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: 6/10/2026Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
The Clip Show
star
5.00
112 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
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5.44
98 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
Slave to Fashion
star
6.62
103 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
Green Card
star
6.80
128 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
How to Pick Up Girls
star
6.83
203 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...
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6.87
141 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
6.87
132 votes

#7 - 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
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Fran Live
star
6.91
145 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
What 'Sexual Harris' Meant
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6.91
145 votes

#9 - 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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6.97
99 votes

#10 - Life in the Faust Lane

Season 4 - Episode 10 - 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
Swamp Music
star
6.98
98 votes

#11 - 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
Earl and Pearl
star
6.99
68 votes

#12 - Earl and Pearl

Season 4 - Episode 9 - 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'
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6.99
101 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
Wilderness Weekend
star
7.00
98 votes

#14 - 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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Leader of the Pack
star
7.00
104 votes

#15 - 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
Career Opportunities
star
7.00
213 votes

#16 - 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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A New Leaf
star
7.04
116 votes

#17 - A New Leaf

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1992

After a big fight with Earl and Robbie, Robbie leaves the house to calm his nerves with Spike. The two end up eating strange plants that causes them to become happy. Later Robbie brings the plants to Earl, the next morning he becomes happy and the two become more silly. Earl later comes to work late, Richfield calls Earl to his office and fires him for good. Then Earl leaves the plant for Richfield. The family becomes very happy and silly except for Fran and Baby. Fran demands that Earl goes back to get his job back immediately. But to find out Richfield was into the plants to. Fran and Baby decided that they couldn't take anymore of the situation and went to Monica's house for the others to straighting up and get themselves together. Earl, Robbie and Charlene both calmed down and were back to normal.

Directors: Mark Brull
Writer: Rob Ulin
The Discovery
star
7.06
133 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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Baby Talk
star
7.08
79 votes

#19 - 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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We Are Not Alone
star
7.08
101 votes

#20 - 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
Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
star
7.08
37 votes

#21 - 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
Variations on a Theme Park
star
7.09
67 votes

#22 - Variations on a Theme Park

Season 4 - Episode 11 - 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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Getting to Know You
star
7.09
67 votes

#23 - 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
Out of the Frying Pan
star
7.09
100 votes

#24 - 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
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Power Erupts
star
7.09
110 votes

#25 - 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