The audio-animatronic antics of the Sinclair family begin with Earl recalling the day he asked for a raise and really laid an egg, only to find that Fran had done the same.
Taped: 03/29/1991

After Fran suffers a sleepless night, Earl volunteers to watch the kids for the weekend while Fran gets some much needed rest.
Taped: 04/08/1991

Earl gleefully awaits "Hurling Day" when he'll have the ritual honor of heaving his mother-in-law into the tar pits, but Robbie thinks the tradition should be chucked.
Taped: 04/17/1991

Earl thinks he's moving up the ladder as he and the family await a dinner with Richfield, while Robbie brings home a "pet" human, who's several evolutionary rungs below the Sinclairs.
Taped: 04/25/1991

Earl's blood runs colder when a monstrous male who notices Fran in the supermarket challenges him to a fight to the death for her -- and everything else he holds dear."
Taped: 05/02/1991

Robbie questions howling as a rite of passage, an act that puts best buddies Earl and Ray at odds with each other.
Taped: 05/10/1991

Charlene gets a tail, which whips up strange feelings in Earl, whose little girl is no longer so little.
Taped: 07/02/1991

Earl buys Fran two grapdelites, a rare delicacy that they'll dine on for their anniversary, until Robbie meets the goodies and they explain that they are the last two of their kind.
Taped: 07/01/1991

When Robbie flubs his initiation into the Young Males' Carnivore Association, Earl fears his son may be a weak link in the food chain -- he may be (gasp) ... a herbivore.
Taped: 07/09/1991

Clawing into a second season, the Sinclair baby sprouts a golden horn, which looks like just one more thing Earl's going to be stuck with, until the Council of Elders informs him that the horn means that the baby is the prophesized King of the Dinosaurs.
Taped: 07/23/1991

A cosmic calamity wrecks the Sinclairs' TV, which is fine by Fran, but Earl, hoping to win a new set, has the bright idea to have them appear on the game show "Family Challenge" to maybe win a new one.
Taped: 07/31/1991

Lurking in the Sinclair refrigerator are delectable creatures that go bad, very bad, while Charlene is watching the baby.
Taped: 08/09/1991

A modern archaeologist documents the dinosaurs' way of life as it might have existed millions of years ago, but clips from previous episodes tell a different story.
Taped: 09/23/1991

The "Job Wizard" dictates that Robbie's to be a tree pusher just like Earl -- who realizes his job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Taped: 10/04/1991

Monica gets Fran thinking about the state of her union with Earl, and she addresses the issue by considering not renewing their marriage license.
Taped: 10/11/1991

Desperate for a date with a certain girl, Robbie turns to a streetwise contemporary named Spike, who offers primitive pointers on how to approach girls.
Taped: 10/21/1991

The yolk's on the Sinclairs, who have a grade-A mess on their hands when they learn that the baby might have been switched with another when the two were just eggs.
Taped: 10/28/1991

The dinosaurs get a warm and fuzzy feeling as they celebrate the gift of cold storage, but what's a dinosaur (like Earl) to do when his fridge is repossessed?
Taped: 11/11/1991

Earl helps Fran's friend Monica get a job as a tree pusher, but she's no pushover when she's subjected to harassment by a predatory male who's the king of the double-entendre.
Taped: 11/18/1991

A wild plant has a weird effect on Robbie, Earl, Charlene and others -- it makes the dinosaurs dopey and happy, so very happy -- but to the exclusion of everything else.
Taped: 11/25/1991

Fran gets a job on TV giving advice to dinosaurs with problems, giving Earl a problem in need of a solution: how to cope with a wife who works.
Taped: 12/06/1991

A power struggle erupts between the Wesayso Corp. and Robbie after he invents a cheap, pollution-free way to generate energy as a project for the school science fair.
Taped: 12/13/1991

Earl thinks Ethyl has died, and he takes the opportunity to bury her. But to his chagrin, she's sent back from the great beyond with the lowdown on the afterlife.
Taped: 12/20/1991

The dinosaurs who walk on all fours encroach on the swamplands and the pistachip-nut supply of the "normal" dinosaurs...and that means war.
Taped: 01/16/1992

Conclusion. Earl, Roy, and Charlene pose as entertainers and rush to the front to retrieve Robbie, because it looks like this war thing is getting a little bit out of hand.
Taped: 01/16/1992

Charlene wants to make a fashion statement with a very expensive new coat, but the coat can speak for itself (really), and it leads her into a vain attempt to achieve status.
Taped: 01/27/1992

When Robbie can't beat a gang of hoods (who keep beating him), he joins them, and they make him the leader of the pack after it's assumed he's eaten the old one.
Taped: 02/07/1992

Earl throws his hat into the ring as a candidate for Chief Elder, but he's liable to have his head handed to him by his opponent, B. P. Richfield.
Taped: 02/14/1992

