Characters who appear in the TV series Dinosaurs and their associated tropes.
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In General
- The Dinosaurs Had It Coming: Surprisingly Played for Drama in the series finale, "Changing Nature". The dinosaurs go extinct due to a chain of events that started with Earl's boss foolishly destroying the breeding grounds of a specific species of bug. The dinosaurs try to reverse the damage to the ecosystem, but wind up wiping out all plant life, then plunging the planet into an ice age due to their short-sighted decisions.
- Dumb Dinos: Double subverted on this show. The dinosaurs here have evolved into intelligent beings capable of founding modern civilization resembling the early 90s America. But the show heavily relies on old dinosaur stereotypes of the pre-Dinosaur Renaissance era, and these civilized dinosaurs ultimately doom themselves to extinction.
- "Everybody Dies" Ending: In the series finale, it's heavily stated that the dinosaurs wouldn't survive in the ice age for too long.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Most of the characters wear everything but pants, and it's not just the men. Fran and Charlene might wear a nightdress if they were going to sleep, otherwise, the female characters all are pantsless too. Lampshaded in the "smoo" episode, when censorship goes amuck, Earl shows that, as part of the push for censorship, the pants that he suddenly is forced to wear, to Fran's horror.
- Averted with B.P. Richfield: While there were never any full-body shots of Richfield in the series, the toy of the character wears pants. He's also frequently shown to wear suspenders, so it'd be pretty pointless of him to wear a garment that's meant to hold up an article of clothing he isn't wearing.
- Technically also averted with Baby Sinclair, since he wears a diaper.
- Predation Is Natural: What else are carnivorous dinosaurs like Earl supposed to eat?
- Random Species Offspring: Earl is a Megalosaurus. Fran is, according to
Word of God, an Allosaurus. What their children are is anyone's guess. On the behind-the-scenes feature for the DVD, the creators admit that the kids' designs aren't based on any real dinosaurs and are made up (though Charlene does resemble a Protoceratops while fans peg Robbie to be a Hypsilophodon). - Theme Naming: Several characters are named for oil companies. Fossil fuels, get it?
The Sinclair family
Earl Sinclair
- Voiced by: Stuart Pankin
Puppeteered by: Dave Goelz (season 1, early season 2), Mak Wilson (mid-season 2 onward)
Suit performed by: Bill Barretta (most episodes), Tom Fisher (occasional, seasons 2-3)
The not-quite-bright patriarch of the family, who works as a tree pusher for the WESAYSO Corporation.
- Affectionate Nickname: Roy calls him "Pally Boy".
- Apologizes a Lot: He gets like this when faced with his boss, law enforcement, or Elder Dinosaurs.
- Boisterous Weakling: Earl calls himself the "Mighty Megalosaurus" and loves to throw his weight around at home, but several characters can cow him with no trouble. When he *does* fight, he tends to get his ass kicked easily.
- Bumbling Dad: To a T. The show's most common running gag is that Earl simply can't control his youngest son, Baby.
- Butt-Monkey: Emphasized that his life sucks on a daily basis in "The Son Also Rises" what working a minimum wage job to support his family and comes home to get hit in the face by Baby for being not the mama.
- The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Even in the episodes where his complaints seemed to have a certain degree of validity, he was always proved 100% wrong by the coda. Lampshaded/subverted in "License to Parent". In the final scene of the episode Earl gripes about how "you were right, I was wrong... Fran is perfect and Earl learns another lesson." Fran disagrees, saying that perhaps she learned the lesson this time around.
- Cowardly Lion: He once attempted to fight with a dinosaur over a hundred times his size, knowing full well that he had no possible chance of winning. The situation resolved itself in the end, though he did give the other guy's toe a good walloping.
- Dad the Veteran: "The Mating Dance" reveals that he spent a few years in the Pangean Navy before he and Fran got married, though it's mostly used to introduce a hilariously bad sex ed video from said navy.
