I actually found it by searching for the musician Ray Colcord mentioned in the credits (should have left the credits in the video sorry), here you go: ruclips.net/video/T8q9hGvb2j8/видео.html Edit: In case the video gets deleted, it's Changing Nature by Ray Colcord
@@kingofstupid5275I mean, it makes sense: All of the other characters were very large and intricate puppets that were never meant to last longer than 3 years without regular maintenance, much less 30. But Baby's puppeteer, Kevin Clash, who was famous for performing Elmo wouldn't last. He lost his job when some child grooming and sexual abuse allegations surfaced a few years ago...
You'd think they would have done some kind of preservative effort on the bigger ones. I don't know what would work; maybe coat them in resin or something. But something; Dinosaurs was a comparative rarity in television history.
So they all died terrible cold, freezing, deaths as they desperately huddled with one another trying to grasp and hold onto any amount of warmth they could capture. Brutal
though a brutal way of going out, I honestly speculate that they all died in their sleep peacefully while they are all huddled together, at least they didnt suffer and they died knowing that they faced the cold death together as a family
The absolute balls to end a series like this, like you have to give props to the writers for even committing to this let alone making a genuinely great scene with a strong message
And it honestly makes sense to end it this way. It's a reminder that we only have so much time on this planet and that we should value what we have before it's all gone. This show's ending feels more like a warning than just a dark ending to a kids' show, and I respect the writers for that
The earth will always course correct itself. Humans have only burned and polluted on a mass scale for a couple hundred years. So a couple hundred years Vs 150 million years. I’m with George Carlin. If it’s gonna go, it’s gonna go. Stop with your arrogant mission of always having to control things.
The real irony is that in the first episode, Earl told the baby that "Someday, this will all be yours" and that "Dinosaurs are going to be on this Earth forever"
That's partly why it's so heartbreaking - the kids were going through typical teenage struggles and it felt like they had their whole lives ahead of them. Then you think of Baby and it gets real dark.
Makes sense with the rest of the story, just replace "ugly" with "greedy" It's called the greedy barnacle, He was so greedy that everyone DIED. the end:D
This show ended with a simple ‘goodbye’. There were no tears, no screams, no anything. And then the screen cut to black. They knew it was the last episode, and they accepted it with a cold embrace.
God dammit , the one time the ,,Company says it's time to reboot the series , so the last episode dosen't count" is actualy needed is also the only time it dosen't show up.
This almost feels like a creepypasta in a way. It’s so serious and straightforward. It almost feels like a joke the writers thought up one day on how to end the show and it’s incredibly melancholy
Not to take away from the power of the writing and acting of this scene…..but I am still amazed at how great the puppeteering work of the late Jim Henson with these full costumes. Earl particular has such a wide array of expressions
No, that's the beautiful thing about it. The voice performances could only carry the scene so far if the puppets were stiff and lifeless, but because they're so vibrant and expressive it makes them feel real
Jim Henson was dead when this show went into production. It was his tech, but he never had a lick to do with production. A better example would be the gorgs in fraggle rock, who use the same tech in a show that actually was created before hensons death
What’s worse is that, realistically, the baby would probably be the first to die, followed by the other family members one by one until Earl (the one with most body fat) was the only one left, his final moments filled with guilt over what he did to the world and his family.
But in the episode "The Last Temptation of Ethyl" he was asking Fran if he could go to the afterlife, and was told not for a long time. But now it looks like the baby is about to get his wish on that. And even if he does, he'll experience eternal happiness. And what's sad is nobody ever feels any remorse or guilt for their reckless actions until it's too late, which is reality just the same.
Imagine the final episode of the Simpsons being the power plant finally melting down and all Springfielders dying of radiation poisoning like in "When the Wind Blows".
@@AttmayThough the Disney of 2024 is considerably different than the one in 1994, the fact remains that they were the ones who ultimately funded and backed this.
I was very young when this episode aired. I thought it was not the end and that it was another episode after . Later I learned...That Goodbye meant Goodbye.
Just look at David’s face as it faded out. That’s the face of pure, not depression, not sadness, it’s a face of “I’ve lost so much, there’s no hope for us now,” he looks so done.
as a child my mom showed me this show and she never saw the ending i honestly loved this show but the ending had me like crying on the ground for hours upon hours
Honestly so sad because the mother just doesn't say anything as he talks to the kids. She knows they're all gonna die and she can't bring herself to take away the hope from her family even if they know it's foolish
@pyrosplicer85 Nah they all knew but they were tricking themselves into having Hope. Especially the Dad. The Mum was the only one who wasn't tricking herself at all 100%
This might seem a little off topic, but once, in relation to the Greek myth of Pandora and how hope was the only thing left in the box/jar, I read someone comment on that it represents how hope is a fragile illusion humans hold onto when they have nothing left. That kind of sums up this scene in a nutshell. The family is holding onto this fragile illusion because what else are they supposed to do at this point? There are no actions left to take, no problems with fixable solutions, nothing.
@@frankielovejoy9928 Hope is a powerful evolutionary weapon, don't underestimate it. In many moments in history those who had no hope gave up and died, just minutes before rescuers arrived.
"Goodnight..." the last line on the teleprompter and the anchor would proceed to go for a stolen shot of them debriefing. But then Howard realized that this is it. The last time the news could ever be reported. He raises his head and delivers the final message to his audience. "...Goodbye..."
*"But it's so easy to take nature for granted because it's always there"* *"There's no place to move to. This is the only world we got"* And even to this day, those quotes still important.
@@dslhernandez3001 well what’s gonna happen to all of us but I don’t exactly know and whatever it is nobody’s gonna leave them and we will all stay together and hey I think it worked out OK after all humans plants and animals live on this planet earth for 5 billion years it’s not like we’re going to just……. ……..disappeared
So this means that TV message what’s the future after all the dinosaurs froze to death inside their houses and he knew that it was going to happen to him so he decided to do one that Broadcast before he froze to death so he was the last dinosaur to froze to death and after that the dinosaurs were gone never to return
@@brooklynbred1460The toys? You mean the puppets? Buddy, muppets were originally made for adult oriented content. I’m not tryna be one of those “adults can watch cartoons too” type people, I’m actually being real.
Truths that stick out in this scene: Not knowing you messed up until it’s too late is always devastating. Telling someone that everything will be okay, when you know it’s not is heartbreaking. Nature always wins.
This ending is very thought provoking. The naivety of the baby and Earl having to explain that there's no place where they can move to is what really gets me. The whole message of this episode is "If humanity doesn't fix their bad habits, we will get in a bad situation that can't be fixed." But hey, I'm sure we'll turn out just fine. After all, Homo sapiens have been on this world for 200,000 years, it's not like we're all just gonna disappear.
But hey it’s not like we’re the same as any other species and can adapt, learn from our mistakes and possess massive potential let’s keep looking at only the negative. Right…
What makes it sadder is that these puppets have never been used for ANYTHING since the finale aired. In fact, as of this writing, the puppet for Baby is THE ONLY REMAINING PUPPET LEFT.
@shiloh2735 I remember reading somewhere that puppets like these degrade over time without constant maintenance. The Baby puppet probably only lasted so long because its smaller size might have meant it required less maintenance, but the larger and more complicated puppets weren't so lucky.
I really appreciate the show making Earl feel so human here. He wasn't just apologizing, he was sharing his perspective as someone who has messed up horribly, and provides what was going on through his head. It doesn't feel like an excuse. "It's so easy to take nature for granted, because it's always there. And technology is so bright, shiny and new." It sounds more like he's recognizing that the error he made is likely something that several like him would fall into, and actually wise minds would actually have the insight to think "nature matters more than this." That, and having the respect for his family to own up and apologize in the first place. The way he talks to Baby and the rest of the family truly feels more like he owes them something that he is willing to give, and less like he's trying to seek comfort in the idea that it's going to be okay. "Daddy was put in charge of the world, and he didn't take real good care of it." He could have said that the world was too hard to handle or some other excuse, but he owns up to the fact that "he didn't take real good care of it."
Apparently the network was cancelling Dinosaurs. But the show knew how good it was. They still had to deliver a new season with a series finale and this is what they produced. And it was a "take it or leave it" situation for ABC.
That was around the same time as Sonic SatAM ending. Ben Hurst, the show writer referred to it as ABC's "broom sweep clean". A lot of stuff got scrapped in favor of more popular shows like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
@@MacUser2-il2cxthis show was on ABC and part of TGIF which aired on Fridays, Power Rangers was on Fox and aired on Saturday mornings, so it would have had zero to do with Dinosaurs being cancelled
Apparently, the show was always planned to end this way. The finale was also one of the few times the network seriously debated whether or not to air it because they were concerned about the "baby dying". Ultimately, they did air it, but what I think really made this stand out is that they never showed the family dying, which left a ton to the imagination.
