Baby Dino

Baby Dino
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Airdate	Wednesday, October 22, 2003 (Nickelodeon); Friday, September 17, 2004 (Noggin); Tuesday, July 19, 2005 (DVD)
U.S. Premiere Time (est.)	{{{premiere}}}
Season	3
Episode	12 (aired); 11 (produced)
Written by	Eric Weiner; Storyboard by:; Jim Schumann; Mike Sosnowski
Directed by	George Chialtas; Sherie Pollack
Previous	Meet Diego! (aired); ¡Por Favor! (produced)
Next	Baseball Boots (airing); Boots' Special Day (production order)

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Baby Dino (Gets Lost) is the 12^th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 3.

In production order, it's the 11^th episode of Season 3.

Characters[]

Dora
Boots
Backpack
Map
Swiper
Fiesta Trio
Diego (first appearance without Baby Jaguar)
Rescue Pack (non-anthromorphic)
Supra, Ultra, and Mega Star (debut)
Baby Dino (debut; only appearance)
Mother Dinosaur (debut; only appearance)
Compsognathus dinosaurs (debut; only appearances)
Mami (mentioned)
Papi (mentioned)
Mommy T-rex (debut; only appearance)
Baby T-rex (debut; only appearance)

Summary[]

When Dora and Boots find a lost baby dinosaur, they'll need Diego's help - and the help of some Explorer Stars - to get Baby Dino home to Dino Island! Can the viewer help too?

Plot[]

Dora, Boots, and Diego find an egg rolling on the ground. They each take turns jumping over it. Then, the egg hatches, Then a Dinosaur's head pops up. Diego explains that it's a baby dinosaur. Then, Baby Dino's shell cracks open. Baby Dino gets hungry and Dora and Boots didn't know what kind of food he likes. Diego checks his field journal which has information of every animal and what they eat. First, the viewer had to help Diego find the dinosaur that looked like Baby Dino. The viewer figures out that Baby Dino was an Apatosaurus. Then, Boots gives him some leaves. Baby Dino eats the leaves & Baby Dino started to grow longer and taller. Diego tells Dora and Boots that Baby Dino will grow to be as tall as 6 garbage trucks. Dora, Boots, and Diego turn around and saw that Baby Dino got big. Baby Dino picks up Dora, Boots, and Diego with his neck and then they slide down on his back. Boots thought the way they slid down Baby Dino's back reminds him of the super big slide that Dora's parents gave her from the Season 2 episode "Super Map!". Suddenly, Baby Dino cried because he wanted his mommy. Baby Dino perks up and they told him that they'll find his mommy.

The problem is that Dora, Boots, and Diego don't know where Baby Dino's mommy is. So they ask the Map. Sure enough, Map knows exactly where Baby Dino's mommy is. She is at Dino Island. But before they can get there, they have to go down the river and go pass the Tyrannosaurus Rex. He also mentions that they have to look out for stars along the way. Dora, Boots, and Diego get going. As they try to find the river, Boots doesn't see it. Luckily, Baby Dino chews the leaves out of the way. Then, Dora, Boots, and Diego get going to started to cheer for Baby Dino to help him get home. Baby Dino can stick his head into a cloud, roar loudly, make really big footprints, and stomp very loud. Dora, Boots, and Diego stomp along. After that, they try to catch some stars including 3 explorer stars named Supra Ultra, and Mega. Then, Supra, Ultra, and Mega pick up Baby Dino and he picks up Dora, Boots, and Diego with his tail. They catch the stars and put them in the star pocket. Baby Dino lowers his tail down to have Dora, Boots, and Diego back to solid ground.

Then, Boots saw the river. Once there, they find 13 baby dinosaurs Diego explains that these chicken-sized dinos are called compsognathus dinosaurs. Despite their small size, they run really fast. Then, they hear a voice crying "My babies, my babies, my 13 babies!" It was a mommy compsognathus dinosaur on the other side of the river. The 13 compsognathus dinosaurs had to get across the river just like Dora, Boots, and Diego. What they need is a bridge that's really big and really long. Baby Dino makes a bridge by stretching his neck and tail for the babies to cross so they can get to their mommy. All of a sudden, the water started rushing and is moving faster! Dora, Boots, and Diego count the 13 baby compsognathus dinosaurs. Dora, Boots, and Diego get across too. After that, Mommy Compsognathus Dinosaur is happy to have her 13 babies back together. Not long after the compsognathus dinosaur family left, Baby Dino cries out for help because he got stuck in the river and he can't move. Suddenly, Supra, Ultra, and Mega come out of Dora's star pocket. Then the explorer stars lifted Baby Dino out of the river. Dora thanked them and Supra, Ultra, and Mega return to the star pocket. Now they have go past the T-Rex. Boots couldn't see the T-Rex with all those hills. So, Baby Dino stretched up really high. The viewer finds the T-Rex. Dora, Boots, and Diego continue their journey to get baby Dino home to his mommy.

Suddenly, Baby Dino walks off and picks a big yellow flower for his mommy. But then, they hear Swiper. they think that Swiper will try to swipe Baby Dino's flower for his Mommy. Baby Dino gets Scared. Boots tells Baby Dino that they can stop Swiper hopefully. Swiper hides behind the bush and then he disappears. He reappears behind Baby Dino and the others. Baby Dino runs away from Swiper as he tries to swipe Baby Dino's flower for his mommy. Baby Dino gets frightened ,but then he becomes brave and stops Swiper with Dora, Boots, and Diego. After Swiper leaves, Diego tells Baby Dino that he was very proud of him for being brave & stopping Swiper. Then, Dora puts Baby Dino's flower in Backpack. Diego asks her if that flower will fit. Dora explains that Backpack can carry anything. Backpack winks and the big yellow flower goes inside.

