"If there was one thing the ‘90s were all about it was, inexplicably, anthropomorphized animals that were in some way “radical.” It all started with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but it quickly and rapidly devolved from there, until most children’s television was naught but horrifically mutated animals skateboarding on pizza. Here are the worst offenders..."

Original article on atom.com

If you can make it all the way to the end of "The Five Most Bizarre Ninja Turtle Ripoffs of the 90's", you'll be rewarded with probably the most passionate rocking theme song for a lame kiddie show ever... "Extreme Dinosaurs".

...Or you could skip straight to that part. *cough*

Extreme Dinosaurs theme on Youtube

And as long as we're discussing the awesomeness of dinosaurs, here's a Scienceblogs article suggesting that since avians, turtles, crocodilians, and Komodo dragons have all been observed to play, it's a good reason to think dinosaurs played as well.

Dinosaurs come out to play

Check out Andrea Cau's adorable Deinonychus family drawing from comments!

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