Swiper No Swiping!

If you’ve had the er … pleasure of wathcing Dora The Explorer then you know my man Swiper the fox.

Swiper is the “friendly” nemesis of Dora and her pals. He generally appears midshow and swipes something – a basket of apples, Boots the monkey’s firetruck what have you. His routine is – sneak up, swipe the object, chuck it into the bushes and announce ‘you’ll never find it now!‘ Seemingly harmless, he’s not taking things, just hiding them, not breaking them, just putting a delay in the adventure. Harmless.

Or Is It???

See, I think Swiper is actually MUCH more evil than they would have us believe. If he was taking say the firetruck because he couldn’t afford one of his own, I’d get that. Jacking the cupcakes because he’s overwhelmed with a sugar craving, I understand the feeling. Stealing Isa the Iguana’s bicycle to sell for scrap metal to support his crack habit? Gotcha. But this whole stealing and hiding things solely to get on people’s nerves? Just to stand and watch the look of bewilderment and near horror at times on Dora & co’s faces as he throws their belongings into the shrubbery? It’s almost sociopathic in nature. It’s rather insidious.

I still dig Swiper though. I guess it’s true. Women really do like the bad boys.

~ by octobreana on 6 May, 2008.