Dinosaurs is coming to DVD in May

**Kane Knight** · 01-22-2006, 05:24 PM

According to TVShowsonDVD.com, seasons 1+2 will be released on a 4 disc set.

I don't know if anyone here cares.

**Loose Cannon** · 01-22-2006, 05:25 PM

great show.

**UmbrellaCorporation** · 01-22-2006, 05:26 PM

hell yes.

**Boondock Saint** · 01-22-2006, 05:38 PM

NOT THE MAMA

**G-wrath** · 01-22-2006, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Boondock Saint

NOT THE MAMA

Wow, I vaguely remember that, it's been a long time. How many seasons were there of that?

**Kane Knight** · 01-22-2006, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by G-wrath

Wow, I vaguely remember that, it's been a long time. How many seasons were there of that?

I think there were 4 seasons.

**Tornado** · 01-22-2006, 05:52 PM

*marks out*

**Kane Knight** · 01-22-2006, 05:52 PM

"We're going to need another Timmy!"

**starfox8500** · 01-22-2006, 06:15 PM

HAHA I <3 that show

**samichna** · 01-22-2006, 06:41 PM

sweet

**Chavo Classic** · 01-23-2006, 10:35 AM

The humour is going to be lost on me now that I'm not nine years old.

**FourFifty** · 01-26-2006, 12:52 PM

When the hell is the rest of Fraggle Rock hitting DVD?

**Requiem** · 01-26-2006, 01:06 PM

Yessssss.. Gonna have to download this.

**AareDub** · 01-26-2006, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Chavo Classic

The humour is going to be lost on me now that I'm not nine years old.

Yea, I loved it when I was younger, but can't imagine it being very good these days.

**el fregadero** · 01-27-2006, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by samichna

sweet

**Impeccable** · 01-27-2006, 12:11 PM

I think I need to own that DVD....regardless of the fact that I've outgrown the humour.

I'm sure I'll still chuckle.

**FourFifty** · 01-27-2006, 12:37 PM

And Fraggle Rock, Volume 2 is hitting stores in Sept... What the crap? I need to wait 9 months? That makes baby jesus cry.

**Kane Knight** · 01-27-2006, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Chavo Classic

The humour is going to be lost on me now that I'm not nine years old.

Some shows stand up better than others.

450 is mentioning Fraggle Rock, which still stands up.

I own all the commercial releases of Dinosaurs and have most of the other eps on tape, and I think it MOSTLY holds its own in comparison. The show was too much like the Simpsons to lose its humour simply because you're older.

**Volchok** · 01-27-2006, 05:18 PM

If anything you might actully get more things from the show now that you are older.

**Kane Knight** · 01-27-2006, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by EcKo 03 ComPlEX

If anything you might actully get more things from the show now that you are older.

Specially with some of the jokes they used.

**Requiem** · 01-27-2006, 06:41 PM

I still remember when they buried the grandma because they thought she was dead, and then she showed up covered in dirt. LOL

And I can remember the 'musk' one, where the school janitor fell for the girl's scent and she was pissed because of it.

**Kane Knight** · 01-27-2006, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

I still remember when they buried the grandma because they thought she was dead, and then she showed up covered in dirt. LOL

And Earl buried her like 20 feet deep, and she had to dig herself out with a wheelchair in her teeth.

**Requiem** · 01-27-2006, 07:06 PM

aaahahaha yessss

I need to freakin download those when they come out. Hell, I might even buy them. They were that good and memorable.

**Adder** · 01-27-2006, 07:18 PM

I remember that show, didn't think it was all that good.

**Kane Knight** · 01-27-2006, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

aaahahaha yessss

I need to freakin download those when they come out. Hell, I might even buy them. They were that good and memorable.

Tell me about it. I can guarantee I'll get this one.

**McDoogle** · 01-27-2006, 08:12 PM

Is this the show where the mother dino gets killed?

**Kane Knight** · 01-27-2006, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by McDoogle

Is this the show where the mother dino gets killed?

Nope.

**Cool King** · 02-02-2006, 07:49 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_%28TV_series%29

I might get the DVD when it's released in the UK.

