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Dinosaurs · S3 · E2

Baby Talk

  • TV-G
  • Oct 2, 1992
  • 23 min

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.

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About this episode

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.

Season 3

22 episodes
  1. 1Nature Calls

    23 minSep 18, 1992

    Earl is in charge of potty training the baby, who escapes to do his business any way he wants.

  2. 2Baby Talk

    23 minOct 2, 1992Now viewing

    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.

  3. 3Network Genius

    23 minOct 16, 1992

    Earl is hired as a network executive when his answers on a test for new television shows prove to be surprisingly accurate.

  4. 4The Discovery

    23 minOct 23, 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.

  5. 5Little Boy Boo

    23 minOct 30, 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.

  6. 6Germ Warfare

    23 minNov 6, 1992

    The Baby becomes sick from a dirty pacifier and a visit to the modern doctor has the family suspecting he is selling them high priced snake oil.

  7. 7Hungry for Love

    23 minNov 13, 1992

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

  8. 8License to Parent

    23 minNov 20, 1992

    When Earl is caught by the Parent Police losing his temper at the baby, he loses his parenting license.

  9. 9Charlene's Flat World

    23 minDec 4, 1992

    Charlene is charged with heresy and jailed after submitting her homework assignment claiming that the world is round and not flat.

  10. 10Wilderness Weekend

    23 minDec 18, 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.

  11. 11The Son Also Rises

    23 minJan 8, 1993

    After failing to mow the lawn, Robbie challenges Earl for male domination of the family... and wins.

  12. 12Getting to Know You

    23 minJan 15, 1993

    Charlene signs up for a foreign student exchange program to get away from her family who doesn't understand her; and the Sinclairs get a bitter taste of a different culture when a French bird moves in with them in Charlene's place.

  13. 13Green Card

    23 minJan 29, 1993

    The four-leggers are blamed for the failing economy and legislation is passed to make their presence in Pangea illegal.

  14. 14Out of the Frying Pan

    23 minFeb 5, 1993

    Baby becomes a hit sensation when he and Earl star in a series of commercials for a new frying pan. Earl is fired from the commercials and he and Monica start to worry that fame is going to the Baby's and Fran's heads.

  15. 15Steroids to Heaven

    23 minFeb 12, 1993

    Robbie resorts to using Thornoids in an attempt to impress a girl at school.

  16. 16Honey, I Miss the Kids

    23 minFeb 19, 1993

    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.

  17. 17Swamp Music

    23 minFeb 26, 1993

    Robbie crosses over to the swamps and gets sold on the mammals' "swamp music", but they're liable to be sold out in a dinosaur record deal, which Robbie orchestrated.

  18. 18Dirty Dancin'

    23 minMar 12, 1993

    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.

  19. 19If I Were a Tree

    23 minApr 16, 1993

    Ethel reads the Baby a story called "If You Were a Tree" about a dinosaur tree pusher who gets struck by lightning and swaps souls with the tree he's trying to demolish.

  20. 20We Are Not Alone

    23 minMay 2, 1993

    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.

  21. 21Charlene and Her Amazing Humans

    23 minMay 9, 1993

    Charlene feels her family is neglecting her, so she gets their attention by winning the school talent show but her rising fame is riding on the backs of three young cavelings she found in the forest whose mother is looking for them.

  22. 22The Clip Show II

    23 minJul 2, 1993

    Another one of the infomercial for a home course in how to become a paleontologist is supplemented by clips from previous episodes. Featuring the past clips from Season 2 to Season 3.

Guest stars

Julianne BuescherThe Smoo Show Singers (voice)
Kate McGregor-StewartNeighbor No. 3 (voice)
Thom SharpLarry (voice)
Florence StanleyGrandma Ethyl Phillips (voice)
Sam McMurrayRoy Hess (voice)
Sherman HemsleyB.P. Richfield (voice)