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Published: 2010-11-26 07:53:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 4407; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 36
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First in a series parodying bad dinosaur "documentaries".Related content
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It's a parody of the fact that the narrator on Clash of the Dinosaurs kept mispronouncing Parasaurolophus. Granted, that's a much harder word, but you'd think someone would have brought it up...
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When the narrator mispronounced Parasaurolophus, I just threw up. IT'S MY FAVORITE DINOSAUR!!!
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Humorously, their equivalent to the Quetzalcoatlus one could be filled by a kestrel and it would probably be pretty accurate XD
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The classic "shoehorn a prehistoric animal into a modern animal role".
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Yeah. I primarily guessed that because they portrayed Quetz as hunting like a kestrel (hunts while flying high, eats smaller animals, can see UV light, etc.), despite the fact that Quetz would be more like a stork.
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Question time: does Obscurity Channel have Carcharodontosaurian Week?
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Probably, or perhaps Plesiosaur Week sensu !
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Great news! It appears that Dangerous, Ltd.'s website is down (likely for good)!
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Interesting to say the least.
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I think this is the worst dinosaur documentary I have ever seen XD. Great parody
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In reference to the 4th panel, you forgot to say "It's super effective!" Otherwise, good parody.
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Thanks! I thought of adding that, but Sonic Boom takes away a fixed 20 HP, so effectiveness doesn't factor into it as far as I know.
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I was also wondering why you picked M.olecranus to fill M.Wedel's role? Was it b/c said dino is an alvarezsaurid w/a 1st name that starts w/"M"?
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Good question! It may have been because it was the first dinosaur I could think of (probably because it was an alvarezsaurid) with a name that was easy to misspell, as it includes a spelling variant of a commonly used (Greek) word (in dinosaur names).
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Bothered to watch this earlier%u2026 and it is indeed as horrible as everyone makes it out to be. I didn't even watch whole episodes! There was also that scene where the two Deinonychus kill that 20 ft high Sauroposeidon (though Paleogene Fight Club does seem to have a similar point)%u2026
And it's hilarious of course!
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It was that that made me draw this, actually. X3
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Thanks! The Deinonychus killing the subadult Sauroposeidon was certainly another big flaw that everyone talked about; I didn't include it because I was going to use the same idea for "Paleogene Fight Club" and because it wasn't as serious as the other misdemeanors of this show (such as quote mining).
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That reminds me: 1 way CotD would've been better is if Saurornitholestes & Alamosaurus were used in place of Deinonychus & Sauroposeidon, respectively; That way, all the featured dinos would've been contemporaries, which would've allowed for more interactions btwn said dinos (& thus less reliance on stock footage); Also, instead of a Deinonychus pair attacking Sauroposeidon subadults, there would've been a Saurornitholestes pair picking off Alamosaurus hatchlings (a more realistic scene IMO).
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Your welcome!
Yeah, you have to feel sorry for that poor palaeontologist.
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LMAO!!!! Your parodies are effing awesome!!! Kinda fell sorry for Matt Wedel though, not to mention those @$$holes in Dangerous Ltd did not apologize for the quote-mining incident and the fact it took Discovery Channel to step in......
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It was indeed really unfortunate. Clash of the Dinosaurs would've been an okay show if it weren't for the whole quote-mining thing. (That, and maybe also the sonic boom "Parasauroflus".)
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Q: What do you call 10 Dangerous, Ltd. employees dead at the bottom of the sea?
A: A good start.
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Q. Why did the Dangerous, Ltd. employee get eaten by the tyrannosaurid?
A. He thought he could outrun it!
(You'll get it if you've seen the show.)
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Or the too many stock footage thing....
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Yes. Still not as bad as quote mining, however...
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Too true! That was the worst of the worst in the whole program.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...."Gasp"... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Glad you liked it!
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Oh yes, this made me smile. I've never seen any of those "Jurassic Flight Club" er..."documentaries"... But the basic premise is enough for me to face palm. You might enjoy this little parody news article from The Onion: [link]
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Haha, I've seen that article. Great parody. I haven't actually seen most of these documentaries in their entirety before, but I find that enough information can be gleaned from clips on Youtube and comments on the paleo blogosphere.
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IΒ΄ve seen all of JFCΒ΄s episodes entirely, and I think some of them would actually be better without the fights at the end.
For example, in the episode with Tenontosaurus and Edmontosaurus they DID point out how massive and powerful these herbivores were in comparison to the raptors, but in the actual fight they are still shown as being pretty much helpless.
