The Tragic History of Dinosaurs (1991) & Its Unforgettable Final Episode

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Dive into the prehistoric world of television as we unravel the fascinating history behind the iconic series "Dinosaurs" (1991). Join us on a nostalgic journey back to the early '90s, when this groundbreaking show took the small screen by storm, at least for a bit of time.
We'll explore the genesis of "Dinosaurs," from its visionary creators Jim Henson and Michael Jacobs, to the talented cast and crew who brought these lovable dinosaurs to life. Get ready to meet the Sinclair family and their hilarious adventures in a world where humans and dinosaurs coexist.
Join us for a trip down memory lane, as we revisit the cultural impact of "Dinosaurs" and its enduring legacy in pop culture. From its witty social commentary to its unforgettable final episode.
If you're a fan of "Dinosaurs" or just curious about the behind-the-scenes magic of '90s television, give this video a thumbs up and share it with fellow dino enthusiasts!
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@matthewsermons7247 6 ай бұрын

The most memorable episode for me was when Baby got sick and while the doctors kept pushing newer and newer drugs, the microbes just enjoyed each like a party cocktail. It was the mother-in-law who had been suggesting an old wives' tale remedy of moldy bread that actually worked. Later in life, I would realize that this was a reference to penicillin.

@C-AntiquusUn 5 ай бұрын

my most memorable one is where they have a civil war between the two legged dinos and the four legged dinos and when robbie gets drafted he asks why they arent using guns and is told because they havent been invented, that one the one where earl sells his soul for a mug with the face of some dino with a captains hat and a pipe i think its supposed to be a parody of the honeymooners character and baby tries to swipe it mission impossible style

@lwcreaper6501 2 ай бұрын

I remember that episode

@Ultrox007 2 ай бұрын

This episode takes on a whole new meaning...

@sasshole8121 6 ай бұрын

The puppetry was so seamless that I always saw the dinosaurs as characters and not as puppets. It was only years later that I realized what an insane feat of coordination the entire show was.

@UltimateGamerCC 6 ай бұрын

Jim Henson was the goat of puppet masters.

@johnm.withersiv4352 6 ай бұрын

It was extremely well made and beautiful to watch.

@doaldox 6 ай бұрын

We need a remake no CGI please

@UltimateGamerCC 6 ай бұрын

they will so do CGI. Brian doesnt have his dad's talent as much as Jim had the talent. not to mention hollywood is about spending the least money possible.@@doaldox

@wadebrashear7517 6 ай бұрын

Wait... Those were puppets?

@downix 6 ай бұрын

My whole family still does the "We're gonna need another Timmy" line whenever something breaks. Such a classic.

@jordanhoughton1948 6 ай бұрын

My wife and I watched a random episode recently. When the science experiment tv show played followed with the line "WE'RE GOING TO NEED ANOTHER TIMMY!" we couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes straight.

@beipiaosaurus 6 ай бұрын

Mr. Lizard, the parody of Mr. Wizard. Classic.

@chancepaladin 6 ай бұрын

"why are our years counting down, its like they're leading to something?" one of the best lines in anything ever.

@JanetStarChild 5 ай бұрын

It's leading to nothing; the Gregorian calendar is antiquated and counter-productive. Would be better if humanity switched to the Holocene calendar.

@jamessmith6123 5 ай бұрын

@@JanetStarChildis this a joke? The joke with the calendar counting down was because it was a BC calendar which means their calendar was counting down to Christ

@JanetStarChild 5 ай бұрын

@@jamessmith6123 I understand the joke, but rather than just responding with "LAWLZ", I wanted to instead give a sincere response. The Gregorian calendar makes no sense; it would be like counting down to Robin Hood's birthday. Ideally, we should be counting up from the day the Earth formed; I suggest the moment when Thea made contact with primordial Earth, as that's the moment when the _real_ Earth began. But, as we can't pinpoint that moment, the Holocene calendar makes sense from a human history point of view.

@Lannis31 5 ай бұрын

@@JanetStarChildGet a sense of humor.

@Demiurge13 5 ай бұрын

@@JanetStarChild we don't really know the exact moment of earth's creation. It's all estimates and rounded off. Also even that Thea impact is a rough estimate as well.

