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: 9/13/2026Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
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#1 - Charlene and Her Amazing Humans

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1993

Charlene grabs the attention of her family and other audiences with her amazing performing humans. But it's not that easy when she finds out the mother wants her children back from Charlene and Robbie thinks that she's pushing them to far to make her very famous and become a superstar. When she later appears on the State Fair she confesses about what was very wrong for her and everyone else to be doing.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Dava Savel
The Clip Show
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4.00
60 votes

#2 - 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
Watch Now:Apple TV
The Clip Show II
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5.00
60 votes

#3 - 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
Slave to Fashion
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6.50
60 votes

#4 - 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
And the Winner Is...
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6.70
90 votes

#5 - 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
Watch Now:Apple TV
Fran Live
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6.70
90 votes

#6 - 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
What 'Sexual Harris' Meant
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6.70
90 votes

#7 - 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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Working Girl
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6.70
89 votes

#8 - Working Girl

Season 4 - Episode 12 - 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
Watch Now:Apple TV
Green Card
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6.70
89 votes

#9 - 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
How to Pick Up Girls
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6.80
148 votes

#10 - 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
Watch Now:Apple TV
Honey, I Miss the Kids
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7.00
30 votes

#11 - Honey, I Miss the Kids

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1993

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.

Nature Calls
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7.00
30 votes

#12 - Nature Calls

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1992

Fran has decided that now is the time for Earl to teach Baby how to potty train and changing the Baby's diapers. Eral still feels that he doesn't want to continue with the step, but has no choice. So Earl helps the Baby with his potty training, but the Baby doesn't feel ready yet. Earl then later tries his best to make him potty to see how fun it is. Then Baby escapes from his seat and leaves making Earl believe that he was flushed to the toilet, leaving with Ethyls wheelchairs Earl and Robbie immediately go out to find Babyn the wilderness.

Directors: Brian Henson
Watch Now:Apple TV
Out of the Frying Pan
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7.00
60 votes

#13 - Out of the Frying Pan

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1993

After knocking the daylights out of Earl with a frying pan makes the baby a star on commercials, puts Fran into show-biz orbit, and leaves Earl marooned as a big lump of nothing. But thats when for the first time Earl and Monica have a good aggrement that the whole spotlight thing for the Baby is too much and decide to let Fran think for herself on what she has done and what she made the Baby become after all the superstar junk.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Dava Savel
Watch Now:Apple TV
Getting to Know You
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7.00
30 votes

#14 - Getting to Know You

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/1993

Charlene feels to be in a world of unknown when her birthday party becomes a failed wish come true, when Earl brings his friends from the WeSaySo job to celebrate her birthday party. After a shocking miserable party, Charlene decides to leave the Sinclair family and join another family as part of a student-exchange program. It's real hard for Earl to know and understand who Charlene really is. Until another student from the student-exchange named France-our comes and becomes a main pain in the neck for the Sinclair family. But then Baby eats him and then Earl and Fran try to come clean when his parent Henri and Semela ask where there son is. To make it up to them, Fran forces Earl to give them the TV, but thats when Charlene returns home and Earl and Charlene get to talk about the misunderstood birthday party. Charlene forgave him with a passionate kiss.

Directors: Mark Brull
Wilderness Weekend
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7.00
60 votes

#15 - 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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Charlene's Flat World
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7.00
30 votes

#16 - 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
License to Parent
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7.00
60 votes

#17 - License to Parent

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1992

It's a nightmare for Earl and Fran as parents when there parent license is being taken away from the Parent Patrol Officer Battleheim. Fran and Earl feel very ashamed that they have disobeyed the rules and code of parenting; Also after the two's license was taken away, Robbie and Charlene with Baby are causing problems with Battleheim when he puts the gun onall of them, but Fran and Earl immediately rush to stop Battleheim from hurting and scaring the kids. Making sure he doesn't get caught about the situation, he gives back Earl and Fran there parent license and leaves.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Andy Goodman
Watch Now:Apple TV
Little Boy Boo
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7.00
60 votes

#18 - Little Boy Boo

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1992

Robbie weaves a frightening tale for the Baby about Robbie turning into a caveman monster, which proves a little too hairy for the little guy.

The Discovery
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7.00
90 votes

#19 - 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
Network Genius
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7.00
60 votes

#20 - Network Genius

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1992

In this TV episode tale, not only does Earl prove that any dinosaur can be a network programming honcho, he also proves he's a genius by scheduling shows like ""The Test Pattern"" and ""The Happy Colors Show."" Unfortunately, his shows make viewers stupid. So Fran immediately asks Earl to stop the madness and turn it back into a normal way when he later finds out that the owners are trying to make the dinosaurs feel stupid and decides to quit.

Writer: Tim Doyle
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Baby Talk
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7.00
30 votes

#21 - Baby Talk

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1992

Earl does the dirty work of organizing a civic protest against the TV powers-that-be when the baby repeats (constantly) a dirty word that he hears on the tube.

Directors: Bruce Bilson
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Leader of the Pack
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7.00
60 votes

#22 - 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
Swamp Music
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7.00
60 votes

#23 - 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
Dirty Dancin'
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7.00
60 votes

#24 - 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
We Are Not Alone
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7.00
60 votes

#25 - 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