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Gary is turning into a dinosaur, and Eric must find the cure. This becomes a globetrotting journey into everything dino while searching for the magic waters needed to stop Gary's odd transformation. Will Eric be too late? Get ready to meet the Garysaurus!
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00:00This DVD presentation of Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
00:04is made possible in part thanks to fellow dinosaur freak,
00:08Alexander Watson McClain.
00:10Way to go, Alex.
00:17Where is Gary?
00:19The show's about to start.
00:21Gar!
00:22Maybe somebody inside will know.
00:24Hey, Gar!
00:26Have you seen Gary Owens?
00:28Yeah.
00:29Excuse me, mister?
00:31Uh, mister?
00:32Yes?
00:34Hi, I'm Eric Boardman, and I'm here to do another dinosaur show.
00:37Really?
00:38Yes, yes.
00:39And I'm supposed to meet somebody here.
00:40He's all about this tall, dark hair, probably wearing a sport coat.
00:44Oh, and does he have dark-rimmed glasses and mustaves?
00:47That's him.
00:47Have you seen him?
00:48No.
00:50But Gary Owens did give me this note to give to a tall, skinny, red-headed kid in a striped
00:56sweater.
00:57Thank you very much.
00:58You're welcome.
01:00Oh, mister?
01:02Yes?
01:02Yes?
01:03Do you like this dinosaur patch?
01:05Oh, that's very nice.
01:07You're welcome.
01:08I like that.
01:09That'll be 27 cents plus tax.
01:21What would Gary be doing in the basement?
01:23Oh, okay.
01:26Oh, okay.
01:30Going down.
01:31Great.
01:33Next top basement level, storage for allosaurus arm bones, brachiosaurus back bones, camptosaur
01:38craniums, diplodocus digits.
01:42Geoceratops, elbows, brachiosaurus ribs, stegosaurus sternums, tyrannosaurus tibium.
01:50You're welcome.
01:50You're welcome.
01:51Where is Gary?
01:53Hey, did I mention ultrasaurus ulnas?
01:55Yes!
01:58Hey, Gary?
02:01Hey, Gary?
02:04I don't believe this.
02:06Where is he?
02:07Hey, Gary?
02:09Psst!
02:10In here, Eric.
02:12Where?
02:15Where are you?
02:17In here!
02:19Gary, what are you doing down here?
02:22The show is about to start.
02:23I understand that, Eric, but I have a problem.
02:26I really do.
02:26Ooh, look at that neat stuff down here.
02:28Eric, this is important.
02:29This is important.
02:30There isn't much time left.
02:31What do you mean?
02:32Well, you know how much I love dinosaurs.
02:34Oh, yeah.
02:37Well, you're not going to believe this.
02:40But I'm turning into a dinosaur.
02:47Mm-hmm.
02:50Eric, Eric, I'm serious.
02:52Look.
02:54Scales.
02:55Yes.
02:56And you should see my legs.
02:58According to this ancient book on dinosaur folklore,
03:03this transformation can only be stopped by the waters
03:06from the Crystal Palace.
03:08And I'll bet you want me to go, right?
03:10Right.
03:13But what about the show?
03:14We'll do it just as planned, Eric.
03:16Now, I want you to take this bottle
03:18and get it filled with water from the Crystal Palace.
03:21Okay.
03:21And here is your ticket to London.
03:23London?
03:24Yes.
03:25And hurry, please.
03:26It's spreading.
03:27And it's getting worse.
03:28Oh, my gosh.
03:29Look at the time.
03:30We're almost on the air.
03:31It's time for the show.
03:32Let's go to the elevators.
03:34Let's take the stairs.
03:36Hurry.
03:36Hurry.
03:37It's spreading.
04:00It's spreading.
04:03Let's go.
04:05Whoa.
04:25See.
04:32Have you ever wondered what it would be like
04:34if dinosaurs were part of our modern world?
04:49I think it's safe to say that for every person
04:52who is less than thrilled with dinosaurs,
04:54there are scores of people who love them.
05:07Why are these kids paying homage to ancient reptiles,
05:11dancing to the Bronto Boogie?
05:13What has this town gathered to celebrate?
05:15Well, it's the arrival of a creature
05:17that roamed these parts here in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
05:2165 million years ago.
05:24Pentaceratops.
