Fiesta Trio

The **Fiesta Trio** are a trio comprising of a frog, a grasshopper and a snail. Whenever Dora and Boots are successful in a given portion of their quests, which are usually divided into three portions, they appear from seemingly nowhere to congratulate Dora and Boots with an 8-note fanfare followed by a quarter note drum and celebrate. They are voiced by Marc Weiner, just like Map and Swiper, except for Dora's Easter Adventure where they are voiced by guest star and rapper Rahzel.

The 2024 CGI series has a new Fiesta Trio consisting of the frog, a marmoset, and an armadillo.

They also sing with Map in his song, from Season 3 onward.

## Appearances

The Fiesta Trio appears in almost every episode of *Dora the Explorer*. Their first appearance was in "The Legend of the Big Red Chicken".

The Fiesta Trio also appears in every episode of *The VeggieTales Show*.

For a full list of the Fiesta Trio's celebrations, see here.

## Looks

﻿The frog is blue with a green stomach. The grasshopper is orange with red spots and a yellow stomach. The snail is pink with a purple shell with light blue lines. Each of them have white eyes with black pupils.

## Trivia

* The Fiesta Trio didn't play their fanfare in:
	+ "Lost and Found". However, they did appear during the Travel Song and at the end of that episode.
	+ "Little Star".
	+ "Star Mountain".
* There are other fanfares that they play in addition to their standard one.
	+ Starting with "The Lost City" ("Dora Had a Little Lamb" in production order), they play an extended 16-note fanfare tune when Dora and Boots finish their adventure. Also in that episode onwards, they sing along with Map during the I'm the Map! song, most likely because they sometimes can't resist a song.
	+ In Boots' Special Day, they plays a special tune in honor of Boots' special day.
	+ In Call Me Mr. Riddles and The Big Piñata, they plays a special fanfare when they have a special announcement for Dora and Boots.
	+ In Swiper's Favorite Things, they play their fanfare in an acapella style after passing Crocodile Lake due to the wind blowing their instruments away to the Tangled Forest.
	+ In Dora In Wonderland, they play their fanfare out of order after passing through the Forgetful Forest.
* Originally, both the normal and extended fanfares were normal pitch (E major and G flat major, respectively). But beginning with the last seasons, it became slightly higher-pitched (F major and A major, respectively). The older version can still be heard in some Season 7 and Season 8 episodes.
	+ Speaking of their fanfare, from Season 3 and onwards, the screen shows a close-up of what the Fiesta Trio is doing while they play their normal fanfare after Dora and Boots pass a location.
* When the Fiesta Trio talks, there were three different pitch tones for each one. The frog (Ribbit) sounds low, he's the second oldest and the grasshopper (Hopper) sounds slightly higher and he is the youngest, and the snail (Slither) has the highest pitch tone and she is the oldest.
* To the Treehouse is the first episode where Dora and/or Boots mention the Fiesta Trio by their names.
* They only appeared in two *Go, Diego, Go!* episodes: they made a cameo appearance in Linda the Llama Saves Carnival and sang with Map twice in Diego's Great Dinosaur Rescue.
* Just like with Swiper, in some episodes, such as Dora Saves the Prince, Te Amo, Quack! Quack!, To the South Pole, and Dora's Fairytale Adventure, they somehow got to wherever Dora and Boots are going. In episodes like The Lost City, Roberto the Robot, The Big Potato, Baby Dino, and Big Sister Dora, they play their extended fanfare as they somehow show up at the last place. In Season 3 episodes, the Explorer Stars are also characters that somehow get to wherever Dora and Boots are going.
	+ Additionally, they are both voiced by Marc Weiner.
* They live in an orange shell.
* The Fiesta Trio was never seen crying in any episodes. However, they were sad when they lost their instruments on "Dora's First Trip" and "Swiper's Favorite Things".
* In Dora's First Trip, they had to play music for the queen bee on the top of tallest mountain, who doesn’t like waiting.
* In the episode Berry Hunt, they get interrupted and cut off by the Bear, who chases after Dora and Boots.
	+ This happens again in We're a Team!, where the Grumpy Old Troll tries to get rid of them by removing his bridge. This fails and they fly out with helicopter blades and continues their song.
* In some episodes, the Fiesta Trio doesn't always sing the Travel Song with Dora and Boots, sometimes there are other characters singing it with them too.
* From Season 3, the Fiesta Trio always play their fanfare music before Dora and Boots sing We Did It!.
* In The Golden Explorers, the Fiesta Trio doesn't play their fanfare music after everyone passes the Big Tree Swiper throws the soccer ball in.
* The Fiesta Trio is voiced by Marc Weiner who also voices Map and Swiper. They have kept the same voices throughout the whole show.
* The Fiesta Trio never gets Character Find during the end credits.
* Their icon was shown once in Whose Birthday is It?, but on the personalized version only, as the regular version has Baby Red Fish's icon instead.
* In We All Scream for Ice Cream, they played their fanfare music the loudest.
* Sometimes in the closed captioning, they are referred to as "bugs" (which is technically true for the grasshopper, but not for the snail and frog, as the former is a gastropod and the latter is an amphibian as well as the only vertebrate of the original trio) or "animals".
* The marmoset in the new Fiesta Trio from the 2024 CGI reboot has the same fur as Boots's original design and the Grumpy Old Troll.