The Golden Explorers (My Version)

**The Golden Explorers** is the 7th episode of *Dora the Explorer* from Season 2.

## The Golden Explorers

### Writer

Eric Weiner
The Wiggles **Storyboard by:**
Alex Que
Mike Sosnowski

### Director

George Mata
Chisholm McTavish

## Characters

* Dora
* Boots
* Backpack
* Map
* Fiesta Trio
* The Wiggles
	+ Greg
	+ Murray
	+ Jeff
	+ Anthony

* Captain Feathersword

* Swiper
* Benny
* Isa
* Tico
* Dinosaur Team (debut)
* Rex (debut)
* Dino Goalie (debut)

## Summary

Dora and her friends form a soccer team named The Golden Explorers and have a soccer match against the big dinosaurs. To win, they have to kick the ball into the net and score a goal. Can they do it?

## Plot

Today, Dora, Boots, Benny, Isa, and Tico are at a soccer field to play soccer with the soccer ball. Dora tries hitting the soccer ball on her head. She even hits the ball on her knees a couple of times and kicks the ball with her right foot. Boots thought Dora was really good at soccer. Dora thanked him and mentioned that her father taught her how to play soccer well. Today they were playing soccer with the dinosaur team. They were so big that when they stomp, the ground shakes. The dinosaurs asked Dora and her friends, "What's the name of your team?" Boots thinks for a moment, and then he had a good name for their soccer team. He said they should be named the Golden Explorers. The team liked Boots' idea. Now, they had to get their team shirts. They all looked in Backpack and had 5 yellow shirts with numbers ranging from 1-5. The blue cursor finds the 5 yellow shirts and Backpack wanted to make sure they had the 5 yellow shirts for Dora's soccer team. Backpack counts and sure enough, there were 5 yellow shirts for Dora's soccer team, the Golden Explorers. Tico gets the yellow shirt with the #1, Boots gets the yellow shirt with the #2, Isa gets the yellow shirt with the #3, Benny gets the yellow shirt with the #4, and Dora gets the yellow shirt with the #5. The Dinosaur team did their team cheer, which went "Dino, Dino, Dino, Dinosaurs!". Then it was time for the Golden Explorers to do their own team cheer. Dora showed her team that they should put out their hands and throw their hands up high after saying their team cheer. The Golden Explorers' team cheer was: "Go, Go, Go, Go, Golden Explorers!" The Apatosaurus explained that they had to kick the ball into the net to score a goal. But they didn't see a net anywhere, so they ask Map for help. He says that they had to go around the big tree and jump over a dinosaur's tail to find the net. The Dinosaur team and the Golden Explorers were ready to play soccer. The Fiesta Trio blew their whistles and off they went. The soccer ball gets kicked and the Golden Explorers chased after the soccer ball. Dora and her team each took a turn kicking the soccer ball after asking "Where are we going?". Soon, the Golden Explorers got to the Big Tree before the Dinosaur team. But then, they heard Swiper. They thought that he will try to swipe the soccer ball. Swiper curls up into a ball. Benny noticed that there were 2 balls. They had the soccer ball and an orange ball. Swiper uncurls himself, swipes the soccer ball and tosses it in the big tree! How stupid of Swiper! They had to find the soccer ball fast. The soccer ball was round and had black and white pentagons on it. The viewer gets a look at some nests. Dora said the soccer ball must have landed in a one of the bird's nest. They find a black and white egg, a white bird with sunglasses and then they finally find the soccer ball. After that, all the eggs in the nests hatch. The soccer ball comes down from the big tree, Dora kicks the ball on the side of her foot and comes back down onto the grass. Next, they had to jump over the dinosaur's tail. Dora and her team each took a turn kicking the soccer ball after asking "Where are we going?". The Golden Explorers got so far ahead, they thought the Dinosaur team wouldn't catch up but they stand corrected. The Dinosaur team get in the Golden Explorers’ way. The Golden Explorers had to work together to get past the Dinosaur team. They did that by kicking by the ball to themselves. Dora kicked the ball to Benny, who kicked the ball to Isa, who kicked the ball to Tico, who kicked the ball to Boots. Soon, they got the soccer ball past the Dinosaur team. Boots kicks the soccer ball as he runs with it alone and Dora comes in beside him. In no time, the Golden Explorers made it to the Dinosaur's tail. Dora explained that his name was Rex. She also said that he's the biggest player on the Dinosaur team who sits in the middle of the field and blocks everything with his tail. The Golden Explorers had to jump over Rex's tail. The soccer ball gets kicked over Rex's tail. Each Golden Explorers player took a turn jumping over Rex's tail. Tico went first. The viewer tells him "salta" for "jump". Boots went 2nd and the viewer told him "Salta", Isa went 3rd and the viewer told her "Salta". Benny went 4th and they told him "Salta". Then it was Dora's turn. They told her "Salta" too. Then, the viewer got a turn to jump over Rex's tail. The viewer had to stand up and soon the viewer jumps over Rex's tail. The Fiesta Trio slide down the tail as they played their fanfare. The Golden Explorers were close to kicking the soccer ball into the net. It gets kicked and the team started running after the soccer ball. Suddenly, when the Golden Explorers were about to kick the soccer ball into the net, they stopped. The team asked Dora why she stopped. Dora explained that there was a goalie. The stegosaurus was the Dino goalie. It was his job to make it hard for the other team to kick the ball into the net. The Dinosaur Team got together. Boots wolf whistles. The Golden Explorers had to work together to get the soccer ball past the dinosaurs. They had to spread out. Dora kicks the soccer ball to Tico, who kicks the ball to Boots who kicks it back to Dora as she started moving ahead. Dora got past the dinosaurs but now she had to kick the soccer ball past the dino goalie and into the net. Dora kicks the soccer ball but the Dino goalie uses his tail to block it from going into the net. Dora tries again, she does her "super soccer kick" to kick the soccer ball back the other way. Sure enough, the Dino goalie misses and goes into the net. Tico shouts out "Gol!!!" which is Spanish (also Portuguese and Indo-Malay) for "Goal!!!". The Fiesta Trio cheered "Hooray!!!!!" Boots saw that Dora kicked the ball into the net. The Golden Explorers scored a goal and they all cheered and celebrated. The Dinosaur Team were very impressed. They gave each Golden Explorer a high-five for showing good sportsmanship. The Golden Explorers worked together and found a way to kick the ball into the net and score a goal. Now that they finish the celebration, Dora is going to tell the audience what was their favorite part of the day. After that, Boots' favorite part was that Dora scored a goal, because it's most impressive. And Dora's favorite part was jumping over T-Rex's tail and she also loves of scoring a goal.

