What does Sup Forums think of Jim Hensons's Dinosaurs?

What does Sup Forums think of Jim Hensons's Dinosaurs?

>Dinosaurs is an American family sitcom comedy television series that was originally broadcast on ABC from April 26, 1991 to July 20, 1994. The show, about a family of anthropomorphic dinosaurs (portrayed by puppets), was produced by Michael Jacobs Productions and Jim Henson Productions in association with Walt Disney Television and distributed by Buena Vista International, Inc.The characters were designed by Henson team member Kirk Thatcher.

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I guess count as puppets.
I used to watch it a lot as a kid, I was a sucker for anything dinosaur.

Don't remember much, but iirc the kids were annoying, especially the baby.

Fun show, but damn man. That ending.

Ditto. Looking back it was very much the Flintstones of the 90's and not just because of the setting.

The baby is the same voice actor/puppeteer of elmo

I rewatched some Flintstones recently, was better than I expected.

A lot of people nowadays forget that Flintstones started out as a primetime sitcom that just happened to be animated.

I'M DA BABY GOTTA LOVE ME

I'M DA BABY, GOTTA-
Well, shit, there goes the one thing I remember about that show other than the fact the ending was fucking dark literally, because the Dad Dinosaur accidentally blocked out the fucking sun by causing a volcanic winter

EL NENE ESTA BIEN

I think a lot of people also forget the Flintstones aren't the Jetsons.

Great series. They slipped some very mature content under the radar. And packed it good and understandable in a nice child friendly, more or less, wrapping.

>kids were annoying
They were your typical kids character.
And the baby was funny but if too random annoying. It got that Urkel-effect.

"Hey, mama, are you rocking me back and forth so I'll fall asl--zzzzzzz."
"I don't believe you."
"I don't blame you."

Yes, too many feelings.

like the solo mating dance episode?

My favorite was the anti-drug episode and its epilogue.
>We had a lot of fun tonight, but there's nothing funny about public service moral episodes on television. They bring down the flow and can ruin the tone. I mean, this is, what, our second season and we're already doing one of these. So please, stop using drugs so we can stop making these special programs.

Yeah, it was cold.

Chill, Carlos.

Well in their defense. Sometimes it's both.

Yes or the 2 leg vs 4leg war.
Or the extinction of the delicious mammals.
Or the steroid episode.

Dat Robbie Thornoids episode doe

Yo
Started like an "get muscle nerd" ad than changed into hulk origin story.

Monica's long lewd neck fucked my shit up, sempai.

>That episode about religion
>That episode about immigrants
>That episode about drugs
>That episode about sex
>That episode about commercials

Puppets are Sup Forums?


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hello newfag and welcome to Sup Forums

It's been a while

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But did they for this show

Kill yourself, Boco, you disgusting fuck. How can someone be stupid enough to be on this site for such a relatively long amount of time and still not get how annoying it is that tripfags exist?

I wanted to fuck the sister.

The baby was TERRIFYING, though!

The ending was dark, surprised they had the balls to end things that way

youtube.com/watch?v=QXiwXVrjYHc

This.
Why the hell doesn't anybody talk about this show?

I was more into the brother. Feisty.

i can't believe there were anti pot/steroids episodes, but no weight gain episode.

From a technological standpoint, it would have been difficult to do.

Most likely thing they could have done was the "big belly" approach.

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Ah, te referis al pibe?

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You're sexually attracted to the dinosaur, aren't you?

yes.

Well he is buff and he has that right mix of cute & handsome.

This episode is one of the things that did things to my young self.

He's a dinosaur I could share a soda with.....and other things.

4th wall breaking.
That is glorious.

>people think they're puppets
They're animatronic costumes, you dongs. They look like a nightmare to wear.
youtube.com/watch?v=R2k5RvUnMTc

Let's not forget the happy plant.

It was the late 80s and early 90s, user. Picture it. It was a frightening and confusing time. The Reds were gone. The eighties were going. The identity of pop culture was shifting. What would be the zeitgeist? What would serve as the template for a new decade and a new world? A cultural icon?

Along came some yellow people, who were hired to animate The Simpsons, and that was it.

It led to stuff like this being greenlit. But more stuff like this was greenlit. More and more. And then it was buried. Buried below trash, andignored in favour of the Simpsons and other good things that were not like The Simpsons.

...I mean stuff like Tiny Toons, Animaniacs and BTAS, obviously, not the music of 90-95, or the fashion. Christ alive, not the music and fashion.

Also, it may just be a coincidence, but this show was probably flagged for cancellation about April 1994, when Kurt Cobain shot himself....

Oh, sorry, I mean "shot himself".

Okay I'll be honest, I kinda made that shit above up a little bit there but it was actually kind of true jimhillmedia.com/editor_in_chief1/b/jim_hill/archive/2007/04/27/why-for-wasn-t-this-episode-of-dinosaurs-ever-broadcast-on-abc.aspx

Not the Kurt Cobain bit though. Probably.

hnnnngh

I could see him the subject of a "Stay healthy. Don't overeat." episode, complete with big belly.

I watched an episode the other day. At it's core it's a parody of American sitcoms of the 90s but with dinosaurs but it was also witty when it wanted to be, emotional when it wanted to be, and absurd when it needed to be.
I'm glad they ended it and didn't keep it going for years and years. Because like most American sitcoms it was parodying it start to become a caricature of it's self and get very one note with the humor.

