The Funniest Family in 60 Million Years!
Original title
Dinosaurs
Released
4/26/1991
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
Walt Disney Television, Jim Henson Productions, Michael Jacobs Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
65
Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
A behind the scenes look with the actors.
A short interview with Kevin Clash discussing Dinosaurs and it's creator Jim Henson
Go behind the scenes with the creators and learn the secrets of the controversial last episode!
Featurette focusing on Baby Dinosaur.
Earl lays an egg when he asks his boss for a raise, and Fran lays an egg--literally.
Family duties and the baby combine to frazzle Fran, and Earl can't figure out her problem.
Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."
A monstrous male who notices Fran in the supermarket challenges Earl to a fight to the death.
Robbie questions howling as a rite of passage--an act that puts Earl and Roy at odds with each other.
When the Sinclair baby sprouts a golden horn, he is trumpeted as the prophesied King of the Dinosaurs.
When the Sinclairs' TV is wrecked, Earl enters the family on a game show to win a new set.
When Robbie flubs his initiation into the Young Males' Carnivore Association, Earl fears his son may be a herbivore.
Charlene gets a tail, which whips up strange feelings in Earl, whose little girl is no longer so little.
Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.
Earl anticipates a promotion as he awaits a dinner with Richfield; Robbie brings home a "pet" human.
Lurking in the Sinclair refrigerator are delectable creatures that go bad, very bad, while Charlene watches the baby.
Robbie objects to the career--tree pusher--assigned to him by the "Job Wizard."
A liberated single female's ideas make Fran reconsider renewing her marriage license.
Robbie gets pointers on how to approach girls from a streetwise contemporary named Spike.
The Sinclairs learn that the baby might have been switched with another.
Earl's fridge is repossessed as the dinosaurs celebrate Refrigerator Day and the gift of cold storage.
Earl helps Fran's friend Monica get a job as a tree pusher, but she's no pushover when she's harrassed by a predatory male.
Fran gets a job on TV giving advice to dinosaurs, leaving Earl to learn how to cope with a wife who works.
A power struggle erupts between the Wesayso Corp. and Robbie after he invents a way to generate energy as a science project.
An archaeologist documents dinosaurs' way of life as they may have existed long ago, but clips from previous episodes tell a different story.
A wild plant has a weird effect on the dinosaurs--it makes them dopey and happy, to the exclusion of everything else.
Earl thinks Old Ethyl has died, but she returns from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife.
The four-legged dinosaurs encroach on the pistachio-nut supply of the "normal" dinosaurs...and that means war.
Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.
Earl throws his hat into the ring as a candidate for Chief Elder, but he's likely to have his head handed to him by his opponent, B.P. Richfield.
Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with an expensive coat, but the coat leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status.
When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them.
Wesayso insists Roy replace Earl as the father of the Sinclairs, who are selected as the Wesayso spokesfamily.
Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.
Earl does the dirty work of organizing a civic protest against the TV powers-that-be when the baby repeats (constantly) a dirty word that he hears on the tube.
Earl is hired as a network executive when his answers on a test for new television shows prove to be surprisingly accurate.
Earl hits a bad golf shot that sails off the edge of the known world and into a new one -- new, that is, to the dinosaurs.
Robbie weaves a frightening tale for the Baby about Robbie turning into a caveman monster, which proves a little too hairy for the little guy.
The Baby becomes sick from a dirty pacifier and a visit to the modern doctor has the family suspecting he is selling them high priced snake oil.
Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.
When Earl is caught by the Parent Police losing his temper at the baby, he loses his parenting license.
Charlene is charged with heresy and jailed after submitting her homework assignment claiming that the world is round and not flat.
The males, including Earl, Robbie, and the Baby, go into the wilderness to rediscover their ""reptiles within,"" while back home the girls warm their cold blood with the boys' beer.
After failing to mow the lawn, Robbie challenges Earl for male domination of the family... and wins.
Charlene signs up for a foreign student exchange program to get away from her family who doesn't understand her; and the Sinclairs get a bitter taste of a different culture when a French bird moves in with them in Charlene's place.
The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.
Baby becomes a hit sensation when he and Earl star in a series of commercials for a new frying pan. Earl is fired from the commercials and he and Monica start to worry that fame is going to the Baby's and Fran's heads.
Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.
Feeling a need to have a job outside the home, Fran goes to work at a halfway house for amphibians, leaving Earl to take over the household day shift and look after the kids.
Robbie crosses over to the swamps and gets sold on the mammals' "swamp music", but they're liable to be sold out in a dinosaur record deal, which Robbie orchestrated.
When overwhelming urges to do the mating dance arise in Robbie, Earl prefers not to discuss it, but Fran waltzes into Robbie's classroom to educate the kids about it.
Ethel reads the Baby a story called "If You Were a Tree" about a dinosaur tree pusher who gets struck by lightning and swaps souls with the tree he's trying to demolish.
Robbie poses as a space alien and orders Earl to get involved in cleaning up Earth, never imagining that he would quit his job to launch an environmental crusade.
Charlene feels her family is neglecting her, so she gets their attention by winning the school talent show but her rising fame is riding on the backs of three young cavelings she found in the forest whose mother is looking for them.
Another one of the infomercial for a home course in how to become a paleontologist is supplemented by clips from previous episodes. Featuring the past clips from Season 2 to Season 3.
The Baby swears there's a monster under his bed, but no one believes him--until it starts dragging victims into its hole.
Earl assumes the powers of a superhero, but he's bound to use his might only for the Wesayso Corp.
Questions about life's meaning plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism."
Earl drives Ethyl to her reunion, and the kids drive Fran crazy when she tries to get them to pose for a portrait.
A workplace injury ends up costing Earl his job but it pays off big for him in court.
Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos."
Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.
The baby goes gaga over a hippo named Georgie, the latest children's idol. But when Earl dresses up as Georgie, he's arrested for copyright infringement.
Earl, Robbie and Roy stumble into a tar pit when they take the Baby into the forest for the traditional dinosaur Wilderness Rite of Passage.
When too many overworked employees drop dead from exhaustion, businesses give dinosaurs two weeks off for a vacation; B.P. Richfield advises Earl to bring his family to WeSaySo Land, which is supposed to be a fun amusement park for the family. What the Sinclairs find is an overpriced, cow themed park that is newly under construction, and they have to stay for 14 days.
Earl makes a deal with the devil (which is a wierd inconsistency in the show) after watching a late night show, "Lifestyles of Those We Envy".
Charlene becomes her father's boss when Richfield is pressured into hiring women. The only problem is, Dad won't listen to her.
Robbie and Charlene go against Earl's orders and sneak out to see his estranged sister, Pearl, a country star, perform. Roy falls in love with Pearl and plans to settle down with her, despite Earl's protests.
Charlene's scent gland comes in and Fran explains the one boy who is attracted to her scent is the one she's destined to marry. But Charlene puts out fumes of burning rubber and attracts the school janitor who aspires to be a tree pusher.
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