Then, the three and Baby Dino see the T-Rex. Diego thought of a way to get pass the T-Rex. He tells them that the T-Rex can only see them if they are moving. Diego explains that the safest thing to do is freeze like a statue to keep the T-Rex from seeing them. Dora, Boots, Diego, and Baby Dino had to tiptoe past the T-Rex so they can let her sing her baby to sleep. But, they had to freeze like a statue 3 times. But eventually, they made it past the T-rex without being seen. So far, Dora, Boots, and Diego went down the river and tiptoed past the T-Rex, now they have to go to Dino Island where Baby Dino's mommy is. But, it was so cloudy and was hard to see Dino Island So, Baby Dino blows the clouds away. Sure enough, he can now see his mommy at Dino Island. He jumps into the ocean. Boots was impressed that Baby Dino can swim. Diego explains to Boots that Apatosaurus dinosaurs are great swimmers. Dora, Boots, and Diego get grabbed by baby Dino's tail and puts them on his back. They help him swim all the Dino Island.

After Dora, Boots, and Diego's ride on Baby Dino's back, they slide down on his neck onto the soft sand. Baby Dino wanted to get his flower out for his mommy now. So, Dora checks Backpack for Baby Dino's flower. The viewer finds it and Baby Dino catches it with his mouth. Mommy Dino was happy that Baby Dino came home and gives hugs and kisses. He then gives his flower to his mommy. Then, Diego tells Dora and Boots that Mommy Dino loves Baby Dino so much and she thanked Dora, Boots, and Diego for bringing Baby Dino home to Dino Island. The Fiesta Trio play their fanfare while riding on a pterodactyl.

Songs[]

Places in this episode[]

Sub-Places[]

Hill where the egg was rolling
Ocean

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

Note: Backpack had nothing but flowers in this episode.

Big yellow flower (correct item)
Big red flower
Small blue flower
Small yellow flower
Medium blue flower
Small red flower

Releases[]

This episode can be found in Super Babies on DVD.

Trivia[]

The "freezing" segment will later be used in the Go, Diego, Go! episode "Alicia and Whitetail to the Rescue" to steer clear from the coyotes.
When Boots mentioned about sliding on Baby Dino's back reminds him of the super slide that Dora's parents gave Dora as a super surprise, he is referring to the Season 2 episode Super Map!.
When Boots and Diego say “Louder!” The audio is almost taken from To the South Pole.
This is not only Diego's second appearance, but also his first appearance without Baby Jaguar, because he had playtime with his mommy and the rest of his family after "Meet Diego!".
Benny, Isa, Tico, Baby Jaguar, Alicia, the Bobo Brothers, Click, and Rescue Pack don't appear in this episode, the latter three only appearing in Go, Diego, Go! with Alicia being introduced in Big Sister Dora.
This episode, tied with The Big Potato, ¡Por Favor!, Dora's Pirate Adventure, and The Super Silly Fiesta, has the third most number of stars caught being 7.
This is the first episode to introduce multiple explorer stars (second in airing order, first being Star Catcher).
This is the 65^th episode of the show.
The Travel Song is replaced by the self-titled song Baby Dino, though it is only sung on the way to the River; the other two times they just get to the places they need to go right away.
It is unknown how the Fiesta Trio got to Dino Island when they play their extended fanfare.
The Mommy T-Rex sings her baby "Rock-A-Bye T-Rex", to the tune of the nursery rhyme "Rock-A-Bye Baby".
When Boots say, "That sneaky fox is always trying to swipe our stuff", the audio was taken from The Missing Piece.

Goofs/Errors[]

In the credits, pterodactyl is misspelled as "terodactyl".
While tiptoeing past T-Rex, each time Dora, Boots, Diego, and Baby Dino freeze the background changes and T-Rex is missing.
During the third line of "We Did It", Dora's nose disappears a few times.
It is unknown why Baby Dino is still called a baby after he grew large.
Although it premiered in 2003, it was actually made in 2002 according to the credits.

Character Voices[]

Dora: Kathleen Herles
Boots: Harrison Chad
Map/Swiper/Fiesta Trio: Marc Weiner
Backpack: Sasha Toro
Diego: Brothers Andres and Felipe Dieppa
Animal sound Effects: Dee Bradley Baker
Mommy Compsognathus: Elaine Del Valle
Mommy T-Rex/Mommy Dino: K.J. Sanchez
Baby Pterodactyl (sic)/Baby Dino: Sam Stone
Explorer Stars: Christiana Anbri, Henry Gifford, Katie Gifford, and Sam Stone

Older Episode References[]

The scenes where Baby Dino and Baby Blue Bird decide to give a flower to their mommies and where Swiper is chasing after Baby Dino and Baby Blue Bird but bravely stopped him are both a reference to Lost and Found as a sequel to Season 1.
When Boots mentions about sliding on Baby Dino’s back, it reminds him of the super slide that Mami and Papi gave Dora as a super surprise. He is referring to the episode “Super Map!”.

Number of stars[]

7

Explorer Stars[]

Supra Star
Ultra Star
Mega Star

Dora the Explorer Season 3

Baby Dino

Airdate	Wednesday, October 22, 2003 (Nickelodeon) Friday, September 17, 2004 (Noggin) Tuesday, July 19, 2005 (DVD)
U.S. Premiere Time (est.)	{{{premiere}}}
Season	3
Episode	12 (aired) 11 (produced)
Written by	Eric Weiner Storyboard by: Jim Schumann Mike Sosnowski
Directed by	George Chialtas Sherie Pollack
Previous	Meet Diego! (aired) ¡Por Favor! (produced)
Next	Baseball Boots (airing) Boots' Special Day (production order)