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One of the [[The Eighties|1980s]] [[Animated Series|cartoon series]] for which you see very little nostalgia, ''Dink the Little Dinosaur'' is the story of a young apatosaur named Dink and his friends Amber (a corythosaur), Scat (a compsognathus... [[Cartoon Creature|maybe]]), Shyler (an edaphosaur), and Flapper (a pteranodon), who live in the peaceful Mesozoic paradise of Green Meadow and learn [[An Aesop|important life lessons]] from an old turtle --[[Non Mammalian Hair|with hair]]-- named Crusty. The series depicts the characters' childhood shenanigans and their scuffles with the [[Carnivore Confusion|evil carnivore]] [[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Tyrannor]].

[[The Land Before Time|Hey, wait a minute...!!]]

The series has been uploaded to [[YouTube]]. The first episode can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxfMIzNzwpY here.]

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=== This series contains examples of: ===
* [[Ambiguous Gender]] - Shyler. See [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] below.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]] - Shockingly ''averted'' in the fourth episode of the series, entitled ''White Beauty''. A dinosaur that has been [[Fantastic Racism|outcast from society]] gets into a fight with Tyrannor, and Amber runs off to get help. When the gang comes back to the scene of the battle, there's a ''trail of blood'' that they follow to where the dinosaur is hiding out.
* [[Carnivore Confusion]] - Interestingly, the main group features two carnivores: Flapper and Scat.
** There's also an episode entitled ''The Gentle Hunter'', which could be renamed "Carnivore Confusion: the Dramatization".
** Well, pterosaurs aren't generally thought of as predators, and Scat is at the very least omnivorous as he is shown chasing some "honey fruit" in the first episode.
* [[Everythings Better With Dinosaurs]] 
* [[Follow the Leader]] - Conspicuously, the series premiered one year after ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' (the 1988 original).
* [[Rampage From a Nail]] - Dink and his friends once helped a really huge dinosaur with that problem.
* [[Stock Dinosaurs]] - See that link right there that says ''Stock Dinosaurs''? Click it, read the page, then come back here. Done? Good. That's pretty much the list of dinosaurs in this show.
* [[Unfortunate Name]] - Dink and Scat.
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] - Shyler is, in fact, male.

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