The Notorious D.I.N.O.
March 11, 2015 11:48 AM   Subscribe

 
The quality of this video's execution is something I am currently struggling to comprehend
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 12:18 PM on March 11, 2015 [4 favorites]


This is really, really good.
posted by Perplexity at 12:31 PM on March 11, 2015 [2 favorites]


106 & Jurassic Park
posted by phaedon at 12:33 PM on March 11, 2015 [5 favorites]


I still can't believe this show really happened. I've explained it to people who never saw it at the time, and they either think it's an adult swim show until I tell them it's older, or dont believe me that it existed until I pull up a wiki page.

Just... What? How high were the people who greenlit that? It's on the level of the dog cop show.
posted by emptythought at 12:43 PM on March 11, 2015 [9 favorites]


This is really, really good.

Eh, still not the mama.
posted by officer_fred at 1:03 PM on March 11, 2015 [7 favorites]


I had to google that show because while I remember seeing it, it was 20+ years ago, and I have zero recollection of the content. Apparently it was a Jim Henson Productions deal, and actually a piece of satire about climate change and various other progressive causes, not just dumb puppetry.

The characters have names associated with oil companies, and the show ends with them causing an ice age by first killing of beetles that would have eaten a vine, then using a defoliant to kill the vine (which kills other plant life), then attempting to introduce clouds to cause rain to regrow plants by bombing the planet's volcanoes, which actually generates the ice age by throwing dust into the air and causing global cooling.
posted by axiom at 1:03 PM on March 11, 2015 [8 favorites]


No, it was just dumb puppetry.
posted by phaedon at 1:12 PM on March 11, 2015 [4 favorites]


I just want this song to finally get to the fantastic trumpet melody, and it never pays off. Get off my lawn or something, I guess.
posted by scrowdid at 2:25 PM on March 11, 2015 [1 favorite]


Dinosaurs was such a subversive show, there's no way it would get a spot on broadcast TV today. There were episodes about corporations killing off entire species in the name of profit, and on how completely worthless and mind-numbing most TV is. Just nuts.

And yeah, this video is really well done.
posted by KGMoney at 2:51 PM on March 11, 2015 [4 favorites]


Way back, when he used to have the red and black lumberjack,
With the hat to match...
posted by PeterMcDermott at 3:20 PM on March 11, 2015 [3 favorites]


I'm waiting for a Family Guy / Dinosaurs remix.

Also, not the momma! AKA Dinosaurious M.O.M.
posted by phaedon at 3:26 PM on March 11, 2015


The characters have names associated with oil companies, and the show ends with them causing an ice age by first killing of beetles that would have eaten a vine, then using a defoliant to kill the vine (which kills other plant life), then attempting to introduce clouds to cause rain to regrow plants by bombing the planet's volcanoes, which actually generates the ice age by throwing dust into the air and causing global cooling.

Yeah. As far as I know this is the only sitcom to end with the entire cast doomed to extinction.
posted by brundlefly at 4:12 PM on March 11, 2015 [2 favorites]


Granted there have been sitcoms that deserved that.
posted by brundlefly at 4:14 PM on March 11, 2015 [1 favorite]


As far as I know this is the only sitcom to end with the entire cast doomed to extinction.

Then let me introduce you to the dramatic finale of the first season of 80's cop show spoof Sledge Hammer, which they had to retcon in the first episode of the second season when they realized they hadn't been cancelled after all.
posted by The Tensor at 4:17 PM on March 11, 2015 [5 favorites]


Also they actually did murder the cast of Parker Lewis after the final show and fed them to The Broderick.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:59 PM on March 11, 2015


« Older The 1951 GM Le Sabre.   |   Censorship at the symphony Newer »


This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments