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* RealitySubtext: When walking, Earl has a habit of briefly pausing, slumping, and sighing before continuing on. This was because the suit actor was trying to peek through the mask's mouth and see where he was going. The action was incorporated into Earl's characterization.

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* RealitySubtext: When walking, Earl has a habit of briefly pausing, slumping, and sighing before continuing on. This was because the suit actor Bill Barretta was trying to peek through the mask's mouth and see where he was going. The action was incorporated into Earl's characterization.
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* RealitySubtext: When walking, Earl has a habit of briefly pausing, slumping, and sighing before continuing on. This was because the suit actor needed to peek through the mask's mouth and see where he was going, and the action was incorporated into Earl's characterization.

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* RealitySubtext: When walking, Earl has a habit of briefly pausing, slumping, and sighing before continuing on. This was because the suit actor needed was trying to peek through the mask's mouth and see where he was going, and the going. The action was incorporated into Earl's characterization.
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* RealitySubtext: When walking, Earl has a habit of briefly pausing, slumping, and sighing before continuing on. This was because the suit actor needed to peek through the mask's mouth and see where he was going, and the action was incorporated into Earl's characterization.
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* NamesTheSame Georgie the costume hippo is a parody of Barney the dinosaur, but coincidentally has the same name and species as George, a puppet hippo from the long-running UK TV series Rainbow.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: During production of the fourth season, Creator/{{ABC}} cancelled the series altogether and aired "Changing Nature" as the series finale.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: During production of the fourth season, Creator/{{ABC}} cancelled the series altogether and aired "Changing Nature" as the series finale.finale leaving the series on a Dark and Depressing note.
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* MissingEpisode: The Disney Channel did not rerun "Baby Talk" or "Dirty Dancing", Mainly due to there controversial subject matter delling with profanity and sexual symbolism.

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* MissingEpisode: The Disney Channel did not rerun "Baby Talk" or "Dirty Dancing", Mainly due to there controversial subject matter delling dealing with profanity and sexual symbolism.
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* MissingEpisode: The Disney Channel did not rerun "Baby Talk" or "Dirty Dancing".

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* MissingEpisode: The Disney Channel did not rerun "Baby Talk" or "Dirty Dancing".Dancing", Mainly due to there controversial subject matter delling with profanity and sexual symbolism.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Jessica Walter is now known for playing cynical and abusive matriarchs rather than traditional sitcom moms.
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** On a lesser note, the original run of the series on ABC had a laugh track, which was removed for syndication and home video releases. Many agree the series is better without a laugh track.

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** On a lesser note, the original run of the series on ABC had a laugh track, which was removed for syndication and home video releases. Many agree the series is better without a laugh track. The foreign dubs also lack the laugh track as well.
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* EditedForSyndication and ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Because of music clearance issues, the Netflix and [=WatchABC=] version of "A New Leaf" replaces the scene of Mr. Richfield singing "Purple Haze" while high with an alternate scene of Mr. Richfield singing an original song about how happy the happy plant is making him. It's not as clumsy as other examples, but it is a screw to people who wanted to see the episode as originally aired.

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* EditedForSyndication and ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Because of music clearance issues, the Netflix Creator/{{Netflix}}, [=WatchABC=], and [=WatchABC=] Creator/{{Hulu}} version of "A New Leaf" replaces the scene of Mr. Richfield singing "Purple Haze" while high with an alternate scene of Mr. Richfield singing an original song about how happy the happy plant is making him. It's not as clumsy as other examples, but it is a screw to people who wanted to see the episode as originally aired.
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* EditedForSyndication and ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Because of music clearance issues, the Netflix version of "A New Leaf" replaces the scene of Mr. Richfield singing "Purple Haze" while high with an alternate scene of Mr. Richfield singing an original song about how happy the happy plant is making him. It's not as clumsy as other examples, but it is a screw to people who wanted to see the episode as originally aired.

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* EditedForSyndication and ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: Because of music clearance issues, the Netflix and [=WatchABC=] version of "A New Leaf" replaces the scene of Mr. Richfield singing "Purple Haze" while high with an alternate scene of Mr. Richfield singing an original song about how happy the happy plant is making him. It's not as clumsy as other examples, but it is a screw to people who wanted to see the episode as originally aired.
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** In the early development phase, Ethyl was originally conceived as a pterodactyl who hung upside-down in the closet, but after coming up with a few story ideas for her, they quickly realized that keeping her in the closet would limit what they could do.
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* ActingForTwo: Many of the puppeteers portray 2 or more characters, with some of them[[labelnote:*]]mainly Bruce Lanoil and Allan Trautman[[/labelnote]] also doing voice work for those secondary characters.

