Dinosaurs (TV Series)

Earl, Don't Be a Hero (1994)

Stuart Pankin: Earl Sinclair

Quotes 

• Baby Sinclair : Hi Captain Impressive! Will you autograph the trachea plug for me?

  Earl Sinclair : Baby, why would you want something so dangerous?

  Baby Sinclair : Because it's got YOUR name on it, and you're my HERO!

  Earl Sinclair : I WANTED to be your hero, but not to sell you things.

  Baby Sinclair : You got sneakers with a pump?

• Earl Sinclair : Daddy-got-a-new-job!

  Baby Sinclair : Can't'-see-the-T-V!

  Robbie Sinclair : Forget it, Dad, his favorite show's on.

  Earl Sinclair : Not anymore.

  [shuts TV off] 

  Baby Sinclair : [cries]  Wanna see Captain Action Figure!

  Earl Sinclair : What's so special about this Captain Action Guy?

  Baby Sinclair : He's my hero!

  Earl Sinclair : What's he got that I don't?

  Baby Sinclair : A TV show! Turn it back on!

• Roy Hess : Hey! We've been friends 20 years, Pally Boy, you never told me you could fly!

  Earl Sinclair : This is the first time's it's ever haaaaaappened!

  [lands] 

  Earl Sinclair : I swear!

  Roy Hess : Don't make it worse with a lie.

  Earl Sinclair : Hey let's stay focused, Roy, I was fly-i

  [almost takes off again] 

  Earl Sinclair : Whoa! Did you ever see anything like that happen before?

  Roy Hess : Well not in real life, but in comic books, spontaneous flight is fairly commonplace, for superheroes that is.

  [gasp] 

  Roy Hess : What if the toxic waste somehow gave you a vast arsenal of super powers? Why flying could be just the beginning.

• Earl Sinclair : I'll let you know a little secret. If you take off the mask and cape and the funny costume, sometimes you find a real hero underneath.

  Baby Sinclair : ...Looks like you.

  Earl Sinclair : That's the point. You see daddies are heroes too, and mommies. We may not have heat vision but we go to back breaking, mind numbing jobs, so you can grow up comfortably and have some nice things in your life. It may not be flashy, but it's real.