10 Most Bizarre TV Series Finales In History

3. The Dinosaurs Face the Ice Age

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Dinosaurs, a Jim Henson Production for the ABC network, was a popular family sitcom in the early 1990s. it's best described as a reverse Flintstones, with intelligent dinosaurs living domestic lives alongside simpleton cavemen.

It ran for four seasons and playfully turned various sitcom conventions on their head by having them performed by a cast of dinosaur puppets. It's therefore a shock when the final episode of the show goes down an incredibly dark route. It begins normally enough, with Earl, the father, trying to work the new barbecue, and ends with the family facing down their inevitable extinction.

In a convoluted series of events, the local corporation and an unwitting Earl have inadvertently brought about an ice age with toxic pesticides and deforestation. The show's writers wanted to use the finale to educate the younger audience about humanity's own potential extinction event. Having been informed of the cancellation before writing the final series, creator Michael Jacobs felt that this was only one way to go. "When you do a show about dinosaurs, you always have that extinction card in your pocket" he later said.

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