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Dinosaurs Season 2 Episode 3

I Never Ate for My Father

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AIRED: 10/2/91

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

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Sherman Hemsley	B.P. Richfield
Sam McMurray	Voice of Roy Hess
Sally Struthers	Charlene Sinclair
Florence Stanley	Grandma Ethel
Stuart Pankin	Earl Sinclair
Gary Owens	Narrator

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TRIVIA (1)
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- In this episode, the Sinclair family seems to look down on eating vegetables and Robbie asks why they eat meat every single night, but in previous episodes we've seen the entire family eat vegetables.
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QUOTES (9)
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- Earl: (sees the monster that ate Robbie) That's him!
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- Earl: Charlene, you are now my son.
  Charlene: Thanks Daddy. Can I have money for lipstick?
  Earl: Of course son.
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- Charlene: Mom, can we please have dinner? I'm wasting away. My thighs are hardly touching.
  Fran: Don't exaggerate dear. I heard you coming.
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- Girl at Salad Bar: I haven't seen you here before.
  Robbie: Well, I was carnivorous until a few days ago, I still might be, I haven't decided yet.
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- Earl: (to a girl at the Salad Bar) Stay away from my son you pea pusher!
  Robbie: Dad, so what if they eat a few peas? They're proud of it.
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- Earl: He gets it from your side of the family!
  Fran: What!?
  Earl: Your Uncle Elmo, the one they never talk about, he always ate off the wrong side of the plate.
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- Baby: Herbo, herbo.
  Fran: Where'd you learn that language?
  Ethyl: It's television, they say whatever they want.
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- Earl: Fran.
  Fran: What?
  Earl: Fran.
  Fran: What?
  Earl: Fran!
  Fran: What!?
  Earl: What's missing?!
  (Fran sees Robbie's sneakers)
  Fran: Did Robbie get eaten?
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- Baby: You get spit up?
  Earl: Yes.
  Baby: You get spit up?
  Robbie: Yes.
  Baby: Did you bring me a present?
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- Earl tells Fran that Robbie gets his carnivore appetite from her Uncle Elmo.
  
  Kevin Clash, who voiced Baby Sinclair, also voiced Elmo on Sesame Street, also a show Jim Henson had a hand in the creating of.
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- The whole episode has overtones of youths experimenting with drugs and/or homosexuality, but done through Robbie being a Herbivore.
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- Robbie is a Herbivore.
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- This episode was definitely an example on which animal was really a carnivore (meat eater), herbivore (plant eater) or a omnivore (plant & meat eater).
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- Title:
  The episode title refers to the Oscar-nominated 1970 drama, I Never Sang for My Father, starring Melvyn Douglas and Gene Hackman.
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- Earl: Are you now, or have you ever been an herbivore?
  
  This alludes to what was known as the "$64 question", "Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the communist party of the United States?", asked by the House Un-American Activities Committee of suspected communist sympathizers. The committee was active from 1938-1975.
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- Martin Luther King: Robbie's speech about how he "dreams about Dinosaurs being judged not by the food they eat, but instead by their character" is derived off of Martin Luther King Jr. speech.
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- The songs performed at the Salad Bar are parodies of "Abraham, Martin and John", and "This Land is Your Land" by Bob Dylan.
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- YMCA:
  
  Robbie goes to the YMCA- Young Male Carnivores Association- for his initiation. This is a parody of the Young Male Christians Association in modern time.
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