Dinosaurs aren't birds. Birds had a small branch coming from dinosaurs in the evolution tree. I know you said techically speaking, but still it's the same saying we're safe because there are fishes in the ocean
We all must remember: Baby survived being thrown against the wall, falling from a pterodactyl nest, being cut in the middle and put together, and after all those things he just says "AGAIN!!!", if this little dinosaur survived all these things, he can survive anything
and the true disturbing part is the process of them dying. Starvation, freezing, maybe.. suffocation. just imagine living the rest of the days with a family member dead next to you.
Nah, the show didn't have to end like this. They could have ended the series on a positive note. But they chose not to. They went the route people didn't expect.
@@DialgaMarine3 So??? Doesn't mean they can't end positively; the topic itself was still serious, even if they ended happily. Serious topics and dark ending are not synonymous.
Petroleum or Crude oil didn’t come from Dinosaurs. Oil formed from the remains of marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago, even before the dinosaurs.
@@AbbaKovner-gg9zp Not entirely, no, but it is a fossil fuel because it is the geological remains of prehistoric creatures and plants. Once it's gone, it's gone.
The series finale may be a bit disturbing for young audiences, but it carries a powerful message. It emphasizes that while technology is impressive and cool, we shouldn't take nature for granted just because it's always been there. Greedy companies prioritize profit over their clients' well-being without realizing that one day their time will come, and they can't take their money with them. The extinction of our species will ultimately affect them too, so they are acting counterproductive now. There's still time to take small steps to help save the environment. While hope is important, our actions ultimately make the difference.
While the ending was extremely depressing, I thought it was a bit clever of the writers to use habitat destruction and corporation disregard to the environment in favor of “progress” led to global devastation and also how the dinosaurs became extinct. It really drove the environmental message home without getting too preachy about like other shows being aired around the same time.
And it wasn't even progress. It started with a stupid Wax Fruit factory. Like it didn't occur to them that they destroyed the habitat of insects that come EVERY YEAR to clear the poppy vines. They were just too dumb to live.
So many shows were doing this exact same thing though, it got to be tiring hearing about it so much in what was supposed to be a fun entertaining escape for half an hour.
Not a lot of people are talking about just how sudden the scene is. The episode plays the winter as a joke up until this part where it abruptly become dead serious. The scene almost immediately before is a gag where someone says something will get better and another person says the exact opposite will happen. It really does blindside you.
whats worse is, now that food is going to run out, they will be forced to turn on each other before dying. most likely with earl (the one who caused this,) to be the last one standing before his Time is up.
@@bizzaroblake2519 Wait but what about the boss? In one episode it was revealed he's a cannibal! Maybe he will show up to their home and eat them? Starting with the baby first, as he will already be weak from cold and hunger.
To Earls credit, he WAS technically right. The Dinosaurs didn't just disappear. We're still finding them, and placing them in museums and the like even today. They might all be a bit... skinnier then they used to be. But they're still here, and we still remember them.
I remember watching this finale with my brothers. The somber music, the doom-ridden looks on the characters faces and the slow pan out the window as the snow kept falling. Then they fade to credits and we’re like “This can’t be how they end the show!” And then Howard says good-bye and fade to black and we were STUNNED! We couldn’t believe that’s how they ended the show. Even to this day this ending gets me. I haven’t watched a full episode of “Dinosaurs” since knowing the outcome for all these characters is bleak. Maybe that’s the point. Everything you care about comes to an end, and if you’re not careful there will be no one to remember it.
it almost hits even harder now.... back in the 90's we hadn't experienced the horrors of 9/11, we'd just won the cold war... the future seemed limitless and boundless
The show had many deep meaningful storylines. They wanted it to have a meaningful ending that could hopefully inspire others to do good. The whole show ended up being a cautionary tale. Jim Henson would’ve been very proud of what they made as he always wanted puppeteering to be taken seriously. This whole show was made with him in mind as well as the Muppet Christmas Carol.
As a kid I thought "Hey, how clever. You end the show with the end of the dinosaurs on earth." I didn't realize at the time this was also a message to us that WE need to take care of our planet while we can, or WE could be the ones going extinct.
Actually, let me tell you, this ending traumatized me so much because even as a child, a wee lad, I understood what happened, and I didn't want to accept it... and I think it f^cked me up to the point that I didn't even remember this episode. My mind opted for it to be erased. That's how much this ending messed me up.
It wasn't until last year I decided to see if this show even had an ending, and yeah... that's when I realized that it did infact have an ending, a dark one at that
@@EQOAnostalgia "@EQOAnostalgia 3 weeks ago birds lol, It's amazing how that started off as a goof for a movie and people ran with it." Thomas Henry Huxley taught about it in 1863. The first movie was filmed in 1888. 🤷
2:40 if you look at the background with all the scribbles, it gets worse, it implies Howard kept going to the very end to report the news, there's no chroma key nor backwall, only one single dude, telling the news, as his final act.
It’s so sad just how everyone accepts their fate. Everyone understands they’ll die. Everyone except the baby. He doesn’t understand and after his father tells him they will be ok and stick together it cuts us to the mother who realises the harsh reality (so does the dad and everyone else) but it shows us how the baby is the only one with hope even though he is going to die first. That’s what the family meant by they will always stick together and how they won’t disappear but in fact it will be the baby who disappears first.
The bitter irony is that Baby's puppet is the only one that remains to this day; the others degraded over time because of the materials they were made of and lack of maintenance.
I remember watching the dinosaurs sitcom reruns when I was a kid but I only saw the ending of it a few years ago on a list of darkest episodes of kids television programs. This was so freaking dark and I never would have guessed this is how it would end. The way the family just sits together quietly while the snow comes down outside sent to chill on my spine and the"Good night and goodbye" was so emotionless that there was some genuine dread in that scene.
This show didn't pull any punches, but they always put a great comedic twist on everything. Well. Except the show's grand finale. They knew the show wouldn't go on and instead of a meaningless episode that would neatly tie into endless re-runs, they made _this._ An episode that just hits you like a ton of bricks with its finality and the message attached to it. They had this one shot to make something truly meaningful and they did. It's simply amazing and I doubt there's a show with a similar demographic like it.
Earls last word "Yeah. Yeah, and hey I'm sure it will work out OK. After all. dinosaurs have been on this earth for 150 million years. and it's not like we're going to just disappear" Edit: Looking back at this comment after 4 years, my grammar was s**t...
I can't imagine being a kid years ago and saying like "but...everything will be fine right? Something good will happen in the next episode right?...RIGHT!?"
As a kid, we rarely watched shows in order, just as they came on. And serialization of shows was a lot less common. So the next episode could very well have been like the third episode or something. Sometimes I feel like I"m experiencing life like that... wibbly wobbly, timey wimey.
And Disney responded by buying out the network that aired the show as payback for constantly changing its time slot. That’s why I quit watching it: I could never find it anymore!
“This is a story about dinosaurs. Once upon a time dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Then a megalosaurus was put in charge of the environment and everyone died. The end!” (What the frick where did all these likes come from)
Dude, I just saw the dishwasher wasn't completly filled when someone turned it on and I was like "someone doesn't want that our ancestrals have a future" sounds extreme but the thing is, if it's filled completly then it's more efficient than washing them by hand. I know you might not believe in climate change, but I feel like it's true and if we just weren't so lazy, I mean, the "someone" also puts plastic into the wrong trashbin, it would be so easy to at least, at the very least, to not do that... I dunno man, my mind just changed today, I mean I was always prudent with nature, whenever I could take the bikecycle I did and another "someone" is always like "I could drive you" and I'm like "why would you do that, biking is good for me and nature, that are two clear heavy arguments" like what, the thing that changed is how I see the actions of others, like described above. I forgot were I wanted to go with this lol, have a nice day
yea ok but then again we do to right now, with our computers... and I bet YT servers pull a lot of energy. Sometimes I imagine waking up with a little earthquake and then I go outside and Earth is breaking apart, like everyone and everything will die and that's for certain, what would you think?
Sometimes not knowing is better. I feel bad for the mom who actually realizes all of her children are going to die, not getting to see them live a full life which is what most parents want for their kids...AND the fact that her own husband was the cause of it all.
This is a really good commentary on how our civilization is too reliant on technology and doesn't have any interest in making progress on co existing with nature.
The only way to coexist with nature is to subdue its wild nature and domesticate all its species utterly and completely as its king. For the bears and the lions and all manner of animals and insects to see human beings and befriend us where possible, and to enable a form of mutual communication (although this will require some genome modification). I am for the preservation of utilization of every species, but in service to mankind instead of as part of a wild untame world which is lethal to humanity. Either way, we need better management, and the people in charge are pretty awful, vindictive, petty, even evil.
what's funny is the grandmother died before and she was brought back because the angels said it's not her time yet. and apparently her time was when it was everyone's time.
The fact that Baby Sinclair looks so convinced his pops is right as everybody - Earl, Fran, Robbie and Charlene look with faces that are like "We're fucked..." is really sad because they didn't have the heart for the baby to learn that despite him being only two or three years old, he won't survive much longer.
