¡Rápido, Tico!

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¡Rápido, Tico! (translated as Fast, Tico! or Quick, Tico!) is the 14^th episode aired on TV of Dora the Explorer from Season 2.

In production order, it is the 2^nd episode of Season 2.

Characters[]

Dora
Boots
Map
Backpack
Swiper
Tico
Val the Octopus
Fiesta Trio (unlisted in credits)
Crocodiles (unlisted in credits)

Summary[]

Boots' new toy firetruck is atop Snowy Mountain, and he and Dora need to get it before Swiper does or else he'll try to swipe it! Tico to the rescue! Dora's fastest friend will help her, Boots, and preschoolers race over land, lake, sky, and snow to get to the firetruck! ¡Rápido, Tico!

Plot[]

Today, Boots was excited for a special package to arrive from Val the Octopus: a brand-new, super-duper fire truck toy. Val the Octopus arrived and looked around in the mail truck. Boots got his package, but then he saw that the box was empty. Dora noticed a giant hole in the bottom of the box and thought the fire truck must have fallen out. Val was sorry for Boots and believed it might have fallen out of her truck somewhere. Boots didn't know where the fire truck was, nor did Dora, who was waiting with him.

Luckily, Map knew exactly where the fire truck was: on top of Snowy Mountain. To get there, Dora and Boots needed to go across Crocodile Lake and through a blue tunnel. Boots was in shock after Map told him and Dora that his toy firetruck was just lying there on top of Snowy Mountain. Dora reassures him that they'll recover it as long as Swiper didn't hear everything about the fire truck on Snowy Mountain. But then, they heard Swiper! He just heard the news about the firetruck on Snowy Mountain and plotted to get there first to swipe it and hide it! "Snowy Mountain, he-heh! I heard everything!" he said and ran off. So, Dora and Boots were going to have to race Swiper to get to Snowy Mountain first before he does!

All of a sudden, Tico comes along and gives Dora and Boots a ride in his car. They had to tell Tico "Vamos" to get going. As Tico was driving along, a traffic light was up ahead. The traffic turns red, and Tico had to stop his car. Dora and Boots told Tico "¡Para!" for stop. Tico stops his car but then Swiper comes along riding on a scooter. Swiper swipes Tico's steering wheel and throws it far away. Dora and Boots remembered what Tico's steering wheel looked like. It was round like a circle, yellow, and had 3 spokes. Once they found it, the traffic light turns green, and Tico got going once again.

While driving, they see Swiper who is way ahead of them. Dora, Boots, and the viewer chant "¡Vamos!" and in no time, Tico drives in front of Swiper. As Tico was driving along, the path stops at Crocodile Lake. Dora and Boots told Tico "Para" for stop. Tico stops his car just in time. They make it to Crocodile Lake, but Dora and Boots needed a different form of transportation to get them across. Tico sees a tractor, a bicycle, and a speedboat. The viewer believes the speedboat will help them get across. Tico gets it ready, then drives the speedboat dodging the crocodiles to Dora and Boots. Tico already turned his vest into a lifejacket, but they need lifejackets of their own in order for them to be safe. Dora checks her Backpack for two lifejackets. Tico pilots the speedboat across Crocodile Lake. But they saw three trails of crocodiles in their way. When it was clear for them to go, they tell Tico "¡Vamos!".

Dora and Boots make it to the other side. Suddenly, Swiper attempted to go across Crocodile Lake by using a pole vault and a trampoline, but both attempts failed and he got all dirty and muddy. Swiper then figured out how to get across Crocodile Lake by using a jet ski. Dora and Boots had to get going if they're going to beat Swiper to Snowy Mountain. But next they have to go through the blue tunnel. Once Dora and Boots got to the blue tunnel, they heard something. Swiper was on a pump cart. He goes ahead of them. Tico returns driving a small train. Dora and Boots jumped into the small train, put their seatbelts and got going with Tico.

As they enter the blue tunnel, Swiper takes away some rails off the track. Dora and Boots had to put the rails back on the track for the train. Dora noticed that there was a pattern. It went long-short-long-short. The viewer helps Dora and Boots continue the pattern by figuring out what came next in the pattern. Once the missing rails were put back into place, the viewer tells Tico "Vamos". And Tico did so. Dora, Boots, and Tico were going super-fast on their way out of the blue tunnel. Dora and Boots thanked Tico for the ride. Dora and Boots were getting so close to retrieving the toy fire truck on Snowy Mountain. They saw Swiper in a helicopter.

