Dinosaurs
ABC (ended 1994)
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Season 4
- Ep 14Georgie Must Die
After Earl destroys Baby's Georgie tape, Baby continuously screams to see his favorite character. "Georgie, Georgie, Georgie!" Earl realizes that he sounds just like Georgie, and decides to try and trick Baby into believing that he's Georgie by wearing a costume. It works, until it lands him in jail. - Ep 13Into the Woods
Earl decides to continue a male dinosaur tradition. Earl takes Baby out to the forest and sits him on a stone, with the hopes that he will take care of himself and find his way home. Unfortunately, Earl, Roy and Robbie end up in a tar pit, leaving Baby the only one able to help. Finding an elderly dinosaur who is seeking his now grown son he left in the woods, Baby comes to the rescue just as the boys are about to completely sink in the tar. Roy is not aware that their rescuer just happens to be his father.moreless - Ep 12Working Girl
Charlene looks for a job after Earl refuses to give her the money she needs for a summer trip. Charlene just happens to be in the right place at the right time and finally lands a job... as Earl's boss! - Ep 11Variations on a Theme Park
After exhausted dinosaurs start dying from overwork, vacation is invented. WeSaySo Corp. opens WeSaySoLand to give the employees a theme park to spend their vacations, and their money. After being unable to leave the park, Fran shows the family that they can have fun together and do things as a family.moreless - Ep 10Life in the Faust Lane
Earl makes a deal with the "devil" after watching a late night show, "Lifestyles of Those We Envy" to earn the Captain Willie mug in exchange for his soul.
- Ep 9Earl and Pearl
Earl steams up when his sister Pearl, who only comes around once in 15 years, shows up to see the Baby. She's a country folk singer and invites Robbie and Charlene to the Bunkin' Bronto to hear her sing, Earl forbids it, but they go anyway. Down there, Roy meets Pearl and falls head over heels for her, but Earl forbids him to be in love with her, claiming she walked out on the whole family. Pearl explains to the kids when their father died, Earl dropped out of school to become a tree pusher and support their mother, and she packed up and left to pursue a singing career, and a rodeo clown named Buttons, and Earl never forgave her for walking out. Roy starts to see more of Earl in Pearl when he tries to kiss her and walks out, Pearl invites the whole family down to the Bunkin' Bronto for one last performance, and asks her baby brother to come up on stage for a duet that explains her apology.moreless - Ep 8Scent of a Reptile
Charlene finds she's becoming a woman as she's developed her female scent from a bump on her neck. She hears that Earl married Fran because her scent was that of a new car. Charlene lucks out on finding any boy wanting to be with her because her scent is so vile, every boy avoids her, except the school janitor, who wishes to marry her. Charlene is anxious to change her scent by any means neccesary to get out of marrying, for which she gets help from Ethyl.moreless - Ep 7Changing Nature7/20/94
In this final episode of the series, the Dinosaurs have caused a series of events leading to doomsday and the extinction of the species. In true Sinclair fashion, the family sticks together until the end. - Ep 6Terrible Twos7/13/94
It's Baby's second birthday, and the terrible two's kick in, turning Baby evil. Earl and Fran try different methods to correct his behavior and eventually have to turn to Ethyl to find a way to stop the madness. - Ep 5Earl's Big Jackpot7/6/94
Earl becomes injured after a tree falls on his foot at work. Robbie tricks him into going to court and suing the WESAYSO Corp. Earl wins and receives a large cash settlement, only WESAYSO is forced to raise prices and fire it's workers. - Ep 4Driving Miss Ethyl6/29/94
Earl must drive Ethyl to her high school reunion, and the kids drive Fran crazy when she tries to get them to pose for a family portrait. - Ep 3The Greatest Story Ever Sold6/22/94
Fundamental questions about the meaning of existence plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism," which Robbie thinks is just plain nuts. - Ep 2Earl, Don't Be a Hero6/8/94
Earl assumes the powers of a superhero and intends to put them to good use, but he's powerless before the Wesayso Corp., to which he's contractually bound to use his might. - Ep 1Monster Under the Bed6/1/94
After watching a scary monster movie with Earl and Robbie, Baby starts to fear a monster under his bed. Earl and Fran stay up to keep Baby company, but they lose a lot of sleep and decide to go to a motel. This leaves Robbie and Charlene to watch Baby. The monster turns out to be real when it pulls Charlene into it's underground cave. Robbie goes down there to save Charlene from the monster named Decker.moreless
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Season 3
- Ep 22The Clip Show II7/2/93
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. - Ep 21Charlene and Her Amazing Humans5/9/93
After feeling ignored from Fran and Earl, Charlene grabs the attention of her family and other audiences with her amazing performing humans. After Hank Hilber helps Charlene to take her performance to more audiences, Robbie tells her that she's mistreating them. When she later appears on the State Fair, Hank asks her to do something she cannot.moreless - Ep 20We Are Not Alone5/2/93