@thelaughingrouge 6 ай бұрын

It literally can not be understated how absolutely buck wild that ending was for a sitcom in 1994! It was unheard of.

@starbrand3726 6 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: When Kevin Clash was puppeteering the Baby, he just made up the voice as a place holder or fill in. The intention was to later hire a named actor to do the voice, but producers liked Kevin's fill in voice so much that they kept it. 😊

@Attmay 5 ай бұрын

It’s similar to Elmo‘s voice, but with pronouns.

@starbrand3726 3 ай бұрын

@@Attmay "I'm the Baby, gotta love me."

@THEGREATMAX 2 ай бұрын

Kevin Clash diddled kids and only got exonerated because the acts took place outside of the court's jurisdiction

@starbrand3726 2 ай бұрын

@@THEGREATMAX Incorrect! In most of the cases the statute of limitations ran out. You only get a certain amount of time to lodge a complaint against an abuser. Legally you can't pop up after 20, or 30, years and claim assault. In the other case, the man who accused Kevin Clash (Elmo) of underage sexual conduct has RECANTED. His lawyer now says it was an "adult consensual relationship." And for the record there were technically no "kids" involved, they were 17, legal in many states. Seems like a money grab to me.

@dungeonmaster6292 2 ай бұрын

That's quite a ...defense@@starbrand3726

@845835 6 ай бұрын

An amazing final episode when you consider how dark it is for this type of show. They showed huge balls! This and MASH are the finales I remember the most in my life.

@jeromegreen3654 6 ай бұрын

Wait till you see Loki finale 🤭

@jpotter2086 6 ай бұрын

A doomed show about doomed characters that had nothing to lose!

@johnm.withersiv4352 6 ай бұрын

Sledgehammer blew up the world too.

@Doctor_Eightball 5 ай бұрын

Blake's 7

@kevinkeeney9418 5 ай бұрын

@@johnm.withersiv4352 And then got renewed.

@TomQuoVadis 6 ай бұрын

I watched this sparingly as a really young kid and the finale was one of the few episodes I watched. I remember feeling really strange about it because on the one hand it made sense, the dinosaurs went extinct, but on the other it was a really depressing way to end the show.

@BeyondDaX 6 ай бұрын

and a very telling warning of people going through the same thing if we are not careful

@vincentharris2259 6 ай бұрын

@@BeyondDaXSo They All Died In The Finale Damn

@themidcentrist 5 ай бұрын

@dbnydnvn In my opinion, that would have made for an adequate but forgettable ending. I think it was a good lesson for children that not all endings in life are happy ones, and that sometimes things go wrong that their parents and teachers are just as powerless as they are to put right. Every generation has its Pearl Harbor / Challenger / 9-11-01 moment when we have to acknowledge that even for children, the real world can't always be Disney. I especially like that the show didn't actually show the fate of the dinosaurs, but still made it abundantly clear in terms that most children could understand that things were not going to end well.

@AzraelThanatos 5 ай бұрын

It's one of the two shows that ended up feeling depressing there where they went off with that rather than a high note. The other that I remember being David the Gnome...

@TheNuno 5 ай бұрын

@@themidcentrist unless you live in Florida, they would ban it from existence

@user-uo6cq1cp3u 6 ай бұрын

One fun tidbit I’m surprised this video didn’t mention: some character names are references to oil and petroleum companies. The Sinclair family (Sinclair Oil Company, who also use a dinosaur as their mascot), Earl’s best friend Roy Hess (Hess Corporation), and Earl’s boss BP Richfield (BP=British Petroleum, and Richfield referring to a field rich in oil deposits, as well as referencing the character’s wealth…very clever name :D )

@SydNixon 5 ай бұрын

Atlantic Richfield was another oil company, which became ARCO and merged with Amoco, which later merged with BP years after the show!

@donskiver 5 ай бұрын

Didnt realize that. Very clever considering a lot of people call oil "dinosaur sauce".

@jimbear62 5 ай бұрын

Also the Grandmother was named "Ethyl" , a type of gasoline

@ronnieperez8519 5 ай бұрын

I had a feeling the connection to Sinclair gas was no coincidence!

