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Maria Speaks
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"Maria Speaks" | |
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Season/Series: | 19 (US) |
Number in season: | 6A[1] |
Original Airdate: | May 24, 2016[1] June 15, 2015[2] May 6, 2015[3][4] May 5, 2015[5] |
Credits | |
Written by: | Vanessa Wiegel |
Storyboard by: | Jeremy O'Neill |
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"Maria Speaks" is the first half of the sixth episode in the nineteenth season of Arthur.
Summary
Maria has always been a silent fixture in Mr. Ratburn's third-grade class but her time to speak has finally come.[2]
Plot
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Characters
Background
- Big Kid 1
- Otis
- Cheikh
- Brain
- Binky
- Tommy
- Timmy
- Fletcher
- Mrs. Read
- Mr. Read
- Ladonna
- Fern
- Mr. Haney
- Goldy
- Nancy
- Jack
- Alberto
- Molly
- Slink
- Mrs. Fink
Mentioned or pictured
Trivia
- Muffy claims to be heir to the Crosswire Motors dynasty.
- The title of the episode is a reference to the PBS Kids show "Martha Speaks".
Cultural references
- Mr. Ratburn is in a play based on Don Quixote at the community center.
- Maria mentions that Lewis Carroll, Winston Churchill, and Marilyn Monroe were all stutterers.
- Mr. Ratburn was in the play H.M.S. Pinafore, as the role of Captain Corcoran, in 7th grade.
Episode connections
- Maria was a mime for Halloween. Emily had a mime at her birthday party in "D.W., Bossy Boots".
- Maria imagines going to Egypt. Buster went to Egypt in "Buster's Egyptian Adventure".
- George reports on sports. He had shown an interest in sports commentary in "Baseball Blues".
- