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Dora the Explorer has come to life — sort of. And parental discretion is advised.Nine months after scoring one of its biggest hits ever with a parody Dora movie trailer, CollegeHumor has turned the send-up into a three-part miniseries, Dora the Explorer and the Destiny Medallion."We did the movie trailer, and we loved the video, but the response was better than we had hoped," Sam Reich, CollegeHumor's president of original content, tells TVGuide.com. "With so many people asking for it to be a real thing — we don't really have that permission to release a Hollywood film —we said, 'What's the biggest version of this that we can do?' And the answer was web series ... and luckily all the stars aligned. ... This is one of the most ambitious things we've ever done."Our favorite "very special" episodesPart 1 was released ...
Dora the Explorer has come to life — sort of. And parental discretion is advised.
Nine months after scoring one of its biggest hits ever with a parody Dora movie trailer, CollegeHumor has turned the send-up into a three-part miniseries, Dora the Explorer and the Destiny Medallion.
"We did the movie trailer, and we loved the video, but the response was better than we had hoped," Sam Reich, CollegeHumor's president of original content, tells TVGuide.com. "With so many people asking for it to be a real thing — we don't really have that permission to release a Hollywood film —we said, 'What's the biggest version of this that we can do?' And the answer was web series ... and luckily all the stars aligned. ... This is one of the most ambitious things we've ever done."
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The miniseries was penned by Reich and his team, who devoured 20 or episodes of the real series before writing. Reich also "did a fair amount of research" with his brother and 4-year-old niece. As such, the miniseries is embedded with a slew of inside jokes that he hopes will have former Dora fans and parents saying, "Me gusta." "I would urge people to try to count the references that we make," he says. "There are subtle ones too that we put in there for parents who are really diligent."Though the trailer is a massive Internet sensation, it was not the first time that CollegeHumor has lampooned Dora. In 2010, the site released the animated parody Conquistadora the Explorer. Neither those nor the miniseries were done with Nickelodeon's permission — not that the children's network minded. "We're keeping our fingers crossed. We heard from them the first time around that they loved it, so we sort of used that as all the permission we need to do this one!" Reich says. "But it's very much unauthorized. ... I think we may have mentioned to them somewhere along the line, totally casual [that we were doing the miniseries]."So what are the chances of another Dora miniseries?"We'll see how this one does!" Reich says. "If everyone's excited about it and wants more, then we'll try to make it happen. This one more or less sews up pretty nicely. But if you stitch these three episodes together, they're 11- or 12-minute adventures, so you can easily imagine us doing another one of these."Watch the original trailer and Part 1 of Dora the Explorer and the Destiny Medallion below.