History WebAnimation / DinosaurOffice

* TrustBuildingBlunder: In "Team Building", Terry and Sheila are assigned to do a trust fall with the former catching the latter. Due to Terry's arms being too short, Sheila ends up toppling on her side.

* RageBreakingPoint: Danny the ''Ankylosaurus'' team-building instructor is hired to build up trust between the guys, and goes increasingly frustrated at their incompetence at his lessons. When Craig suggests just giving Todd his discount card rather than a trust fall due to a bad back, Danny snaps and throws a fit on Terry's desk, knocking things off with his clubbed tail as he rants. Until he loses his balance and falls off, getting eaten by Terry in an attempt to catch him.

--->'''Terry:''' Ooh, who brought these? ''(eats female parasaurolophus)''\\

* RandomlyReversedLetters: The title screen for every episode has the "r" written backwards. There are other occasions where they write the "r" backwards such as on a banner celebrating Craig's birthday and at Rawrbucks. %% * RaptorAttack: Bruce Veloci from "New Boss".

* CarnivoreConfusion: Although generally a BenevolentBoss, Terry is still a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and shows it. Also, the spinosaurs frequently try to eat the herbivores, but only when they're angry at them.

** Terry. Then again he is a ''T. rex''.

* SapientEatsSapient:

** Todd got eaten by Terry in the first episode, scorched in lava in "Volcano Drill", and mauled by the ''Spinosaurus waiter in "Guy's Night Out".

* AffablyEvil: Terry is by-the-books, calm, and polite in his mannerisms, but he's also a hidden lunatic that [[ImAHumanitarian eats his employees]]. He's definitely on good terms with said employees, though.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: As nice as Craig is, even he can be pushed to his limits as shown when after [[DidNotGetTheGirl he fails at wooing the new Secretary]], Richard [[InnocentlyInsensitive tells everyone to be nice to Craig via blurting out about what happened]]. Craig then rams Richard, which then causes a fight to break out.
** Terry as well. He is [[BenevolentBoss a kind and understanding boss]], [[CarnivoreConfusion but he is still a T.Rex that will eat his employees]].

* ImAHumanitarian: Terry. Then again he is a T.Rex.
** Bruce too as he eats some small dinosaurs with his sandwich. To be fair, he is a Velociraptor.

* InterspeciesRomance: Sheila, a Stegosaurus, is in love with Craig, a Triceratops. Also, Richard the Diplodocus is married to a Parasaurolophus.

* NoIndoorVoice: A number of the office workers, mostly the male ones (though a female Stegosaurus speaks in a similar tone).

** The Spinosaurus driver in "Traffic" and the Spinosaurus waiter in "Guys Night Out" also have the same model.

* ShoutOut: When Todd rear-ends the Spinosaurus's truck in "Traffic", the angry carnivorous driver flips over Todd's car and starts ripping parts off the underside like the T. rex in Film/JurassicPark. Similarly, Terry's introduction in the first episode causes BadVibrations in the water cooler like the T. Rex in the film.

** Terry eats the Intern, a young Parasaurolophus, in each episode the Intern appears in.
** Todd got eaten by Terry in the first episode, scorched in lava in "Volcano Drill", and mauled by the Spinosaurus waiter in "Guy's Night Out".

* VocalDissonance: All of the office workers have appropriately [[NoIndoorVoice shouty]], [[GutturalGrowler growly]] voices one would expect from a dinosaur... except for Terry the T-Rex, the biggest and most fearsome of them all, who sounds like a totally ordinary person. Later episodes feature a few more dinosaurs with normal voices too.

* ShoutOut: When Todd rear-ends the Spinosaurus's truck in "Traffic", the angry carnivorous driver flips over Todd's car and starts ripping parts off the underside like the T. rex in Film/JurassicPark.
** Similarly, Terry's introduction in the first episode causes BadVibrations in the water cooler like the T. Rex in the film.

** Similarly, Terry's introduction in the first episode causes BadVibrations like the T. Rex in the film.

* LargeHam: CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG! And he's not the ''only'' example in this series.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: One was made of [[https://youtu.be/UpomqoH55Xo "Computer Problems"]], sung almost entirely by Richard, with one interjection from Sheila.

