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EPISODE 1
A high school pole-vault champion refuses marijuana after class only to find a glowing portal to another world where a witch and skeleton control dinosaurs from their volcano fortress, terrorizing a villiage of kind but destitute primitives, among whom there is an unusually voluptious princess who yearns for release from her cultural bounds. Together with a small pterydactyl that speaks ENGLISH, they build an All Terrain Vehicle equipped with a catapult and a log jettison to seek vengence against the evil-doers. They are victorious but in the end the girl realizes she will never be able to adapt to the culturally superior world of America, in spite of her feelings. As a consolation to the whole matter, the kid keeps the pterydactyl and the ATV and impresses the shit out of the hoodlums who offered him drugs earlier in the film. The show ends with everyone at school in the ATV and a garbage can full of illicit materials forsaken by a once jaded youth. The final shot is the pterydactyl flying straight at the camera wearing goggles and a helmet, punning heavily on drugs, ATVs and the vanquished evil-doers.
EPISODE 2
Upon the unexpected high ratings and success of my first after-school special, the producers decided to create a sequel with heavy emphasis on the pet pterydactyl and deletion of some tertiary characters. The looming sentimentality surrounding the subplot of the protagonist's "love with the savage girl" is completely tossed and never referenced in subsequent episodes. The focus is ENTIRELY on the pterydactyl. Episode one of season 2 goes like this:
Black screen to BOOM: triangular fragments of pink, purple, cyan, teal and yellow shower the viewer. As the spray clears, a grand reveal shot of the pterydactyl in bermuda shorts as best he can wear them, an oversized time piece set to 3:10 dangling from his neck, and black shades on his snout as he grips a wireless mic. He is rapping to the rhythms of a 3-4 piece rock band behind him. In a much later shot we finally see the DJ, a cross-eyed wooly mammoth in a white sportcoat scratching on a single deck with a boom box next to it. The track is a composite of a 909-kick-and-snare rhythm, supplimeted by a bluesy piano stabbing the low keys (occasional guitar wail). The rap is horrible, but the producers wallow proudly in the idea that they have nailed the zeitgeist of 80's/early 90's youth with this music number. Nobody who is watching is enjoying it, and if anything the parents are getting concerned that urban culture is infiltrating their suburban strongholds.
As for the rest of the episode, there is nothing for the 'Dactyl and his human companion to do other than some sleuthing and crimefighting. Actually in the later episodes, the hoodlum/burnouts become helpful allies in their fight against masked robbers and mad scientists. Any computer nerd previosuly shown now works from a pimped out van in an abandoned parking lot with boundless resources at his disposal that might aid the predicament of his crimefighting peers. The human kid always has the opportunity to mash his head into the breasts of any blond bombshell he scoops out of harm's way but always ends up opting for the freckled wallflower in his chemistry class. The flying lizard on the other hand always gets the last word with any evildoer he is up against and ends up in the breasts at the end of the episode without fail.
The key thing to note is that any storyline that drove the success of the first 'movie' is totally jettisoned for the new half-assed pseudo thriller feel. And hip-hop. There is tons of that on the show to appeal to a larger demographic. The show is so poor, there is no line of toys for it either. Maybe some stickers at best.