The WORST episodes of Dinosaurs

Every episode of Dinosaurs ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Dinosaurs!

Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience. The Dinosaurs are an animatronics stone-age working-class family created by Jim Henson for Disney. Incredibly overweight, even for a dinosaur, Earl Sinclair is married to Fran and tries/fails to support 14-year-old valley girl Charlene, 16-year-old Robbie (whose crest eventually turns into a Mohawk and gets dyed purple), widowed, cranky Grandma Ethel, and terrible-twos Baby, the true master of the house. Sharp social commentary is featured surprisingly often; Earl is a tree-pusher for the Wesayso Development Corp., which regularly implements schemes to screw their workers even more and destroy the world for marginal profit increment. Chilled but live prey are kept in the refrigerator and are helpful when you can't find the milk, and caveman Humans make occasional appearances as wild animals and pets.

Last Updated: 2/26/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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The Clip Show
star
4.99
113 votes

#1 - The Clip Show

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1992

A modern archaeologist documents the dinosaurs way of life and how things were when they came to the world actually before humans ever ruled the world and before they became extinct.

Directors: Michael Jacobs
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The Clip Show II
star
5.37
93 votes

#2 - The Clip Show II

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/2/1993

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.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
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Slave to Fashion
star
6.67
105 votes

#3 - Slave to Fashion

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1992

Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with a very expensive new coat, but the coat can speak for itself (really), and it leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
Writer: Dava Savel
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Green Card
star
6.83
131 votes

#4 - Green Card

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/1993

It's a big problem when the government blames its poor economy on four-legged dinosaurs and enacts anti-four-legged laws. So in order for Monica to stay in the land of Pangia, Roy marries the outlawed Monica so that she can stay in the country for good, but this also causes big effections and errors on Roy's friendship with Earl and his job the WeSaySo Corporation.

Directors: Max Tash
Writer: Tim Doyle
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How to Pick Up Girls
star
6.87
215 votes

#5 - How to Pick Up Girls

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1991

Robbies got the hots for a young attractive female dinosaur named Caroline Foxworth. But he's plan to woo her fails, so he turns to Spike for some help and when it get's ruined the two end going to jail and almost arrested. Luckily the police send Robbie and Spike home which brings Earl and Fran the arguments to the two. But what Earl doesn't realize is that Spike confesses that the females are causing alot of troubles with the males. Then fran comes and punishes Robbie untill furthur notice. Later Robbie finds out that Spikes been dating Caroline, which turns him to the point to confront him after all the trouble he went from him. But caroline isn't please and rejects Robbie.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Andy Goodman
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And the Winner Is...
star
6.88
142 votes

#6 - And the Winner Is...

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1992

Earl throws his hat into the ring as a candidate for Chief Elder, but he's liable to have his head handed to him by his opponent, B. P. Richfield.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
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Working Girl
star
6.88
127 votes

#7 - Working Girl

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1994

Charlene looks for a job when Earl refuses to give her the money she needs for a summer trip. Charlene just happens to be in the right place, and finally lands a job... as Earl's boss!

Directors: Tom Trbovich
Writer: Rich Tabach
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Fran Live
star
6.92
152 votes

#8 - Fran Live

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1992

Fran gets a job on TV giving advice to dinosaurs with problems, giving Earl a problem in need of a solution: how to cope with a wife who works.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
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Wilderness Weekend
star
6.97
96 votes

#9 - Wilderness Weekend

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/18/1992

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.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
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What 'Sexual Harris' Meant
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6.97
155 votes

#10 - What 'Sexual Harris' Meant

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1991

Earl helps Fran's friend Monica get a job as a tree pusher, but she's no pushover when she's subjected to harassment by a predatory male who's the king of the double-entendre.

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Life in the Faust Lane
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6.98
95 votes

#11 - Life in the Faust Lane

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/21/1994

Earl makes a deal with the devil (which is a wierd inconsistency in the show) after watching a late night show, "Lifestyles of Those We Envy".

