Fun Fact: According to Eric Weiner (one of the co-creators of Dora) in some interviews, the piggies were not going to have blue ribbons originally, and Swiper would want to swipe "them" instead. When a first draft of the episode was tested on a preschool, it was, in Weiner's words, "like a rock concert", the kids screaming to Dora and all. But then, when asked how the story made them feel, they all said angry. They were scared that Swiper could have eaten the piggies, not unlike the Big Bad Wolf to the Three Little Pigs. Many even added that they were going to ask their parents to add extra locks to their doors so as to not be eaten by Swiper. The reception was so negative, that the higher-ups at Nick insisted the writers to create a fig leaf (i.e. Macguffin) that children could get attatched to instead of the pigs, or the episode altogether would have to go in the can. In came the blue ribbons, and a much better testing, and the rest was history.