Had to pause cause it almost seemed added in afterwards lol. It reminded me of the Boondocks episodes where Thugnificent says his crew is willing to die for their chains except 1 dude in the background is like "Uhh no" without hesitation.
I very distinctly remember those egg stealing dinosaurs so much that I forgot they weren’t in the original film, like in my mind they are the main villains of the whole franchise that egg song really must have got to me
"This video will contain spoilers for the Land Before Time franchise" I literally paused for a moment to decide if I could live with the 14 LBT sequels being spoiled for me.
Dew Drinker6 Watched them as a kid as well but I still think I only got to number 8 which was the newest at the time. Got the VHS, started watching it, paused because I was losing interest and then I think I just never came back to it lol.
Indeed, Jebby Nicholson truly is the provider of hard hitting journalism when we need it the most, a feat which I am sure will be acknowledged by the Longman once again sooner or later.
I particularly love the line "I remember seeing trailers for a sequel where the main kids befriend a baby T-Rex and being intrigued by this." As if child Jenny was sitting watching TV and thought to herself "Hm yes, thats an interesting departure, I'm looking forward to seeing where they take this, could make for some interesting character drama."
"The Yellowbellies are named Loofa, Doofa, and Foobi. I hate them terribly, these awful idiot dinosaurs" is such a powerful line so full of scorn I feel like it could be from some long lost Edgar Allen Poe short story
That joke is imprinted in my brain, I barely remember most LBT sequel plot points besides all the plots revolving around extinction events AND all the cartoonish references to ways dinos would die tragically often being preserved as fossils, like all the goop (very existential for cheery kid cartoons), but that joke is the one thing that reminds me I saw many of them
It would be kinda cute if Chomper taught his friends how to speak T-Rex. When I was younger, my friends would teach me basic greetings and conversation in the language their parents spoke, and as a result I know basic Bengali, Spanish, French, and Japanese.
@@CharlieQuebec-fb6ho I don't think OP is saying it's cute for real people to be bilingual, but is instead saying that it's cute for a fictional dinosaur child to be like real people in a weirdly specific way.
Ok, so the “EEEEEEGS” villain was definitely a meme in my household growing up. Like whenever my mom said she was cooking eggs she would use that voice. And completely randomly we would burst into his villain song. The Eggs villain is ICONIC.
"What will be my next topic..." (Gazes across pool of plushies) "So I've decided to play all the Putt-Putt the Car and Freddie Fish games, and place them all- In A Numbered List~!"
It honestly makes me wonder what her storage situation is, because she rotates them in and out for different videos, and it's likely we haven't even seen all of them yet. Where in her house is she storing all of them?
The ‘Ugliness’ of the Dinosaur designs is something I would defend about the original movie. The whole movie had an ‘Ugliness’ to it, a layer of texture and realism that is often completely ignored in kids movies. The movie’s imagery stuck in kids minds, or at least mine, because its ugliness was memorable and fascinating. I think that the idea that kids prefer ‘cute’ characters and designs has more to do with ease of visual processing and the perception of kids themselves as cute. Children are often drawn to ugly, frightening, or dirty things out of a natural curiosity. The ugliness of these Dinosaurs presents a realness that I think many kids crave.
I totally agree, Bluth seemed to be interested in merging cute with gritty. Though, I remember some movies leaning on just the cute side and being pretty lame.
Idk, I remember being a kid and really disliking the character design in the films precisely because it was wrinkly and gummy and bleh. Plenty of people have very fond memories of Disney films and their character designs which are far more visually appealing.
The original designs kind of remind me of those old story books with the gold spine decal. I remember thinking most of those characters were hideous and dated in style even as a kid. I didn't mind the Land Before Dinosaurs though for some reason
"Get It Together, Petrie, You're 45." hahaha, that got me. I'm Aria Curzon, voice of Ducky in films 5-14 and the TV series. I'm starting a podcast, and am talking with Rob Paulsen today (Spike, Yakko Warner, Pinky, and more) and during my refresher course on our history together, I came across your video. This was fun to watch, thank you for making it! :)
Let me get this straight. a) Chomper can’t talk when he’s super young b) Chomper CAN talk when he gets a bit older (but he’s still youngish) c) Chompers parents can’t talk So is there only a small window for T-Rex’s to talk? Or is it that Chomper spent enough time with the gang that he can speak some of their Dino language? I’m intrigued and fascinated by this for no important reason.
Chomper's parents can talk (I used to watch 5 the most as a kid, and I remember Chomper needed to translate for the other Dinos), T-rex's have their own language, but Chomper stuck around the main cast long enough to learn theirs.
What if they have the intellectual capacity for speech, but their mouths just physically can't make that shape? There's some low-key body horror in the idea that as Chomper grows up he gradually loses his ability to enunciate (while still being fully capable of forming sentences in his head).
I think a big part of why LBT1 resonated with me as a kid, aside from the fact that I was raised in a Christian community, was the fact that my parents had to explain death to me at a very young age because I had a disabled sister who could drop dead at any moment. Bami and Lion King both had deaths in them, but it wasn't handled the same way as it was in LBT1. They really showed Littlefoot's grieving process; seeing her shadow and thinking it's her, being so depressed he won't eat even when he's starving, getting irrationally angry and blaming her for her own death, and clinging to the memory of her throughout the whole film. It didn't just cut away from the sad part and skip years ahead in time or have Littlefoot just immediately get over it and go to a desert and declare himself Littlefoot Skywalker, it really portrayed the pain of losing a loved one.
TBH I never got why Bambi's mum was such a big deal when her death was glossed over so fast. Land Before Time made you sit in those feelings and process the concepts of death & grief. (Then again, maybe that's WHY so many kids couldn't get over Ma Bambi.)
Further proof of Chomper being the best character is in the cartoon. The cartoon has a reoccurring villain in Red Claw and his two goons Thud and Screech. In one episode, Chomper and Duckie get stranded on a ledge with Thud, and the entire time Thud tries to eat them but his tail is stuck in a pile of rubble so he can't reach. Thud ends up mocking Chomper and telling him that no one is coming, but of course he's proven wrong and when the gang comes back to save Chomper and Duckie, Thud looks incredibly defeated as he resigns himself to being stuck since he knows of course no one is coming for him. Then Chomper turns around and helps Thud lighten the load off his tail. He doesn't free him entirely, but he pushes enough rocks away so that Thud could wiggle his way out with some effort after everyone left. The conflict ends with Thud repaying his debt to Chomper by leading Red Claw on a false trail when he knew Chomper and the gang were cornered. Chomper saved the life of a dino who unapologetically tried to eat him and his friends on multiple occasions and insulted him and his friends multiple times and clearly had no remorse for his actions. Chomper is _the_ best boy.
I like how Little Foot is sitting in the corner of the frame, looking down at the ground, tears in his eyes, having a mental breakdown as a mean lady is dunking on his films
I love your videos, Jenny! As the voice of "Cera" in the Land Before Time franchise and "Phoebe" in Hey Arnold (which you talk about in another one of your videos), I may be slightly biased ;)
not me just now finding out her name was Cera like triceratops and not Sarah.....i feel very dumb i always found it weird she had a human name and not a dino name like the others 🤦♀️
I was never a huge Uncle Pterano fan per se but i was pretty disappointed when i found out that, after LBT7 ended with him being exiled for "five cold times", LBT12 (which came out five years later) was called Great Day of the Flyers but did not feature Pterano's dramatic return.
The first film was translated as “In search of the Enchanted Valley” in Spain, and the fact that they kept it as the title for all the sequels, just adding in a subtitle, meant that our general understanding of the premise was that they spent 14 films looking for the damned valley and they still had not found it by the end.
Same in italy ahaha :D TBF, they probably didn't know that it was going to spawn a franchise at the time so it worked for the first one and then they had to stuck with it :P
I babysit a kid who loves dinosaurs and reads all these dinosaur fact books and the sequels with feathered dinosaurs are her favorite. She calls them "the BETTER dinosaurs" and I love that.
Same here, had a lot of fictional father figures but Doc and Cassim (Aladdins dad) were my top. Which honestly says a lot as they're both absent father figures as well
I did this with Hey Arnold's dad THE ONE THAT WAS NEVER THERE! (I'm sorry) lol. Actually Mr. Nguyen was a pretty good role model. I took my advice from Uncle Iroh as I got a bit older. Both shows still rules.
I had the opposite experience 😔 I feel like I've seen 1 or 2 but based off Jenny's synopsis and the clips I cannot figure out which of the 14 I've seen lmao.
I loved the Land Before Time movies growing up particularly because of the aspect that Littlefoot is raised by his grandparent's as I myself pretty much was. I loved seeing that represented, in fact I loved that the movie feature incredibly diverse parents and guardians all round. From Cera's single father eventually remarrying and becoming a blended family. Spikes adoption and being raised alongside Ducky and her siblings. And Peetrees single mother I just loved it.
