History Fridge / Dinosaurs

!Fridge Brilliance

!Fridge Horror

* There was one episode (I think it was a clip show episode) featuring archaeologists digging up dinosaur remains. At one point, the Archaeologist sees the dinosaur equivalent of a TV, and comments that they must have sat around it till they died. Considering what happened in the final episode, chances are the dinosaur families were huddled around the TV, watching the snowstorm get worse and hping for the best while freezing/starving to death.

* Ethyl is the first dinosaur in ages to not get killed after turning 72, which means that geriatric medicine doesn't exist. If the dinosaurs didn't all die in the series finale, old dinosaurs like Ethyl would've spent decades suffering from age-related physical and mental problems, but doctors would have no idea what to do.

** An odd bit of FridgeLogic cum FridgeHorror this is 5 million years after the extinction of dinosaurkind in our world. From there, notice how realistic the fossils in the clip show look. The sapient dinosaurs lived for only 5 million years...

** The first season spends some time discussing that the idea of living together in families and a society is very novel idea(with Fran and Earl saying that they are the first generation that settled down to raise their children rather than engage in a eat-or-be eaten fight with them, and throughout the series things like laws and societal conventions are discovered as the episodes went along. It's possible that the blase attitude toward murder is still a holdover from that time and, if dinosaur civilization had continued, it might have changed.

* "The Terrible Twos" has the plot of Baby Sinclair becoming a psychotic little troublemaker ([[{{UpToEleven}} even moreso than already]]) when he is two years old. What's distressing is that Ethyl makes it clear that this process is normal for dinosaurs, and [[NoodleIncident the years where Robbie and Charlene were two years old]] were apparently so traumatic that Earl and Fran blocked them from their memories. The fridge horror doesn't end there, either, for one also can't help but wonder what Earl, Fran, Ethyl, Roy, Spike, and Monica (to name but a few) were like when they were in the terrible twos.

** It's much, much, much worse than '''that'''. The Sinclairs are ''carnivores''. They are staying all together in one place as the snow piles up around their home. When the series was made, dinosaurs were still thought of as lizards, with cold blood, so outside is ''certain'' death, as opposed to the uncertain future of staying inside with heat and whatever food they have left. We all know what humans have done in such extreme survival situations, and our world has deeply-ingrained moral, ethical, and legal issues with cannibalism. The Sinclairs' world has no such issues. The last survivor will finally die of starvation and cold, surrounded by the bones of their devoured family...and even '''worse''', Baby is the smallest and weakest. He'll be the first to go. [[HarsherInHindsight When you remember Earl's comment early in the series about Baby's egg being "baby or breakfast"]]...brrrrr.

* "The Terrible Twos" has the plot of Baby Sinclair becoming a psychotic little troublemaker ([[{{UpToEleven}} even moreso than already]]) when he is two years old. What's distressing is that Ethyl makes it clear that this process is normal for dinosaurs, and [[NoodleIncident the years where Robbie and Charlene were two years old]] were apparently so traumatic that Earl and Fran blocked them from their memories. The fridge horror doesn't end there, either, for one also can't help but wonder what Earl, Fran, Ethyl, Roy, Sid, and Monica (to name but a few) were like when they were in the terrible twos.

** The first season spends some time discussing that the idea of living together in families and a society is very novel (with Fran and Earl saying that they are the first generation that settled down to raise their children rather than engage in a eat-or-be eaten fight with them, and throughout the series things like laws and societal conventions are discovered as the episodes went along. It's possible that the blase attitude toward murder is still a holdover from that time and, if dinosaur civilization had continued, it might have changed.

* Ethyl is the first dinosaur in ages to not get killed after turning 72, which means that geriatric medicine wouldn't exist. If the dinosaurs didn't all die in the series finale, old dinosaurs like Ethyl would've spent decades suffering from age-related physical and mental problems, but doctors would have no idea what to do.

* It's probably for the best that Mr. Richfield didn't attend dinner with the Sinclairs in "Employee of the Month". Considering that they had a live cavewoman in the house at the time, it could have resulted in Earl being fired, or worse...Richfield making a quick meal out of "Sparky".

** It's much, much, much worse than '''that'''. The Sinclairs are carnivores. They are staying all together in one place as the snow piles up around their home. When the series was made, dinosaurs were still thought of as lizards, with cold blood, so outside is ''certain'' death, as opposed to the uncertain future of staying inside with heat and whatever food they have left. We all know what humans have done in such extreme survival situations, and our world has deeply-ingrained moral, ethical, and legal issues with cannibalism. The Sinclairs' world has no such issues. The last survivor will finally die of starvation and cold, surrounded by the bones of their devoured family...and even '''worse''', Baby is the smallest and weakest. He'll be the first to go. [[HarsherInHindsight When you remember Earl's comment early in the series about Baby's egg being "baby or breakfast"]]...brrrrr.

*** If the clip show episodes are any indication, the humans and other creatures that made it to the present will [[SeriesContinuityError somehow survive]] and the world will recover.
*** [[WMG/PoisonOakEpilepticTrees Maybe they’re]] HumanAliens?
*** Or, the humans in the clip shows convergently evolved to resemble the ones in the rest of the show, having to evolve all over again from the oceans due to the die-off.
*** More likely, like on Earth, enough vegetation survived the ice age (mostly lichen and sea life and fungii who are resistant to the pesticides too) that small mammals can survive even as the dinosaurs die off. But then there’s the problem of how they evolved back into the plants we know. The humans in the series are thus still unrelated to the humans in the flash forward episodes. The bones seen in those flash-forward episodes are also [[FurryConfusion bigger and more realistic]] than the dinosaurs on the show... perhaps... they evolved into [[OurDragonsAreDifferent feral, carnivorous forms as a last ditch attempt to survive as their technology failed?]]
*** It's also possible, even likely, that the dinosaurs claiming Earl's pesticide killed "every plant on Earth" was just hyperbole or an incorrect assumption and that enough plant life ''did'' in fact survive for Earth to recover (just not enough for creatures as large as dinosaurs to live off of in the short term, which would still be enough to justify their resigned attitude towards their extinction).
*** Adding to that, the small mammals and prehistoric birds like the Poupons probably survived by eating things that were inedible to the dinosaurs, or at least too disgusting or unappetizing for them.