![]() ![]() Interspecies Romance: Implied between Dink (an Apatosaurus) and Amber (a Corythosaurus), from time to time.Interspecies Friendship: All the main character are different species, it also counts between the dinosaurs, Dink (Apatosaurus), Amber (Corythosaurus) and Scat (Compsognathus) and the non-dinosaurs, Flapper (Pteranodon), Crusty (Tortoise) and Shyler (Edaphosaurus).Informed Species: Scat is apparently a Compsognathus, but looks more like a lizard or really tiny crocodile.In a case of reverse imprinting, "Tricera-Scat" had a mother Triceratops which thought Scat was her son when he took a nap underneath an egg shell in her nest."Crusty's Baby" had a baby Stegosaurus which imprinted on Crusty.Hulk Speak: Scat has the most "simplistic" speech-manner of all the cast, although he tends to avoid the Third-Person Person aspect of it.This usually leads to him getting very badly injured. Fearless Fool: Flapper very rarely shows any fear.Fantastic Racism: According to Crusty, the dinosaurs have mocked and laughed at the appearance of the Landfish (Diplocaulus) for many years.Evil Egg Eater: "Raiders of the Lost Nest" involves the kids trying to help protect an expectant mother sauropod whose nest is being stalked by a pack of egg-eaters (which resemble ankylosaurs or aetosaurs for some reason).In “The Gentle Hunter” it appears as though the hunters are capable of limited speech but mostly choose not to. Until it turns out that the kids were luring the "egg-hunters" to a fake nest. All of the herbivores are portrayed as sapient, but with the carnivores, it varies whilst Tyrannor is portrayed as a feral brute, the egg-hunters in "Raiders of the Lost Nest" are fully sapient and converse with the kids on several points - one of them even tricks Shyler into leading him to the nest by assuring him that he's given up on eating eggs. Dumb Dinos: Averted, or at least zigzagged.A pair of elderly diplodocus named Tubble & Hubble, although they are a bit clumsy and forgetful they are still capable of fending off a watertooth.Crusty is very old, yet is more than happy to impart knowledge and share his life stories with the children. ![]() Clear My Name: "Mystery of the Broken Claw" had Amber being accused of ruining Green Meadow's only watering hole with a rockslide, which was actually caused by a pack of Spinosaurus trying to lure the other dinosaurs into an ambush.When the gang comes back to the scene of the battle, there's a trail of blood that they follow to where the dinosaur is hiding out. A dinosaur that has been outcast from society gets into a fight with Tyrannor, and Amber runs off to get help. Bloodless Carnage: Shockingly averted in the fourth episode of the series, entitled White Beauty.Big Eater: Scat, despite his size, is near-constantly hungry and is always either eating or looking for food.Ascended to Carnivorism: "Raiders of the Lost Nest" featured a trio of "egg-hunters" which are portrayed as resembling Acanthopholis, a herbivorous dinosaur, or Desmatosuchus, a relative of crocodiles that was also herbivorous.Scat is supposed to be a small theropod, probably a Compsognathus, but looks more like a miniature bipedal crocodile and has an appetite for fruit.At least he's toothless and has a short tail. Flapper, a Pteranodon, has batlike wings, lives in a decidedly birdlike nest, is bipedal, has grasping talons and even folds his wings like a bird when he walks (something that would be impossible for a real life pterosaur of any species).Shyler is an Edaphosaurus, a synapsid from the Permian, who hangs out with mesozoic dinosaurs.Adults Are Useless: Considering that the show doesn’t say that Dink and friends are separated from their families and are under near constant attack from predators, where exactly are their parents?.This gets subverted with Tyrannor (and lampshaded by Dink at the end of the episode) in “Land of No Return”, Dink and his friends save Tyrannor from drowning in a swamp, however Tyrannor would still pursue them in later episodes, either not knowing or caring that they saved his life.In "Dry River", Dink and his friends pull a thorn out of the foot of an Earthshaker (Supersaurus) in return he helps them clear rocks that are blocking the river that are so big only a creature of his size could move them.The show ran from September 1989 to November 1990. The series depicts the characters' childhood shenanigans and their scuffles with the evil carnivore Tyrannor. maybe), Shyler (an Edaphosaurus), and Flapper (a Pteranodon), who live in the peaceful Mesozoic paradise of Green Meadow and learn important life lessons from an old turtle - with hair - named Crusty. ![]() One of the 1980s cartoon series that no one seems to remember, Dink the Little Dinosaur is the story of a young Apatosaurus named Dink and his friends Amber (a Corythosaurus), Scat (a Compsognathus. ![]()
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