In coming up with art for this sucker, it seemed pretty obvious- just make the main character realistic. Denver was officially a corythosaur. As you can see, the cartoon took some liberties with what a corythosaur probably looked like. I'm not the first to imagine a more realstic Denever, but I do appear to be the first do it in a non-sociopathic way.
The part that made me chuckle is that corythosaurs were 30 foot tall grazers (or possibly browsers) with no real teeth. They were likely, behaviorally at least, gigantic cows. The idea that this dinosaur would be preserved in the La Brea tar pits, come out fully functional in the late 80s, self-aware, able to vocalize in English and also love rocking a mean guitar is more hilarious to me when you realize that, if you could see them in the Cretaceous, they'd literally have done none of those things. Of course, you didn't need to read up on paleontology to know they'd literally have done none of those things.
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