 "Wild West Cavey"
  • 2.6 "Cavey's Winter Carnival Caper"
  • 2.7 "Cavey's Fashion Fiasco"
  • 2.8 "Cavey's Missing Missile Miss-tery"
  • 3.1 "The Scarifying Seaweed Secret"
  • 3.2 "The Dummy"
  • 3.3 "Cavey and the Volcanic Villain"
  • 3.4 "Prehistoric Panic"
  • 3.5 "Cavey and the Baffling Buffalo Man"
  • 3.6 "Dragonhead"
  • 3.7 "Cavey and the Murky Mississippi Mystery"
  • 3.8 "Old Cavey in New York"
  • 3.9 "Cavey and the Albino Rhino"
  • 3.10 "Kentucky Cavey"
  • 3.11 "Cavey Goes to College"
  • 3.12 "The Haunting of Hog's Hollow"
  • 3.13 "The Legend of Devil's Run"
  • 3.14 "The Mystery of the Meandering Mummy"
  • 3.15 "The Old Caveman and the Sea"
  • 3.16 "Lights, Camera... Cavey!"
• Laff-a-Lympics
  • 1.1 "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan"
  • 1.2 "Acapulco and England"
  • 1.3 "Florida and China"
  • 1.5 "France and Australia"
  • 1.6 "Athens, Greece and the Ozarks"
  • 1.7 "Italy and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina"
  • 1.8 "Egypt and Sherwood Forest" (no lines)
  • 1.9 "Spain and the Himalayas"
  • 1.10 "India and Israel"
  • 1.11 "Africa and San Francisco"
  • 1.12 "The Grand Canyon and Ireland"
  • 1.13 "Hawaii and Norway"
  • 1.14 "North Pole and Tahiti"
  • 1.15 "Arizona and Holland"
  • 1.16 "Quebec and Baghdad"
  • 2.1 "Russia and the Caribbean"
  • 2.2 "New York and Turkey"
  • 2.3 "South America and Transylvania" (no lines)
  • 2.4 "French Riviera and New Zealand" (no lines)
  • 2.5 "New Orleans and Atlantis"
  • 2.6 "Morocco and Washington D.C." (no lines)
  • 2.7 "Canada and Warsaw, Poland" (no lines)
  • 2.8 "Siam and the Moon"
• The Flintstone Comedy Show
• The Flintstone Kids
  • 1.3C "Freezy Does It"
  • 1.6C "The Ditto Master"
  • 1.8C "I Was a Teenage Grown-Up"
  • 1.10C "Grime & Punishment"
  • 1.12C "A Tale of Too Silly"
  • 1.14C "To Baby or Not to Baby"
  • 1.16C "Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow"
  • 1.18C "Day of the Villains"
  • 1.20C "Curse of the Reverse"
  • 1.22C "Capt. Caveman's First Adventure"
  • 1.24C "Leave It to Mother"
  • 1.26C "Greed It and Weep"
  • 2.1C "Captain Knaveman"
  • 2.2C "Attack of the Fifty Foot Teenage Lizard"
  • 2.5C "The Cream-Pier Strikes Back"
  • 2.6C "Captain Caveman's Super Cold"
  • 2.7C "The Big Bedrock Bully Bash"
  • 2.8C "Captain Cavedog"
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 1.6 "The Dabba Don" (no lines)
  • 3.6 "Beyond the Valley of the Dinosaurs" (no lines)
  • 3.7 "Evolutionary War"
  • 4.2 "Incredible Hippo" (no lines)
  • 4.6 "Juror in Court" (no lines)
  • 4.7 "The Death of Harvey" (no lines)
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
  • 1.14 "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals"
• Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs
  • 1.25 "Caveman Begins"
• Jellystone!
  • 1.1 "Yogi's Tummy Trouble"
  • 1.2 "Gorilla in Our Midst" (no lines)
  • 1.3 "Boo Boots" (no lines)
  • 1.4 "My Doggie Dave"
  • 1.5 "A Coconut to Remember" (no lines)
  • 1.6 "Grocery Store" (no lines)
  • 1.7 "Must Be Jelly"
  • 1.9 "VIP Baby You Know Me"
  • 1.10 "El Kabong's Kabong is Gone"
  • 1.11 "Mr. Flabby Dabby Wabby Jabby" (no lines)
  • 1.12 "Ice Ice Daddy"
  • 1.13 "DNA, A-OK!"
  • 1.14 "Face of the Town!" (no lines)
  • 1.16 "Squish or Miss"
  • 1.17 "Gotta Kiss Them All"
  • 1.19 "A Fish Sticky Situation"
  • 1.20 "A Town Video: Welcome to Jellystone"
  • 1.21 "Spell Book" (no lines)
  • 1.22 "Lady Danjjer: Is It Wrong to Long for Kabong?" (no lines)
  • 1.23 "Baby Shenanigans" (no lines)
  • 1.24 "Bleep!"
  • 1.25 "Yogi's Mid-Life Crisis"
  • 1.26 "Jellystone Moon Platoon"
  • 1.27 "The Sea Monster of Jellystone Cove" (no lines)
  • 1.28 "Business"
  • 1.29 "Pants!" (no lines)
  • 1.30 "Uh Oh! It's a Burglar!" (no lines)
  • 1.31 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Rat Race" (no lines)
  • 1.32 "The Brave Little Daddy"
  • 1.33 "The Big Stink"
  • 1.35 "The Box Thief" (no lines)
  • 1.36 "Jailcation" (no lines)
  • 1.38 "Augie's Baby" (no lines)
  • 1.39 "Heroes and Capes"
  • 1.40 "Sweet Dreams"
  • 2.1 "Meet the Jetsons"
  • 2.2 "Disco Fever" (no lines)
  • 2.3 "Cindy vs. Noodle Arms"
  • 2.4 "Hot Guys, Cold Turkey" (no lines)
  • 2.5 "Lotions 11"
  • 2.6 "LAFF Games"
  • 2.9 "Jellystone Noir"
  • 2.10 "Vote Raspberry"
  • 2.12 "Mummy Knows Best"
  • 2.13 "Augie-mented Reality"
  • 2.14 "Space Con"
  • 2.15 "Sha-zogi"
  • 2.16 "Lil' Honk Honks!"
• Velma
  • 1.2 "The Candy Man" (breakfast bowl design)

Movies

• Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (poster)
• Scoob!

