Dinosaurs (TV Series)

The Last Temptation of Ethyl (1992)

Jessica Walter: Fran Sinclair

Quotes 

• Charlene : [Ethyl's unconscious]  Grandma, can you say something?

  Robbie Sinclair : Hey look, look, I think she's coming around.

  Earl Sinclair : No no no no no, no the hole's already dug, let's get on with it.

  Ethyl Phillups : Not so fast fat boy.

  [takes Earl's shovel and hits him in the face with it] 

  Earl Sinclair : [groans]  I knew I should've had her cremated.

  [falls down unconscious] 

  Ethyl Phillups : .Where am I?

  Robbie Sinclair : Grandma, we brought you home from the station. We were worried.

  Charlene : Yeah, we better call your producer, I mean he thought you were dead.

  Ethyl Phillups : Let him think whatever he wants, I'm not going back.

  Fran Sinclair : But why, Mom? I thought you loved talking about the afterlife.

  Ethyl Phillups : I do, Fran, but if I'm ever gonna go back, I can't just sit around watching the grass grow. What I'm going to do is enjoy life and love each and every one of you... starting tomorrow.

  Fran Sinclair : Why not today?

  Ethyl Phillups : Because today, there's a perfectly good hole in the backyard and we're gonna bury fat boy in it.

  Earl Sinclair : [comes around]  What?

  [Ethyl hits him with the shovel again and he's knocked unconscious] 

  Baby : Again!

  [hits his toy dinosaur on the head with a toy shovel and laughs] 

• Fran Sinclair : Earl, you're watching TV in here and mother's watching TV in there. Wouldn't it be nicer if you both watched TV together?

  Earl : Only if the TV was crushing her head.

• Ethyl : I've decided to enjoy life and love all of you. Starting tomorrow.

  Fran : Why not today?

  Ethyl : Because today there is a perfectly good hole in the backyard and we're going to bury fat boy in it.

• Narrator : ...Ethyl's seemingly dead body was being buried by simple-minded son-in-law Earl, and his dim-witted friend Ray.

  Roy Hess : Hey! That's an ourage! They got my name wrong.

  Earl Sinclair : That is supposed to be me? That doesn't even look anything like me!

  Baby : Not the mama!

  Earl Sinclair : And why are we watching this show anyway? I wanna watch the puppet show on the other channel.

  Fran Sinclair : That's a kid's show.

  Earl Sinclair : Not so. They do some very sophisticated juxtapositions of reality.

  Fran Sinclair : It'll last a year.

• Baby : I got leeches. Can I keep them?

  Fran Sinclair : No, hon, those are for dinner.

• Fran : Earl, what are you doing with that shovel?

  Earl : Shovel? Um, Franny, life is like the tide. It goes in, it goes out. It washes out the old and washes in the new... I used it to bury your mother.