Beyond the Valley of the Dinosaurs

Beyond the Valley of the Dinosaurs
Premiere date	August 28, 2005
Run time	11:35
Writer(s)	Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter
Director(s)	Richard Ferguson-Hull
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"Beyond the Valley of the Dinosaurs" is the sixth episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law season three, and the twenty-sixth overall. It aired on August 28, 2005 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. It was written by series creators, Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter, produced by Evan W. Adler, and directed by Richard Ferguson-Hull. The Hanna-Barbera series ridiculed in this episode is Valley of the Dinosaurs.

Harvey and Peter Potamus get sent back in time to the stone age after they take a dip in the latter's hot tub. While there, they take on the world's first divorce.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Harvey Birdman	Gary Cole
Peter Potamus	Chris Edgerly
Peanut	Thomas Allen
Avenger	Unavailable
Gorok	Chris Edgerly
Sentcha (drawing)	N/A
Phil Ken Sebben	Stephen Colbert
Prince
Tana	Mary Birdsong
Gokk	Erik Richter
Grok	Steve Landesberg
Chibo	Mary Birdsong
Dick Cheney	N/A
Chunga	Erik Richter
Inch High	N/A
Tundro	N/A
Captain Caveman	N/A

Organizations

• Sebben & Sebben

Locations

• Washington D.C.
  • Sebben & Sebben offices
• California (mentioned)
  • CSU Long Beach (mentioned)

Objects

• Hot tub time machine

Vehicles

• None

Music

The music was composed by Michael Kohler.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: August 28, 2005 on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network)

Behind the scenes

• The episode title is a combination of the film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and the aforementioned TV series Valley of the Dinosaurs.
• Phil brings along a red-shirted Ensign-esque character from Star Trek, the kind of insignificant character who'd go along with Kirk and Spock on away missions, just to be the first to be killed.
• There's a character at the wedding, who resembles Mr. Finkerton from Inch High, Private Eye, but he has black hair instead of gray.
• Presumably to keep the realm devoid of civilization (outside of Gorak's apparent college education), the modern family from Valley of the Dinosaurs are absent. Perhaps being set before they even came.
• The wedding banner has its past uses crossed out, which include Harvey's 40th birthday from "Deadomutt Part 2", Harvey's intervention from "SPF", and Avenger's goodbye party from "High Speed Buggy Chase".
• The ending of the episode sets up Phil's minor C-plot in the next episode, "Evolutionary War".
• Ouweleen, Richter, and Edgerly provide audio commentary for this episode on DVD releases.
• In 2010, there happened to be a full-length movie called Hot Tub Time Machine.

Errors

• The wedding banner says "Grock," but the credits says "Grok."

Home availability

• In the United States, it was first released onto DVD as part of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: Volume Two on October 10, 2006, by Warner Home Video.
• In the UK, Revolver Entertainment released the same DVD set on December 7, 2009, and also on the same day, the episode was collected together with the rest of the series in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: Seasons 1,2 & 3.
• In Australia, Madman Entertainment released the same set on December 12, 2007, then re-released the episode as part of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: The Complete Cases on November 28, 2012.