The best episodes of Dinosaurs
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- 01
Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 04
Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.
- 05
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.
- 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.
- 07
Charlene becomes her father's boss when Richfield is pressured into hiring women. The only problem is, Dad won't listen to her.
- 08
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.
- 09
The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.
- 10
Ethel reads the Baby a story called "If You Were a Tree" about a dinosaur tree pusher who gets struck by lightning and swaps souls with the tree he's trying to demolish.
- 11
The Baby swears there's a monster under his bed, but no one believes him--until it starts dragging victims into its hole.
- 12
Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.
- 13
Earl assumes the powers of a superhero, but he's bound to use his might only for the Wesayso Corp.
- 14
Questions about life's meaning plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism."
- 15
Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."
- 16
An archaeologist documents dinosaurs' way of life as they may have existed long ago, but clips from previous episodes tell a different story.
- 17
Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with an expensive coat, but the coat leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status.
- 18
Charlene is charged with heresy and jailed after submitting her homework assignment claiming that the world is round and not flat.
- 19
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.
- 20
Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.
- 21
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.
- 22
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.
- 23
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.
- 24
Earl lays an egg when he asks his boss for a raise, and Fran lays an egg--literally.
- 25
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.
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