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PERFORMER Steve Whitmire
  Sherman Hemsley voice
DEBUT 1991
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A rare full-body depiction of Richfield, as seen in the comics.

B.P. Richfield is Earl Sinclair's tyrannical field boss at the WESAYSO Development Corporation. Richfield is known for his fierce temper and tendency to eat those who quarrel with him (and also daughter Wendy Richfield's boyfriends as revealed in "Hungry for Love"). He seldom ventures outside of his trailer, overlooking the job site where Earl and his fellow tree pushers toil. In the episode "Earl's Big Jackpot," which featured Richfield's mother, it was revealed that the initial "B" in Richfield's name stands for "Bradley." Other known relatives include a nephew (whose head was bitten off by Richfield) and an unseen wife. Richfield recalls the joy he felt when pushing his mother-in-law over a cliff on Hurling Day.

His last name, Richfield, is derived from the Richfield Oil Company, while his first two initials are taken from British Petroleum, another gas company.

On the show, his species is identified as a Triceratops by Sir David Tushingham in "The Clip Show." He has the three horns in front matching the Triceratops, although the spiked frills at the back are similar to the Styracosaurus. Unlike either species, he is also extremely carnivorous.

A toy of B.P. Richfield was released by Hasbro in 1993, and a picture of him can be seen in the "Not the Mama! Card Game".

Antagonist Role[]

B.P. Richfield is the most frequently recurring antagonist of the show whose selfish desires either mostly concerning finances and keeping WESAYSO out of trouble often put Earl Sinclair into many conflicts that affects him and his family.

  • The Mighty Megalosaurus: After refusing to give Earl a raise, Richfield claims Earl must blame his family for their financial issues. He also convinces and tricks Earl to quit his job, but later allows him to come back.
  • Endangered Species: Threatens Earl to give him the Grapdelites so he can eat them or else he would bite off Earl's head. After Earl warned him they are the only ones left, Richfield pretended he agreed to conserve them but after Earl left he immediately ate them.
  • Career Opportunities: Tries to eat Robbie as revenge for telling Richfield how to boss around the workers and forces Earl to come on weekends to practice root pulling while wearing a woman's fashion hat.
  • Refrigerator Day: Doesn't give Earl his raise for Refrigerator Day, leading to the Sinclairs to starve.
  • What "Sexual" Harris Meant: Defended the WESAYSO corporation as defendants against Monica DeVertebrae who was suing Al Sexual Harris.
  • Power Erupts: Discredits Robbie for his volcano science project that provides power for households from volcanoes under orders from his superior Mr. Ashland, as he fears this new power source would put WESAYSO out of business.
  • A New Leaf: Fires Earl for being annoying and 4 hours late. (Richfield claimed he wanted to kill Earl and his entire family, but decides not to because he would run into legal problems).
  • Nuts to War: Tries to make an advertising campaign on WE ARE RIGHT (W.A.R.) to earn cash, and even conducts "Cash-and-Carry" by selling weapons to both sides.
  • And the Winner Is: Tried to become Chief Elder in order to reduce employee wages down to 2 cents a day and put almost every dinosaur bankrupt and homeless while demanding Earl to be the opponent candidate and lose.
  • WESAYSO Knows Best: Replaces Earl with Roy as the head of the Sinclair family.
  • Baby Talk: Kicked Earl extremely hard as revenge for Baby Sinclair calling him a "smoo."
  • The Discovery: Marked territory onto the undiscovered lands Earl found in order to make money.
  • Hungry for Love: Wanted to eat Robbie believing he dumped his daughter Wendy. Wendy then reveals that rumors of her having eaten all 4 of her ex-boyfriends are false, and it turns out Richfield was the one who ate all her ex-boyfriends for (mutually) ending relationships with his daughter.
  • Green Card: Fired all his tree-pushers because there were no trees left but then hired them back when he authorized building the Anti-4 Legger Floating Swamp Wall to keep out all the 4-legged dinosaurs. Richfield refused to give Roy his job back for marrying a four-legger, since Monica was an Apatosaurus.
  • If I Were a Tree: Ordered Sid Turtlepuss and Gus Molehill to destroy the tree containing Earl's soul with dynamite.
  • Earl, Don't Be a Hero: Blackmails Earl into using his superpowers in advantage of advertising for WESAYSO as the superhero Captain Impressive or else he'll reveal his secret identity.
  • Earl's Big Jackpot: Fires Earl for not being able to come to work due to a broken foot when Richfield forces all the tree-pushers to do overtime work. Then after Earl wins the lawsuit and gets $800 million out of WESAYSO, Richfield raises all prices on every consumer goods in order to redeem the financial loss of the company. When Robbie tries to return back the money, Earl accidentally bumps slightly into Richfield's trailer with his golf cart, then Richfield pretends to have a whiplash and sues the Sinclair family, but at court is forced to hire back all employee and lower all prices on consumer goods.
  • Working Girl: Fires Charlene Sinclair for her superior performance as tree-pusher manager because then she would have her job for more than 6 years.
  • Variations on a Theme Park: Builds a theme park that has high prices and additional fees on everything and doesn't put in any effort to build WESAYSO Land in order to save and raise money.
  • Changing Nature: Doesn't care that his (and by extension, his workers') actions have doomed the entire dinosaur race because they have given the company (in his words) "its biggest third quarter ever". In his eyes, the apocalypse is only a "fourth quarter problem".

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