(S01E01) There have been a few monumentally bad attempts to entertain in the history of show business. Star Trek 5, Howard the Duck, The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Flops are fascinating once you consider the enormous amount of effort that goes into creating a piece of entertainment. From the writers and actors all the way to the gaffers and the caterers, it's stunning to think of the thousands of man-hours spent working on something that you have trouble spending 30 minutes watching.

There's been a considerable amount of morbid curiosity surrounding Cavemen. Would it transcend its bad buzz and go on to be a seven-season television institution? Or would it wind up on the flop-heap of history? The answer after the jump...