SINCLAIR GET IN HERE AND EXPLAIN WHAT IN THE SAM HILL IS THE MEANING OF THIS!!
It's just a doujinshi about the BEST TV SHOW EVER.
I thought I recognized those faces. Past-vision for the win. Don't remember it well though...
It's just a doujinshi about the BEST TV SHOW EVER.
Boy you weren't kidding. Despite remembering clearly that I used to watch this show religiously every week, I barely remember anything about it besides something about the daughter wanting to get some kind of tail surgery to make her more popular with the boy dinos and being very very annoyed at the baby's antics. I decided to refresh my memory by watching something on Youtube:
OH MAH GAWD, how did they get away with this kind of not-so-subtle social commentary on what was essentially a family sitcom? 
I need to watch the whole run again! All hail the great Potato!
Doood, this makes me want to dig out all the old VHS tapes I got and watch them again. I had forgotten all about this show, seriously. This is what great childhoods are made of!
*sings*
I'm the baby, gotta love me...
*sings*
I'm the baby, gotta love me...
big purple eyes and very cuddly XD
i used to sing that as a kid, i loved the baby... oh my though i cant imagine it beign fun as a comic. espacially if its not from the same producers of the tv show.
and wow psxphile i didnt know you were into potatozim too? XD isnt it wonderful having all our questions answered.
you know guys i always had this argument with my sister that robbie was voice acted by micheal fox? isnt it him? he acts and sighs just like him. i'm sure its him.. the voice i mean.
Boy you weren't kidding. Despite remembering clearly that I used to watch this show religiously every week, I barely remember anything about it besides something about the daughter wanting to get some kind of tail surgery to make her more popular with the boy dinos and being very very annoyed at the baby's antics. I decided to refresh my memory by watching something on Youtube:
OH MAH GAWD, how did they get away with this kind of not-so-subtle social commentary on what was essentially a family sitcom?
It was before the invasion of political correctness due to mass network consolidation under a few right wing corporations. And subtlety was not in their vocabulary (unfortunately, as some of it probably would have been funnier without the 2x4).
I particularly like this parody from the temptation of ethyl episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Hd5vYnCFw
Topical issues featured in Dinosaurs include environmentalism, women's rights, sexual harassment, objectification of women, censorship, civil rights, body image, steroid use, allusions to masturbation (in the form of Robbie getting caught doing a mating dance by himself), drug abuse, racism, peer pressure, rights of indigenous peoples, corporate crime, government interference of parenting, and allusions to homosexuality and communism (in the guise of herbivorism).
The two-part episode "Nuts to War," in which the two-legged dinosaurs go to war with the four-legged dinosaurs over rights to pistachio trees, aired in February and March 1992, and was almost certainly in response to the Persian Gulf War. Dialogue in the episode addresses war profiteering (by the Wesayso Corporation of B.P. Richfield, Earl's boss, which sells weaponry to both sides), the casualties of war (limited to one two-legger, which the Sinclair family thought for a time was Robbie), the war's use as a distraction from domestic issues during an election year, government suppression of information, and the harassment of the antiwar movement. The (politically) hawkish dinosaurs created a catchphrase for their political party: "We Are Right" (W.A.R.).
The show does do lots of straight humor too. It's pretty much a Simpsons par (which the Simpsons parodied) in both structure and quality, though the Simpsons had higher highs and (much) lower lows, Dinosaurs was bolder with what they said, and both peaked at similar times.
Boy you weren't kidding. Despite remembering clearly that I used to watch this show religiously every week, I barely remember anything about it besides something about the daughter wanting to get some kind of tail surgery to make her more popular with the boy dinos and being very very annoyed at the baby's antics. I decided to refresh my memory by watching something on Youtube:
OH MAH GAWD, how did they get away with this kind of not-so-subtle social commentary on what was essentially a family sitcom?
It was before the invasion of political correctness due to mass network consolidation under a few right wing corporations. And subtlety was not in their vocabulary (unfortunately, as some of it probably would have been funnier without the 2x4).
I particularly like this parody from the temptation of ethyl episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Hd5vYnCFw
Topical issues featured in Dinosaurs include environmentalism, women's rights, sexual harassment, objectification of women, censorship, civil rights, body image, steroid use, allusions to masturbation (in the form of Robbie getting caught doing a mating dance by himself), drug abuse, racism, peer pressure, rights of indigenous peoples, corporate crime, government interference of parenting, and allusions to homosexuality and communism (in the guise of herbivorism).
The two-part episode "Nuts to War," in which the two-legged dinosaurs go to war with the four-legged dinosaurs over rights to pistachio trees, aired in February and March 1992, and was almost certainly in response to the Persian Gulf War. Dialogue in the episode addresses war profiteering (by the Wesayso Corporation of B.P. Richfield, Earl's boss, which sells weaponry to both sides), the casualties of war (limited to one two-legger, which the Sinclair family thought for a time was Robbie), the war's use as a distraction from domestic issues during an election year, government suppression of information, and the harassment of the antiwar movement. The (politically) hawkish dinosaurs created a catchphrase for their political party: "We Are Right" (W.A.R.).
The show does do lots of straight humor too. It's pretty much a Simpsons par (which the Simpsons parodied) in both structure and quality, though the Simpsons had higher highs and (much) lower lows, Dinosaurs was bolder with what they said, and both peaked at similar times.
Fun fact: the baby is voiced by Kevin Clash aka Elmo from Sesame Street.
Fun fact: the baby is voiced by Kevin Clash aka Elmo from Sesame Street.
I knew those were the eyes of evil!
