I’m on lockdown so I watched all 14 Land Before Times 

11:04 "I have no sense of time in these films" That's because it's th- It's the Land B-

"his name is Guido and he's just hideous" me introducing my d&d characters to the table

"Littlefoot's dead mom was pro racism" jesus christ that's the funniest thing i've ever heard

As a fatherless child, I REALLY projected a lot of paternal qualities onto that cowboy dinosaur. He means so much to me.

Daddy Tops has "no fats, no femmes, no asians" and "just a preference" on his grindr profile

That moment where you realize Littlefoot and his friends have a kill count

Chomper’s bilingual status is kinda cute. Like a Latino kid who speaks English in school but Spanish to their parents.

The scene where they're drowning and an aquatic dinosaur comes from out of nowhere to save them is a classic Deus Loch Machina

Granny Bront: "Cousins, who will take me to the Night Flower?" Some random bronto, immediately, with no shame at all: "Not me."

There's something primally hysterical about the sentence "Daddy Tops is racist"

Okay but the perfect comedic timing of the grandpa calmly responding to a question and then instantly passing out, plus the insnae noise of him his giant now-unconscious body hitting the rocks

TBH, a setup involving "we can't eat the Tree Sweets before Nibbling Day" turning into Littlefoot attempting to prevent a casually-declared genocide of tinysauruses is pretty close to the parody of these movies I might have made without having seen them.

"The Yellowbellies are named Loofa, Doofa, and Foobi. I hate them terribly, these awful idiot dinosaurs" is such a powerful line so full of scorn I feel like it could be from some long lost Edgar Allen Poe short story

Littlefoot contextlessly saying ‘and rob you of your dignity?’ is actively killing me rn

I particularly love the line "I remember seeing trailers for a sequel where the main kids befriend a baby T-Rex and being intrigued by this." As if child Jenny was sitting watching TV and thought to herself "Hm yes, thats an interesting departure, I'm looking forward to seeing where they take this, could make for some interesting character drama."

The way Live Chat keeps bringing up "eggs" long before Jenny began talking about the eggs song terrified me to no end.

“Daddy Topps is racist” may be the best sentence anyone has ever said

Honestly “Daddy Tops” sounds like a Grindr profile

I love Littlefoot's haughty and slightly condescending face when he explains that "everyone has to wait until Nibbling Day".

I was never a huge Uncle Pterano fan per se but i was pretty disappointed when i found out that, after LBT7 ended with him being exiled for "five cold times", LBT12 (which came out five years later) was called Great Day of the Flyers but did not feature Pterano's dramatic return.

I find it utterly fascinating and admirable that the sequels actually bothered to have feathered dinosaurs.

I did not realize how many of these movies I saw until these clips awoke sleeper memories from deep in my subconscious

As someone who has younger siblings the whole “wonders off and puts themselves in danger” plot line only gives me incredible anxiety, considering it’s a nightmare of mine. Not entertainment.

I very distinctly remember those egg stealing dinosaurs so much that I forgot they weren’t in the original film, like in my mind they are the main villains of the whole franchise that egg song really must have got to me

"This video will contain spoilers for the Land Before Time franchise" I literally paused for a moment to decide if I could live with the 14 LBT sequels being spoiled for me.

Fun fact, I watched it in Polish when I was little, and Petrie was not only voiced by a child, but also talked with absolutely normal grammar

I loved the Land Before Time movies growing up particularly because of the aspect that Littlefoot is raised by his grandparent's as I myself pretty much was. I loved seeing that represented, in fact I loved that the movie feature incredibly diverse parents and guardians all round. From Cera's single father eventually remarrying and becoming a blended family. Spikes adoption and being raised alongside Ducky and her siblings. And Peetrees single mother I just loved it.

"Past the edge of dawn" is quite a poetic lyric for the seventh straight-to-tv sequel of a kid's franchise.

this is the hard hitting journalism we need in these unprecedented times

"When I wake up first thing I do: E G G S"

I just would like to say Rest in Peace to Judith/Ducky. She was my favorite yep yep yep. Everytime I remember her and the story, it hurts a lot. I just wanted to write down for people to be aware. And if you are in an abusive relationship, please be careful and be safe and take care of yourself.

