History Main / DinosaurDoggieBone

* An especially strange variation on this trope can be found, of all places, on one of the G1 ''Franchise/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.

* In the UK we have a trilogy of amusing ads featuring scruffy dog, Harvey, who cleverly uses the power of advertising to manipulate his long-suffering owner. The third ad charts the romantic adventures of Harvey and his new girlfriend - one of which involves them dragging a large dino bone past a snoozing museum guard.

* Happened in the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story "King Ottokar's Sceptre", where Snowy manages to steal a diplodocus femur and is chased by the local dogs.
* ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog does this at least once, only to discover that yes, fossilized bones taste awful. So he goes back to the time of living dinosaurs....

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' where the babies go to the natural history museum, the "present" they bring home for Spike is a dinosaur toe bone.
* A ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon (''Bone Sweet Bone'', 1948) had a museum curator scolding his dog Shep 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.
-->'''Shep:''' (''previously TheVoiceless'') If you think this little incident is going to upset me, you are ''absolutely right!'' (''commences FreakOut'')
* ''[[WesternAnimation/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.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' featured this once. Likely a call back to the use of the gag in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''
** One of the episodes has Scooby-Doo actually receive a brontosaurus's bone from the museum as a reward for catching the crook.

* Chu-Chu attempts to make a meal out of a fallen dinosaur statue in episode one of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan''.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has this in the form of "The God Bone." According the mysterious disembodied voice that spoke to Courage when he first found it, [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood "He who licketh the God Bone will liketh the God Bone and never stop licking."]]. They aren't kidding and this is emphasized by the presence of several animated [[DemBones skeletal]] dogs that are still licking it in death. However, it's heavily implied that this obsession can be cured by the PowerOfLove or the PowerOfFriendship. In the end, Courage is able to stop licking the Bone upon thinking about what will happen to Muriel and he tops it off [[OperationJealousy by sucking up to another dog owner to help her dog realize that she was more important than any giant treat.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'' episode, "No Bones About it", Ruff sneaks into the museum to get a bone from a dinosaur skeleton, with the museum's guards trying unsuccessfully to get him out. At the end of the episode, Ruff stops a pair of jewel thieves and is rewarded with the skeleton.

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