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Where is the Baby's Music Video????
In all the product info for Season 3/4 of DINOSAURS, including Disney's press releases and their own website, the music video "I'm the Baby Gotta Love Me" is listed as a special added feature... Try to find it. <
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>On the actual packaging for the disc, it refers to a featurette called "I'm the Baby, Gotta Love Me" which is a nice bit about the Baby character, but the music video is not included... <
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>I made a call to Disney's DVD department. I was put on hold for a while and then told: "the music video was announced in early publicity as being under consideration as a possible extra, but it was decided to include the featurette instead of the music video." I pointed out that the music video is clearly mentioned on Disney's own website. Their response: "If you'd like a refund or exchange...." <
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>Put on Disc 1 and play an episode called "Little Boy Boo." At the end of the episode is... the music video of Baby SInclair singing "I'm the Baby." It's a catchy song and the visuals are a lot of fun. this is up to the Henson creative team's usual high standards. However, you can't say the same for the Disney DVD division. There is no chaper stop for the musc video. You have to scan back to find it from the end credits.. <
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>So obviously there is confusion and miscommunication within DIsney's DVD marketing department. They announced the Baby's Music Video as a feature but were quite confused about where it was... or whether it was there at all. <
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>I think the Jim Henson Company's work on DINOSAURS is absolutely brilliant. Smart. clever, thoughtful, great looking and hilarious. Incredibly rich with layers of clever details, DINOSAURS is entertaining on more than one level. The more you watch it, the more you discover. I highly recommend the series itself as top-notch entertainment. <
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>Like the Walt Disney company used to be, The Jim Henson Company has earned a reputation for thoughtful attention to detail. Disney doesn't do the work justice. The Henson creations deserve better handling thanDisney is giving it, but then the same could be said of the vintage Disney movie catalog.

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Good for kids, OK for parents
Like stuffing spinach in a candy bar, "Dinosaurs" sneaks political and social issues into a kid-friendly sitcom. Though its characters are cartoonish dinosaurs who dress, act and speak just like typical early-'90s sitcom stars, the show often focuses on social issues like the environment, race, religion, television and the role of women. The stories center on the Sinclair family -- blue-collar dad Earl, sensible mom Fran, rebellious son Robbie, shopoholic daughter Charlene, smart-aleck infant Baby and dimwitted neighbor Roy. Set 60 million years ago, "Dinosaurs" has lots of good gags. The calendars run backward, though no one questions what they are counting down to. When humans appear, the dinosaurs can never tell the males from the females. <
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>But it's not for everyone. The pacing can drag, not everyone will agree with the show's progressive point of view and, unlike the puppet faces in other Henson Co. projects, these hard-plastic versions make it tough to care about the characters. Still, many kids will love the kooky vibe, and the show does have its moments. When Earl gets into a fist-fight with kid's TV character Georgie the Hippo (a veil-thin version of Barney the Dinosaur), Roy entertains the stunned onlookers -- all children -- with an impromptu version of the 1970s Commodores hit, "Brick House." <
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>If you buy this set, the easiest way to enjoy it is to cherry-pick the episodes you watch. The better ones include: <
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>"BABY TALK" (about profanity) <
>"NETWORK GENIUS" (TV programming) <
>"THE SON ALSO RISES" (role reversal) <
>"THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD" (religion) <
>"GETTING TO KNOW YOU" (cultural diversity) <
>"HONEY I MISS THE KIDS" (working moms) <
>"EARL DON'T BE A HERO" (commercialism) <
>"VARIATIONS ON A THEME PARK" (Disney theme parks) <
>"GEORGIE MUST DIE" (Barney the dinosaur) <
>"CHANGING NATURE" (extinction) <
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>Bonus features include an insightful audio commentary (for the episode "Nature Calls"); a 9-minute discussion of the show's political messages and a 6-minute short on the design and personality of Baby (Kevin Clash, who also portrays Elmo on "Sesame Street"). <
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>By the way, if you're headed to Walt Disney World you can see some of the show's props in person. They're in the walk-through Prop Storage Room of the Backlot Tour at Disney-MGM Studios. The "Dinosaurs" refrigerator is down the first row on the right. <
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>-- By Julie Neal, author of [[ASIN:0970959648 The Complete Guide to Walt Disney World]].

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What a great show!
First off: I agree wholeheartedly with the correspondent who advised that you make "CHANGING NATURE" the last episode you watch of DINOSAURS. If you have not seen it yet, I won't spoil it for you, but I do agree that it is one of the BEST television series endings ever devised, ranking right up there with the final episodes of THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW and NEWHART. Wonderful. <
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>As to the rest of the series: why ABC threw it away I'll never know. It was moved around different nights and time slots, started and stopped with long gaps between showings. DINOSAURS never got the chance to really build a proper audience, so the marvelous work of everyone at the Jim Henson Company was seen by far too few. At least we now have the entire run of the series in two DVD Box Sets, the second of which includes seven episodes which were never shown during the ABC days. <
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>The material is witty, incredibly well-written and thoughtful, fall-down funny, and sometimes makes you both think and cry. The cast of voices from Stuart Pankin as Earl Sinclair (yes, the names are mostly Big Oil jokes), to Jessica Walter as Fran, to Sally Struthers as Charlene, to Jason Willinger as Robbie, to Sherman Hemsley as B. P. Richfield, to David Greenaway as Roy Hess and all the talented guest voices put a lot of love and sweat into these characters. And speaking of sweat, don't forget the Henson puppeteers inside the suits (it usually takes at least three to work the head, hands and body!) Watch the credits after the episodes and applaud everyone's work. <
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>That's one of the neatest things about DVD: it gives overlooked and underappreciated television and film work the chance to be seen and enjoyed. And DINOSAURS certainly deserving of your attention! Enjoy!