@themeanlesbeann 5 ай бұрын

As a small child this show was everything to me. Baby Sinclair always made me laugh no matter how many times it cried "Not the Momma!"

@andrewgrove1691 5 ай бұрын

Every time I see a frying pan it reminds me of baby Sinclair

@markmower1746 Ай бұрын

@@andrewgrove1691why was he called Sinclair?

@wstine79 6 ай бұрын

I never missed DINOSAURS in elementary school. The "Tail Implants," the "He's our real baby," and "Tossing off Grandma" were some of my favorites. The Animatronics were awesome.

@mattdarrock666 6 ай бұрын

Don't forget the ''schmoo'' episode

@michaelmeyer4682 6 ай бұрын

My favorite episode was the one where the food came out of the fridge and fought the kids. The main guy had a pet cabbage and a fork for a hand.

@samholdsworth420 6 ай бұрын

I enjoyed it. Barely remember it though 😂 NOT THE MOMMA

@RobCamp-rmc_0 6 ай бұрын

@@mattdarrock666you wash your goddamn mouth out with soap right this instant, mister

@JazGalaxy 6 ай бұрын

My favorite was “What Sexual Harass Meant”. To this day whenever someone says a pun my brother and I are always like “ two meanings!!!”

@snittykitty1 6 ай бұрын

One of the best shows ever created, thanks for this retrospective.

@bubby14 6 ай бұрын

I remember being shocked quiet during the finale. My family watched it on the crappy little tv in the kitchen because we just expected it to be back the next week.

@turtleboy4111 6 ай бұрын

I remember making the connection between TMNT and Dinosaurs as a kid, through the animatronic faces. But I didn't realise that they were both the brain child of Jim until just now, thank you guys for learning me some new trivia.

@mattr75 6 ай бұрын

This show was truly ahead of its time

@MsDisneylandlover 5 ай бұрын

So agree especially with the satire lol

@wilhelmbittrich88 3 ай бұрын

The animations were brilliant

@soulchorea 6 ай бұрын

One of the greatest shows ever; it's just as funny now as it was back then - timeless! I still say the Baby is the funniest "muppet" character ever. And whoever came up with the name "Howard Handupme" is just a genius 🤣

@strifenineteen 6 ай бұрын

"I'm the Baby, gotta love me"

@PoodlePuncher 6 ай бұрын

probably the same person that named "Sexual Harris" for the "What Sexual Harris Meant" special report. 🤣

@marcgodley3064 5 ай бұрын

Man, I remember this show when I was a kid! It was way ahead of it’s time and still looks awesome!

@pamelamays4186 6 ай бұрын

Moving a show around on the TV schedule is always the beginning of the end of that show.

@MarioKartSuperCircuit 2 ай бұрын

Family Guy ☠️

@an0idiot0of0use 6 ай бұрын

I'll never forget watching this absolute GOAT of a sitcom while eating dinner with my family. It'll always live rent free in my mind.

@laceyleighlovell2967 6 ай бұрын

I simply adored this show. It was on when I was a tween. It started when I was 10 and ended when I was 13. I had that plush Baby Sinclair. It had a string, and when you pulled it, the voice would say things like "not the mama" and "I'm the baby, gotta love me." My favorite was "I'm gonna bite you now."

@TBoneTony 6 ай бұрын

Always enjoyed the Dinosaurs series. It was a perfect mix of The Simpsons with a Land Before Time feel for it. Even the Simpson's early seasons acknowledged the series in one brief scene with Bart watching a show about a Cartoon Dinosaur Family.

@motherplayer 6 ай бұрын

Really makes me wonder what the joke would have been by the end of the series since that first joke was just a more typical observation.

@BewitchCraft 6 ай бұрын

The ending is a hard watch because as the air horns pointed out, we've learned absolutely nothing! Rewatching it as an adult was amazing. As a kid I liked it for the puppetry, now I love it for how bold they were. Some adults really do need things explained to them via puppets.

@tartrazine5 6 ай бұрын

Yes, it is very frustrating how the left denies the fact that natural gas from fracking has led to a major reduction in America's carbon emissions, instead fixating on impractical solar and wind.

