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* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: The story occasionally stops in its tracks so the narrator can impart dinosaur facts to the viewer.

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* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: The In the pilot episode, the story occasionally stops in its tracks so the narrator can impart dinosaur facts to the viewer.



* GilliganCut: After Mario protests that he won't beg his admirer for a favour.

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* GilliganCut: After In the pilot, after Mario protests that he won't beg his admirer for a favour.



* MadScientist: Professor Funt is a villainous paleontologist who wants to capture Denver.

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* MadScientist: Professor Funt is a villainous paleontologist who wants to capture Denver.Denver and experiment on him.
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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Despite the line "Everywhere we go, we don't even care, if people stop and stare at our pal dino", the characters spend nearly the whole of the first few episodes fretting about whether they've been spotted with the eponymous reptile.

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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Despite the line "Everywhere we go, we don't even care, if people stop and stare at our pal dino", the characters spend nearly the whole of the first few episodes fretting about whether they've been spotted with the eponymous reptile.reptile, and continue to try and keep him a secret throughout the series.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Denver loves to eat potato chips whenever he gets the chance.
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Denver does actually talk a bit more in later episodes.


* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Denver perfectly understands English from his birth, but usually just makes animal-like vocalizations, with the occasional intelligible word.

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* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Denver perfectly understands English from his birth, but usually initially just makes animal-like vocalizations, vocalizations and grumbling, with the occasional intelligible word.word. As the series goes on however, Denver seems to learn how to say more words to people, and in later episodes, he can even say simple phrases & sentences, similar to Scooby-Doo.
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* BandEpisode: In one episode, the gang forms a band called Stone Age Rock for a talent contest, with Wally and Denver on guitars, Jeremy on keyboards, Mario on bass, the girls performing background vocals, and Shades as the drummer. Their nerdy friend Freddy builds his own robotic band for the contest called the Roborockers.


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* FourManBand: The boys:
** OnlySaneMan: Wally, the most "normal" guy to balance out the antics of his friends.
** TheSmartGuy: Jeremy, the smartest and most eloquent guy who focuses on his schoolwork.
** CasanovaWannabe: Shades, who tries to act like a cool kid all the time.
** ButtMonkey: Mario, a cocky goofball who's often the butt of jokes.


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* GratuitousSpanish: Shades sometimes throws Spanish words into his speech.


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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Shades is just called that because of his sunglasses. His real name is never revealed.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Even TotallyRadical California teenagers are better with dinosaurs.

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* CorruptHick: Morton Fizzback, the greedy concert promoter.
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* CartoonCreature: Denver does not resemble any specific species of dinosaur.

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* CartoonCreature: Denver does not resemble any specific species of dinosaur. It's commonly thought he was supposed to be a ''Corythosaurus'', though his "mohawk" head crest resembles an ''Olorotitan''.
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Creator/{{Zagtoon}} is producing a reboot of the show as ''WesternAnimation/DenverAndCliff''.

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Creator/{{Zagtoon}} is producing produced a reboot of the show as ''WesternAnimation/DenverAndCliff''.
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* CartoonCreature: Denver does not resemble any specific species of dinosaur.
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->''Denver the Last Dinosaur,''\\
''He's my friend and a whole lot more!''\\
''Denver the Last Dinosaur''\\
''Shows me a world I never saw before!''
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* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Denver perfectly understands English from his birth, but usually just makes animal-like vocalizations, with the occasional intelligible word.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: There are two main villains in the series: the greedy and shady businessman Morton Fizzback who usually wants to capture Denver to capitalize on him, and Dr. Funt, the GloryHound scientist who wants to improve his scientific reputation by showing Denver to the world.
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* HilarityInZoos: The episode "Lions, Tigers and Dinosaurs" is about Wally taking a job at a zoo and becoming friends with the rapping zookeeper Dr. D.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Casey has a crush on Mario, who is often uncomfortable with her flirting.
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* MsFanservice: Heather, Wally's older sister, is a shapely and pretty blonde girl, usually wearing form-fitting clothes. In one episode she gets a job at a theme park that requires her to wear a [[NubileSavage cavegirl]] outfit.

