Dora's Big Birthday Adventure

Dora's Big Birthday Adventure
Airdate	August 3, 2010
U.S. Premiere Time (est.)	{{{premiere}}}
Season	5
Episode	20
Previous	Boots' Banana Wish
Next	Dora's Pegaso Adventure

Dora's Big Birthday Adventure is a Dora the Explorer TV movie. It is also the 20^th episode for Season 5.

Characters present

• Dora
• Boots
• Backpack
• Map
• Swiper
• Coquí
• Fiesta Trio
• Benny
• Isa
• Tico
• Mami
• Papi
• Abuela
• Diego
• Alicia
• Daisy
• Guillermo
• Isabella
• Azul
• Amelie
• Mei
• Grumpy Old Troll
• Roberto
• Sabrina the Snow Princess
• Allie
• Wizzles
• Birthday Wizzle
• Flying Monkeys
• La Bruja

Summary

The episode starts with Dora and Boots in the magic story book they need to get home for Dora's 8th birthday so they can celebrate, but they end up in the twisty wind cloud to Wizzle World they go on an adventure back home for the party by finding the Wishing Wizzle and give him back his wishing crystal get past a mean witch who hates wishes.

Recap

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Places

• Sea Snake Lake
• Dancing Forest
• Rainbow
• Wizzle Mountain

Songs

• We're Going Home
• Good Luck song
• Travel Song (Big Birthday Adventure variation)
  • Mambo (from "Daisy, La Quinceañera")
  • Bate, Bate, Chocolate (from "The Chocolate Tree")
  • Isa, Turn the Wheel (from "Dora's Pirate Adventure")
  • Pirate Dance (from "Dora's Dance to the Rescue")
  • Clean Up Song (from "Dora Saves the Mermaids")
• Coconut Conga (from "Dora Saves the Mermaids")
• Boo! (song)
• Rain, Rain, Go Away (from "The Big Storm")
• Dora's Home
• We Did It! (new version)

Older Episode Clips

• Episodes used in the magic storybook recap, in order:
  • "Dora Saves the Snow Princess"
  • "Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom"
• Episodes used during "We're Going Home", in order:
  • "Star Catcher"
  • "A Present For Santa"
  • "The Happy Old Troll"
  • "Benny's Big Race"
  • "Little Star"
  • "We All Scream for Ice Cream"
  • "Best Friends"
  • "¡Rápido, Tico!"
  • "Dora's First Trip"
  • "Save Diego"
  • "Best Friends" (again)
  • "Save Diego" (again)
  • "Dora's First Trip" (again)
  • "Dora & Diego to the Rescue"
  • "Louder!"
  • "To the Monkey Bars"
  • "Super Spies"
  • "Boots' Special Day"
  • "The Super Silly Fiesta"
  • "Dora's World Adventure"
  • "El Dia De Las Madres"
  • "Big Sister Dora"
  • "Best Friends" (a third time)
  • "Isa's Unicorn Flowers"
  • "Meet Diego!"
  • "Dora's Pegaso Adventure"
  • "Best Friends" (a fourth and final time)
  • "The Super Silly Fiesta" (again)
  • "Dora & Diego to the Rescue" (again)
  • "Super Babies"
  • "The Backpack Parade"
  • "Lost Squeaky"
  • "The Happy Old Troll" (again)
  • "The Super Silly Fiesta" (a third and final time)
  • "Rojo the Fire Truck"
  • "Dora's Pirate Adventure"
  • "The Magic Stick"
  • "Boots' Cuddly Dinosaur"
• Episodes remembered during the first Travel Song, in order:
  • "Daisy, La Quinceañera"
  • "The Chocolate Tree"
  • "Dora's Pirate Adventure"
• Episodes remembered during the second Travel Song, in order:
  • "Roberto the Robot"
  • "The Super Silly Fiesta"
  • "Dora's Dance to the Rescue"
  • "Dora Saves the Mermaids"

