Dinosaurs--Several Comments

[Frank15]

One--did anyone notice that for the first 12 episodes, they had a sliding glass door in the kitchen? After that, for unknown reasons, the sliding glass door was replaced with a pair of wooden doors with glass panels, similar to what they'd already had in the living room. Any idea why the change?

As it is, they only seemed to use this entrance in two episodes--in the episode with the grapedelites (one of the 12 episodes with the sliding glass door--Earl enters through it to give Baby a present), and in the episode where Ethyl sees the afterlife (one of the later 51 episodes with the pair of wooden doors, Ethyl barges through after being buried by Earl).

Now, questions pertaining to syndication--now obviously, the opening theme was cut short for extra commercial time (save for every Halloween episode airing and the first time the grapedelite episode aired in syndication, which used the full opening), but how come the older episodes changed to the newer clips that were used in the Season 3 and 4 openings? Why didn't they keep the older clips that the older episodes used for the opening theme? Especially for the first clip show, which used the sound effects used for the older clips theme, yet showed with the newer clips?

Any idea why the 7 never-before-seen episodes were never advertised as "all new" for the syndicated run? Especially considering 5 of those 7 episodes all aired the same week on their first airing, you'd think they'd have advertised it to pull in viewers.

And--I guess no one will realistically know this, but I'll ask about it anyway--what was with the weird scheduling of episodes. After 13 weeks, week 14 was the same 5 episodes as week 1, only the Thursday episode was aired Monday, the Friday episode was aired Tuesday, the Monday episode was aired Wednesday, the Wednesday episode was aired Thursday, and the Tuesday episode was aired Friday. Simple enough. Week 15 was the same as week 2, with the same episodes airing in the same order as week 14, per the original day of the week the episode aired.

Then it starts getting funny. Week 16 aired only 4 of the 5 episodes of week 3. Instead of Into the Woods on Thursday, though, they aired the episode where Baby grows a golden horn--the episode that should've aired Thursday of week 17, going by the previous pattern. For an unknown reason, the original Wednesday episodes were being aired a week in advance, while Into the Woods was seemingly lost somewhere.

It gets weirder come week 20, though. The Wednesday episode of week 8 was the one where they go on the game show, so it seems the Thursday episode of week 20 would've been that show--but instead it was the Halloween episode, which was the Tuesday episode of week 9. Yay, another episode lost in who-knows-where. Week 21 aired Variations on a Theme park on Thursday, the Monday episode of week 10.

And then for weeks 22-26, they just mix everything up for heaven-knows-why. It seems the episodes from weeks 9-13, as well as Into the Woods and the game show episode, were mixed together and aired in a seemingly random order.

Guess we'll never understand syndication....