Robbie gets discouraged with trying to convince Earl to help save the environment. He decides to pose as a space alien to convince Earl to do his part, but Earl goes a little too far. He quits his job at the WeSaySo Corporation and goes into saving the Earth full time.moreless - Ep 19If You Were a Tree4/18/93
In this fairy tale episode, Ethyl tells Baby a story about Earl, who has his soul switched with a tree after being struck by lightning. The Spirit of the Tree tries to convince everyone to save the tree that Earl is in, but no one wants to listen. - Ep 18Dirty Dancin'3/12/93
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. - Ep 17Swamp Music2/26/93
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. - Ep 16Honey, I Miss the Kids2/19/93
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. - Ep 15Steroids to Heaven2/12/93
Earl gives Robbie a workout plan for him to get larger and woo the pretty Caroline, who likes another large dinosaur, Dolf. Robbie decides to do as Dolf does, eat 'thornoids'. Robbie grows in size and strength and the more he grows, so does his temper, which eventually leads him to alienate everyone, including Caroline.moreless - Ep 14Out of the Frying Pan2/5/93
After knocking the daylights out of Earl with a frying pan, Baby stars in commercials, putting the Sinclairs into the show-biz spotlight. Earl is fired by the studio and Fran continues to get more into the Hollywood lifestyle, neglecting Earl. After Fran realizes that Earl has finally become close to Monica, now that she is never home, it gets her to reconsider Baby's new 'career'.moreless - Ep 13Green Card1/29/93
The government blames the poor economy on four-legged dinosaurs and enacts anti-four-legged laws. In order for Monica to stay in the land of Pangaea, the laws require her to be married to a two-legged dinosaur. Roy, who loves Monica, is happy to oblige. The only problems are Earl and the WeSaySo corporation, who no longer want Roy around.moreless - Ep 12Getting to Know You1/15/93
Charlene is surprised to see that Earl brings his friends from work to celebrate her birthday party. Charlene decides to leave the family to join another one as part of a student-exchange program. A French bird name Francois lives with the Sinclairs, until he's eaten by Baby. Francois' parents arrive to take him home and explain they also had bad luck with Charlene.moreless - Ep 11The Son Also Rises1/8/93
Earl and Robbie have a big argument. Grandma Ethyl tells Robbie a story that leads him to challenge Earl to the 'Pit Of Death' match which decides the Male head of household. Robbie wins but his new role isn't what he expects it to be. - Ep 10Wilderness Weekend12/18/92
Earl, Robbie and Baby Sinclair and the other males go out camping for a "Wilderness Weekend" to experience the male supremacy and primal hunting. Unfortunately, their weekend gets interrupted by a giant monster that plans to eat them. Meanwhile, Fran, Ethyl, Monica and the other females are having fun doing stuff that the men do when around the house.moreless - Ep 9Charlene's Flat World12/4/92
When Charlene's class is assigned to think of an original idea, she is visited by a Muse who tells her the world is round. After announcing the theory in class, she's arrested for heresy. After being condemned to death in court, she's sentenced to be thrown off the edge of the world. She returns home after circling the earth, thus proving her theory correct.moreless - Ep 8License to Parent11/20/92
After Earl fails a Parent Education class, his parenting license is suspended. He becomes furious that Fran calls all of the shots, until Parent Patrol Officer Bettleheim shows up and suspends Fran's as well. - Ep 7Hungry for Love11/13/92
Robbie starts dating B.P. Richfield's daughter, Wendy. Earl sees it as an opportunity to get closer to Richfield, and finds himself being treated great at work. When Robbie decides to break up with Wendy over a school rumor, Earl demands he apologize to Richfield himself. Little does everyone know that Richfield's plan is to eat Robbie.moreless - Ep 6Germ Warfare11/6/92
Earl gives Baby a dirty pacifier, which in turns makes him very sick. The Sinclairs visit a doctor who charges a lot of money for medicine that doesn't work. Grandma Ethyl insists they take Baby to Zabar, the man in the woods. - Ep 5Little Boy Boo10/30/92
Charlene has a play, and rather than go, Robbie decides to babysit Baby. Baby behaves badly and scares Robbie by faking choking. Robbie decides to get him back at telling him a scary story about a caveman monster, and the two of them inadvertently start the first Halloween. - Ep 4The Discovery10/23/92
At the 'WESAYSO 10th Annual Employee Golf Tournament', Earl knocks a golf ball into a land where no dinosaur has gone, the edge of the known world. He claims this uncharted land as his own and soon discovers the land is inhabited by cavemen. B.P. Richfield convinces Earl to build a thriving Metropolis while Robbie tries to convince Earl the cavemen deserve respect. In the end, Earl is convinced to concede the land back to the cavemen when Robbie and Baby are kidnapped and a tax collector shows up.moreless - Ep 3Network Genius10/16/92