@BeyondDaX 6 ай бұрын

Because its a hard truth that we destroying ourselves just like how Earl and WeSaySo ended up ending the world millions of years ago

@JonTripp115 6 ай бұрын

This was in fact a show that my whole family enjoyed, which was pretty rare in the TGIF days. One of the episodes that always stuck with me was the one with the endangered mammal that was considered a delicacy by the dinosaurs. Bobby tried to protect the last known pair from being eaten. When they tried to explain that there are no more of them, the rebuttal was, "There will always be more. That's what 'more' means."

@MikeKaess 6 ай бұрын

The craziest thing about this video is that Happy Meals used to be $2.

@hobomike6935 23 күн бұрын

You can’t even get a piece of candy for $2 anymore. Inflation sucks

@nevaehhamilton3493 15 күн бұрын

Capitalism and inflation is wild

@jinpei05 6 ай бұрын

The name Howard Handupme will never not make me laugh 😂

@jinpei05 6 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: the family name Sinclair came from the oil and petroleum company and other characters had names that were derived from other fossil fuel companies.

@ironmaster6496 6 ай бұрын

Damn they were foreshadowing the ending right from the start

@Summertimeblues28 6 ай бұрын

I used to watch Dinosaurs in Elementary school and loved it. I remember at one point they moved it to air on Friday nights here in Canada 🇨🇦 and I knew at that point the show was winding down. I’m glad it’s now up on Disney+, my son enjoys watching it now. Great video Dan & Greg.

@bazzingabomb 6 ай бұрын

Loved this show, always remember the " not the mamma " line from the baby.

@grapeshot 6 ай бұрын

Yep The Simpsons in dinosaur form and that finale was quite shocking and bold.

@rodolfosjeronimo9274 6 ай бұрын

Dinosaurs (Família Dinossauro) was huge here in Brasil, here the family Sinclair was "da Silva Sauro", and makes so many sense in pt-br. Overall all the localization was great, the jokes and the political and social criticism included. Was an amazing show!

@sirdaveysockrocker 6 ай бұрын

I loved this show as a kid for its slapstick, but when I rewatched it as an adult, I laughed even harder at its piercing social commentary. It may be one of the most smartly written sitcoms of all time 🏆

@TreyMcDonaldAnimator 6 ай бұрын

If you haven't seen this show, please do. Even the crazy ass finale, it's so much fun.

@a.dackee9737 6 ай бұрын

What’s insane is that this show was probably one kid’s favorite show so imagine the chilling mind numbing realization that your favorite show ended with everyone dying. And that’s it.

@jonathanbynoe4375 5 ай бұрын

That show is a forgotten gem. I remembered watching this show on the TGIF line up. I got to watch some of the repeats on Disney+ when I get the chance to.

@mightyfilm 6 ай бұрын

Everyone's so hung up on the "series finale" and its message that they completely forget about: Earl selling his soul to Satan (Voiced by Tim Curry no less) for an expensive collector's coffee mug A TV commercial that openly mocked Scientology, specifically their ad campaign to sell books A council of elders that voted on their own story of creation to the point of giving it to the easiest and stupidest answer (a giant potato created everything) Robby Sinclair getting the dinosaur equivalent of an erection in class, spurring sex ed classes and Earl taking Robbie to a brothel And the true last episode aired that took on the biggest scourge of the early 90's, Barney the Dinosaur. Dammit, I love this show.

@majorramsey3k 2 ай бұрын

Not to mention the episode where they start censoring dirty words on TV and don't know when to stop.

@JazGalaxy 6 ай бұрын

The line “any footage of a man wearing half a dinosaur would undercut that magic” smashing immediately to a clip of a guy wearing half a dinosaur almost made me spit out my salad. Too funny.

@haydencooper_ 2 ай бұрын

well if he didn't show it i was going to google it. 2024 and all...😆

@arceyes 6 ай бұрын

The sculpt on the figures was absolutely amazing! 🦖

@user-iu9pf7tp6p 6 ай бұрын

Loved this show. Have all four seasons on DVD!

@AbrasiousProductions 6 ай бұрын

me too!