05:25Its name means five horns in the face.
05:28Weighing in at 3,500 pounds,
05:30this Pentaceratops is the only full-size bronze dinosaur sculpture in the world.
05:35It now guards the entrance to the recently built
05:38New Mexico Museum of Natural History.
05:48Everybody loves dinosaurs.
05:50They attract people for reasons.
05:52When we got the extinction hypothesis,
05:54nobody said the clams died out,
05:56or the lizards died out,
05:58or this died out.
05:58They said the dinosaurs died out.
06:01And it's centered people's interests in history and in the past of life,
06:05I think, which has been just tremendous.
06:08I'm here at the San Diego Natural History Museum,
06:11standing in front of the fossil remains of a duck-billed dinosaur
06:14that lived 80 million years ago.
06:17You know, interest in dinosaurs has never been greater than it is right now,
06:21thanks to scientific discoveries that have changed our perceptions of these great beasts,
06:25and, of course, the movies, television, books, and, yes, even comic books.
06:32Let me take you on a tour of the world of dinosaurs.
06:37Now I'd like you to meet some of my favorite dinosaurs,
06:40and I hope some of yours.
06:45Remember the bones we saw a few seconds ago?
06:47Well, they were from a creature similar to this.
06:49This is a Corythosaurus, one of the duck-bills.
06:52Now, see that crest on the top?
06:53That's a bony structure that scientists theorized
06:56served as an echo chamber for mating calls.
06:59Let's hear your mating call.
07:03Not bad.
07:04Ah, steggy.
07:06I'll make that stegosaurus.
07:08Believe it or not, this one is just a baby.
07:11His daddy would be 30 feet long.
07:14Oh, what about the color of the pink and the green?
07:16We really don't know what color dinosaurs were.
07:19Scientists are only guessing.
07:21That's what makes the study of dinosaurs so fascinating.
07:28Now you're probably saying,
07:29here I am with my old friend the brontosaurus.
07:32I'll tell him.
07:33This specifically is an apatosaurus.
07:36This creature lived during the Jurassic period
07:38and grew to be 33 tons and over 70 feet long,
07:41and that's feeding just on plants.
07:43So kids, eat your vegetables.
07:47These jaws were the most powerful jaws
07:49in the history of the world.
07:51They could eat through anything.
07:52Kind of a living Cuisinart.
07:54This, of course, is the Triceratops,
07:56and this life-size model was built by the folks
07:58at Dynamation International.
08:00By the way, they're going on tour soon with this exhibit,
08:03so check your local museum.
08:04But right now, I want you to meet
08:06the world's number one favorite dinosaur.
08:10He's big, he's mean,
08:12he was the king of all dinosaurs,
08:14the big cheese,
08:15the guy who ran things 65 million years ago,
08:20Tyrannosaurus rex.
08:22You know, with those 60 saber-like teeth,
08:25anything that got in his way became dinner.
08:28And these forelimbs,
08:29which may look like fighting claws,
08:31probably really weren't.
08:32Scientists speculate that these arms
08:34were used to lift the dinosaur up off the ground
08:36after he'd slept.
08:38You know, if you were to ask any paleontologist,
08:41they'd tell you that we've only just begun
08:43to find out about dinosaurs.
08:45Well, we've always thought the brontosaurus
08:47was the biggest,
08:48until recently,
08:49when a bone was found bigger than any other.
08:52In fact, it's so big,
08:53it'd make these guys look puny.
08:56It's called the ultrasaurus.
09:00That amazing discovery took place
09:02in western Colorado.
09:03For years, renowned paleontologist Jim Jensen
09:06had been prospecting
09:07in his favorite hunting ground
09:09called Dry Mesa Quarry.
09:10Many important fossils dating back 140 million years
09:14have been found in this area.
09:15But none so dramatic as this.
09:18In 1979,
09:19he unearthed an 8-foot-long shoulder leg.
09:23He later found a 9-foot leg bone.
09:26And it was back at Brigham Young University
09:28that he created a model of a leg
09:30from a dinosaur he called Ultrasaurus.
09:33He estimated that the complete creature
09:35may have stood as tall as 55 feet
09:37and weighed in at an astounding 80 tons,
09:41making it the largest dinosaur ever found,
09:43that is so far.
