▶️ Dinosaurs Finale: Changing Nature (WESAYSO)

[Donkees]

(Dinosaurs first premiered in 1991)

The series finale, “Changing Nature,” opens with the Sinclair family gathering to watch the annual migration of the Bunch Beetles, a species of bug that eats local vines. The beetles never show up, though, because their swamp breeding ground was paved over by WESAYSO, an all-powerful corporation that constantly does things that are good for business, but terrible for the planet. “My writing partner Bob Young and I decided that the end of the dinosaurs should come from the lowest possible form of creature,” Jacobs said. “We felt that the metaphor in the episode had to be that we, as humans, may be utterly unaware of what will come to get us if we are not vigilant.”

With the beetles gone, the vines grow out of control and obstruct WESAYSO factories. Earl’s boss, B.P. Richfield, puts him in charge of a project to spray the planet with a defoliant meant to kill the vines, but the defoliant quickly kills all plant life entirely. The problems balloon from there: Richfield decides that the plants will grow back if it rains, and drops bombs into volcanoes so that the eruptions will create clouds. This fails spectacularly, and it starts snowing heavily across Pangea. Still, Richfield scoffs at the news reports that they blocked out the sun for tens of thousands of years — because the cold weather led dinosaurs to flood WESAYSO stores for heaters, blankets, and hot cocoa mix, giving the company its best third-quarter ever. When Earl points out that the world may still come to an end, Richfield keeping counting his money and calls it a “fourth-quarter problem.”

https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/dinosaurs-tvs-saddest-sitcom-finale.html

[Think. Again.]

1. That's really cool...

Did they not know about the meteor back in the 90's?

[cyclonefence]

2. "Not the mommy!"

One of the most wonderful--and obviously forward-looking--series on tv. There was an episode about an endangered mammal species, unfortunately a *delicious* mammal species, and Earl's ambivalence about saving the last pair alive.

Bring it back! Celebrate Refrigerator Day--the wonderful creation that allows us to save it for later!