Directors: Tom Trbovich
Writer: Mark Drop
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Earl and Pearl
star
7.00
67 votes

#12 - Earl and Pearl

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/1994

Earl steams up when his sister Pearl, who only comes around once in 15 years, shows up to see the Baby. She's a country folk singer and invites Robbie and Charlene to the Bunkin' Bronto to hear her sing, Earl forbids it, but they go anyway. Down there, Roy meets Pearl and falls head over heels for her, but Earl forbids him to be in love with her, claiming she walked out on the whole family. Pearl explains to the kids when their father died, Earl dropped out of school to become a tree pusher and support their mother, and she packed up and left to pursue a singing career, and a rodeo clown named Buttons, and Earl never forgave her for walking out. Roy starts to see more of Earl in Pearl when he tries to kiss her and walks out, Pearl invites the whole family down to the Bunkin' Bronto for one last performance, and asks her baby brother to come up on stage for a duet that explains her apology.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
Writer: Tim Doyle
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Dirty Dancin'
star
7.01
102 votes

#13 - Dirty Dancin'

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/1993

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.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Terrible Twos
star
7.03
75 votes

#14 - Terrible Twos

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/13/1994

It's Baby's second birthday celebration but is ruinned when the Baby turns into an evil unforgiven monster that can't be stopped. Earl and Fran turn to Ethyl to find a way to stop the madness.

Directors: Jeff McCracken
Writer: Tim Doyle
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Career Opportunities
star
7.05
223 votes

#15 - Career Opportunities

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1991

Robbie searches to find a first ever career opportunity for him to prove that he's grown and that can he can handle with hit. When the Job Wizard gives him the job of ""tree-pushing"" Robbie isn't comfortable, but makes Earl feel happy that he can finally spend time helping his son with his new job.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Richard Day
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Swamp Music
star
7.06
98 votes

#16 - Swamp Music

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1993

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.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
Writer: Mark Drop
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Leader of the Pack
star
7.07
106 votes

#17 - Leader of the Pack

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/24/1992

When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them, and they make him the leader of the pack after it's assumed he's eaten the old one.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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The Discovery
star
7.08
138 votes

#18 - The Discovery

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1992

Earl hits a bad golf shot that sails off the edge of the known world and into a new one -- new, that is, to the dinosaurs.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
Writer: Andy Goodman
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Variations on a Theme Park
star
7.09
68 votes

#19 - Variations on a Theme Park

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/28/1994

After research shows too many exhausted dinosaurs are dying from overwork, vacation is invented. Richfield opens WeSaySoland for the employees, while Fran has her heart set on a swampland adventure. Earl shows the baby a brochure of WeSaySoLand, leading to days of protesting against the swamplands. And when they finally give into WeSaySoLand, they arrive on a 14-day package, leaving them held hostage in a theme park that's only half constructed. After a plot to escape after dark fails, Fran shows the family with a lack of other fancy things to do, they can do things as a family.

Directors: Jeff McCracken
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Charlene's Flat World
star
7.10
69 votes

#20 - Charlene's Flat World

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1992

When Charlene's class is assigned to think of an original idea, her world-is-round theory falls flat, and she's tried for heresy. She get's arrested stating that the world is round and everybody believes that the world is flat. So she decides to prove them wrong by traveling with Robbie to the end of the earth to there sudden death. But they return and everyone realized now the world was round.

Directors: Mark Brull
Writer: Tim Doyle
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Changing Nature
star
7.11
108 votes

#21 - Changing Nature

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/20/1994

In this last final episode of the series, the Sinclair family discover thereselves into a doomsday with no where else to go. As it turns out that the family are staying together to make sure nothing happens.

Directors: Tom Trbovich
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Power Erupts
star
7.13
118 votes

#22 - Power Erupts

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1992

Robbie comes up a excellent idea for his science project. He creates a project about 'power eruptions' when it becomes a popular hit around dinosaur world, the family expect more from him to be with Robbie with his sucessful project. But B.P. Richfield has a plan to make his worker Earl's son Robbies project become a worst rumor ever.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Andy Goodman
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Driving Miss Ethyl
star
7.13
69 votes

#23 - Driving Miss Ethyl

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/29/1994

Earl must drive Ethyl to her high school reunion, and the kids drive Fran crazy when she tries to get them to pose for a family portrait.

Directors: Jeff McCracken
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We Are Not Alone
star
7.14
101 votes

#24 - We Are Not Alone

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1993

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.

Directors: Jeff McCracken
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Refrigerator Day
star
7.14
154 votes

#25 - Refrigerator Day

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1991

The dinosaurs get a warm and fuzzy feeling as they celebrate the gift of cold storage, but what's a dinosaur (like Earl) to do when his fridge is repossessed?

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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