- Deal with the Devil: He once traded his soul for a mug with a devil. Fortunately, the mug came with a guarantee of refund for unsatisfied customers which Earl found when the devil was about to collect. Earl's refund came as a Reset Button Ending that made time come back at the moment the devil showed up to offer the deal in the first place.
- Dirty Coward / Lovable Coward: Whether his cowardice is meant to be endearing or shameful depends on the episode.
- Expy: He's basically what you'd get if Ralph Kramden were a dinosaur.
- Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: He's the Foolish Husband to Fran's Responsible Wife. He is dense and often comes up with convoluted ideas to deal with problems, such as potty-training Baby to get out of changing diapers and getting the council to ban swear words so he can watch TV again.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Earl thinks he is this compared to his sister Pearl, as he got a job and stopped dreaming about a career in Country music. Given that it led Pearl to leave her family and leave them at a bad time, he's not wrong.
- Happily Married: He and Fran bicker, he often takes her for granted, and they only have sex on Thursdays, but he adores her and will do whatever he can when his marriage appears to be threatened.
- Henpecked Husband: Fran can be quite aggressive and condescending towards him.
- Hidden Depths: A bumbling bluecollar father that used to sing Country and can still do it with little retraining.
- I Have No Sister: Earl disowns his twin sister Pearl for getting into the country music business. To him, she abandoned their family at the worst possible time. They're able to patch things up.
- Informed Species: He looks more like an overweight lizard than a Megalosaurus.
- I Was Quite a Looker: In his prime, Earl was incredibly buff.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's short sighted and cowardly but it's clear he loves his family.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: In a dream sequence in And the Winner Is... he accidentally causes a nuclear war. Then he causes the end of the dinosaurs for real in Changing Nature.
- Only One Finds It Fun: In "Switched at Birth", the Sinclairs discover evidence that their baby may have been switched with another baby while still an egg. When tests from the laboratory prove Aubrey to belong to the Sinclairs and Baby to belong to the Molehills (although it is revealed in the end that there was a mix-up with the tests), Robbie and Charlene find Aubrey's needy and hypochondriacal personality annoying, and Fran doesn't accept him as her son. Earl, however, is ecstatic to have a son who isn't physically abusive to him.
- Papa Wolf: He may not show it as much, but he is extremely protective over his sons and daughter. When Mr. Richfield starts to insult Earl's son Robbie, Earl (who mind you is afraid of Mr. Richfield more than anyone) actually stands up to him telling Richfield not to insult his son.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: While not truly malicious about it, whenever prejudice is stoked against four-legged dinosaurs (such as in "Nuts to War" or "Green Card"), he'll be one of the first to espouse bigoted views, particularly to Monica.
- Straw Character: Generally shown to be very conservative and close-minded. He will belittle Robbie and Monica for their more progressive views by calling them "left-wing".
- Straw Misogynist: When episodes tackled gender relations, Earl (along with other male characters) would often be put into this position.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The conflict of many episodes is driven by Earl's selfishness and shortsightedness.
- Weak-Willed: Earl is browbeaten and manipulated by everyone from his wife to his boss to his infant son. Beyond this, if a tactic is said to only work on the impressionable, rest assured he'll fall for it. In one instance, after insisting he would no longer be swayed by a greedy doctor's smooth talk, Earl is somehow mesmerized by the doctor's excellent penmanship. Unfortunately this is what ended up leading to the extinction of dinosaurs as he couldn't bring himself to object to WESAYSO and Richfield's methods at a critical moment and allowed them to proceed with their plans, which in turn lead to an ice age.
- You Are Fat: He is often called "Fat Boy" by Ethyl due to his weight. In "Refrigerator Day", when he is forced to fast to honor a family tradition, his breakfast tells him "Hey, a couple of days without food wouldn't exactly kill you, Slim."