**Kane Knight** · 02-02-2006, 09:14 AM

Adult Themes

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Dinosaurs had several episodes with adult themes or references. At the end of the episode "A New Leaf," Robbie made a short public service announcement (asking to help put an end to preachy anti-drug episodes) in which he described the show as "adult-themed." In another episode, Earl made a self-referential joke while watching a puppet show, arguing that while the show had an aesthetic appeal to children, its humor was aimed at adults.
Indeed, despite the cartoonish violence that often occurred in the series, many jokes were aimed under the radar at adults. Sometimes these jokes were in the form of references to events or people children would likely not know of. For example, at the end of "When Food Goes Bad," the defeated General Chow (a refrigerator creature and source of food to the dinosaurs) states that "Old food never dies. It just goes bad," a reference to Douglas MacArthur's famous speech in which he stated, "Old soldiers never die. They just fade away."
Many of these references alluded to sexual intercourse. Several references to "Thursday night" made it clear that this was a scheduled mating night for Earl and Fran. Sexual themes were also ascribed to something called the "Mating Dance," thus allowing the show to make sex-related jokes by showing the (non-sexual to humans) dance. While not overt to children, adults would obviously understand the jokes ("If you are going to dance with a stranger, always wear protective footwear!" advises a character in a sex-ed style video).
Other themes featured in Dinosaurs include environmentalism, women's rights, sexual harassment, censorship, civil rights, drug abuse, racism, peer pressure, rights of indigenous peoples, and corporate crime. Several of the episodes have liberal themes or morals. The two-part episode "Nuts to War," in which the two-legged dinosaurs go to war with the four-legged dinosaurs over rights to pistachio trees, aired in February and March of 1992, and was almost certainly in response to the Persian Gulf War. Dialogue in the episode addresses war profiteering (by the WeSaySo Corporation of B.P. Richfield, Earl's boss), the casualties of war (limited to one two-legger, which the Sinclair family thought for a time was Robbie), the war's use as a distraction from domestic issues during an election year, government suppression of information, and the harassment of the antiwar movement.
The series finale of Dinosaurs revolved around the irresponsible actions of the dinosaurs toward their environment, which triggered the Ice Age and their demise. The episode begins with the failure of a beetle swarm to show up and check the spread of a form of creeper vine. The reason is later shown to be the destruction of the beetle's breeding ground to create a wax fruit factory. The WeSaySo corporation takes charge of the attempt to destroy the vine, which it does by spraying the planet with defoliant. The operation destroys the vine, but kills off all plant life on the planet as well. B.P. Richfield assumes that the creation of clouds will bring rain, allowing the plants to grow back, and so decides to create clouds by dropping bombs in the planet's volcanoes to cause eruptions and cloud cover. The dark clouds instead instigate global cooling, and viewers are left in no doubt as to the fate of the dinosaurs. The episode contained a clear message of environmental responsibility, and while not overt in its portrayal of the extinction of the dinosaurs, the episode was still a marked change from its normal humor and merited a parental warning in the TV listings.

01-22-2006, 05:24 PM	#1
Kane Knight Ron Paul 4 EVA Posts: 152,467	Dinosaurs is coming to DVD in May According to TVShowsonDVD.com, seasons 1+2 will be released on a 4 disc set. I don't know if anyone here cares. �There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old�s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.� --John Rogers

01-22-2006, 05:25 PM	#2
Loose Cannon I'm all there is Posts: 31,809	great show.

01-22-2006, 05:26 PM	#3
UmbrellaCorporation All That Jazz Posts: 3,310	hell yes.

01-22-2006, 05:38 PM	#4
Boondock Saint Posts: 8,795	NOT THE MAMA

01-22-2006, 05:52 PM	#7
Tornado Tedious Inevitability Posts: 7,521	marks out

01-22-2006, 06:15 PM	#9
starfox8500 Future #1 Bro-ski o.t.w. Posts: 447	HAHA I <3 that show

01-22-2006, 06:41 PM	#10
samichna TAKE IT EACE Posts: 27,417	sweet

01-23-2006, 10:35 AM	#11
Chavo Classic The Great Pink Hope Posts: 8,817	The humour is going to be lost on me now that I'm not nine years old.

01-26-2006, 12:52 PM	#12
FourFifty As over as Crystal Pepsi Posts: 21,639	When the hell is the rest of Fraggle Rock hitting DVD?

01-26-2006, 01:06 PM	#13
Requiem Posts: 19,294	Yessssss.. Gonna have to download this.

01-27-2006, 12:11 PM	#16
Impeccable Tag Team Wrestling Mark! Posts: 2,339	I think I need to own that DVD....regardless of the fact that I've outgrown the humour. I'm sure I'll still chuckle.

