‘What if a baby hatched right out of the egg and started talking?’
ABC and Disney responded to it immediately.
We were missing a character in the show.
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I dont think we have anybody thats bringing the viewer into this fantastic world.
I think were missing a narrator.
So Bob said, How would we do it?
and I said, What if a baby hatched right out of the egg and started talking?
And Bob immediately said, Not the mama.
I said, What does that mean?
We wantedDinosaursto be a little more biting in its satire, says Jacobs.
We went after the oil companies.
We went after corporate America.
I dont think [the connection] knew its what we were doing in the beginning.
Telling the audience how good it was in advance certainly hurt us.
But I would say, if we were kept on Friday nights, the show might still be running.
I said, Ted, they went extinct!
I didnt do it.
If youre going to cancel the show, Im going to cancel the dinosaurs.
He laughed, and we put together certainly one of the more memorable finales on television.
