You gotta love how in Caveman they have an entire invented language (eat your heart out, Anthony Burgess) that's little more than like, 20 words altogether. They even handed out a handy translation guide at certain theaters (like they did with Dune). But, apart from the fact that it's not too hard to translate what…

Good call on Rollergator. Imagine someone doing a half assed Rick Sanchez impersonation with a rubbery alligator puppet that's almost entirely operated from the inside of a backpack and you get the idea. Although I think, as an alligator, he doesn't quite make the dinosaur cut.

The only thing it was lacking was Dom Deluise, but they had an appropriate substitute in the form of Martin Short as the depressed clown that works for a psychopath.

I swear this is true, but one time in the 5th grade (circa 1995), we received the monthly Scholastic Arrow book order form. Among the usual stuff you could order-Garfield collections, Bruce Coville books-would be terrible adaptations of then current movies, designed for a preteen audience. You would get garbage a Dumb…

When Baby interrupts them during their lovemaking scene, do you think it would be best described as coitus brontosaurus?

Well, that depends. Do you count iguanas as dinosaurs?

You're thinking of ALIEN IN THE FAMILY, a wretched show that aired for 2-3 episodes on TGIF (I don't think it ever got on Saturday mornings, but maybe as a way to burn off some of the remaining episodes). Basically it was another in the long line of awful "Fantasy Family Fare" sitcoms that occasionally were belched…

You know those movies that you can find at Wal-Mart, the ones that come in sleeves and look like the cheapest knockoffs of either Pixar or Disney films? And they are all wretchedly, horrifically awful? We're Back is like that, only for Don Bluth.

Good call on the "weird European" vibe, which existed on a lot of cartoons from when I was a child. You could never quite pin point what was wrong with those shows. Stuff from Japan was easy to see-even if you didn't know what anime was, you knew the style and tropes. But watching something like Donkey Kong Country,…

Forgot to mention this long forgotten cartoon that aired in syndication: The Adventures of T-Rex. Taking place in a futuristic world inhabited by bipedal dinosaurs (and with a vaguely 1920s feel), a group of t-rex brothers (who all sound like famous celebrities) perform at a nightclub as a song and dance act (!)…

As the series progressed, the dinosaurs became faker, so that toward the end, they barely moved and just looked like someone put a rubbery toy in the scene.

I always admired Full Moon Pictures for taking time out of their busy schedule of cranking out Puppet Master sequels to dump some cheapass garbage designed strictly for bored parents to pick up for their kids at the local video store. It's a lost art.

Fun Fact: Denver the Last Dinosaur is a French cartoon.

Dino Riders had amazing toy commercials. Plus Frank Welker as the villian Emperor Krulos, a frog in a domed helmet who sounds exactly like Dr. Claw.

I was thinking about this the other day. Nothing else that I've encountered in life has generated so much pop culture hatred as Barney the Dinosaur. There's been worse things-Caillou springs immediately to mind-but nothing produced so much vile, venom, and bloodthrist as Barney.

Best part of Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend: When the baby dinosaur eats fruit.

Best part of Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend: When the baby dinosaur eats fruit.

It was the kind of film where you'd swear Full Moon was behind it.

Tammy and the T-Rex is really something else. Tonally, the film is absolutely bonkers, and at times, it feels deliberately campy. Hell, watch any scene involving the T-Rex using his useless arms (which hilariously became some guy in dino gloves reaching out of shot while being completely removed from the t-rex's…

Ah, the scenic Redwood stage!