They could have SO EASILY played this ending for comedy. Easy. Dad just says, "It's not like we're just gonna disappear!" Cut to present day, the family is comically posed as fossil skeletons in a museum as the goofy theme music plays and humans point and smile (which is exactly what I expected to happen while watching as a kid). Dark and macabre yes but... I just could not believe what a dark, mature and soul crushing ending they went for... which I'm glad/sad for.
The fact that several dinosaur characters are named for oil companies (Earl Sinclair, Mr. Richfield, Ms. Shell, etc.). should have been a clue, since after hundreds of millions of years the dinosaurs and their habitat turned into the oil we pump out of the ground and seas today. Even the name Earl is an alternative (dialectical) pronunciation of, "oil".
During a behind the scenes retrospective of the show do it as a paleontologist at a dig site they have remans of a group of dinaosours of various ages found around a box.
"Goodnight... goodbye" I never watched a single episode of this show. This whole video was slowly crushing my soul, but this line was the final nail in the coffin.
This aired 1994. Almost 30 years later and it’s hauntingly more relevant now then it was then. Humans believe there’s no way they could just, disappear. They’d be wrong
@accelerationquanta5816yes we can? Like we are a species as well. We’re not immortal. We will die out one day. You and I will not be around to see it because we’ll both be dead by then.
"And taking a look at the long range forecast. Continued snow, Darkness and extreme cold. This is Howard Hundupme. Good night. Goodbye." This is a kid friendly show right?
I never thought of it being a kids show. It was a sitcom that always had pretty "grown up" themes. And even if it was, I see no problem with this ending.
Most finales end on a high note, either the main characters move on and part ways, and get a nice future, or ending on a cliffhanger, set for a sequel series, even the realistic ones they end happily or at least bittersweet, but really they're happy endings. But this show, it just ends in a hopeless and depressing setting, the main characters accepting their fate, and this was the actual finale, no cliffhanger, no set up for future season or new series, just plain hopelessness
I remember how this scene is kinda a reminder for us in return, to not let too much technology and progress one day go out of control and help nature while we still can or else. ............its sad but true
I remember seeing this for the first time as a eight year old kid. I did not cry at the end this episode, because for some reason I figured this was a cliff hanger for the next year. Afterall, my mind was made up that the end would be a meteor. It wasnt till the next fall when the dinosaurs did not come back on, that it hit me. This is how the show ended. I cried, I cried alot.
@@SirToaster9330 Aye man. That’s not OUR planet as humans… we can’t even breathe out there, come on man make sense, don’t just bring up other planets as if they are only flights & passports away
With the way people are acting in society the last since 1993 but really over the last 150,000 years. Humans don't deserve any place on any planet. We fight, and kill, and cause the extinction of plants, animals, and even other people! We destroy the healthy body and move on to a new one, then reproduce and proceed to destroy that! I'm sorry to be a downer, but the sad reality is that when we're gone, the planet can begin to heal. We have more than enough resources for everyone to live comfortably on this planet, yet we go to war and fight and kill because two old farts can't get along or agree on how to make themselves richer while destroying our freedom and keeping us poor and distracted with all the myriad of crap they can produce in an endless routine of control and conquer 😅 in short... Greed, envy, and hate will destroy this planet's surface and everyone and everything on it!
*And it's like we're not gonna just.....disappear* *And taking a look at the long range weather forecast, continued snow, darkness & extreme cold. This is Howard Handupme. Goodnight....& goodbye* Hearing all of that made me cry so hard when I was a little kid. It was really sad & heartbreaking to see the show end like that. And to this day, it still makes me cry.
I think the shot of the Fruitco sign is a beautifully poignant moment. The project that set off the chain of events that led to their demise… ultimately failed BECAUSE of the chain of events it caused. The dinosaurs caused their own destruction due to their greed and short-sightedness. And what will be the sign shown when future creatures see a show called “Humans”?
Well it’s what happens when Wesayso goes downOh. They would still had a shot of living had they not build a wax fruit factory on the Beatles mating ground.
A show like "Dinosaurs", you'd always figure it'd end with them at least ACKNOWLEDGING that something was going to happen to make them all go extinct, but to have an Ice Age destroy an advanced society is just... tough to watch. In terms of apocalypse, people always point to zombies and nukes and aliens from outer space, but an Ice Age has got to be one of the most brutal "end of the world" scenarios because of how slow it would be. Food would become scarce and then ultimately die out, mass riots would break out, people would cling to technology until the power lines finally became overloaded and failed, and all the while it would just keep getting colder and colder and colder. The end of the world would be slow, prolonged, and brutal, and the last person to go would never know that they're the last one, and as they slowly freeze to death they would probably still be clinging to the hope that somebody somewhere managed to make it, never knowing it's all over and nobody is left. Yeah I put more thought into this than maybe I should have.
Except the older generation has a habit of thinking about nature only right around the time they realize they've become frail and will die in less than 20 years.
@@brbbiobreak boomer writers looking for reasons to justify dumping their parents in raisin ranches where they will spend the rest of their lives subsisting on mediocre restaurant-grade food until they die from diseases they wouldn’t have if they didn’t eat the standard American diet.
Probably the saddest and most depressing show finale I have ever seen. Yeah, we all know what happened to dinosaurs, so obviously they wouldn't just be around forever, but for the show to actually end on the extinction of a species is so incredibly sad. I don't think I've watched a show since that has ended a series like this did.
Special mention to the look Handupme makes during the pause between *”Good night" and "Good-bye":* he slightly lowers his head in a somber manner, perhaps knowing full well that he and all the other dinosaurs are not going to live on much longer due to the destruction the dinosaurs have inflicted, both directly and indirectly, on their world, and he is concluding his final broadcast, almost prepared to face his demise. *Props to Handupme's performer, Kevin Clash, for pulling off the convincing expression.*
2:39 If you listen closely in the clip,no one is around anymore. which can only mean one thing,Howard was the last dinosaur and that clip takes place in the future. after all of the dinosaurs had frozen to death inside their houses, and Howard knew it was about to happen to him at any second now so he must have decided to make one more TV podcast before he frozen to death. His final words were Goodnight, Goodbye And when the screen turned Black he froze to death. And then after that,All of the Dinosaurs were Gone Never To Return.😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
“In there place have emerged other powerful and beautiful creatures…….and we now know that one small group of dinosaurs did survive the extinction and they’re all around us today……..the birds…..” *Cue the Walking with dinosaurs T.Rex roaring*
Because this was a sitcom with lots of jokes and gags during its run, I never expected the show to wrap up with the extinction of dinosaurs. It caught me off guard when the show was first airing on ABC.
I actually really respect the fact that the creators had the balls to end the series like this despite being targated to a family audience I know the show wasn't afraid to talk about mature subjects such as censorship, racism, drug abuse, sexism and more, but for the most part they kept the comedy pretty light hearted, but here there's no sugar coating the grim reality, and the fact that they not only take it seriously but actually have the characters we grew to love watching die (including the baby) that takes serious guts that even a lot of adult shows don't have There's a reason why this finale is remembered and why this show is considered to this day to one of the best, most smartly written sitcoms of all time
@@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332 yeah, people forget the 80s and 90s was the uprising of the pearl clutching white suburban boomer mom taking the minivan to go protest the word fuck being said on TV while actually important shit happened elsewhere
It's a truly sad ending indeed that I never saw coming. But Earl's last words were in a way kinda comforting. No matter what happens, everything's gonna be alright and you'll never truly lose each other, even if you can't see it.
There's something about the characters in any show acknowledging that this is the end and saying "goodnight" or "goodbye" to the audience gives me MEGALODON goosebumps. But this just flat out cuts me to the core. This must be how the house of El felt when they could do nothing except await Krypton's destruction. Only difference between them and this is that the Dinos didn't have any viable planets to send any of them to😢
This show talked so much about real life daily problems and real difficulties we face as individuals, families and as a humanity. This last episode was about what happens when we do not care about our evironment. Earl said it, this is the only world we got.
This is probably the best portrayal of an environmental apocalypse I’ve ever seen. Not super preachy or tasteless, just straight to the point and extremely hard hitting. Makes me want to watch the show and find out the context
When I was 8 and my brother was 4, when this aired at the end, when the news reporter said his lines we just sat there terrified, when it ended my brother started crying and we both ran to are mother and she took us out for ice cream to make us feel better
alison P I can imagine how upsetting that was... I'm 32 now and was only about 6 when this aired... I didn't get to see the ending (I wasn't allowed to) but seeing it now... Me and my baby sister would hav been the same. I'm so sorry. ~ *hug* ~ that was terrifying and sad.. I'm happy we didn't seen it until now... And it still made me cry
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Does anyone know the name of the song playing in the background?
I actually found it by searching for the musician Ray Colcord mentioned in the credits (should have left the credits in the video sorry), here you go:
ruclips.net/video/T8q9hGvb2j8/видео.html
Edit: In case the video gets deleted, it's Changing Nature by Ray Colcord
Everybody Do the Dinosaur
This is a final episode of dinosaurs? In 1995 renamber
@@Annierose1045 not really, but ssssh 🤫 🤭
😘😘
"Nobody's going to leave you"
Kinda sad when you consider that Baby's puppet is the only one that remains intact right now.
