Dinosaurs

Apr 26, 1991

Earl lays an egg when he asks his boss for a raise, and Fran lays an egg--literally.

May 3, 1991

Family duties and the baby combine to frazzle Fran, and Earl can't figure out her problem.

May 10, 1991

Earl has the honor of tossing his mother-in-law into the tar pits on "Hurling Day."

May 17, 1991

A monstrous male who notices Fran in the supermarket challenges Earl to a fight to the death.

May 24, 1991

Robbie questions howling as a rite of passage--an act that puts Earl and Roy at odds with each other.

Sep 18, 1991

When the Sinclair baby sprouts a golden horn, he is trumpeted as the prophesied King of the Dinosaurs.

Sep 25, 1991

When the Sinclairs' TV is wrecked, Earl enters the family on a game show to win a new set.

Oct 2, 1991

When Robbie flubs his initiation into the Young Males' Carnivore Association, Earl fears his son may be a herbivore.

Oct 9, 1991

Charlene gets a tail, which whips up strange feelings in Earl, whose little girl is no longer so little.

Oct 16, 1991

Earl buys Fran two rare grapdelites for dinner, unaware that they are the last of their species.

Oct 23, 1991

Earl anticipates a promotion as he awaits a dinner with Richfield; Robbie brings home a "pet" human.

Oct 30, 1991

Lurking in the Sinclair refrigerator are delectable creatures that go bad, very bad, while Charlene watches the baby.

Nov 6, 1991

Robbie objects to the career--tree pusher--assigned to him by the "Job Wizard."

Nov 13, 1991

A liberated single female's ideas make Fran reconsider renewing her marriage license.

Nov 20, 1991

Robbie gets pointers on how to approach girls from a streetwise contemporary named Spike.

Nov 27, 1991

The Sinclairs learn that the baby might have been switched with another.

Dec 11, 1991

Earl's fridge is repossessed as the dinosaurs celebrate Refrigerator Day and the gift of cold storage.

Dec 18, 1991

Earl helps Fran's friend Monica get a job as a tree pusher, but she's no pushover when she's harrassed by a predatory male.

Jan 8, 1992

Fran gets a job on TV giving advice to dinosaurs, leaving Earl to learn how to cope with a wife who works.

Jan 15, 1992

A power struggle erupts between the Wesayso Corp. and Robbie after he invents a way to generate energy as a science project.

Jan 22, 1992

An archaeologist documents dinosaurs' way of life as they may have existed long ago, but clips from previous episodes tell a different story.

Feb 5, 1992

A wild plant has a weird effect on the dinosaurs--it makes them dopey and happy, to the exclusion of everything else.

Feb 12, 1992

Earl thinks Old Ethyl has died, but she returns from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife.

Feb 19, 1992

The four-legged dinosaurs encroach on the pistachio-nut supply of the "normal" dinosaurs...and that means war.

Feb 26, 1992

Earl, Roy and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie.

Mar 25, 1992

Earl throws his hat into the ring as a candidate for Chief Elder, but he's likely to have his head handed to him by his opponent, B.P. Richfield.

Apr 1, 1992

Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with an expensive coat, but the coat leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status.

Apr 22, 1992

When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them.

May 8, 1992

Wesayso insists Roy replace Earl as the father of the Sinclairs, who are selected as the Wesayso spokesfamily.

Sep 18, 1992

Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.

Oct 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.

Oct 16, 1992

Earl is hired as a network executive when his answers on a test for new television shows prove to be surprisingly accurate.

Oct 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.

Oct 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.

Nov 6, 1992

The Baby becomes sick from a dirty pacifier and a visit to the modern doctor has the family suspecting he is selling them high priced snake oil.

Nov 13, 1992

Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.

Nov 20, 1992

When Earl is caught by the Parent Police losing his temper at the baby, he loses his parenting license.

Dec 4, 1992

Charlene is charged with heresy and jailed after submitting her homework assignment claiming that the world is round and not flat.

Dec 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.

Jan 8, 1993

After failing to mow the lawn, Robbie challenges Earl for male domination of the family... and wins.

Jan 15, 1993

Charlene signs up for a foreign student exchange program to get away from her family who doesn't understand her; and the Sinclairs get a bitter taste of a different culture when a French bird moves in with them in Charlene's place.

Jan 29, 1993

The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.

Feb 5, 1993

Baby becomes a hit sensation when he and Earl star in a series of commercials for a new frying pan. Earl is fired from the commercials and he and Monica start to worry that fame is going to the Baby's and Fran's heads.

Feb 12, 1993

Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.

Feb 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.

Feb 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.

Mar 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.

Apr 16, 1993

Ethel reads the Baby a story called "If You Were a Tree" about a dinosaur tree pusher who gets struck by lightning and swaps souls with the tree he's trying to demolish.

May 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.

May 9, 1993

Charlene feels her family is neglecting her, so she gets their attention by winning the school talent show but her rising fame is riding on the backs of three young cavelings she found in the forest whose mother is looking for them.

Jul 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.

Jun 1, 1994

The Baby swears there's a monster under his bed, but no one believes him--until it starts dragging victims into its hole.

Jun 8, 1994

Earl assumes the powers of a superhero, but he's bound to use his might only for the Wesayso Corp.

Jun 22, 1994

Questions about life's meaning plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism."

Jun 29, 1994

Earl drives Ethyl to her reunion, and the kids drive Fran crazy when she tries to get them to pose for a portrait.

Jul 6, 1994

A workplace injury ends up costing Earl his job but it pays off big for him in court.

Jul 13, 1994

Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos."

Jul 20, 1994

Efforts to solve an environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.

Sep 6, 1995

The baby goes gaga over a hippo named Georgie, the latest children's idol. But when Earl dresses up as Georgie, he's arrested for copyright infringement.

Sep 20, 1995

Earl, Robbie and Roy stumble into a tar pit when they take the Baby into the forest for the traditional dinosaur Wilderness Rite of Passage.

Nov 6, 1995

When too many overworked employees drop dead from exhaustion, businesses give dinosaurs two weeks off for a vacation; B.P. Richfield advises Earl to bring his family to WeSaySo Land, which is supposed to be a fun amusement park for the family. What the Sinclairs find is an overpriced, cow themed park that is newly under construction, and they have to stay for 14 days.

Nov 7, 1995

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".

Nov 8, 1995

Charlene becomes her father's boss when Richfield is pressured into hiring women. The only problem is, Dad won't listen to her.

Nov 9, 1995

Robbie and Charlene go against Earl's orders and sneak out to see his estranged sister, Pearl, a country star, perform. Roy falls in love with Pearl and plans to settle down with her, despite Earl's protests.

Nov 10, 1995

Charlene's scent gland comes in and Fran explains the one boy who is attracted to her scent is the one she's destined to marry. But Charlene puts out fumes of burning rubber and attracts the school janitor who aspires to be a tree pusher.