Dora Rocks!

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Credits

Dora Rocks!
Written by	Jorge Aguirre Storyboard by: Carol Delmindo Datuin Enrico Vilbar Santana Jose Silverio
Air date	Sunday, December 30, 2012 (DVD) Monday, January 14, 2013 (Nickelodeon) Sunday, January 27, 2013 (Nick Jr.)
U.S. Premiere Time (est.)	7:00pm
Season	7
Episode	17 (aired) 16 (produced)
Chronology
Previous episode	¡Vamos a Pintar! (airing order) Dora In Wonderland (production order)
Next episode	The Butterfly Ball

Dora Rocks! (or Benny's Sing-Along Party) is the 17^th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 7.

In production order, it's the 16^th episode of Season 7.

Characters

• Dora
• Boots
• Benny
• Isa
• Tico
• Backpack
• Map
• Swiper
• Fiesta Trio
• Rumble Rocks (debut)
• Grumpy Old Troll
• Pirate Pig (final appearance in the main series)
• Pirate Piggies (final appearances in the main series)

Summary

When Benny forgets to send invitations to his Sing-Along Party, Dora and Boots need the viewer's help taking their microphone to his barn so they can call everyone to the rockin' fiesta!

Places in this episode

1. Noisy River
2. Rumble Rocks
3. Benny's Barn

Items in Backpack (clockwise starting from the top right)

Note: All items are keys

• Triangle key
• Pentagon key
• Octagon key (correct item)
• Circle key
• Square key

Songs

• On Our Way to the Sing-Along
  • Row, Row, Row Your Boat (rabbits)
  • The Wheels on the Bus (chinchillas)
  • Bingo (deer)
  • Mary Had a Little Lamb (spectacled bears)
• Sing-Along Party Finale
  • Backpack, Backpack
  • I'm the Map
  • Isa, Turn the Wheel (from Dora's Pirate Adventure)
  • Travel Song

Trivia

• This is the fourth episode to use the Seasons 7-8 specials opening sequence, with "Dora's Easter Adventure", "Dora's Rescue in Mermaid Kingdom", and "Dora's Fantastic Gymnastics Adventure" being the first three.
• This is the 156^th episode of the show.
• Map does sing his full song, but it is part of the Sing Along Party Finale.
• There is a lot of singing in this episode, likewise with "Dora, La Música", "Dora's Pirate Adventure", and "La Maestra de Música".
• The naming of places to go in this episode is somewhat similar to Dora's Pirate Adventure.
  • However, instead of singing out the places Dora and Boots have to go (which is said normally), they sing out what places they have passed.
    • For example, Dora sings when explaining that they made it down the river, and Boots sings "Check!".
• A background voice was heard when the microphone was turned on.
• The Sing-Along Party Finale consists of "Backpack, Backpack", "I'm The Map", "Isa, Turn the Wheel" (from "Dora's Pirate Adventure"), and the "Travel Song".
  • Dora and Boots sing "On Our Way to the Sing-Along" in place of the Travel Song on the way to Benny's Barn for the karaoke party. However, they only sing a part of the Travel Song in the "Sing-Along Party Finale",
  • This is the second time where other characters got a chance to sing along to Backpack and Map's songs (outside their segments) after The Backpack Parade and Lost Map, respectively.
  • Isa, Turn the Wheel was previously heard in Dora's Pirate Adventure, as well as in a flashback in Dora's Big Birthday Adventure.
  • The Travel Song sequence in the Sing-Along Party Finale starts with the second stanza performed by Dora, Boots, and Tico, then Dora asks "What are we doing?", the entire cast then claps three times and answers "Sing-along party!" in a similar fashion to the original.
  • We Did It! is not part of Sing-Along Party Finale with the other songs, however, it is still sung in this episode by everyone just as the party is ending.
• Backpack wears the same tiara from The Backpack Parade, with the exception of the skirt.
• This is the 1^st episode to premiere in 2013.
• Swiper (if he was on his good side), the Big Red Chicken, Diego (despite his speaking voice actor Jacob Medrano being credited under "Kids"), Daisy, Alicia, and Baby Jaguar are the only ones are not to join everyone for the Sing-Along Party Finale.
• This is the first and only Dora the Explorer episode in which the viewers' voice is actually heard when Dora tells them to say, "Hola" and "Vengan amigos" through her microphone. This was done so that any young viewer can assume they heard their echo.
  • In this case, it is because they were talking on the microphone.
• This was the very last episode to air before the show was pulled out from the Nick Jr. Channel on September 29, 2020 after its second run since August 24. It later returned on February 7, 2023 on the channel with the episodes A Ribbon For Pinto, Benny the Castaway, Dora's Moonlight Adventure, and Perrito's Big Surprise.
• This is the final appearance of Pirate Pig and his Pirate Piggies on Dora the Explorer. They won't appear again until the Dora and Friends episode Return to the Rainforest.
• The Noisy River, previously seen in Hic-Boom-Ohhh! and Louder!, returns in this episode.
  • Coincidentally, it was the first location in all three episodes (this and the other two episodes mentioned above).
• After Dora and Boots yelled "¡Hola!" into the microphone, Dora's laugh track is taken from her previous voice actress.