@Dreadjaws 5 ай бұрын

I loved this show so much. There are bits that are always coming back to my memory, like that time where a guy named Frank had a TV show where people called to tell their problems, and his whole shtick was that he listened, then hanged up. Then Fran came up with the idea of actually offering people solutions to their problems, so she ended up replacing him, and one bit of hilarious environmental storytelling was that when Frank was hosting the show had a large "FRANK" on the background, but when Fran replaced him they just removed the "K" at the end, leaving the name off-center, which is exactly the sort of cost-cutting half measure actual TV executives would do in real life.

@melvinshine9841 6 ай бұрын

4:58 It's really sparse, but I love how the theropods have feathers years before we knew for a fact that feathers were a thing in non-avian dinosaurs. The fact the whole cast was hilariously inaccurate did bug me, but I still loved Dinosaurs. I should probably find the DVDs, but I'm not watching the "everything dies" final episode because it's too depressing.

@Chronosmaster002 2 ай бұрын

My 92 year old grandpa still remembers this show. He used to watch it with us when it was airing. Good times

@BlackMethos 6 ай бұрын

Loved that series. Recently got my hands on it to hopefully introduce my son to it at some point. Truly a show for all ages.

@lucaspeacock6525 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for reminding me a Happy Meal used to cost $1.99 and it had a toy with several components that had to be sourced and assembled.

@amanoj318 6 ай бұрын

Man did I love that show when it aired. The episode that always stands out in my mind was the one where they take Baby Sinclair to get his official name, given by some elder who names everyone. Of course something goes wrong as he is giving the name and he dies, resulting in the baby being named 'Agh, agh, I'm dying you idiot' Sinclair. That was, and still is, hilarious to me. :p Still a wonderful show, through and through. Great episode!

@NonEuclideanTacoCannon 5 ай бұрын

I was 10 when this show premiered, even as an ignorant kid it was one of my favorite shows. The end was a traumatic experience for me.

@KotCR 6 ай бұрын

I still remember watching this as a kid, because along with Star Trek it was one of the few shows the entire family liked to watch together; Me, my brothers and sisters, and my parents. And then that final episode...as a kid I remember being quite upset and not knowing exactly what had happened, and thinking "surely, this is a cliff-hanger?". My dad had to break it to me, no, it was not. The dinosaurs went extinct, and well...that's what we see. It was heart-breaking but exactly the kind of hard lessons you need to get used to as a kid, that there just isn't enough of these days with all the safe-space crap.

@havok84 3 ай бұрын

This was one of my favorite shows as a kid. Ankylosaurus was and still is my favorite dinosaur, with Triceratops being a close second. I’ve always been a fan of armored and Tank styled dinosaurs.

@jourdyn414 5 ай бұрын

I loved this show so much as a kid and had a baby Sinclair doll where you pulled a cord and it would say it's classic lines, "not the momma" "I'm the baby, gotta love me"

@TheRogueWolf 6 ай бұрын

Even back in the day, I'd thought that these costumes blew the TMNT ones out of the water in terms of expressiveness (and I was a _huge_ Turtles fan). And then that last episode... I remember waiting for some punchline or last-minute turnaround to save the day, and then that final line and fade to black. I was floored.

@Plaprad 6 ай бұрын

Watched this as a kid the whole run. Loved it enough to do a few rewatches as an adult. All that, and I just noticed the calendar on the wall. They're BC, so the calendar is running backwards from the 31st to the 1st. Cool little detail.

@Chainsawhappy 5 ай бұрын

I'm not exactly sure how this runs alongside the origin story you provided here but I can tell you when I was around ten years old my father worked for Landmark Entertainment Group (They did the Captain Power tv show and lots of theme park attractions and their company president Gary Goddard directed the MOTU movie). In the lobby of their office I saw a large model and characters on a miniature stage of a kitchen which appeared to be a show that looked very similar to DINOSAURS but with an Aliens theme. When I asked about it, they said that this show was pitched as an alien sitcom with the same technology using live actors in suits with animatronic faces but was rejected and instead made into the show DINOSAURS. It was really interesting seeing what the show could have been in an alternate universe.

@usuckthereturn 6 ай бұрын

Haha…the bad word episode was awesome!! Smooo you!!

