Dinosaurs
Following the release of the Dinosaurs: The Complete First and Second Seasons DVD box set in 2006, Buena Vista Home Entertainment released Dinosaurs: The Complete Third and Fourth Seasons in a 4-disc DVD set in 2007. The set includes the final 36 episodes of Dinosaurs along with bonus features.
Only seven of the fourteen episodes from Season 4 aired on ABC during the show's original run. ABC's run aired the final episode, "Changing Nature", as a definitive finale to the series, but left seven episodes unaired. Those extra seven episodes aired later in syndication.
On this set, the fourth season episodes are arranged in the order that they aired. "Changing Nature" closes the third disc, and the extra seven episodes make up the fourth disc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A crash of problems is made, when Earl gives Baby a dirty suck-toy that was on the roof of the chimney after a mouse stoled it from him. After giving it to him, Earl comes home from work and finds out from Fran that Baby is awfully sick. It's a terrible situation for the two to find the cure. There first doctor was Dr. Frankis but his plan was to make the Sinclair family sell there properties and there money to make him more richer. But Ethyl didn't believe that he could do the right thing, so she offered Fran and Earl to go out into the woods and find the guy that cures everything. Zabar, the guy in the woods cured Baby and was back to normal.
Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.
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.
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.
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.
A hugh argument comes between Earl and Robbie when they both fight over for there rights and respect. Then later with the fault of Ethyl to tell Robbie the story about his grandpa battling his enemy. Robbie challenges Earl to the 'Pit Of Death' match to see who will have the role of the household. Robbie wins but isn't comfortable with his new role.
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.
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.
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.
Robbie doesn't feel that much comfortable with being the weakest dinosaur in the family, so in order for him to become very strong and muscular, he uses one of Dolf's favorite foods to make him become very strong and that's when he starts giving Caroline the hots and tries to woo her love.
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.
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.
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.
In this fairy tale episode, Ethyl tells Baby a story about a tree pusher Earl who was about to push down a spirit tree which switched his soul for him become a tree and the spirit tree to become Earl. When Roy brings Spirit home to the Sinclair family, he can't help to understand what has happened to him, when Earl realizes that he's stuck in the tree. Fran later believes the Spirit when he tells her that she is not Earl and that Earl is in the tree. After words, Fran goes to find Earl and Spirit after last night being taken away from the house by the WeSay So Policemens. Spirit switched Earl's soul back to were it belongs. And everything was over with but the tree with the Spirit in it was destoryed.
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.
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.
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.
Baby has bad thoughts in his mind after he with Earl and Robbie watched a scary monster movie. Baby later goes to bed and fears that a monster is under the bed. Earl and Fran stay up to keep Baby company, they lose alot of sleep and decide to go to a motel to get one good night sleep and then they will be back. Which leaves Robbie and Charlene with the house to themselves. Which is ruin when Charlene goes to Baby's room and is captured under the bed. Which later leaves Robbie to go down under the Baby's bed to save Charlene from the monster named Deskter.
Earl assumes the powers of a superhero and intends to put them to good use, but he's powerless before the Wesayso Corp., to which he's contractually bound to use his might.
Fundamental questions about the meaning of existence plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism," which Robbie thinks is just plain nuts.
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.
Earl officially becomes injured after a night being stucked on a tree that injured his foot. So in order to get paid for the damage Robbie helps Earl get justice from Richfield by taking WESAYSO to court but with a shocking rewarded suprise for Earl.
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.
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.
Charlene finds she's becoming a woman as she's developed her female scent from a bump on her neck. She hears that Earl married Fran because her scent was that of a new car. Charlene lucks out on finding any boy wanting to be with her because her scent is so vile, every boy avoids her, except the school janitor, who wishes to marry her. Charlene is anxious to change her scent by any means neccesary to get out of marrying, for which she gets help from Ethyl.
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.
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".
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.
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!
When Baby's constant whining gets to be too much for the Sinclair household to put up with, Earl decides it's time to continue a male dinosaur tradition. The father takes the infant son out into the woods, and sets him on a flat stone, and leaves him, then the baby is to learn to do for himself and make his way back home. Unfortunately after Earl, with the help of Robbie and Roy, put Baby on the stone and leave, they end up in a tar pit, which leaves them sinking helplessly while the baby is clueless as to what to do. Finding an elderly dinosaur who is seeking his now grown son he left in the woods, the Baby comes to the rescue just as the boys are about to completely sink in the tar. They find out the elder is searching for his son ""Roy"" who never made it home. Roy says that his father left him out there and he never found him, so he sees this as a sign to help the man find his son. As they leave, Robbie asks Earl, ""Do you think they'll figure it out?"" to which he responds, ""figure wh
After weeks and weeks of Georgie, Georgie, GEORGIE! Earl snaps and destroys one of Baby's tapes. To make up for it, Earl promises to get the Baby a Georgie hug. When Earl inadvertently realizes he sounds like Georgie, he makes a costume and pretends to be Georgie for the Baby... and ends up in jail?!
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Stuart Pankin | Earl Sinclair |
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Jessica Walter | Fran Sinclair |
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Leif Tilden | Robbie Sinclair |
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Jason Willinger | Robbie Sinclair |
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Allan Trautman | Fran Sinclair |
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Bruce Lanoil | Charlene Sinclair |
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Kevin Clash | Baby Sinclair |
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John Kennedy | Baby Sinclair |
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Bill Barretta | Earl Sinclair |
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Sally Struthers | Charlene Sinclair |
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David Greenaway | Roy Hess |
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Michelan Sisti | Charlene Sinclair |
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Pons Maar | Roy Hess |
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Tom Fisher | Additional Dinosaur Performer |
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Jack Tate | Additional Dinosaur Performer |
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Steve Whitmire | Robbie Sinclair |
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Mak Wilson | Earl Sinclair |
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Tony Sabin Prince | Fran Sinclair |
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Julianne Buescher | Additional Dinosaur Performer |
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Star Townsend | Additional Dinosaur Performer |
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Sam McMurray | Roy Hess |
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Rickey Boyd | Additional Dinosaur Performer |
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Florence Stanley | Grandma Ethyl Phillips |
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Sherman Hemsley | B.P. Richfield |
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Brian Henson | Grandma Ethyl Phillips |
| Edition | Televison |
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| Packaging | Custom Case |
| Nr Discs | 4 |
| Distributor | Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Regions | Region 1 |
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| Index | 3009 |
| Added Date | Mar 06, 2016 22:08:37 |
| Modified Date | Sep 20, 2016 08:49:05 |