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Dinosaurs
1991 · TV series · 23 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Bob Young, Michael Jacobs
Science FictionFantasyComedyFamily
Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
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Whenever I read about Geo engineering stuff like this, I remember the last episode of "Dinosaurs" [0] and immediately get a bad feeling about it. Hopefully I'm just paranoid.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_Nature
“Dinosaurs” TV show. Last episode. I have never been able to watch it fully, only some parts.
> In the early 90's we thought the net would change the world, but what actually happened is the world changed the net.
To me it seems to be a bit of both?
BTW having read a bit of your other comments, I find your analyses both insightful and introspective.
You seem to be from the EU and to have worked in tech during the 1990s.
Have you lived in the US too? Can you tell me more about how you saw things change in the US and the EU from then to know?
I have some weird interest in old tech: hardware like Thinkpads, software like Perl... but the culture is also very foreign and interesting.
I just watched a documentary about "Dinosaurs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series) and it seems so modern yet quaint?
I want to know more from the viewpoint of someone who lived in that era!
Yeah, in a show about friends surviving dinosaurs it really didn't make sense for the last 5 or so episodes to be about 20% dedicated to a romantic relationship (LGBTQ or not). There's a fan version of the show out there that omits the romantic parts of the final season (the straight romance, too) and the final episodes are all like 5 minutes shorter.
It's a really fun show overall, even for adults. Highly recommend, though I now let parents I recommend it to know, that in addition to people getting eaten alive and nightmarish mutant dinosaurs chasing kids, there's some kissing and an out-of-the-blue forced teen lesbian relationship. I have a feeling that won't land well on HN, but in person every parent I explain that to is understanding and thankful for the heads up.
Your comment reminds me the final episode of Dinosaurs, where the try to dinosaurs accept their fate of the coming ice age and their impending unavoidable death.
Pretty heavy stuff for a comedy sitcom.
https://youtu.be/1VuovcM0Z20
This reminds me of an episode of Jim Henson's TV series Dinosaurs where a space rock hits the Sinclairs' house, and the insurance refuses to pay out. Because they had "meteor" insurance, so their house would only be covered if it was floating in the upper atmosphere at the time of the strike. Instead, the insurance said their house was hit with a meteorite (a meteor that reached the ground), which wasn't covered under their policy.
I would hazard to add 'Dinosaurs' to this, a 90s animatronics show about dinosaurs playing out a (then) modern family comedy/drama that literally ended in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event with the meteor hitting the Yucatan, the last episode ending with the audience watching the ensuing artificial winter caused by the ash blocking out the sun. We would hail such an ending as subversive today, though I was too young then to even think of considering how adults interpreted that ending.
But depicting the modern American family of the late 80s/early 90s as literal dinosaurs then wiping them out at the end is pretty damn good even it wasn't well-received.
> Decadence is when you deal with a spiraling crime rate and the post-1960s urban collapse through a combination of mass incarceration, mass surveillance, high abortion rates in poor communities and the lure of virtual entertainments to keep kids off the street.
Fascinatingly enough, TikTok tags/trends in the pre-teen/teen range are pushing kids back outside to commit unethical acts:
* #deviviouslick - vandalizing/stealing school property
* #blackoutchallenge - where kids find ways to hold their breath until they pass out, sometimes involving hanging
* #lugnutchallenge - where kids unloosen the lug nuts on someone's car
* #malaikatmaut - jump in front of a moving car
The Flintstones was in effect an animated remake of popular live-action TV series The Honeymooners, with the stone-age setting as just an added quirky facade to get easy jokes out of. It was, needless to say, never meant as an actual reference to any actual stone-age.
Compare this to, say, Dinosaurs, which (while in many ways similar to The Flintstones) had actual references to contemporary events and phenomena.
Some Netflix shows are over the top with political correctness.
Dragon Prince is one example. Cute show, but very in your face.
Old 80s sitcom Dinosaurs, ran into the same problem. Later episodes often made you feel bad. Not the best for a comedy show.
You can agree with a stance, but you don’t always want it shoved down your throat.
Oh look every cast member is a different race/ gender/ orientation. Oh great, but is the show any good?
This sounds like the final episode of Dinosaurs (the muppet show). Last line was 'we cant get extinct we have been around for a 150 million years..'.
That reminds me of an episode of the Jim Henson show "Dinosaurs". Earl's house got hit by a rock that fell from space. Well, the insurance didn't pay -- he had "meteor" insurance, but what hit is house was a "meteorite". They said if his house was floating in space, then he would be covered. (Technically, he still wouldn't be covered, because in space it would be a meteoroid).