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Adored by the Network: Second in line from SpongeBob SquarePants... at least until PAW Patrol came around. Dora the Explorer lasted incredibly long for a preschool-aimed show and was Nick's second flagship cartoon throughout the 2000s and early 2010s.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: The first episode of the series, The Legend of the Big Red Chicken, was one of the episodes (others being "Doctor Dora" and "Whose Birthday Is It?") to not be released on home video and was also very rarely reran in subsequent years (likely due to its Early Installment Weirdness). However, it is available on most streaming services.
The pilot, which was released in 1999, has not been released on any video/streaming format.
The Other Darrin: Back when Diego first debuted in Dora, he had one voice actor. Then Diego got his own show, and a new voice actor. Diego's voice was in limbo for a while; Dora would switch off between the Diego actor and the original actor for a time (the only rationale apparently being that the original actor would voice the normal Dora episodes that featured Diego as a guest character, and the new actor would voice the episodes that were specifically crossovers with Go Diego Go). Later on, the vast majority of the cast was wholly replaced.
And now, after Caitlin's whole Screwed by the Network deal, Dora has another new voice actress as of Swiper's Favorite Things. The new voice is extremally noticeable.
The show originally started life as a Barney & Friends-esque show called The Knock Arounds about a rabbit named Benjamin who went on adventures with his friends. Once animation became an option for the show and at the suggestion of a Nickelodeon executive who wanted to see a positive Latino role model on kids' TV, she was made into a human girl named Tess at first, and then named Nina.
The show was originally called "Nina's Pop-Up Puzzle".
Boots originally didn't have boots. He was named "Boots" as a pun on "reboot" (referencing how everyone lived in a computer game). He originally had the Grumpy Old Troll's design before becoming a fuzzy, barefoot yellow monkey◊ and then later becoming the finalized Boots.
Tico was originally a skunk, not a squirrel. Benny's original name was "Benito" and he was brown, not blue.
Early on Dora was a Significant Green-Eyed Redhead Irish girl.
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