Dinosaurs (TV Series)

Charlene's Tale (1991)

Jessica Walter: Fran Sinclair

Quotes 

• Charlene Sinclair : [while wearing a prosthetic tail]  Isn't it just the most lovely night outside?

  Fran Sinclair : Charlene, you look... very nice, but I can't help noticing there's something different about you.

• [Charlene finishes her 'tail' discussion to Fran] 

  Fran Sinclair : Where are you going?

  Charlene Sinclair : [lowly]  The roof.

• Narrator #1 (ABC Announcer) : Pangea's watching ABC, The Antediluvian Broadcasting Company.

  Narrator #2 (Coming Event Announcer) : Coming this Fall on ABC.

  Narrator #3 (Way Too Complicated promo) : He's a Big City Dinosaur detective, who leaves through time to adopt seven interracial children. She's a Ghost, with seven interracial ghost children of her own. Now they're all moving to the country to become district attorneys. And watch the sparks fly when mother moves in. It's all "Way Too Complicated!",

  Narrator #4 (Event Time Announcer) : Wednesdays at 8:00.

  Grandma Ethyl Phillips : Geez, more of the same.

  Fran Sinclair : Oh Mom, you're still mad at them for canceling 30 Million Something.

• [Earl is consoling Charlene after her date dumps her] 

  Earl Sinclair : How'd I do, Fran?

  Fran Sinclair : Well... "not the mama", but you'll do in a pinch.

• Charlene Sinclair : Mom, you said you were the last one in your class to get your tail. How did you handle it?

  Fran Sinclair : Oh well... that was a long time ago, and I'm sure I handled it with grace and dignity.

  Grandma Ethyl Phillips : She tried to throw herself off the roof.

  Fran Sinclair : [chiding]  Mother!

  Grandma Ethyl Phillips : Of course, she weighed 28,000 lbs., so the roof collapsed. She fell right through onto Grandpa Louie, who was cleaning his pipe at the time. We never found the pipe, but Grandpa Louie walked funny after that.