Let's Go to Music School (Dora the Explorer)

Let's Go to Music School is an episode of Dora the Explorer, it is the 20th/final episode of season 8 and is overall the 177th/final episode of Dora the Explorer, and is the last normal episode before the series finale film "Dora and the Lost City of Gold".

Plot
Dora, Emma, and Kate help Gus the Bus take all of the instruments to the children at Music School, and Swiper tried to steal the stuff but he failed.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) To get the elephant-out-of-the-room: This episode is basically a version of the Panda's Birthday episode of We Bare Bears (which came out five months later), but it's in Dora the Explorer, as both episodes feel more like a continuity episode of the series than a final episode of the show and which literally had no impact for the 2019 theatrical film.
 * 2) To add salt to the wound, the show ended on April 24, 2015 with this episode in Canada and the UK, but did not air in the US until August 9, 2019, better known as the release of Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and this makes a completely unnecessary, petty, and pointless hiatus as there is no apparent reason why this should have occurred.
 * 3) Also much like "Lumpus' Last Stand" of Camp Lazlo, "Ep 12" of Waiting In The Summer and "Things Change" of the 2005 Teen Titans, there is absolutely NO indication that "Let's Go to Music School" was gonna be the last episode of the series as its commercials never said ANYTHING that this would be the last episode.
 * 4) The plot, while decent, isn't that great for a final episode of a series like this, as it would have been better if Dora had traveled on one last amazing and thrilling adventure and one that fit a little bit with the events of movie before of to have been released, which makes this a huge wasted opportunity, especially for fans who have followed the series for nearly 20 years.
 * 5) Boots, who is Dora' best friend and practically the second protagonist of the show, is not seen or mentioned in this episode, which is quite disappointing considering that a final episode of the series wouldn't be the same without him, and after all Benny. who is a one of the show's important supporting characters, appears in the episode and why not Boots?
 * 6) *Unfortunately, Isa and Tico, who are also important secondary characters like Benny, also don't appear in the episode.
 * 7) Dora, instead of singing the travel song which is a traditional song from the show in several episodes, she sings a different song called "Going to the Music School", which is a little disappointing to see since this is the final episode of the series and she doesn't sing this song for the last time in the series finale.
 * 8) Animation error: In one scene at the school, Alana's eye color is the same as Dora's.
 * 9) A lot of people were waiting for a part 2 of this episode, or a ninth season to resolve the cliffhanger, especially Canadians, but the show literally wanted to end the events of this episode for no apparent reason.
 * 10) Overall, this episode ends the show easily on a complete cliffhanger, as we don't know what happened on the show after this episode.

Good Qualities

 * 1) None of the characters in this episode are unpleasant, especially the main cast.
 * 2) This episode at least served as a decent flashback to the continuity of its 2014 spin-off (Although the spin-off was not well-received).
 * 3) The idea of ​​Dora, Emma and Kate helping Gus the Bus bring instruments to the kids at music school is decent and would have been an okay episode, if it weren't for it being the show's finale.
 * 4) At least when the movie released the same day this episode came out in the US in 2019, it helped improve the series finale very strongly so that this ending wasn't the sour ending.

Reception
"Let's Go to Music School" received overwhelming negative reviews, with fans criticizing it's lack of finality despite it being the series finale.