Wait, really? Oof.. yeah, somehow that does make it even worse
@@kingofstupid5275I mean, it makes sense: All of the other characters were very large and intricate puppets that were never meant to last longer than 3 years without regular maintenance, much less 30.
But Baby's puppeteer, Kevin Clash, who was famous for performing Elmo wouldn't last. He lost his job when some child grooming and sexual abuse allegations surfaced a few years ago...
You'd think they would have done some kind of preservative effort on the bigger ones. I don't know what would work; maybe coat them in resin or something. But something; Dinosaurs was a comparative rarity in television history.
@@Davethe3rd that makes his catchphrase kind of creepy in hindsight.
@@Attmay What catchphrase
So they all died terrible cold, freezing, deaths as they desperately huddled with one another trying to grasp and hold onto any amount of warmth they could capture. Brutal
though a brutal way of going out, I honestly speculate that they all died in their sleep peacefully while they are all huddled together, at least they didnt suffer and they died knowing that they faced the cold death together as a family
@@primecoconut4204 I think so too. They went to sleep and never woke up.
Yeah, freezing is one of the gentlest ways to go.
Gets me thinking of Frostpunk and Snowpiercer, even a bit of Threads. Man.
@@primecoconut4204nah bru they created a new civilization in the inner earth 🤔
The absolute balls to end a series like this, like you have to give props to the writers for even committing to this let alone making a genuinely great scene with a strong message
And it honestly makes sense to end it this way. It's a reminder that we only have so much time on this planet and that we should value what we have before it's all gone. This show's ending feels more like a warning than just a dark ending to a kids' show, and I respect the writers for that
What message?
@@F40PH-2CATthat care of the earth or we will be next in line to be extinct. Like damn dude atomic r/Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
And yet, we're still failing in understand the message, humanity is just accelerating the process to be the next in line to extinct...
The earth will always course correct itself. Humans have only burned and polluted on a mass scale for a couple hundred years. So a couple hundred years Vs 150 million years. I’m with George Carlin. If it’s gonna go, it’s gonna go. Stop with your arrogant mission of always having to control things.
It’s wild how this has not aged at all 30 something years later.
Yea... kinda morbid
This is probably the darkest ending to a kids show ever created tbh
Not really. 30 years isn't nearly long enough for a universal concept or idea to change like that
What is this show called?
@@GreenDude_Gaming I’m pretty sure it’s literally just called ‘Dinosaurs’
The real irony is that in the first episode, Earl told the baby that "Someday, this will all be yours" and that "Dinosaurs are going to be on this Earth forever"
That's partly why it's so heartbreaking - the kids were going through typical teenage struggles and it felt like they had their whole lives ahead of them. Then you think of Baby and it gets real dark.
After the episode : the sun magically melt the smoke clouds and the dinosaur family lived happily ever after
Dinosaurs are still around, technically.
@@nuggettoastthief no, they died
@@granddidit Even though this was the 'series finale', there were a few new episodes that aired after this one when it went to syndication.
"Everyone died. The End."
-- Patrick Star --
"That didn't help at all"
@@DonOctavioSanchezI was meant to say that quote
Makes sense with the rest of the story, just replace "ugly" with "greedy"
It's called the greedy barnacle, He was so greedy that everyone DIED. the end:D
--grug crood--
*Shlong.*
"Do we want to end our sitcom happily or sadly?"
"Sadly."
"How sadly?"
"Yes."
Yes.
Yes
All the sadly!
The sadliest that ever sadded.
"realistically"
This show ended with a simple ‘goodbye’. There were no tears, no screams, no anything. And then the screen cut to black. They knew it was the last episode, and they accepted it with a cold embrace.
That's how it ends sometimes
Don't know why everyone was so shocked. It's a show about DINOSAURS, did they NOT think the final ep would be how they went extinct?
@@colleen4ever exactly! Even as a kid I loved it. I loved the honesty
It's like they're anticipating the inevitable.
@@superpan218 Why wouldn’t they be?
"I'm sure it'll all work out ok" "It's not like we're gonna just dissapear."
The hopeless optimism, followed by the crushing reality.
Being a bit forgiving, some stronger dinosaurs were able to survive long enough to evolve into chickens.
@@isaacvazquez627 *smaller
@@isaacvazquez627 don't forget alligators
Birds:are we a joke to you?!
@@scorpiusrexman1017 Some sharks survived too.
The one time where 'and everyone died! The End' actually fits.
It really does :(
God dammit , the one time the ,,Company says it's time to reboot the series , so the last episode dosen't count" is actualy needed is also the only time it dosen't show up.
"Patrick that didn't help at all"
And that ugly barnacle was extinction. 😭
This was the final episode.
"What killed the dinosaurs?"
"THE ICE AGE!" - Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I’m sorry Mr. Schwarzenegger. That’s not correct.”
Arnie: “Lahhh? But it sounded ‘cool’!”
"You're the species, i'm the extinction!" - Sylvester Calzone, Fairy Odd Parents
@user-vz3yi1im4jthe astroid did kill alot of dinosaurs but the after effects is what wiped basically everything
You slick son of a gun.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 🥶 “cold shouldah”
This almost feels like a creepypasta in a way. It’s so serious and straightforward. It almost feels like a joke the writers thought up one day on how to end the show and it’s incredibly melancholy
I agree, accurate description.
So basically. This was like Death of Superman. Someone jokes at the meeting and an exec says "hold up, that might actually work".
It feels like some lost episode created for a RUclips video, I thought it was, I still don't believe it
@@cresha8779 I grew up and watched this show and this episode freaked me out as a kid.
They did this on purpose
"goodnight.......goodbye" Thats what killed me....
United Federation of KFC eerie.....too eerie
And his devastated face
Denzel Mayfield ha
United Federation of KFC I get goosebumps
same
Not to take away from the power of the writing and acting of this scene…..but I am still amazed at how great the puppeteering work of the late Jim Henson with these full costumes. Earl particular has such a wide array of expressions
I think this show came out shortly after TMNT was made. Probably used much of the same tech
No, that's the beautiful thing about it. The voice performances could only carry the scene so far if the puppets were stiff and lifeless, but because they're so vibrant and expressive it makes them feel real
Jim Henson was dead when this show went into production. It was his tech, but he never had a lick to do with production. A better example would be the gorgs in fraggle rock, who use the same tech in a show that actually was created before hensons death
@@emmajean6524 thank you
0:59 that gives me chills
I hate to ruin the mood but
*Mammals emerging from their burrows like “it’s showtime”*
meanwhile also with birds and reptiles:
Allow us to introduce ourselves
Alligators and Crocodiles 🐊 like “ WE RIIIGHT HERE WEEE NOT GOING ANNNYWHEEERE WEE RIGHT HERE “
Homosapiens: OOGA BOOGA DOO
Fishes: Man, is it cold up there isn’t?
Okay so what? mammals.... now we're back to square one
The darkest note a show could possibly end on
Alf the cartoon ends with his world getting nuked. And the tv show he is captured by the FEDs in the finale.
@@grinningtiki220The 2 darkest notes a show could possibly end on
OG Tom and Jerry ended with suicide.
@@timm2396no it didn't
@@timm2396haha you wish
What’s worse is that, realistically, the baby would probably be the first to die, followed by the other family members one by one until Earl (the one with most body fat) was the only one left, his final moments filled with guilt over what he did to the world and his family.
Probably Ethyl is the first one.
You said the most body fat 😂😂❤️❤️
But in the episode "The Last Temptation of Ethyl" he was asking Fran if he could go to the afterlife, and was told not for a long time. But now it looks like the baby is about to get his wish on that. And even if he does, he'll experience eternal happiness. And what's sad is nobody ever feels any remorse or guilt for their reckless actions until it's too late, which is reality just the same.
No I would have to say Stan the beetle, would be the first to die since his lifespan is only two weeks and then probably the baby and the rest.
Then Earl would kill himself
Imagine the final episode of the Simpsons being the power plant finally melting down and all Springfielders dying of radiation poisoning like in "When the Wind Blows".
that's a nice comparison
With Disney controlling it? It’ll probably be something bland and cheesy.
@@AttmayThough the Disney of 2024 is considerably different than the one in 1994, the fact remains that they were the ones who ultimately funded and backed this.
Final episode? Simpsons?
@@S4NSE it would hurt a LOT, but I think they could definitely do something like this for a treehouse of horror episode
I’ve never seen any full episode of this show, but “Goodbye,” hit really hard. The fans must’ve been in tears.
Madison Gerlach i have and left me with a bit of laughs at the beginning and after that a hollow feeling
I was very young when this episode aired. I thought it was not the end and that it was another episode after . Later I learned...That Goodbye meant Goodbye.