I very vaguely remember watching one of these. I had no idea there were more! pretty sure my mom found the dvd in a discount section of biedronka or carrefour
In one of the sequels it was revealed that his name may have been Topsy. Not sure if that's his real name or just a nickname. You can decide which one it is 🙂
as it became clear chomper was making a return, i gasped and exclaimed “chomper???” only for littlefoot to do the exact same thing, in the exact same tone, five seconds later
Yes! Mysterious Island was always my favorite. It was actually kind of a holy grail for me as well, since it was the only one we had recorded off of Cartoon Network's old Cartoon Theater. For some reason we never labeled the VHS, so I would always have to hunt for it and mostly found it by chance. It was also very special to me because of how Chomper and his parents spoke. I might be misremembering, but I think subtitles appeared for their conversations. At that time, I was living in the US but my english was still very weak, and I was made fun of constantly for speaking two languages. My father told me that when we talk, we're just like Chomper and his parents: only we could understand one another, and that doesn't make it weird, it makes it special. He said that meant the sharptooths had their own lives nobody else could understand, and they were happy that way. But because Chomper spoke both languages, he could have friends and lives in two worlds. It really helped me with my self-confidence, and because of that it always has a place in my heart.
I'm sorry you were bullied because you are bilingual. If you're in the US, it does seem that a lot of white people have a deep insecurity about only speaking one language (unlike most of the world). That's a really great observation! Each of the dinosaur families had a different arrangement (raised by single mom, grandparents, adopted etc) it just makes sense to add a bilingual family too. Thanks for your perspective!
@@celisewillis Thank you! That is an interesting idea, I had never thought of the series in that way, but it's true! And yes, I'm still in the US, and my English has improved a lot. I now view being bilingual as a source of pride for myself (not that I feel superior to others, but that it is a special gift). I appreciate your words! I sincerely hope that things have gotten much better for kids in my circumstances in schools now than when I was young. I don't know if that's the case, but I don't wish that on any child. I actually work in the medical field now specifically helping immigrants from my home country, so I always try to encourage them to not look down on themselves. People like you make life so much easier for everyone!
i still have sudden flashbacks to BBBBW whenever im near an ocean or lake i physically have to stop myself from bursting into song like a two-bit broadway-knockoff
My mom tricked me into eating lettuce by pretending they were “tree stars” and hiding the leaves around the house. Your comment about inspiring play hit me hard, especially seeing all the clips bringing back those memories. Thank you!!
Okay but the perfect comedic timing of the grandpa calmly responding to a question and then instantly passing out, plus the insnae noise of him his giant now-unconscious body hitting the rocks
TBH, a setup involving "we can't eat the Tree Sweets before Nibbling Day" turning into Littlefoot attempting to prevent a casually-declared genocide of tinysauruses is pretty close to the parody of these movies I might have made without having seen them.
Imagine beating the odds to make it in the highly competitive field of animation after the doubts and disdain of your parents and family, after hours of learning animation software and taking art classes and practicing and applying everywhere that has any job opening. This is it. This is the culmination of a life's dream, a dream you've held in your heart since you were a little kid watching cartoons on Saturday mornings. You are about to become more than a mere artist, you're going to become a true creator- and then they tell you you're animating the Guido sleepwalking scene.
@@BvousBrainSystems I could be wrong but flash animation could be used to emulate 2D, and many kids shows around that time were using that technology to animate what people classified as 2D. typically not as well done but you could still cut corners regardless, esp during a 12 minute clip like that lol
When you casually said “Sarah is racist” I laughed out loud Something about using the word ‘racist’ to describe a cartoon baby dinosaur is truly surreal
If I had a toy company, I would legit hire you as a consultant. You have a deep understanding of how and why children play the way they do - information that so many adults just seem to forget along the way (or just don't care enough). As adults we too often put our own ideas of fun into toys and activities and forget the whole point of playing (imagination, social skills, physical coordination, empathy, understanding how things work).
I just noticed this was 58 mins long lmao I’m in 52:34 and I don’t even watch her channel and watched ANY of the land before time but now I feel like I watched all of them because of her Lmao She definitely is a witch
@@TheGadgetPanda That's fair, and I guess I don't totally agree with my original statement either. I don't have literally 0 interest in the topics discussed, I just have such a minor interest that it's interesting to see a topic explored in depth and with extensive research that I couldn't be bothered to go that deeply into otherwise. I've seen maybe the original Land Before Time, but there's a version of me that might have been kept up with it and watched more in the series. I think that's why I enjoy the videos like this or about them parks or whatever; it's not something I have enough interest in to devote myself to learning about but is still slightly interesting enough that watching someone else's deep analysis can be entertaining. But if you have *literally* no knowledge of or interest in the topic at hand, then maybe you don't actually get anything out of it.
Me: "I'm pretty sure I've never seen any of the LBT sequels either." 34:00 : "EGGS!" Me: An instant, *scarring* flashback deep into childhood memories I did not know I had, the voice of this dinosaur saying "eggs" tattooed indelibly on the deepest recesses of my mind in flaming letters 40 feet high, the dinosaur saying "eggs" over and over as my grip on reality slowly loosens, etc.
Yes! I know I had once seen this sometime decades ago and had zero memory of anything that happened in it, and then the "eggs" thing was like having a movie-style flashback.
The first Land Before Time is probably the most significant movie to my childhood because it was about death in a more visceral way than any movie I'd seen before. Not just cause Littlefoot's mom died, but because the world around them was dying, and even as a kid (like probably 4 or 5) I knew the dinosaurs went extinct so I knew deep down that all of these characters were dead in some sense. There's even a scene where Littlefoot talks to an old dinosaur about his mom's death that I still think about from time to time. I know that it may seem like a thin movie as an adult, but I swear as a kid that movie had a huge impact on my understanding of death and how to process it.
not to mention that littlefoot's mother's death has literally stuck with me all my life. like i still sob when i watch it once in a blue moon. just something about how it was done - the score, the voice acting - really just is like a conduit about all my childhood fears about losing my mother. if it was to watch the movie again i'd probably be bored, but no matter what that scene will always have an impact on me
i respect that movie for how overtly hostile the world is. It seems like a movie for toddlers but it scared the crap out of me when i was a kid. literally everything is out to get them and the visuals are so visceral and terrifying
I feel the same way. I still have trouble watching THAT scene. And now that I'm almost forty and have lost a lot of family, including my mother, and dealt with hard times, it seems so much more poignant.
As a kid, we all decided that Littlefood et al. DID die, and the whole finding the Great Valley was some sort of hallucination/after-death vision or something. I mean, it just REALLY wasn't plausible that after everything the kids went through, they were just going to hop on home and everyone was going to be fine.
“troublesome younger-than-the-main-character” characters SUCK and they always just annoyed me and gave me anxiety as a kid (because they would often get the main character blamed for something or just... act like bratty toddlers.)
I was a youngest sibling and I still hated that trope! I would always get saddled with those characters playing even though they were annoying and caused trouble. I also resented being told i had to be looked after all the time when all of us were irresponsible kids
We have a local drag family that all names themselves after the Topps family because their names all have accidental double entendre. "Cera Topps" (Share a top), "Daddy Topps", (Daddy tops), and Tria Topps (Try a top). They had a new drag king join briefly, named "Juan Topps" (Want tops?) but he only performed for like 4 months before quitting. Its a deep cut. For sure. I think they've also performed a few of the LBT songs.
At the 2 minute mark, I nearly paused this video when Jenny said "spoiler alert" because I briefly considered ALSO watching all 14 land before times because QUARANTINE.
I went into this like "I've definitely seen the original and I think we had one or two of the sequels, but I probably won't remember any of them" and then every time a movie was described I was violently beamed back to 2007
Exactly the same for me! I knew for sure I had watched the 3rd one and someone had sat me down at some point to watch the 1st one, but then whenever I heard a description or saw a clip of all the other movies my brain was like, 'oh, yeah, we've seen that' 😅 '....What!? When? How? Where are these memories coming from!'
Also, the Mo isn't a Dolphin nor a Dinosaur. It is marine reptile part of the family of Ithyosauridae. He's either an Ithyosaurud or an Ophtalmosaurus. But I believe he's canonically considered an Ophtalmosaurus. This, and the fact the Sharptooth in this movie is a Liopleurodon, really ties this entry with the documentary "Walking with Dinosaurs", namely the episode centered on the sea. Both Liopleurodon and Ophtalmosaurus appear in it.
My sisters were at the right age to enjoy these movies, I only remember the first. But one night they rented Number 7. My mom fell asleep, and woke up right when the credits rolled. She asked "What happened? How did it end?" And my stunned 11 year old sister said "Aliens came. Then they left." And neither sister ever asked to see any more of these movies.
Wait what?! I own most of the Land Before Time movies of VHS somewhere in my house, but I don’t think I’ve seen the last two or three. I certainly don’t remember aliens lmao. I’ll have to revisit all of them now, if only to relive my childhood
i know jenny doesnt read the comments but i was honestly having a pretty rough day, i live in minnesota and things are very tense here right now. finding out jenny posted an hour long video about a nostalgic childhood franchise legit made me cry. thank you emotional support youtuber. anyways hope everyone is doing well
Dang, I had a friend who used to sing "big big big big data" every time she saw a poster advertising big data training at our local library, I had no idea she was referencing a land before time song
The original movie still has such an emotional significance for me that when Jenny played like a two second clip of Littlefoot’s mom talking I started crying
The land before time journey through the mists was literally one of my favorites as a child. As a child whenever I would feel sick or have an upset stomach the only thing I would eat was nightflower toast 😂. It was just toast with butter, cinnamon and sugar. But my mom called it nightflower toast so I would eat it and think I was going to be healed.