@noneyobizniz8991 6 ай бұрын

My favorite line from the show: "Fran, get a mop! Roy just horked up something and it's still moving" 😂 I still say it

@thecunninlynguist 6 ай бұрын

Didnt even realize it was jessica walter (rip) as fran until i was deep into AD and happened to binge dinosaurs on dvd at the same time

@thecunninlynguist 6 ай бұрын

I loved this show as a kid. Had a lot of jokes that went over my head at the time...like sexual harris 😂 Then the weed episode, coming out the closet, pubety, abd of course that wild finale

@hezekiahramirez6965 6 ай бұрын

Same. I actually found out the Baby's first curse word, "smoo," is an Australian slang term for vagina. I never would have known that had I not dated someone from Australia. She happened to like the show as a kid too. I might rewatch the whole thing at some point and look for the adult jokes

@thecunninlynguist 6 ай бұрын

@hezekiahramirez6965 I did a rewatch when it was on hulu, surprisingly lots of good adult nudges and innuendo and puns

@andrejg4136 6 ай бұрын

@@thecunninlynguist the writing for this show is really damn good, considering how pedestrian most early 90s prime time fare was

@ariadnefrolich7243 5 ай бұрын

@@hezekiahramirez6965Well, I learned something new today. Thank you.

@erinrising2799 6 ай бұрын

I have never clicked so fast, one of my favorite channels talking about one of my favorite shows. My favorite dinosaur is the Parasaurlophus

@Snaaaaap 5 ай бұрын

Rip Jim Henson. He and his associates were ahead of their time and brought timeless entertainment to a whole generation.

@jesusvazquez4033 6 ай бұрын

I don't know if this only happened in the international version, but after the "good bye" line is said, the regular credits sequence began... yes, the one with the happy music; it felt so weird.

@MrTaurenshaman 6 ай бұрын

Imagine being a kid, seeing this final episode, asking their parents what's gonna happen, and the parents either coddling their child with a made up narrative that it all works out and the dinosaurs are fine, or having parents who truth bomb their kids with cold hard facts

@snowangelnc 5 ай бұрын

Out of all the characters Robbie, the teenage son, was the one that was consistently able to recognize things ingrained in their society that would lead to disaster in the long term, and he was the one that fought the hardest for change. His younger sister wasn't as vocal on things like environmental issues, but she had her moments too, especially for the finale. The sad and relevant irony is that since they were kids with their whole lives ahead of them, they were the ones that got hit the hardest when the adults that had ignored them all along the way ruined the planet for everyone.

@nine_tails137 6 ай бұрын

Compared to the puppets, those Neca toys and comic book cover give me uncanny valley vibes. Also, Baby Sinclair is my favorite character. Especially this line: "This is your brain, this is your brain on the plant. Bonk! ...Any questions?" As well as the episode where the grandma died: "Fran I know when somebody's dead. I'm not a complete idiot. Guess again fatboy!" Oh! and I never realized Baby Sinclair's voice is the same person who did Elmo, until years later.

@drewhenderson9932 6 ай бұрын

Dinosaurs is a classic

@DavidRomigJr 6 ай бұрын

“Earl Snead Sinclair!” “Oh, God. My whole name.”

@vonneely1977 6 ай бұрын

Wow... I had that book as a kid. Happy flashbacks.

@earnestbrown6524 6 ай бұрын

I remember so many of the stories from this show. Love this show. Also this show is why I know the difference between a meteor and a meteorite.

@matthewalexander8307 6 ай бұрын

I remember watching dinosaurs with my family and they always made us laugh but as a kid I learned stuff. Baby Sinclair was so funny and always had my mom laughing so hard she was in tears. I introduced my kids to dinosaurs on Disney plus . They were unsure of it until they saw the baby. Adorable and devilish baby Sinclair was. Great video as always!

@LlanoRiverBlue 5 ай бұрын

I had a cassette tape that was Earl reading classic fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood to baby but they were all set in dinosaur times and the voice actors from the show. Just as hilarious and so ingrained in my memory from falling asleep to it countless times. So much talent from this cast and crew!

@JohnBainbridge0 6 ай бұрын

I didn't know that I needed the Ninja Turtles to Dinosaurs pipeline in my life, but thank you for this! 💚

@ShinDanKuroto 6 ай бұрын

This was one of my favorites growing up & that finale had the whole family in tears I was a little embarrassed at 1st then I realized everyone in the room was crying that was bar none the most fucked up way to end a sitcom. But I loved it best comedy turned tragedy ever.

