Dinosaurs (TV Series)
The Mighty Megalosaurus (1991)
Stuart Pankin: Earl Sinclair
Quotes
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Howard Handupme : A meteor, twice the size of earth, is heading towards our planet and will destroy all life.
[a piece of paper is slid across the desk by an assistant]
Howard Handupme : This just in: no, it's not.
Earl Sinclair : Oh, good.
[changes the channel from the news and finds a wrestling match, which is depicted as two live action dinosaurs fighting in an old black and white movie]
Earl Sinclair : Oh, wrestling.
[chuckles as he settles in]
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Earl Sinclair : I am the mighty Megalosaurus, the king of the dinosaurs. And when the king of the dinosaurs wants a 90-inch television set, he's going to get a 90-inch television set. So what do you have to say about that?
Fran Sinclair : The Tyrannosaurus is king of the dinosaurs.
Earl Sinclair : That's debatable.
Fran Sinclair : No it isn't. I dated one in high school.
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Earl Sinclair : [the Baby's reaching for the remote as Earl watches a wrestling match] Don't you touch that remote control.
[Baby puts a single finger on the TV remote]
Earl Sinclair : Don't you pick that up.
[Baby picks it up]
Earl Sinclair : You turn off that television, you're gonna be one sorry little dinosaur.
Baby : [turns off TV and pops up] I'm sorry!
Earl Sinclair : Gimme that back.
Baby : Story.
Earl Sinclair : No story.
Baby : Story.
Earl Sinclair : No story.
Baby : Story!
Earl Sinclair : No story, gimme that back.
[Baby hits Earl in the face with the remote]
Earl Sinclair : [trying to scare Baby] Once upon a time, dinosaurs didn't have families. They lived in the woods, and ate their children, and it was a golden age.
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Earl Sinclair : School is not for asking questions, it's a place you go to be out of this house.
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Earl Sinclair : I'm 43 years old and I've never been to Europe.
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Earl Sinclair : Fran, I'm home, I'm hungry. I'm stuck in the door again.
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Earl Sinclair : There's no dinner, there's no vegetables.
Fran Sinclair : Dinner ate the vegetables.
Earl Sinclair : And left just like that? Without coffee? Well, he's never eating around here again.
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Earl Sinclair : And your apology would begin how?
Fran Sinclair : Pots and pans, to cook your dinner in, dinner for YOU, gee I don't know WHERE my apology should begin.
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Charlene Sinclair : Daddy, can't I even say hello without you thinking that I want something?
[Earl looks at her]
Charlene Sinclair : A sweater. I just want a sweater.
Earl : I just want dinner but it doesn't look good for either of us.
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Baby : [upon hearing the start to Earl's story, rather than being scared, he laughs] Then what?
Earl Sinclair : Well, then one day, not very long ago, daddy dinosaurs and mommy dinosaurs started getting married and living in houses and raising children.
Baby : And lived happily ever after.
Earl Sinclair : Well, that was the idea.
Baby : What happened?
Earl Sinclair : Well, some dinosaurs wondered if they were doing the right thing.
Baby : [interrupting] I want to be in the story!
Earl Sinclair : [reassuring] You are.
Baby : Oh.
Earl Sinclair : But it starts just before you were born. Your mother was cooking dinner as usual, and dinner was trying to escape, as usual.