Caveman

"**Caveman**" is the seventeenth episode in Season 4 of *Pickle and Peanut*.

## Overview

After Pickle and Peanut accidentally defrost a caveman, they try to civilize him so he can stay at the park.

## Plot

The episode starts with Pickle and Peanut entering a cave for an overnight camp out, activities being making s'mores, rocking out to the radio, playing video games, and talking about their futures. All the while, with a giant block of ice slowly melting into the night.

The guys finally turn in for the night, not knowing the block of ice had completely melted, revealing a Caveman. He wakes up Pickle and Peanut, and after a while, the duo think the Caveman is really cool.

When Benson notices him, he orders Pickle and Peanut to throw the Caveman out. But after some persuasion, Benson allows them one week to teach the Caveman to be civilized.

With the help of Muscle Man, Hi-Five Ghost, Pops, and Skips, the duo are able to teach the Caveman, now named Gregg, how to be civilized. Just when the duo are about to find Benson and show himGregg's progress, Gregg wants to defrost his long-lost love, Diane, who was hidden along with other members of Gregg's tribe in an enclosed cave.

When Pickle, Peanut, and Cregg bring Diane back to the house, she and Gregg try to "catch up" with each other, but soon find themselves in an argument and Diane leaves to defrost the rest of her tribe, leaving Gregg confused about who and what he is.

When the resurrected Cavemen and Diane wreak havoc on East Reno, Pickle, Peanut, and Cregg devise a plan to lure the Cavemen into the meat locker under the house. After leading the Cavemen into the meat locker, Cregg decides to stay with Dianne, feeling that it is best to stay with his love instead of being in the civilized world. Before he's almost completely frozen, Cregg holds Diane in his arms and gives Pickle and Peanut the thumbs-up.

Heartbroken, with the loss of their new friend Pickle and Peanut begin to cry, the tearfully duo run into Benson, who had seen what had happened and was amazed at how noble Cregg was. With tears in his eyes, he tells the duo to clean up the mess caused by the cavemen or they'll be fired, (in a calm way). Pickle questions if they should still find a third friend, but Peanut says two's good enough.

## Cast

* Pickle
* Peanut
* Cregg

## Trivia

* During the montage where Pickle, Peanut and their friends are getting Cregg civilized, the scenes from "Brain Eraser", "The Best VHS in the World", "Eggscellent", "Party Pete", "Caffeinated Concert Tickets" and "Ello Gov'nor" appear.

### Pop Cultural References

* The episode is likely inspired by the 1992 comedy film *Encino Man* which follows a similar plot involving a frozen caveman who thaws out, and is taught how to live in the present day by two friends.
* This episode is a similar pun on the *South Park* episode ‘Prehistoric Ice Man'.
	+ However, the main protagonists of the episode, Stan and Kyle, find the caveman underground, whereas Pickle and Peanut find the caveman aboveground.
* The scene where the cavemen break into the snack stand is a reference to the velociraptor kitchen scene in *Jurassic Park*.
* When Cregg refreezes himself with the rest of the Caveman, his final thumbs-up goodbye to Pickle and Peanut is a reference from *Terminator 2 Judgment Day,* when the T-100 gives John Conner the same goodbye thumbs-up as he incinerates.