I know. I am a fan. I nearly cried. I was shuddering, my vision was getting blurry
Just look at David’s face as it faded out. That’s the face of pure, not depression, not sadness, it’s a face of “I’ve lost so much, there’s no hope for us now,” he looks so done.
as a child my mom showed me this show and she never saw the ending i honestly loved this show but the ending had me like crying on the ground for hours upon hours
Honestly so sad because the mother just doesn't say anything as he talks to the kids. She knows they're all gonna die and she can't bring herself to take away the hope from her family even if they know it's foolish
I feel like the baby is the only one that didn’t understand they were all going to die. And everyone else was trying not to freak him out.
@pyrosplicer85 Nah they all knew but they were tricking themselves into having Hope. Especially the Dad.
The Mum was the only one who wasn't tricking herself at all 100%
This might seem a little off topic, but once, in relation to the Greek myth of Pandora and how hope was the only thing left in the box/jar, I read someone comment on that it represents how hope is a fragile illusion humans hold onto when they have nothing left.
That kind of sums up this scene in a nutshell. The family is holding onto this fragile illusion because what else are they supposed to do at this point? There are no actions left to take, no problems with fixable solutions, nothing.
@@frankielovejoy9928 Hope is a powerful evolutionary weapon, don't underestimate it. In many moments in history those who had no hope gave up and died, just minutes before rescuers arrived.
@@erosgritti5171Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
"Goodnight..." the last line on the teleprompter and the anchor would proceed to go for a stolen shot of them debriefing. But then Howard realized that this is it. The last time the news could ever be reported. He raises his head and delivers the final message to his audience.
"...Goodbye..."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The news would still live on just not him. When the human race is born.
@@c.galindo9639YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*"But it's so easy to take nature for granted because it's always there"*
*"There's no place to move to. This is the only world we got"*
And even to this day, those quotes still important.
Fr 😭
Well said. Incredible how a quote can last over 66 million years and be more relevant than ever.
@@Kriszzzful lol
@@dslhernandez3001 well what’s gonna happen to all of us but I don’t exactly know and whatever it is nobody’s gonna leave them and we will all stay together and hey I think it worked out OK after all humans plants and animals live on this planet earth for 5 billion years it’s not like we’re going to just……. ……..disappeared
yeah,to bad its a quote that always falls on deaf ears
If you listen close to the end of Howard talking you can hear wind blowing indicating that no one is around anymore...
2:49
Executive Producers
JAMES L. BROOKS
DAVID MIRKIN
First episode of Dinsoaurs April 26 1991
So this means that TV message what’s the future after all the dinosaurs froze to death inside their houses and he knew that it was going to happen to him so he decided to do one that Broadcast before he froze to death so he was the last dinosaur to froze to death and after that the dinosaurs were gone never to return
@@evanortiz8722 supposedly it was seven months after the scene that showed the snow on the wax factory that he gives a final report.
@@GenGamesUniverse Where did you hear that?
I didn't watch this show as a kid, but seeing this as an adult is surprising. It's by far the saddest ending to any kids show I've ever seen.
Not a kids show.
@garjonalpha then explain the toys
@@brooklynbred1460The toys? You mean the puppets? Buddy, muppets were originally made for adult oriented content. I’m not tryna be one of those “adults can watch cartoons too” type people, I’m actually being real.
This is what we used to call Family shows
@@brooklynbred1460 u sound like an old boomer
It's not like we're just gonna... disappear.
It just hurts...
GibbyScrooge but they did nooooooo😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
well birds survived, they are dinosaurs.
WHY DID BIRDS SURVIVE INSTEAD THEY ARE DINOSAURS. 😭🥶😭😭😭😭
Extinction, anybody? 😕
This is way too sad and dark for a kids show, and when Howard said “Goodnight… Goodbye” I swear I felt a shiver down my spine.
You misspelled "too honest". All the lying we do to kids today always promising them a neat and perfect future is what's really unacceptable.
Yeah, I’m glad that kids shows like amphibia are way more honest and dark than old cartoons
You seriously thought this show was strictly for kids?
@@martinj7452 No, they didn't. We don't "lie" to kids. A neat future for them is always possible.
@@jamesmarowa9434 Amphibia isn’t dark and it doesn’t have a great message
2:05 It’s AMAZING how they were able to create such subtle expressions using animatronic technology and puppetry.
This is why CGI will never measure up to animatronics.
Yeah its amazing what they could do with them at the time
That's Jim Henson for ya
They're Muppets. It's the same technique they used in the original Star Wars trilogy. Usually you have at least 4 or 5 puppeteers for each body suit
90s animatronics really were pretty advanced.
Truths that stick out in this scene:
Not knowing you messed up until it’s too late is always devastating.
Telling someone that everything will be okay, when you know it’s not is heartbreaking.
Nature always wins.
Not this time ✊😔...
Technology is nature though.
Nah, technology is how we try to cheat nature. 💀
“nature always wins” mfs when I judo throw them into an active volcano (they lose against nature)
Technology is not nature.@@kamikeserpentail3778
This ending is very thought provoking. The naivety of the baby and Earl having to explain that there's no place where they can move to is what really gets me. The whole message of this episode is "If humanity doesn't fix their bad habits, we will get in a bad situation that can't be fixed." But hey, I'm sure we'll turn out just fine. After all, Homo sapiens have been on this world for 200,000 years, it's not like we're all just gonna disappear.
Well mr beast and his buddies are trying to actually right the wrongs of humidity
Unlike most shorty companies
The civilization before us disappeared in the mud flood
@@terryindachat7296 stop the cap
@@dimitriwarchief301 Bro brought up Mr Beast in a dinasour show
But hey it’s not like we’re the same as any other species and can adapt, learn from our mistakes and possess massive potential let’s keep looking at only the negative. Right…
What makes it sadder is that these puppets have never been used for ANYTHING since the finale aired. In fact, as of this writing, the puppet for Baby is THE ONLY REMAINING PUPPET LEFT.
What happened to the others?
@@shiloh2735 I don’t know. I’m guessing they decayed over the years.
But still, out of all of them, the baby lived. I don't know if that's sad or ironic
@shiloh2735 I remember reading somewhere that puppets like these degrade over time without constant maintenance. The Baby puppet probably only lasted so long because its smaller size might have meant it required less maintenance, but the larger and more complicated puppets weren't so lucky.
Needless to say, in a disturbingly meta way, Baby outlived his entire family.
I really appreciate the show making Earl feel so human here. He wasn't just apologizing, he was sharing his perspective as someone who has messed up horribly, and provides what was going on through his head. It doesn't feel like an excuse. "It's so easy to take nature for granted, because it's always there. And technology is so bright, shiny and new." It sounds more like he's recognizing that the error he made is likely something that several like him would fall into, and actually wise minds would actually have the insight to think "nature matters more than this."
That, and having the respect for his family to own up and apologize in the first place. The way he talks to Baby and the rest of the family truly feels more like he owes them something that he is willing to give, and less like he's trying to seek comfort in the idea that it's going to be okay. "Daddy was put in charge of the world, and he didn't take real good care of it." He could have said that the world was too hard to handle or some other excuse, but he owns up to the fact that "he didn't take real good care of it."
Apparently the network was cancelling Dinosaurs. But the show knew how good it was. They still had to deliver a new season with a series finale and this is what they produced. And it was a "take it or leave it" situation for ABC.
That was around the same time as Sonic SatAM ending. Ben Hurst, the show writer referred to it as ABC's "broom sweep clean". A lot of stuff got scrapped in favor of more popular shows like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
ABC sucks.
@@MacUser2-il2cxthis show was on ABC and part of TGIF which aired on Fridays, Power Rangers was on Fox and aired on Saturday mornings, so it would have had zero to do with Dinosaurs being cancelled
Apparently, the show was always planned to end this way. The finale was also one of the few times the network seriously debated whether or not to air it because they were concerned about the "baby dying". Ultimately, they did air it, but what I think really made this stand out is that they never showed the family dying, which left a ton to the imagination.
This is very dark including this part "it's not like we're gonna disappear"
well technically speaking they are still flying around my garden every day
Aaron Babyblue and entertaining the dogs climbing the fence and sides of the house.
haha :D nice one
Dinosaurs aren't birds. Birds had a small branch coming from dinosaurs in the evolution tree. I know you said techically speaking, but still it's the same saying we're safe because there are fishes in the ocean
They're still swimming in the waters of the southern states. Massive ones in the waters of Australia and the Nile
We all must remember: Baby survived being thrown against the wall, falling from a pterodactyl nest, being cut in the middle and put together, and after all those things he just says "AGAIN!!!", if this little dinosaur survived all these things, he can survive anything
Same can’t be sad for his family though..
The clip shows with that English archaeologist were retroactively foreshadowing this.
@@Attmay that was an incredibly boring episode but that was brilliant foreshadowing.
The sad part is you're right as his puppet is the only one that's still intact
Goku died to a virus
“It’s not like we’re gonna just...disappear.”
That’s a good line because we know what really happened
And what's worse, we don't think it will happen to us. But we can be gone, just like them
@@gayaguelopez9703And it will happen if we don't change who we are, and what we do with ourselves. For we humans are not able to reason
Wait, what happened?