Were we raised in the same house hold??? You just made me feel things..... (except my mom plainly called it cinnamon toast) but eating it on weekend mornings watching that movie is such a strong memory
AndreNitro X1000 omg now way. My mom and older sister would call broccoli tree stars for me! I also once ate grass hoping to experience the joy tree stars brought the characters in LBT
00:00 intro 2:05 14: XIII, the wisdom of friends 3:11 13: XII, the great day of the flyers 6:05 12: VII, the stone of cold fire 9:10 11: IV, journey through the mists 12:51 10: XI, the invasion of the tinysauruses 16:19 9: VI, the secret of saurus rock 19:05 8: III, the time of the great giving 21:56 7: VIII, the big freeze 24:16 6: XIV, the journey of the brave 28:57 5: IX, journey to big water 31:07 4: II, the great valley adventure 35:34 3: I, the land before time 42:02 2: X, the great longneck migration 46:59 1: V, the mysterious island
so, it's actually my fault ruby is bright pink. when i was four, my dad was developing the land before time tv show and showed me four potential designs for the new character: ruby. he asked me which one i liked best and, being a stereotypical preschool girl, chose the pepto-bismol pink design because it was pink and my favorite color was pink. originally ruby's dots were going to be purple (per the design preschool me chose because i also liked purple) but then i guess they realized they named a character ruby and she needed to also be red.
@@draculena yep yep yep (lmao, sorry, it was right there)! it is also my fault that ducky's first instinct when in the cave of many voices in the first episode of the tv show is to shout "ah-ooh-gah." my dad called my mom when she was picking me up from preschool to ask me what i would yell in an echoing cave and i, being four, came up with an old car horn sound because i thought it was funny? i'm fuzzy on the why, but i definitely remember yelling "ah-ooh-gah" and it ended up being in the show, lol.
@@blokey8 sorry if this is a joke that i'm ruining because i didn't get it, but, psychobilly is a discrete genre (that i don't think normally includes banjo). think "punk/hardcore band plays johnny cash"
I definitely remember Daddy Topps the most. He was always mean for no reason but he represented so many kids' experience of having a friend whose parents you couldn't imagine having as your own parent. But like that's also their dad and you know they love them, but you're so glad you have a parent that isn't like that. IDK that really stuck with me.
"I have no sense of time in these movies" Well, yeah, the whole point is that these take place BEFORE time. No time, no sense of sequential orderly plot, no way to determine reasonable lengths of time to spend on plot points, no hope that the movie will end soon, no worry about whether we've all done this same plot before.
I can’t stop thinking about the fact that sleepwalking bit goes on for 12 minutes… that’s insane! I could boil and eat an egg and that dinosaur would still be walking about
I just remember wanting to eat salad because they portrayed the leaves as being so tasty... ...good way to get the kids to eat their veggies, also a good way to disappoint them as well.
When you said "LBT fandom" I misheard it as "LGBT" and I didn't even question that the gay community was apparently really into the land before Time movies
I remember when I came to England and could only say like really basic, bare sentences in the language. Me and my friends had watched Land before Time and they, cermeoniously under the monkey bars; dubbed me Chomper, because I didin't speak English. It made me honestly feel a lot more happy and open to making dumb mistakes when speaking and thats probably the only reason I went out of my way to teach my friends my OG language and to learn theirs. We all got codenames from that movie based on our characteristics. Land before time is a product of the time! (literally). Honestly in general, plop kid me down and play all these movies and I would be entertained for HOURS. They opened up a whole new door to play pretend, some were lazy and uninspiring yeah but thats basically any child-oriented franchise that streched out their one mildly succesful movie on a little too long. I honestly love and will always love LBT, all 14 movies of it.
See also John Bellairs's spooky books for younger folk (if you haven't). He was raised by his grandparents, & his protagonists are mostly raised by not-their-parents (grandparents; uncle & uncle's neighbor) & have eccentric older role-models.
The original film was unfamiliar to me for years because my mom found the "dead mom" aspect too distressing, so we never watched it. Her mom died of cancer when she was a toddler. The Great Valley Adventure VHS was burned into my brain instead! She was really weird about Finding Nemo when it came out, for the same reason. She, uh...she has issues.
I love the little “peanut gallery” comment from the land of mist bronto when grandma asks who will take her to get the medicine, and the one bronto is like “fuck that”
I’m pretty sure the land before time is the reason why I assumed quicksand and tar pits would be a much bigger threat in my life than they really have been
About the cowboy dinosaur: it's highly likely that they did use their tails as weapons and that they did make sonic lashing sounds when doing so, since the potential force was comparable to an actual whip cracking. It's entirely spot-on with our current understanding of them, for some reason.
Actually, not sure using them as weapon. But the whip cracking sound would definetly be there, although the diplodocid Mamenchisaurus has a mace on the tail to top it off, because having a literal whip and being larger than several buses is not enough.
When you mentioned the Cowboy Dinosaur I genuinally expected him to be wearing a cowboy hat and Lasso. I'm disappointed and surprised that was not the case.
The egg song is double as bad and funny in finnish dub, because the word egg in finnish is also a nickname for testicles. I remember me and my cousin laughing like Beavis and Butthead while watching that scene, constantly rewinding it over and over.
Daddy Topps saying 'There is no fair when it comes to survival' and a rock song playing while he does what i assume is dancing, lives rent free in my head.
i cannot overstate how much i am weirded out by the english version of the land before time. if you didn't know the russian version is voiced by one person. and when i mean one person I DO mean 1 person. every single character has the same tired male voice of a 45 year old. and you would be like well that's weird BUUT one person can still differentiate characters by doing small voice inflection, maybe an accent, maybe raise the voice or make the pitch higher for girl characters. and like.... you would think that woudnt you....... buuuuuuuut GUESS WHAT???? he DOSNT do that!!! the guy voicing all the characters doesn't even try to differentiate them!! and the funniest thing,,, THE FUNNIEST thing about rewatching russian voiced LBF is that you cAN HEAR THE ENGLISH VERSION IN THE BACKGROUND!! And in that english language in the background the characters can be heard emoting, they have the "scary voice" the "happy voice" and the voice actors clearly working. BUUUUT in the foreground the russian translation that goes on top of all the sounds (yes even sound effects) is loud af, doesn't even have any emotions and is the SAME VOICE for all the characters. and I only realised that you english people don't have that experience of all characters sounding the same like as i was watching this video and that was so strange to me. I highly recommend finding russian version of LBT and just hearing the voiceover, cos honestly you need to experience it.
Seems like a typical Eastern European thing. I remember, back when I still watched TV, randomly landing on what I assumed to be a Polish channel and it was some kind of TV show running. And all you could hear was this one man talking over actual people of both sexes and all ages talking. And he didn't even try, didn't even BOTHER, to synchronise his speech. The people would stop talking but you could still hear that guy droning on. I was perplexed by what I was seeing back then but now I get a good laugh whenever I think back to it.
As of this reply, I can't find the videos, the russian versions I found have several voice actors. having said that, the Eggs song from LBT2 is SO much better in russian.
I seriously cannot believe you have the hot take that number 5 is the best one. I would watch that one over and over again as a child, way more than the others and this video actually helped me understand why little me was so obsessed. it checked ALL the boxes!
ik this came out 2 years ago but looking back “daddy topps” just breaking out in a random tune without lyrics and looking in a different direction as if he’s aware and confused by the fact a song started is so funny without context 20:10
"his name is Guido and he's just hideous" me introducing my d&d characters to the table
I laughed out loud at this comment
Greedo on his way to be shot by Han.
I'm playing a skeleton bard called David Bonie and no I won't change
Me trying to introduce my ocs to someone
"Now I'm Super Guido!"-Actual line from PS1 Persona 1
11:04 "I have no sense of time in these films"
That's because it's th-
It's the Land B-
Dang, they got rocks dropped on their head before they could finish their explanation.
those dinosaurs would lose their minds if they discovered clocks. calendars, even
lol
It's ok, take your time
@@sweatyskeleton7390 WHAT TIME???
Granny Bront: "Cousins, who will take me to the Night Flower?"
Some random bronto, immediately, with no shame at all: "Not me."
It finally happened to me! Synchronized comment-scrolling and audio. Thanks for transcribing the video, stranger!
Heard that and was immediately like "Wow dude, at least pretend to give it some thought. Not like you can fit in the purgatory cave anyway." 😂
Meanwhile a girl to a boy "Wanna play with me??"
Had to pause cause it almost seemed added in afterwards lol. It reminded me of the Boondocks episodes where Thugnificent says his crew is willing to die for their chains except 1 dude in the background is like "Uhh no" without hesitation.
10:45 I love how it’s so quiet at that point too lol. Like no emotional music, just a little bit of crickets.
