Beaches

**Beaches** is a 4th episode of **Dora The Explorer** from Season 1.

## Characters

* Dora
* Boots
* Backpack
* Map
* Swiper
* Fiesta Trio
* Benny
* Isa (still credited, but still does not appears)
* Tico
* Val the Octopus (1st appearance)
* Snake (1st appearance)
* UFO (1st appearance)
* Grumpy Old Troll (debut in the credits)

## Summary

Dora and Boots go to the beach to cool off on the hot summer day.

## Plot

On a hot summer day, Dora and Boots want to spend the day at the beach to cool off. It all started when Dora was showing the viewer at home that she was pretending to swim. Suddenly, she did not know who landed on her head. It was bouncy, furry and very ticklish. It was Boots the Monkey. Dora asked Boots if he wanted to go swimming at the beach. Boots loved to go swimming at the beach but admits that he is not a good swimmer. Dora understood and gets out a present for Boots in Backpack. After finding Boots' present, Boots opens it and wondered what it was. Dora blows it up and becomes a floaty. Boots practiced trying to swim with the floaty but falls down on the grass. Dora puts the floaty in Backpack for safe keeping until they got to the beach. They did not how to get to the beach. Dora and Boots asked Map for help. He explains that they have to go through the sand dunes, next they have to go over a boardwalk, and that is how Dora and Boots will get to the beach. Dora and Boots got going and started saying out the places they have to go before going to the beach. After that, they hear UFO. He appeared behind the tree and then he hides behind the another tree and then he sneaks up behind Tico. UFO plans on capturing Tico's popsicle treat. Boots tried telling him, "watch out" but was reminded by Dora that Tico understands Spanish. Dora and Boots had to tell the viewer "cuidado". The viewer did so and Tico heard the viewer's response and starts running. UFO chases Tico and then it was time to trick UFO with a rock. Dora and Boots took their turn by find a rock. After that, Tico bravely use the rock and then UFO capture the rock by a mistake, UFO has failed and runs away. Tico thanked Dora and Boots for the warning and walks away. After tricking UFO, Dora and Boots reach the sand dunes. The path split into 3. There was a path colored blue, red and yellow. Benny comes along and takes the blue path bumps into a sand dune. Benny explained that he was trying to get through the sand dunes. Benny, Dora and Boots studied the paths. They now know that the blue path does not take them all the way through the dunes. And all that was left to choose was either the red path or the yellow path. Dora and Boots decided to check the Map again to figure out which is the correct path to take to get through the sand dunes. Each path get traced starting with blue, red and then yellow. The viewer figured out that the yellow path goes all the way through the dunes. Now the viewer had to tell Dora that the yellow path goes all the way through the dunes and the viewer did so. Dora and Boots were about to take the yellow path when Benny runs ahead and takes the red path. Dora and Boots go after Benny and told him "Stop, Benny!". Benny stopped and saw the crabs. They lead Benny back off the red path and went down the yellow path. In no time, they make it through the yellow sand dunes. Now that Benny knew the way, he was going to play again. Dora and Boots say out the places they were going as they walk on the sand. After the tune, Dora and Boots were surprised that they made it to the boardwalk without even knowing it. Now they had to figure out how to get up on the boardwalk. Boots tries jumping up but it was too high and could not reach. Boots then sees a net ladder nearby. Dora and Boots climbed up the net ladder and got onto the boardwalk. Boots hits a board with his fist and realized that the boardwalk was made of boards. Dora and Boots travel on foot on the boardwalk like a sidewalk. Boots falls through some gaps. Dora pulls him back up. Dora and Boots saw that the boardwalk was missing some pieces. The missing boards were down below. First, they had to count out how many holes are on the boardwalk. They counted up to 7 which means they needed 7 boards and there were exactly 7 boards sitting on the sand. As Dora and Boots counted one more time, the blue cursor clicks on each of the 7 boards individually as they fill in the gaps in the boardwalk going horizontally from left to right. After fixing the boardwalk, Dora and Boots continued walking on the boardwalk until they saw steps which took them down and onto a sandy path. Dora and Boots were getting close to the beach. Boots wanted to put on his floaty. As for Dora, she will have to get out her bathing suit so she can go swimming and a towel to dry off later. Dora checks her Backpack for Boots' floaty, her bathing suit and her towel. After getting out all those things, the floaty lands on Boots' waist and the towel lands on his face. Dora has sandals on her feet so she can walk on the hot sand. Dora and Boots started walking on the sandy path and had to watch out for Swiper. Suddenly, Swiper swipes Boots' floaty and Dora has to help him find it. The floaty was round and was colored green with yellow polka dots. The blue cursor clicked on the snake by mistake but then blue cursor clicks on Boots' floaty. After finding it, they arrive at the beach. Dora and Boots saw Val the Octopus who was their lifeguard. Dora and Boots took off their footwear while Dora takes off her backpack and puts the towel on the sand. Dora and Boots had to run on the sand because it was super hot. As they got in, they felt cool. Benny starts running on the very hot sand and then he jumps and splashes into the ocean. Boots hopes that Tico comes. Sure enough, Tico sneaks up behind Boots, who saw him with a floaty of his own. Boots loved his new floaty. And Dora and her friends have such a good time.

