Episode List: |
Episode Name | Season | Year | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
Nature Calls | 3 | 1992 | Brian Henson | Andy Goodman Kirk R. Thatcher | Earl decides it's time to potty train Baby so he can avoid changing anymore diapers. But the idea doesn't go over well with Baby and he runs away into the wilderness. | 8.0 |
Baby Talk | 3 | 1992 | Bruce Bilson | Victor Fresco | When the dirty word 'smoo' is said for the first time on television and Baby repeats it constantly; getting Earl in trouble with his boss, Earl gets the parents together to protest the network to get the new shows with bad words taken off the air. | 8.1 |
Network Genius | 3 | 1992 | Tom Trbovich | Tim Doyle | Earl's new job involves picking hit shows for television; but the show he puts on the air make their viewers unbelievably stupid and he must find a way to make everybody smart again to save society. | 8.0 |
The Discovery | 3 | 1992 | Tom Trbovich | Andy Goodman | The search for a missing golf ball leads Earl into a new world that he proclaims as his own territory; but Robbie suspects that the land really belongs to the cavemen who inhabit it. | 7.9 |
Little Boy Boo | 3 | 1992 | Tom Trbovich | Kirk R. Thatcher | After the Baby pulls a stunt that scares Robbie half to death, he decides to tell the Baby a true, terrifying story; he has been bitten by a bloodthirsty creature known as a wereman and will become one when the moon is full. | 7.7 |
Germ Warfare | 3 | 1992 | Tom Trbovich | Peter Ocko Adam Barr | The Baby gets sick and Fran demands Earl take them to the doctor. Modern medicine only makes the Baby sicker; leaving Fran and Earl to ponder an alternative healer and Ethel knows the perfect dinosaur for the job, a guy in the woods. | 8.0 |
Hungry for Love | 3 | 1992 | Bruce Bilson | Lawrence H. Levy | Robbie falls in love with a new girl, Wendy, who to Earl's horror, happens to be Richfield's daughter. Richfield takes well to Robbie dating his daughter, but Robbie's friend Spike and his sister Charlene warn him that Wendy's involved in a dangerous secret involving her previous boyfriends. | 7.9 |
License to Parent | 3 | 1992 | Bruce Bilson | Andy Goodman | When Earl loses his temper at the baby, he also loses his parenting license. When he flunks the test to get it back, the parenting police move in the house and monitor how Fran parents the kids by herself. | 8.1 |
Charlene's Flat World | 3 | 1992 | Mark Brull | Tim Doyle | When told to come up with an original idea for school, Charlene hits upon the notion that the world is round. However her discovery lands her in jail, and on trial for heresy; which begs the question how free dinosaurs are to think and say what they believe. | 7.7 |
Wilderness Weekend | 3 | 1992 | Tom Trbovich | Peter Ocko Adam Barr | Earl and his friends drag Robbie and the Baby off for a wilderness journey (camping trip) while Fran and her girlfriends stay at home to visit; but the dinosaur gender roles become reversed when the females drink beer and discover what it's like to be a guy, and the men get in touch with their softer side as they cower from a giant monster in the woods. | 7.7 |
Episode Name | Season | Year | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
The Son Also Rises | 3 | 1993 | Tom Trbovich | Dave Caplan Brian LaPan | Robbie gets fed up with Earl always telling him what to do, so he challenges Earl for male domination and wins; but he quickly becomes aware of how much responsibility is involved in being the male of the house. | 7.8 |
Getting to Know You | 3 | 1993 | Mark Brull | Dave Caplan Brian LaPan | 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 French bird moves in with them in Charlene's place, who has an unfortunate encounter with the Baby. | 7.9 |