I very distinctly remember those egg stealing dinosaurs so much that I forgot they weren’t in the original film, like in my mind they are the main villains of the whole franchise that egg song really must have got to me
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"This video will contain spoilers for the Land Before Time franchise"
I literally paused for a moment to decide if I could live with the 14 LBT sequels being spoiled for me.
Just wait till we get to the 14 LGBT sequels.
I didn’t have to pause. I’ve watched them as they came out since I grew out of them lmao
Lol, i love how self aware you are about worrying about it.
Thumbs up!
Dew Drinker6 Watched them as a kid as well but I still think I only got to number 8 which was the newest at the time. Got the VHS, started watching it, paused because I was losing interest and then I think I just never came back to it lol.
After watching The Big Freeze some 10 years ago and absolutely being bored by it, I am glad someone else is spoiling the rest of the movies for me.
"I have no sense of time in these films" feels like an accurate thing to say for a series titled "The Land before Time."
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I don't think I can forgive you for spoiling the entire Land Before Time Cinematic Universe.
@@mayday-tz4dv lmao
this is the hard hitting journalism we need in these unprecedented times
There are apparently 14 Land Before Times? That qualifies as news to me.
@@TacticusPrime I'm surprised there are only 14...at least so far
Indeed, Jebby Nicholson truly is the provider of hard hitting journalism when we need it the most, a feat which I am sure will be acknowledged by the Longman once again sooner or later.
@ just like that "rocket" "they" fake "sent" "'into" the "sky".
XD
Wait...
Did...did you comment this exactly a day before.....
I particularly love the line "I remember seeing trailers for a sequel where the main kids befriend a baby T-Rex and being intrigued by this."
As if child Jenny was sitting watching TV and thought to herself
"Hm yes, thats an interesting departure, I'm looking forward to seeing where they take this, could make for some interesting character drama."
but also that.
"The Yellowbellies are named Loofa, Doofa, and Foobi. I hate them terribly, these awful idiot dinosaurs" is such a powerful line so full of scorn I feel like it could be from some long lost Edgar Allen Poe short story
was gonna like but nevermind
I know this is an old comment, but this sent me into a fit of hysterics, oh my god thank you
NOOOOOO
well i guesss at least i can like now
That's got some Werner Herzog dissing chickens energy
i have revisited this video probably seven times and it's solely because of this line
"I wouldn't let Daddy Topps in my Great Valley" is the most innuendo I've ever heard in one of Jenny's videos.
I just passed that point in the review and started laughing like a twelve year old.
omg how did I not catch that, that's hilarious
This, Jenny, is where we differ.
😂
My favorite bit in LBT 5 was when Chomper's parents see him with the gang and tell him not to play with his food.
That joke is imprinted in my brain, I barely remember most LBT sequel plot points besides all the plots revolving around extinction events AND all the cartoonish references to ways dinos would die tragically often being preserved as fossils, like all the goop (very existential for cheery kid cartoons), but that joke is the one thing that reminds me I saw many of them
I recall a bit where they see Chopper singing while gathering plants for the others and one of them goes “Sometimes I worry about that boy.”
Chomper’s bilingual status is kinda cute. Like a Latino kid who speaks English in school but Spanish to their parents.
It would be kinda cute if Chomper taught his friends how to speak T-Rex. When I was younger, my friends would teach me basic greetings and conversation in the language their parents spoke, and as a result I know basic Bengali, Spanish, French, and Japanese.
You have some weird views on bilingual people
@@CharlieQuebec-fb6ho wait, is it weird?
@@CharlieQuebec-fb6ho I don't think OP is saying it's cute for real people to be bilingual, but is instead saying that it's cute for a fictional dinosaur child to be like real people in a weirdly specific way.
I agree chomper is the best and Chomper's parents are also good sharpteeth
Ok, so the “EEEEEEGS” villain was definitely a meme in my household growing up. Like whenever my mom said she was cooking eggs she would use that voice. And completely randomly we would burst into his villain song. The Eggs villain is ICONIC.
I would regularly loom over my little sisters and go "YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE EGGS!! THRICE A DAY, AT LEAST!!"
Oviraptors are great.
Even if these lack the iconic oviraptor crest and beak, I'm gonna call them oviraptors, because they're raptoring ova.
Yessssss! 😂😂😂 I used to sing this all the time! Props to your mom for starting a hilarious family tradition and memory!
Me and my brothers grew up watching the Dutch dub of the second movie and it became a meme in our household too: EIERENNN!
My parents still bring that shit up today
jenny’s constant ownership of plushes that are relevant to the topic at hand never ceases to amaze me
"What will be my next topic..."
(Gazes across pool of plushies)
"So I've decided to play all the Putt-Putt the Car and Freddie Fish games, and place them all- In A Numbered List~!"
Must consooooom
I wish I owned anywhere near that many plushies :(
It honestly makes me wonder what her storage situation is, because she rotates them in and out for different videos, and it's likely we haven't even seen all of them yet. Where in her house is she storing all of them?
@@Readasaur Some of them are HUUUGE too. That huge aragon spider and Large porg must have rooms to themselves.
The ‘Ugliness’ of the Dinosaur designs is something I would defend about the original movie. The whole movie had an ‘Ugliness’ to it, a layer of texture and realism that is often completely ignored in kids movies. The movie’s imagery stuck in kids minds, or at least mine, because its ugliness was memorable and fascinating. I think that the idea that kids prefer ‘cute’ characters and designs has more to do with ease of visual processing and the perception of kids themselves as cute. Children are often drawn to ugly, frightening, or dirty things out of a natural curiosity. The ugliness of these Dinosaurs presents a realness that I think many kids crave.
I totally agree, Bluth seemed to be interested in merging cute with gritty. Though, I remember some movies leaning on just the cute side and being pretty lame.
Idk, I remember being a kid and really disliking the character design in the films precisely because it was wrinkly and gummy and bleh. Plenty of people have very fond memories of Disney films and their character designs which are far more visually appealing.
The dinosaurs were ugly? As a kid, I found the designs endearing.
or, at least distinct character design (rather than, "ugliness")
The original designs kind of remind me of those old story books with the gold spine decal. I remember thinking most of those characters were hideous and dated in style even as a kid. I didn't mind the Land Before Dinosaurs though for some reason
"Past the edge of dawn" is quite a poetic lyric for the seventh straight-to-tv sequel of a kid's franchise.
"Get It Together, Petrie, You're 45." hahaha, that got me. I'm Aria Curzon, voice of Ducky in films 5-14 and the TV series. I'm starting a podcast, and am talking with Rob Paulsen today (Spike, Yakko Warner, Pinky, and more) and during my refresher course on our history together, I came across your video. This was fun to watch, thank you for making it! :)
Wow! That’s poggers!
hey, ur one of my hero’s and ily :)
I love you
@@waynek7953 Wow. Show some respect. It's okay to have an opinion, but show some respect.
@@Whimsy3692 why don't you stfu?
Let me get this straight.
a) Chomper can’t talk when he’s super young
b) Chomper CAN talk when he gets a bit older (but he’s still youngish)
c) Chompers parents can’t talk
So is there only a small window for T-Rex’s to talk? Or is it that Chomper spent enough time with the gang that he can speak some of their Dino language? I’m intrigued and fascinated by this for no important reason.
Maybe the T-Rex have their own unique language, and Chomper decided to learn their language after they raised him.
Chomper is bilingual confirmed.
Chomper's parents can talk (I used to watch 5 the most as a kid, and I remember Chomper needed to translate for the other Dinos), T-rex's have their own language, but Chomper stuck around the main cast long enough to learn theirs.
What if they have the intellectual capacity for speech, but their mouths just physically can't make that shape? There's some low-key body horror in the idea that as Chomper grows up he gradually loses his ability to enunciate (while still being fully capable of forming sentences in his head).
These are movies for toddlers.
I think a big part of why LBT1 resonated with me as a kid, aside from the fact that I was raised in a Christian community, was the fact that my parents had to explain death to me at a very young age because I had a disabled sister who could drop dead at any moment. Bami and Lion King both had deaths in them, but it wasn't handled the same way as it was in LBT1. They really showed Littlefoot's grieving process; seeing her shadow and thinking it's her, being so depressed he won't eat even when he's starving, getting irrationally angry and blaming her for her own death, and clinging to the memory of her throughout the whole film. It didn't just cut away from the sad part and skip years ahead in time or have Littlefoot just immediately get over it and go to a desert and declare himself Littlefoot Skywalker, it really portrayed the pain of losing a loved one.
I sense salt in this very heartfelt comment
TBH I never got why Bambi's mum was such a big deal when her death was glossed over so fast. Land Before Time made you sit in those feelings and process the concepts of death & grief. (Then again, maybe that's WHY so many kids couldn't get over Ma Bambi.)
"aside from the fact that I was raised in a Christian community"
I feel like I have missed something crucial here.
yeah this was always one of my favorite parts of the first movie
It's not a Jenny comment section without remarks towards Rise of Skywalker...and I'm here for it
Further proof of Chomper being the best character is in the cartoon.