Fran Sinclair
- Voiced by: Jessica Walter
Puppeteered by: Allan Trautman
Suit performed by: Tony Sabin Prince (late Season 2-4), Mitchel Young Evans (season 1), Pons Maar (early season 2)
Earl's wife. The Closer to Earth matriarch.
- Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife: She's the Responsible Wife to Earl's Foolish Husband. She offers simple solutions to Earl to try to talk him out of whatever convoluted idea he has to deal with a problem.
- Flat Character: She mainly exists just to personify Voice of Reason and Women Are Wiser.
- Good Parents: She loves her kids and tries to give them good advice, though they don't always heed her words. For example she tells Charlene not to be ashamed of her short tail.
- Happily Married: She truly does love her husband Earl. In "High Noon", she is even offended by her mother suggesting she ditch Earl and says to her suitor's face that Earl is the only man she'll ever love.
- Hypocrite: Defends the religion of Potato-ism in "The Greatest Story Ever Sold" claiming "Some answers are better than no answers" but then chastises it only because it almost ended up getting her son and husband burned at stakes for heresy. Nobody ever notices her hypocrisy.
- Informed Species: Despite being offically identified as an Allosaurus, she more closely resembles an Iguanodon, with a splash of Dilophosaurus due to her crests. She does start to look a bit more like an Allosaurus in the later seasons, however.
- Not So Above It All: While she's usually more sensible than Earl, there are occasions where she is the one who is reckless or in the wrong.
- In "Wilderness Weekend", she gets drunk because Earl and his friends accidentally left the beer at home and took the coffee with them instead. The inebriation causes her and the other women she's with to be more open about their attraction to the opposite sex. Earl is shown to be a bit disturbed by his wife being forward with him.
- In "Out of the Frying Pan", she becomes rather obsessed with making Baby a star. Even after Earl warns her that she's letting Baby's popularity go to her head, she doesn't snap out of it until she has an Imagine Spot of Baby resenting her in his adulthood.
- In "The Greatest Story Ever Sold", nearly every dinosaur gets brainwashed by the new religion known as "potato-ism", Fran included. Fran doesn't come to her senses until her own son Robbie, the only person to openly dissent with this new religion, is sentenced to being burned at the stake for being a non-believer.
- Only Sane Woman: She offers simpler solutions to the problems while Earl's ideas are convoluted
- Voice of Reason: She tends to be the sensible one and tries to tell the rest of the family to make the right decisions. Sometimes even the voice of simple logic.
- Women Are Wiser: She's always trying her hardest to steer Earl in the right direction.
Robbie Sinclair
- Voiced by: Jason Willinger
Puppeteered by: Steve Whitmire (most episodes), Rob Mills (occasional, season 3)
Suit performed by: Leif Tilden
The oldest son.
- Big Brother Instinct: Depending on the episode, he can be caring about his younger siblings. In "Little Boy Boo", he was genuinely concerned when he thought Baby Sinclair was choking on a cookie and he was willing to make up with his little brother after scaring him. In "Charlene's Flat World", he did his best to help his sister when she was being charged for "malicious thinking".
- A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: The Boy to Charlene's Girl and Baby's Baby.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Robbie knows a lot about social justice and is the smartest member of the family in terms of intellect, but he doesn't really apply himself in regards to school. His teacher notes in his report card in "The Mighty Megalosaurus" that he has potential.
- Cartoon Creature: Just what kind of dinosaur is he supposed to be? The creators even claimed he's not supposed to be a real dinosaur.
Fanon generally pegs him as a Hypsilophodon. - Not So Above It All: He may be smart, but he's still a teenager, and still at the mercy of his hormones and inexperience.
- The One Who Wears Shoes: Rare male example. His red tennis shoes stand out very strongly against every other character's bare feet.
- Only Sane Man: On quite a few occasions, he is presented as the only rational and reasonable character on the show. The most notable example is in "The Greatest Story Ever Sold", where he's the only dinosaur who knows that the new religion of "potato-ism" is only being used to manipulate everyone and to prevent them from thinking for themselves.