@@mitchellcampbell9242 they went extinct
@@LobsterCameramanProductions bro WHAT??
I love how this goofy dinosaur puppet sitcom ends with the main character killing everyone on Earth lmfao
The goofiest ending 💀
Atleast he technically starts the age of mammals and birds the ice age
Not really him, his damn boss.
But not everyone was destroyed, humans discovered fire at this time, which saved them.
@@colleen4everhumans hadn't been invented yet
They could probably never revive this show unless they reboot this show in a new universe
and the true disturbing part is the process of them dying. Starvation, freezing, maybe.. suffocation. just imagine living the rest of the days with a family member dead next to you.
bro chill 😂
I did not need that thought in my head
@@oliversmith6597 ty for letting me find a somewhat old comment💀
@@goatyoyo I mean...your not wrong
Damn dude holy.....
Let’s face it, the show was going to end with dinosaurs going extinct but not as sad as this!
Given how generally irresponsible they were all the time, it was going to happen regardless.
Nah, the show didn't have to end like this. They could have ended the series on a positive note. But they chose not to. They went the route people didn't expect.
@@TheDeathmail The show routinely serious topics.
@@DialgaMarine3 So??? Doesn't mean they can't end positively; the topic itself was still serious, even if they ended happily.
Serious topics and dark ending are not synonymous.
...🤔😑...
"What're we gonna do?" "Well... I dont exactly know..." *Me pulling up to a gas station hitting the premium button* "Thanks Dinos."
Petroleum or Crude oil didn’t come from Dinosaurs. Oil formed from the remains of marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago, even before the dinosaurs.
Oil doesn't come from dinosaurs.
Oil doesn’t come from dinosaurs. Oil formed from the remains of marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago, even before the dinosaurs.
@@AbbaKovner-gg9zp Not entirely, no, but it is a fossil fuel because it is the geological remains of prehistoric creatures and plants. Once it's gone, it's gone.
LMAO ☠️
The series finale may be a bit disturbing for young audiences, but it carries a powerful message. It emphasizes that while technology is impressive and cool, we shouldn't take nature for granted just because it's always been there. Greedy companies prioritize profit over their clients' well-being without realizing that one day their time will come, and they can't take their money with them. The extinction of our species will ultimately affect them too, so they are acting counterproductive now. There's still time to take small steps to help save the environment. While hope is important, our actions ultimately make the difference.
While the ending was extremely depressing, I thought it was a bit clever of the writers to use habitat destruction and corporation disregard to the environment in favor of “progress” led to global devastation and also how the dinosaurs became extinct. It really drove the environmental message home without getting too preachy about like other shows being aired around the same time.
And it wasn't even progress. It started with a stupid Wax Fruit factory. Like it didn't occur to them that they destroyed the habitat of insects that come EVERY YEAR to clear the poppy vines. They were just too dumb to live.
Yeah. This show really gave great messages in each episode on different topics you can put into reality
The writer was politician in university and it give a fake deep finale that's nothing about dinosaurs that died from asteroid accident
That was one of the worst aspects of the 90s
So many shows were doing this exact same thing though, it got to be tiring hearing about it so much in what was supposed to be a fun entertaining escape for half an hour.
Not a lot of people are talking about just how sudden the scene is. The episode plays the winter as a joke up until this part where it abruptly become dead serious. The scene almost immediately before is a gag where someone says something will get better and another person says the exact opposite will happen.
It really does blindside you.
That's how it is. Most people don't want to believe the sky is falling even its happening right before them
They don't die on screen, but you KNOW what's implied.
whats worse is, now that food is going to run out, they will be forced to turn on each other before dying. most likely with earl (the one who caused this,) to be the last one standing before his Time is up.
@@bizzaroblake2519 they likely froze to Death
@@waluigifantoychicaac358 they would run out of food first. and some of them are carnivores.
@@bizzaroblake2519 Wait but what about the boss? In one episode it was revealed he's a cannibal! Maybe he will show up to their home and eat them? Starting with the baby first, as he will already be weak from cold and hunger.
@@xcloudx01alt except he shouldn't be as he's a triceratops
To Earls credit, he WAS technically right.
The Dinosaurs didn't just disappear.
We're still finding them, and placing them in museums and the like even today.
They might all be a bit... skinnier then they used to be.
But they're still here, and we still remember them.
Dinosaurs went nowhere. They still live today as birds
nah their gone birds are the only descendants left of them
Don't forget we also fill out vehicles up with them also 😂
@@josephgauthreaux8926 yea with their liquified bodys
@@unkown2.018 No. Birds are Dinosaurs, not descendants of.
This is the saddest ending to a sitcom i have ever seen
Scrubs was pretty sad too
How about ALF?
That was rather disappointing.
Don’t forget Blackadder
@@suzannebudlong8376 I never saw that. Never heard of it till now.
@@TheAllSeeingEye2468 it’s worth watching. Particularly the final season. Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Steven Fry…..
I remember watching this finale with my brothers. The somber music, the doom-ridden looks on the characters faces and the slow pan out the window as the snow kept falling. Then they fade to credits and we’re like “This can’t be how they end the show!” And then Howard says good-bye and fade to black and we were STUNNED! We couldn’t believe that’s how they ended the show. Even to this day this ending gets me. I haven’t watched a full episode of “Dinosaurs” since knowing the outcome for all these characters is bleak. Maybe that’s the point. Everything you care about comes to an end, and if you’re not careful there will be no one to remember it.
Maybe this show was trying to tell us something …
it almost hits even harder now.... back in the 90's we hadn't experienced the horrors of 9/11, we'd just won the cold war... the future seemed limitless and boundless
The show had many deep meaningful storylines.
They wanted it to have a meaningful ending that could hopefully inspire others to do good. The whole show ended up being a cautionary tale.
Jim Henson would’ve been very proud of what they made as he always wanted puppeteering to be taken seriously. This whole show was made with him in mind as well as the Muppet Christmas Carol.
As a kid I thought "Hey, how clever. You end the show with the end of the dinosaurs on earth." I didn't realize at the time this was also a message to us that WE need to take care of our planet while we can, or WE could be the ones going extinct.
This ending as a kid made me cry. My grandparents explained that they froze to death and knowing that they died like that, it's horrible!!!!
Actually, let me tell you, this ending traumatized me so much because even as a child, a wee lad, I understood what happened, and I didn't want to accept it... and I think it f^cked me up to the point that I didn't even remember this episode. My mind opted for it to be erased. That's how much this ending messed me up.
It wasn't until last year I decided to see if this show even had an ending, and yeah... that's when I realized that it did infact have an ending, a dark one at that
Birds, Crocodiles and Alligators: See? We told you we're not going anywhere!
Crocodiles and alligators aren’t dinosaurs.
So we can also evolve and became another species? If so, this is kinda cool and scary
@@shawerful5209 We already did. By time our differences wil grow in DNA and we will have at least some subspecies of humans.
birds lol, It's amazing how that started off as a goof for a movie and people ran with it.
@@EQOAnostalgia
"@EQOAnostalgia
3 weeks ago
birds lol, It's amazing how that started off as a goof for a movie and people ran with it." Thomas Henry Huxley taught about it in 1863. The first movie was filmed in 1888. 🤷
“It’s so easy to take nature for granted, because it’s always there.”
Shit hits hard.
1994- hope future generations hear our warning.
2020- did anyone listen to the answering machine yet? whats an answering machine?
Phones evolve after answering machine booths..
Warning became reality
Hardly anyone uses answering machines anymore. Now it's voicemail.
If global warming was real then why does Obama have a house at Martha’s Vineyard..
*starts flossing*
"It's so easy to take nature for granted because it's always there."
How true that statement is
2:40 if you look at the background with all the scribbles, it gets worse, it implies Howard kept going to the very end to report the news, there's no chroma key nor backwall, only one single dude, telling the news, as his final act.
It’s so sad just how everyone accepts their fate. Everyone understands they’ll die. Everyone except the baby. He doesn’t understand and after his father tells him they will be ok and stick together it cuts us to the mother who realises the harsh reality (so does the dad and everyone else) but it shows us how the baby is the only one with hope even though he is going to die first. That’s what the family meant by they will always stick together and how they won’t disappear but in fact it will be the baby who disappears first.
So sad.
The bitter irony is that Baby's puppet is the only one that remains to this day; the others degraded over time because of the materials they were made of and lack of maintenance.
I remember watching the dinosaurs sitcom reruns when I was a kid but I only saw the ending of it a few years ago on a list of darkest episodes of kids television programs.
This was so freaking dark and I never would have guessed this is how it would end. The way the family just sits together quietly while the snow comes down outside sent to chill on my spine and the"Good night and goodbye" was so emotionless that there was some genuine dread in that scene.
This show didn't pull any punches, but they always put a great comedic twist on everything. Well. Except the show's grand finale.