Green Card | 3 | 1993 | Max Tash | Tim Doyle | The Chief Elder passes a law that forbids four legged dinosaurs from living in Pangea and demands in 24 hours they either marry a two legged dinosaur or retreat back to the other side of the swamp. Monica is fired and threatened with deportation until Roy proposes to her so she can stay. | 7.6 |
Out of the Frying Pan | 3 | 1993 | Bruce Bilson | Dava Savel | Baby becomes a hit sensation when he and Earl star in a series of commercials for the Myman P-2000, a new and improved frying pan that is strong enough to endure hitting Earl's head. Earl is fired from the commercials and he and Monica start to worry that fame is going to the Baby's and Fran's heads. | 7.8 |
Steroids to Heaven | 3 | 1993 | Bruce Bilson | Mark Drop | Robbie tries to bulk up to impress a girl, but her attention seems to be drawn to a bigger guy named Dolf. When exercise doesn't cut it for Robbie, he resorts to Thornoids and finds out his new, bulky body comes at a high price. | 7.8 |
Honey, I Miss the Kids | 3 | 1993 | Tom Trbovich | Richard Marcus | Fran finds being a housewife and mother unfulfilling and does volunteer work at a halfway house for amphibians; Earl gets stuck taking on the household chores and the kids and finds out what it's like being the mother. | 8.1 |
Swamp Music | 3 | 1993 | Tom Trbovich | Mark Drop | Robbie is introduced to the wailing, funky blues sounds of 'swamp music' and tries to bridge the species gap by getting a dinosaur record company to put out a mammal swamp music album. | 7.6 |
Dirty Dancin' | 3 | 1993 | Bruce Bilson | Tim Doyle Rob Ulin | Robbie starts doing the mating dance in his sleep and at school. Fran finds out and decides since Earl won't talk to his son about it, that the school needs to offer a course to the teenagers so they'll understand all about the mating dance, and Robbie is mortified when Fran is volunteered to teach it. | 7.7 |
If I Were a Tree | 3 | 1993 | Bruce Bilson | Andy Goodman | Ethel reads the Baby a story called If You Were a Tree, about a dinosaur tree pusher (Earl) who gets struck by lightning and swaps souls with the tree he's trying to demolish. | 7.7 |
We Are Not Alone | 3 | 1993 | Jeff McCracken | Peter Ocko Adam Barr | Robbie tries to get Earl interested in preserving Pangea just as his boss is ordering him to bury drums of toxic waste in his back yard. On one such night, Earl and Roy get a visit from an extraterrestrial from the planet Kyron who warns them to change their ways or face annihilation. | 7.6 |
Episode Name | Season | Year | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
Charlene and Her Amazing Humans | 3 | 1993 | Bruce Bilson | Dava Savel | 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 found in the forest whose mother is looking for them. | 7.7 |
The Clip Show II | 3 | 1993 | Tom Trbovich | Dave Caplan Brian LaPan | Sir David Tushingham offers a home-study course on the dinosaurs. | 6.9 |
Monster Under the Bed | 4 | 1994 | Brian Henson | Peter Ocko Adam Barr | Earl lets the Baby stay up to watch a monster movie and then he can't sleep and won't let Fran or Earl sleep because of a monster under the bed. Fran and Earl retreat to a motel to sleep and let the kids babysit, and Charlene and Robbie find out he wasn't imagining things. | 8.1 |
Earl, Don't Be a Hero | 4 | 1994 | Mark Brull | Dave Caplan Brian LaPan | Earl falls into toxic waste and develops the powers of flight, heat ray vision, and accurate weight guessing. He decides to become a real life superhero and hopes it will make him a hero to the Baby, who idolizes TV's Captain Action Figure. | 7.9 |
The Greatest Story Ever Sold | 4 | 1994 | Tom Trbovich | Peter Ocko Adam Barr | When the Baby asks Earl where dinosaurs came from and why, the questions are repeated throughout all Pangea and raise a panic; until the chief elders declare all questions can be answered by their newfound religion: Potato-ism. | 8.2 |
