When we last left Gary Owens he had been turned into a mustachioed dinosaur. The good news is that he apparently found a cure and again teamed up with Eric Boardman for another dinosaur documentary. (It's not like being eaten by a dinosaur stopped them before or anything.) It's called "Son of Dinosaurs," and this time the duo get caught up with some Russians with a viable dinosaur embryo. I think they jumped the Tenontosaurus with this one, but it's still fun;
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