Dinosaurs (TV Series)

The Howling (1991)

Stuart Pankin: Earl Sinclair

Quotes 

• Robbie : How could not howling at the moon bring an end to our days on earth?

  Earl : Because if you don't howl, I'll kill ya.

• Earl : Fran, I'm home, I'm hungry and I hate everything.

  Baby : Not the mama!

  Earl : Ah neither are you!

• Earl : You ever come here again I'll feed you to my family!

  Roy Hess : Yeah? Then I won't!

  Earl : Good!

  Roy Hess : Fine!

  Earl : Fine!

  Roy Hess : Good!

  Robbie Sinclair : [reading from the book of dinosaurs]  Only by howling do we defeat the dark spirit which will turn dinosaur... against dinosaur... oh!

• Earl : It's not important to know why you do something. I howl because I believe in it... I don't know why I believe in it, I just do.

• Robbie : I don't know, Dad, what's this got to do with my life?

  Earl : Well it says right here, 'Only by the howling do we defeat the dark spirit which will turn dinosaur against dinosaur and bring an end to our days on Earth'.

  Robbie : And you buy that?

  Earl : Hey, this book's been around a million years and you've been around what, 15 years? Guess who wins.

  Robbie : But it doesn't make sense, Dad. Today I'm just a kid, but tomorrow I climb up the mountain and yell at the moon, and that makes me a grownup, why?

  Earl : Because your mother sent out 150 invitations and we've got a dead rhino and 10 tons of potato salad downstairs!

• Earl : There are many customs that the Book of Dinosaur commands us to obey, but none as important as The Howling. Each month, on the evening of the full moon, every male dinosaur who has come of age is commanded to climb to the mountain top and howl his mightiest howl.

  Robbie : Why?

  Earl : Why what?

  Robbie : Why do we do it?

  Earl : We've been doing it that way for a million years. It is written in the Sacred Book of Dinosaurs.

  Robbie : Well who wrote it there?

  Earl : Some sacred guy!

• Earl : [the family's huddled in the dark covered in blankets and using flashlights]  Do you hear that?

  Fran : No, what?

  Earl : Shh, a low grumbling, like the earth getting ready to open up and swallow us. Don't you hear it?

  Robbie : [unfazed]  It's the icemaker.

  Earl : Quiet you! You brought about a cataclysm against all life on Earth and I don't want to hear another word out of you!

  Baby : Are we dead yet?

  Fran : No.

  Baby : Oh... when we gonna be dead?

  Fran : Very soon dear.

  Charlene Sinclair : My, my flashlight went out! I think the batteries are dead!

  Earl : Dead, they're dead! It's starting, the batteries are always the first to go!

  Grandma Ethyl Phillips : Earl, come here, let me tell you something.

  Earl : What? What?

  Grandma Ethyl Phillips : [hits him with her cane]  Get a hold of yourself!