Dinosaurs (TV series)

Dinosaurs was an American television sitcom on ABC, about a family of talking dinosaurs that ran for 65 episodes from April 1991 to July 1994. The show ended with the beginning of the ice age.

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American - Television - Sitcom - ABC - Dinosaur - April - 1991 - July - 1994

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The show featured animatronic dinosaurs created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The show centered around the Sinclair family: the father (Earl), the mother (Fran), the son (Robbie), the daughter (Charlene), the baby (Baby), and the grandmother (Ethyl Phillips). (Curiously, they all appear to belong to wildly different species: Earl and Robbie look like carnivorous dinosaurs, while Fran and Charlene resemble herbivores.) Earl's job was to push over trees for the Wesayso Corporation with his friend and coworker Roy Hess (who wore a hat much like Ed Norton, whom he resembled). Another reference to petroleum companies was Earl's boss, named B.P. Richfield.

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Animatronic - Jim Henson's Creature Shop - Petroleum

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The most popular characters on the show were Earl and the mischievous Baby (occasionally referred to as Junior). Baby was voiced by Kevin Clash, best known as the voice of Elmo on Sesame Street. His favorite pastime was to hit Earl repeatedly over the head with a frying pan while shouting "Not the mama!" A music video was produced for the song "I'm the Baby, Gotta Love Me".

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Kevin Clash - Elmo - Sesame Street - Frying pan - Music video

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