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Submitted by M Muldoon
Dinosaurs wasn’t a particularly funny show, but for some reason, it’s remained in our collective consciousness since its debut in ‘91 — nostalgia win! The show was a cross between Muppets, The Simpsons, and, uh, dinosaurs.
Speaking of frying pans, does anybody remember this?
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It was just WEIRD.. so very very weird.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
NOT THE MOMMA!!
that’s what i remember too! Not the Momma! *whap*
EPIC…I still say it and my kids are like…..WTF Mom??
Second-best TV baby ever, after Stewie.
Wouldn’t the baby dinosaur always try to hurt the dad? Classic.
Try, no. Succeed, always.
i loved this show i always wanted the talking sinclare doll!
My parents wouldn’t let me watch this show, I really don’t know why. Of course, that made the show irresistable. I think if my parents didn’t care, I wouldn’t have been interested in it.
Snoreeeeeeee. Thanks for your life story.
Be nice. Nobody likes mean people.
Aww…sombodiez no getz hugz wenn an itty bitty baby…growz up into a self-appointed forum quality-control watchdog and general a**hole. Mostly that last part.
It’s the first time I’m watching this in English.
I think I got used to the Spanish son, “Nene consentido” (spoiled kid).
hahaha i love this show i have the first 2 seasons on dvd.
haha so do I… I love it!!!
OMG! you two have so much in common you should chow down on each others va.gi.na’s
And record it…
This traumatized me. It was creepy, surreal, and yet funny. I’m not sure what to think about this, but I love things that remind me of my childhoof in the ’90’s. It’s a Win, I guess.
*shutters*
*shutters*…and blinds!!!…and drapes!!! oh my
I loved that show!!!
Hee hee hee, my parents wouldn’t let me watch this show either, but it didn’t stop me from trying.
Does the Baby sound like Elmo to anyone else?
Baby is voiced by the same actor who does Elmo – Kevin Clash. Remember, Dinosaurs was a Jim Henson production.
Jon, permission to high-five you for “Dinosaurs” knowledge?
Um permission to state the obvious that he googled the info.
Uh, no, I just happened to know that.
You know, that’s the second comment (so far) where you’ve been a jerk. Lay off, will ya?
Second? Keep reading
Might want to see a doctor about that pole up your butt.
Baby Sinclair was done by the same guy that did Elmo…so yeah.
NOT THE MAMA! *WHACK!*
I always say “Not the Momma!”
Ugh, I never liked it, but mostly because of the terrible way they represented “dinosaurs.” Just about everything on there is not even a real dinosaur.
Cry?
I loved this show as a kid. Anyone remember the oddly depressing ending?
Didn’t the family accidentally cause the extinction of the dinosaurs with their Grill?
I don’t remember that but I read it somewhere. Yeah it’s kinda depressing but clever ending. You knew they were going to die anyway but you didn’t wanna think about it.
Vividly.
The city is being swarmed by Bunch Beetles, quite far off from their normal breeding ground. The beetles are eating all the plants in sight, so WeSaySo sprays pesticide to kill the beetles. The pesticide destroys all plant life.
[insert quote "We can't survive on Ho-Hos!"]
Some of the characters decide to go to the beetles’ breeding ground to find out what happened – turns out WeSaySo had bulldozed the area to make a ****wax fruit factory****. Then, WeSaySo comes up with a BRILLIANT plan:
What makes plants grow? Rain.
Where does rain come from? Clouds.
Where do clouds come from? VOLCANOES!
So they drop some BOMBS into the volcanoes (don’t ask me where they got bombs from), blocking out the sun. When Earl goes to ask his boss what they’re going to do to fix the problem, his response is something to the effect of “That’s a fourth-quarter problem. Third-quarter profits on WeSaySo blankets and electric heaters are through the roof! Hahahahaha!”
The last scene is the news anchor reporting.
“And the forecast for tomorrow, dark and bitterly cold. This is Howard Handupme. Goodnight. [He looks down, then looks back up] Goodbye.”
It still sticks with me.
Srsly? Not reel? Dam!
I know! Who would have thought a show with muppet dinosaurs wouldn’t be real! Gasp!!
I’m the baby, Gotta love me!
i loved this show
Hahaha, we sang this back in preschool when it was still popular. I think it was ‘98 or 99′ we sang it.
Hahah!! This is crazy. I was just talking about this show with my old roommates the other day. “Not the Momma!!”
I remember watching this show on TGIF. Now that I’m older I understand the concepts that were more aimed at adults and I got the two box sets of the show on DVD just so I could have it for any time
I remember watching and loving this show as a kid so I got the DVDs. I have to agree with you; I enjoy understanding all the stuff in this show that was aimed at adults that totally went over my little kid head. I actually find the show funnier now than I did back then. The mating dance episode is probably my favorite; totally a metaphor for a teenage kid getting a boner in class and masturbation, which you still can’t really directly talk about on TV without being criticized. So props to Dinosaurs for that.
this is one of the first shows I remember watching as a kid. I was born in ‘87 so i was really little when this show came out. But I loved it.
whew! i am glad to know that i only know the “break it down” part and not the whole thing by heart..
Yay! I’ve been waiting for this to be added to Nostalgic Win for awhile. I loved this show! I specifically remember the episode where the daughter wants to fit in so she buys a “mink” scarf – which talks! Lol! Classic!
On a different note, the dad’s boss was really freaking scary.
Hmm, I wonder how much the design of Jar Jar Binks was based on the “son” from this show.