-->'''Terry:''' ''(referring to Todd's unhatched egg)'' Ooh, you gonna eat that?
-->'''Todd:''' I was hoping to watch it grow up!
-->'''Terry:''' Suit yourself.

* TheBackwardsR: The title screen for every episode has the "r" written backwards. There are other occasions where they write the "r" backwards such as on a banner celebrating Craig's birthday and at Rawrbucks.

%% * RaptorAttack: Bruce Veloci from "New Boss".

!! This web original provides examples of:

* ColonyDrop: In "Asteroid", the weather forecast predicts that an asteroid heading for Earth will destroy everything. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out to be smaller than expected. Then double subverted when it heads straight for the office of [=DinoCorp=] Incorporated...but triple subverted, because that's not actually the office where the main cast works.]][[note]]That office is the office of [=DinoSoft=] Limited[[/note]]
-->'''Todd''': [[BigNo Oh nooooooooooo!]]...[[spoiler:I had stock in that company!]]

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Craig is the '''melancholic''' LoserProtagonist who keeps to himself, Todd is the '''phlegmatic''' {{pragmatis|m tropes}}t who always has the most mundane suggestions, Richard is the '''sanguine''' {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who always stays optimistic, Sheila is the '''choleric''' {{Unrequited Love|Tropes}}r who stubbornly sticks to her guns, and Terry is the '''eclectic''' BenevolentBoss whose mood can switch on a dime.

* {{Unrequited Love|Tropes}}: Sheila has a crush on Craig, but when she tries to subtly ask him out, he ignores her.

%%ZCE%%* StockDinosaurs

-->'''Craig and Todd'''

* TheBackwardsR: The title screen for every episode has the “r” written backwards. There are other occasions where they write the “r” backwards such as on a banner celebrating Craig’s birthday and at Rawrbucks.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: As nice as Craig is, even he can be pushed to his limits as shown when after [[DidNotGetTheGirl he fails at wooing the new Secretary,]] Richard [[InnocentlyInsensitive tells everyone to be nice to Craig via blurting out about what happened.]] Craig then rams Richard which then causes a fight to break out.
** Terry as well. He is [[BenevolentBoss a kind and understanding boss]] [[CarnivoreConfusion but he is still a T.Rex that will eat his coworkers.]]

->''[[TitleScream Dinosaur Office!]] Raaaaawr!''

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Craig is the '''melancholic''' LoserProtagonist who keeps to himself, Todd is the '''phlegmatic''' {{pragmatis|m tropes}}t who always has the most mundane suggestions, Richard is the '''sanguine''' {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who always stays optimistic, Sheila is the '''choleric''' {{Unrequited Love}}r who stubbornly sticks to her guns, and Terry is the '''eclectic''' BenevolentBoss whose mood can switch on a dime.

* UnrequitedLove: Sheila has a crush on Craig, but when she tries to subtly ask him out, he ignores her.

* JerkAss: Richard's son. He destroys Craig's workspace, hits Craig with a golf club many times and calls his father a idiot when he doesn't want to be watched. (Which he does since he destroyed his father's bedroom with fireworks.) [[LaserGuidedKarma Luckily, Terry eats him before he can do anymore harm.]]

-->'''Craig:''' "Uh... Uh... ''I have to get back to work!'' '''[[ThereWasADoor *crash*]]'''

* {{Yandere}}: Sheila for Craig. When Craig flirts with Amelia, Sheila tries to divert his attention, and just when it seems like the former two are about to get somewhere, Sheila attempts to kill Amelia. ...Then Richard reveals that [[WhamLine he's married to Amelia]].

* InformedAttribute: Taken UpToEleven in "Computer Problems". Todd, Richard, and Sheila all say that their sons are great with computers, and that they're all teenagers. Todd's son, Duncan, hasn't even hatched from his egg yet, Sheila has a ''daughter'' named Gretchen who seems to be of kindergartener age, and while Richard is right in that his son's name is Carl and that he's a teenager, Carl is decidedly ''not'' good with computers.

* JerkAss: Richard's son. He destroys Craig's workspace, hits Craig with a golf club many times and calls his father a idiot when he doesn't want to be watched. (Which he does since he destroyed his father's bedroom with fireworks.) [[LaserGuidedKarma Luckily Terry eats him before he can do anymore harm.]]