The Legend of the Big Red Chicken

"The Legend of the Big Red Chicken" is the first episode of Dora the Explorer from Season 1, and the second episode of the season to air.
==Summary==
Dora and Boots set out in search of the "Big Red Chicken", after reading a story about him, to find out if he is real.
==Trivia==
*Both this episode and "Lost and Found" aired back-to-back as the series premiere.
**However, cable listings say "Lost and Found" aired first, when this episode is the true series premiere as it was presented in a way to introduce the show.
*This was the 1st episode to use the sound of the places without music during the Map segment.
*This is the first time Swiper was stopped and failed to be stopped in the same episode. It will happen again in Beaches.
*This episode premiered on Nickelodeon. at 11:00am eastern time. At the time the show premiered, it instantly became the highest rated show in Nick Jr. history until PAW Patrol premiered.
*This is the first episode in which Dora and Boots don't clap when they ask "Where are we going?" during the Travel Song until the Season 2 episode "The Magic Stick" and to just say the place immediately after that question.
*There are some differences in this episode compared to not just the rest of Season 1, but later episodes of the show as well (likely to introduce the show):
**In the opening theme for this episode, the lyrics "Boots and super cool exploradora" and "¡Vámanos!" use different vocals. This is the only episode to use these vocals and it is unknown why. It was most likely a prototype or demo version of the theme song.
**The animation of this episode and the next use a cruder style that's far different than the rest of the show. It's most noticeable with Dora's facial elements changing consistently.
**Since this is the series premiere, After Dora introduces herself, she asks the viewer what his/her name is. She then asks for the viewer(s)' age.
***Dora does not ask for the viewer's name again until "Dora in Wonderland".
**After finding the big red book in Backpack, instead of the object in question flying away to Dora, it goes inside Backpack with the other objects. After the Backpack segment, it's only then thrown outside of Backpack to Boots. Starting with the next episode, the correct item with fall from the sky to Dora.
**There was no flash of light that goes off at the start of the Backpack segment. The first episode in which it occurs is "Beaches" and it will be put to permanent use as of "Big River".
**The sky in this episode looks like how it is during sunrise or sunset, but starting with the next episode, the sky will be blue and look like daytime.
**When the Fiesta Trio played their fanfare, the frog played a horn (this will later be used in "School Pet" of going through the jungle, "The Shy Rainbow" and "A Crown for King Juan el Bobo"), the grasshopper played the drum, and the snail played the cymbals. This happens again in some other episodes, but starting with the "next episode", the frog plays the drum and the grasshopper plays the accordion. But the snail still plays the cymbals.
**When the 3 square pictures appear in front of Dora, the blue cursor does not click on the first square to the first place Dora and Boots are going, Dora instead reviews what they have to do to get to their goal. This will happen until "León, the Circus Lion".
**All 3 pictures popped up at the same time just after Dora and Boots went past the first two places.
**Dora does not yell "Come on, say it with us!" to start the travel song.
**During the travel song, Dora and Boots sing the places four times (first time) and twice (second and third time) in warp speed. In later episodes, they sing the places four times (or sometimes just twice) in normal speed.
***Also, when it was sung the first time, Dora lists the places by herself first, then Boots does the same. After that, Dora and Boots together list the places the third and fourth time.
**At the end of the chicken dance, Dora said, "You can sit down now!". She says that again once more time in Lost and Found after doing Boots' monkey dance to cheer up Baby Blue Bird. Starting with "Hic-Boom-Ohhh!", she no longer says that anymore because the viewers already know when to sit back down.
**During the favorite parts, the theme music was heard. This happens in the "next episode". In later episodes, that starts at the beginning of the character find/credits.
**Dora doesn't say "We couldn't have done it without you.", she instead says "We couldn't have made it without you."
**When Benny is found at the end of the credits, he laughed. In later episodes, he yells, "Yay! Woo-hoo!"
*This is the first time the show uses the 1999-2005 Nick Jr. Productions Logo.
*This is the first episode for the end credits to have the Comic Sans MS font style. Beginning with the episode "Surprise!", a new font style will debut.
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