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Dinosaurs

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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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Episodes

4 seasons · 65 episodes
Season 15 ep. · 1991
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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."

  4. 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.

  5. 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
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Episode 8: Career Opportunities

    Nov 6, 1991 · 23 min

    Robbie objects to the career--tree pusher--assigned to him by the "Job Wizard."

  9. Episode 9: Unmarried ... With Children

    Nov 13, 1991 · 23 min

    A liberated single female's ideas make Fran reconsider renewing her marriage license.

  10. 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.

  11. Episode 11: Switched At Birth

    Nov 27, 1991 · 23 min

    The Sinclairs learn that the baby might have been switched with another.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Episode 15: Steroids to Heaven

    Feb 12, 1993 · 23 min

    Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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."

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Episode 6: Terrible Twos

    Jul 13, 1994 · 23 min

    Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos."

  7. Episode 7: Changing Nature

    Jul 20, 1994 · 23 min

    Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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".

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.