Netflix Jr. is Netflix’s children-oriented division. Originally developed as a suite of apps and a YouTube channel in 2012 focused on music and learning, it has evolved to include a host of Netflix-exclusive content, including popular shows like CoComelon, Gabby’s Dollhouse, and the new Bad Dinosaurs.

Bad Dinosaurs

Bad Dinosaurs follows the escapades of a mischievous Tyrannosaurus Rex family as they navigate their colorful prehistoric world. Amidst slapstick hijinx, they encounter a cast of silly dinosaurs who inhabit their desert-like prehistoric environment. Created by Joel Veitch, David Shute, and Alex Mallinson, this show offers a playful glimpse into the lives of these ancient reptiles.

PARENTAL NOTES

Fart, Poop, Pee, Puke

• There are a lot – like a lot lot – of fart gags; at least one in every episode.
  • A noxious green gas represents each fart.
• Urine gags are used multiple times.
  • Several instances of dinos peeing in pools of water filled with other dinos who were enjoying the pools.
  • At least once, a dino pees directly into a predator’s eye. We aren’t shown any genitalia, but we do see the stream with its point of origin only just out of frame.
• In one episode, a brachiosaurus drops a house-sized deuce, which becomes the story’s main focus.
  • At one point, it rolls downhill, and all of the main characters get stuck in it.
• Several episodes involve violent and prolonged projectile vomit.
• Some feathery raptors have their hind feathers plucked, and their rumps are very human in appearance.
  • Their bare bottoms are frequently used for gags.
    • On at least one occasion, a young dinosaur wedges himself within one of the raptor’s butt cracks and is launched out.

The Carnivores Gotta Carnivore

• The T-Rexes regularly eat other animals that are portrayed as having the same level of intelligence and awareness as themselves.
  • None of the deaths are gruesome, and few are on screen, but they definitely happen (mainly in the first few episodes).
• There’s some intense and high-stake violence in this season. However, any possible deaths are left ambiguous.

WOKE REPORT

None – really

• The T-Rex family doesn’t have a dad around, yet she gets pregnant during the season. However, the show plays both sides of the reality and cartoon isle. Most animals in nature don’t mate for life or co-raise their young, but it is notable that other of the show’s dinosaurs do co-parent with their mate.
  • That said, there’s nothing in this that seems ideologically driven, so I didn’t mark the woke score down for it.