Big River

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Big River
Airdate	Monday, October 9, 2000
U.S. Premiere Time (est.)	{{{premiere}}}
Season	1
Episode	9
Written by	Leslie Valdes Storyboard by: Bob Curtis Tina Kugler
Directed by	Gary Conrad
Previous	Three Little Piggies
Next	Berry Hunt

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Big River (known in the credits as The Big River) is the 9th episode of Dora the Explorer from season 1.

Cast

• Dora
• Boots
• Backpack
• Map
• Swiper
• Fiesta Trio
• Benny (listed in credits)
• Isa (listed in credits)
• Tico

Summary

Boots' boot falls in the river and wants to get it back because he loves his red boots.

Recap

The episode starts with Dora going fishing on the river. Suddenly, Dora's fishing pole catches something. She tries to reel it up herself but needed help from the viewer. With the viewer's help, they wind up the fishing pole. Dora fishes out a pair of big yellow boots. Boots thought Dora said his name. Dora explained what she found in the river showed him the pair of big yellow boots. Boots loved his red boots and sung a song about it. After the song, one of Boots' boots falls in the river and floats away. Boots and Dora do not know where the river is going, so they ask the Map for assistance. He says that Dora and Boots have to go under a bridge, go past the froggy rocks and then they have to go past the waterfall. Dora and Boots have other obstacles they have to master. First, they have to fix the boat that had holes in it and was missing some pieces. The missing pieces were nearby. Dora and Boots had to count how many sqaure holes were in the boat. They counted up to 7, so they needed 7 squared pieces and there were exactly 7 pieces. Now, they put the missing pieces to fill the square shaped holes on the boat. After fixing the boat, they had to watch out for Swiper. Dora and Boots find Swiper behind the tree. They stop Swiper by saying "Swiper no swiping" 3 times. Swiper snaps his fingers and runs away. After stopping Swiper, Dora and Boots pick up the boat and placed it near the river. Then, they put on their life jackets so avoid sinking into the river. Dora and Boots jump into the boat and the boat goes into the river. Dora rows the boat to the bridge. Boots asked where his boot was. The viewer finds it on the other side of the bridge. Dora rows the boat and bumps into the bridge. Boots said that the boat will not fit under the bridge. I got to get my boot." Dora tells Boots that the bridge can open up and let them through. Dora and Boots see Tico fishing nearby. Dora believes Tico can open the bridge. Boots tries to tell Tico in English when they had to tell Tico "abre" so he can open the bridge. Dora and Boots told Tico "abre" and Tico flips a switch and the bridge halves rise open. Dora and Boots row the boat under the bridge halves. After that, they thanked Tico for opening the bridge for them. Suddenly, the river started moving faster and then Boots' boot goes under the branches. Dora and Boots had to duck down or they will bump their heads on the branches. Dora and Boots ducked down the low branches 4 times. After ducking down the low branches, they hear a "ribbit-ribbit" sound. Dora asked the viewer what animal went "ribbit-ribbit". The viewer told her that frogs make the sound "ribbit-ribbit". Dora and Boots have approached the froggy rocks. Dora and Boots have to row their boat around the rocks to avoid crashing into them. After that, Boots sees his boot and it gets away again. Dora and Boots have now approached the waterfall. Boots' boot went right over. Dora had to push the boat back to avoid going over the waterfall. Boots wondered how he can get his boot. Dora tells Boots that they cannot go over the waterfall and needed to find a safer path so they can go around the waterfall. Dora asked the viewer if there was another way around the waterfall. Sure enough, there was another path to take that was just nearby. Boots saw it was a little river that looked like a waterslide. Dora manipulates the boat to the little river that looked like a watersilde. Dora and Boots went "whee!" as they went down. After that Dora and Boots look around for Boots' red boot. The viewer finds a buoy, a butterfly, a fish and then finds the red boot. Dora rows the boat and stops. Boots tried to reach for his own boot. He was about to go overboard when Dora catches him. Dora had an idea for Boots; She decides to look in Backpack for something to fish out the boot., they find a fishing pole inside Backpack and Boots had to maneuver the fishing pole to snag the boot. After the hook on the fishing pole snagged the boot, Boots can now fish out his own boot out of the water. Boots reels the fishing line back. Dora watches anxiously but Boots manages to fish out his boot out of the water. But they weren't done yet; Swiper was nearby. Boots thought Swiper might try and swipe his boot. Dora and Boots watch cautiously for Swiper. Swiper rows his kayak. Dora and Boots find Swiper had to stop him by saying "Swiper no swiping" 3 times. After that, Swiper bumps his paddle against a rock and the paddle attachment sinks into water. Then he snaps his fingers and had to use his hands to paddle his kayak away. Dora and Boots paddle their boat back to shore. Boots puts his boot back on and sings his song again on how he loves his red boots.

Song

I Love My Boots

Places in episode

1. Bridge
2. Froggy Rocks
3. Waterfall

Trivia

• Dora sticks her tongue out when she tries to reel her fishing line up.
• Dora and Boots wear their life jackets for the whole adventure.
• This is the 3^rd episode where Dora and Boots stopped Swiper twice.
• This was the 2^nd episode from Dora's Backpack Adventure released on VHS.
• This is the 9^th episode of the show.
• This is the only episode where Map only fills the screen with his closed mouth.
• Dora and Boots sing the Travel Song three times, once on the way to the bridge, twice on the way to the froggy rocks but not on the way to the waterfall and they list the places to go at warp speed, similar as in The Legend of the Big Red Chicken, the first episode of the series.
  • This means that this episode is apparently produced before Lost and Found, the second aired episode of the series and the first episode in which the places to go are listed at normal speed.
• This is the first episode seeing Boots wear 1 boot and missing his other boot.
• This is the second episode Map gets Character Find, he first got to be found in Three Little Piggies which is the previous episode before this episode.
• Even though Dora and Boots got their chance to stop Swiper the first time from swiping their boat, he was standing right in front of the boat while they are saying "Swiper, no swiping!", so he could have easily just swiped it even though he didn't, and it is a good thing that he did not.
• After Dora and Boots pass the second place, the picture pop-up sequence doesn't pop-up in front of Dora after Boots asks her "where do we go next", they're already in front of her and she just says the places in order that they've passed and been to, then they make it to the last place right away.
• When Dora and Boots get to the waterfall next, Dora does not ask the viewer where the waterfall is and the Blue Cursor doesn't click on it either, they immediately just get to it right away after Dora uses the picture pop-up sequence because the river is very strong and it's pulling them directly to the waterfall where they almost go over it.
• The voices of Benny and Isa appeared in the end credits, but they do not appear in this episode.

Character Find

Map