## Places in this episode

1. Big Tree
2. Rex's Tail
3. Soccer Net

## Releases

This episode can be found on the DVD release, World Adventure!.

## Trivia

* This episode is similar to "Tyler Dinky Doo's Sporting News".
* Dora's soccer team, the Golden Explorers, wear yellow shirts with numbers going from 1-5.
	+ Coincidentally, the youngest/smallest player (Tico) wears number 1 and the oldest/biggest (Dora) wears number 5.
* This is the first appearance for the dinosaurs.
* This is the 33rd episode of the show.
* This episode aired on April Fools' Day 1999.
* The Fiesta Trio only played their fanfare once, because after the Golden Explorers find their soccer ball and pass the big tree, the Fiesta Trio did not play it.
* The respective leitmotifs of Dora and her friends play as they introduce themselves to the viewer at the beginning.
* This is the second episode where Isa is light green after Bugga Bugga. However, she will be dark green again in the next episode.
* When Dora and Boots sing the Travel Song with their friends of playing soccer, the Fiesta Trio doesn’t jump out to say the last place after saying "where are we going", instead each of their friends take turns saying the last place they’re going. However, Benny took Dora's place after the first "Where are we going?", Isa took the Fiesta Trio's place after the third, and Tico answered the fourth "Where are we going?". Usually Dora, Boots, and the Fiesta Trio do that together.
* This is the first episode where Benny, Isa, and Tico sing the Travel Song with Dora and Boots and they take turns asking "Where are we going?", clapping their hands, and saying out the last place.
* This is the second episode where Tico speaks English after Beaches. He says the Golden Explorers cheer with Dora and the others, and during the Travel Song, he says "net!" as the last place they're going.
* When Dora asks the viewer what his or her favorite part was, she does not ask the usual question "What was your favorite part of the trip?", she instead asks "What was your favorite part of the day?". This also happens in Three Little Piggies.
	+ Coincidentally Map's Animation and Zoom Wipe is recycled from Three Little Piggies.
* As Map was reviewing the places, instead of a path gust, a soccer ball traces a black line around the Big Tree and over the Dinosaur's tail. At the end, the black line traces into the net as if someone kicks the ball and scores a goal.
* A clip of Dora and Boots playing soccer with Benny, Isa, and Tico will later be seen in the Season 3 episode "Best Friends".
* This is the first episode where soccer happens. This will happen again later in Dora Saves the Game, but only on Dora's household TV.
* After the second part of the We Did It! song, Dora and Boots chant the cheer, "Go, go, Golden Explorers!" two times instead of "We did it!" four times.