- Sibling Rivalry: He sometimes gets into petty arguments with his sister Charlene.
- Soapbox Sadie: Every social issue that comes up in the series, it's a good bet the one that's crusading for social justice is Robbie.
- Teen Genius: In terms of pure intellect, Robbie is probably the smartest member of the family. He once built a prototype for an endlessly renewable source of energy, and even built a rocket ship.
Charlene Sinclair
- Voiced by: Sally Struthers
Puppeteered by: Bruce Lanoil
Suit performed by: Michelan Sisti (most episodes), Arlene Lorre (first episode), Star Townshend ("Out of the Frying Pan")
The daughter and Robbie and Baby's sister.
- A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: The Girl to Robbie's Boy and Baby's Baby.
- A-Cup Angst: In "Charlene's Tale," Charlene wallows in self-pity that she is the only girl at school who hasn't grown an adult tail yet, tails essentially being used as a stand-in for breasts. She even tries to buy a prosthetic one until she eventually catches up with puberty.
- Cartoon Creature: She looks like a theropod with a ceratopsian frill.
- Catchphrase: She occasionally says "La-la-la" to herself.
- The Ditz: She's initially very vapid and silly, and even expressing a desire to marry a guy who'll do her thinking for her. She matures as the series goes on.
- Middle Child Syndrome: In "Charlene and Her Amazing Humans", Charlene feels underappreciated by her family since she's the middle child. When her human act becomes a huge success, her parents start praising her and she pushes onward with her act just to bathe in their praise. When she finally lets the human children go, she feels as if she will fade into obscurity again until her parents tell her that she doesn't need to do anything to earn their love.
- Phone Aholic Teenager:
- In "When Food Goes Bad", when Robbie tasks her with babysitting Baby so that he can go to the mini-golf course, she ties Baby up so that she can talk to Mindy, resulting in Baby getting captured by the Fridge Monsters.
- Her McDonald's Happy Meal toy depicts her holding a telephone receiver.
- Sibling Rivalry: She sometimes argues and fights with her brother Robbie.
- Soapbox Sadie: She starts off as someone shallow, but by the end of the series, she becomes an example of this on par with her brother, Robbie. This is most blatant in "Changing Nature", where she rails against WESAYSO for condemning the Bunch Beetles to extinction.
- Teen Genius: Shows definite signs of this, particularly later on in the series. She is made a supervisor at WESAYSO and devises a system to boost productivity to atmospheric heights.
Baby Sinclair
- Voiced by: Kevin Clash
Puppeteered by: Kevin Clash (face), John Kennedy (eyes), Terri Hardin (arms, seasons 1-3, uncredited), Julianne Buescher (arms, season 4, uncredited), Brian Henson (occasional lead puppeteer, season 2), Rickey Boyd (occasional lead puppeteer, seasons 3-4), Steve Whitmire (lead puppeteer, "Earl and Pearl")
The youngest.
- A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: The Baby to Robbie's Boy and Charlene's Girl.
- Abusive Offspring: Anytime he and Earl share screen time, expect Baby to bludgeon him with something while screaming his war cry of "NOT THE MAMA!", especially if it's a frying pan.
- Bratty Half-Pint: He's the Sinclairs' youngest child and can be quite troublesome. In "Terrible Twos", he acts like he's possessed solely because he turned two years old. They're only able to undo the curse by lying and throwing him a fake Third birthday party.
- Catchphrase:
- I'm the baby, gotta love me!
- NOT THE MAMA!
- Again! (after something dangerous/painful happens to him)
- Creepy Child: Especially when he turns two and acts straight up demonic.
- Deadpan Snarker: He can be sarcastic towards Earl and his clumsiness.
- Enfant Terrible: He turns evil when he's two and constantly demands presents from his parents.
- Extreme Omnivore: Even for a dinosaur Baby Sinclair has no standards when it comes to food. He likes to try to eat pests (and pets) in the Sinclair house. If hungry enough he'll even try to eat his own tail.
