Jurassic Park (1993)
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
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#110125
Selects: How Extinction Works
"It is sort of Jurassic Parky. It is, in 2003, some scientists revived the Bercardo, Bucardo"
— Chuck
Comparing de-extinction efforts to the premise of Jurassic Park where scientists bring back extinct animals.
Nov 1, 2025
#092325
Tdhtdhtdhtdhtdh: Sound Effects!
"A hand inside of melon apparently was when that first dinosaur egg hatches. Sorry. Spoiler alert. In Jurassic Park, it was a hand inside of the melon combined with the cracking of an ice cream cone."
— Josh
Josh describes the Foley technique combining a hand in a melon and ice cream cone crack for the dinosaur egg hatching scene.
Sep 23, 2025
#083025
Selects: What Were the BONE WARS?
"Michael Creighton even riding Jurassic Park and then Steven Spielberg even making it into a movie"
— Josh
Discussed as the reason dinosaurs became popular with kids, stemming from Michael Crichton's novel and Spielberg's film adaptation.
Aug 30, 2025
#052825
Short Stuff: Genetic Mutations
"if you've seen Jurassic Park, you've seen what these double, this double helix looks like."
— Josh
Referenced as a visual example of what DNA's double helix structure looks like to help explain the molecular concept.
May 28, 2025
#050125
What we know about MI6
"I'm surprised though that you didn't mention Jurassic Park because I believe that fits all the criteria and predates twister by three years."
Listener Kirk arguing that Jurassic Park qualifies as a disaster film with early CGI effects.
May 1, 2025
#051624
The Silurian Hypothesis
"You know the movie Jurassic Park, as silly as some of that stuff was with the great movie."
— Chuck
Used as an example of how fossils form, specifically referencing the mosquito trapped in amber scene.
May 16, 2024
#041624
The Dubious Science of Arson Investigation
"But you know the movie jurassic park, as silly as some of that stuff was with the great movie"
— Chuck
Apr 16, 2024
#083123
Laurens Hammond: The Non-Musical Genius Who Changed Popular Music
"His name was John Hammond. That's funny. For sure. Yeah. So his name actually isn't John."
— Josh
Josh confused Lawrence Hammond with John Hammond from Jurassic Park due to the character name similarity.
Aug 31, 2023
#060823
Is Reality Real?
"Welcome to Jurassic Park."
— Josh
Josh uses this famous movie quote as a transition to introduce a new topic in the conversation.
Jun 8, 2023
#060323
Selects: Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs
"If you've seen a movie like Jurassic park, and you saw what you thought was a pterodactyl."
— Josh
Referenced as an example of a film depicting pterosaurs with head crests.
Jun 3, 2023
#042023
METI: Existential Threat? Probably Yes
"like Newman in Jurassic Park, sneaks in and broadcasts a message"
— Josh
Josh jokingly references the character Newman from Jurassic Park as an analogy for a rogue computer nerd.
Apr 20, 2023
#022123
The Mystery of the Lost Amber Room
"If anyone has seen Jurassic Park, you know that dino DNA was found, stuck in amber"
— Chuck
Used as an example to explain how amber preserves things, referencing the famous mosquito-in-amber scene.
Feb 21, 2023
#091022
Selects: What Happened to the Neanderthals?
"They do hunt in packs, though. Was that the Velociraptor? Oh, I think so. Jurassic park."
— Chuck
Chuck references Jurassic Park when Josh mentions the famous 'they hunt in packs' quote about velociraptors.
Sep 10, 2022
#021622
Short Stuff: Cassowary
"I love Jurassic Park, Chuck. I do too."
— Josh
Josh and Chuck discuss how cassowaries are similar to Velociraptors, referencing the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.
Feb 16, 2022
#061021
POGs: The 90s in a Bottle Cap
"Jurassic Park had a set of hologram ones that were pretty cool. Yeah, those were cool."
— Chuck
Mentioning hologram Pogs made for the Jurassic Park movie.
Jun 10, 2021
#120520
SYSK Selects: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
"I think about Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum as the creep, Dr. Malcolm explaining chaos in the little auto-driving SUV."
