Save the Puppies!

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Save the Puppies! is the 7^th episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 3.

In production order, it's the 9^th episode of Season 3.

Characters[]

Dora
Boots
Map
Backpack (We Did It! only)
Swiper (absent; but listed in the credits)
Fiesta Trio (non-speaking)
Puppy
Screen
Dog Catcher (later became Mailman; single appearance)
Gate
The Boat
Explorer Stars
- Saltador Star (debut; production order)

Summary[]

Dora and Boots are "counting" on the viewer's help when they jump into a video game to save 100 puppies from a mean dog catcher.

Plot[]

Dora shows the viewer her new video game called Save the Puppies. The game features multiple puppies caught and put inside doggy cages by the dog catcher. However, he misses one, which jumps out of the game. The puppy then warns Dora and Boots about the 100 puppies trapped in the doggy cages, and they all jump into the video game.

They ask Map where to go to find the puppies, and he says that they have to go through the doghouse and down the Dog-Bone River to get to the doggy cages, finding 100 red keys along the way. Dora, Boots, and the puppy get going and catch stars, including Saltador, a super-jumping explorer star. (The viewer might remember that they can try and catch stars along the way, as Map instructed!)

After finding multiple keys, the dog catcher chases Dora, Boots, and the puppy, who are trying to reach the doghouse. Dora and Boots have to crawl like puppies to get inside. Once there, they have to figure out which door to go through. They go through multiple doors, but Dora cannot push the exit door closed, so the viewer shouts "cierra."

After finding even more keys, Dora and Boots get going again with Puppy and reach the Dog-Bone River. They ride in a doggy paddleboat, which is activated by barking a tune. They get across the Dog-Bone River when the dog catcher pursues them. Dora, Boots, and Puppy reach the doggy cages but need to find 10 more keys to save all 100 puppies. There is a red box next to the doggy cages. Since the box is very large, Saltador gives Dora, Boots, and the puppy some extra jumping power, so they super-jump three times to open the box. All 100 keys come out and unlock a cage, freeing all the puppies. This leaves the dog catcher shocked, thinking that being a dogcatcher isn't any fun, and he decides to become a mailman to deliver everything! So, the mailman gives up and goes far, far away.

Guess who won the game? Dora, Boots, and the viewer won the game! Dora, Boots, and the viewer say, "Yip, Yip, Hurray!" as they race down the hill with all 101 puppies, so happy to be back home. The puppies bark happily, "WOOF-WOOF!"

Places in this episode[]

Songs[]

We're Going to Save the Puppies
Doggy Barking Song

Releases[]

This episode can be found in Puppy Power! on DVD.

Trivia[]

Map stands on the top right of the picture map instead of on the top left and the places are changed around too.
- In a few later episodes, such as To the South Pole, ABC Animals, and Catch the Babies, the places and paths will be set the same way, except Map will stand on the bottom left instead of the top right.
This is the second episode where Backpack was not used at all, the first being The Lost City.
This is the 61^st episode of the show.
Diego and Baby Jaguar don't appear in this episode.
Dora mentions the episode's name when she said the video game "Save the Puppies".
This episode premiered exactly one year after "A Letter for Swiper" premiered.
Benny, Isa, Tico, and Swiper don't appear in this episode.
- Even though Swiper is credited (because he is voiced by Marc Weiner, just like Map), this marked the first time Swiper was absent since Te Amo (since he appeared in every episode of Season 2).
  - However, the Dog Catcher takes Swiper's place as the antagonist.
  - Also, much like the Witch from Dora Saves the Prince and Señor Shush from Dora, La Música, the Dog Catcher reforms himself and is forgiven by Dora, Boots, Puppy, and the other puppies for his actions.
  - Additionally, this episode is about puppies, which Swiper loves, but that info wasn't revealed until Dora's Got a Puppy.
It is unknown how the Fiesta Trio and the Explorer Stars got into the video game, they were possibly coded into the game which in real life one can't do.
- Interestingly, Pokémon, the Explorer Stars' inspiration, is a video game to catch them.
When Map sings part of the I'm the Map song, the Fiesta Trio doesn't sing with him, which means he sang the short version from Season 2.
As soon as Dora and Boots exit the doghouse, the Dog Catcher was almost going to catch Dora with his net since she's the last one to get out although she is a human and not a dog, but she got out right away just in case he did.
Dora and Boots don't sing the Travel Song in this episode, they instead sing about saving the puppies and looking for red keys in red boxes and counting the keys. There were 10 keys per box (except the seventh which has 20 keys). That makes 9 boxes in total.
The We Did It! song from this episode is featured in the Dora the Explorer CD album.
This is the second episode where Dora and Boots count to 3 before jumping into something.
Map mentions about the 100 red keys Dora and Boots had to search for to save 100 puppies.
This is the eighth episode where Dora and Boots returned to where they started from after reaching the final place on the map, something that happened in Three Little Piggies, Berry Hunt, The Chocolate Tree, El Día De Las Madres, Click!, A Present for Santa, and School Pet.
This is the second episode to be written by Christine Ricci, first being School Pet. But this time, she’s listed as just Christine Ricci instead of "Christine Ricci Ph. D".
When Boots says "Where do we go next?", the audio is taken from Dora Had a Little Lamb.
This is the third episode where Boots stands behind the picture pop-up sequence with Dora, first being Pinto, the Pony Express and second being ¡Rápido, Tico!. However, this is the second time he stands behind the picture pop up sequence all three times.
Before counting the stars in English, Dora doesn't say, "Count with me!" She instead asks, "How many stars did we find?".
Although it premiered in 2003, it was actually made in 2002 according to the credits.
When Dora and Boots say, "Yip, yip, hooray!", it sounds like it was from Sesame Street, except for the fact that it was just what the Martians are called and what they said.
This is the fifth episode to feature skidooing by Dora and Boots, just like the stars of Blue's Clues and Bert, who teaches Jane and Michael the skidoo trick in Mary Poppins when they think, wink, do a double blink, close their eyes, and jump. The first time this happened was in Dora Saves the Prince, Te Amo, Quack! Quack! and ¡Por Favor!.
- However, in production order, this is the fourth, with the last episode said above being the fifth.
This episode is similar to the 1961 Walt Disney animated film "101 Dalmatians".
- The 101 puppies play out the role of the Dalmatians.
- The Dog Catcher technically plays out the role of Cruella De Vil, but instead of wanting to make clothes out of the puppies, he traps them in the cages to keep them all for himself.
- The film also takes place in Paris.
This is the second episode where Swiper is absent but another antagonist (i.e. The Dog Catcher) takes his place. The first episode was Te Amo, where El Mago took Swiper's place as the antagonist.

Goofs/Errors[]

iTunes and the DVD list this episode as "Save the Puppies". The exclamation mark is not included.
When the puppies snuggle Dora after being freed, the top of Dora's sleeve is superimposed over Backpack.
Unlike all other episodes that feature star catching, Map mentions nothing about catching stars in addition to mentioning about the 100 red keys in red boxes (for an unknown reason). This will happen again in Dora's Fairytale Adventure.
When Dora and Boots say "21" the 1 in 21 is the wrong font.
In the book version, Perrito appears instead of the puppy from this episode.

Number of stars[]

4

Explorer Star[]

Saltador

Dora the Explorer Season 3 (airing order)

Dora the Explorer Season 3 (airing order, with 2004 Noggin premiere)

Dora the Explorer Season 3 (production order)