Pepe the Pig's School Adventure (also known as Pepe's School Day Adventure or Pepe's First Day of School) is the 9th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 6.
In production order, it's the 12th episode of Season 6.
There's a new student at Dora's school - a pig named Pepe. Dora helps him fit in with the classmates and help him earn more gold stars so the class can win a popcorn party.
Classes in this episode[]
Note: There were classes instead of places in this episode because Dora is at school.
Map makes a non-speaking appearance in this episode.
It is revealed that Boots' mother is a teacher at Dora's School. She is a teacher in story class.
Dora and Boots aren't with each other in this episode because they're at school and are in different classes instead of the same class, Dora is instead with Pepe since it's his first day of school.
Boots makes three cameos in this episode: first when entering school, then again whilst Dora and Pepe walk by his Spanish class, and one last time in the Favorite Parts segment. The latter two of Boots' three cameos were non-speaking (if not counting the part where he was counting to five in Spanish during the second cameo).
The reason for the Travel Song being absent is that the entire episode takes place at school which means there aren't actually any places to go - it instead goes around the school to different classes,
Dora doesn't use Backpack and Map in this episode because she's not traveling anywhere in this episode.
Rather than the usual squares, the picture pop-up sequence uses the school explorer notebook.
Dora and Pepe don't sing the original We Did It! with the original instrumental version from previous episodes, Dora usually sings it in the original version way with Boots, they instead sing it in a different version.
This is another episode where when Dora asks the viewer what their favorite part of the adventure is, she doesn't ask, "What was your favorite part of the trip?", and she just asks "What was your favorite part?".
When Dora and Pepe talk about their favorite parts at the end of the episode, Boots doesn't have a favorite part because he's not with Dora in this episode.
The Fiesta Trio and Swiper don't appear in this episode and they're the only ones not to go to school.
Diego does not appear in this episode or go to school with Dora and Pepe. Since he went in La Maestra de Música.
This is one of few post-Season 3 episodes in which the Fiesta Trio do not play their extended fanfare to start the We Did It! song.
Dora doesn't wear her pink shirt and orange shorts as her regular clothes in this episode, she instead wears her special school uniform.
Boots doesn't sing We Did It! with Dora in this episode at the end because they're not with each other or in the same class. She (Dora) instead sings with Pepe and her other classmates.
The fourth wall is broken twice in this episode when Dora gives a pair of green maracas and an extra popcorn cup to the viewer(s).