They knew the show wouldn't go on and instead of a meaningless episode that would neatly tie into endless re-runs, they made _this._ An episode that just hits you like a ton of bricks with its finality and the message attached to it. They had this one shot to make something truly meaningful and they did. It's simply amazing and I doubt there's a show with a similar demographic like it.
Earls last word "Yeah. Yeah, and hey I'm sure it will work out OK. After all. dinosaurs have been on this earth for 150 million years. and it's not like we're going to just disappear"
Edit: Looking back at this comment after 4 years, my grammar was s**t...
{•Purple Yoshi HD•} Talk about an unhappy ending🙁
Well, the guys who invested heavily in that feathers fad managed to get through it just fine.
It breaks my heart even if I haven’t watched the series......
Well except birds
social commentary on what could happen to us if we're not careful.
I can't imagine being a kid years ago and saying like "but...everything will be fine right? Something good will happen in the next episode right?...RIGHT!?"
As a kid, we rarely watched shows in order, just as they came on.
And serialization of shows was a lot less common.
So the next episode could very well have been like the third episode or something.
Sometimes I feel like I"m experiencing life like that... wibbly wobbly, timey wimey.
This final episode does show the viewers a sign to Never EVER disrespect nature or otherwise will have the same fate as they did.
At least it taught me a lesson that I won't forget!
And Disney responded by buying out the network that aired the show as payback for constantly changing its time slot. That’s why I quit watching it: I could never find it anymore!
Natures always trying to kill us. It’s time we returned the favor.
“This is a story about dinosaurs. Once upon a time dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Then a megalosaurus was put in charge of the environment and everyone died. The end!”
(What the frick where did all these likes come from)
*…that didn’t help at all!* 😢
@diamondknight8587 in my opinion that actually helped a lot. It kind of made it soften the blow in a humorous way, ya know?
@@memezboi489it’s a SpongeBob reference lol 😂
@@memezboi489silly
What makes me sad was that the baby is never going to live a full life and he was so lost and stuff it hits me hard in the damn feels 😭😭😭
Dude, I just saw the dishwasher wasn't completly filled when someone turned it on and I was like "someone doesn't want that our ancestrals have a future"
sounds extreme but the thing is, if it's filled completly then it's more efficient than washing them by hand.
I know you might not believe in climate change, but I feel like it's true and if we just weren't so lazy, I mean, the "someone" also puts plastic into the wrong trashbin, it would be so easy to at least, at the very least, to not do that...
I dunno man, my mind just changed today, I mean I was always prudent with nature, whenever I could take the bikecycle I did and another "someone" is always like "I could drive you" and I'm like "why would you do that, biking is good for me and nature, that are two clear heavy arguments" like what, the thing that changed is how I see the actions of others, like described above. I forgot were I wanted to go with this lol, have a nice day
ardstsp yea man it’s just messed up how the world is relying on technology a lot like damn
yea ok but then again we do to right now, with our computers... and I bet YT servers pull a lot of energy.
Sometimes I imagine waking up with a little earthquake and then I go outside and Earth is breaking apart, like everyone and everything will die and that's for certain, what would you think?
Sometimes not knowing is better.
I feel bad for the mom who actually realizes all of her children are going to die, not getting to see them live a full life which is what most parents want for their kids...AND the fact that her own husband was the cause of it all.
i dunno, i haven’t seen the show since it was originally in the air, but wasn’t that baby an obnoxious violent piece of crap?
This is a really good commentary on how our civilization is too reliant on technology and doesn't have any interest in making progress on co existing with nature.
I guess you can say the Amish are right
True. But we don't want mad max happened...
Damn bro you literally just summed up what they said and put it into comment form. Big props bro musta taken a lot to pull that off
Go read “The machine stops”, short story by EM Forster in 1909. Predicts air travel, Skype, AI, crazy stuff, and dark foreshadowing
The only way to coexist with nature is to subdue its wild nature and domesticate all its species utterly and completely as its king.
For the bears and the lions and all manner of animals and insects to see human beings and befriend us where possible, and to enable a form of mutual communication (although this will require some genome modification).
I am for the preservation of utilization of every species, but in service to mankind instead of as part of a wild untame world which is lethal to humanity.
Either way, we need better management, and the people in charge are pretty awful, vindictive, petty, even evil.
what's funny is the grandmother died before and she was brought back because the angels said it's not her time yet.
and apparently her time was when it was everyone's time.
The end really hit me hard but Ethyl was right about one thing. She always knew Earl would screw things up and he did. She didn’t know how bad.
"Go back. It ain't your time. You're supposed to freeze to death."
The fact that Baby Sinclair looks so convinced his pops is right as everybody - Earl, Fran, Robbie and Charlene look with faces that are like "We're fucked..." is really sad because they didn't have the heart for the baby to learn that despite him being only two or three years old, he won't survive much longer.
My Little brother bawled his eyes out when the ending was explained to him, as he was a big dinosaur fan growing up.
*I DID, TOO!!* I was like... seven and I still remember Mama hugging me afterward. 🥺🥺🥺
This ending was an absolute gut punch.
yea pretty much 🥲
They could have SO EASILY played this ending for comedy. Easy. Dad just says, "It's not like we're just gonna disappear!" Cut to present day, the family is comically posed as fossil skeletons in a museum as the goofy theme music plays and humans point and smile (which is exactly what I expected to happen while watching as a kid). Dark and macabre yes but... I just could not believe what a dark, mature and soul crushing ending they went for... which I'm glad/sad for.
The fact that several dinosaur characters are named for oil companies (Earl Sinclair, Mr. Richfield, Ms. Shell, etc.). should have been a clue, since after hundreds of millions of years the dinosaurs and their habitat turned into the oil we pump out of the ground and seas today. Even the name Earl is an alternative (dialectical) pronunciation of, "oil".
During a behind the scenes retrospective of the show do it as a paleontologist at a dig site they have remans of a group of dinaosours of various ages found around a box.
That... was a perfect mix of melancholy and hope, it was a twost of grim darkness and noble brighthood... it was beautiful.
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"Goodnight... goodbye" I never watched a single episode of this show. This whole video was slowly crushing my soul, but this line was the final nail in the coffin.
This aired 1994. Almost 30 years later and it’s hauntingly more relevant now then it was then. Humans believe there’s no way they could just, disappear. They’d be wrong
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared.
@accelerationquanta5816,?
We all are gonna be extinct eventually@accelerationquanta5816 and this global Warming and pollution would make our tragic fate quicker
@accelerationquanta5816yes we can? Like we are a species as well. We’re not immortal. We will die out one day. You and I will not be around to see it because we’ll both be dead by then.
@accelerationquanta5816not very Bright aren't you?
"And taking a look at the long range forecast. Continued snow, Darkness and extreme cold. This is Howard Hundupme. Good night. Goodbye."
This is a kid friendly show right?
back during an era's end when some adults thought kids could understand grown up things.
I never thought of it being a kids show. It was a sitcom that always had pretty "grown up" themes. And even if it was, I see no problem with this ending.
WAS lol
90s kids were not as fragile as they make them now
@@andrewvirtual Correct me if I'm wrong. But aren't melenials 90's kids by definition?
Most finales end on a high note, either the main characters move on and part ways, and get a nice future, or ending on a cliffhanger, set for a sequel series, even the realistic ones they end happily or at least bittersweet, but really they're happy endings.
But this show, it just ends in a hopeless and depressing setting, the main characters accepting their fate, and this was the actual finale, no cliffhanger, no set up for future season or new series, just plain hopelessness
I remember how this scene is kinda a reminder for us in return, to not let too much technology and progress one day go out of control and help nature while we still can or else.
............its sad but true
That's why we need religion like the Amish to balance
@@gandalflotr2898 indeed. I'm both Christian and I take part in tree planting organizations to help as much as I can.
I remember seeing this for the first time as a eight year old kid. I did not cry at the end this episode, because for some reason I figured this was a cliff hanger for the next year. Afterall, my mind was made up that the end would be a meteor. It wasnt till the next fall when the dinosaurs did not come back on, that it hit me. This is how the show ended. I cried, I cried alot.
I feel your pain, buddy.
*“This is the only World we’ve got”*
That's the scary reality
Mars: what about me?
@@SirToaster9330 Aye man. That’s not OUR planet as humans… we can’t even breathe out there, come on man make sense, don’t just bring up other planets as if they are only flights & passports away
With the way people are acting in society the last since 1993 but really over the last 150,000 years. Humans don't deserve any place on any planet. We fight, and kill, and cause the extinction of plants, animals, and even other people! We destroy the healthy body and move on to a new one, then reproduce and proceed to destroy that! I'm sorry to be a downer, but the sad reality is that when we're gone, the planet can begin to heal. We have more than enough resources for everyone to live comfortably on this planet, yet we go to war and fight and kill because two old farts can't get along or agree on how to make themselves richer while destroying our freedom and keeping us poor and distracted with all the myriad of crap they can produce in an endless routine of control and conquer 😅 in short...
Greed, envy, and hate will destroy this planet's surface and everyone and everything on it!