09:48If you like your dinosaurs really big,
09:52you should take a trip out to the desert
09:54in southern California.
09:55And there you'll find two of the biggest.
09:58They're just off the freeway
10:00between San Bernardino and Palm Springs
10:02in a little town called Cabazon.
10:05These cement giants are the handiwork
10:08of octogenarian Claude Bell.
10:10He started work on his Brontosaurus
10:12almost 20 years ago
10:14at the age most men retired.
10:17It took 15 years of his spare time
10:19and money to build.
10:22His Tyrannosaurus has only taken five.
10:25People thought he was a little touched
10:27when he first came to the desert
10:28and talked of creating a dinosaur park.
10:31But now he has more help.
10:33And as far as Claude is concerned,
10:35these two are only the beginning.
10:43Parents should take note
10:45that inside the Brontosaurus
10:46is a gift shop
10:47filled with those little dinosaurs
10:49that every child
10:51must have at least one of.
10:54I love this dinosaur.
10:57I like to go...
10:59I like to go in the stomach.
11:02If you're trying to do something
11:03that you like,
11:06the dinosaurs are...
11:09people really don't know them, right?
11:13They're wild...
11:16and I don't know,
11:17there's a fascination about them.
11:19They leach up if they don't watch out.
11:23And how they disappeared,
11:24nobody knows.
11:26There's no picnics living in this primeval world
11:29in that volcano, earthquake, storms.
11:31But that doesn't explain
11:33what happened to the dinosaurs.
11:37The extinction of the dinosaurs
11:39is one of Earth's truly great mysteries.
11:42You must remember that dinosaurs
11:44were not the only animals alive back then.
11:48Possums, birds, salamanders,
11:52turtles, and even other reptiles
11:54like the crocodiles survived.
12:00Thousands of varieties of insect also survived.
12:03But why is it that all the dinosaurs
12:05of the world didn't?
12:08Let's see if Eric found the answer.
12:10What's your theory
12:11of why the dinosaurs were extinct?
12:13There must have just been a terrible accident.
12:15I just can't understand it
12:17for any other reason.
12:18They were very admirably suited animals
12:21that had a long history of existence,
12:23but yet, for some unusual reason,
12:28they came to be extinct.
12:30I have no other explanation for that,
12:33but there are some interesting ideas
12:35that are being bandied about currently.
12:37And one of the most provocative
12:39is that of having an asteroid
12:41or some planetesimal collide with the Earth,
12:44creating what at that time
12:46would be equivalent to the things
12:48that we've been talking about nowadays
12:49as a nuclear winter.
13:13Maybe some days, scientists will figure out what happened.
13:17After all, the science of paleontology
13:20has only been around for one millionth of the time
13:22that dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
13:25People say, why study dinosaurs
13:27if for no other reason to find out
13:29why they were so successful?
13:31I mean, you can't just dismiss an animal
13:33or a group of animals
13:35that may have been successful
13:37for as much as 200 million years.
13:41What if dinosaurs did survive?
13:42What would they be like today?
13:44I think there would be many dinosaurians,
13:46many kinds of dinosaurs
13:47that would look quite oddly familiar to us
13:49if they were alive today.
13:51I think they're, I suspect,
13:53and this hasn't been quantified,
13:54that there are regularities in the evolution
13:55of multicellular creatures
13:56that tend to select for an end product
14:01that is recognizable
14:02because it's useful biologically.
14:08Hi, Garrett, it's me.
14:09Yeah, it's Eric.
14:10I'm in London.
14:10Yeah, I made it.
14:11Yeah.
14:13What?
14:15Scalor?
14:16Warrants?
14:17You really are turning into a dinosaur.
14:20Eric, we're running out of the set.
14:22Hey, hang on.
14:23I'll get right back to you.
14:23I promise.
14:31London, England.
14:32It was here that the name dinosaur
14:34was first coined.
14:36Back in the mid-1800s,
14:38Richard Owen created the word dinosaur
14:40or terrible lizard.
14:42Now, prior to that,
14:43they had found bones of creatures
14:45they thought might be sea serpents or dragons.
14:47Remember St. George and the Dragon?
14:49The English have always been fascinated by dinosaurs.
14:54That's right, Eric.
14:55You know, the English like dinosaurs so much
14:57that they have made London second only to Tokyo
15:00in the number of times a city has been destroyed
15:02by prehistoric monsters.
