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I think most of us know that this show is a spin-off from Dora the Explorer, and features Dora's cousin Diego.

When Diego was introduced in Dora the Explorer, we met his older sister Daisy. When Go, Diego, Go! launched, Daisy suddenly disappeared, and a new sister, Alecia, appeared instead.

Today, Nick Jr. showed a new episode of Go, Diego, Go! (a Mother's Day episode), and to my surprise, there were three kids present at the Animal Rescue Center... Diego, Alecia, and Daisy! As far as I could tell (since I was actually doing some online research at the time), it didn't appear that Daisy's disappearance was explained.

So, where has Daisy been all this time? Boarding school? Touring the world with the soccer team she plays with (she was shown playing soccer in Dora)? Or did the writers finally remember to let Daisy out of her room?

What's funny is this post reminded me of an old episode of All My Children where Tad and Jenny's older brother went upstair to wax his skis (or something like that) and never, ever came back down.

Sinister things at work in TV Land.

Wrestling gets to be the same way. They start a storyline about something and then suddenly deviate from it for whatever reason for a week and then never get back to finish it up and kind of leaves you hanging. They do that quite a bit and it is quite irritating.

Today, Nick Jr. aired the much-hyped "It's a Bug's World" episode of Go, Diego, Go!. Essentially, with the help of a magic flute, Diego and one of his friends are shrunk down to help judge a dance contest for whirligig beetles. They discover that the partner of one of the beetles is missing, and with Click the Camera, see she has an injured wing. Diego has to go rescue her and bring her back before the end of the contest.

I was left wondering why Nick Jr. hyped this so much. The only thing that was "special" about it is the fact that Diego shrinks down in size and experiences things in the same way a bug would. Outside of that, though, it was basically just another episode of Go, Diego, Go!. And the fact that the writers felt a need to write this kind of storyline makes me wonder if they're running out of ideas for animal rescues for the episodes.

sorry for the short intro, but my post just got erased while typics (hit the wrong key!) - below is my review for the "It's a Bug's World" episode of "Go, Diego, Go!" - I am a huge Diego fan, and would have commented earlier but the Bella forums were't working for me. I have to agree, Lesley, that it seems that we are seeing less and less of the more tradiitional animal rescues (which is unfortunate since that was the reason I loved this show so much)...anyway, I'm planning to add episode reviews on my Diego fanlisting/fansite BellaOnline ALERT: Raw URLs are not allowed in these forums for security reasons. Please use UBB code. If you don't know how to do UBB code just post here for help - we will help out!

To answer your question, in "The Bobos' Mother's Day", Diego said that his sister Daisy has been away at college. If there's an interest, I'll post a review of this adorable episode!! Please let me know!

Thanks for the answer about Daisy... although I'm a little confused. In one of the Dora the Explorer episodes, they were celebrating Daisy's 15th birthday (they had the Hispanic traditional party given to girls turning fifteen ("Quintenessa" or something like that?). So it looks like that:

1) Daisy was able to graduate from high school early and go on to college. Or perhaps got a GED or was homeschooled and was able to finish all the required courses early.
2) Three years have passed in the Dora/Diego universe (doubtful, since they don't look older)
3) The writers forgot that Daisy was only 15
4) Or perhaps I'm just thinking too hard about this. LOL!

I'm planning to watch "Diego's Moonlight Rescue" tonight, so I can review it for Associated Content (and I'll shared a condensed version here).

Kimsites: Love your avatar with the Pachirisu.

Thanks Lesley!! that's okay - I think way too much about Diego episodes myself, as you can probaly tell!! I've already written a full review for "Diego's Moonlight Rescue" last night for my own site - I just read yours on Associated Content - I'd have to agree with thes tory being stretched too long as well as Alicia doing most of the rescuing (as we've also seen in other recent episodes)....

Anyway, here's my take.....

"Diego's Moonlight Rescue (Tuga Helps the Moon)"
Airdate: 8/18/08 (originally DVD exclusive)
Rating: * (possibly **; out of 5)


"One summer night, the unexpected happens..." Well, that's certainly an understatement regarding this episode. When I first saw the then-DVD exclusive back in February in the store, I was like "wha????" And this was before the barrage of bizarre episodes that we've been dealt in 2008 had even begun to air. So by June, when the average Diego episode involved mermaids, magic flutes, and a face on any given object, the two-month-long hype for "Diego's Moonlight Rescue"'s primetime television premiere was the start of a very long wait for an episode that I wasn't looking forward to at all. I always said, and this is not the first time I've mentioned this in regards to an hour long 'epic' (the first regarding "Diego's Safari Rescue"), that one of the things that first drew me to Diego was that his episodes were not only different from Dora's (I was never a fan of her more fantasy-based stories), but they were about saving real animals from real danger. But Diego saving Luna the moon after she's broken in pieces and fallen into the ocean?? As a fan of his now classic rescues of sloths from mudslides ("Diego Saves Mommy and Baby Sloth"), a puma from pit trap ("Rainforest Race"), and an anaconda from excessive heat ("Cool Water for Ana the Anaconda"), to say the least, this is not what I signed up for.

