Dora the Explorer

Dora the Explorer is an American interactive educational animated TV series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner. It became a regular series in 2000. The show was formerly carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel. A reboot for the series was announced.

The show features the adventures of young Dora, her monkey Boots, Backpack and other animated friends. In each episode, viewers join Dora on an adventure in an animated world set inside a computer. The titular character seeks viewers' help in solving a puzzle or mystery she faces in each episode.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Annoying and sickeningly cute characters like the protagonist Dora, Boots the Monkey, the Explorer Stars, and Diego.
 * 2) Irritating voice acting for some characters, such as Dora, Boots the Monkey, the Explorer Stars, Diego, Map and Swiper.
 * 3) Boring and uninteresting stories like helping someone returning home to his relatives, aiding someone in finding his true potential and bringing back an object to his owner, along with a few episodes based on characters' backstories such as Dora telling how she had her backpack in the first place.
 * 4) Annoying and irritatingly catchy and repetitive songs like the theme song, "Come on, Vamonos," "Backpack Song," and "We Did It!"
 * 5) While there are a variety of scenarios depending on the episode, many episodes are unadventurous and/or based on simple activities. The same can be said for "more adventurous" episodes and specials like "Dora's Pirate Adventure", "Dora Saves the Mermaids", and "Dora's Dance to the Rescue".
 * 6) Relies too much on fourth wall breaking when Dora needs to find a particular object or a part of the environment. Even the show's end credits have the same "fake interactivity" concept. Dora treats the audience like how her cousin Diego from Go, Diego, Go! does, along with the Little Einsteins, Blue from Blue's Room, Joe from the the later seasons of Blue's Clues, the Sesame Street Muppets (Elmo and Abby Cadabby) who are given the most screen time on Sesame Street (including Elmo in Elmo's World), Barney the Dinosaur, the Teletubbies, the Tweenies, the narrators and puppets from Baby Einstein, JoJo from JoJo's Circus, Special Agent Oso, the Sensational Six from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Darby from My Friends Tigger & Pooh, and mh:besttvshows:Pinky Dinky Doo.
 * 7) Slow, tiresome, lethargic, and overall very sluggish pacing.
 * 8) Season 3 of the show introduced Star Catching, which slowed everything down to a halt and resulted in even more sluggish pacing than before. It doesn't help that Dora and Boots count the number of Explorer Stars they collected at the end in Seasons 3 and 4. Later Season 4 episodes dropped this feature before it was completely dropped in Season 5.
 * 9) Barely any good or decent episodes whatsoever.
 * 10) While the animation is decent, it became stiffer as the show progressed. It was also poor in Season 1, due to it being the show's first season.
 * 11) The Explorer Stars make too much noise, especially Woo-Hoo and Noisy Star.
 * 12) Uses sound effects in an annoying and irritating manner and/or comedy SFX in non-comical scenes, especially in episodes like "Dora Saves the Mermaids" (during the Silly Sea song), "Benny's Treasure", and "El Coqui".
 * 13) In most episodes, Map zooms towards and swallows the whole screen after saying the name of each location four times, which is creepy.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Swiper is a well characterized villain, since while he almost always is the antagonist of Dora and her friends, he sometimes helps them, resulting in being a not stereotypical villain, averting the usual characterization of villains in preschool kids shows.
 * 2) It was the first bilingual children's cartoon to reach mainstream success, as it teaches us how to speak Spanish. In fact, in foreign countries, Dora teaches English!
 * 3) Good animation.

Comments
Dora ALWAYS asks "Where?!?" when it's LITERALLY RIGHT BEHIND her! Seriously! I can't with this Dora the Extra-Annoying Person...Sheesh!

-- Isabella Dunn 18:20, 20 February 2023 (UTC)