The nice thing is, everyone can enjoy this show on their own terms. As a child you have these goofy funny characters to laugh about. As an adult you notice all these more mature topics. And that is the epic beauty of this series. As you grow older and want to rewatch this series you will see it with your nostalgia goggles but also with wider more open mind. This is a quality very few series are able to achieve.
That's the problem. They got too much money. Back in the day they had to make use with what little they had, so more often than not they had to get creative
I'm sure if they pitched the same "world is gonna end in 15 years cause climate change but WE MEAN IT THIS TIME" BS that has been presented since the advent of the EPA it would get some kind of traction.
Every episode mentioned I was like "Oh right, that one". This was a really nice show. One of the highlights for me was Earl dissing his mother in law, saying he would just watch the grass grow rather then talk to her. Then he turns to the TV and it features literal growing grass, complete with a live comentator.
@@KrimsonKracker I'm pretty sure this was one of the last (if not the last) show Henson productions did before they were acquired by Disney. They just haven't been the same under Disney that they were before. Then again everything feels very predictable and repetitive in general these days. The '90s I swear was the last fresh decade we had before things started repeating or being literally nothing but remakes,reboots or sequels.
‘Dinosaurs is one of the best shows of the 90s.I’m tired of people acting like it isn’t’. Pal - nobody is acting like it’s a bad show whatsoever...Whenever it’s brought up, people talk on how much they love it. It’s more a case it’s forgotten by many over the years, not a case of people hating on it..
The animatronics and puppetry in Dinosaurs are so well done I easily buy into the illusion of the characters being "alive" and not just actors in suits. You really don't see stuff like this made anymore which is a huge shame.
Fun fact: in the Brazilian dub, Earl's name was changed to Dino and the family name became "da Silva Sauro". Therefore if you omit the middle name "da Silva" (a common surname here, which I guess helped with the show's HUGE popularity) his name becomes "Dino Sauro" (dinosaur).
I'd had no idea the series was ending, so it hit me like a truck. I kept waiting for the funny ending where the status quo got restored and it never happened.
This show was to REAL. All problems we have today... D: I rewatched this show with my boyfriend a few years ago... and some episodes left us speechless.
My favorite episode is Episode 310: Charlene's Flat World when Charlene and Robby get arrested for heresy for claiming the world is round. Charlene requests to the judge sentence her and Robby to be thrown off the edge of the world which would be impossible and would also prove that she was right about the world being round.
Yes, but then she learns exactly the wrong lesson from the experience, declaring: "Now I know that if you believe in your heart that something is true, then that belief is more important than anything in the world, and you must never let anyone destroy it!" 🤦🏻 Charlene is the worst.
@@joshuaduncan8834 they totally address this in another episode. They basically break 4th wall and say a story stinks bc the character learned the wrong lesson, but then Earl reminds them of the audience (them, us) and what they learned, and then turns to the camera and says something like "they don't put that on TV"
And also of practical effects!!! Oh how I miss practical effects and the animatrons. CGI and greenscreens rule everything in cinema these days. It's sad.
@@Gobble_de_Goop IKR?! CGI is OVERUSED nowadays, so im kinda tired of CGI. And i think its sad that we will never experience a time were Robot technology has improved were future filmmakers dont need CGI for EVERYTHING.
One of my favorites is the Jan Svankmajer review. Artistically, it is fun to watch, and you can tell James has quite a deep passion for this kind of stuff. I too find it fascinating.
My introduction to Sherman Hemsley was grumpy old B.P. Richfield himself. "SIIIIIIIIIIINCLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Fun fact: Chris Meloni, who most famously played Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: SVU, and Chris Keller from Oz, actually voiced Robbie's friend Spike, the polacanthus (a spiky ankylosaurid) tough guy.
Jim Henson is an unmatched treasure, one of the greatest entertainers in history, I hope someday to live up to a little bit of his talent, he's always been my biggest inspiration
I personally found him scary as a little kid. He was just so intimidating to my young mind. Nowadays, as an adult, if I watch the show again on Disney+, I will very likely not be scared by him as I was back then.
Yeh, this show was ahead of it's time ironically,.. the only reason it went off the air was because of the time slot change,. everyone loved it. and still do... wouldn't be the same if it came back though.. if they attempt to turn this into fuller house im gonna have to choke someone lol
I'm pretty sure this was before Disney fully bought and took over Jim Henson productions. this feels like one of the last products of the true Jim Henson productions before Disney pretty much made the muppets a joke. (And not a funny one)
It's a great show and the finale, while dark, is really amazing. I like that a TV show is willing to go to places to challenge it's audience. Most TV has no message and are unwilling to take risks or subvert your expectations. Dinosaurs did it while being geared towards children using puppets. An underrated achievement.