Now before actually seeing this episode, I had thought to myself that perhaps the whole story of Luna (with a face) being hit by a comet (also with a face) would be just that - maybe from a book, a dream, or some other kind of fantasy. So when Diego and his family were gathered on the beach for moonlight storytime, it began to make sense - but there was Luna, face and all, right from the start. And while this does lead Diego to the very real problem of finding Tuga the leatherback sea turtle with a plastic bag around her neck and unable to swim, the issue of garbage in the sea endangering animals was little more than a two-minute side story. Keeping in mind that we already learned all about newborn leatherbacks needing the (faceless) moonlight to get to the ocean ("Save the Sea Turtles"), the entire episode was rather unnecessary. But as it turns out, Diego goes on to tell the story of a very sentient (and apologetic) comet causing Luna to literally go to pieces...that he made up. And while that may be the one redeeming thing about this episode, and I admit, there's something kind of cute and innocent in seeing the kind of story that comes from Diego's eight-year-old imagination, it still wasn't enough to save "Moonlight Rescue" from being one of the weirdest Diego episodes ever (after all, "Manatee's Mermaid Rescue" was a fantasy too).

Unlike "Manatee", at least here, the story that begins in Diego's hand-drawn book (okay, that was cute) very subtly faded into the interactive fantasy featuring him and Tuga with no jumping required. So off they go to find Tuga and her missing pieces, leaving Click in charge of keeping an eye on the baby sea turtles (okay, it's a story), yet despite the promos, the turtles were never in any real danger (i.e. from coyotes ["Save the Sea Turtles"]). After getting the first piece (Luna's crescent), it's off to find the others...at the bottom of the ocean, Now I'll admit, I really don't care much for many of Diego's underwater episodes, and like "Manatee's Mermaid Rescue", this one literally goes "Mas Abajo..." Coincidence??

First stop is the undersea city - now, I was fully prepared to see mermaids...or mer--something?? (especially since we saw that same octopus wearing the flower in the episode!). Okay, I was wrong, but I think I would've preferred Mariana and the rest of the manatee-tailed throwbacks to the every doorway and building with the same face, with the gates asking riddles (what's next - the Grumpy Old Troll??)! Then.......when the ribbon that Tuga's pulling Luna with breaks, she falls toward erupting volcanoes....and suddenly, it was like every bad underwater Diego episode rolled into one! But believe it or not - the volcanoes DID NOT wake up and startings sing (like in "Giant Octopus to the Rescue"), making then just about the only objects in this entire episode that DIDN�T have faces!!

So as Diego and Tuga continue to find the rest of Lunaa�s pieces, the rest of the episode was fairly normal wth Tuga swimming through the clear path, eating jellyfish (that thankfully still don�t look like Scrubbing Bubbles!), digging (I still always think of �Excava� as Armadillo�s Song [�Rainforest Race�] but better Tuga than Giant Octopus!), and hiding from orcas (though I half-expected Alicia to shrink her sub [and herself) to bug-size [�It�s a Bug�s World�]!]). And I don't think Diego could think up a story that didn't have the Bobos causing trouble (okay, that was cute too)! But once the story ends and it�s back to reality, the strangest thing is Luna asking Diego if she could really break apart. He answers no, and that he just made it up for his story, and then goes on to say that all the cool stuff about sea turtles was real. But all of this seems very inconsistent with �Luna� having a face and talking to Diego, yet everything else that happens only happened and only COULD happen in a made-up story? It�s especially confusing since lately there have been quite a few Diego episodes where random objects are given faces (although not nearly as many in one place as in this single episode!) and were not just stories that Diego made up. But story or not, it was all a little too much...and as described in the riddle as someone �who loves to rescue animals" (which he hasn't done nearly enough of in recent episodes), Diego, don't give up your day job.

I like Diego episodes that are "real". I have to say - I'm not so thrilled about the magical elements in the cartoon recently. I much prefer more realistic challenges that then need to be overcome using the tools. I have my DVR set to record Diego for my kids - they LOVE the show and learn a lot from it. We just do not save the magical ones.

Angela <><

yes, Angela, I totally agree!! The recent Diego episodes really make me wonder if they're intentionally changing the format of this already-beloved show and why. For a show that initially raised the bar on animal stories, creating enormous potential for both educational and adventurous stories for our favorite animal rescuer, I'd hate think all the best episodes of "Go, Diego, Go" are now in the past.

-Kimberly