Referenced By / Dinosaurs

Live-Action TV

• Seinfeld: In "The Puffy Shirt" and "The Glasses", the "Power Erupts/A New Leaf" and "When Food Goes Bad"/"Fran Live" VHS tapes can be seen on Jerry's bookshelf in his apartment.

Music

• SiIvaGunner: "Grass Land (Extended Mix) - Super Mario Bros. 3" is a remix of "I'm the Baby (Gotta Love Me)".

Web Video

• The Angry Video Game Nerd:
  • In his review of Tiger Electronic Handheld games, one of the games the Nerd plays is based on the show. He criticizes the game's music and does an impression of Baby Sinclair.
  • In Part 2 of his "Wish List" video, when reviewing Home Improvement: Power Tool Pursuit!, the Nerd wishes that the game's levels were the sets of real TV shows. He wishes that Dinosaurs was one of them, then decides against it after struggling to make it through the first level, which takes place on the set of a prehistoric forest with animatronic dinosaurs as enemies.
• The Nostalgia Critic:
  • In his review of Theodore Rex, the Critic describes the movie as starring Whoopi Goldberg and "one of the dinosaurs from that TGiF sitcom", and shows an image of Whoopi and Earl Sinclair together. Later in the review, he calls the titular character "Earl Sinclair".
  • In his review of The Never Ending Story III, the Critic describes the Rock Biter as being turned into a sitcom like Dinosaurs and The Flintstones.
  • In his review of The Land Before Time, when food becomes scarce and the dinosaurs move out to find a new home, the Critic blames this on the Bunch Beetles, and shows Stan from "Changing Nature", the series' finale. A little later, he says that Littlefoot is a good name for a baby dinosaur, but it will get him beat up in Dino School, and shows an image of Littlefoot's head photoshopped onto Robbie's body as Spike (the Dinosaurs character) attacks him.

Western Animation

• Bojack Horseman: An unused animatronic of Baby Sinclair is shown next to a trash container in Still Broken.
• Robot Chicken: A sketch from "Crushed By a Steamroller on my 53rd Birthday" involves a group of scientists recreating the DNA of a dinosaur and using a machine to bring it back to life. The dinosaur they resurrect is Robbie Sinclair, who begins to spout various catchphrases related to the 1990's. He is promptly shot by the lead scientist, who then proceeds to have his crew burn and destroy the laboratory.
• Sid the Science Kid: In "Sid's Amazing Lungs", Gerald pretends to be a baby and says "I'm the baby, gotta love me!", referencing one of Baby Sinclair's catchphrases.
• The Simpsons: "Black Widower" begins with the Simpson family watching a parody of Dinosaurs, and Bart comments, "It's like they saw our lives and put it right up on screen!", a reference to the criticism Dinosaurs received at the time for being accused of being a rip-off of The Simpsons.^note Dinosaurs would later fire back in the episode, "Dirty Dancing", wherein Earl complains about the TV line-up consisting of nothing but shows involving idiot fathers, following the success of "Totally Ineffectual Dad", and that the other shows are just cheap rip-offs. Baby then says, "Don't have a cow, man!", Bart's Catchphrase at the time.