History Main / DinosaurDoggieBone

* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin'', while Tintin, Haddock and Snowy are lost in the desert, Snowy (in the background) finds a dinosaur bone.

* ''CliffordTheBigRedDog'' had found a dinosaur bone.

* The movie ''BringingUpBaby'' is probably the TropeMaker. A dog steals and buries the last dinosaur bone that a paleontologist needs to complete a brontosaurus apatosaurus skeleton at his museum.

Often spotted in [[ComedyTropes comedies]] and [[AnimationTropes cartoons]]. Has something to do with the vague association most people have between dinosaurs and bones; to the point that many museum visitors believe that ''[[MishmashMuseum every]]'' [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying mounted skeleton in a museum is some kind of dinosaur]].

* The movie ''BringingUpBaby'', which might be the trope originator. A dog steals and buries the last dinosaur bone that a paleontologist needs to complete a brontosaurus apatosaurus skeleton at his museum.

* In ''TheAdventuresOfTintin'', while Tintin, Haddock and Snowy are lost in the desert, Snowy (in the background) finds a dinosaur bone.

* A ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon had a museum curator scolding his dog for taking a dinosaur bone and ordered him to get it back. The dog spends the rest of the cartoon trying to retrieve the bone from a bulldog, only to find out at the end that his master had the bone in question in his pocket the whole time.

[[RuleOfFunny Of course]], this would not actually happen in RealLife. Fossil bones have been [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fossilized]] over all the millions of years they have spent lying around underground, and would not attract a dog's attention any more than a rock would. In any case, most museums do not take the risk of setting the priceless skeletons out in the open where they could be damaged; those are actually plaster recreations directly modeled after the authentic bones. Not to mention, they're also either in glass cases or mounted on metal frames so they ''can't'' fall apart.

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* Happened in [[{{Tintin}} King Ottokar's Sceptre]].

** Likely a call back to the use of the gag in the first episode of ''ScoobyDooWhereAreYou ?''

* Chu-Chu attempts to make a meal out of a fallen dinosaur statue in episode one of ''TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan''.
* In WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck, one of Negaducks attempts to earn the spot of public enemy #1 was to introduce some vicious dogs to a museum's dinosaur bones.
* Done by an out-of-control robot dog in {{Mega Babies}}.

* [[{{Superman}} Krypto the Superdog]] did this at least once, only to discover that yes, fossilized bones taste awful. So he goes back to the time of living dinosaurs...

[[RuleOfFunny Of course]], [[DidNotDoTheResearch this would not actually happen in]] RealLife. Fossil bones have been [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin fossilized]] over all the millions of years they have spent lying around underground, and would not attract a dog's attention any more than a rock would. In any case, most museums do not take the risk of setting the priceless skeletons out in the open where they could be damaged; those are actually plaster recreations directly modeled after the authentic bones. Not to mention, they're also either in glass cases or mounted on metal frames so they ''can't'' fall apart.

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* This has happened in ''WheresWaldo?''

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* In the episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' where they go to the natural history museum, the "present" they bring home for Spike is a dinosaur toe bone.
* A ''LooneyTunes'' cartoon had a museum curator scolding his dog for taking a dinosaur bone and ordered him to get it back. The dog spends the rest of the cartoon trying to retrieve the bone from a bulldog, only to find out at the end that his master had the bone in question in his pocket the whole time.

* ''[[TomAndJerry The Tom and Jerry Show]]'' (1975) episode "No Bones About It". A dinosaur's toe bone is missing from the museum in which Tom and Jerry work; they see Spike carrying what they think is the missing bone, so they try to get it away from him.

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* An especially strange variation on this trope can be found, of all places, on one of the G1 MyLittlePony figures. [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/babbletrish/3396215502/ Cutesaurus]] ([[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs ya rly]]) is a brachiosaurus "Pony Friend". Her symbols are dog bones. They were probably meant to be dinosaur bones but they look an ''awful'' lot like doggy treats.
** ...this troper isn't sure whether that's the dumbest or most awesome thing ever. Either way, I want one.

* LibertyMeadows Ralph has been digging for dinosaur bones all day with no luck and leaves his spot. Oscar the Weiner dog dives down the hole and soon emerges with a giant femur in his mouth.

* This happened in one of the ''BerensteinBears'' books.

* ''A Pup Named ScoobyDoo'' featured this once.

* CliffordTheBigRedDog had found a dinosaur bone.

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* Subverted in ''102 Dalmations''. When Fluffy tells the player to search for a giant bone, the player replies "A giant bone? Yummy!" and Fluffy replies that the player won't want to eat this bone because it's "hard as rock". Considering that fossils actually ''are'' rocks, that's pretty accurate.

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* An especially strange variation on this trope can be found, of all places, on one of the G1 MyLittlePony figures. [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/babbletrish/3396215502/ Cutesaurus]] ([[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs ya rly]]) is a brachiosaurus "Pony Friend". Her symbols are dog bones. They were probably meant to be dinosaur bones but they look an ''awful'' lot like doggy treats.
** ...this troper isn't sure whether that's the dumbest or most awesome thing ever. Either way, I want one.

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Often spotted in [[ComedyTropes comedies]] and [[AnimatedTrope cartoons]]. Has something to do with the vague association most people have between dinosaurs and bones; to the point that many museum visitors believe that ''[[MishmashMuseum every]]'' [[SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying mounted skeleton in a museum is some kind of dinosaur]].

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Uh-oh. ''There's a dog loose at the natural history museum!'' The museum is full of priceless fossilized [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur]] skeletons, worth millions upon millions of dollars. And we all know what dogs [[ScoobySnacks like to munch on]], don't we? Prepare to see the little pooch walk out the door with a jumbo-sized femur in his mouth, and to hear the sound of [[WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings many bones collapsing into a pile]] in the background.

* This happened in one of the Berenstein Bears books.