Dinosaurs 3x19 If I Were a Tree

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First Aired: Apr. 18, 1993 on ABC

Summary: In this fairy tale episode, Ethyl tells Baby a story about a tree pusher Earl who was about to push down a spirit tree which switched his soul for him become a tree and the spirit tree to become Earl. When Roy brings Spirit home to the Sinclair family, he can't help to understand what has…
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Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Earl Sinclair	played by Bill Barretta
B.P. Richfield	played by Allan Trautman
Spirit of the Tree	voiced by David Warner
Robbie Sinclair	played by Steve Whitmire
B.P. Richfield	played by Steve Whitmire
Robbie Sinclair	voiced by Jason Willinger
Earl Sinclair	played by Mak Wilson
Kyle	played by Julianne Buescher

Episode Quotes

Fran Sinclair: [to Earl] You were in the tree and [looks] oh my - the tree! [the storm has torn down the tree WeSaySo was to blow up]
Ethyl Phillups: [narrating the end of the story] There is a time when each of us shall return to the Earth, this was the tree's time, but it was nature that decided, nature, and not the dinosaur.

Ethyl Phillups: [wrapping up If You Were a Tree] Good story, eh?
Baby: Stupid!
Ethyl Phillups: Why do you say that?
Baby: The tree pusher, he didn't learn anything, stupid!
Ethyl Phillups: But did YOU learn something?
Baby: [realization]... Yeah.

Baby: Wait a minute! Lightning struck twice in the same place?

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Trivia

The title is based on a question asked by interviewer Barbara Walters of movie actress Katharine Hepburn about if she was a tree, what kind would she be.