The cartoon has a reoccurring villain in Red Claw and his two goons Thud and Screech.
In one episode, Chomper and Duckie get stranded on a ledge with Thud, and the entire time Thud tries to eat them but his tail is stuck in a pile of rubble so he can't reach.
Thud ends up mocking Chomper and telling him that no one is coming, but of course he's proven wrong and when the gang comes back to save Chomper and Duckie, Thud looks incredibly defeated as he resigns himself to being stuck since he knows of course no one is coming for him.
Then Chomper turns around and helps Thud lighten the load off his tail. He doesn't free him entirely, but he pushes enough rocks away so that Thud could wiggle his way out with some effort after everyone left.
The conflict ends with Thud repaying his debt to Chomper by leading Red Claw on a false trail when he knew Chomper and the gang were cornered.
Chomper saved the life of a dino who unapologetically tried to eat him and his friends on multiple occasions and insulted him and his friends multiple times and clearly had no remorse for his actions. Chomper is _the_ best boy.
Honestly “Daddy Tops” sounds like a Grindr profile
This comment make me cackle uncontrollably
I can assure you it definitely is😹
I laughed so hard when she said that name!!
“No chocolate, no fems”
@@MrFuggleGuggle no one over 21
I like how Little Foot is sitting in the corner of the frame, looking down at the ground, tears in his eyes, having a mental breakdown as a mean lady is dunking on his films
And Chomper loves it
LMAO i was thinking this too
@@WhaleManMan "yeah, the Land Before Time sequels sucked."
- Chomper at his mansion center, 2020
I love your videos, Jenny! As the voice of "Cera" in the Land Before Time franchise and "Phoebe" in Hey Arnold (which you talk about in another one of your videos), I may be slightly biased ;)
@Hans Yolo Yeah, because voice actors, they don't exist, amirite?
Hey! Cera was always my favourite character! Thank you for bringing her to life!
Wow, it's not that common to see major voice actors comment on UA-cam videos. I've always liked your acting, as well as your singing voice
You gave Cera so much personality, she was always my favorite! Thank you!
not me just now finding out her name was Cera like triceratops and not Sarah.....i feel very dumb i always found it weird she had a human name and not a dino name like the others 🤦♀️
I was never a huge Uncle Pterano fan per se but i was pretty disappointed when i found out that, after LBT7 ended with him being exiled for "five cold times", LBT12 (which came out five years later) was called Great Day of the Flyers but did not feature Pterano's dramatic return.
YEAH WHAT THE FUCK DUDE
honestly I never watched any of the other movies but this is a crime
Ain't that some Bull 💩
That moment where you realize Littlefoot and his friends have a kill count
Hell yeah
Hello welcome to the kill count
Today we wil be taking a look at the original land before time movie 😂
They're probably professional sharptooth assassins by now.
Stackin bodies so high you can push rocks off them to get more bodies
Someone get James A. Janisse.
Littlefoot contextlessly saying ‘and rob you of your dignity?’ is actively killing me rn
I know right
I snorted audibly when I heard that...woke my
Sick kid up.
It’s at 23:43
Why is this video always being suggested to me? I don't watch videos about 13 year old girls reviewing cartoons...
@@BillClinton228
That's because you keep clicking on her vids bro 🤣
The first film was translated as “In search of the Enchanted Valley” in Spain, and the fact that they kept it as the title for all the sequels, just adding in a subtitle, meant that our general understanding of the premise was that they spent 14 films looking for the damned valley and they still had not found it by the end.
@TheLostAge That’s good! For some reason in Spain they always took creative liberties and made up stuff like this 😅
Same in italy ahaha :D
TBF, they probably didn't know that it was going to spawn a franchise at the time so it worked for the first one and then they had to stuck with it :P
Pior que no BR foi a mesma coisa e é muito real, ficava chateada deles nunca acharem o tal do vale
Same in Brazil
That's amazing
The scene where they're drowning and an aquatic dinosaur comes from out of nowhere to save them is a classic Deus Loch Machina
"I'm David Hasselhoff."
Deus ex Lochina was right there
See also: Jurassic World
You're killing me. In a good way...
It‘s extra funny if you read 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear where there‘s an entire race of dinosaurs whose only job is to save people last minute.
I find it utterly fascinating and admirable that the sequels actually bothered to have feathered dinosaurs.
For real, are the feathered sharptooths with the single headcrest Yutyrannus?
It makes sense, honestly. Feathered dinosaurs are cute
I babysit a kid who loves dinosaurs and reads all these dinosaur fact books and the sequels with feathered dinosaurs are her favorite. She calls them "the BETTER dinosaurs" and I love that.
@@morganqorishchi8181 : that kid's going places.
iirc the first land before time was made prior to the discovery of archaeopteryx, which was the first fossil that clearly displayed feathers?
As a fatherless child, I REALLY projected a lot of paternal qualities onto that cowboy dinosaur. He means so much to me.
Imagine trying to explain to someone that your father figure was an animated dinosaur from a kids show.
Same here, had a lot of fictional father figures but Doc and Cassim (Aladdins dad) were my top. Which honestly says a lot as they're both absent father figures as well
@@Schnort Well, he IS Kris Kristofferson
That was me with Uncle Phil and Tim "the Toolman" Taylor. thanks, sitcom dads.
I did this with Hey Arnold's dad
THE ONE THAT WAS NEVER THERE!
(I'm sorry) lol. Actually Mr. Nguyen was a pretty good role model.
I took my advice from Uncle Iroh as I got a bit older. Both shows still rules.
I did not realize how many of these movies I saw until these clips awoke sleeper memories from deep in my subconscious
I was just having this exact thought as i scrolled past this comment
Same. I owned all of these except for the last 3 as a kid and must've watched them a bunch
YES
I REMEMBER WATCHING but i dont really remember them lol
I had the opposite experience 😔 I feel like I've seen 1 or 2 but based off Jenny's synopsis and the clips I cannot figure out which of the 14 I've seen lmao.
Right? It's actually concerning how many of these I saw but didn't remember
I loved the Land Before Time movies growing up particularly because of the aspect that Littlefoot is raised by his grandparent's as I myself pretty much was. I loved seeing that represented, in fact I loved that the movie feature incredibly diverse parents and guardians all round. From Cera's single father eventually remarrying and becoming a blended family. Spikes adoption and being raised alongside Ducky and her siblings. And Peetrees single mother I just loved it.
Fun fact, I watched it in Polish when I was little, and Petrie was not only voiced by a child, but also talked with absolutely normal grammar
Yes! And hearing the songs from the movies in their original language also is strange for me. Sometimes Polish versions are funnier
I have to see that. I need to find a polish versión of these movies
I very vaguely remember watching one of these. I had no idea there were more! pretty sure my mom found the dvd in a discount section of biedronka or carrefour
The translaters where like" wow that's annoying, let's fix it and say it's a translation error"
@@kristinamartines6806 kings
They really missed an opportunity by not naming Cera's dad Tricerapops
I feel like you can hardly call "Daddy Topps" a missed opportunity....
In one of the sequels it was revealed that his name may have been Topsy. Not sure if that's his real name or just a nickname. You can decide which one it is 🙂
Isn’t her stepmom named Tria?
Tria, Cera, Topps.
@@cartoonishidealism582 yes her stepmom is Tria and her stepsister is Trica.
@@cartoonishidealism582 HOLY FUCK
as it became clear chomper was making a return, i gasped and exclaimed “chomper???” only for littlefoot to do the exact same thing, in the exact same tone, five seconds later
Yes! Mysterious Island was always my favorite. It was actually kind of a holy grail for me as well, since it was the only one we had recorded off of Cartoon Network's old Cartoon Theater. For some reason we never labeled the VHS, so I would always have to hunt for it and mostly found it by chance.
It was also very special to me because of how Chomper and his parents spoke. I might be misremembering, but I think subtitles appeared for their conversations. At that time, I was living in the US but my english was still very weak, and I was made fun of constantly for speaking two languages. My father told me that when we talk, we're just like Chomper and his parents: only we could understand one another, and that doesn't make it weird, it makes it special. He said that meant the sharptooths had their own lives nobody else could understand, and they were happy that way. But because Chomper spoke both languages, he could have friends and lives in two worlds. It really helped me with my self-confidence, and because of that it always has a place in my heart.
I'm sorry you were bullied because you are bilingual. If you're in the US, it does seem that a lot of white people have a deep insecurity about only speaking one language (unlike most of the world).
That's a really great observation! Each of the dinosaur families had a different arrangement (raised by single mom, grandparents, adopted etc) it just makes sense to add a bilingual family too. Thanks for your perspective!
That is so heartwarming- your dad must have been a sweetheart!
@@celisewillis Thank you! That is an interesting idea, I had never thought of the series in that way, but it's true! And yes, I'm still in the US, and my English has improved a lot. I now view being bilingual as a source of pride for myself (not that I feel superior to others, but that it is a special gift). I appreciate your words! I sincerely hope that things have gotten much better for kids in my circumstances in schools now than when I was young. I don't know if that's the case, but I don't wish that on any child. I actually work in the medical field now specifically helping immigrants from my home country, so I always try to encourage them to not look down on themselves. People like you make life so much easier for everyone!