Not the character, gawd nothing is as bad as Jar Jar, but just the look.
/hmmmm
Everybody knows Dinosaurs = Win
hehe! I just remember one episode where the son is shown to be vegetarian lol. It was sooo on the lines on homosexuality
I can see the homosexual vibe in that episode, but I kind of took it to be more like drugs. Because I remember Earl finding celery or something in Robbie’s room and being like WHAT IS THIS?!?! That and all the vegetarians were serious hippies…
I liked how the teen-aged son asked the dad, once, why the years were counting backwards. Subtle humor, perhaps.
What do you mean, not that funny? This was great!
Not the mama!
Funny! And still funny today! Not a lot of the other TGIF shows held up so well to the rigors of time. But that’s Henson for you. Classic all the way.
God… I forgot how freaking creepy that show was! I was scared for life after watching Jurassic Park, every time I went to the bathroom I imagined a T-Rex bursting through the door and eating me.
Even just watching that clip I got the heeby-jeebies. Not only is it ridiculously early 90’s hideousness, it’s just plain scary to kids. Even grown ones like me. >.<;
Awesome, seek some help.
You first, dear ^.^
Wow great comeback…
Devylan has issues.
I was 5 in 1991, when this show was on. Gimme a break.
Even my parents kind of liked this one. ^n_n^ My twin could do a great imitation of Baby’s face, too. XD
I had a talking Baby Sinclair doll when I was in grad school. That thing amused me no end. I guess I gave it to Goodwill eventually, but I’m not sure why. Maybe I was downsizing my stuffed animal and toy collection.
I loved this show! But I’ve always thought it was less like “The Simpsons” and more like “Roseanne” in an alternate, Jurassic Reality.
I remember the simpsons made fun of this show; “it’s like someone’s been watching our life and they decided to put it on t.v.”
A line so effective Scrubs co-opted it to describe Greys Anatomy!
I loved this show, and I too got the DVDs last year when I saw them. Talk about Nostalgia!
GOTTA LOVE ME!! I still use that line :0
Because you’re a baby?
I remember watching this show when I was pretty young. I loved the show, but the opening theme scared me because of the dinosaurs stomping through the forest, so I had to leave the room during that part.
Are you serious? Did you have a night light too?
I had 5 night lights. Still do.
Of course I had a night light when I was 4 years old. Didn’t everybody?
They found/almost wiped out a plant
that got them high, and all that was left was
“nothing but stems and seeds”.
ftw.
that episode was almost like a funny after school special. my friends and i used “the plant” as slang for so long after that.
It was funny except for the final heavy-handed “WALK ON EGGSHELLS OR YOU WILL DESTROY ALL LIFE ON PLANET EARTH” message episode. I hate message episodes. I even hate ones I agree with when they’re heavy-handed and preachy.
I will now await Devylan’s troll response to this. Surf Wisely!
that show scared the hell outta me….
Oh I loved this show, I used to obsessively look for the stickers for my stickerbook for it all over the grocery store when I was allowed to go with my Mom.
I remember being overly frustrated with no one listening to my rants about cross-species families being stupid because none of them were even vaguely the same kind of dinosaur type though. Granted I also ranted for months about the velociraptors in Jurassic Park actually being hella closer to deinonychus and no one listened to me about that either.
Such was the hell of wanting to be a paleontologist in elementary school just BEFORE the dinosaur crazy sparked by JP.
Name any movie or show that is 100% accurate. Thank you there are none.
Devylan, I see you’re at it again. Maybe you shouldn’t comment on things when you’re in such a bad mood.
Maybe if you dont like my comments you should not read them.
It’s okay, some people just didn’t get enough positive attention growing up and compensate by feeding on negative attention through remarks they think are somehow witty. It’s cute really.
::Gives Devylan a lollypop::
There was actually an episode where it was being debated on whether Baby had been accidentally switched at hatching…..
Hah, I remember that episode, and also freaking out because I felt like until then NO ONE ELSE noticed that weirdness of him looking nothing like the rest of the family until then.
LOVED it!! was actually much funnier a couple years ago when a friend dug out some old videos of the show recorded.. The Plant was among the ones we watched that night and there are many more hilarious things that I never picked up on as a child..
My kids are in their 20’s and 30’s now and they all still say “Not the Momma” and whack their dad randomly with stuff (thankfully, not frying pans).
Lol that’s one of my favorite! I remember going over to my cousin’s house as a little guy and watching that, and remember NOT THE MOMMA as well. Why can’t they make something this good nowadays??
Frankly, I remember this show scaring the ever-loving crap out of me. Don’t even remember why, just remember that it did.
My Dad recently bought all four seasons of Dinosaurs for my three year old niece, and she is COMPLETELY addicted to it.
We’ve taken to buying our favorite cartoons from our childhood on DVD for her, just because they are so much better than 95% of the crap-tastic kids shows on now.
I remember when he stabbed his tail with a fork. hahahaha. he was chasing it around like it was food and was like “HMMM *STAB* OWWW” lol.
sorry.
I loved this show!!!!!!!!!!! I have all volumes on VHS ^.^ It’s still pwnage!!!!!!!!!!!
Most epic win show ever!!!!!!!
I babysit A LOT for a family and when I come home every day complaining about having to watch Hannah Montana over and over, my mother kindly reminds me that I wore out the tapes of Dinosaurs from watching it so much when I was little.
There’s no comparison. Sorry, Mom.