Dinosaurs: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dinosaurs Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Nature Calls
Sep 18, 1992
Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.
Baby Talk
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.
Network Genius
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.
The Discovery
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.
Little Boy Boo
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.
Germ Warfare
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.
Hungry for Love
Nov 13, 1992
Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.
License to Parent
Nov 20, 1992
When Earl is caught by the Parent Police losing his temper at the baby, he loses his parenting license.
Charlene's Flat World
Dec 4, 1992
Charlene is charged with heresy and jailed after submitting her homework assignment claiming that the world is round and not flat.
Wilderness Weekend
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
The Son Also Rises
Jan 8, 1993
After failing to mow the lawn, Robbie challenges Earl for male domination of the family... and wins.
Getting to Know You
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
Green Card
Jan 29, 1993
The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.
Out of the Frying Pan
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
Steroids to Heaven
Feb 12, 1993
Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.
Honey, I Miss the Kids
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.
Swamp Music
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.
Dirty Dancin'
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.
If I Were a Tree
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.
We Are Not Alone
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.
Charlene and Her Amazing Humans
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 f
The Clip Show II
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