## Places in this episode

1. Sand Dunes
2. Boardwalk
3. Beach

## Releases

This episode can be found in Summer Explorer and Explore the Earth.

## Items in Backpack (clockwise from the top during Backpack's second segment)

* Boots' floaty (correct item)
* Earmuffs
* Coat
* Tomato
* Towel (also one of the correct items)
* Dora's bathing suit (also one of the correct items)

## Trivia

* Rita Moreno is credited as Rita Weisskoff, Ph. D.
* During the Favorite Parts segment:
	+ This is the first time the segment uses multiple shots instead of one continuous and unentrapped shot.
	+ This is the first time Boots stands to the left of Dora instead of the right.
	+ This is the 1st time where Dora asks "What was your favorite part of the trip, Boots?".
	+ This is the first time Dora and Boots wear their final outfits and are standing in their final location.
* Tico is the second character who trick the UFO by on his own.
	+ The first being Baby Blue Bird from Lost and Found.
* Despite being a Summer themed episode, it aired on in the Fall on September 25, 2000.
* This is the 2nd episode where Benny and Tico make their appearances.
* This is the 8th episode of the show.
* An online Flash game called "Find Floatie", based on this episode, would be released shortly after this episode was released.
* This is the 1st time UFO was tricked and dora and boots failed to stop swiper in the same episode, following The Legend of the Big Red Chicken. It will happen once again in the episode after the next.
* Backpack and Map don't say "We did it!" during the "We Did It" song in this episode because they were left on the shore while Dora and Boots went in the water.
	+ However, Boots says it instead.
* This was originally a pilot episode, which was produced in 1998.
* Map sings the I'm The Map song twice but the second time he shortens it up a little and it's the first episode he sings it twice and Dora checking on him twice just like in later episodes but the second time he stands on the bottom left of the map this time instead of the top left.
* Swiper makes his whisking sound and appears as soon as Dora and Boots finish the Travel Song the first time.
* Dora and Boots actually sing the Travel Song while Swiper is on to them trying to swipe Boots' floatie tube because Dora tells the viewer to watch out for Swiper while they're singing it but they only sing part of the Travel Song when Swiper is sneaking up from behind every booth and hilariously trips, flails, and stumbles in the background over objects. They don't say the places or spin around and jump saying the last place at the end when they finish singing it. They notice Swiper instead.
* When Swiper appears the second time, he doesn't make his whisking sound.
* This episode holds the record of the most times the Travel Song was sung being 4. The first time was on the way to the Sand Dunes, the second time was on the way to the Boardwalk, the third time was when they are walking on the Boardwalk, and the fourth and final time was on their way to the Beach.
	+ The second time it was sung, Dora and Boots say where they're going twice instead of four times.
	+ The third and fourth times, they only sing the "Come on, vamonos" and "Where are we going?" parts.
* When Dora and Boots ask the viewer where the Boardwalk as the second place is, Boots already finds it before the Blue Cursor clicks on it.
	+ This also occurs in "Three Little Piggies".
* Before everyone sings We Did It!, Dora and Boots don't yell out "we did it", they immediately start singing it.
* During We Did It, Dora, Boots, Benny and Tico all do the "Raise the roof" dance.
