The Grass is Always Dinner

"The Grass is Always Dinner" is the eighth episode of Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs season one. It aired on September 30, 2021 on HBO Max. It was written by Steve Clemmons, produced by series creators, Mark Marek and Marly Harpen-Graser, and directed by Erik Knutson.

Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm invite a cow-like dinosaur from the Crags to eat his lawn, so Bamm-Bamm can get out of doing his chores, but it ends up eating everything in sight over both families' gardens, including Wilma's precious flowers.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Bamm-Bamm Rubble
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ely Henry
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Pebbles Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jessica DiCicco
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jeff Bergman
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Barney Rubble
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kevin Michael Richardson
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Dino
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Eric Bauza
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Tortoise
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Eric Bauza
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| King T-Rocks
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kevin Michael Richardson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Steeradocus
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Eric Bauza
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wiky
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wilma Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tress MacNeille
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty Rubble
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Steeradocus
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Eric Bauza
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wiky
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wilma Flintstone
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tress MacNeille
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty Rubble
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty Rubble
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey Griffin

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Bedrock
 * Flintstone residence
 * The Crags

Objects

 * National Jurassic

Vehicles

 * None

Development
It was copyrighted in 2018.

Music
The theme song "Big Bang" was written and performed by Mark Marek. The music was composed by Alessandro Tabora.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United Kingdom & Ireland: February 11, 2020 on Boomerang
 * Poland: March 7, 2020 on Boomerang
 * United States: September 30, 2021 on HBO Max

Behind the scenes

 * The episode title is a reference to the saying "The grass is always greener." You're welcome.
 * This feels like it was written to be the pilot. The style is fairly different from the rest of the series; Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm act relatively new to the Crags, the Crags have a leader, who is presence is largely reduced in other episodes, and Barney attempts to do a Family Guy-style cutaway joke.
 * National Jurassic is a parody of National Geographic.
 * Dino does a dab dance, which seems to have been the sole reason for Boomerang SVOD dropping it from its planned 2019 streaming, after animation fans negatively responded to it. Sigh.

Everlasting influence

 * King T-Rocks reappears in "Bammnesia" and then several other episodes.

Home availability

 * Not available. 😢

Trailers
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