I dont really agree that the original has no message to it, Bluth had a philosophy that kids can handle anything as long as there is a happy ending. I think the movie is meant to help kids deal with tragedy/loss but showing they are still capable and can go on despite of it. Lessons like that can be important for young children even if its not as overt as something like learning to share. Still love this video and have watched it quite a few times.

petition for jenny to do the barbie movies next

Daddy Topps' Grindr be like "no fats, no femms, no Longnecks"

Yes! Mysterious Island was always my favorite. It was actually kind of a holy grail for me as well, since it was the only one we had recorded off of Cartoon Network's old Cartoon Theater. For some reason we never labeled the VHS, so I would always have to hunt for it and mostly found it by chance. It was also very special to me because of how Chomper and his parents spoke. I might be misremembering, but I think subtitles appeared for their conversations. At that time, I was living in the US but my english was still very weak, and I was made fun of constantly for speaking two languages. My father told me that when we talk, we're just like Chomper and his parents: only we could understand one another, and that doesn't make it weird, it makes it special. He said that meant the sharptooths had their own lives nobody else could understand, and they were happy that way. But because Chomper spoke both languages, he could have friends and lives in two worlds. It really helped me with my self-confidence, and because of that it always has a place in my heart.

Further proof of Chomper being the best character is in the cartoon. The cartoon has a reoccurring villain in Red Claw and his two goons Thud and Screech. In one episode, Chomper and Duckie get stranded on a ledge with Thud, and the entire time Thud tries to eat them but his tail is stuck in a pile of rubble so he can't reach. Thud ends up mocking Chomper and telling him that no one is coming, but of course he's proven wrong and when the gang comes back to save Chomper and Duckie, Thud looks incredibly defeated as he resigns himself to being stuck since he knows of course no one is coming for him. Then Chomper turns around and helps Thud lighten the load off his tail. He doesn't free him entirely, but he pushes enough rocks away so that Thud could wiggle his way out with some effort after everyone left. The conflict ends with Thud repaying his debt to Chomper by leading Red Claw on a false trail when he knew Chomper and the gang were cornered. Chomper saved the life of a dino who unapologetically tried to eat him and his friends on multiple occasions and insulted him and his friends multiple times and clearly had no remorse for his actions. Chomper is _the_ best boy.

"I have no sense of time in these films" feels like an accurate thing to say for a series titled "The Land before Time."

Can u imagine having to animate 12 full minutes of guido sleepwalking

Spent about a year pondering what "a low-key one slur kind of thing" meant but Sarah Z cleared things up

Seeing Littlefoot return as a god figure with his head stoically held high in Sarah’s nightmare legit had me dead 🤣🤣

Let me get this straight. a) Chomper can’t talk when he’s super young b) Chomper CAN talk when he gets a bit older (but he’s still youngish) c) Chompers parents can’t talk So is there only a small window for T-Rex’s to talk? Or is it that Chomper spent enough time with the gang that he can speak some of their Dino language? I’m intrigued and fascinated by this for no important reason.

i cannot overstate how much i am weirded out by the english version of the land before time. if you didn't know the russian version is voiced by one person. and when i mean one person I DO mean 1 person. every single character has the same tired male voice of a 45 year old. and you would be like well that's weird BUUT one person can still differentiate characters by doing small voice inflection, maybe an accent, maybe raise the voice or make the pitch higher for girl characters. and like.... you would think that woudnt you....... buuuuuuuut GUESS WHAT???? he DOSNT do that!!! the guy voicing all the characters doesn't even try to differentiate them!! and the funniest thing,,, THE FUNNIEST thing about rewatching russian voiced LBF is that you cAN HEAR THE ENGLISH VERSION IN THE BACKGROUND!! And in that english language in the background the characters can be heard emoting, they have the "scary voice" the "happy voice" and the voice actors clearly working. BUUUUT in the foreground the russian translation that goes on top of all the sounds (yes even sound effects) is loud af, doesn't even have any emotions and is the SAME VOICE for all the characters. and I only realised that you english people don't have that experience of all characters sounding the same like as i was watching this video and that was so strange to me. I highly recommend finding russian version of LBT and just hearing the voiceover, cos honestly you need to experience it.