@@adriantierney6586 Thank you! Yes, I couldn't ask for better parents. Fortunately they're still alive, and just as wonderful as ever!
lmao didn't expect the jenny nicholson land before time comments section to make me cry but here we are
I have had "Big Big Big Big Water" stuck in my head for over 15 years and hearing it somewhere outside my own mind was very cathartic
“Beyond the mysterious beyond” honestly triggered a memory somewhere deep and buried in my brain 😂
i still have sudden flashbacks to BBBBW whenever im near an ocean or lake
i physically have to stop myself from bursting into song like a two-bit broadway-knockoff
@@Blueberrycat1222 YO SAME
Both beyond The mysterious beyond and big big big big water live rent for you in my head from time to time. So I totally get you xD
My sister and I used to sing it ALL THE TIME. So yeah- me too.
My mom tricked me into eating lettuce by pretending they were “tree stars” and hiding the leaves around the house.
Your comment about inspiring play hit me hard, especially seeing all the clips bringing back those memories. Thank you!!
That’s so creative:D and weirdly sweet
omg, that's super cute lol
Time to trick my future kids into eating veggies this way.
That's how I ate my broccoli... and ranch on them was 'snow'.
Lol I used to eat dried seaweed as a kid and pretend they were tree stars. Tasted better than lettuce too XD
Okay but the perfect comedic timing of the grandpa calmly responding to a question and then instantly passing out, plus the insnae noise of him his giant now-unconscious body hitting the rocks
... oh!
*B O O M*
The staff at Jurassic Park should take notes,
they could have saved so many lives if they only had more convenienty placed rocks to push.
In real life, there's nothing to stop carnivorous dinosaurs from pushing rocks onto other people's heads.
@@timothymcleanWord
Littlefoot having an existential crisis on the plush chair in the background the entire time Jenny roasts his movies.
He does look like he is considering to jump...
Love that Loofah, Doofah, and Fubee ALL could be the names of competing video streaming platforms today
theres one called Fubo and one called Tubi so. if you combine the two were already a third of the way there
They missed a chance not calling the third one Fubah/Fubar
LMAO why is this so fitting
TUBI
Peacock
MOBIUS
There's also FILO (Feel-O)
which sounds like a robot for feelings
I joined the Fubee streaming service just yesterday! It offers great content.
TBH, a setup involving "we can't eat the Tree Sweets before Nibbling Day" turning into Littlefoot attempting to prevent a casually-declared genocide of tinysauruses is pretty close to the parody of these movies I might have made without having seen them.
Underrated comment
"This movie is so original that it contains no goo" has gotta be the most outlandish praise ever without context
Can u imagine having to animate 12 full minutes of guido sleepwalking
Imagine beating the odds to make it in the highly competitive field of animation after the doubts and disdain of your parents and family, after hours of learning animation software and taking art classes and practicing and applying everywhere that has any job opening. This is it. This is the culmination of a life's dream, a dream you've held in your heart since you were a little kid watching cartoons on Saturday mornings. You are about to become more than a mere artist, you're going to become a true creator-
and then they tell you you're animating the Guido sleepwalking scene.
At least they can reuse the same walk cycle for 12 minutes.
yeah...a ton of CTRL V
@@crisptomato9495 That would be true in 3D animation, but this being 2D, they legitimately had to draw all of it. I weep for them quite frankly
@@BvousBrainSystems I could be wrong but flash animation could be used to emulate 2D, and many kids shows around that time were using that technology to animate what people classified as 2D. typically not as well done but you could still cut corners regardless, esp during a 12 minute clip like that lol
When you casually said “Sarah is racist” I laughed out loud
Something about using the word ‘racist’ to describe a cartoon baby dinosaur is truly surreal
Real dinosaurs are species-ist to other dinosaurs...
36:20 is the time lol
for some reason- I read your comment as she said it
Did you know that the LBT name is spelled "Cera"
@@ishy7207 That';s because its a pun on Triceratops
Lmao
If I had a toy company, I would legit hire you as a consultant. You have a deep understanding of how and why children play the way they do - information that so many adults just seem to forget along the way (or just don't care enough). As adults we too often put our own ideas of fun into toys and activities and forget the whole point of playing (imagination, social skills, physical coordination, empathy, understanding how things work).
Spent about a year pondering what "a low-key one slur kind of thing" meant but Sarah Z cleared things up
god I didn’t even imagine what that’s like to hear without context,
The power of mondegreen.
I will never stop being amazed at Jenny’s ability to make me watch hour long videos about things I had no interest in prior to her making a video
She is definitely a witch or something.
I just noticed this was 58 mins long lmao I’m in 52:34 and I don’t even watch her channel and watched ANY of the land before time but now I feel like I watched all of them because of her Lmao
She definitely is a witch
It's just kind of cool to watch someone passionate about something you have literally no interest in otherwise
As a rule, I agree. But this one might be the exception that proves the rule. I'm really struggling and I'm not even 10% in.
@@TheGadgetPanda That's fair, and I guess I don't totally agree with my original statement either. I don't have literally 0 interest in the topics discussed, I just have such a minor interest that it's interesting to see a topic explored in depth and with extensive research that I couldn't be bothered to go that deeply into otherwise. I've seen maybe the original Land Before Time, but there's a version of me that might have been kept up with it and watched more in the series. I think that's why I enjoy the videos like this or about them parks or whatever; it's not something I have enough interest in to devote myself to learning about but is still slightly interesting enough that watching someone else's deep analysis can be entertaining. But if you have *literally* no knowledge of or interest in the topic at hand, then maybe you don't actually get anything out of it.
Me: "I'm pretty sure I've never seen any of the LBT sequels either."
34:00 : "EGGS!"
Me: An instant, *scarring* flashback deep into childhood memories I did not know I had, the voice of this dinosaur saying "eggs" tattooed indelibly on the deepest recesses of my mind in flaming letters 40 feet high, the dinosaur saying "eggs" over and over as my grip on reality slowly loosens, etc.
no brother of mine is going to have vegies for dinner
Dude, same! Was not expecting to be hurled violently 20 years into the past with just that one word.
I feel this on a spiritual level.
Yes! I know I had once seen this sometime decades ago and had zero memory of anything that happened in it, and then the "eggs" thing was like having a movie-style flashback.
This was me for the ENTIRE video until chomper's "friends for dinner" launched me back oml. I'm reeling
Guido breaks my immersion. I can buy talking dinosaurs but them being Italian is a step too far.
It is a little weird, all the other names are based on their species and he just has a regular human name
@@bzymek7054 so true... my very italian and very homophobic grandma breaks my immersion every christmas
@@allnaturalfigjam310 He's specifically based on Microraptor Gui hence the name.
@@motxmod chad thanks for putting truth to his name
he was Italian?
Describing the movies as “tutorials for how to play land before time with your friends” is the most accurate description I’ve ever heard
The first Land Before Time is probably the most significant movie to my childhood because it was about death in a more visceral way than any movie I'd seen before. Not just cause Littlefoot's mom died, but because the world around them was dying, and even as a kid (like probably 4 or 5) I knew the dinosaurs went extinct so I knew deep down that all of these characters were dead in some sense. There's even a scene where Littlefoot talks to an old dinosaur about his mom's death that I still think about from time to time. I know that it may seem like a thin movie as an adult, but I swear as a kid that movie had a huge impact on my understanding of death and how to process it.
not to mention that littlefoot's mother's death has literally stuck with me all my life. like i still sob when i watch it once in a blue moon. just something about how it was done - the score, the voice acting - really just is like a conduit about all my childhood fears about losing my mother. if it was to watch the movie again i'd probably be bored, but no matter what that scene will always have an impact on me
i respect that movie for how overtly hostile the world is. It seems like a movie for toddlers but it scared the crap out of me when i was a kid. literally everything is out to get them and the visuals are so visceral and terrifying
I feel the same way. I still have trouble watching THAT scene. And now that I'm almost forty and have lost a lot of family, including my mother, and dealt with hard times, it seems so much more poignant.
As a kid, we all decided that Littlefood et al. DID die, and the whole finding the Great Valley was some sort of hallucination/after-death vision or something. I mean, it just REALLY wasn't plausible that after everything the kids went through, they were just going to hop on home and everyone was going to be fine.
It holds up - it's a classic
11:06 "I have no sense of time in these films."
Well yeah
they're set in a land before time
“troublesome younger-than-the-main-character” characters SUCK and they always just annoyed me and gave me anxiety as a kid (because they would often get the main character blamed for something or just... act like bratty toddlers.)
I shall stan Chomper and Spike til the day I die.
Yep, could not watch anything that had this trope. Too cringey
I was a youngest sibling and I still hated that trope! I would always get saddled with those characters playing even though they were annoying and caused trouble. I also resented being told i had to be looked after all the time when all of us were irresponsible kids
@@thekneesbee Agreed!! It gives quiet, compassionate toddlers a bad rap and demonizes little kids :/
We have a local drag family that all names themselves after the Topps family because their names all have accidental double entendre. "Cera Topps" (Share a top), "Daddy Topps", (Daddy tops), and Tria Topps (Try a top). They had a new drag king join briefly, named "Juan Topps" (Want tops?) but he only performed for like 4 months before quitting. Its a deep cut. For sure. I think they've also performed a few of the LBT songs.