*And it's like we're not gonna just.....disappear*
*And taking a look at the long range weather forecast, continued snow, darkness & extreme cold. This is Howard Handupme. Goodnight....& goodbye*
Hearing all of that made me cry so hard when I was a little kid. It was really sad & heartbreaking to see the show end like that. And to this day, it still makes me cry.
It's cool how it foreshadowed how humans are wiping themselves out.
Rich people are God's biggest mistake
@@gandalflotr2898 no god, people itself forget how fight with rich...
@@VITAS874No, people themselves are God's biggest mistake
@@gandalflotr2898 He gave us the guillotine, up to us to use it.
@@gandalflotr2898mf just had to bring his imaginary friend into it 😒
I think the shot of the Fruitco sign is a beautifully poignant moment. The project that set off the chain of events that led to their demise… ultimately failed BECAUSE of the chain of events it caused. The dinosaurs caused their own destruction due to their greed and short-sightedness. And what will be the sign shown when future creatures see a show called “Humans”?
Georgia guide stones. Those suckers aren't going anywhere.
@@paulcarr6388 oops
@@jackc7530 😂😂😂😂
Well it’s what happens when Wesayso goes downOh. They would still had a shot of living had they not build a wax fruit factory on the Beatles mating ground.
It won’t be seen. The sign will be under the sea.
Just to imagine them crying when that meteor comes...
Kivon Thompson what mettmor
Kivon Thompson the ice age killed them not the meteor
In dinosaurs
In dinosaurs
In real life an asteroid killed off the dinos
This ending is a perfect example of saying “Don’t screw with nature.”
This being the end a kids/family show is one of the darkest comedy jokes ever told.
A show like "Dinosaurs", you'd always figure it'd end with them at least ACKNOWLEDGING that something was going to happen to make them all go extinct, but to have an Ice Age destroy an advanced society is just... tough to watch.
In terms of apocalypse, people always point to zombies and nukes and aliens from outer space, but an Ice Age has got to be one of the most brutal "end of the world" scenarios because of how slow it would be. Food would become scarce and then ultimately die out, mass riots would break out, people would cling to technology until the power lines finally became overloaded and failed, and all the while it would just keep getting colder and colder and colder.
The end of the world would be slow, prolonged, and brutal, and the last person to go would never know that they're the last one, and as they slowly freeze to death they would probably still be clinging to the hope that somebody somewhere managed to make it, never knowing it's all over and nobody is left.
Yeah I put more thought into this than maybe I should have.
reminds me of Attack on Titan where humanity's cruelty caused the titans and deaths of billions
Sounds like Frostpunk
💯
Our only chance is to find away to leave
@@SirToaster9330nerd
Now I know why my parents lied and said it was cancelled. Absolutely dark and sad.
If you want a Henson company show with a Happy ending:
ruclips.net/video/DpGy5bTzVSU/видео.htmlsi=5T062MqQUR7VLVhv
I think the grandma kinda could symbolize the experienced generation that ''I've told ya'' buuut meh
Oh if someones is confused about that, because she never said anything like that in the video above, read the description :)
Except the older generation has a habit of thinking about nature only right around the time they realize they've become frail and will die in less than 20 years.
@@brbbiobreak boomer writers looking for reasons to justify dumping their parents in raisin ranches where they will spend the rest of their lives subsisting on mediocre restaurant-grade food until they die from diseases they wouldn’t have if they didn’t eat the standard American diet.
Probably the saddest and most depressing show finale I have ever seen. Yeah, we all know what happened to dinosaurs, so obviously they wouldn't just be around forever, but for the show to actually end on the extinction of a species is so incredibly sad. I don't think I've watched a show since that has ended a series like this did.
Special mention to the look Handupme makes during the pause between *”Good night" and "Good-bye":* he slightly lowers his head in a somber manner, perhaps knowing full well that he and all the other dinosaurs are not going to live on much longer due to the destruction the dinosaurs have inflicted, both directly and indirectly, on their world, and he is concluding his final broadcast, almost prepared to face his demise. *Props to Handupme's performer, Kevin Clash, for pulling off the convincing expression.*
tbh when i watched this i felt literal chills behind my back especially during the end at the lines “goodnight… and goodbye”
2:39 If you listen closely in the clip,no one is around anymore. which can only mean one thing,Howard was the last dinosaur and that clip takes place in the future. after all of the dinosaurs had frozen to death inside their houses, and Howard knew it was about to happen to him at any second now so he must have decided to make one more TV podcast before he frozen to death. His final words were Goodnight, Goodbye And when the screen turned Black he froze to death. And then after that,All of the Dinosaurs were Gone Never To Return.😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
I think some dinosaurs were alive listening to this, but everyone in Howard's area was dead which is why he said goodbye
“In there place have emerged other powerful and beautiful creatures…….and we now know that one small group of dinosaurs did survive the extinction and they’re all around us today……..the birds…..”
*Cue the Walking with dinosaurs T.Rex roaring*
And it also looks like he's talking to us the only remaining audience
@@SirToaster9330 Good Theory ❤️
@@jurassicponage1014 ❤️
Because this was a sitcom with lots of jokes and gags during its run, I never expected the show to wrap up with the extinction of dinosaurs. It caught me off guard when the show was first airing on ABC.
Can we all admit this was the darkest ending to a kids show
It wasn't a kids' show.
There are kids shows with dark episodes, but rarely dark endings.
We can indeed.
Man this was my mom’s favorite show the ending was so sad the worst part is that Jim Henson died before he even got to see the first episode
oh that's double sad man, cool cat profile picture tho, cats rock
This shows ending is hauntingly relevant now, in 2020.
V. C. aR. No. Not really. It has nothing to do with what’s happening right now.
Not really lmao
Well the stuck inside bit but thats all
Waiting on news anchors to start saying "goodnight... goodbye." in the near future...
*punches you* FOOL!! DON'T YOU DARE TEMPT THE GODS ABOUT THIS! 😡
I actually really respect the fact that the creators had the balls to end the series like this despite being targated to a family audience
I know the show wasn't afraid to talk about mature subjects such as censorship, racism, drug abuse, sexism and more, but for the most part they kept the comedy pretty light hearted, but here there's no sugar coating the grim reality, and the fact that they not only take it seriously but actually have the characters we grew to love watching die (including the baby) that takes serious guts that even a lot of adult shows don't have
There's a reason why this finale is remembered and why this show is considered to this day to one of the best, most smartly written sitcoms of all time
Why can’t we have shows like this anymore? This was beautiful.
Because there will be thousands of entitled parents and whiny kids nowadays and the tougher restrictions on domestic children’s TV.
Because not a lot of people like sad endings where literally everyone dies (outside of a tragedy or horror genre)
@@garrettsmith2776
Regulations for TV were WAY stricter then. You had parental watchdog groups constantly on the network's asses.
Bc writers aren’t that creative and clever anymore, studios only want safe choices, and so does the audience
@@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332 yeah, people forget the 80s and 90s was the uprising of the pearl clutching white suburban boomer mom taking the minivan to go protest the word fuck being said on TV while actually important shit happened elsewhere
Aawww when the baby spoke. It broke my heart. They knew they were going to die, but they didn't want to tell him.
It's a truly sad ending indeed that I never saw coming. But Earl's last words were in a way kinda comforting. No matter what happens, everything's gonna be alright and you'll never truly lose each other, even if you can't see it.
No offense but that line is supposed to be ironic. The dinosaurs DID dissapear
@@barkbork7528 Well, not exactly. There are still the birds and crocodiles who are their living descendants.
@@dinodisneylover1
Technically crocs are more relatives
@@dinodisneylover1 You know that's not what was meant... Dino descent survived... but the Dinos themselves???
@@barkbork7528 AND it's ironic because that's exactly what humans say. "Well we've been here for 4000 years, no global warming can wipe us out."
There's something about the characters in any show acknowledging that this is the end and saying "goodnight" or "goodbye" to the audience gives me MEGALODON goosebumps. But this just flat out cuts me to the core. This must be how the house of El felt when they could do nothing except await Krypton's destruction. Only difference between them and this is that the Dinos didn't have any viable planets to send any of them to😢
This show talked so much about real life daily problems and real difficulties we face as individuals, families and as a humanity. This last episode was about what happens when we do not care about our evironment. Earl said it, this is the only world we got.
This is probably the best portrayal of an environmental apocalypse I’ve ever seen. Not super preachy or tasteless, just straight to the point and extremely hard hitting. Makes me want to watch the show and find out the context
When I was 8 and my brother was 4, when this aired at the end, when the news reporter said his lines we just sat there terrified, when it ended my brother started crying and we both ran to are mother and she took us out for ice cream to make us feel better
alison P I can imagine how upsetting that was... I'm 32 now and was only about 6 when this aired... I didn't get to see the ending (I wasn't allowed to) but seeing it now... Me and my baby sister would hav been the same. I'm so sorry. ~ *hug* ~ that was terrifying and sad.. I'm happy we didn't seen it until now... And it still made me cry
“Goodnight…goodbye.” It doesn’t get any sadder than that.