— Chuck
Chuck mentions Jurassic Park as a famous example of chaos theory being explained in popular media through Jeff Goldblum's character.
Dec 5, 2020
#092619
What are paraphilias?
"It's going to find a way, just like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park did."
— Josh
Used as metaphor for how sexuality finds outlets in developing children.
Sep 26, 2019
#080119
What Were the BONE WARS?
"I think there's a certain movie that really, really got kids into dinosaurs. The Lost World. No, Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
— Chuck
Josh mistakenly suggests Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the movie that got kids interested in dinosaurs, when discussing Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.
Aug 1, 2019
#062019
What happened to the Neanderthals?
"It's a Jurassic Park. While it threw me off."
— Chuck
Chuck references Jurassic Park's famous velociraptor pack hunting line when discussing Neanderthal hunting techniques.
Jun 20, 2019
#061819
How the Hygiene Hypothesis Works
"Jurassic like the movie. Yes. Minus the park plus wine."
— Josh
Josh referenced Jurassic Park when discussing Addison Rex's wine label 'Jurassic Wines'.
Jun 18, 2019
#122918
SYSK Selects: How Fossils Work
"like the movie Jurassic Park"
— Chuck
Chuck referenced Jurassic Park when discussing how amber can preserve organisms and the movie's premise of extracting dinosaur DNA from mosquitoes.
Dec 29, 2018
#082318
Pterosaurs: Not Flying Dinosaurs
"If you've seen a movie, like Jurassic Park, and you saw what you thought was a pterodactyl."
— Josh
Josh references Jurassic Park as an example of a movie audiences may have seen pterosaurs in and mistakenly called them pterodactyls.
Aug 23, 2018
#052618
SYSK Selects: How Pinball Works
"And then he has Jurassic Park, which is newer. I think, doesn't that have like a T-Rex that comes down and like eats your ball?"
— Chuck
Chuck mentions his brother owns a Jurassic Park pinball machine with a T-Rex feature.
May 26, 2018
#121316
Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
"Just Steven Spielberg"
— Josh
Josh mentions Spielberg when discussing who might be working on creating dinosaurs from DNA.
Dec 13, 2016
#071916
How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe
"I think about Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum as the creep, Dr. Malcolm explaining chaos in the little auto driving SUV."
— Josh
Josh references the famous chaos theory explanation scene from Jurassic Park as an example of how Hollywood explained chaos theory.
Jul 19, 2016
#102114
How Extinction Works
"It is sort of Jurassic Parky."
— Chuck
Chuck compared de-extinction science to the movie when discussing bringing extinct species back to life.
Oct 21, 2014
#090214
How Pinball Works
"And then he has Jurassic Park, which is newer."
— Chuck
Chuck described one of his brother's newer pinball machines based on the movie Jurassic Park.
Sep 2, 2014
#100212
How Whiskey Runners Worked
"Dino DNA. Hey, remember that? Yeah, I do. Man, that movie blew me away"
— Josh
Josh and Chuck are discussing the movie's groundbreaking visual effects and the famous educational video scene.
Oct 2, 2012
#091812
Are we all Martians?
"isolated a living spore from the gut of a bee preserved in amber, kind of like right out of Jurassic Park"
— Josh
Used as a comparison to describe how scientists extracted living bacteria from ancient amber, similar to how DNA was extracted from mosquitoes in amber in the movie.
Sep 18, 2012
#030311
How Fossils Work
"like the movie Jurassic Park"
— Chuck
Chuck referenced the movie when discussing how amber fossils could theoretically be used to extract dinosaur DNA.
Mar 3, 2011
Cast
Sam Neill
Grant
Laura Dern
Ellie
Jeff Goldblum
Malcolm
Richard Attenborough
Hammond
Bob Peck
Muldoon
Martin Ferrero
Gennaro
BD Wong
Wu
Joseph Mazzello
Tim
Ariana Richards
Lex
Samuel L. Jackson
Arnold
Wayne Knight
Nedry
Gerald R. Molen
Harding
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