After test screening new television shows for a shady network, Earl becomes Vice President of Programming. He introduces shows like "The Test Pattern" and "The Happy Colors Show," making viewers stupid. When IQ levels drop so low that civilization as a whole becomes threatened, Earl must find a way to smarten up his shows, as well as his viewers.moreless - Ep 2Baby Talk10/2/92
Baby repeats a dirty word heard on the television. Despite Fran's efforts to correct Baby's language, he continues to use it in the wrong places, at the wrong time. Earl organizes a civic protest against the TV Powers to remove the use of foul language on television. - Ep 1Nature Calls9/18/92
Now were in the 3rd Season of the series, as Fran tells Earl that she's changed every diaper in the past 15 years and now it's time for him to the responsibilities. But Earl doesn't feel the energy to do so, so instead after failing to change the diaper, Earl decides to make Baby go potty-training. Fran thinks it will take a long time, but Earl still insists that he should get the proper training quickly. Baby refuses to except these training changes, Earl keeps on trying but Baby has had enough and runs away in Ethyl's wheelchair into going into the wilderness. Where he is later captures by a big bird monster which puts him on her nest and waits for her little hatchlings to hatch so that they can eat him, Earl and Robbie immediately come to rescue him, and after the Baby jumps from the next, Earl promises to let the Baby decide when he's ready to go potty-training.moreless
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Season 2
- Ep 24WESAYSO Knows Best5/8/92
Earl's a real company man -- in fact he might as well be married to it -- after Wesayso insists Roy replace Earl as the father of the Sinclairs, who are selected as Wesayso's spokesfamily. - Ep 23Leader of the Pack4/24/92
When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them, and they make him the leader of the pack after it's assumed he's eaten the old one. - Ep 22Slave to Fashion3/30/92
Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with a very expensive new coat, but the coat can speak for itself (really), and it leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status. - Ep 21And The Winner Is...3/27/92
Earl throws his hat into the ring as a candidate for Chief Elder, but he's liable to have his head handed to him by his opponent, B. P. Richfield. - Ep 20Nuts to War (2)2/26/92
In this second part of the extravaganza, Earl, Roy, and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie, because it looks like this war thing is getting a little bit out of hand, but Robbie ignores Earl's efforts to get him to come home. - Ep 19Nuts To War (1)2/26/92
Robbie is selected to go into the 'We Are Right' war. But Fran is still worried about Robbie and is worried and scared to death that Robbie will be killed in the war. So she decides to let Earl and Roy go to the battlefield and immediately check on Robbie.... - Ep 18The Last Temptation of Ethel2/12/92
Earl thinks Ethyl has died, and he takes the opportunity to bury her. But to his chagrin, she's sent back from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife. - Ep 17A New Leaf2/5/92
After Robbie decides he can live on his own, he soon discovers a plant that, when eaten, makes you happy. He is quick to bring it home and share it with Earl, whose new attitude toward life has very disastrous results. - Ep 16The Clip Show1/22/92
A modern archaeologist documents the dinosaurs way of life and how things were when they came to the world actually before humans ever ruled the world and before they became extinct. - Ep 15Power Erupts1/15/92
Robbie comes up with an excellent idea for his science project that becomes a hit around the dinosaur world. Seems he has found a way to produce free energy. But B.P. Richfield and the Wesayso Corporation have plans to discredit and ruin Robbie's project at all costs. - Ep 14Fran Live1/8/92
Fran gets a job on TV giving advice to dinosaurs with problems, giving Earl a problem in need of a solution: how to cope with a wife who works. - Ep 13What "Sexual Harris" Meant12/18/91
Earl helps Fran's friend Monica get a job as a tree pusher, but she's no pushover when she's subjected to harassment by a predatory male who's the king of the double-entendre. - Ep 12Refrigerator Day12/11/91
The dinosaurs get a warm and fuzzy feeling as they celebrate the gift of cold storage, but what's a dinosaur (like Earl) to do when his fridge is repossessed? - Ep 11Switched At Birth11/27/91
A shocking secret is revealed when the Sinclair family starts to think that Baby Sinclair may not be their real baby. This gets Fran so outraged that she decides to go to see the Doctor. The Doctor then performs multiple tests on the two kids to find the results of who's baby is who's. The results is that the Molehill's baby, Aubrey, is the Sinclair's and that Baby Sinclair belongs to the Molehills. But it wasn't a happy ending for Fran when she battles to get Baby back into the family.moreless - Ep 10How to Pick Up Girls11/20/91