* Dora and Boots technically sing the Travel Song throughout the whole episode, they sing the whole song twice but they sing part of it a few times with cutting it off a little but the first time they say the places 4 times, the second time they say the places twice.
* This is the first episode for a few things:
	+ This is the first episode in which Dora takes off Backpack.
	+ This is the first episode where Dora does not wear her normal clothes through the entire episode.
		- This doesn't happen again until Rojo the Fire Truck.
	+ This is the first time Dora is seen barefoot.
	+ This is the first episode where Tico speaks in English.
	+ In this episode, the Grumpy Old Troll makes his appearance in the Character Find.
		- He would later make his first appearance within an episode in Suprise!.
			* Additionally, this is the first episode to find the Grumpy Old Troll in the Character Find.
	+ This is the earliest episode to where Map is called upon for help twice. This would later be revisited in "The Lost City" and so on in future episodes (mainly in Season 4). Same thing with Backpack.
	+ This is the first episode where Dora says "¡Gracias!" after saying "Thanks for helping!" at the end of the episode.
		- This will happen again in To The Treehouse and in later episodes (season 3 onwards).
	+ This is the first episode where a flash of light goes off at the beginning of the Backpack segment.
	+ When Dora and Boots ask the viewer to say "Map!" (first segment), Dora does not say "Louder!", she instead says "I think you have to say it again!". This is the first time she says that before Map's segment.
	+ This is the first episode to premiere on a Thursday.
* It is unknown how Swiper and the Fiesta Trio got to the Beach.
* Dora does not say "Thanks for helping!" after the first picture pop-up sequence, she instead says "All right! Thank you!".
* The walking animations in the Travel Song where Dora and Boots are saying where they're going (the first time) and when they spin in a circle are recycled from "The Legend of the Big Red Chicken", but with a few modifications.
	+ Dora and Boots are walking out of sync.
	+ The "Come on, vamonos!" animation was revamped, and Boots does not cartwheel over Dora.
	+ They will be used again in all subsequent episodes up until "Bouncing Ball" and "The Chocolate Tree".
	+ In addition, the walking animations used the second and third times when saying where they're going and the "Come on, Vamonos!" and "Where are we going?" parts were recycled from "Hic-Boom-Ohhh!".
	+ A new walking animation for saying where they're going will be introduced in "Dora Saves the Prince".
	+ A new recording for the "Come on, vamonos!" line was introduced,
* When Dora said, "He's Behind Us?", the audio is taken from "The Legend of the Big Red Chicken".

## Goofs/Errors

* During the Picture Pop-Up Sequence as Dora is saying the places, she appears to say "River" when saying "Dunes", because the animations were recycled from Hic-Boom-Ohhh!.
* Isa voiced by Ashley Fleming is listed in the end credits, but Isa doesn't appear in this episode and she's the only character not to go to the beach.
	+ However, although Isa is absent in this episode and the previous episode, she will appear on the next episode.
* After Backpack's segment, Dora was somehow changed into her beach outfit. She was not seen putting her casual outfit in her backpack, so it is unknown what happen to them.
* Dora and Boots are not seen putting on sunscreen when they reach the beach. In real life, one could get **SERIOUS** sunburns at the beach if he/she does not put sunscreen (although here it does not apply due to cartoon logic).
	+ However, in the book version of this episode, they are seen putting it on.

## Character Find

Grumpy Old Troll

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