And they DID mention that some regard Nanotyrannus as a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, but of course that would finish the episode right after the first 12 minutes, so they just stayed with Nanotyrannus being a separate species for the rest of the episode (they also said that if it would kill a young T. rex it would obviously also eat it, but during the actual fight they claim he kills them not to eat, just to get rid of competition)β¦
And in the case of theropods they describe most of them as super-killer-machines as expected, but they also mention their cons (like Utahraptor being stocky and slower than what most people think or that the teeth of Allosaurus or Ceratosaurus are better used for cutting through flesh than snapping bones). But in the actual fight those cons seem to no longer play a role.
But of course the episodes still base too much on assumptions. The entire βCannibalβ episode is based on the assumption that the Majungatholus found with tooth marks of another Majungatholus was a male and the killer was a female and that there was great sexual dimorphism between these two and that they behaved very differently.
Probably the only good thing about JFC were the CT scans by Lawrence Witmer which actually showed how the brain of the dinosaur was build and on which senses it relied more than on others.
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You know, in all the dinosaur related media I've seen, I can only think of ONE that doesn't portray the large ornithopods as "helpless"....Dinosaur King.
Yeah....that's it. All these documentories, and it's an anime I can think of. ><
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I remember reading somewhere (I think the DML) that they did all those interviews after they thought up the fights... No wonder the facts don't line up.
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I remember seeing the first episode of "Prehistoric Park" on the old TV in the departmental tearoom late one night while waiting for the thermocycler to finish my PCR. Spent the rest of the night (inclduing the walk home) ranting to myself about how ridiculous it was.
I'm not even talking about the details of the creatures, but all the dumb things that the main character did. He had a time machine, a time machine that can go to *any* point in *time* and he elected to turn up in the Cretaceous to pick up a pair of baby T. rex minutes before the arrival of the Yucatan Impactor? What? Not even a few weeks, or few days before - the man had a *time* machine!
From the brief glimpses I could tolerate of the subsequent episodes, he did a lot of other dumb stuff like driving his car into a known swampy area without fitting a snorkel to it (thus completely wrecking the engine), trying to catch sea gull-size insects with a butterfly net, and going after a Deinosuchus (?) in a little raft.
That man has not read the OH&S manual regarding field work!
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The way he always went out to capture creatures just before they became extinct bothered me, too. Why can't he just go a little bit back further when the population was presumably more plentiful and healthy, and the environment was more stable?
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He was trying to save things from extinction not to cause population declines.
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I'm skeptical that taking one or two (or even ten) individuals from a healthy population would cause "population declines", unless it was from a phenomenally rare species.
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But you get the point.Β
I also think it was to kill any virus etc that crossed over.
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Yeah, exactly. I mean, I can understand the idea of introducing a "ticking timebomb scenario" in the form of the Yucatan Impactor as a way of building up suspense and drama - but it is such a transparently stupid premise to base it upon on, as if going back in time to snatch non-avian dinosaurs isn't big enough of a deal!
It's like as if the show was written by 12 year olds...but I think that's a bit insulting to 12 year olds because I'm sure they can easily see through the stupidity of that scenario.
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Likewise with Dino Dan. Let's see, we've got pronated hands on all the theropods (not counting the birds), a deinonychosaur covered with protofeathers and doesn't have wings so much as a few plumaceous feathers near the elbow, a bipedal, scaly Quetzalcoatlus northropi explicitly stated to eat fish, a scaly Pterodactylus antiquus that can carry a golf ball with its feet, the skeletons of Deinonychus antirrhopus and Prosaurolophus maximus are identified as those of Dromaeosaurus albertensis and Edmontosaurus regalia, respectively, Brachiosaurus altithorax and Compsognathus longipes identified as the tallest and smallest dinosaur, respectively, the tail of the former being too long...
Hey, I think I know what show you should parody next!
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Don't forget how everyone refers to pterosaurs as dinos. & that's not even the most annoying part. There are 2 things that annoy me most about DD:
-The bad acting (like "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" bad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZLQQE⦠ ).
-The non-sensical premise: I originally thought that Dan is so imaginative & loves dinos so much that he sees them everywhere; However, I then watched the "Dino Trackers!" DVD & realized that the dinos are actually there, as indicated by the other characters seeing their traces; How the hell is that supposed to work?; Is this supposed to be like "Primeval" where the dinos enter the present through time holes?; If so, how is it that Dan is the only 1 who ever actually sees the dinos (as opposed to just their traces)?
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Oops, I misspelled "regalis" in my previous post.
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