15:04Of course, we're talking about the movies,
15:06and these scenes are from the 1961 release,
15:09Gorgo.
15:19There really was a dinosaur called the Gorgosaurus.
15:22It was a two-legged meat-eater
15:24related to Tyrannosaurus rex.
15:26But it should be pointed out
15:27that the real beast reached a length of about 26 feet.
15:31This is Piccadilly, the heart of London.
15:33Words can describe it.
15:34There's been nothing like it,
15:35not even the worst of the Blitz.
15:36This section is complete shambles.
15:40Now let's get back to a more scientific approach
15:43to dinosaurs with Dr. Angela Miller
15:45in the British Museum of Natural History.
15:48You know, Angela,
15:49this is the largest triceratops I've ever seen.
15:52Yes, it's one of the largest specimens
15:53that's ever been found anywhere in the world.
15:57As we know, they grew continuously throughout their lives
16:02like modern reptiles do.
16:04Triceratops lived in large herds
16:06roaming across the plains of North America,
16:09much in the way that buffaloes do today.
16:11And it's also rather interesting.
16:13It's one of the very last dinosaurs
16:16to go extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period.
16:19Wow.
16:24Oh, this is the Iguanodon, right?
16:26That's right, Eric.
16:27The Iguanodon was the very first dinosaur
16:29ever to be discovered in the last century.
16:32And this, Eric,
16:32is the very first dinosaur fossil
16:34that was ever discovered.
16:35Wow.
16:36It's actually a tooth of Iguanodon
16:37that was found in 1822 in Sussex.
16:41So this was the first dinosaur fossil ever found?
16:44That's right.
16:44It's the first dinosaur fossil ever found
16:46that was recognized to actually belong to an extinct animal
16:50rather like a lizard.
16:51May I? I won't drop it.
16:52Yes.
16:53Now that we've covered
16:54the first scientific dinosaur discovery,
16:57let's take a look at the very latest.
16:59This is a Dimitrodon.
17:01It's been considered one of the very oldest reptiles
17:04from the age of dinosaurs,
17:05dating back some 200 million years.
17:08Now, recently, a new dinosaur has been found
17:10that takes the first appearance of the terrible lizards
17:13back another 20 million years.
17:16Paleontologist Rob Long made the discovery
17:18in his favorite prospecting area,
17:20Arizona's petrified forest.
17:22No place in the world do we have a laboratory,
17:25as you say, like this one,
17:27where we have it all.
17:30We know we can visualize what was under a rock
17:33or what was in a pond
17:35or what the jungles were like
17:40at the beginning of the age of dinosaurs.
17:41There's no place in a concentrated area like this
17:45that you get so much of the ancient environment.
17:49What Rob found on this trip to the petrified forest
17:52are the bones of a previously unknown dinosaur.
17:55But most important is that the rocks the bones were encased in
17:59were dated to be 225 million years old.
18:03Other scientists came and helped carefully isolate the earth
18:06and rock containing the bones.
18:08Then they coated it with a protective plaster shell
18:11so they could take it back to the university at Berkeley
18:14and remove the bones under laboratory conditions.
18:26After reconstructing this skeleton,
18:28Rob debuted a rendering of a new little dinosaur.
18:32There is Gertie at this moment.
18:34Long neck, small head, rather stupid.
18:38Probably spent most of its time walking on all fours.
18:42And this would be about one-sixth the size of Gertie.
18:48You don't have to be a scientist to build dinosaurs.
18:53As a youngster, I used to build my own cars
18:55and from that I used to see the shapes of the parts
18:57remind me of animals
18:58so I'd just start building dinosaurs out of them.
19:01What you're looking at now is a brontosaurus.
19:04It's about 37 feet in length
19:06and it weighs about maybe a ton and a half
19:10and it's made of automobile parts.
19:13The head is made of oil pans, neck drive shaft,
19:16the legs are control arms, lower control arms,
19:20and the feet of brake shoes.
19:23And it's all just a conglomeration of automobile parts
19:26made into the 20th century dinosaur.
19:29That's a pteranodon, which has a 14-foot wingspan
19:35and the colors are just one that I decide what I want to paint them.
19:40I just paint them the right color
19:42because no one knows what color dinosaurs were in the first place
19:44so I just choose the colors I see fit.
