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The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a [[Hype Backlash|bad reputation]] due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides its criminal overuse of ([[Visual Effects of Awesome|admittedly pretty]]) [[Stock Footage]], ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[Quote Mine|quote]]-[[Documentary of Lies|mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild theories as solid facts. Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the production company].
The series was followed by a special titled '''''The Last Day of the Dinosaurs'''''. This time, the producers told us their story of [[Exactly What It Says
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=== A list of tropes that appear in the series: ===
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{{quote| "For those going to watch the show, a warning: The documentarians often take anything that any of the talking heads speculated about, and transformed these into declarative statements of fact. In some cases this is particularly egregious, because I strongly disagree with some of these statements and believe the facts are against some of these (say, about tyrannosaurid [[wikipedia:Cranial kinesis|cranial kinesis]]…) and they present these as facts rather than suppositions."}}
* [[Eats Babies]]: ''[[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|Quetzalcoatlus]]'' and ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Deinonychus]]''.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Eye Scream]]: The ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Triceratops]]'' stabs the ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Tyrannosaurus]]'' in the eye.
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Deinonychus]]''. And it's actually shown ''[[Shown Their Work|feathered]]''.
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** To clarify that quote-mining part: the expert was trying to clear up the misconception that large dinosaurs had two brains (one in their head, one in their hip-region). The editors made it sound like he was confirming the notion.
** What more, he clearly said that [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|sauropods]] most likely covered their eggs with vegetation. The CGI clip shows a sauropod leaving its eggs ''out in the open''. [[You Fail Biology Forever]] or [[They Just Didn't Care]]?
** When their eggs hatch, the young sauropods and [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|tyrannosaurids]] look exactly the same as the adults. "[[Walking
** Their [[Meaningful Name|duck-billed]] [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]] have fleshy lips.
** While the [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|raptors]] were nice and feathered, they still weren't quite feathered ''enough''.
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