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“Dinosaurs”: The Most Traumatizing Series Finale Ever

The series finale, “Changing Nature,” aired on July 20, 1994, and the episode began with the Sinclair family gathered at a picnic awaiting the annual return of the bunch beetles. The beetles, much to the disappointment of the family, never show.

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We learn, in a bit of foreshadowing, that the reason the beetles never returned was that they had been eradicated after the dinosaurs had, irresponsibly, built a plastic fruit factory over their swamp breeding ground.

The beetles played an important role in the ecosystem of Pangaea, by feeding on a type of climbing vine. Without the beetles, the vines began growing out of control.

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Of course, Earl was put in charge of an environmental task force responsible for solving the vine problem.

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