- Doby & Disy started out as a direct mockbuster of Dora the Explorer in its earliest season, borrowing much of its Fake Interactivity elements and featuring knockoffs of the Map and Swiper, the latter having a Swiper, No Swiping! catchphrase used against him ("Bad Caesar, go away!").
- Pop Team Epic: The "Poputan" skit is an edutainment style parody of Dora, where Poputan and Pipitan go to a farm to get milk from a cow. They ask the viewers what animal they get milk from (a cow, Cthulhu, or a Transformer), which item will make an upset Poputan the happiest (money, a teddy bear, or a slice of cake), and where is the old guy sexually harassing them so they can castrate him with a buzzsaw.
- Mother Goose and Grimm:
- While trick-or-treating on Halloween, Grimmy and Ralph are trampled by a pack of Doras exploring a sugar high
. - One series of comics has Grimmy posting "Grimmyleaks" on the internet. In this strip, he claims that Dora the Explorer needs a GPS to find her way around her own house.
- While trick-or-treating on Halloween, Grimmy and Ralph are trampled by a pack of Doras exploring a sugar high
- Off the Mark:
- Dora the Explorer's mom.◊
- Dora is also at◊ the Betty Rubble Center For Recovering Toons, alongside such cartoon characters as Jon Arbuckle, Spike, and the Red M&M.
- Dora the Explorer's mom.
- Elwood (2015): The "Rage of Exploration" strip demonstrates that having watched Dora the Explorer at the age of 3 is the reason D.W. hates being called by the first part of her real first name, Dora: she got angry at the show's title character due to the show's Fake Interactivity and how the explorer wouldn't hear her when she tried to warn her that Swiper the Fox is right behind her, leading to D.W. judging her namesake explorer, and by association the name "Dora" itself, as dumb.
- The Kedabory Verse:
- In the Ma Fille chapter "Big Girl Bed", one of the toddler beds is Dora-themed.
- In PreCure in a Nutshell, Miyuki Hoshizora get the parody surname of "Yoshidora".
Film - Live Action
- In Mean Girls (2024), a Dora doll is used to represent someone when Janice and Damian tell a story about Janice’s relationship with Regina.
- In The Art Of Invader Zim, during the screening for the first episode of Invader Zim, Dora is one of the shows that are screening before the former. Unsurprisingly, it was also next door to Invader Zim. However, Jhonen Vasquez finds the show adorable.
- Tilly from Harmony (2016) likes Dora the Explorer popsicles in any color but green.
- Jack, the child narrator of Room, is a Dora the Explorer fan.
- In The Tuning Station, five-year-old McKayla has a Dora backpack.
- iCarly: In "iBattle Chip", when Carly finds Spencer tied up by Chip, Chuck's younger brother, she asks him, "Who did this to you?", and Spencer sarcastically tells her, "Dora the Explorer, Who do you think?!".
- Drake & Josh: A Running Gag in the episode "The Storm" has Crazy Steve watching the show (particularly the episode "Louder!") on TV."You're the one with the map, don't ask ME!"
- Israeli kidcom Ha Pijamot had a Dora Parody Episode, which is explicitly presented as such in-universe (as much as you can be in-universe in a show with No Fourth Wall, anyway). In addition to the "mainstream" Dora parody — which features Jora and her monkey companion Boutchek teaching Judæo-Iraqi, playing fast and loose with every Iraqi stereotypenote as they do – in a fourth wall break complaining about the episode's reliance on stereotypes, there were also cutaway gags for two other Dora parodies, based on Polish ("Janka mit Abreszka") and Georgiannote ("Izho and Bizho") stereotypes.Izho: Hello, today we'll learn how to roll wads of dollars in cash, to grow golden teeth, and to fill buckets with sweat. Repeat after me: wads, golden teeth, sweat. Bizho, where is cat?Bizho: Why do you care? Why do you stick your nose in?