We have a local drag family that all names themselves after the Topps family because their names all have accidental double entendre. "Cera Topps" (Share a top), "Daddy Topps", (Daddy tops), and Tria Topps (Try a top). They had a new drag king join briefly, named "Juan Topps" (Want tops?) but he only performed for like 4 months before quitting. Its a deep cut. For sure. I think they've also performed a few of the LBT songs.

The staff at Jurassic Park should take notes, they could have saved so many lives if they only had more convenienty placed rocks to push.

Guido breaks my immersion. I can buy talking dinosaurs but them being Italian is a step too far.

"Get It Together, Petrie, You're 45." hahaha, that got me. I'm Aria Curzon, voice of Ducky in films 5-14 and the TV series. I'm starting a podcast, and am talking with Rob Paulsen today (Spike, Yakko Warner, Pinky, and more) and during my refresher course on our history together, I came across your video. This was fun to watch, thank you for making it! :)

"This movie is so original that it contains no goo" has gotta be the most outlandish praise ever without context

I just remember wanting to eat salad because they portrayed the leaves as being so tasty... ...good way to get the kids to eat their veggies, also a good way to disappoint them as well.

SOMEONE on that writing team knew why calling him “Daddy Topps” was funny. And they deserved a pay raise.

I have had "Big Big Big Big Water" stuck in my head for over 15 years and hearing it somewhere outside my own mind was very cathartic

Describing the movies as “tutorials for how to play land before time with your friends” is the most accurate description I’ve ever heard

The egg song is double as bad and funny in finnish dub, because the word egg in finnish is also a nickname for testicles. I remember me and my cousin laughing like Beavis and Butthead while watching that scene, constantly rewinding it over and over.

so, it's actually my fault ruby is bright pink. when i was four, my dad was developing the land before time tv show and showed me four potential designs for the new character: ruby. he asked me which one i liked best and, being a stereotypical preschool girl, chose the pepto-bismol pink design because it was pink and my favorite color was pink. originally ruby's dots were going to be purple (per the design preschool me chose because i also liked purple) but then i guess they realized they named a character ruby and she needed to also be red.

They really missed an opportunity by not naming Cera's dad Tricerapops

the UGHGH sigh that grandpa puts in when introducing his estranged son in law will never not be hysterical

00:00 intro 2:05 14: XIII, the wisdom of friends 3:11 13: XII, the great day of the flyers 6:05 12: VII, the stone of cold fire 9:10 11: IV, journey through the mists 12:51 10: XI, the invasion of the tinysauruses 16:19 9: VI, the secret of saurus rock 19:05 8: III, the time of the great giving 21:56 7: VIII, the big freeze 24:16 6: XIV, the journey of the brave 28:57 5: IX, journey to big water 31:07 4: II, the great valley adventure 35:34 3: I, the land before time 42:02 2: X, the great longneck migration 46:59 1: V, the mysterious island

I think a big part of why LBT1 resonated with me as a kid, aside from the fact that I was raised in a Christian community, was the fact that my parents had to explain death to me at a very young age because I had a disabled sister who could drop dead at any moment. Bami and Lion King both had deaths in them, but it wasn't handled the same way as it was in LBT1. They really showed Littlefoot's grieving process; seeing her shadow and thinking it's her, being so depressed he won't eat even when he's starving, getting irrationally angry and blaming her for her own death, and clinging to the memory of her throughout the whole film. It didn't just cut away from the sad part and skip years ahead in time or have Littlefoot just immediately get over it and go to a desert and declare himself Littlefoot Skywalker, it really portrayed the pain of losing a loved one.

