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** As for the baby's reaction... just see the related trope's page image.
* [[Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs]]: Known as "Sugar Frosted Boo-boo Bears".
* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]] - Earl, even in the episodes where his complaints seemed to have a certain degree of validity, was ''always'' proved 100% wrong by the coda.
* [[Construction Catcalls]]: While on break, Roy begins leering at a young dino lady with a fully-developed tail.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] - Mr. Richfield.
* [[Crappy Carnival]]: Wesaysoland in the episode "Variations on a Theme Park", which was created in a single day to take advantage of Pangaea's newly-instituted vacation time "through imagination, ingenuity, and a relaxed attitude towards building codes". Unfortunately, the rides are unfinished, the concessions are expensive, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and the hotel rooms are decorated in an unflattering cow-themed design]] (to go along with its corporate mascot, [[Goofy Suit|Moola the Cash Cow]]).
* [[Crapsack World]] - It's a world where the biggest, strongest, or oldest are the only ones that get a say in matters, and the decisions made are usually terrible. Not to mention the fact that, If you are not the absolute apex predator, you always have to watch your back from being eaten by aformentioned biggest and stongest. And don't get us started on what life is like for small mammals.
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Robbie uncontrollably doing the mating dance in "Dirty Dancin'", even by himself.
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** Lampshaded in the [[Informed Obscenity|"smoo" episode]], when censorship goes amuck, Earl shows that, as part of the push for censorship, the pants that he suddenly is forced to wear, to Fran's horror.
** It's not just the men. Fran and Charlene might wear a dress if they were going to sleep, otherwise the female characters all are pantsless.
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** On the behind the scenes feature for the DVD, the creators admit that the kids' designs aren't based on any real dinosaurs and are pretty much made up.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]] - Or rather, animals who ''act like'' humans are bastards.
* [[Impossible Insurance]]: In one episode, the Sinclair's house (and TV) gets struck by a falling meteor. Earl actually had bought meteor insurance but is denied coverage since he's only covered for meteors and once a meteor passes through the atmosphere it becomes a meteorite. When the insurance company employee told Earl he'd only get coverage if his house had been floating in space when the meteor hit the TV, Earl [[Blatant Lies|claimed it was and that the neighbors would confirm it]].
* [[Image Song]]: The [[Ear Worm|irritatingly catchy]] "I'm The Baby" is the best known because it had a music video that aired after an episode, but there was actually a full album of these. Even [[Let's Meet the Meat|the food in the Sinclairs' refrigerator]] got it's own song.
* [[Informed Obscenity]] - In one episode, a great controversy erupted over the word "smoo".
** And thanks the the publicity, the same channel then started showing "The Flark Show"
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** In a debate on whether rich people should eat poor people, the proposition's supporters claimed being food was the only thing poor people were useful for and those opposed claimed the poor could contaminate whoever ate them.
* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: Richfield. He's eaten every ex-boyfriend his daughter has dated after they broke her heart. Naturally, this raises problems for the Sinclair family once Robbie starts dating her.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: During the "Sexual" Harris Hearings on TV, Monica gets called a prostitute by one of the workers. Ethyl complains about the language used on TV these days and how it's bad for kids. Fran argues that it makes them think, with Ethyl saying that she doesn't want kids to think, and instead would rather have them watch "safe little situational comedies with [[Strictly Formula|time-tested repetitive storylines]]".
** Plus, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXiwXVrjYHc this quote] from Earl on a [[Show Within a Show]];
{{quote|"You might think that because they're puppets, the show seems to have a children's aesthetic. ''([[Aside Glance]])'' Yet the dialogue is unquestionable sharp-edged, witty, and thematically skewed to adults."}}
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* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]] - "Hello family! ... And Ethyl."
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Earl as he was made VP of communications to help clear up the vines that were plauging the dinosaurs (due to WESAYSO building a wax factory over the bugs that ate them and kept them at bay). Robbie and Charlene both tried to get him to use alternate, less damaging methods but he wouldn't listen and when came time for the final volcano exploding plan. When he had the opportunity to object it and save his species, he caved. In the end, the plan formed a new Ice Age which will no doubt kill off the dinosaur civilization.}}
* [[Obnoxious In-Laws]]: Ethyl to Earl.
* [[Only Six Faces]] - Because of how elaborate and complex the (remote-operated) faces were, expect to see the same few used for the one-shot, unnamed, and background dinosaur characters.
* [[Out of Order]]: Even though Charlene grew a bigger tail in "Charlene's Tale", certain episodes filmed prior showing her shorter tail such as "Employee of the Month" and "Unmarried... With Children" aired after it. There's also the seven episodes filmed prior to the series finale that were shown afterwards when the show moved to syndication.
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* [[Running Gag]] - Several.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: One episode where Earl was a TV executive had him see a pilot episode of ''Dr. Kirk Marcus, M.D.'' which featured a minor character called "Baby Cuddlebunny", who is essentially a parody of Baby Sinclair himself. Earl liked him and demanded that he be the doctor, changing the name to ''[[Doogie Howser|Baby Cuddlebunny, M.D.]]''. He later spouts his catch phrase ("Not the pajamas!"), wears T-shirts of his likeness, and the execs even make a talking pullstring doll (similar to the [http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Talking_Baby_Sinclair_Doll real doll] made of Baby Sinclair).
** Ethyl even wonders [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|how his catchphrase got so popular]].
* [[Show Within a Show]] - Several, most notably ''Mr. Lizard'' ("'''We're''' [[Gonna Need More Trope|going to need]] another Timmy!").
* [[Shout-Out]] - the Sinclair family's name comes from the Sinclair gas station, which has a green dinosaur for a mascot. Earl is name after Earl Holding, the company's owner. Earl also wears a shirt of the [[wikipedia:Clan Sinclair|Sinclair clan]]'s tartan.
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* [[Sudden Downer Ending]] - {{spoiler|Earl accidentally brings about the extinction of the dinosaurs.}}
* [[Switched At Birth]]: There's an episode literally called this trope where the Sinclair family finds out that {{spoiler|Baby's egg got switched with the egg of the Molehill family.}}
* [[Take That]]: See [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]] towards those who complain about the show itself being "bad for kids".
* [[Terra Deforming]]: In the last episode, Earl ends up destroying all plant life on the planet to get rid of these vines that were growing everywhere as a result of the bugs that would normally eat them having gone extinct (Wesayso built a wax fruit factory on their breeding grounds, thus killing all the bugs).
* [[That Old Time Prescription]]: Baby gets seriously ill and the family spends lots of money on fancy new medicines. When those fail, they go to a healer who lives in the woods, who cures the baby with moldy bread.
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* [[Tinkle in the Eye]] - Subverted; Baby Sinclair used a squirt gun.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]] - Each and every Timmy. Well, maybe not at first, when the experiments weren't as obviously deadly, but after how many Timmies bit the dust, and after Mr. Lizard started hiding behind lead shielding before Timmy did what he did, this was clearly in effect.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Earl and Fran suffered so much from their experiences with their two oldest kids while they are two, that they had blocked out the entire year.
* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] - Roy.
* [[Very Special Episode]] - Spoofed in an early episode, then played straight with nearly every other episode.
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