All of a sudden, Dora and Boots see Tico on a bicycle-plane. Dora and Boots put on their seatbelts and pedaled the bicycle-plane. After peddling the bicycle-plane, Boots saw his toy fire truck and he and Dora jump out and they get it back. Dora, Boots, and Tico still had to watch out for Swiper. They got ready and said "Swiper, no swiping!" 3 times. Swiper turns to leave, but then he slips and starts to roll down the snowy hill, causes Swiper to turn into a snowball on the way down, then he turns into a snowman.

Swiper breaks out of the snow, shivering as he runs away. After stopping Swiper, Boots thanked Tico in Spanish. Tico said "You're welcome" in English. Boots was so glad that he got his toy fire truck and that Tico helped him and Dora out for the whole trip. And that was how Boots got help from Dora and Tico for finding his lost fire truck.

Places in this episode[]

Sub-Place[]

Boots' Treehouse

Items in Backpack (clockwise starting from the top right)[]

Baseball catcher's mitt
Bongo drums
Basket
Air pump
Wrench
Pair of lifejackets (correct items)

Vehicles ridden[]

Tico's car (to Crocodile Lake)
Speed boat (across Crocodile Lake)
Train (through the Blue Tunnel)
Bicycle-plane (up Snowy Mountain)

Releases[]

This episode can be found in Dora's Christmas! on VHS and DVD. It can also be found in Nick Jr. Favorites Volume 4. An interactive version of the episode can be found on an InteracTV DVD, with the same title as the episode itself, made by Fisher-Price.

Trivia[]

Val the Octopus is voiced by Eileen Galindo in this episode, instead of the usual Elaine Del Valle, most likely because she was unavailable at the time during the episode.
Tico helps Dora and Boots on their adventure to get back Boots' red toy fire truck.
- This is Tico's first major role for an episode.
The episode title means "Fast, Tico!" or "Quick, Tico!" in Spanish.
This is the third time where Tico speaks English. Instead of "De nada", he says, "You're welcome, Boots" in English, after Boots says "Thank you" to him in Spanish.
- He will say it again in The Fix-it Machine.
This is the first time we see Swiper as a snowman, and the only time we see him as a snowball.
- It is possible that it suggests this episode takes place before A Present For Santa, it is possible that Swiper used the snow as the same disguise in the episode.
Benny and Isa do not appear in this episode.
This is the 40^th episode of the show.
The close-up of Dora running after asking the viewer to say "para" would later be shown on the trailer for the Dora's Pirate Adventure VHS and DVD.
There is a Fisher-Price InteracTV DVD with the same title as the episode, where at certain points of the episode, the viewer(s) are instructed to respond to interactive questions asked by Dora by pressing a touch point on an activity card that was previously inserted into a slot on a controller. The answers are shown onscreen in front of the same shapes after the episode pauses. The viewer(s) press(es) the shape that corresponds with the shape onscreen with the correct answer.
This alongside A Present for Santa were the first two episodes to be released on home media before airing on television on the Christmas VHS.
Dora lies in the grass while Boots plays with his firetruck when she asks the viewers what their favorite part was and when she and Boots tell their favorite parts.
In real life, despite Tico's small train having a steering wheel, trains have levers to operate them and do not have steering wheels since they run on tracks. However, in some European countries, there is a steering wheel-shaped device that is used as a throttle for the trains; turning the wheel right accelerates the train and turning the wheel left decelerates it.
Dora and Boots only sing the Travel Song once instead of twice because Swiper is on to them wanting to swipe Boots' toy fire truck so they never had the time to sing it twice. However, even if they did the second time, he would most likely cut them off in the middle of them singing it.
This is the second episode in production order where Swiper technically plays a major role due to him trying to swipe Boots' toy firetruck located on Snowy Mountain. The first was Grandma's House.
- Coincidentally, this is also the first episode where he swipes something more than once.
When Tico says "Swiper, no Swiping!" the audio is taken from Lost Squeaky.
This is not only the second instance where Boots stands behind the picture pop-up sequence with Dora (first being Pinto, the Pony Express), but the first instance where he only does it for the first two times. Save the Puppies! will be the second instance where he stands behind the three squares all three times.
Although this is a Season 2 episode, it uses Season 1's art style, particularly in Dora's face.
Out of Doctor Dora, Pinto, the Pony Express, The Big Piñata, The Happy Old Troll, and Click!, Dora and Boots have always stopped Swiper from swiping from them and he was always too late, but in this episode, he finally got to. However, Dora and Boots stop him as well from swiping Boots' toy fire truck, so this is technically the sixth episode in a row they stopped him.
When Boots could not find his firetruck in the forest after the package was empty, he was almost about to cry as he is seen in tears. But when Dora gives him a hug, he cheers up right away and does not cry at all.
The close-up of Dora running after asking the viewer to say "para" was used for the Dora's Pirate Adventure VHS and DVD trailer.
In this episode, Tico gets a boat to ride in, but in Dora's First Trip, Tico can transform his car into a boat.
This is the first of four episodes in which the life jackets had to be gotten out of Backpack instead of already being in the boat. It will happen again in Super Map!, Whose Birthday is It?, and Dora and Diego to the Rescue!.
Map's zoom wipe is recycled from To The Treehouse and The Magic Stick.
When the lifejackets are put on Dora and Boots, they have their arms outstretched and the jackets are open as they slip on before fastening themselves, when usually, the life jackets are slipped over their heads without being undone.
When "I'm the Map" plays, a drum set solo is heard before playing the last three notes before Map starts singing. This is the second instance (both airing and production order) where the drum set can be heard at the beginning of the song, first being The Big Storm.
- It is possible that this episode was produced after the aforementioned episode.
The scene and background where Tico went "¿Para?" is recycled from Lost Squeaky.

