The essential episodes of Dinosaurs
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Dinosaurs — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Earl lays an egg when he asks his boss for a raise, and Fran lays an egg--literally.
- 02
Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."
- 03
Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.
- 04
Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.
- 05
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.
- 06
The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.
- 07
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.
- 08
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.
- 09
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.
- 10
The Baby swears there's a monster under his bed, but no one believes him--until it starts dragging victims into its hole.
- 11
Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
Charlene becomes her father's boss when Richfield is pressured into hiring women. The only problem is, Dad won't listen to her.
- 15
Charlene's scent gland comes in and Fran explains the one boy who is attracted to her scent is the one she's destined to marry. But Charlene puts out fumes of burning rubber and attracts the school janitor who aspires to be a tree pusher.
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