01-27-2006, 12:37 PM	#17
FourFifty As over as Crystal Pepsi Posts: 21,639	And Fraggle Rock, Volume 2 is hitting stores in Sept... What the crap? I need to wait 9 months? That makes baby jesus cry.

01-27-2006, 05:18 PM	#19
Volchok L.G. Fuad Posts: 4,832	If anything you might actully get more things from the show now that you are older.

01-27-2006, 06:41 PM	#21
Requiem Posts: 19,294	I still remember when they buried the grandma because they thought she was dead, and then she showed up covered in dirt. LOL And I can remember the 'musk' one, where the school janitor fell for the girl's scent and she was pissed because of it.

01-27-2006, 07:06 PM	#23
Requiem Posts: 19,294	aaahahaha yessss I need to freakin download those when they come out. Hell, I might even buy them. They were that good and memorable.

01-27-2006, 07:18 PM	#24
Adder A.W.O.L. Posts: 5,862	I remember that show, didn't think it was all that good.

01-27-2006, 08:12 PM	#26
McDoogle The Greatness That Is Me Posts: 3,593	Is this the show where the mother dino gets killed?

02-02-2006, 07:49 AM	#28
Cool King King K Cool Posts: 28,472	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_%28TV_series%29 I might get the DVD when it's released in the UK.

02-02-2006, 09:14 AM	#29
Kane Knight Ron Paul 4 EVA Posts: 152,467	Adult Themes Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Dinosaurs had several episodes with adult themes or references. At the end of the episode "A New Leaf," Robbie made a short public service announcement (asking to help put an end to preachy anti-drug episodes) in which he described the show as "adult-themed." In another episode, Earl made a self-referential joke while watching a puppet show, arguing that while the show had an aesthetic appeal to children, its humor was aimed at adults. Indeed, despite the cartoonish violence that often occurred in the series, many jokes were aimed under the radar at adults. Sometimes these jokes were in the form of references to events or people children would likely not know of. For example, at the end of "When Food Goes Bad," the defeated General Chow (a refrigerator creature and source of food to the dinosaurs) states that "Old food never dies. It just goes bad," a reference to Douglas MacArthur's famous speech in which he stated, "Old soldiers never die. They just fade away." Many of these references alluded to sexual intercourse. Several references to "Thursday night" made it clear that this was a scheduled mating night for Earl and Fran. Sexual themes were also ascribed to something called the "Mating Dance," thus allowing the show to make sex-related jokes by showing the (non-sexual to humans) dance. While not overt to children, adults would obviously understand the jokes ("If you are going to dance with a stranger, always wear protective footwear!" advises a character in a sex-ed style video). Other themes featured in Dinosaurs include environmentalism, women's rights, sexual harassment, censorship, civil rights, drug abuse, racism, peer pressure, rights of indigenous peoples, and corporate crime. Several of the episodes have liberal themes or morals. The two-part episode "Nuts to War," in which the two-legged dinosaurs go to war with the four-legged dinosaurs over rights to pistachio trees, aired in February and March of 1992, and was almost certainly in response to the Persian Gulf War. Dialogue in the episode addresses war profiteering (by the WeSaySo Corporation of B.P. Richfield, Earl's boss), the casualties of war (limited to one two-legger, which the Sinclair family thought for a time was Robbie), the war's use as a distraction from domestic issues during an election year, government suppression of information, and the harassment of the antiwar movement. The series finale of Dinosaurs revolved around the irresponsible actions of the dinosaurs toward their environment, which triggered the Ice Age and their demise. The episode begins with the failure of a beetle swarm to show up and check the spread of a form of creeper vine. The reason is later shown to be the destruction of the beetle's breeding ground to create a wax fruit factory. The WeSaySo corporation takes charge of the attempt to destroy the vine, which it does by spraying the planet with defoliant. The operation destroys the vine, but kills off all plant life on the planet as well. B.P. Richfield assumes that the creation of clouds will bring rain, allowing the plants to grow back, and so decides to create clouds by dropping bombs in the planet's volcanoes to cause eruptions and cloud cover. The dark clouds instead instigate global cooling, and viewers are left in no doubt as to the fate of the dinosaurs. The episode contained a clear message of environmental responsibility, and while not overt in its portrayal of the extinction of the dinosaurs, the episode was still a marked change from its normal humor and merited a parental warning in the TV listings.