Dinosaurs

Hurling Day

Season 1, Episode 3, Aired 5/10/91

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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.

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Sherman Hemsley

B.P. Richfield
Sam McMurray

Voice of Roy Hess
Sally Struthers

Charlene Sinclair

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"Hurling Day" is a holiday in which the son in laws get to throw their mother in laws off a cliff into a tar pit. Including Earl.

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By imdababy89, May 22, 2006 Report Abuse

I totally agree with the guy that reviewed this episode before me.. this def. was a episode that showed a problem in every day life.
Although, I don't know about you, but I found the idea of throwing your mother in law off of a cliff into a tar pit hilarious. The fact that the guys liked it so much just added to the comedy. Not that I agree with the idea, but Come on. It's a kids TV show. YOu have to be able to live a little when it comes the to mental picture of an old lady getting thrown off of a cliff. =)moreless

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Following an old tradition, Earl is looking forward to hurling Fran's mother into a tarpit when she turns 72, but young Robbie, always the thinker in the Sinclair family, decides since times have changed, traditions do too.moreless

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By Bookworm1617, Nov 12, 2005 Report Abuse

Many episodes of "Dinosaurs" reference situations people face in every-day life, and this was another one of them. It shows that just because someone's gotten old, it doesn't mean that they're no good anymore. Too many people underestimate older people and assume they've nothing left to give, no reason to stick around, they're no use to anyone, which is why many of them end up in rest homes and are forgotten, when the reason they're old is because they've lived longer and seen and done many things in their lives and because of the long lives they've lived, they have such interesting stories to tell. Even though Ethyl is 72, she proves to be very lively every time she comes around, and it proves if she had been hurled, it would have been, as Robbie put it, a waste of a perfectly good old lady.moreless

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- This episode was example on how Dinosaurs would hurl their mother-in-laws into the tar pit when the reached a certain age. This episode gives a view on how the Dinosaurs deal with old age. Edit
- This is the first appearance of Ethyl Phillips in the series. Edit
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- Fran: I've made a decision, you're not throwing my mother. Earl: I'm throwing her, Fran. Fran: You want to sleep on the couch the rest of your life? Earl: I'm throwing her, Ethyl! I'm throwing her, I'm throwing her, I married you so I could throw her. Edit
- (looking through photographs) Robbie: This is when you came to visit me at camp, here's a letter I wrote. "Dear Grandma, how are you? I am good, the food here is good, I hope you are good too. (both laugh) Love, Robbie Sinclair. Ethyl: Yeah, yeah you always wrote me. Edit
- Robbie: It used to be old dinosaurs slowed down the pack, now we live in houses. It used to be old dinosaurs couldn't hunt, now we have supermarkets. So isn't throwing Grandma off a cliff just a waste of a perfectly good old lady? Edit
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- Mister Ed While watching TV, a commercial comes on for Mr. Ugh. About a dinosaur who owns a caveman that can speak. This is a parody of Mister Ed, a show about a man who owned a horse who could talk. Edit
- La Brea Tar Pits: When Robbie asked about the tar pits, Ethyl said they were named after a dinosaur named Bob La Brea. This is a reference to the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, CA. Edit