Kittens in Mittens

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Kittens in Mittens
Written by	Dana Chan Storyboard by: Kathy Carr Ysty Veluz
Air date	Wednesday, June 5, 2013 (Nickelodeon) Sunday, June 28, 2015 (Nick Jr.) Saturday, March 18, 2023 (YouTube)
Season	8
Episode	4 (aired) 7 (produced)
Chronology
Previous episode	Catch That Shape Train (airing order) Riding the Roller Coaster Rocks (production order)
Next episode	Dora's Great Roller Skate Adventure

Kittens in Mittens is the 4^th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 8.

In production order, it's the 7^th episode of Season 8.

Characters

• Dora
• Boots (absent, but only seen in a picture in Dora's room)
• Backpack
• Map
• Fiesta Trio
• Kittens
• Lucky
• Little Bo Peep

Summary

Dora reads a nursery story called "Three Little Kittens" to Lucky, and then she and Lucky jump into the book to help the kittens find their lost mittens.

Places in this episode

1. Meow Bridge (1^st pair of Mittens)
2. Bell Garden (2^nd pair of Mittens)
3. Sleeping Dragon's Cave (3^rd pair of Mittens)

Songs

• We're Three Little Kittens
• Gotta Find the Mittens

Items in Backpack (clockwise starting from the top)

• Doll
• Flashlight
• Rubber duck
• Banana cake
• Ice cream cone

Trivia

• Benny, Tico, Isa, Swiper, and Boots do not appear in this episode. In fact, this is the first episode in Dora The Explorer where Boots is absent. Boots is however seen in Dora's room with both of them on the picture hanging on her wall over her bed, Boots also had his Dora and Friends look, but is absent from the entire episode. However, Abuela's orange cat Lucky is taking Boots' place as a new assistant.
• This could be a sequel to the Season 3 episode, Dora Had a Little Lamb.
• Lucky is voiced by Ethan Davis in this episode instead of Regan Mizrahi.
• This is the 161^st episode of the show.
• This is the first episode Dora is at home by herself. However, she has Abuela's pet kitten with her and his name is Lucky.
  • However, there is a game on NickJr.com called "Dora's Say it Two Ways Bingo" where she is also home alone.
• The 2009 Nickelodeon logo is low-pitched at the end of this episode.
• Dora doesn't sing the Travel Song in this episode without Boots since he's absent.
• Dora is, so far, the only one in this episode without all her friends.
• This is the second time where Dora jumped into a book without Boots. The first time was the Go, Diego, Go! episode Diego's Great Dinosaur Rescue.
• Boots is seen in Dora's room with both of them on the picture hanging on her wall over her bed, but is absent from the entire episode.
• This episode premiered exactly 12 years after Swing Into Action! and Wish on a Star were released on VHS, 7 years after Baby Jaguar's Roar premiered in the US and The Shy Rainbow premiered in the UK and Canada, and 4 years after Dora Saves the Three Little Pigs premiered.
• This is one of the few episodes where Dora returned to where she started after reaching the final destination on the map.
• Dora is wearing her Season 1-6 outfit on the picture.
• On September 29, 2020, when this show was pulled from the Nick Jr. Channel's lineup after its second run on the channel, this was one of the last two episodes to be broadcast.
  • It aired at 2:30pm eastern time after Dora Rocks! at 2:00pm, which means that those are the last two to air on Nick Jr.
    • The show would later return to the channel on February 7, 2023 for its third run which would last until September 22 of the same year, with the first episode airing being A Ribbon for Pinto.
• In the YouTube version, the intro jump cuts to the episode at the end, and the credits and cloud scenes play at warp speed, using the ending of the music, ending with the Nickelodeon logo at normal speed with its theme song. They are accompanied by two pushes to the left before and after, the first of which happened while the episode was fading out.