| Episode Info | Transcript | Gallery |
| Chinta the Baby Chinchilla | |
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| Airdate | Thursday, September 8, 2005 (Nickelodeon) Monday, July 31, 2006 (Noggin) Tuesday, January 16, 2007 (DVD) |
| U.S. Premiere Time (est.) | 11:00am |
| Season | 1 |
| Episode | 2 3 (due to a sneak peak episode on Noggin) 1 (produced) |
| Written by | Ligiah Villalobos Storyboard by: Carol Datuin Jose Silverio Kuni Tomita |
| Directed by | George Chialtas Henry Madden Sherie Pollack Kuni Tomita (storyboard) |
| Previous | Rescue of the Red-Eyed Tree Frogs! (airing order) N/A (production order) Dora the Explorer: Dora's Fairytale Adventure (production order in general) |
| Next | Diego Saves the Mommy and Baby Sloth (both production and airing order) Diego Saves Baby Humpback Whale (due to Noggin sneak peak episode mentioned above) |
Chinta the Baby Chinchilla is the 2nd episode of Go, Diego, Go! from Season 1.
Before the show's official premiere on September 6, 2005, Noggin aired an episode as a sneak peak on August 22, making this technically the 3rd episode of Season 1.
In production order, it's the very first episode of Season 1 and the entire spinoff series.
Characters[]
- Diego
- Alicia
- Click
- Rescue Pack
- Bobo Brothers
- Chinta (debut)
- Cactus Family (debut)
- Chinchillas (debut)
- Pablito
- Señor Puma (debut and only appearance)
- Humpback whales (field journal image)
- Scorpions (field journal image)
- Emporer Penguins (field journal image)
Summary[]
Chinta, a baby chinchilla, is stuck on a breaking branch over the river! Hop to the rescue with Diego to bring Chinta home to her mountaintop family!
Songs[]
Animal sound of the Chinchilla[]
Wah-Wah!
Facts learned about Chinchillas[]
- Chinchillas live on the Andes mountains, not in the Central/South American rainforest.
- Chinchillas can hop super high. They can’t swim; thus, making them drown very easily.
- Chinchillas have big eyes which help them see in the dark.
- Chinchillas do not have small ears; but they do have big ones which help them hear very well, especially if scary animals are close by.
- Chinchillas love to eat leaves, not worms because they look like snakes (which they are afraid of).
- Chinchillas are afraid of both snakes and pumas.
- Chinchillas have warm and cozy fur to keep them from getting cold.
Animals found by Click[]
Note: Animal in bold is the correct one.
- Puma
- Spectacled Bear
- Chinta the Chinchilla
Rescue Pack transformations[]
Note: The item in bold is the correct one.
- Wagon
- Bicycle
- Telephone
- Hang glider
Listen to the Sounds[]
First caves[]
- Snake hissing on first path
- Chinchilla squeaking on second path
Second caves[]
- Chinchilla squeaking on first path
- Snake hissing on second path
- Snake hissing on third path
Animal Puzzles with Questions[]
- Does a chinchilla live in the mountains or the rainforest?
- Does a chinchilla eat worms or leaves?
- Does a chinchilla have big ears or small ears?
- Does a chinchilla like to swim or does it like to hop?
Releases[]
This episode can be found on the DVD titled "The Great Jaguar Rescue".
Trivia[]
- This is the very first episode of Go, Diego, Go! in production order.
- This is the first time Diego says, "Hola, I'm Diego!".
- Usually, Diego says "¡Hasta luego, amigos!" and Alicia says "See you soon!". In this episode, it's the opposite (Alicia says the first phrase and Diego says the second).
- This is the first episode to feature an obstacle being a predator animal that being the Puma.
- It is unknown how Alicia got to Chinchilla Mountain during the Chinchilla end song, although she was driving the Rescue Jeep to get there.
- This is the first episode to air on Nick Jr. daytime block, as the previous episode was a primetime premiere.
- Baby Jaguar doesn't appear in this episode.
- However, Chinta takes her place as Diego's assistant (after she was saved).
- This episode premiered the same day as Diego Saves the Mommy and Baby Sloth. In fact, the premiere of this episode aired right before the premiere of the aforementioned episode.
- This episode debuts the Rescue Jeep, which appeared in the title sequence.
- The snake cave listening scenario would be used again in Chito and Rita the Spectacled Bears, but with an owl replacing Chinta.
- This episode marks the first time the Bobo Brothers can be seen instead of just heard saying "Bobos! Bobos!" when they first appeared.
- The transformations from this episode, with the exception of the telephone transformation, will later be used in A Booboo on the Pygmy Marmoset and To Babysit a Bobo.
- This is the first episode where Click does not zoom out to show the featured animal's danger better.
- This is the first time the video of the featured animal is photorealistically animated instead of using live-action footage.
- This is the first episode where Rescue Pack transforms into four items instead of three.
- A clip from this episode appears in the online game, "Diego's Field Journal".
Goofs/Errors[]
- During the animal ending song, when Alicia sings, "So many chinchillas in a family," her vest is normal for some reason.
- Diego says chinchillas can't swim, but in real life they can swim.