Earl's a real company man -- in fact he might as well be married to it -- after Wesayso insists Roy replace Earl as the father of the Sinclairs, who are selected as Wesayso's spokesfamily.
Taped: 02/24/1992

Not only does Earl prove that any dinosaur can be a network programming honcho, he also proves he's a genius by scheduling shows like "The Test Pattern" and "The Happy Colors Show." Unfortunately, his shows make viewers stupid.
Taped: 03/05/1992

In the third-season opener, Fran makes potty training the baby Earl's business, but the baby escapes to the wilderness to do his business any way he wants.
Taped: 03/13/1992

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.
Taped: 07/13/1992

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.
Taped: 07/20/1992

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.
Taped: 07/27/1992

An infection makes the Baby very ill, but not as sick as the price of the Baby's medicine makes Earl.
Taped: 08/07/1992

Feeling misunderstood, Charlene joins another family as part of a student-exchange program, leaving the Sinclairs with an insufferable little squawker in her place.
Taped: 08/17/1992

Robbie dates Richfield's daughter, whose gluttonous reputation gives Robbie food for thought: he may be her next meal.
Taped: 08/21/1992

Earl believes he's a fine father figure, but parental guidance -- in the form of a menancing member of the Parent Patrol -- suggests otherwise when Earl's license to parent is revoked.
Taped: 09/04/1992

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.
Taped: 09/11/1992

When Charlene's class is assigned to think of an original idea, her world-is-round theory falls flat, and she's tried for heresy.
Taped: 09/22/1992

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.
Taped: 10/05/1992

Knocking the daylights out of Earl with a frying pan makes the baby a star on commercials, puts Fran into show-biz orbit, and leaves Earl marooned as a big lump of nothing.
Taped: 10/12/1992

Robbie challenges Earl's role as the Sinclairs' supreme male, but he's not up to the challenges that go with the responsibility. In fact, he finds the role to be a supreme pain.
Taped: 10/20/1992

Robbie feels he's stuck with a wimpy body that's atrophied his social life, and he decides to pump himself up with "thornoids."
Taped: 11/02/1992

When the government blames its poor economy on four-legged dinosaurs and enacts anti-four-legged laws. Roy marries the outlawed Monica so that she can stay in the country.
Taped: 11/09/1992

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.
Taped: 11/13/1992

Ethyl tells the baby a tall tale about Earl's soul trading places with the soul of a tree he's about to push over.
Taped: 11/23/1992

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.
Taped: 12/04/1992

An infomercial for a home course in how to become a paleontologist is supplemented by clips from previous episodes.

Robbie crosses over to the swamps and gets sold on the mannals' "swamp music," but they're liable to be sold out in a dinosaur record deal, which Robbie orchestrated.
Taped: 12/14/1992

Charlene grabs the attention of her family and other audiences with her amazing performing humans.
Taped: 12/21/1992

An ancient ritual ends up with the boys trapped in a tar pit and Earl having to sacrifice his beloved television to save them.
Taped: 06/04/1993

Charlene develops the scent that marks her as a mature dinosaur but isn't happy with the first boy it attracts.
Taped: 06/11/1993

Return: The animatronic antics of a family of domestic dinosaurs, whose baby is scared that there's a monster under his bed -- and there is.
Taped: 06/18/1993

Charlene gets hired as a supervisor by WESAYSO to satisfy a government contract requiring female workers. She increases productivity so much, she gets fired.
Taped: 06/30/1993

Earl assumes the powers of a superhero and intends to put them to good use, but he's powerless before the Wesayso Corp., to which he's contractually bound to use his might.
Taped: 07/08/1993

Fran and Earl face an untimely extinction when the baby enters his "terrible twos" and becomes a little devil.
Taped: 07/15/1993

Fundamental questions about the meaning of existence plague the population, so the Elders dictate a belief system called "Potatoism," which Robbie thinks is just plain nuts.
Taped: 07/28/1993

The family visits the new WESAYSOLAND theme park, only to discover they can't leave.
Taped: 08/04/1993

Earl is jealous of Richfield's collection of mugs, and to get his own mug, he enters into a pact with the devil.
Taped: 08/11/1993

A workplace injury ends up costing Earl his job -- but it pays off big for him in court.
Taped: 08/25/1993

We get to see Earl's lookalike sister, PEARL. She is a country singer and is known as the Very First Lady like he is kissing Earl.
Taped: 09/01/1993

Baby becomes infatuated with a children's television program. The star, Georgie, is a seemingly friendly cow who really has a nasty disposition.
Taped: 09/14/1993

Earl muyst drive Ethyl to her high school reunion, and the kids drive Fran crazy when she tries to get them to pose for a family portrait.
Taped: 09/21/1993

Efforts to solve an escalating environmental crisis put the dinosaurs on the road to doomsday.
Taped: 09/28/1993