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Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
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4 seasons · 65 episodesSeason 15 ep. · 1991
Episode 1: The Mighty Megalosaurus
Apr 26, 1991 · 23 min
Earl lays an egg when he asks his boss for a raise, and Fran lays an egg--literally.
Episode 2: The Mating Dance
May 3, 1991 · 23 min
Family duties and the baby combine to frazzle Fran, and Earl can't figure out her problem.
Episode 3: Hurling Day
May 10, 1991 · 23 min
Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."
Episode 4: High Noon
May 17, 1991 · 23 min
A monstrous male who notices Fran in the supermarket challenges Earl to a fight to the death.
Episode 5: The Howling
May 24, 1991 · 23 min
Robbie questions howling as a rite of passage--an act that puts Earl and Roy at odds with each other.
Season 224 ep. · 1991–1992
Episode 1: The Golden Child
Sep 18, 1991 · 23 min
When the Sinclair baby sprouts a golden horn, he is trumpeted as the prophesied King of the Dinosaurs.
Episode 2: Family Challenge
Sep 25, 1991 · 23 min
When the Sinclairs' TV is wrecked, Earl enters the family on a game show to win a new set.
Episode 3: I Never Ate for My Father
Oct 2, 1991 · 23 min
When Robbie flubs his initiation into the Young Males' Carnivore Association, Earl fears his son may be a herbivore.
Episode 4: Charlene's Tale
Oct 9, 1991 · 23 min
Charlene gets a tail, which whips up strange feelings in Earl, whose little girl is no longer so little.
Episode 5: Endangered Species
Oct 16, 1991 · 23 min
Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.
Episode 6: Employee of the Month
Oct 23, 1991 · 23 min
Earl anticipates a promotion as he awaits a dinner with Richfield; Robbie brings home a "pet" human.
Episode 7: When Food Goes Bad
Oct 30, 1991 · 23 min
Lurking in the Sinclair refrigerator are delectable creatures that go bad, very bad, while Charlene watches the baby.
Episode 8: Career Opportunities
Nov 6, 1991 · 23 min
Robbie objects to the career--tree pusher--assigned to him by the "Job Wizard."
Episode 9: Unmarried ... With Children
Nov 13, 1991 · 23 min
A liberated single female's ideas make Fran reconsider renewing her marriage license.
Episode 10: How to Pick Up Girls
Nov 20, 1991 · 23 min
Robbie gets pointers on how to approach girls from a streetwise contemporary named Spike.
Episode 11: Switched At Birth
Nov 27, 1991 · 23 min
The Sinclairs learn that the baby might have been switched with another.
Episode 12: Refrigerator Day
Dec 11, 1991 · 23 min
Earl's fridge is repossessed as the dinosaurs celebrate Refrigerator Day and the gift of cold storage.
Episode 13: What Sexual Harris Meant
Dec 18, 1991 · 23 min
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.
Episode 14: Fran Live
Jan 8, 1992 · 23 min
Fran gets a job on TV giving advice to dinosaurs, leaving Earl to learn how to cope with a wife who works.
Episode 15: Power Erupts
Jan 15, 1992 · 23 min
A power struggle erupts between the Wesayso Corp. and Robbie after he invents a way to generate energy as a science project.
Episode 16: The Clip Show
Jan 22, 1992 · 23 min
An archaeologist documents dinosaurs' way of life as they may have existed long ago, but clips from previous episodes tell a different story.
Episode 17: A New Leaf
Feb 5, 1992 · 23 min
A wild plant has a weird effect on the dinosaurs--it makes them dopey and happy, to the exclusion of everything else.
Episode 18: The Last Temptation of Ethyl
Feb 12, 1992 · 23 min
Earl thinks Old Ethyl has died, but she returns from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife.
Episode 19: Nuts To War (1)
Feb 19, 1992 · 23 min
The four-legged dinosaurs encroach on the pistachio-nut supply of the "normal" dinosaurs...and that means war.
Episode 20: Nuts To War (2)
Feb 26, 1992 · 23 min
Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.
Episode 21: And The Winner Is...
Mar 25, 1992 · 23 min
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.
