| Dora's Super Soccer Showdown! | |
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| Airdate | Thursday, June 5, 2014 |
| Season | 8 |
| Episode | 14 |
| Written by | Rosemary Contreras
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| Directed by | George Chialtas Allan Jacobsen Henry-Lenardin Madden |
| Previous | Dora's Museum Sleepover Adventure |
| Next | Dora and the Very Sleepy Bear |
Dora's Super Soccer Showdown! is the 14th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 8.
Contents
Characters present
Summary
Dora travels to Brazil to play in the Big Cup Soccer Tournament against a team of monsters.
Recap
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Teams in this episode
- Samba Trees
- Dinosaurs
- Monsters
Trivia
- This is Isa’s final appearance in Dora the Explorer, she will return again in Dora and Friends: Into the City! episodes Return to the Rainforest and Dora's Rainforest Reunion.
- A remix of Swiper's theme can be heard in this episode before and when Dora and the gang chant "Swiper, no swiping!".
- This is the last episode to use a special opening sequence with a different opening theme.
- This episode is very similar to The Golden Explorers, Dora Saves the Game, and slightly We're a Team! (although the third aforementioned episode is about racing and not soccer).
- The Nickelodeon Logo music becomes low toned at the end of this episode.
- Paola teaches the viewer at home some Portuguese.
- This is another episode where the viewers get to learn a new language besides Spanish, just like in Dora's World Adventure!. In the aforementioned episode, the viewer learns how to say Hello in French, Swahili, Russian, and Mandarine Chinese.
- This is the 172nd episode of the show.
- This is the last episode to premiere in 2014.
- This is the second most watched cartoon episode about the 2014 FIFA World Cup after "The Simpsons" episode "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee".
- Dora and Boots don't sing the Travel Song in this episode, they instead sing a song about getting to the soccer game and winning it, they also sing that they're all together.
- Just like in Super Spies and Dora's Ice-Skating Spectacular, Map only says "I'm the Map!" once instead of singing the entire song. The Fiesta Trio doesn't join in either.
- This episode premiered exactly 13 years after Swing Into Action! and Wish on a Star were released on VHS, 5 years after Dora Saves the Three Little Pigs premiered and 1 year after Kittens in Mittens premiered.
- Although the following episodes after this one were produced in 2014, this is the last episode to premiere after the series went on a 5-year and two-day hiatus.
References
The quote "We're not scared!" is a reference to the Season 1 episode Berry Hunt.
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