Sounds vaguely like a Sup Forums MASH, especially with the downer ending.

My oh my, you seem to be a bit perturbed.

Maybe they'd repurpose a spare Earl body or something.

As a kid when it aired I watched it every week as I did with basically everything on TGIF and I loved it. Bu that's less because I understood the show and more because like a lot of kids I liked dinosaurs and puppets. Rewatching it more recently it's actually a rather well written show although I think calling it a family sitcom is a bit of a stretch because watching it as a kid it tackled a lot of material that I straight up would have no understanding of. I mean it was basically the simpsons with puppet dinosaurs.

Notice how the two older kids are not the same type of dinosaur as either Fran or Earl.

Earl got cucked. At least twice.

The thumbnail on this fucking kills me

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scared me as a kid, still slightly uneasy today. but i haven't watched in a long time

>but the dialogue is unquestionably for adults
>they look like puppets, I'm not watching
Patrician vs Normie

NOT THE MAMA

that's alright, WGW wrote a 41 PAGE LONG fapfic about that subject.

d.facdn.net/art/wolfgonewide/stories/1422569182/1422569182.wolfgonewide_robbie.pdf

NENE, NENE DEJA DE MIRAR LA TELE

VO' DEJA DE FUMAR FASO

Oh yes that episode was awesome.

>And the baby was funny but if too random annoying. It got that Urkel-effect.
And they made fun of that, too. On multiple occasions, as I recall.

>Along came some yellow people
>Who were hired to animate the simpsons
PFFFTT

>thumbnail

Artsy reply - Puppeteering is a form of animation, in the same vein as claymation. You are giving life to an inanimate object, a physical prop, for the purpose of conveying a message. Yes it is a stretch, but puppets kind of walk that line between animation and live action.

Logical reply - where the fuck else on this site would you post about puppet shows?

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Art requires some level of suffering to bring great beauty into the world.

Sup Forums, but i don't even want my worst enemy to visit that place

I'll admit, that's a fair point.

The one of the left looks like Boss Nass. Is it meant to be him before he grew up to lead the Gungans?

I went into Sup Forums for a moment and suddenly... You know what, guys, all these Steven Universe threads and the endless DC-Marvel bickering... It's not really all that bad.

I mean, people are just having a good time.

I have stared into the abyss and I have no fucking clue if it was staring back because the eyes were derpy as shit, all thirty of them.

Seriously, it had one on its shoulder, like it was William Birkin or something

Esta bien
Esta bien el nene
El nene esta bien

I'm pretty sure Sup Forums is accepted for puppet-related threads.

>Baby Sinclair never got to grow up

buzzfeed.com/danielkibblesmith/not-the-mama

Sup Forums used to be better before baneposting.

I cannot emphasize enough that baneposting is probably the worst thing to ever happen to Sup Forums.

baneposting itself was fun for about a month but the fundamental shift in Sup Forums poster demographics and content that followed due to baneposting spreading to Sup Forums and such caused a chain reaction it never recovered from.

Sup Forums used to have a lot more film than television content, people actually wanted to watch good things, to discuss good movies, now it's just all stupid retards from Sup Forums and Sup Forums wanking over dumb capeshit crap and EVERYBODY is trying to make the "next" baneposting all the time.

How could you NOT be? Robbie was a dreamboat.

Who isn't

Actually he did. Well, kinda. There was an episode where his mother turned him into a tv child star, and she had a nightmare of what he would grow up to be if she kept forcing him to be a child star.

The adult Baby was just one of the few extra Dinosaur costumes they had on hand. I'm sure the real baby would have looked much different if he would have been allowed to grow up.

>character described as an apatosaur is a two-legger who can fit inside a building
>pants

Actually one of the last babies is still on display. Sadly hes turning to dust thanks to the lights in the display room.

It looks like he took up smoking after the finale and never stopped.

>This girl character
How can he not know Monica by name? The sexual Harris episode is one of the best.

The four vs two legged status did not seem to follow species as we know them in real life. Richfield was a bipedal carnivore despite being based on a quadrupedal herbivore dinosaur, for instance.

It's strange re-watching it as an adult and you see all the hidden adult themes in the show's stories that you never noticed as kid.
>Charlene upset she's not growing a tail.
Boobs
>Doing the Mating Dance uncontrollably
Masturbation
>2 legged dinosaurs ban 4 legged ones
Racism
>Meat eating family finds out their son likes vegetables instead.
Gay

This is going right in to my reaction image folder. Thank you.

Science marches on, though. It's likely that Triceratops were a bit omnivorous, along with some other ceratopsians.

you don't think i've already got this saved?

but either way thanks for the reminder

what sexual harris meant, with howard handupme

furries are capable of some great things, terrible yes, but great.

Funny thing is, Sup Forums has been behind several surges of certain characters in furry porn.
>Sup Forums finds an obscure/old animal cartoon character
>makes threads about it/them
>attracts the attention of certain drawfags
>the drawfags draw pics
>the pics are spread around the net/the artist post the pics they drew on fa/tumblr/da/etc
>other artist notice the drawings and want to draw the character(s) too
>it continues to spread

don't forget we accidentally made bronies

...shut up, Boco, and fuck you for making me remember.

HE DINDU NUFFIN.

...I don't know what I'd do in his situation.

Is there a mega, or some other direct download for the show for a faggot like me that cannot torrent?