Episode 22: Slave to Fashion
Apr 1, 1992 · 23 min
Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with an expensive coat, but the coat leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status.
Episode 23: Leader of the Pack
Apr 22, 1992 · 23 min
When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them.
Episode 24: WESAYSO Knows Best
May 8, 1992 · 23 min
Wesayso insists Roy replace Earl as the father of the Sinclairs, who are selected as the Wesayso spokesfamily.
Season 322 ep. · 1992–1993
Episode 1: Nature Calls
Sep 18, 1992 · 23 min
Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.
Episode 2: Baby Talk
Oct 2, 1992 · 23 min
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.
Episode 3: Network Genius
Oct 16, 1992 · 23 min
Earl is hired as a network executive when his answers on a test for new television shows prove to be surprisingly accurate.
Episode 4: The Discovery
Oct 23, 1992 · 23 min
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.
Episode 5: Little Boy Boo
Oct 30, 1992 · 23 min
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.
Episode 6: Germ Warfare
Nov 6, 1992 · 23 min
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.
Episode 7: Hungry for Love
Nov 13, 1992 · 23 min
Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.
Episode 8: License to Parent
Nov 20, 1992 · 23 min
When Earl is caught by the Parent Police losing his temper at the baby, he loses his parenting license.
Episode 9: Charlene's Flat World
Dec 4, 1992 · 23 min
Charlene is charged with heresy and jailed after submitting her homework assignment claiming that the world is round and not flat.
Episode 10: Wilderness Weekend
Dec 18, 1992 · 23 min
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.
Episode 11: The Son Also Rises
Jan 8, 1993 · 23 min
After failing to mow the lawn, Robbie challenges Earl for male domination of the family... and wins.
Episode 12: Getting to Know You
Jan 15, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Episode 13: Green Card
Jan 29, 1993 · 23 min
The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.
Episode 14: Out of the Frying Pan
Feb 5, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Episode 15: Steroids to Heaven
Feb 12, 1993 · 23 min
Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.
Episode 16: Honey, I Miss the Kids
Feb 19, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Episode 17: Swamp Music
Feb 26, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Episode 18: Dirty Dancin'
Mar 12, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Episode 19: If I Were a Tree
Apr 16, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Episode 20: We Are Not Alone
May 2, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Episode 21: Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
May 9, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Episode 22: The Clip Show II
Jul 2, 1993 · 23 min
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.
Season 414 ep. · 1994–1995
Episode 1: Monster Under the Bed
Jun 1, 1994 · 23 min
The Baby swears there's a monster under his bed, but no one believes him--until it starts dragging victims into its hole.
Episode 2: Earl, Don't Be a Hero
Jun 8, 1994 · 23 min
Earl assumes the powers of a superhero, but he's bound to use his might only for the Wesayso Corp.
Episode 3: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Jun 22, 1994 · 23 min
Questions about life's meaning plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism."
Episode 4: Driving Miss Ethyl
Jun 29, 1994 · 23 min
Earl drives Ethyl to her reunion, and the kids drive Fran crazy when she tries to get them to pose for a portrait.
Episode 5: Earl's Big Jackpot
Jul 6, 1994 · 23 min
A workplace injury ends up costing Earl his job but it pays off big for him in court.
Episode 6: Terrible Twos
Jul 13, 1994 · 23 min
Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos."
Episode 7: Changing Nature
Jul 20, 1994 · 23 min
Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.
Episode 8: Georgie Must Die
Sep 6, 1995 · 23 min
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.
Episode 9: Into the Woods
Sep 20, 1995 · 23 min
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.
Episode 10: Variations on a Theme Park
Nov 6, 1995 · 23 min
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.
Episode 11: Life in the Faust Lane
Nov 7, 1995 · 23 min
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".
Episode 12: Working Girl
Nov 8, 1995 · 23 min
Charlene becomes her father's boss when Richfield is pressured into hiring women. The only problem is, Dad won't listen to her.
Episode 13: Earl and Pearl
Nov 9, 1995 · 23 min
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.
Episode 14: Scent of a Reptile
Nov 10, 1995 · 23 min
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.