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* ActingForTwo: Many of the puppeteers portray 2 or more characters, with some of them[[labelnote:*]]mainly Bruce Lanoil and Allan Trautman[[/labelnote]] also doing voice work for those secondary characters.characters on occasion.
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* ActingForTwo: Many of the puppeteers portray 2 or more characters, with some of them[[labelnote:*]]mainly Bruce Lanoil and Allan Trautman[[/labelnote]] also doing voice work for those secondary characters.
** The show also made use of Creator/JasonAlexander, Creator/TimCurry and Creator/RobertPicardo as reoccurring voices. Resulting in a lot of vocal YouLookFamiliar moments.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally intended to be a dramatic feature film called ''The Natural History Project'' with Warner Bros. set to distribute and Creator/JimHenson directing. However ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' was released and Henson decided to turn the idea into a sitcom, which CBS greenlighted. It wasn't until Henson's death and CBS putting the show into turnaround that the show got made.

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This was originally intended to be a dramatic feature film called ''The Natural History Project'' with Warner Bros. set to distribute and Creator/JimHenson directing. However ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' was released and Henson decided to turn the idea into a sitcom, which CBS greenlighted. It wasn't until Henson's death and CBS putting the show into turnaround that the show got made.made.
** A ''Dinosaurs'' [[TheMovie movie]] was planned at one point, but the project fell through.
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* OutOfOrder: Even though Charlene grew a bigger tail in "Charlene's Tale", certain episodes filmed prior showing her shorter tail such as "Employee of the Month" and "Unmarried... with Children" aired after it. There's also the seven episodes filmed prior to the series finale that were shown afterwards when the show moved to syndication.
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** Same for the Brazilian Portuguese dub, where Baby voice actress is Marisa Leal.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: During production of the fourth season, Creator/{{ABC}} cancelled the series altogether and aired "Changing Nature" as the series finale.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Bet you'd never see George Jefferson and Elmo in a show together, did you?
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Bet you'd never see George Jefferson and Elmo in a show together, did you?
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* CrossDressingVoices: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Creator/MariaFernandaMorales voices the male Baby Sinclair.
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* InMemoriam: A dedication to Creator/JimHenson appears in "The Mighty Megalosaurus". Henson died before the series premiered on ABC.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Played with. Fran's animatronic was entirely redesigned for the second season so it absolutely does not resemble her first incarnation, but her voice actress (Jessica Walter) stayed on and played her for the entire series.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Played with. Fran's animatronic was entirely redesigned for the second season so it absolutely does not resemble her first incarnation, but her voice actress (Jessica Walter) stayed on and played her for the entire series.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally intended to be a dramatic feature film called ''The Natural History Project'' with Warner Bros. set to distribute and Creator/JimHenson directing. However ''TheLandBeforeTime'' was released and Henson decided to turn the idea into a sitcom, which CBS greenlighted. It wasn't until Henson's death and CBS putting the show into turnaround that the show got made.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally intended to be a dramatic feature film called ''The Natural History Project'' with Warner Bros. set to distribute and Creator/JimHenson directing. However ''TheLandBeforeTime'' ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' was released and Henson decided to turn the idea into a sitcom, which CBS greenlighted. It wasn't until Henson's death and CBS putting the show into turnaround that the show got made.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: The Baby is Kevin Clash, whom you may recognize as [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]] from ''Sesame Street''.
** Fran is voiced by Jessica Walter (the StalkerWithACrush in the movie ''Play Misty For Me'', the scheming, alcoholic matriarch Lucille Bluth on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', and Archer's mother on ''{{Archer}}''). Also PlayingAgainstType, as this is probably the only time Jessica Walter has played a mom who actually loved, cared, and supported her husband and children rather than berate them, embarrass them, or screw them over with her drunken and passive aggressive antics.
** Earl is voiced by Stuart Pankin, a FormerlyFat character actor whom you may remember from the third ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' movie or the ''Film/{{Zenon}}'' films (or from those orthotic insert {{Infomercial}}s.)
** [[{{Seinfeld}} Jason Alexander]] played 3 or 4 roles (two of which were Baby's biological father and "Sexual" Harris), as did [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Michael Dorn]].
** The recurring character Spike, Robbie's delinquent friend, was voiced by [[Series/{{LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit}} Christopher Meloni]].
** Charlene is voiced by Sally Struthers (Gloria on ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', Rebecca on ''TaleSpin'').
** B.P. Richfield is voiced by [[Series/TheJeffersons George Jefferson]] himself, Sherman Hemsley.
** Mr. Ashland is voiced by John Vernon (Dean Vernon Wormer in ''Film/AnimalHouse'').
** In the Mexican Spanish dub :
*** Earl, Fran, Baby, and Roy are is [[Disney/TheLionKing Pumbaa, Sarabi, Nala and Simba]] respectively.
*** [[Creator/PatriciaAcevedo Charlene]] is Anime/SailorMoon and [[Manga/DragonBall Chi Chi]].
*** Robbie is [[Manga/SaintSeiya Leo Aioria]], [[Anime/CardCaptorSakura Kero]] and [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter]].
** Brazil: Earl and Charlene are [[Film/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid and Bellatrix Lestrange]]. Earl's voice actor also dubbed cartoon villains [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Mega]][[Anime/TransformersArmada tron]] and [[WesternAnimation/XMen Mag]][[WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution neto]], as well as their live-action counterparts in the respective [[Film/XMen movie]] [[Film/{{Transformers}} franchises]].
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** On a lesser note, the original run of the series on ABC had a laugh track, which was removed for syndication and home video releases. Many agree the series is better without a laugh track.
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*** Brazil: Earl and Charlene are [[Film/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid and Bellatrix Lestrange]].

