Dinosaurs
The Funniest Family in 60 Million Years!
Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
Seasons
1. The Mighty Megalosaurus
Air Date: 1991-04-26
Earl lays an egg when he asks his boss for a raise, and Fran lays an egg--literally.
2. The Mating Dance
Air Date: 1991-05-03
Family duties and the baby combine to frazzle Fran, and Earl can't figure out her problem.
3. Hurling Day
Air Date: 1991-05-10
Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."
4. High Noon
Air Date: 1991-05-17
A monstrous male who notices Fran in the supermarket challenges Earl to a fight to the death.
5. The Howling
Air Date: 1991-05-24
Robbie questions howling as a rite of passage--an act that puts Earl and Roy at odds with each other.
1. The Golden Child
Air Date: 1991-09-18
When the Sinclair baby sprouts a golden horn, he is trumpeted as the prophesied King of the Dinosaurs.
2. Family Challenge
Air Date: 1991-09-25
When the Sinclairs' TV is wrecked, Earl enters the family on a game show to win a new set.
3. I Never Ate for My Father
Air Date: 1991-10-02
When Robbie flubs his initiation into the Young Males' Carnivore Association, Earl fears his son may be a herbivore.
4. Charlene's Tale
Air Date: 1991-10-09
Charlene gets a tail, which whips up strange feelings in Earl, whose little girl is no longer so little.
5. Endangered Species
Air Date: 1991-10-16
Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.
6. Employee of the Month
Air Date: 1991-10-23
Earl anticipates a promotion as he awaits a dinner with Richfield; Robbie brings home a "pet" human.
7. When Food Goes Bad
Air Date: 1991-10-30
Lurking in the Sinclair refrigerator are delectable creatures that go bad, very bad, while Charlene watches the baby.
8. Career Opportunities
Air Date: 1991-11-06
Robbie objects to the career--tree pusher--assigned to him by the "Job Wizard."
9. Unmarried ... With Children
Air Date: 1991-11-13
A liberated single female's ideas make Fran reconsider renewing her marriage license.
10. How to Pick Up Girls
Air Date: 1991-11-20
Robbie gets pointers on how to approach girls from a streetwise contemporary named Spike.
11. Switched At Birth
Air Date: 1991-11-27
The Sinclairs learn that the baby might have been switched with another.
12. Refrigerator Day
Air Date: 1991-12-11
Earl's fridge is repossessed as the dinosaurs celebrate Refrigerator Day and the gift of cold storage.
13. What Sexual Harris Meant
Air Date: 1991-12-18
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. Fran Live
Air Date: 1992-01-08
Fran gets a job on TV giving advice to dinosaurs, leaving Earl to learn how to cope with a wife who works.
15. Power Erupts
Air Date: 1992-01-15
A power struggle erupts between the Wesayso Corp. and Robbie after he invents a way to generate energy as a science project.
16. The Clip Show
Air Date: 1992-01-22
An archaeologist documents dinosaurs' way of life as they may have existed long ago, but clips from previous episodes tell a different story.
17. A New Leaf
Air Date: 1992-02-05
A wild plant has a weird effect on the dinosaurs--it makes them dopey and happy, to the exclusion of everything else.
18. The Last Temptation of Ethyl
Air Date: 1992-02-12
Earl thinks Old Ethyl has died, but she returns from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife.
19. Nuts To War (1)
Air Date: 1992-02-19
The four-legged dinosaurs encroach on the pistachio-nut supply of the "normal" dinosaurs...and that means war.
20. Nuts To War (2)
Air Date: 1992-02-26
Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.
21. And The Winner Is...
Air Date: 1992-03-25
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. Slave to Fashion
Air Date: 1992-04-01
Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with an expensive coat, but the coat leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status.
23. Leader of the Pack
Air Date: 1992-04-22
When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them.
24. WESAYSO Knows Best
Air Date: 1992-05-08
Wesayso insists Roy replace Earl as the father of the Sinclairs, who are selected as the Wesayso spokesfamily.
1. Nature Calls
Air Date: 1992-09-18
Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.
2. Baby Talk
Air Date: 1992-10-02
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. Network Genius
Air Date: 1992-10-16
Earl is hired as a network executive when his answers on a test for new television shows prove to be surprisingly accurate.
4. The Discovery
Air Date: 1992-10-23
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. Little Boy Boo
Air Date: 1992-10-30
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. Germ Warfare
Air Date: 1992-11-06
A crash of problems is made, when Earl gives Baby a dirty suck-toy that was on the roof of the chimney after a mouse stoled it from him. After giving it to him, Earl comes home from work and finds out from Fran that Baby is awfully sick. It's a terrible situation for the two to find the cure. There first doctor was Dr. Frankis but his plan was to make the Sinclair family sell there properties and there money to make him more richer. But Ethyl didn't believe that he could do the right thing, so she offered Fran and Earl to go out into the woods and find the guy that cures everything. Zabar, the guy in the woods cured Baby and was back to normal.
7. Hungry for Love
Air Date: 1992-11-13
Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.
8. License to Parent
Air Date: 1992-11-20
It's a nightmare for earl and Fran as parents when there parent license is being taken away from the Parent Patrol Officer Battleheim. fran and Earl feel very ashamed that they have disobeyed the rules and code of parenting; Also after the two's license was taken away, Robbie and Charlene with Baby are causing problems with Battleheim when he puts the gun onall of them, but Fran and Earl immediately rush to stop Battleheim from hurting and scaring the kids. Making sure he doesn't get caught about the situation, he gives back Earl and Fran there parent license and leaves.