19:54Excuse me, you look English.
19:56Where is the Crystal Palace Park?
20:02What's your favorite dinosaur?
20:08These are the fossilized remains of a marine lizard
20:10that lived some 70 million years ago.
20:12It was called a Mosasaur.
20:14And even though it isn't really a dinosaur,
20:16it is interesting to note where this sea creature lived,
20:19right in the middle of Kansas.
20:23It really was a completely different world back then.
20:26In fact, it was during the age of dinosaurs
20:28that the Earth's land masses separated
20:30into the continents we have today.
20:32And once they had drifted apart,
20:34evolution and climate changes
20:36created unique new plant and animal life
20:39in each region of the world.
20:42Now let's go back to Eric's explorations
20:45in the wilds of London.
20:52Oh, my goodness, look at this one.
21:01I can't believe it.
21:03Here I am on the outside of town
21:05taking a voyage into a primeval world
21:08filled with wonderfully weird prehistoric creatures.
21:16Where do they come from?
21:19Are they the work of ancient dinosaur lovers?
21:27Wait a minute.
21:31I know.
21:38I think I'm in the right place.
21:40Crystal Palace Park.
21:42Aha!
21:48This is bizarre.
21:53Yes, Eric, this is the Crystal Palace Park,
21:56well-known throughout the world, actually,
21:58due to the animals that we see
22:00portrayed on the island here.
22:02Now, who built these?
22:04It was constructed by Walter House Hawkins
22:08in 1854.
22:11Forgive me, Stephen,
22:12but they don't look technically accurate.
22:14Eric, they're not accurate.
22:17Take that particular one over there,
22:18that Ingwandan.
22:20Have a look on his nose.
22:21See that bump up there?
22:23That bump is really the thumb.
22:26It was an error made,
22:28but the error was...
22:30really you can anticipate the error
22:32because they did not have any full skeletons
22:35of these prehistoric animals at that time.
22:38These were in 1854 when they were constructed.
22:42Thirty years later, it was before we could actually find
22:45whole skeletons dug out the ground.
22:48What's interesting, the dinosaurs were fascinating
22:49to people back in 1854 just as they are today.
22:52Right, yes.
22:53What's your favourite dinosaur?
22:55I haven't got one particular
22:56because one you see with a grandeur of power and strength
23:00and others you see with a slendiness
23:02and a sleekness to them.
23:04So each one is like a painting.
23:06Each one has a different quality.
23:08Ha-ha!
23:10But before I leave London,
23:11there's one thing I must do.
23:15Gary, I've got it!
23:17Coming right back.
23:21Oh, man, I'm late!
23:25Hey, Gary!
23:26I got the water from Crystal Palace!
23:31Hey, Gary, are you down here?
23:33I've got the antidote.
23:34Your troubles are over.
23:35I don't think so.
23:38Hey, Gary,
23:39at least give it a try.
23:41Eric, I think it's too late.
23:43Well, come on out here.
23:44Let's see what we're dealing with.
23:46Okay, but get a grip on yourself.
23:49Ta-da!
23:52Well, what do you think?
23:57This is amazing.
24:00I've always considered myself a dinosaur freak.
24:03Now, I really am one.
24:07Gary, you know what this means?
24:09You're going to be big!
24:11Bigger than E.T.
24:12Bigger than even Rambo!
24:14I mean, I can see the cover of Time magazine.
24:17And maybe even a guest shot on Verve.
24:21Ooh.
24:23Book deals, record deals, movie deals.
24:24I mean, all of Hollywood's going to be at your, uh, claws.
24:27True, but every scientist in the world will want to examine me.
24:34Probing, probing.
24:36Phobing?
24:36Not probing.
24:38Probing!
24:39Phobing?
24:40No, no.
24:41Read my lips.
24:42Probing.
24:43Oh, probing!
24:45Ooh, that would be awful.
24:46I need some time to think this over.
24:49Okay, okay.
24:50And I won't tell anybody.
24:52But what are you going to do?
24:55Well, I do have this one idea.
25:27I'll see you next time.
25:38Attention, please.
25:40The museum is now closed.
25:52Well, it's a living.
26:14The museum is now closed.
26:40The museum is now closed.
27:05The museum is now closed.
27:11The museum is now closed.