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*** ** Brazil: Earl and Charlene are [[Film/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid and Bellatrix Lestrange]].Lestrange]]. Earl's voice actor also dubbed cartoon villains [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Mega]][[Anime/TransformersArmada tron]] and [[WesternAnimation/XMen Mag]][[WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution neto]], as well as their live-action counterparts in the respective [[Film/XMen movie]] [[Film/{{Transformers}} franchises]].
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** Earl is voiced by Stuart Pankin, a FormerlyFat character actor whom you may remember from the third ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' movie or the ''Film/{{Zenon}}'' films.

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** Earl is voiced by Stuart Pankin, a FormerlyFat character actor whom you may remember from the third ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' movie or the ''Film/{{Zenon}}'' films.films (or from those orthotic insert {{Infomercial}}s.)
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* MissingEpisode: The Disney Channel did not rerun "Baby Talk" or "Dirty Dancing".
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* In the Mexican Spanish dub :
** Earl, Fran, Baby, and Roy are is [[Disney/TheLionKing Pumbaa, Sarabi, Nala and Simba]] respectively.
** [[Creator/PatriciaAcevedo Charlene]] is Anime/SailorMoon and [[Manga/DragonBall Chi Chi]].
** Robbie is [[Manga/SaintSeiya Leo Aioria]], [[Anime/CardCaptorSakura Kero]] and [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter]].
** Brazil: Earl and Charlene are [[Film/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid and Bellatrix Lestrange]].

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* In **In the Mexican Spanish dub :
** Earl, ***Earl, Fran, Baby, and Roy are is [[Disney/TheLionKing Pumbaa, Sarabi, Nala and Simba]] respectively.
** [[Creator/PatriciaAcevedo ***[[Creator/PatriciaAcevedo Charlene]] is Anime/SailorMoon and [[Manga/DragonBall Chi Chi]].
** Robbie ***Robbie is [[Manga/SaintSeiya Leo Aioria]], [[Anime/CardCaptorSakura Kero]] and [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter]].
** Brazil: ***Brazil: Earl and Charlene are [[Film/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid and Bellatrix Lestrange]].

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** [[Creator/PatriciaAcevedo Charlene]] is Anime/SailorMoon and [[Manga/DragonBall Chi Chi]].I
The Other Darrin: Played with. Fran's animatronic was entirely redesigned for the second season so it absolutely does not resemble her first incarnation, but her voice actress (Jessica Walter) stayed on and played her for the entire series.

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** [[Creator/PatriciaAcevedo Charlene]] is Anime/SailorMoon and [[Manga/DragonBall Chi Chi]].I
The Other Darrin: Played with. Fran's animatronic was entirely redesigned for the second season so it absolutely does not resemble her first incarnation, but her voice actress (Jessica Walter) stayed on and played her for the entire series.



* Brazil: Earl and Charlene are [[Film/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid and Bellatrix Lestrange]].
* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: This is why [[spoiler: they killed off the dinosaurs.]]

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* Brazil: **Brazil: Earl and Charlene are [[Film/HarryPotter Rubeus Hagrid and Bellatrix Lestrange]].
* TheOtherDarrin: Played with. Fran's animatronic was entirely redesigned for the second season so it absolutely does not resemble her first incarnation, but her voice actress (Jessica Walter) stayed on and played her for the entire series.
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TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: This is why [[spoiler: they the series ended with the ecological disaster that killed off the dinosaurs.]]

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