Trivia

• This episode marks the 10^th anniversary of the series and features the songs from the past episodes.
• This is the final episode in the "Magic Storybook Trilogy".
  • The episode follows "Dora Saves the Snow Princess" and "Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom".
• This is the 9^th episode that lasted over 30 minutes.
• This is the second episode where the tip of Boots' tail gets chomped, the first being "Fish Out of Water".
• During "We're Going Home", the characters in the flashbacks appear to be lip-syncing to the song.
• This is the first episode to use a newer, more upbeat version of the "We Did It" song. It will be used for the rest of the series.
• The crystal Dora wears throughout the episode is the same one Dora wore in "Dora Saves the Snow Princess" and "Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom". It is revealed to be the wishing crystal, and when Dora says she got it in another story, she is referencing the events of the former episode.
  • After this double-length special, it is never seen again because the Wishing Wizzle has it, as Dora gave it to him, and this is the final episode of the "Magic Storybook Trilogy".
• There was no four picture pop-up sequence after going over the rainbow.
• This is the 121^st episode of the series.
• In some scenes of this episode, Dora has her Season 6 look.
• This is not the only time the birthday balloon is shown. "Whose Birthday is It?" marks the first time.
• Map uses different animations and assets in his segment.
  • He also says the places twice before the zoom wipe.
• This episode also has the highest number of characters present in the entire series, being 30 (counting the wizzles as one character and the flying monkeys counting as two).
• This episode parodies The Wizard of Oz. Dora is Dorothy, Boots is Toto, Sabrina is Glinda, La Bruja is the Wicked Witch of the West, the Scarecrow is the scarecrow, and the Birthday Wizzle is the Wizard of Oz while the Wizzles are the munchkins and the Flying Monkeys are Nikko and the flying monkeys, the only characters who are missing from The Wizard of Oz is the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion.
• Swiper is on his good side at Dora's Birthday Party.
• This episode shows some clips from past episodes from Seasons 1-4, but Dora and Boots's dialogues from those episodes were re-recorded by the new cast instead of the old cast.
• This is the only double-length episode of the series in which Dora wears her casual outfit throughout the episode.
• Dora and Boots don't sing the Travel Song in this episode, however, they technically do but they don't sing it in the original way and it's not played in the original version, they sing it in a different way and it's played in a different version, they actually sing the Travel Song Big Birthday Adventure Variation.
• Before Dora and Boots and everyone sing We Did It!, the Fiesta Trio play their fanfare music but they don't have their instruments, their music just plays when they're flying on balloons.
• Dora and Boots will never sing the original We Did It! from now on.
• Unlike Whose Birthday is It? which they sing it to Swiper, the entire cast doesn't sing the Happy Birthday song to Dora.
• Dora and Boots don't sing Feliz Cumpleaños in this episode from the Season 1 episode Surprise!.
• The Birthday balloon with a picture of Dora on it is purple but in Whose Birthday is It? with a picture of Swiper on it is yellow.
• This is the last episode Dora's eyes are normal like in previous episodes because in later episodes, her eyes are big and her eyes will always be big from now on, however, her eyes may still look normal but Boots' eyes are always the same normal size, his eyes never change.

Goofs

• Similar to Whose Birthday is It? and The Lost City, The TV version uses a new intro and the DVD version uses the same storybook intro from the other two episodes mentioned. but it is actually supposed to begin with the Season 5-6 version of the DTE intro with a rainbow and Dora and Boots swinging on a vine
• During the Pirate Dance segment, the song and background is different than what it is in Dora's Dance to the Rescue and Dora and Boots had their pirate outfit from Dora's Pirate Adventure.
• Dora forgets to defeat La Bruja, so it's possible that La Bruja is not giving up just yet.
• Dora's Pegaso Adventure is shown in a flashback of this episode, but it is in the next season. This proves it occurred before this one.

Gallery

Dora and Friends the Explorer Cartoon ► Dora the Explorer Big Birthday Adventure!

Dora's picture in the birthday baloon