with jackie earle haley have an oscar nomination this year for little child and i decide to check out what there be of one of his early work that i have watch 30 year ago and valley of the dinosaur . haley do the voice of the small butler child . valley of the dinosaur be the cartoon story about the nuclear butler family ( father and mother and sister and brother and a dog ) who raft their way down a whirlpool to the afore mention valley and where they meet their equivalent cave version and father and mother and brother and sister and a pet stegosaurus . they be all pair up accordingly for the father to work in the garage and the mother to tend to kitchen work and the teen age daughter to have adventure with the strap bohemian surfer dude teen age cave son ( interest that there never be an episode with lok on some makeshift surfboard ) and the young son ( voice by haley ) to wander off with the blonde cave daughter . ironically and the cave daughter and tana and do bear an animated resemblance to kathy coleman and who play daughter holly on rival land of the lost . it really wasn not that much of a coincidence that valley of the dinosaur and land of the lose both premier the same year . cartoon theme be very common . an even good one be speed buggy and wheelie and the chopper bunch and both hanna barbera cartoon . but i digress . my brother be fan of lotl and and they even say lotl wasn not so much a dinosaur show and but be more fantasy . votd and on the other hand and be straight rugged and outdoor camping story . there be criticism that child weren not learn anything from saturday morning fare and the like and so we be give schoolhouse rock and and and have see the old primetime planet of the ape show with ron harper and james naughton and i have be surprise at how instructional in gardening and the like that show be . votd do the same thing and perhaps a bit too much . we learn about wind condition and how pulley and lever work and siphoning water and various other helpful boyscout technique . to kid and . . . . . it be annoy . make worse would be the father and sporting that race bannon voice and tell kid not to do something and then the kid and usually haley character and would do it anyway and chaos ensues and who do it and the kid would confess and we would get a stern parental lecture . a very stern parental lecture . there would be other episode where a rock be sacred to the cave people and it be sit on top of a volcano and fish be put out for a crazy werewolf creature ( with scooby doo howl i might add ) and the cave family would insist it be our tradition and father butler would have to display a little scientific know how to deal with the volcano or the animal creature . i guess about the bad one i have see thus far be when the father and lok use a giant turtle shell to maneuver underwater and ( ready for this . ) they polish up one side of the shell with sand to make it see thru . each episode seem to end with the cave daughter and or sometimes the american daughter and observe one of the animal in some little situation and say look like digger yadda yadda yadda . . . and they all laugh . jayna of the wonder twin would repeat this finale on the superfriends year later with end each episode with look like gleep . in the end and it doesn not compare to land of the lost . it be a different show and hardly a cheap version to land of the lost superiority or anything like that . now and over thirty year later and jackie earle haley be nominate for an oscar and against eddie murphy for dreamgirls . good luck and little butler . strangely enough and there be an episode that deal with a windmill or something be use to signal plane that be fly over and which give a hint that this be how the family get out of the valley .