- Amanda the Adventurer is an Analog Horror game that could best be described as Dora the Explorer meets The Ring. The game is based around a popular local access TV show that stars a spunky young heroine named Amanda and her best friend Woolie, based on Dora and Boots respectively, and the dark, horrifying secrets it hides behind its cutesy exterior. Many tropes familiar to Dora are featured, such as Animate Inanimate Objects (here implied to be viewers sucked into and trapped within the show's world), Fake Interactivity (that may not be as fake as it seems), and even a Swiper-analogue (dead after being caught in a bear-trap).
- Infinite Craft: It’s possible to craft the Grumpy Old Troll.
- PAYDAY 3: Hoxton may quip "Sniper, no sniping!" after killing a Sniper.
- Battle for Dream Island: A character introduced in the second season is a stick figure version of Dora.
- Sunstriker Animated Universe: Swiper appears as a character in the series. Swiper, No Swiping! is even parodied in the Foxy's Family episode "Treehouse Troubles".
- Sheldon:
- This strip has Arthur telling Sheldon that he likes the grumpy old troll who lives under the bridge.
- This strip
- In The Nostalgia Critic's review of The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, the Critic compares the children in the film interacting with Elmo to the dead silence of Dora the Explorer, and asks the audience how they cannot shout inappropriate things when Dora asks them to participate.Dora: Can you say "Rapido"?
Critic: Bone yourself, I'm not Google translat...
Dora: Say "Rapido"!
Critic: You're not even listening to me, I hope your bag eats you!
Dora and Boots: Rapido!
Critic: You passed the same tree five times!
- Family Guy:
- The episode "How the Griffin Stole Christmas" shows Stewie with a Dora sled that he says Peter and Lois picked up at a yard sale. He then tries to justify it to Susie by saying Dora's about "language acquisition, not gender".
- In the episode "Peter's Lost Youth", Stewie starts reading his erotic Dora x Diego fanfiction to Rupert. Keep in mind that Dora and Diego are cousins, and not romantic partners.
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In the episode "One False Movie", Eduardo watches a parody of the show called Lauren Is Explorin'.
- In the “Futurama” episode “Yo Leela Leela”, one of the shows that is nominated for a Young’s People’s Choice Award is Dora the Destroyer.
- The 69th episode of Kaeloo, titled "Let's Play Hallo, Hello, Hola!", has the characters using Fake Interactivity and teaching the viewers different languages, much like in Dora the Explorer.
- MAD:
- One sketch featured Dora throwing up in her talking backpack during a bus ride.
- In "Are You Karate Kidding Me?", Dora beats up Dre for hurting her backpack.
- In "Demise of the Planet of the Apes", Boots is one of the occupants of the Super Ape Motel.
- The sketch "Legend of Dora" is a mix of this show and The Legend of Korra.
- In "Go, Dragon Ball, Go!", Swiper attempted to steal Diego's Dragon Balls.
- In "Dark Knight at the Museum", Dora and Boots appeared at the Museum of Television.
- The sketch "Doraline" is a mix of this show and Coraline.
- Robot Chicken:
- One sketch from "Werewolf vs. Unicorn" has Dora slammed as an illegal alien by Arnold Schwarzenegger, while Boots gets his neck snapped by a border patrol officer.
- One sketch from "The Curious Case of the Box" has Dora, Boots, and Diego attempt to climb Mount Everest, but Swiper has other ideas.
- One sketch from "Hemlock, Gin and Juice" has Dora celebrate her quinceañera. Papi points out that monkeys may be cute, but they can be hazardous when they grow up. So Boots had to be put down because of what he did to Abuela.
- One sketch from "Food" has Swiper star in a parody of American Sniper entitled "American Swiper".
- One sketch from "Not Enough Women" has Dora and Boots get cornered by real gorillas.
- One sketch from "Why Is It Wet?" has Dora eat chilled monkey brains, much to Boots' chargin.
- One sketch from "Your Mouth Is Hanging Off Your Face" has Swiper host Fox News after their previous human anchor is fired for sexual harassment.
- Teen Titans Go! spoofed the show in "Toddler Titans...Yay!" by having Control Freak put the Titans in a Dora-esque show.
