Dora's First Trip

Dora's First Trip
Airdate	Wednesday, October 19, 2005 (TVO Kids) Friday, April 7, 2006 (Nick Jr.) Tuesday, April 11, 2006 (VHS and DVD)
U.S. Premiere Time (est.)	{{{premiere}}}
Season	4
Episode	20
Written by	Eric Weiner Storyboard by: Alex Que Jose Silverio
Directed by	George Chialtas Sherie Pollack
Previous	Save Diego
Next	Baby Jaguar's Roar

Dora's First Trip is 20^th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 4.

Characters present

• Dora
• Boots
• Swiper
• Fiesta Trio
• Benny
• Isa
• Tico
• Map (We Did It! Only)
• Backpack (We Did It! Only)
• Mami
• Papi
• Abuela
• Diego
• Daisy
• Tallest Mountain

Summary

At a family night dinner at Dora's House, Dora recalls her first trip, the time when she met Boots and when they had their first exploration together. They helped the Fiesta Trio retrieve their instruments so they can perform a special song for a queen bee.

Plot

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Places in this episode

1. Nutty Forest
2. Big River
3. Tallest Mountain

Song

• Buzz, Buzz

Trivia

• Boots already knew Tico despite the fact that he does not speak English like he does.
• Dora met her friends in this order: Boots, Swiper, Fiesta Trio, Tico, Isa and Benny.
• Tico turns his car into a boat and into an airplane.
• This is the 96^th episode of the show.
• Dora's giggle is high-pitched, albeit only this episode and Boots to the Rescue, it is low-pitched in this episode after the Fiesta Trio played the extended fanfare.
• Backpack and Map do not appear in this episode in Dora's story (because she didn’t have them back then) but did appear during the We Did It! song. This is also the 11th time where Backpack is not asked.
  • Dora does a map segment of her own, though.
  • Unlike other Season 4 episodes, Dora does not put red checkmarks after passing each place.
    • Backpack and Map were introduced in the episode with Backpack's name.
• Chronologically, this would be the first flashback episode in which Dora meets her friends for the first time. The second flashback episode would be Backpack in which Dora gets her very own purple backpack and a map. The third flashback episode would be Star Catcher in which Dora gets a star pocket to catch Explorer Stars. However, despite that being a flashback episode, it does not begin with Dora telling the viewers at home that she is going to tell a story about the time she first got her star pocket.
• The episodes from "Animal Adventures" are in between this.
• In the credits, Valerie Walsh is credited as "Val Walsh" under voice direction.
• Dora and Boots do not talk about their favorite parts at the end of the episode, they instead talk about doing fun things with their friends. And Dora says "That sounds like fun!", instead of her usual line "I like that, too!" after the viewer's response.
• Susie Essman is a guest voice actress in this episode as the Queen Bee.
• This episode may possibly reveal how Dora and Boots first began singing the Travel Song whenever they travel anywhere and go on new adventures to any kind of places they've never been to before.
• The Blue Cursor clicks on Tico's car while he's driving and moving.
• Swiper may not have been a good friend Dora would ever meet because of him swiping so much in this episode but Dora and Boots somehow became friends and got along with him anyway even in later episodes no matter what whenever he's on his good side.
• This is the first episode the Fiesta Trio talk to the viewer when they ask them for help playing their song Buzz, Buzz for the queen bee that never likes waiting and it's also the first episode they technically get major roles even though they make minor appearances in this episode.
• This is the first episode Dora calls the Fiesta Trio by their species to Boots, a frog, a grasshopper, and a snail.
• Dora met Boots first as he's the first friend she meets and she picked him to go exploring and traveling with from past episodes and for future episodes.
• The song the Fiesta Trio play for the Queen Bee (Buzz, Buzz) is to the tune of "Las Chiapanecas".
• At the end of the We Did It! song, Dora does not say "Yay!" and Boots does not say "Whoo!" Instead, Swiper says "Oh man!".
• This is one of few episodes that first premiered on TVO Kids in 2005 and not Nick Jr.
• This episode premiered on Nick Jr exactly 3 years after The Legend of the Big Red Chicken premiered on Noggin.
• In Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure, Dora time travels way back in the day where all her friends are seen as babies, except her. However, despite this episode, that's when she and Boots first met each other,  which could reveal that Dora has probably never even met them yet until the story from this episode, so she is technically time traveling to her friends' past when they were babies, which is possibly why she would not be meant to be seen as a baby unlike everyone else.
  • However, what may be very interesting is that Dora is somehow with her friends when they were toddlers, which is very confusing because she actually first met Boots, then she met Isa, Benny, Tico, and Swiper in the story from this episode, which reveals how she met everyone but they're all seen together as toddlers, so it is unknown how they have met or known each other like that yet until then.

Goofs/Errors

• When Dora gets her special traveling kit, she is wearing a hat. However, when Dora leaves her house, her hat disappears and is no longer seen.
• In the flashback, Dora and Boots still claps their hands during the Travel Song instead of just saying the destination immediately after asking "Where are we going?". However, they just say the place right away in Season 1 and the Season 2 episode The Big Storm. It is possible that at the time, they do clap their hands and later took a break from it.

Gallery

The Fiesta Trio lost their instruments.

Character Find

Swiper the Fox