A New Leaf

"A New Leaf" is the seventeenth episode of season two of the family sitcom Dinosaurs and the twenty-second episode overall.
==Plot==
After a nasty argument with his parents, Robbie goes for a walk in the woods to meet up with Spike and happens upon a strange plant along the way. Upon eating the plant, Robbie and Spike discover it makes them overly ecstatic. Robbie returns home and give some of the "happy plant" to his father, as well as Charlene. Soon the house is full of family bliss. But things are falling apart elsewhere. Earl gives some of the happy plant to his coworkers, then gets called into B.P. Richfield's trailer. Richfield has had it with Earl's ineptitude and terminates him. Earl takes the bad news as feeling like a great weight has been lifted from his shoulders and leaves some happy plant with Richfield.
The Sinclair residence is now a mess. Earl, Robbie, and Charlene are spaced out. Baby has been neglected. Fran comes home empty-handed whereas Baby protests he is thirsty. Fran says she could not acquire any food as the check bounced at the supermarket. Fran then went to the bank, where she learned the Sinclair's account has a zero balance as Earl's income dried up. Earl says he was fired and suggests they "live off of love". When Fran sees the happy plant is causing all this, she demands Robbie and Charlene sober up. As for Earl, she takes him to Wesayso to get him to beg to get hired.
Wesayso has become as lackadaisical as the Sinclair residence. Roy and the others are goofing around instead of working. One dinosaur named Ed feels everyone is conspiring against him, despite constant reassurance that no one wants to hurt anyone. Fran and Earl go into Richfield's trailer. Ed needs to be shooed away when he bursts in and asks "You guys aren't talking about me, are you?" Then Fran sees B.P. Richfield as a stoner, with colored horns who listens to acid rock. When Earl apologizes for his past misdeeds, Richfield is forgetful about the earlier termination and apologizes. Richfield proposes a new job; hang around here like the other guys and just chill and get money for nothing. Just then the general manager of Wesayso calls. Richfield says he has been terminated for lack of productivity. He reacts to this by saying "Bummer". Fran has had it and takes Baby to live with Ethel.
Earl then figures a way out of their problems is the happy plant. Earl asks Robbie to take him to where the happy plant was first seen. There they find Spike wallowing in filth and singing to himself. The three realize that this is what will happen with the plant. Robbie and Charlene suggest burning the patch. Earl says no. When Charlene and Robbie say he cannot let go of his addiction, Earl says that is not why. First, that fire could quickly turn into a conflagration. Second, having a "war on happy plants" is the wrong way to go about this. The right way to know one's addiction is sobered if the plant remains, as they must always struggle with temptation. Only by saying no when it is right there will they know they are sober.
==Trivia==
*In the Portuguese version, an instrumental version of "It's a most unusual day" is played.
Category:Dinosaurs episodes