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[–] grozzle@lemmy.zip 109 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Paleontologist? probably was just there for his "dinosaurs built the pyramids" theory.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 82 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rainwall@piefed.social 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not the mama!

Apparently the show was one of Jim hensen's ideas, and the concept was what he was working on when he passed away. Wikipedia says it was only greenlit because of the success of the Simpsons, which showed an oddball sitcom could work, which it did for 4 years.

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t remember it much other than enjoying watching it.

I also remember playing the theme song for it in my middle schools band.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The ending was pretty dark, and came a bit before the widespread acceptance of the Chicxulub impact.

[–] gesshoku@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

For those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_Nature

Quite sad, but really well done and very realistic.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

Holy cow that was 1994‽