Dino Clifford

Dino Clifford is the 40th and final episode of the first series of Clifford the Big Red Dog. It aired on December 5, 2001.
==Characters==
*Clifford
*Emily Elizabeth
*T-Bone
*Cleo
*Mac
*Baz
*Teresa
==Plot:==
Baz's big sister Teresa is home from college and is ready to dig for dinosaur bones and fossils on Birdwell Island. Who is more perfect to help her dig than Clifford and his dog friends? Everybody has great luck digging up fossils that will complete a dinosaur skeleton that Teresa is piecing together – everybody but T-Bone, that is. But by believing in himself, T-Bone ultimately comes up with one of the most important bones to complete the job.
== Summary: ==
The episode starts out with Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone and Mac digging looking for a bone Clifford and T-Bone buried, but they're unable to find it. T-Bone then sees something and thinks he found the bone, but when he pulls it out of the ground, it turns out to be just a sock. Mac doesn't think bone digging it T-Bone's best thing. The dogs then suddenly hear the doorbell ring, so they go to see who's at Emily Elizabeth's front door. When Emily Elizabeth opens the door, she sees Baz, with his older sister, Teresa. Emily remembers Teresa and hugs her. Teresa tells Emily she now has two weeks off from college, so she's now come back to Birdwell Island to dig for dinosaur bone fossils. Emily gets excited from what she hears Teresa say and Baz tells her that's what she studies at college, which is called paleontology, and she's gonna try to dig up some dinosaur bones on the island. Teresa tells Emily that Birdwell Island used to be full of dinosaurs a long time ago, and Baz tells her that Teresa told him he can help her dig for the bones. Teresa then tells Baz that they're not actually bones, but really fossils of bones. Emily asks Teresa if she can help too, which she agrees with, as she could use all the digging help she could get. Emily suggests if it's digging help she needs, she knows some great helpers, which are Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone and Mac. Teresa also decides to let the dogs help as she suggests, "The more help, the better."
Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone, Mac, Emily, Baz and Teresa then arrive at the dinosaur dig site where she's been digging. Emily asks Teresa if she found any dinosaur bones yet, but Teresa tells her that she hasn't yet, and there's a very good chance that she never will. Teresa then tells Emily she'll be happy if they could find just one or two fossil bones, and Emily tells Teresa she feels pretty lucky today. After Emily and Baz put on their paleontologist hats, Teresa tells them they first have to dig much deeper to reach the layer of earth where the dinosaur bones might be. Emily suggests that Clifford could take care of that, so Emily tells Clifford to dig them a nice deep hole. So Clifford jumps onto the dig site and starts digging. As Clifford dug a deep hole into the ground, he suddenly finds something. He then climbs up the hole he dug carrying a big dinosaur bone in his mouth, making everyone impressed. Teresa gets excited, as she couldn't believe they've really found a genuine dinosaur bone, which looks like it must be from a really big dinosaur. Emily knows that Clifford knows all about being really big, and Clifford has a fantasy of being an Apatosaurus as "Clifford-Saurus" in the age of the dinosaurs. In his fantasy, Clifford-Saurus helps Cleo also in the form of a dinosaur across the river, by using his long neck as a bridge for her to walk on to get across.
Back in reality, after Emily, Baz and Teresa climb down a ladder, Teresa believes that the rest of the dinosaur bones could also be down there, but wonders how they could get down there. Emily suggests that easy as Clifford could help them. So Emily, Baz and Teresa get into Clifford's nose and he lowers them down to the bottom of the hole he dug. Cleo, T-Bone and Mac also arrive at the hole, and T-Bone gets excited to get down there and dig. Mac then reminds T-Bone that digging really isn't his best thing, but T-Bone suggests it's fun and if he keeps trying, he'll also probably find a dinosaur bone. As the dogs help the paleontologists dig for bones, Cleo and Mac find two. So Clifford brings them up to the top of the hole and Cleo and Mac give the two bones they found to Teresa, and she thanks them for finding them. Clifford then brings up another big bone he found, making Teresa even more impressed. While the paleontologists were having their lunch break, one of them knocks a chicken bone off a plate and it falls off the table and falls into the hole and lands by T-Bone. When T-Bone sees the bone, he thinks he found a dinosaur bone too and barks to get Clifford's attention. When Clifford sees T-Bone with the small bone, be then brings him up to the top and he gives it to Teresa. Teresa sees the bone he found as a really nice one, but she then tells T-Bone she doesn't think it's from a dinosaur, which she is right about, but she still thanks him for trying. Later, Clifford tells Cleo, T-Bone and Mac that digging for dinosaur bones sure is fun. Cleo then declares herself to be a digging machine, and digs into the ground making dirt fly into Mac's face. Mac then tells Cleo to now turn the machine off, and she stops digging and apologizes to him. Clifford found four big bones, and Mac found five bones. When Cleo asks T-Bone how many bones did he find, he tells her he found one, which Cleo thinks is pretty good, but T-Bone tells her it must have been a chicken bone (which it was). Mac then tells T-Bone to why not just give up since he haven't found one, but T-Bone still thinks he could find one.