The ‘Ugliness’ of the Dinosaur designs is something I would defend about the original movie. The whole movie had an ‘Ugliness’ to it, a layer of texture and realism that is often completely ignored in kids movies. The movie’s imagery stuck in kids minds, or at least mine, because its ugliness was memorable and fascinating. I think that the idea that kids prefer ‘cute’ characters and designs has more to do with ease of visual processing and the perception of kids themselves as cute. Children are often drawn to ugly, frightening, or dirty things out of a natural curiosity. The ugliness of these Dinosaurs presents a realness that I think many kids crave.

Also, the Mo isn't a Dolphin nor a Dinosaur. It is marine reptile part of the family of Ithyosauridae. He's either an Ithyosaurud or an Ophtalmosaurus. But I believe he's canonically considered an Ophtalmosaurus. This, and the fact the Sharptooth in this movie is a Liopleurodon, really ties this entry with the documentary "Walking with Dinosaurs", namely the episode centered on the sea. Both Liopleurodon and Ophtalmosaurus appear in it.

The original movie still has such an emotional significance for me that when Jenny played like a two second clip of Littlefoot’s mom talking I started crying

jenny’s constant ownership of plushes that are relevant to the topic at hand never ceases to amaze me

Jenny's fanfic: Trapped In A Island With Chomper

I cannot believe you put 'Beyond the Mysterious Beyond' in this movie. I *still* sing that in the shower and I have seen that movie in at least 20 years.

It's so good to hear someone talk about these movies! They plagued Blockbusters everywhere, haha. My favorite part of "The Big Freeze" was the end where they all hang out in the hot spring. I don't know why the water was so red, but it looked so cozy. To this day I want to go to those Japanese winter hot springs, and it's all cause of that movie. You should do the Barbie sequels next, they're surprisingly decent. (And it's a wonderful study in the evolution of CGI over the years)

I love your videos, Jenny! As the voice of "Cera" in the Land Before Time franchise and "Phoebe" in Hey Arnold (which you talk about in another one of your videos), I may be slightly biased ;)

"Catch me in a lie..." "R O B Y O U O F Y O U R D I G N I T Y" Littlefoot is too conscious of what he's doing to his kindergarten teacher

Fun fact, most dinosaurs would have never seen a flower. Flowering plants didn't evolve until after the Mesozoic.

My husband and I are going through all of these with our 3-year-old. We have a lot of fun of the silliness and he loves the dinosaurs. My biggest takeaways are that basically, Littlefoot is Dinosaur Jesus, and ALL of their parents are just as bad as the Rugrat parents. Like they act SO surprisedly when their kids just venture off into the mysterious beyond, and I'm like well, what else would the other 13 movies be about (spoiler alert they're about nothing), once they had reached the Great Valley?

When you said "LBT fandom" I misheard it as "LGBT" and I didn't even question that the gay community was apparently really into the land before Time movies

“I’m not racist I have pterodactyl friends”

I love the little “peanut gallery” comment from the land of mist bronto when grandma asks who will take her to get the medicine, and the one bronto is like “fuck that”

"guido!! guiDO NOOO--!!!!!" makes me laugh every single time, excellent cut, comedic timing A++

When you casually said “Sarah is racist” I laughed out loud Something about using the word ‘racist’ to describe a cartoon baby dinosaur is truly surreal

The first film was translated as “In search of the Enchanted Valley” in Spain, and the fact that they kept it as the title for all the sequels, just adding in a subtitle, meant that our general understanding of the premise was that they spent 14 films looking for the damned valley and they still had not found it by the end.

I seriously cannot believe you have the hot take that number 5 is the best one. I would watch that one over and over again as a child, way more than the others and this video actually helped me understand why little me was so obsessed. it checked ALL the boxes!

I've never agreed with a video more than I do with this one. I believe I saw all of these movies growing up and tho I don't remember most of them, the ones with Chomper were the ones I enjoyed most. Apparently, LBT5 is my favorite because I've been singing "Big Big Water" and "Friends For Dinner" ever since I heard them all those years ago. Thanks to this video, I better understand my aunt's digust with "every other scene being a song" remark from back then. 😂 This was a great trip down memory lane, so thanks for that.