That sounds fucking disgusting.
this is the best comment on the entire internet
That is so cute!
What did I just read
idk @@helloworld90597
I was prepared to riot if Jenny didn’t acknowledge “Eggs” or “Big Water”. I’m glad to see she’s still kept her eye for true quality.
Was there any doubt about this?
Those are the only two I ever saw and therefore my only frame of reference for these movies.
eggstacyyyyy
Seeing and hearing those awoke something deep inside me, like I heard my secret KGB activation word or something.
jam92es best description ever
At the 2 minute mark, I nearly paused this video when Jenny said "spoiler alert" because I briefly considered ALSO watching all 14 land before times because QUARANTINE.
I went into this like "I've definitely seen the original and I think we had one or two of the sequels, but I probably won't remember any of them" and then every time a movie was described I was violently beamed back to 2007
I was really sure I'd only seen the first four or five, but I remember Uncle Pterano of all people like it was yesterday.
Exactly the same for me!
I knew for sure I had watched the 3rd one and someone had sat me down at some point to watch the 1st one, but then whenever I heard a description or saw a clip of all the other movies my brain was like, 'oh, yeah, we've seen that' 😅
'....What!? When? How? Where are these memories coming from!'
Also, the Mo isn't a Dolphin nor a Dinosaur. It is marine reptile part of the family of Ithyosauridae. He's either an Ithyosaurud or an Ophtalmosaurus. But I believe he's canonically considered an Ophtalmosaurus. This, and the fact the Sharptooth in this movie is a Liopleurodon, really ties this entry with the documentary "Walking with Dinosaurs", namely the episode centered on the sea. Both Liopleurodon and Ophtalmosaurus appear in it.
My sisters were at the right age to enjoy these movies, I only remember the first. But one night they rented Number 7. My mom fell asleep, and woke up right when the credits rolled. She asked "What happened? How did it end?" And my stunned 11 year old sister said "Aliens came. Then they left." And neither sister ever asked to see any more of these movies.
😂😂😂😂😂It took my tiny child mind forever to figure out they were aliens!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Wait what?! I own most of the Land Before Time movies of VHS somewhere in my house, but I don’t think I’ve seen the last two or three. I certainly don’t remember aliens lmao. I’ll have to revisit all of them now, if only to relive my childhood
i know jenny doesnt read the comments but i was honestly having a pretty rough day, i live in minnesota and things are very tense here right now. finding out jenny posted an hour long video about a nostalgic childhood franchise legit made me cry. thank you emotional support youtuber. anyways hope everyone is doing well
Love the comment and the fact she caught it and gave it a heart
I hope it gets better for you. You've got this.
God bless
Sending love fellow Minnesotan
Dang, I had a friend who used to sing "big big big big data" every time she saw a poster advertising big data training at our local library, I had no idea she was referencing a land before time song
That is hilarious
LMAO
The original movie still has such an emotional significance for me that when Jenny played like a two second clip of Littlefoot’s mom talking I started crying
"Cousins, who will take me to the Night Flower?" "ᴺᵒᵗ ᵐᵉ"
He's so relatable
It be your own
*” Ｓｃｒｅｗ ｙｏｕ ｇｒａｍｐｓ ”*
"Friends for dinner. I wanna have friends for dinner..." I went around my yard when I younger singing that as I picked leaves off trees
Andrew Rossi that’s so cute
Oh my gosh the double meaning to that song.
The land before time journey through the mists was literally one of my favorites as a child. As a child whenever I would feel sick or have an upset stomach the only thing I would eat was nightflower toast 😂. It was just toast with butter, cinnamon and sugar. But my mom called it nightflower toast so I would eat it and think I was going to be healed.
Now that’s a sweet memory!
@@ColdHawk I made the exact same toast as a kid, with a much less poetic name (awesome toast)
Were we raised in the same house hold??? You just made me feel things..... (except my mom plainly called it cinnamon toast) but eating it on weekend mornings watching that movie is such a strong memory
My mom would call spinach treestars for me. Yes I ate real leaves on occasion as well
AndreNitro X1000 omg now way. My mom and older sister would call broccoli tree stars for me! I also once ate grass hoping to experience the joy tree stars brought the characters in LBT
00:00 intro
2:05 14: XIII, the wisdom of friends
3:11 13: XII, the great day of the flyers
6:05 12: VII, the stone of cold fire
9:10 11: IV, journey through the mists
12:51 10: XI, the invasion of the tinysauruses
16:19 9: VI, the secret of saurus rock
19:05 8: III, the time of the great giving
21:56 7: VIII, the big freeze
24:16 6: XIV, the journey of the brave
28:57 5: IX, journey to big water
31:07 4: II, the great valley adventure
35:34 3: I, the land before time
42:02 2: X, the great longneck migration
46:59 1: V, the mysterious island
ty for this
so, it's actually my fault ruby is bright pink. when i was four, my dad was developing the land before time tv show and showed me four potential designs for the new character: ruby. he asked me which one i liked best and, being a stereotypical preschool girl, chose the pepto-bismol pink design because it was pink and my favorite color was pink. originally ruby's dots were going to be purple (per the design preschool me chose because i also liked purple) but then i guess they realized they named a character ruby and she needed to also be red.
for real?!!!
@@draculena yep yep yep (lmao, sorry, it was right there)! it is also my fault that ducky's first instinct when in the cave of many voices in the first episode of the tv show is to shout "ah-ooh-gah." my dad called my mom when she was picking me up from preschool to ask me what i would yell in an echoing cave and i, being four, came up with an old car horn sound because i thought it was funny? i'm fuzzy on the why, but i definitely remember yelling "ah-ooh-gah" and it ended up being in the show, lol.
@@fionariley8004 wow, that is just too cute
my fucking sides
Did you cause any other changes or anything?
Adding "Daddy Tops & The Teen Bully Dinosaurs" to my list of band names I will never use due to a complete lack of musical talent
in all seriousness, you shouldn't let that hold you back
I'm trying hard to figure out what genre this would best fit.
@@blokey8 i'm getting strong psychobilly vibes
@@soupalex Psychedelia with banjos? I'm not convinced I need that in my life.
@@blokey8 sorry if this is a joke that i'm ruining because i didn't get it, but, psychobilly is a discrete genre (that i don't think normally includes banjo). think "punk/hardcore band plays johnny cash"
SOMEONE on that writing team knew why calling him “Daddy Topps” was funny. And they deserved a pay raise.
I've been losing it ever since she first said his name-
Daddy Topps puts the G in LBT
@@Takeshi357 I AM HOWLING OMG. 😂
uh, yeah, i sure hope he does
@@Cheapducky I guarantee you that Top/Bottom terminology existed in the '80s.
I definitely remember Daddy Topps the most. He was always mean for no reason but he represented so many kids' experience of having a friend whose parents you couldn't imagine having as your own parent. But like that's also their dad and you know they love them, but you're so glad you have a parent that isn't like that. IDK that really stuck with me.
"I have no sense of time in these movies"
Well, yeah, the whole point is that these take place BEFORE time. No time, no sense of sequential orderly plot, no way to determine reasonable lengths of time to spend on plot points, no hope that the movie will end soon, no worry about whether we've all done this same plot before.
Why are you mad?
So Great Valley is purgatory after all.
Jenny's fanfic: Trapped In A Island With Chomper
There make be snakes!!
*On an island
@@GimbalosMorkinar Nah man, it's a reference to a different Jenny vid 😚
@@allnaturalfigjam310 Aight, I should have known.
There's a fanfic of their persona with chomper on an island
It's a lemon.
I can’t stop thinking about the fact that sleepwalking bit goes on for 12 minutes… that’s insane! I could boil and eat an egg and that dinosaur would still be walking about
EGGGGGGS
@@laural6588 thrice a day at least.
Every time I'm out sleepwalking....
EGGS
Americans will use anything but metric
And the movie is only 84 minutes long. One-seventh of the movie is sleepwalking.
I just remember wanting to eat salad because they portrayed the leaves as being so tasty...
...good way to get the kids to eat their veggies, also a good way to disappoint them as well.
OH MY GOD it's "Cera", like triCERAtops not "Sarah"? It took me only 30 years...
SOME of us learned to read on these books, heh.
Holy shit
Wow I just figured that out too. I feel so dumb.
HOLY SHIT
I mean, even if it was "Sarah", it was an obvious pun to me even before I knew what a pun was really.
When you said "LBT fandom" I misheard it as "LGBT" and I didn't even question that the gay community was apparently really into the land before Time movies
tbf the lgbt community has their own daddy topps
I actually thought the exact same thing until I realised there was no G and had to think why that was.
24:27
@@ratman2817 I... I CAN'T EVEN SAY YOU'RE WRONG!
there good films.