@Zeithri 6 ай бұрын

That's honestly amazing.

@azraelle6232 6 ай бұрын

I loved the writing for this show, even though I was too young to fully understand it at the time. I remember jokes like "Pangaea's Funniest Home Videos" where a father and son are playing catch, and the son throws the ball and as the father is going back to catch it, he falls into an active volcano. Or the episode that has a modern-day excavation of the Sinclair's home, wondering what mysteries surrounded the hollow stone box in the center of the room, cut to Earl turning on the TV and watching a comedy.

@AbrasiousProductions 6 ай бұрын

"driving miss ethyl" is another pretty heartbreaking episode I think should have more recognition.

@jamespaul6315 6 ай бұрын

What happened in that episode?

@co81385 5 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly, Earl drives Ethyl to her high school reunion, only to find out that Ethyl is the only person/dinosaur to attend, because she is the only one from her graduating class to still be alive.

@AbrasiousProductions 5 ай бұрын

@@co81385 yup, that's the one😢

@Linken_88 6 ай бұрын

Ankylosaurus was and still is my favorite dinosaur. I barely remember this show, and I know I watched it a lot as a kid, I need to take the time and watch it in its entirety.

@chadcurtis7967 5 ай бұрын

It was poetic, there was another episode with Granny telling a story of a tree and tree pusher to baby, in the story the tree dies which the baby hates because no one in the story learned anything. but granny then says, “did you learn something?”, which is the point of the story, that is the show to teach us not to be the dinosaurs.

@Buggy-su4oy 6 ай бұрын

Jessica was so motherly as Fran...she will be missed...as will Sherman....he was great as Earl's bad tempered boss.

@bluenothing720 6 ай бұрын

Loved this one as a kid. Thanks for covering it!

@strifenineteen 6 ай бұрын

My favorite running gag involved the line "we're going to need another Timmy"

@peterparker6584 6 ай бұрын

I'm a little confused if you go by this that means the show had to endings. There was an episode about an archaeologist finding the Sinclair family as fossils and they had all died sitting around watching television. That episode ended with the Sinclair family zombie fight watching a television show called box full of puppies if I remember the episode correctly. They hinted at watching television had made the dinosaurs go extinct I was under the impression that was the last episode of the series I didn't know there was a second episode of a totally separate Extinction event. I should also point out that there was literally a program in the late 90s that talked about Jim Henson Studios being bought by Disney after Jim Henson died and that it was a property of Disney Studios it was like a half an hour program talking about the history of Jim Henson Studios and Jim Henson himself and his death. They talked about stuff like the original Kermit the Frog being made out of a jacket. This is the first I heard that the Disney deal didn't go through for Henson Studios. When I Google it I get told that the Jim Henson Studios are owned by Walt Disney Corporation.

@bentonmarcum8924 5 ай бұрын

Guy forgot about the ending. After the news reporter said goodbye and the broadcast shutdown. Baby said "what's going to happen to us daddy.?" The significance here throughout the series he called Earl "not the mama" which always annoys Earl. Earl face reacts both to the question and being called daddy for the first time. "I don't know son, I don't know" Earl slowly walks to the window. Cut to outside. As Earl looks sadly at the falling snow the camera slowly pulls back slowly fade to black

@SecretGalaxyTV 5 ай бұрын

That conversation happens before the news report. The news report is the end of the episode, just like we showed.

@DenisRyan 5 ай бұрын

I vividly recall watching an episode focusing on environmentalism, and a scene with Baby grunting and struggling and one of his family asks what he's doing. "I'm making compost." Unfortunately, my young teenage self had just put a heaped spoonful of yogurt in my mouth, which I promptly sprayed all over the TV from across the room. I've never done anything similar since, much to my dad's relief.