Robbie's got the hots for a young attractive female dinosaur named Caroline Foxworth. But his plan to woo her fails, so he turns to Spike for some help. Of course, Spike's help isn't always the most law-abiding, and the two almost end up going to jail. Luckily, the police send Robbie and Spike home. Upon their arrival, Earl and Fran start to argue over the boys' methodology. But what Earl doesn't realize is that Spike confesses that the females are causing a lot of trouble with the males. Then Fran punishes Robbie until further notice. Later, Robbie finds out that Spike's been dating Caroline, which makes him confront him after all the trouble he had from him. But Caroline isn't pleased and rejects Robbie.moreless - Ep 9Unmarried ... With Children11/13/91
A new neighbor Monica, gets Fran thinking about the state of her marriage with Earl. After finding out that their marriage license is expired, she realizes that she and Earl think very differently about their marriage. Fran suggests they don't live together after Earl fails the test to renew their license.moreless - Ep 8Career Opportunities11/6/91
Robbie searches to find his very first career. He's out to prove that he's grown up and that he can handle the responsibility of having a job. When the Job Wizard gives him the job of "tree-pushing" Robbie isn't comfortable, but makes Earl feel happy that he can finally spend time helping his son with his new job.moreless - Ep 7When Food Goes Bad10/30/91
When Baby gets tricked into opening the refrigerator by the evil General Chow, he and the other Sinclair children will find out what it takes to outsmart food gone bad. - Ep 6Employee of the Month10/23/91
Earl thinks he's moving up the ladder as he and the family await a dinner with Richfield, while Robbie brings home a "pet" human, who's several evolutionary rungs below the Sinclairs. - Ep 5Endangered Species10/16/91
Earl buys Fran two grapdelites, a rare delicacy that they'll dine on for their anniversary, until Robbie meets the goodies and they explain that they are the last two of their kind. But later when B.P. Richfield finds out that Earl's got the grapdelites for his anniversary, he demands to get it from him or else there's a deadly consequence for him.moreless - Ep 4Charlene's Tale10/9/91
Charlene finally gets her tail grown, which whips up strange feelings in Earl, whose little girl is no longer so little. But makes him understand that she's capable of having her first tail grown. - Ep 3I Never Ate for My Father10/2/91
Robbie, after not being able to go through with eating a mastodon with the other guys at an initiation, starts to think that he might not be a carnivore after all. When Earl finds out, he's none too pleased. Robbie struggles with his feelings, and when he voices his dislike for eating meat at dinner, things only get worse.moreless - Ep 2Family Challenge9/25/91
A cosmic calamity wrecks the Sinclairs' TV, which is fine by Fran, but Earl, hoping to win a new set, has the bright idea to have them appear on the game show "Family Challenge" to maybe win a new one. - Ep 1The Golden Child9/18/91
After being left alone in the kitchen for an unattended feeding bender, Baby starts to grow a strange protrusion from the top of his head. Baby's new horn is seen as freakish at first, but could it be significant of something more?
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Season 1
- Ep 5The Howling5/24/91
It's time for the big howl for the next dinosaur generation, but Robbie questions howling as a rite of passage. Earl forces Robbie to do the howling but Robbie still doesn't see the reason why he should howl, when he goes to the top of the mountain to get ready for his howl, he refuses to howl and knows that nothing is going to happen. Meanwhile, Earl's friendship with Roy becomes less than stable when the two fight over after Roy was actually eating his own food and minding his own business that causes Earl to be very selfish and vulnerable.moreless - Ep 4High Noon5/17/91
Earl's blood runs colder and outraged when a monstrous male who notices Fran in the supermarket challenges him to a fight to the death for her. Earl believes he has no choice but to accept the challenge. The battle later takes place in front of his house. Earl quickly attacks hims and Fran stops everything telling Gary to stay away from her, her family and her life.moreless - Ep 3Hurling Day5/10/91
Earl gleefully awaits "Hurling Day" when he'll have the ritual honor of heaving his mother-in-law into the tar pits, but Robbie thinks the tradition should be chucked. - Ep 2The Mating Dance5/3/91
Fran feels very depressed after staying up all night trying to keep Baby from being awake and trying to get him to go to sleep. That morning, Baby went to sleep and Fran was outraged and upset that she did not get enough sleep. Later, Earl and Roy try to find out what's wrong with Fran's life and they believe that if she wasn't with the children she would have a perfect life. Later, Fran goes to her mothers to spend some time with her, while Earl tries to make dinner. Fran then comes home to tell Earl that there is definitely something wrong in her life. When Earl watches TV, he thinks that the only way to cheer Fran up again is to perform the mating dance.moreless - Ep 1The Mighty Megalosaurus4/26/91
In the first episode of the series, Earl Sinclair talks to his newborn son about how his life was before Baby was born. He talks to him about the stress between his family and how his wife, Fran Sinclair, had been dealing with a lot of troubles and situations over the past. Earl also talks about how he wanted his boss, B.P. Richfield, to give him a first raise.moreless