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* MsFanservice: Heather, Wally's older sister, is a shapely and pretty blonde girl, usually wearing form-fitting clothes. In one episode she gets a job at a theme park that requires her to wear a [[NubileSavage cavegirl]] outfit.outfit; in another one, Mario tells an ArabianNightsDays story where she appears as a genie, wearing a BedlahBabe outfit similar to [[Series/IDreamOfJeannie Jeannie]]'s.

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* TheEighties: Very steeped in it due to the decade. Needless to say, it's an UnintentionalPeriodPiece.

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* TheEighties: Very steeped in it due to the decade.decade, with rock music, skateboards and other TotallyRadical clichés. Needless to say, it's an UnintentionalPeriodPiece.


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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In the pilot episode, Morton Fizzback kidnaps Denver and presents him to the audience at a rock concert. The song the rock band plays? "Denver the Last Dinosaur", the show's theme song.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Both Shades and Mario have brown skin, but it's not clear whether they are intended to be black, Latino or some other ethnicity.

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* {{Irony}}: Jeremy looks and dresses like a stereotypical jock, but he's the most erudite member of the cast, often speaking with SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.


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* SmarterThanYouLook: Jeremy looks and dresses like a stereotypical jock, but he's the most erudite member of the cast, often speaking with SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.
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A French-American co-production, ''Denver the Last Dinosaur'' is an {{animated series}} from [[TheEighties the 1980's]] (as if you needed to be told) about a group of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles teens that find the last dinosaur egg in existence and teach the hatchling, Denver, all about skateboarding, rocking out on guitar, and generally being {{totally radical}}. It lasted for 52 episodes and then was promptly forgotten, along with [[WesternAnimation/DinkTheLittleDinosaur some of the other remnants]] of the late-80's / early 90's dinosaur mania. The little nostalgia for the series is mostly because of that kick-ass theme song. Fun fact: most of the cast consisted of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle voice actors (Creator/CamClarke, Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/TownsendColeman, even Adam Carl who voiced Donatello in the second live action film) which just adds to the late 1980s period piece feel as these actors arguably did the {{totally radical}} angle better than anyone else.

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A French-American co-production, ''Denver the Last Dinosaur'' is an {{animated series}} from [[TheEighties the 1980's]] (as if you needed to be told) about a group of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles teens that find the last dinosaur egg in existence and teach the hatchling, Denver, all about skateboarding, rocking out on guitar, and generally being {{totally radical}}. It lasted for 52 episodes and then was promptly forgotten, along with [[WesternAnimation/DinkTheLittleDinosaur some of the other remnants]] of the late-80's / early 90's dinosaur mania. The little nostalgia for the series is mostly because of that kick-ass theme song. Fun fact: most of the cast consisted of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' voice actors (Creator/CamClarke, Creator/RobPaulsen, Creator/TownsendColeman, even Adam Carl who voiced Donatello in the second live action film) which just adds to the late 1980s period piece feel as these actors arguably did the {{totally radical}} angle better than anyone else.
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* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Jeremy is a handsome teenager with long blonde hair.
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* NerdGlasses: Wally, the nerdiest of the teens, wears large glasses.
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* MsFanservice: Heather, Wally's older sister, is a shapely and pretty blonde girl, usually wearing form-fitting clothes. In one episode she gets a job at a theme park that requires her to wear a [[NubileSavage cavegirl]] outfit.
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* FatBastard: Morton Fizzback is an overweight man who is greedy and corrupt.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Wally is an animal-loving guy and Denver's primary caretaker.
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* CoolShades: One of the teenagers is literally called "Shades" after his sunglasses. Denver also gets a pair of pink shades, matching his guitar.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs
* FishOutOfTemporalWater

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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs
EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Even TotallyRadical California teenagers are better with dinosaurs.
* FishOutOfTemporalWaterFishOutOfTemporalWater: Denver himself, with his egg surviving since the Cretaceous period and hatching in the '80s.



* MadScientist: Professor Funt.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Denver looks different than the more realistic dinosaurs in the opening

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* MadScientist: Professor Funt.
Funt is a villainous paleontologist who wants to capture Denver.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Denver looks different a lot more cartoony than the more realistic dinosaurs in the openingopening.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: From the two major female characters, Casey is very much OneOfTheBoys, wearing overalls and a baseball cap and riding a scooter, whereas Heather dresses and acts much more feminine.
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