@hezekiahramirez6965 6 ай бұрын

I loved this show. I did watch the finale as a kid. I thought it was weird and different, which is what I always liked about it anyway. As an aside, I found out a few years ago that there are several adult jokes hidden in the show. For example, when the Baby curses the word he says is "smoo." I happened to date someone who was from Australia who clued me in to the fact that smoo is an Australian slang term for, as she put it, "lady bits." I never would have known that if not for her so I imagine it flew over a lot of people's heads like it did mine. But Jim Henson productions are kind of infamous for sneaking in adult themes and references and such so it's not surprising. As an adult it's a new way to appreciate the show

@Tuari80 6 ай бұрын

OMG, remember when Happy Meals were $1.99 and the toys were actually decent...

@jonasquinn7977 6 ай бұрын

I demand an extended cut. What happened between 245,000,000 BC and 1955!?

@BeyondDaX 6 ай бұрын

The Ice Age, mankind going from domesticated cavemen to a species that will end up doing what the Sinclairs have done but worse than an Ice Age. Because in the end, *we learned absoulately nothing*

@castironchaos 6 ай бұрын

A KZfaq ad aired immediately when your nostalgic Dinosaurs Happy Meal ad finished. The timing was so precise, I didn’t even realize it was a KZfaq ad at first. It’s as if KZfaq knew what it was doing. But no, that couldn’t possibly happen.

@RarebitFiends 6 ай бұрын

I love this show, so much of it is still relevant and hilarious. One of the few TV shows I have on disc so I can watch it whenever, regardless of streaming status.

@RyanMercer 6 ай бұрын

Such a great show

@dcb_75 5 ай бұрын

I was in my late teens when this aired, I remembered thinking it was pretty funny. Now I know why the finale didn't stick out in my mind - who airs the finale and then 7 more episodes? That kind of killed the impact of the episode.

@FunkyM217 6 ай бұрын

Dinosaurs made its way to the UK, on ITV. I remember some of the episodes, Robbie experimenting with Vegetables, Charlene trying out a fake tail, Various adventures and Misadventures with Baby, all that good stuff. And if it's on Disney+ UK, we may have found a new teatime favourite...

@jamespaul6315 6 ай бұрын

I dont think i could bring myself to rewatch the series because of how sad the end is 😢

@kristopherb8046 6 ай бұрын

Love the thumbnail

@NinaFelwitch 6 ай бұрын

I always struggle with naming a favourite of anything. But I always liked Parasaurolophus.

@necrocat9514 6 ай бұрын

I loved that show as a kid and Dinosaurs was the only reason I got subscribed to Disney+

@TheMesosuchus 6 ай бұрын

as a paleontologist this was one of my favorite shows of all time.

@clintonclay3158 5 ай бұрын

The episode where they get infested by mammals like General Chow who takes over their refrigerator and cupboards was legendary.

@glamourghost7523 2 ай бұрын

This was one of my favorite shows as a kid! When i re-watched it& saw the ending i was like oh…

@MurakamiTenshi 5 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness, I remember this show! The puppetry was beautiful! Practical effects never get old.

@harborwolf22 Ай бұрын

The throwing-mother-in-law-off-a-cliff is one of the greatest episodes of television ever.

@robertskitch 6 ай бұрын

I love the dinosaur boom that was happening in the early nineties. I'd say it was mostly centred around the Jurassic Park movie which came out in '93 and I guess would have already been in pre-production by the time Dinosaurs started airing, though I don't know how much of an effect it had on the show.

@williamwilkinson6665 6 ай бұрын

@robertskitch....Land of the lost in the 70s was a better dino show than what the 90s offered...I'll take stop motion animation any day over CGI ...

@robertskitch 6 ай бұрын

@@williamwilkinson6665 I'm afraid that I'm not all aware of much notable use of CGI in the dinosaur media of the early nineties outside of Jurassic Park, and even that still had plenty of practical effects... All I was saying was that I was happy that a whole variety of dinosaur media came out in the one short period. I wasn't really commenting on the quality of anything. There was everything from Dinotopia to Barney; from Jurassic Park to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Like, I enjoyed the Super Mario Bros. movie, but I'm not going to argue that it's the best dinosaur story out there.

@UltimateGamerCC 6 ай бұрын

yup, that ending has remained with me to this very day, amazing sitcom with an amazing yet dark finale. though considering everybody knows what eventually happens to dinosaur-kind, i suppose we should've seen it coming.