Driving Miss Ethyl | 4 | 1994 | Jeff McCracken | Adam Barr Tim Doyle Jane Espenson Peter Ocko | Earl's plans for the weekend are shot when he has to drive Ethyl to her high school reunion. Fran takes advantage of getting Earl out of the house to set up a family portrait for his birthday present, much to the dismay of Robbie, Charlene and the Baby. | 7.8 |
Earl's Big Jackpot | 4 | 1994 | Mark Brull | Tim Doyle | When a tree falls on Earl at work and he breaks his foot, B.P. fires him and Robbie sues WeSaySo for medical costs. But the jury decides to award Earl a sum of $800 million and Earl lets his new-found wealth go to his head and turns his back on his friends when WeSaySo astronomically raises the prices of everything in Pangea to get back the money. | 8.0 |
The Terrible Twos | 4 | 1994 | Jeff McCracken | Tim Doyle | Baby reaches his second birthday and it's anything but a celebration as he enters the dreaded Terrible Twos and wreaks havoc on the entire Sinclair household. | 8.2 |
Changing Nature | 4 | 1994 | Tom Trbovich | Kirk R. Thatcher | The series finale: Every May 14th the Bunch Beetles are supposed to return to Pangea and to eat the rapidly growing cider poppies; but only one Beetle remains as the WeSaySo wax fruit factory has killed them all. | 8.6 |
Scent of a Reptile | 4 | 1994 | Tom Trbovich | Andy Goodman | Charlene's scent gland comes in and Fran explains the one boy who is attracted to her scent is the one she's destined to marry. But Charlene puts out fumes of burning rubber and attracts the school janitor who aspires to be a tree pusher. | 7.4 |
Episode Name | Season | Year | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | IMDB |
Earl and Pearl | 4 | 1994 | Tom Trbovich | Tim Doyle | Robbie and Charlene go against Earl's orders and sneak out to see his estranged sister, Pearl, a country star, perform. Roy falls in love with Pearl and plans to settle down with her, despite Earl's protests. | 7.0 |
Life in the Faust Lane | 4 | 1994 | Tom Trbovich | Mark Drop | After seeing the TV show "Lifestyles of Those We Envy", Earl makes a deal with the devil for a Fernhill mug thinking it will make him happy. As a result he alienates himself from his friends, who he thinks are beneath him now, and his family, who thinks he's gone crazy. | 7.6 |
Variations on a Theme Park | 4 | 1994 | Jeff McCracken | Jane Espenson | When too many overworked employees drop dead from exhaustion, businesses give dinosaurs two weeks off for a vacation; B.P. Richfield advises Earl to bring his family to WeSaySo Land, which is supposed to be a fun amusement park for the family. What the Sinclairs find is an overpriced, cow themed park that is newly under construction, and they have to stay for 14 days. | 8.0 |
Working Girl | 4 | 1994 | Tom Trbovich | Rich Tabach | Charlene attempts to break into the male-dominated workforce and get a job to pay for her summer wilderness trip; but finds all businesses work under the Old Boys Network that is determined to keep females tied down. When her letter to the Chief Elder about equal job opportunities for females is chosen for an accepted requirement for all businesses with government contracts, B.P. Richfield hires Charlene as the new supervisor and Earl has to deal with having his daughter for a boss. | 7.8 |
Into the Woods | 4 | 1994 | Brian Henson | Mark Drop | Earl's game day is interrupted when he has to take Baby into the woods for a traditional ritual to show the Baby that the world doesn't revolve around him and that he needs his family. But when Earl, Roy and Robbie unknowingly step into a tar pit, they need the Baby to save them. | 8.1 |
Georgie Must Die! | 4 | 1994 | Mark Brull | Dave Caplan Brian LaPan | When Earl dresses up as Georgie, an orange hippo that is the latest hit in children's television but the parents' latest nightmare, to put on a show for the Baby, he is arrested for copyright infringement. In jail, Earl finds out that Georgie has a sinister plan in mind for his merchandising empire and breaks out to join the Parents' Resistance and enlists Roy's help to take the evil hippo down. | 8.2 |