Later, many of the bones were found and Emily, Baz and the paleontologists started putting the dinosaur skeleton together, must to Teresa's delight. Emily then wishes she could have been in the age of the dinosaurs when the dinosaur they're digging up was living. Teresa tells Emily that there really weren't any humans around back then when the dinosaurs were alive. Emily does know that there weren't any people around back then when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, but then wonders what if there were. Emily then has a fantasy of being a cave person in the age of the dinosaurs. In her fantasy, Emily is sitting on a rock, when Clifford comes in the form of a Tyrannosaurus rex, carrying a tree in his mouth, which is what he used ti play fetch with. Clifford then puts the tree down and Emily calls him a good boy and asks him if he wants to play fetch again, which he does. Cleo, T-Bone and Mac then come, also in the forms of dinosaurs. Emily thinks Clifford's dinosaur friends want to play with him, which they do. So Emily tells Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone and Mac to get ahead and play, and the four dinosaurs go and play together. Back in reality, Emily declares dinosaurs to sure be great, which Baz agrees with, and wants them to hurry and try to get skeleton put back together.
As the paleontologists kept on digging, Clifford finds the dinosaur's head. Later on, almost all of the dinosaur bones are found and the skeleton is almost finished, and it turns out to be the skeleton of a Stegosaurus. Baz sees the dinosaur to be amazing, Emily sees it to be exciting and Teresa sees it to be wonderful, and she tells Emily and Baz they're lucky to find all the bones. Baz then says that Teresa will then give the skeleton to the Birdwell Island Museum, so they could look at it anytime they want to. Teresa then tells Emily and Baz it won't be as wonderful unless they could find just one last bone to make the Stegosaurus' head stay on. Teresa shows Emily and Baz what the last bone looks like in her paleontology book, which is pretty small, sort of like a pin. So Emily, Baz, Teresa, and the dogs keep one digging in determine to find the last bone.
However, after four hours of digging, they're unable to find it. Baz is tired and Emily starts to not think they'll ever find the bone. Clifford, Cleo and Mac were tired too. Cleo feels like they dug up the whole place and Mac thinks they should just give up, and Clifford thinks they might find the bone tomorrow. Cleo then notices that T-Bone isn't with them. Clifford tells Cleo that he's still working, since T-Bone really wants to find it. Mac couldn't believe that T-Bone never gives up. Baz then also starts to not think they're going to find the last bone and Emily apologizes to Teresa that they couldn't find it. Teresa then tells Emily and Baz they might never find it, since finding every bone fossil of an entire dinosaur is pretty lime. Just then, they hear T-Bone barking, and Baz thinks he might have found something. When Cleo and Mac run up to him and look down in the hoke he dug, they start barking too. When Clifford, Emily, Baz and Teresa arrive and look into the hole, Teresa gets excited, because T-Bone had found the bone. Teresa then thanks T-Bone for finding the last dinosaur bone, and reminding them that how important it is to keep trying and to never give up.
When the Stegosaurus skeleton was finally complete, Teresa wants to get a picture of all her helpers. So Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone, Mac, Emily, Baz and all the paleontologists get in front of the skeleton. Teresa wants T-Bone to stand right in the middle, which he does. Teresa then tells everyone to say, "Dinosaur." "Dinosaur," everyone says, and Teresa takes a picture with her camera of Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone, Mac, Emily, Baz and the paleontologists with the Stegosaurus skeleton. 
==Notes==
==Trivia:==
*This is the final Season 1 themes.
*This is the final Season 1 episode of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
*This episode was the final aired in 2001.
*This is the last appearance in Clifford the Big Red Dog: Volume 4 (2001).
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