Land Before Time 15: Daddy Topps and the Ethnic Cleansing
Land Before Time 16: Daddy Topps and Bibby Bottom
Land Before Time 18: Triceratops of the Will.
Land before time 19: Topp’s struggle
Land Before Time i: Daddy Topps Creates Police Brutality and Ruby Burns Down an Arby's in the Future
I remember when I came to England and could only say like really basic, bare sentences in the language. Me and my friends had watched Land before Time and they, cermeoniously under the monkey bars; dubbed me Chomper, because I didin't speak English. It made me honestly feel a lot more happy and open to making dumb mistakes when speaking and thats probably the only reason I went out of my way to teach my friends my OG language and to learn theirs. We all got codenames from that movie based on our characteristics. Land before time is a product of the time! (literally).
Honestly in general, plop kid me down and play all these movies and I would be entertained for HOURS. They opened up a whole new door to play pretend, some were lazy and uninspiring yeah but thats basically any child-oriented franchise that streched out their one mildly succesful movie on a little too long.
I honestly love and will always love LBT, all 14 movies of it.
There's something primally hysterical about the sentence "Daddy Tops is racist"
Is it racism or specism when you don't technically belong to same species?
Legit I saw him on Grindr ngl.
Daddy Topps is Cancelled
@@lemmythetrash-goblin8291 Well the Dinos are clearly "humans" so ...
"Daddy tops, is racist" specifically sounds like a gay porn movie
The OG film has a lot of grief and untraditional family themes which is why it spoke to me as a kid raised by grandparents
See also John Bellairs's spooky books for younger folk (if you haven't). He was raised by his grandparents, & his protagonists are mostly raised by not-their-parents (grandparents; uncle & uncle's neighbor) & have eccentric older role-models.
The original film was unfamiliar to me for years because my mom found the "dead mom" aspect too distressing, so we never watched it. Her mom died of cancer when she was a toddler. The Great Valley Adventure VHS was burned into my brain instead!
She was really weird about Finding Nemo when it came out, for the same reason. She, uh...she has issues.
She Did't Even Talk About Rooter And I Am Personally Offended By It.
I'm sorry, but Littlefoot's grandpa going "Oh!" and falling over will never fail to make me laugh. Idk if it's your editing but
IT'S SO ABRUPT
I know, I replayed that clip several times 😆
He doesn’t even sway or try to regain balance. He’s just walking, and boom he’s winded
I cackled
i distinctly remember watching that one as a kid and i am overjoyed to tell you that in the movie that is, in fact, exactly how it happens
10:25 hehehehe
I love the little “peanut gallery” comment from the land of mist bronto when grandma asks who will take her to get the medicine, and the one bronto is like “fuck that”
I’m pretty sure the land before time is the reason why I assumed quicksand and tar pits would be a much bigger threat in my life than they really have been
There was a thing on NPR about quicksand and its presence in adventure movies over history www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/quicksand
YEs and EARTHSHAKES, every minor crack in asphalt and sidewalk concrete made me anxious
Right?
And how I assumed sharpteeth would similarly be a more significant threat.
A classic line, that never gets old.
About the cowboy dinosaur: it's highly likely that they did use their tails as weapons and that they did make sonic lashing sounds when doing so, since the potential force was comparable to an actual whip cracking. It's entirely spot-on with our current understanding of them, for some reason.
Diplopodocus I think are the type of dinosaur that have whip like tails.
Actually, not sure using them as weapon. But the whip cracking sound would definetly be there, although the diplodocid Mamenchisaurus has a mace on the tail to top it off, because having a literal whip and being larger than several buses is not enough.
yeehaw
@@elliewellie_UA-cam Hawyee
@@Ditidos I think you’re talking about Shunosaurus, which did have a tail club. Mamenchisaurus did not, but it’s probable that its neck was a weapon.
When you mentioned the Cowboy Dinosaur I genuinally expected him to be wearing a cowboy hat and Lasso. I'm disappointed and surprised that was not the case.
They do end the song by shouting 'YEE HAW' though.
@@OddOneOut665 I'll take it, that's good enough for me.
When he busted out of his egg I thought he was wearing jeans and was sorely disappointed when that was not the case
@@maddiemeep If a dinosaur wore pants would he wear them like this/or this?
He's still all cowboy, though
The FIRST Cowboy, before cows even existed!
The egg song is double as bad and funny in finnish dub, because the word egg in finnish is also a nickname for testicles. I remember me and my cousin laughing like Beavis and Butthead while watching that scene, constantly rewinding it over and over.
same in Spanish!
Daddy Topps saying 'There is no fair when it comes to survival' and a rock song playing while he does what i assume is dancing, lives rent free in my head.
20:05 timestamp
I haven’t heard the “BIG BIG BIG BIG WATERRRR” song since I was 5 years old and it still gets stuck in my head on a weekly basis
For me it's just the spoken line, "The Loooone Dinosaur."
I never forgot it either lol
Oh my goodness, that's my only memory of that one. xD
nooooooo it took years to get it out of my head
now I have to move again
It's the one I owned when I was a kid
I love the humor in having the carnivorous character sing that he's having "friends for dinner" rather than wording it "friends over for dinner:
I got IT Crowd flashbacks.
RIGHT ?i was immedietely like oh no his friends are going to think he wants to chomp them :(
I thought of Hannibal Lector's last line in Silence of the Lambs
@@beatrizfernandes1506 Ooh, very good
If I remember right thats actually something they bring up and think that Chomper is going to eat them.
the UGHGH sigh that grandpa puts in when introducing his estranged son in law will never not be hysterical
i cannot overstate how much i am weirded out by the english version of the land before time. if you didn't know the russian version is voiced by one person. and when i mean one person I DO mean 1 person. every single character has the same tired male voice of a 45 year old.
and you would be like well that's weird BUUT one person can still differentiate characters by doing small voice inflection, maybe an accent, maybe raise the voice or make the pitch higher for girl characters. and like.... you would think that woudnt you.......
buuuuuuuut GUESS WHAT???? he DOSNT do that!!! the guy voicing all the characters doesn't even try to differentiate them!!
and the funniest thing,,, THE FUNNIEST thing about rewatching russian voiced LBF is that you cAN HEAR THE ENGLISH VERSION IN THE BACKGROUND!! And in that english language in the background the characters can be heard emoting, they have the "scary voice" the "happy voice" and the voice actors clearly working. BUUUUT in the foreground the russian translation that goes on top of all the sounds (yes even sound effects) is loud af, doesn't even have any emotions and is the SAME VOICE for all the characters.
and I only realised that you english people don't have that experience of all characters sounding the same like as i was watching this video and that was so strange to me. I highly recommend finding russian version of LBT and just hearing the voiceover, cos honestly you need to experience it.
that's incredible, thank you for this information
best thing i've learned this year
That sounds a lot like Dingo pictures. They would translate things by hanging two people read the script while the movie played.
Seems like a typical Eastern European thing. I remember, back when I still watched TV, randomly landing on what I assumed to be a Polish channel and it was some kind of TV show running.
And all you could hear was this one man talking over actual people of both sexes and all ages talking. And he didn't even try, didn't even BOTHER, to synchronise his speech. The people would stop talking but you could still hear that guy droning on.
I was perplexed by what I was seeing back then but now I get a good laugh whenever I think back to it.
As of this reply, I can't find the videos, the russian versions I found have several voice actors.
having said that, the Eggs song from LBT2 is SO much better in russian.
Cant wait to see Jenny’s littlefoot cosplay
She can't. her feet are too big.
Guys, stop trying to bait Jenny into showing her feeeeeeeeeet.
She'll be Chomper
She should do like a Disney Bound version.
Stop
“they just take the eggs to a second location”
john mulaney voice: NUH UH SISTER! you’re not taking me to no secondary location!
I had the same thought 😂
I had the same idea and made myself laugh so hard thinking about an egg saying that
I seriously cannot believe you have the hot take that number 5 is the best one. I would watch that one over and over again as a child, way more than the others and this video actually helped me understand why little me was so obsessed. it checked ALL the boxes!
The black goo is supposed to be tar pits, which honestly were something that terrified me as a child.
Honestly same. Tar pits, quicksand, and peat bogs were some of my worst fears as a kid
@@dae6736 giant squids omggg, vampire bats too
@@Bea-xl9rb I watched a wild Kratts episode on giant squids once and have been terrified ever since
I used to go to the La Brea tar pits as a little kid and cry every time I saw the Mammoth statues drowning in the tar
It's their great grandparents lol
“Daddy Topps is racist” may be the best sentence anyone has ever said
"Daddy Topps is the racistest of them all"
Is there a playlist of these movies
Yeah I remember that. He was a racist wasn't he.
"Three horns don't play with longnecks."
@@rommix0 I agree, say is there a playlist of these films
@@bluedragontrainer8182 Not that I know of. I think you'd have to buy the movies (or pirate as my preferred method) to watch them.
I love Littlefoot's haughty and slightly condescending face when he explains that "everyone has to wait until Nibbling Day".
ik this came out 2 years ago but looking back “daddy topps” just breaking out in a random tune without lyrics and looking in a different direction as if he’s aware and confused by the fact a song started is so funny without context 20:10