Specials

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!

Comics

• Laff-a-Lympics
  • Issue #1: "The Meet at Mount Ono"
  • Issue #2: "Trouble at the Track Meet"
  • Issue #3: "The Miraculous Moon Meet!"
  • Issue #4: "Take Me Out to the Brawl Game!"
  • Issue #5: "The Day the Rottens Won!"
  • Issue #6: "The Discount of Monty Cristo"
  • Issue #7: "The Purple Pig Puzzle"
  • Issue #8: "The Beef of Bagdad"
  • Issue #9: "Go Rest, Old Man"
  • Issue #10: "Now You See Them..."
  • Issue #11: "The Toys from Tomorrow"
  • Issue #12: "The Ends of the Earth"
  • Issue #13: "No Laff-a-Lympics Today!"
• Scooby-Doo
  • Issue #9: "Mystery at Malibu"
• TV Stars
  • Issue #1A: "The Shipping Magnet"
• The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
  • Issue #2D: "Captain Caveman Twin Trouble"
  • Issue #3: "The Man Who Stole Thursday"
• Cartoon Network Presents
  • Issue #23C: "Neanderthal Nightmare"
• Aquaman/Jabberjaw Special
  • Issue #1B: "Captain Caveman!"

Books

• The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera Starring Scooby-Doo
• Scooby-Doo's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics

Video games

• Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons

Biography

Debut Series

Not much was known about Captain Caveman prior in his debut series, but as depicted in the opening sequence, he was thawed from a frozen block of ice, after he was discovered in a cave by a group of amateur detectives known as Teen Angels. He soon joined the group, where they would help together and go across the country to solve mysteries related to supernatural phenomena.

Laff-a-Lympics

In Laff-a-Lympics, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels are members of the Scooby Doobies along with Scooby-Doo and other similar "mystery-solving" stars from the 1970s.

The Captain meets the Flintstones

In The Flintstone Comedy Show, he was once a citizen in Bedrock. He worked at The Daily Granite newspaper with Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble, and had a meek, Clark Kent-like secret identity named "Chester".

Like Father, Like Son

In The Flintstone Kids, Captain Caveman received a segment within the show entitled Captain Caveman and Son, where he solved crimes in Bedrock with his son Cavey Jr.

Harvey Birdman Represents

In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Evolutionary War", Cavey turns to Harvey Birdman to represent him when Cavey Jr.'s school refuses to teach evolution, which claimed that it is just a myth.

Scooby's Fever-Dream

Captain Caveman appeared in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode, "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals." He and the Teen Angels appear alongside other Hanna-Barbera detective teams from Jabberjaw (TV series), Speed Buggy, and The Funky Phantom in Scooby's fever dream.

SCOOB!

In the film Scoob!, Captain Caveman is an inhabitant of a prehistoric ecosystem under Messick Mountain, along with a tribe of long-haired cave people resembling him.

Every Superhero Needs an Origin Story

Captain Caveman appeared in the Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs episode "Caveman Begins," where he is simply known as "Caveman" and never wore a loincloth. He lived in the Crags until Bamm-Bamm Rubble encountered him.

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!

In Jellystone!, Captain Caveman is a resident of the titular town along with his son Cavey Jr., of which he was unaware until the episode "Ice Ice Daddy."

Mining Mascot

In the Velma series, the crystal mining cave is a tourist attraction with a Captain Caveman theme, where the workers dress in Captain Caveman costumes, and there is a kiddie ride shaped like Captain Caveman.

Velma also ate her K'oenig's cereal out of a bowl with a cartoony Captain Caveman design.

Captain in the Funny Books

Marvel's Laff-a-Lympics

In the comic story, "Take Me Out to the Brawl Game!," he is kidnapped by the Dalton Brothers to prevent the Scooby Doobies from winning the baseball match.

Development

According to Mark Evanier, Captain Caveman was initially planned as a Yosemite Sam-type character. The design of the character got hairier until an individual suggested that he should be a caveman.

The design of Captain Caveman likely took inspiration from the Slag Brothers on the Wacky Races franchise.

Gallery

Main article: Captain Caveman/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Captain Caveman/Toys

Behind the scenes

• According to Hanna-Barbera's 1982 calendar, he was born on May 21st.
• The success of the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film led Warner Bros. to offering its writer, James Gunn, to pen a live-action Captain Caveman movie.

In popular culture

• In the Family Guy episode "The Perfect Castaway," Peter becomes Tom Hanks in the film Castaway, after being shipwrecked on a deserted island with his friends, growing a long beard and trying to catch fish. Peter takes out a pocket watch as Hanks does, but instead of his wife (or girlfriend in Hanks's character case), Peter carries a photo of Captain Caveman.
• In the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode "A Very Sunny Christmas," Mac finds his old toy club in his childhood wardrobe, eliciting him to shout "Captain Caveman," and reminds Charlie of how they'd shave the neighborhood dogs' fur off and glue to their faces to play as Captain Caveman.

• 

  Peter misses Captain Caveman.