People like to say that the “golden age” of television is happening now, with big budget TV shows like Game Of Thrones or Breaking Bad having their time to shine in pop culture, but if you ask ME, and you should, the real golden age of television was the ’90s, especially when it came to sitcoms.
I would like to say definitively that Dinosaurs is the best and most underrated sitcom of the ’90s, period.
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There were a lot of great sitcoms in the ’90s.
Friends, Sister Sister, Saved By The Bell, Married… With Children, Ellen, Home Improvement … There were a ton of sitcoms on in the ’90s that really defined the era of television.
But frankly, none of them compare to Dinosaurs.
*Dinosaurs* was a briefly lived but deeply loved sitcom following the Sinclair family.
Like most sitcom families, you had the loving wife, the bumbling but well-meaning dad, the adorable children with hilarious catchphrases (“Not the mama!” anyone?!). The biggest difference was, of course, that the family was made up of dinosaurs.
The fact that the show consisted of puppets without CGI makes the show a technical marvel, which none of the other sitcoms of the era were.
The fact that the puppets looked so great that you often forgot you were even watching puppets is even better — the show was created by the Jim Henson company, which is how you know the puppets were good.
On top of that, the show covered some pretty deep themes that other shows might’ve been too scared to, especially in the ’90s.
Divorce, environmentalism, homosexuality, puberty, corporate greed — nothing was off-limits for *Dinosaurs*.
The fact that giant dinosaur puppets covered these topics with grace and with humor better than any other live-action sitcom of the time is proof enough that the show was a marvel and deserves to top the list of ’90s sitcoms.
What other sitcoms would be brave enough to end the way Dinosaurs did?
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