9. Charlene's Flat World
Air Date: 1992-12-04
When Charlene's class is assigned to think of an original idea, her world-is-round theory falls flat, and she's tried for heresy. She get's arrested stating that the world is round and everybody believes that the world is flat. So she decides to prove them wrong by traveling with Robbie to the end of the earth to there sudden death. But they return and everyone realized now the world was round.
10. Wilderness Weekend
Air Date: 1992-12-18
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. The Son Also Rises
Air Date: 1993-01-08
A hugh argument comes between Earl and Robbie when they both fight over for there rights and respect. Then later with the fault of Ethyl to tell Robbie the story about his grandpa battling his enemy. Robbie challenges Earl to the 'Pit Of Death' match to see who will have the role of the household. Robbie wins but isn't comfortable with his new role.
12. Getting to Know You
Air Date: 1993-01-15
Charlene feels to be in a world of unknown when her birthday party becomes a failed wish come true, when Earl brings his friends from the WeSaySo job to celebrate her birthday party. After a shocking miserable party, Charlene decides to leave the Sinclair family and join another family as part of a student-exchange program. It's real hard for Earl to know and understand who Charlene really is. Until another student from the student-exchange named France-our comes and becomes a main pain in the neck for the Sinclair family. But then Baby eats him and then Earl and Fran try to come clean when his parent Henri and Semela ask where there son is. To make it up to them, Fran forces Earl to give them the TV, but thats when Charlene returns home and Earl and Charlene get to talk about the misunderstood birthday party. Charlene forgave him with a passionate kiss.
13. Green Card
Air Date: 1993-01-29
It's a big problem when the government blames its poor economy on four-legged dinosaurs and enacts anti-four-legged laws. So in order for Monica to stay in the land of Pangia, Roy marries the outlawed Monica so that she can stay in the country for good, but this also causes big effections and errors on Roy's friendship with Earl and his job the WeSaySo Corporation.
14. Out of the Frying Pan
Air Date: 1993-02-05
After knocking the daylights out of Earl with a frying pan makes the baby a star on commercials, puts Fran into show-biz orbit, and leaves Earl marooned as a big lump of nothing. But thats when for the first time Earl and Monica have a good aggrement that the whole spotlight thing for the Baby is too much and decide to let Fran think for herself on what she has done and what she made the Baby become after all the superstar junk.
15. Steroids to Heaven
Air Date: 1993-02-12
Robbie doesn't feel that much comfortable with being the weakest dinosaur in the family, so in order for him to become very strong and muscular, he uses one of Dolf's favorite foods to make him become very strong and that's when he starts giving Caroline the hots and tries to woo her love.
16. Honey, I Miss the Kids
Air Date: 1993-02-19
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. Swamp Music
Air Date: 1993-02-26
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. Dirty Dancin'
Air Date: 1993-03-12
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. If I Were a Tree
Air Date: 1993-04-16
In this fairy tale episode, Ethyl tells Baby a story about a tree pusher Earl who was about to push down a spirit tree which switched his soul for him become a tree and the spirit tree to become Earl. When Roy brings Spirit home to the Sinclair family, he can't help to understand what has happened to him, when Earl realizes that he's stuck in the tree. Fran later believes the Spirit when he tells her that she is not Earl and that Earl is in the tree. After words, Fran goes to find Earl and Spirit after last night being taken away from the house by the WeSay So Policemens. Spirit switched Earl's soul back to were it belongs. And everything was over with but the tree with the Spirit in it was destoryed.
20. We Are Not Alone
Air Date: 1993-05-02
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. Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
Air Date: 1993-05-09
Charlene grabs the attention of her family and other audiences with her amazing performing humans. But it's not that easy when she finds out the mother wants her children back from Charlene and Robbie thinks that she's pushing them to far to make her very famous and become a superstar. When she later appears on the State Fair she confesses about what was very wrong for her and everyone else to be doing.
22. The Clip Show II
Air Date: 1993-07-02
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.
1. Monster Under the Bed
Air Date: 1994-06-01
The Baby swears there's a monster under his bed, but no one believes him--until it starts dragging victims into its hole.
2. Earl, Don't Be a Hero
Air Date: 1994-06-08
Earl assumes the powers of a superhero, but he's bound to use his might only for the Wesayso Corp.
3. The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Air Date: 1994-06-22
Questions about life's meaning plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism."
4. Driving Miss Ethyl
Air Date: 1994-06-29
Earl drives Ethyl to her reunion, and the kids drive Fran crazy when she tries to get them to pose for a portrait.
5. Earl's Big Jackpot
Air Date: 1994-07-06
A workplace injury ends up costing Earl his job but it pays off big for him in court.
6. Terrible Twos
Air Date: 1994-07-13
Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos."
7. Changing Nature
Air Date: 1994-07-20
Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.
8. Georgie Must Die
Air Date: 1995-09-06
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. Into the Woods
Air Date: 1995-09-20
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. Variations on a Theme Park
Air Date: 1995-11-06
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. Life in the Faust Lane
Air Date: 1995-11-07
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. Working Girl
Air Date: 1995-11-08
Charlene becomes her father's boss when Richfield is pressured into hiring women. The only problem is, Dad won't listen to her.
13. Earl and Pearl
Air Date: 1995-11-09
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. Scent of a Reptile
Air Date: 1995-11-10
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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Rating
7.8/10
Release Date
1991-04-26
Episodes
65 (4 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Walt Disney Television
Jim Henson Productions
Michael Jacobs Productions