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": "Baby" is his given name. The Sinclairs were so frustrated by the hassle involved in naming him that they took the easy way out. In one episode, they sent him to the Elder to give him a real name but the Elder died and due to a technicality, he was named after the Elder's dying words, "Aaah Aagh I'm Dying You Idiot". At the end of the episode, the new Elder named him "Baby" and this time, it stuck.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In spite of often being an irksome pest to his family, he occasionally shows that he does care for them.
- Kid-Appeal Character: While the show is for a general audience while dealing with heavy themes, Baby Sinclair appeals to young children the most, and was prominently featured in merchandise because of this.
- Momma's Boy: He really loves "the Mama".
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In one episode he becomes violently ill from a tainted pacifier. In the later stages of the illness, Baby deliriously tells Earl that he loves him (and even calls him "daddy" instead of "not the Mama"). This horrifies Earl, making him realize that he was on the verge of death.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Whenever something dangerous or painful happens to him, he says "Again!"
- Vocal Evolution: As the series progressed, Baby started sounding more and more like Elmo. Bonus points for both characters being performed and voiced by Kevin Clash.
Ethyl Phillips
- Voiced by: Florence Stanley
Puppeteered by: Brian Henson (seasons 1-2), Ricky Boyd (season 2 onward), David Greenaway (occasional), Kevin Clash (occasional)
Fran's elderly mother.
- Deadpan Snarker: Has a sarcastic outlook on life, especially in regards to her son-in-law.
- Doting Grandparent: Despite hating Earl, she loves her grandchildren dearly.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Evil is definitely a stretch, but when she briefly goes to the afterlife, one of the first things she inquires about is her deceased husband, Grandpa Louie. Her second near-death experience actually has her meet him face to face, and she’s incredibly glad to see him again, even if he is warning her about “selling the afterlife”, she even sadly replies that she misses him without a hint of sarcasm or anything of the sort.
- Gone Horribly Right: She always talks about how Earl is a screw-up and will mess everything and anything up. She regrets it in the Grand Finale when Earl plays a part in the extinction of their species, admitting she didn't know how bad he would screw up with a tone of regret.
- Grumpy Old Man: Or grumpy old woman, she is cynical and makes jabs at Earl.
- Jerkass to One: She is sarcastic to everyone but is especially curt to Earl and sometimes smacks him with her cane.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Deep down she loves her family especially her daughter and youngest grandson.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: To Earl. She's completely ready to die in The Hurling, but as soon as she hears Earl complain that her continued survival would make his life miserable, she decides she does have something to live for after all.
- Sole Survivor: In the episode where Earl drives her to her high school reunion, they spend the trip arguing, and Ethyl tells Earl that once she meets up with her friends, they will finalize their plans to move in together so she won't have to put up with Earl anymore. At the reunion, the M.C. informs them that she's the last surviving member of her graduate class, and she falls into a funk, saying she's alone. On the way home, Earl joins her in singing the song he found annoying and cheers her up.
- Senior Sleep-Cycle: In "Germ Warfare", she falls asleep while reading Baby the story of The Three Little Pigs. Baby impatiently waits for her to wake up so she can tell him what happens after the wolf huffs and puffs. In a later scene, when he sneezes his pacifier at her, she wakes up and says "And blew the house down."
- Together in Death: She really does miss her late husband Louie and when she looks set to die in "Hurling Day", she tells Robbie she's looking forward to being reunited with him in death.
Pearl Sinclair
- Voiced by: Susan Norfleet
Puppeteered by: Ricky Boyd
Suit performed by: Tom Fisher
Earl's younger sister.
- Cool Aunt: In contrast to her brother's stubborn and strict attitude, Pearl is open-minded and laid back.
- Country Music: She makes a career doing this.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: Exaggerated, Pearl is almost physically identical to Earl bar her lipstick and clothes.
