Yeah – for decades people laughed riotously at Jackie Gleason’s “To the moon, Alice!” Yet even that was funnier, I think because we all knew he was bluffing – and Alice knew it too. Alice never cowered or wept, unlike the Dino in this strip.
In this context – the dinosaurs anthropomorphized into a flirting couple – it’s very jarring and not funny. Naturally, real dinosaurs, like most animals, fought violently over food and other resources all the time, and gender was likely no barrier. However, THEY didn’t also have cute flirty encounters like the past few strips.
Life could be ecstasy, you and me and Leslie, Grooovin….