Remember this?

Isn’t it a great poster? It’s eye-popping and colorful. It’s hilarious and, cleverly, it’s humour is simultaneously earnest and ironic. Steve Carrel’s face with all it’s open innocence and naivete really sells it. And the retro Sears portrait style gives it an iconic look and feel. This is  one a handful of movie posters from the last few years, or ever even,  that I could recall or describe with any accuracy. So when I was poking around online and I saw this promo shot for the shitastic (I’m going out on a limb here and making an unfair assumption, I’ve never seen the show) new sit-com Cavemen, I knew immediately what those cheaters were up to. Total rip off!

Then, as these things often happen, I started seeing The Virgin being ripped off all over the place.  I saw it here on the inside of my Netflix envelope.

Then I saw it here in my Entertainment Weekly magazine.

Shame, shame, shame. All you copy cats derserve a dirty litter box sandwich!