WeSaySo Corporation
B.P Richfield
- Voiced by: Sherman Hemsley
Puppeteered by: Steve Whitmire (most episodes), Rob Mills (occasional, season 3)
Suit performed by: Allan Trautman (occasional)
Earl's loud, vehement, tyrannical boss.
- Ascended to Carnivorism: Despite being a Triceratops, he has been known to eat meat, including two mammals involved in an Adam and Eve Plot, and his daughter Wendy's ex-boyfriends. He even tried to eat Earl when the latter talked to him about the importance of family over work (he stopped himself upon learning that Earl could still be useful to the company).
- Always a Bigger Fish: There's only one dinosaur that he's truly afraid of... HIS boss.
- Big Bad: The closest thing the show has for one since a lot of conflicts are caused by his actions. In the final episode, he's responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, and he doesn't care as long as he gets profit.
- Berserk Button: Efficiency, including any and all mention of "the E Word". He angrily fires Charlene for making WESAYSO's tree-pushing operation more efficient.
- Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Mr. Richfield is so overprotective, he actually eats his daughter's boyfriends. (He claims he only wanted to talk to the first one, but he lost his temper, and "after that, it was like eatin' peanuts.")
- Carnivore Confusion: He's supposed to be a Triceratops, an herbivore dinosaur, but he ate his daughter's boyfriends and a pair of mammals and occasionally threatened to eat his employees. The only time he ever eats plants like a real Triceratops is in "A New Leaf", but only as a drug addiction.
- Possibly justified as several paleontologists believe ceratopsians might have been omnivorous.
- Possibly
- Child Hater: With the singular exception of his daughter, he has been repeatedly shown to hate kids, to the point of eating them. He employs Robbie and Charlene at different points in the series, and isn't any fonder of them than he is of Earl.
- Catchphrase: Sinclair! In here, now!
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Reaches its peak in "Changing Nature", where he's willing to bring the world to an end if it will enable him to make a lot of money. It had already been shown how corrupt he is in "Nuts to War", when WESAYSO not only sells weapons to the two-legged dinos government but also to the enemy, the four-legged dino army.
- The Dreaded: Everyone at WESAYSO fears Richfield especially Earl. The only person that Richfield himself fears is his own boss.
- Enraged by Idiocy: Though he's not pleasant under any circumstance, few things anger him faster than the idiocy of his employees.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He cares very deeply about his daughter Wendy...unfortunately for her ex-boyfriends. He also respects his wife enough that when Earl seemingly brings him a woman, he turns him down.
- Evil Genius: He's far more intelligent than most of the male dinosaurs in the series, but he only uses his intellect for evil purposes.
- Faux Affably Evil:
- As Earl and, most of all, the Grapdelites, found out the hard way in Endangered Species, where his promise to take care of the last Grapdelites turns out to mean that he'll devour them.
- His Image Song "Cold-Blooded Guy" is a perfect example of this. He states such things as loving his family because "they were delicious" and responding to Earl's request for some time off by saying "Well, how 'bout the rest of your life?", an implied threat to fire him.
Richfield: I feed my dogs...to my snakes, that is! 'Cause I'm a cold-blooded guy! - Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Despite the real Triceratops having been a quadruped, Richfield is only ever seen standing on two legs (which may explain why his hypocrisy in discriminating against four-legged dinosaurs is never acknowledged).
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He tends to get infuriated at the drop of a hat.
- Horrifying the Horror: He is quite a monstrous dinosaur who is feared by everyone, except his own boss Mr. Ashland, the only person he finds terrifying.
- Image Song: Cold-Blooded Guy, which he sings on the album "Big Songs".
- Informed Species: Despite being officially a Triceratops (and has the horns of one), his spiked frill is more akin to a Styracosaurus.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Near the end of Endangered Species he seemed moved by Earl's explanation of the Grapdelites' status as the last of their kind and told Earl that the Wesayso will take care of the two creatures. Then we see Mr. Richfield laughing smugly and we, and Earl, hear a horrifying crunch.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: He avoids getting punished for every one of his misdeeds until the series finale. He may have all of that money but he won't be able to enjoy it.