Not only is Daddy Topps racist, but he also advocates for genocide in Tinysauruses

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that sleepwalking bit goes on for 12 minutes… that’s insane! I could boil and eat an egg and that dinosaur would still be walking about

@Jenny Nicholson Regarding the 1st LBT, I think Don Bluth and Gary Goldman can both give their opinions as to the overall picture for that movie. You can always contact them and ask any questions you may have. They're quite open to Q&A to their work. They can't say much about the sequels, since they had nothing to do with them and can't bring themselves to watch any sequels to movies they made. The only exception was the Direct-to-Video short movie "Bartok the Magnificent" (released shortly after Anastasia).

Daddy Tops was not the name I was expecting, but the name I needed

There must be a gay guy out there livid they didn’t think of “Daddy Topps” for their Grindr profile name.

Big fan of the random clip of a triceratops saying "Oh honey no"

In real life all dinosaurs that had child specific nicknames in early life picked their own names as they grew into adulthood. Dinosaur sociology is a fascinating field.

This analysis is spot-on - I saw a handful of the early movies as a kid and the two songs deeply engrained in my brain were the earworms, “Big Water” and “Friends for Dinner,” as well as “We’re a family and you’re one of us now.” I have the most memories of movies 2 and 5.

"Cousins, who will take me to the Night Flower?" "ᴺᵒᵗ ᵐᵉ"

Ok but seriously can we talk about how metal Littlefoot's body count is?

Mysterious Island was also my favorite. I actually begged my mom to record it onto a blank VHS tape when it aired on Cartoon Network once! Even had all the commercials! I watched it over and over again. I also remember them singing "deep, deep water" instead of "big, big water." in my initial watch. I was so confused later on! Hashtag early Mandela Effect?

I was REALLY hoping The Land Before Time 2 ranked highly, I've never seen it but I stumbled on the Eggs song and, how dare you say it's awful, IT KICKS. I know all the words and those Oviraptors are huge weirdos and it's everything I love. The dignified one is acting his heart out, punning and screaming passionately about eating eggs THRICE a day AT LEAST! All-timer of a novelty song for me, glad they were terrifically useless in the story too. That somehow makes it better.

"Littlefoot's dead mom was pro racism" sounds like a plausible twitter callout in this timeline.

Love that Loofah, Doofah, and Fubee ALL could be the names of competing video streaming platforms today

I really liked the point about how a lot of the movie stuff is a how-to-play-dinosaurs tutorial, something about that is very wholesome actually

It’s interesting how Jenny makes topics I could not at all care about seem interesting. It’s a testament to her ability to entertain. I cannot believe I just watched someone talk about The Land Before Time for an hour.

“When I wake up the first thing I do” “EEEEGGGGGGSS”

"I wouldn't let Daddy Topps in my Great Valley" is the most innuendo I've ever heard in one of Jenny's videos.

For over 2 years I've waited for a good moment to watch this video. The original movie is one of my favorite childhood movies ever, and I had the VHS' of the first 5 sequels. I liked them alright, but I especially liked the first one's dark quality, animation style and earthy color palette. But now, after a long and glorious track record of avoiding the virus, covid has finally gotten me. So it is time for this video. I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

Ah, I remember during summer of 2020 I would listen to this video every morning in the shower while I prepared for…….doing absolutely nothing because it was quarantine. Back then this video made me nostalgic for the Land Before Time, now it makes me nostalgic for quarantine. 😭 Thank you Jenny for being my comfort video during such a difficult and scary time!!!

"Cousins, who will take me to the flower?" "Not me."

i know jenny doesnt read the comments but i was honestly having a pretty rough day, i live in minnesota and things are very tense here right now. finding out jenny posted an hour long video about a nostalgic childhood franchise legit made me cry. thank you emotional support youtuber. anyways hope everyone is doing well

This has been a weird exploration into my subconscious where I didn't know I had seen so many of these movies until the clips played and they clawed their way from the pit. I feel weird. Great video!

I watched this when it was firt uploaded and had to come back to it. My cousin who i was very close with died during covid lock down and this movie was one of our favorites. So this video made me cry in a happy and sad way.