Dora's Moonlight Adventure

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Dora's Moonlight Adventure
Written by	Chris Gifford Storyboard by: Bismark "Butch" Datuin Clint Taylor
Air date	Tuesday, June 26, 2012 (DVD) Friday, September 14, 2012 (Nickelodeon) Thursday, June 11, 2015 (Nick Jr.) Saturday, November 11, 2023 (YouTube)
Season	7
Episode	7 (aired) 6 (produced)
Chronology
Previous episode	School Science Fair
Next episode	Perrito's Big Surprise

Dora's Moonlight Adventure is the 7^th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 7.

In production order, it's the 6th episode of Season 7.

Characters

• Dora
• Boots
• Lucky (debut)
• Pico (debut)
• Monica (debut)
• Abuela
• Mami
• Papi
• Sailboat
• Mermaid
• Backpack
• Owl
• Map (not used; We Did It! song only)
• Swiper
• Benny (cameo; unlisted in credits)
• Isa (cameo; unlisted in credits)
• Tico (cameo; unlisted in credits)

Summary

One night, while taking care of Abuela's three kitties (Pico, Monica, and Lucky), Dora awakens to find that Lucky has chased a ball of string right into a storybook world! Help her find him on a magical moonlight dream adventure!

Songs

• Chasing a Ball of String
• Kitty-Cat Dance

Places in this episode

• The forest
• Stormy Water (during the dream adventure)
• Island with Lucky and the owl (during the dream adventure)

Sub-Places

• Boots' Treehouse (during the "Ball of String" song)
• Tico's Tree (during the "Ball of String" song)

Items in Backpack

• Regular rain hat (correct item for Dora)
• Rain hats with short, pointy ears (correct item for the kittens)
• Rain hats with bunny ears
• Rain hat with elephant ears

Trivia

• Dora doesn't ask Map for directions in this episode, because she follows the string trail for her dream adventure.
  • Dora would go on dream adventures again in Dora's Museum Sleepover Adventure and the Dora and Friends: Into the City! episode, Dora's Rainforest Reunion (specifically the Night Circus part).
• As Dora, Pico, and Monica go to find Lucky, Dora rolls up the string of yarn.
• The Fiesta Trio and Map don't appear in this episode.
  • However, Map appears in the "We Did It!" song as a cameo.
  • Ironically, all sing "I'm the Map!" and were all voiced by Marc Weiner.
• This episode was released on Dora's Rescue in Mermaid Kingdom on DVD before it aired on TV.
• This is the second episode where Dora has gone across the Stormy Water after Star Catcher. But this time, she is with Pico and Monica instead of Boots.
• In this episode, Dora is seen in rain gear when on the boat.
• Boots doesn't go anywhere with Dora in this episode.
• Dora stops Swiper alone without Boots, just like in Best Friends.
  • However, she still has Pico and Monica (and the viewer) to help her out.
• In Dora's bedroom, there's a picture of her and Boots on her wall over her bed showing their Season 1 designs.
• This is the first of three episodes in which the "We Did It!" song has different instrumentals.
• This is the 145^th episode of the show.
• Dora doesn't ask the viewer "What was your favorite part of the trip?", she instead asks "What was your favorite part of the dream?". Also, she doesn't say, "I like that, too!" after the viewer's response, she says, "Oh yeah! I love that part!" instead.
• This is the only episode of the series to feature a newer version of the Blue Cursor.
  • When the string got stuck on Boots' tree before Dora pulls it off while he's sleeping she doesn't mention him in his tree sleeping, she just asks the viewer where the string is stuck on and a new version of the Blue Cursor clicks on his tree. This happens every time the string is stuck. But the cursor is only used during these instances.
• The Travel Song is replaced by Chasing a Ball of String in this episode.
• This the first episode that Dora now wears a nightgown instead of her two-piece pink pajamas from the past episodes Boots' Cuddly Dinosaur, Louder!, and Catch the Babies. It is possible that she donated her previous pajamas, because she has grown out of them.
• The close-up of Dora falling asleep was used as the final clip for the Nick Jr. channel's sign off video from 2012-2015.
• The mermaid in this episode is voiced by Sofia Singer.
• The YouTube version does its usual edit including the fast-paced Nickelodeon logo with the closing credits theme playing over it.

Goofs/Errors

• When Dora asks the viewer what their favorite part of the dream was, she has her wider Season 4-6 look.
• In one scene, you can see Pico's eyebrows are missing.
• Unlike other episodes, when Dora, Pico, and Monica stop Swiper, they don't look at him, they instead look at the viewer.
  • Otherwise, the viewer would be stopped.
  • Something like this previously occurred in Benny's Treasure, Dora's Ballet Adventure and would happen again Dora and Diego's Amazing Animal Circus Adventure.