- Knight Templar Parent: He's eaten every ex-boyfriend his daughter has dated after they broke her heart (not after, while they were dating his daughter). Naturally, this raises problems for the Sinclair family once Robbie starts dating her.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: The extinction of the Dinosaurs in "Changing Nature" can be traced back to his astonishingly poor grasp of science. He pushes for a chemical defoliant to kill the cider poppies, with no consideration of what it would do to the rest of Pangea's plant life (according to Earl, Richfield insisted it was "as safe as mother's milk"). He later comes up with the idea of dropping bombs into volcanos, under the belief that it would cause rain that would stimulate the regrowth of the plants.
- Large and in Charge: He's massive and the boss of Earl.
- Large Ham: He tends to speak loudly and with a lot of vigor.
- Let Me at Him!: Richfield tries to murder Earl at the Chief Elder election debate after Earl reveals that he was picked by Richfield to lose the election so Richfield can be elected to the position. He had to be restrained by 3 dinosaurs while the debate was being broadcast live on national television.
- Mean Boss: He quite often belittles, threatens, and insults his employees for no reason.
- Mysterious Middle Initial: The "B" is revealed to be "Bradley" as his mother calls him that in "Earl's Big Jackpot" but the "P" remains a mystery.
- Not So Above It All: In "The Greatest Story Ever Sold", even he freaks out over not knowing the meaning of life.
- Oh, Crap!: When Earl's body is possessed by the soul of a tree, Mr. Richfield reacts with pure shock and disbelief when he is told "NO" by someone who isn't afraid of him.
- Only in It for the Money: His motivation for almost everything he does is to get a lot of cash.
- Seven Deadly Sins: He's gluttonous enough to often make good on his threats to eat someone; has a violent, wrathful temper; a massive amount of pride; envies anybody who has money he doesn't; lusts for women even when he's married; is lazy and prefers to let his workers do everything (sloth); and is greedy as all hell for money.
- Spikes of Villainy: B.P. Richfield has a lot of horns on his frill.
- Straw Misogynist: WESAYSO is full of these, but Richfield is by far the worst of them. He refuses to fire or discipline Al "Sexual" Harris, despite fully acknowledging that his behavior towards Monica was totally inappropriate.
- Temper-Ceratops: Richfield is a Triceratops who is very short-tempered and intimidates and demeans his employees, especially Earl.
- Villain Song: The aforementioned "Cold-Blooded Guy", where he gloats about what a despicable and cruel individual he is.
- Wealth's in a Name: Despite everyone being named for oil companies, Richfield gets two (BP stands for British Petroleum, and Richfield for the last name), which indicate his status among the dinosaurs.
- Would Hurt a Child: He has eaten children. Robbie comes dangerously close to being eaten by him on a couple of occassions.
- You Are What You Hate: In episodes like "Green Card", he promotes racism against four-legged dinosaurs even though he is a Triceratops, a four-legged dinosaur.
Roy Hess
- Voiced by: Sam McMurray (English), Henri Guybet (European French)
Puppeteered by: David Greenaway (face), Julianne Buescher (arms, uncredited)
Suit performed by: Pons Maar
Earl's buddy and co-worker.
- Dumb Is Good: Roy is one of the nicest characters on the show, but he also isn't the sharpest tooth in the jaw.
- Expy: Of Ed Norton, right down to the "pally boy."
- Honorary Uncle: To the Sinclair children.
- Interspecies Romance: With Monica, a Brontosaurus.
- Long-Lost Relative: "Into the Woods" revealed that he was separated from his father at a young age. He eventually meets an elderly Tyrannosaurus who tells a tale of how he lost his son that makes it clear he is Roy's father. They fail to make the connection in spite of the elderly Tyrannosaurus having Roy's father's name and Roy sharing his name with the man's missing son, though Robbie suggests that they may figure it out sooner or later.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: He's a Tyrannosaurus.
