This blog is for fans who watch popular animated shows and the parents who are subjected to the slow happy torture of the songs and cuddliness of their characters. A series of cartoon characters join in writing commentary, confessions and critiques about their sordid present and future messed up lives.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Dora's Parents


I love Dora the Explorer. No other character on TV has the bilingual skills and niceness that Dora has. Could you imagine Dora crying? I don't think so. It would be so depressing you would find yourself crying in front of the TV questioning who was the son of a bitch that made her cry. Admit it. Dora is just adorable.
Dora's parents are Brujos (have mystical ancient indigenous magical powers i.e. witches) That's right. BRUJOS. The evidence of Doras' parent brujeria skills come from giving Dora a fricking backpack that not only talks but its also bilingual just like Dora. Its almost as if the backpack and Dora are symbiotic. The most definitive proof that Dora's backpack is influenced by indigenous magic is its ability to carry anything. ANYTHING. Now...being latinos I don't think that Dora's parents thought this through very well. We know that Dora is adorable and a very good girl, but a backpack that carries anything? That is a little bit too much power for the little brown one. What would stop Dora from getting a cattle prod and try it on Boots the monkey to see how it screams? Dora gets stopped by INS? BAM! Dora can furnish a Social Security card from the backpack (don't freak out Dora is a US citizen. How else could she get a syndicated show like hers on TV?)
More surprising is the map inside the backpack. The map sings this very annoying song declaring "I'm the map" over and over again demonstrating that he has identity and self esteem issues. This gringo sounding map (he doesn't speak spanish because if he did maybe he wouldn't find his way) is a step above GPS, TomTom and OnStar. The map is able to guide Dora everywhere including inside books which is pretty awesome. Only brujos would come up with a talking map that goes inside a talking backpack. Dora's parents came up with this safeguard in order to avoid the usual excuses that children come up with. This is what happened when Dora was missing for sometime and her mom yelled and screamed for her.
Mom(angry and scowling with broomstick at hand!)
-"Dora! Donde estabas? (Where were you?!)
Dora: -"I was playing with Boots and I got lost"
Mom: -Oh yeah...and how come you didn't use the map?" Don't tell me that you don't know how to use that damn map. It talks to you and I know the map would not lie to me because I would burn him..."
(Dora received a "woopin" with the broomstick for lying and was sent to her room without backpack.)

There you have it. Dora's mom and dad are brujos. Which means that more than likely Dora is a bruja.

1 Comments:

Blogger Kristen said...

Very nice. Dora the Brujah Explorer.

5:19 PM

 

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