Fran + Charlene

Fran Sinclair Frances "Fran" Sinclair is an allosaurus, and one of the stars of Dinosaurs. The daughter of Louie and Ethyl Phillips, she is married to Earl Sinclair. Fran and Earl have three children -- Robbie, Charlene, and Baby Sinclair. She is very sensible and does nearly all of the housework, especially in the kitchen. She often feels unappreciated and wishes the family would spend more time talking together. She tries to talk Earl (or someone else) out of making reckless decisions, though she isn't always listened to. This isn't to say that she is completely above making similar mistakes, however. In "Out of the Frying Pan", for example, she becomes a bit too obsessed with making Baby a star, and even Earl points this out. She is loving towards her children and wants what's best for them. In "Charlene's Tale", she tried to console Charlene over her insecurity about not having grown a tail yet, saying that a beautiful body isn't as important as a beautiful mind.

Charlene Sinclair Charlene Sinclair is Earl and Fran Sinclair's fashion-obsessed daughter on Dinosaurs. Beginning the series at twelve years old, her budding physical maturity is represented by the growth of her tail in "Charlene's Tale". Charlene is generally more interested in school popularity and the comforts of shopping than with real issues, and her typical phrase is a vapid chant of "La, la." She frequently gripes about her family or vents about her lack of social status with her best friend Mindy.

Charlene's material-mindedness contrasts with the social concerns of her older brother, Robbie. However, over the course of the series, she gradually develops a greater appreciation of her family, of serious causes, and of the role of female dinosaurs, and she awakens to the possibility that there's more to life than allowance, popularity, and cute guys. She demonstrated maturity by watching the Baby, and later comes to appreciate her family, despite Earl's denseness and lack of knowledge of his own offspring, after spending time with Henri and Simone Poupon in "Getting to Know You."

Other achievements include performing as part of the Sinclair Sisters for the USO, gaining temporary fame from training the Cavelings, and getting hired by WESAYSO as Earl's supervisor. She also discovered that the world is round, and not flat, when her muse mistook her for Copernicus in "Charlene's Flat World." Her idea that the world is actually round was proven correct by walking on it in a straight line. The final episode demonstrated how Charlene "Gimme" Sinclair had progressed from the days when, upon learning of Robbie's likely death, she planned to turn his room into a "memorial walk-in closet". In "Changing Nature", Charlene champions the cause of Stan, the last Bunch Beetle, after corporate development leads to the extinction of his kind.