In one of the season one episodes Robbie even makes fun of the fact that they get a little heavy handed with the messages. That's what I liked about it. It was entertaining while making you think.
One of the earliest dreams I ever remember as a kid: me and nicholas cage were playing video games in my bedroom, this was early 90s so we were playing NES. Then we hear banging on the door it was Earl, the dad from this show. He breaks down the door and sits on nicholas cage's head and flattens it like a pancake. i can still see nicholas cage's face completely flattened like a pancake screaming at the top of his lungs.
Three things that stood out out to me: 1. The baby. 2. Earl’s action figure was flame resistant. For about three seconds. 3. Earl was voiced by the banker from The Dirt Bike Kid.
@@frank8917 There was an episode where Earl becomes a superhero to impress Baby. His boss finds out who he is and exploits him for profits making all sorts of merchandise. One piece was a figure made out of paper.
Earl knew that the inevitable was coming. He tried to keep his chin up for the sake of his family. I wouldn't be sure how to explain it to a toddler like Baby.
That show was legendary! The amount of detail they put into the set design and the costumes made me feel so comfortable as a kid cause it was so colorful and the face expressions felt so "real".
Can’t believe how deep this show was lol all I remember from it was “not the mama!” Thanks for making this video. I’m definitely checking it out now that it’s back
Yeh, if he cuts out the virtue signalling, he's starting to sound like insufferable Greta, let's be real. Mike Matei was and always will be the real AVGN,
For sitcoms were the entire cast dies, that episode of Sledge Hammer where Sledge tries to defuse a nuke and the episode ends on a mushroom cloud comes to mind.
"Hey Rob, what are you watching?", "A family series starring animatronic puppets, which caricatures our daily lifes in a subtle manner.", "Its probably gonna be axed soon, hugh hugh."
You know what I would hate to see about Dinosaurs? "Dinosaurs : special edition...." Here all of the dinosaurs costumes, puppets and animatronics are replaced with CGI versions of them...
One punchline that sticks with me to this day is when they were celebrating New Years and someone (Robbie?) asks why the years were getting closer to *zero* instead of counting *up.* (i.e.: 175,000,999 to 175,000,998) _'What happens when the year reaches "0"?'_
Thank you for taking me back to my childhood James. Especially with everything going on in the world right now, I really appreciate you and your content.
When I saw that finale as a kid, I remember thinking "wait....that's it? They die now?" and got so upset because that ended the show. Unbelievable how real a fictitious sitcom about human-like dinosaurs felt.
I feel like the writers saw the writing on the wall and realized the show was coming to an end so just decided to go out with a bang and two big middle fingers and just said eef it. To have a show go from light and comedic and totally unrealistic to depressing super downer apocalyptic ending is amazing. I can't believe for a second that's where they wanted the show to go I feel like it was an angry reaction from writers who felt shafted by the network constantly shifting the show around until it was canceled.
@@StayFractalesque Eh... watch A Serbian Film, then get back to me what is truly disturbing. Modern films actually weak sauce compare to A Serbian Film and Salo.
@@LadyCoyKoi What are you on about? I think you subjected yourself to a Serbian Film just so you could more efficiently gatekeep because everything you just said is almost completely irrelevant.
I'm so glad that you reviewed this show! It really is one of the most brilliant comedy shows ever, and it absolutely holds up! The "suggestion box" scene has been quoted by all of my family members forever! I think that the show handled its somber moments very well. In addition to the darkness of the finale, I remember an episode where Earl drives the grandma to her school class reunion, only to find out that the grandma is the only person that attended, because all of her classmates passed away. This causes Earl and Ethyl to try to work out their differences.
The swamp monster actually appears in the Hensons TVs movie, The Monster Maker, itself an adaptation of a story set in a Creature Shop-esque workshop. It starred the brilliant Harry Dean Stanton.
@@spencer2745 saddest part about Alf is, the network lied to the writers. That was not the way they wanted it to end & thought they had another season.
their last name is Sinclair. Oh, I think I get it. There was an oil company named Sinclair, and their symbol was a dinosaur. another note, the comparison was made between Earl and Homer, but I think a better comparison would be to Jackie Gleason, especially considering his goofy sidekick character. Finally, Wesayso, continuing with the oil theme, could be a takeoff of Esso.
