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Web Animation: Dinosaur Office

Dinosaur Office! Rawr!

Dinosaur Office is a series of stop-motion cartoons on College Humor that focuses on the daily lives of the dinosaur office workers. The series is notable for being a common fixture on Nintendo Video for the Nintendo 3DS.

This web original provides examples of:

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Terry is prone to eating his employees and becoming incredibly destructive and violent when upset, but he is regarded as a genuinely competent boss, and he will take responsibility if anything bad happens to the company (such as a volcanic eruption).
Craig: Terry! You are an asset to our company!
Butt Monkey: The other workers constantly make fun of Craig or laugh at him stumble, though not maliciously. Craig feels hurt but bounces right back the next day.
- Todd has his moments, such as when he is eaten by Terry in the first episode, and later doesn't get to the car in time when they're running away from the angry carnivorous waiter when they visit a restaurant.
- In every episode the Intern appears in, he gets killed.
Carnivore Confusion: Although generally a Benevolent Boss, Terry is still a Tyrannosaurus rex and shows it. Also, the Spinosaurus frequently tries to eat the herbivores, but only when he's angry at them.
Did Not Get the Girl: Craig finds various female coworkers to try to date but gets turned down, each time resulting in violence somehow. In a gender-flipped example, Sheila is never able to get Craig's attention with her advances.
Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Averted. "Just like that volcano last week. It was supposed to scorch the earth! (Beat) It only scorched half of the earth!"
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's dinosaurs in an office.
Have You Tried Rebooting?: Upon Craig having computer trouble, Todd suggests this. And Shiela. And Richard.
I'm a Humanitarian: Terry. Then again he is a T. rex.
Interspecies Romance: Sheila, a stegosaurus, is in love with Craig, a triceratops. Also, Richard the diplodocus is married to a parasaurolophus.
No Indoor Voice: A number of the office workers, mostly the male ones (though a female stegosaurus speaks in a similar tone).
Raptor Attack: Bruce Veloci from "New Boss".
Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: In "Asteroid", the weather forecast predicts that an asteroid heading for Earth will destroy everything. Subverted when it turns out to be smaller than expected. Then double subverted when it heads straight for the offices of Dino Corp Incorporated...but triple subverted, because that's not actually the office where the main cast works.
Todd: Oh nooooooooooo!... I had stock in that company!
Sanity Slippage: Craig suffers this in "Halloween Spooktacurawr".
Skewed Priorities: In "Volcano Drill," Craig and Todd are determined to have their conversation in the midst of an erupting volcano.
Snap Back: Nearly every episode has either the office building gravely damaged or someone killed off, but by the next episode, everything is back to normal.
Stock Dinosaurs
There Was A Door: At the end of "Coffee Run".
- Terry does this a lot.
They Killed Kenny Again: 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".
Tyrannosaurus rex: Terry
Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: The episode "Elevator" is this entirely, when Craig and Sheila are stuck. She uses this to confess his love to him.
Craig: "Uh... Uh... I have to get back to work! *crash*
Would Hurt a Child: Played for laughs. Terry hosts Bring Your Child To Work day to eat them, apparently.