The Sinclair family from ABC's 'Dinosaurs'
Part Full House, part The Flintstones, part All in the Family, part well, nothing we'd seen before on TV, Dinosaurs roared onto ABC in April 1991, a brontosaurus-sized hit from the start. One of Jim Henson's last projects before his death, the premise of the series, borne out of The Simpsons and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , is pretty straightforward:"a sitcom, but about a family of dinosaurs." If you haven't seen it, you really should.
But unlike The Simpsons, Dinosaurs would be live-action, with Brian intent on using the same animatronics for the dinosaurs as were used for the 1990 motion picture Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
As Jacobs recalls in the previously cited Entertainment Weekly,"We were missing a character in the show. Mommy, daddy, sister, and brother is not enough in this case because I don’t think we have an audience surrogate.
As the previously cited Vulture points out, the fact that Dinosaurs had an agenda at all was impressive, placing it above the normal sitcom tropes that were rampant throughout the TGIF lineup."We went after the oil companies. We went after corporate America," Jacobs says of the series' often biting satire,"I don't think knew it's what we were doing in the beginning." And those weren't the only targets.
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