- Nice Guy: Roy is one of the few truly selfless characters in the show.
- Simple-Minded Wisdom: Roy can be quite observant at times. By asking the right questions, Roy is able to deduce that Earl is uncomfortable about Charlene growing her tail and explains how Earl will have to become more sensitive in order to rise to the situation.
- Straw Misogynist: Mostly averted. He occasionally engages in sexist behavior such as Construction Catcalls, but is generally shown to be more respectful than Earl or his other co-workers.
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Averted; despite being a Tyrannosaurus rex, he's perhaps the most friendly guy and Earl's best buddy with no signs of cruelty or dino-eat-dino philosophy that define the WeSaySo Corporation.
Other Characters
Monica DeVertebrae
- Voiced by: Suzie Plakson
Puppeteered by: Julianne Buescher
Fran's friend, and the only four-legged dinosaur seen on the show.
- Does Not Like Men: She doesn't HATE them, but she doesn't much care for them, and prefers her independence. She can get along with them if they aren't willfully ignorant though, which is why she dates Roy.
- Interspecies Romance: With Roy, a Tyrannosaurus rex.
- Meaningful Name: Her last name. As a Brontosaurus, she has a lot of vertebrae.
- Mentor in Sour Armor: To Charlene. She gives Charlene advice and encouragement in her pursuits but fully understands that she will not have a fair chance in a male-dominated world.
- Odd Name Out: Of the major characters, she's the only one to not have a last name related to a real-life oil or gas company.
- Statuesque Stunner: In Roy's eyes.
- Women Are Wiser: In general. She's about averagely intelligent, but it doesn't help much in this mad world.
Spike
- Voiced by: Christopher Meloni
Puppeteered and suit performed by: David Greenawaynote , John Kennedy (assistant, "Dirty Dancing")
Robbie's best friend, and the local troublemaker.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: He's had quite a few girlfriends in the past, and tries to get Robbie a date with his crush by pretending to get beaten up by him.
- Bad Butt: He's never seen actually committing any crime or beating anybody up despite his threats.
- Everyone Has Standards: Spike is a bit of a lowlife and a ne'er-do-well, but even he knows that a boy should back off when a girl says "No". Especially if she's uncomfortable and/or scared. As this quote from "Steroids to Heaven" shows:Spike: For future references, when a girl says "Don't touch me" and runs off, that's a baaaaad date.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Never seen without his leather jacket.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite appearing to be the "bad influence" character, he's one of the few other teenage dinosaur to show genuine concern for Robbie's well-being, even going well out of his way to help him.
- Meaningful Name: As a Polacanthus, he's covered in spikes.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Yelling in Robbie's ear when he had a throbbing headache in "Steroids to Heaven." Though to be fair, Robbie did kind of deserve it.
- Spikes of Villainy: Subverted. His spikes look menacing, but he's generally well-intentioned.
- The Nicknamer: He calls Robbie "Scooter."
- Tough Armored Dinosaur: He's a Polacanthus (a type of ankylosaur) and the resident Bad Butt of Robbie's peer group.
Howard Handupme
- Voiced and puppeteered by: Kevin Clash
The chief newscaster at Dinosaurs News Network.
- Cartoon Creature: It's unclear just what kind of dinosaur he is since he doesn't especially resemble any known Real Life species.
- Face Death with Dignity: As he delivers the final news in "Changing Nature", he mourningly says a final goodbye to his watchers, uncertain that he would survive to deliver another news report.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's styled after Walter Cronkite, delivering the news in a simple but effective way- though sometimes his reports are used for jokes.
- Punny Name: "Handupme" refers to the fact that Howard is a puppet that is operated by hand.
- That's All, Folks!: He delivers the final lines of the series, mourningly announcing the continuing harsh climate forecast and sending off the audience, not expecting to survive to deliver another announcement.
