This spoof of prehistoric man movies, follows outcasts, Atouk and Lar, as they meet and join up with other outcasts to form their own tribe. The new tribe includes a blind man, a gay couple, a dwarf, and other oddball outcasts rejected by other tribes. But Atouk still longs to be with Lana, the beautiful mate of Tonda, the leader who kicked him out of his tribe.

In an interview, Shelley Long said that at her audition, she didn't speak any English. She responded to everything with an ad-libbed series of grunts. It obviously worked.

[the Misfits are digging with sticks and their hands in a pile of foul-smelling mud looking for Ta, who seems to have disappeared]


Ta:
[re-appearing from behind a rock and pointing at the 'mud'] Doo-doo!

[Ta giggles, and the Misfits all stop and turn, staring at Ta]


Atouk:
[Angrily] Ca-ca.


Nook:
[looking with disgust at his fingers and then right into the camera] Shit.

[the Misfits all grab Ta and throw him into the doo-doo]

Revealing mistakes: When Atouk take the fruit that causes him to pass out, we can see a glimpse of the mattress where he falls down, in the next shot the mattress is gone.