This is what it looks like.
This is the second episode where Dora and Boots sing the Travel Song in Tico's car, first being The Missing Piece.
- And also, it's the second episode to feature the crocodile lake and the tunnel together with the final destination after the aforementioned episode. Except that the tunnel was red, and the destination was the end of the rainbow that had the wand from the last time, while this episode has the blue tunnel, and the destination is snowy mountain that has the fire truck.
- Both the red and blue tunnels have the same sound effect.
In production order:
- This is the first appearance of Dora's "Season 2, Version 2" look.
- This is the final episode where Tico wears a regular orange life jacket, as starting from Super Map!, he can pull a cord on his vest to turn it into a life jacket.
- This is the first episode where Dora and Boots clap their hands three times when asking "Where are we going?" during the Travel Song.
Throughout the episode, Dora and Boots cheer, "Go, Tico, go! Vamos, Tico, vamos!". Said cheer will later be used for Al Rescate and Una Adventura for Go, Diego, Go!.
The Latin Spanish language has different lines:
- When Boots feels shocked of snowy mountain, he said: "Snowy Mountain?! I can't believe my fire truck is on top of snowy mountain! My fire truck! My fire truck is totally alone on snowy mountain!".
- And when Swiper gossips of Dora's voice, he said: "So snowy mountain, eh? Haha! I heard everything!".
In a 2015 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, rapper Ice-T dubbed a clip from this episode.
- Fátima Ptacek found his dubbing interesting.
When Boots says "Go, Tico, go!", the audio is taken from Little Star.

Goofs/Errors[]

In some scenes of the episode, Dora has her Season 1 look like in Super Spies.
When Val takes out the package with the fire truck, a quick glimpse at the bottom of the box is shown and there is no hole underneath. The hole appears once Dora notices it.
- When Boots stuck his head in the box, he would've stuck his head out the hole.
When Dora, Boots, and Tico reach the top of Snowy Mountain, they do not have any winter clothes on, despite the fact that there's snow on top. It is possible that it was warm on top, but the snow didn't melt completely. However, if they (Dora and Boots) did wear their winter clothes on Snowy Mountain, it would most likely be their same pink and yellow snowsuits from A Present for Santa and A Letter for Swiper.
iTunes and Amazon Prime list this episode as "Rapido Tico". Both the upside down and right side up exclamation marks, the comma, and the accent mark over the "a" are all left out.
In the Fisher-Price InteracTV version of this episode, Dora’s line, “Do you see anything we can use to ride on the tracks through the tunnel?” is cut, most likely due to time constraints.
After Swiper swipes the train tracks, he does not say, "You'll never find [them/[the/those] tracks] now!" after saying "You're too late!".
- This will later occur in ¡Vamos a Pintar!.
It is unknown why the red light up ahead was standing there anyway, as we didn't see any traffic along the way, but some and only a very few people can presumably think this could be one of Swiper's sneaky tricks to keep Dora, Boots, and Tico back, similar to what happened in the episode of Bob the Builder "Travis and Scoop's Race Day", where Spud uses said traffic light to slow down Scoop while trying to get Travis to win.

Running Gags[]

The word "Vamos".
Boots cheering "Go, Tico, go!" and Dora cheering "¡Vamos, Tico, vamos!"
- This kind of cheer would later be incorporated in Go, Diego, Go! during the Al Rescate and Una Adventura song segments (specifically "Go, [Diego/rescuers], go!" and "¡Vamos, [Diego/Alicia/Dora], vamos!").
The phrase "So we can be safe" was used four times. Three times for the seatbelts and once for the lifejackets.

Character Find[]

Tico the Squirrel

Dora the Explorer Season 2