Line #10 WebAnimation/DinosaursTerribleLizards


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:An ecosystem of majestic morons.]]
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4	->''The name ‘Dinosaurs’ literally translates as ‘Terrible Lizards’. In our world, they really are [[DoubleMeaningTitle terrible]]. [[DumbDinos In fact they are]] [[TooDumbToLive absolutely useless]].'' - {{Tagline}}
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6	''Dinosaurs: Terrible Lizards'' is a series of animated videos created by animator Joel Veitch and hosted on [[http://rathergood.com/ Rathergood]], depicting heavily stylized [[DerangedAnimation (and we mean HEAVILY stylized)]] dinosaurs living out their lives (or, well... [[TooDumbToLive trying to]]) in the style of a faux nature documentary.
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8	Videos in this series include a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijktorPAHGs initial test animation]] and a [[https://youtu.be/InPHe6xJ8EY pilot episode]]; official episodes started being released in 2020. The current episodes are:
9	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL9V6DMx3ZM "50 Shades of Graham"]]: ''Graham the Stegosaurus is a loveable, good-natured, unstoppable juggernaut. When he joins a huge group of his own Stegosaurus kind, Spike the Triceratops leads an attack to see them off.''
10	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2eSaVdUgF0 "The Sky's The Limit"]]: ''Janet the Tyrannosaurus is the most fearsome predator of the ancient world, and she has a family to feed. However, brute strength is not always the best strategy as Charlotte the Pterodactyl knows all too well.''
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12	A Creator/{{Netflix}} series based on Joel's shorts, ''Bad Dinosaurs'', [[http://rathergood.com/2022/06/09/our-dinosaurs-are-going-to-live-on-netflix/ was revealed in a 2022 announcement]]. The animation will be produced by Able & Baker (which also did work for ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots''), and directed by Simone Giampaolo. The series was released on March 28, 2024.
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15	!! This web original provides examples of:
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17	* AlwaysABiggerFish: The pilot short spells it out in the narration: "But in the Mesozoic, sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted." Said while a fish grabs onto the Pterodactyl's beak. Then a crocodile grabs the fish, and the Ichthyosaur grabs the crocodile, putting a lot of strain on the Pterodactyl carrying all three of them mid-flight.
18	* BalloonBurstingBird: Or rather a Pterodactyl in "The Sky's The Limit". Janet, the mother ''T. rex'', ends up being [[InflatingBodyGag blown up like a balloon]] by a geyser, and Charlotte, the pterosaur she was trying to catch, perhaps realizing that she has a family to feed, pulls her over the pool she was hunting in earlier. Then Charlotte pops Janet's belly with her beak, dropping her into the pool and sending up some fish for her young to eat, in a similar manner to when Janet fell into the same pool earlier in the short.
19	* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: All sorts, but given the tone and style of the series it's very much intentional. The usual AnachronismStew of Jurassic dinosaurs like ''Stegosaurus'' and ''Allosaurus'' coexisting with Cretaceous ones like ''Triceratops'' and ''Tyrannosaurus'' is of course present.
20	** Curiously, a case of AccidentallyCorrectWriting: the ''Tyrannosaurus'' is depicted as being a half-feathered creature resembling a plucked turkey, PlayedForLaughs: but with certain fossil imprints showing that ''T. rex'' was mostly featherless and that the bare skin was likely not scaly, due to feathers and scales being mutually exclusive (feathers ARE modified scales), this reconstruction is surprisingly on-point for what is essentially a dino-themed shitpost.
21	* BehindTheBlack: In the test animation, the ''Allosaurus'' isn't even seen approaching the ''Apatosaurus'' - we see the latter's neck being trampled by the ''Triceratops'' herd, and then the ''Allosaurus'' is right there, chewing on the sauropod's tail [[FailedASpotCheck without the herbivore even noticing]].
22	* BigHeadMode: ''Allosaurus'' has a head so large that it drags on the ground, connected to its body by a neck to skinny to hold it up.
23	* CameraAbuse: The ''Ankylosaurus'' knocks a rock straight into the camera with its tail club in the pilot, breaking the screen.
24	* CartoonCreature: Most of the dinosaurs, most notably the ''Triceratops'' that looks like a three-horned sweet potato, or the ''Pachycephalosaurus'' which is best described as a purple sausage with legs.
25	* {{Cephalothorax}}: The ''Stegosaurus''.
26	* DescriptionCut: The narration talks about the many features that make the dinosaurs well-adapted to their environment... all the while juxtaposed with the idiotic behavior of the dinosaurs themselves.
27	* DoubleMeaningTitle: Terrible Lizards - not "terrible" as in the usual definition of "fearsome", but "terrible" as in "[[TooDumbToLive incredibly incompetent]]".
28	* DumbDinos: Exaggerated to [[RuleOfFunny comedic extremes]]. The dinosaurs are hilariously inept, tending to walk straight off cliffs, obliviously hinder one another, or recklessly blunder into trouble.
29	* GentleGiantSauropod: The ''Apatosaurus'', whose neck is so long and floppy that it lies as limp as a piece of rope.
30	* GoofyFeatheredDinosaur: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' has feathers, and is a very inept predator. Then again, the featherless dinosaurs are equally goofy.
31	* HeadbuttingPachy: The... [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign rather phallic-looking]] ''Pachycephalosaurus'' are described as using their heads to joust each other. Two of them are depicted charging at each other... and then [[EpicFail passing each other by]], leading to one of them [[OverlyLongGag running headlong across the landscape throughout the rest of the short and finally straight off a cliff]].
32	* HyperlinkStory: There are four different segments to the pilot short: the hunting Pterodactyl, the jousting ''Pachycephalosaurus'', the ''Ankylosaurus'' trying to construct a nest, and the ''Stegosaurus'' dragging off an ''Apatosaurus'' and provoking a ''Triceratops''. It all comes to a head when [[spoiler:the ''Stegosaurus'' (with the ''Apatosaurus'' and ''Triceratops'' stuck on its back) tramples the ''Ankylosaurus'' nest, causing it to attack and knock the other dinos over, just as the ''Pachycephalosaurus'' is falling off the cliff above them. The latter crashes into the Pterodactyl carrying its load of fish, crocodile, and ''Ichthyosaurus'' and all of them crash-land on top of the rest. The short ends with an ''Allosaurus'' showing up and munching on the ''Apatosaurus''' tail like in the test animation before [[ForegoneConclusion a meteor wipes out everyone]].]]
33	* InflatingBodyGag: In "The Sky's The Limit", the mother ''Tyrannosaurus'' lands mouth-first on a geyser, which fills her body with gas that causes her to float into the air like a blimp.
34	* MemeticMutation: Before the comment section was sadly nixed by Youtube Kids, the comments on the pilot made plenty of jokes comparing the dinosaurs to ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' or calling the show "Ark: Survival Deformed".
35	* NoSell: In "Fifty Shades of Graham", the ''Triceratops'' herd charges at the ''Stegosaurus'' gathering after [[LostFoodGrievance Spike gets his lunch trampled on by accident]]. It doesn't end well for the ''Triceratops'', and the ''Stegosaurus'' herd ''doesn't even flinch.''
36	* TemperCeratops: The ''Triceratops'' are quite prone to attacking other dinosaurs for minor offenses, usually to their own undoing.
37	* TooDumbToLive: Pretty much all the animals featured.

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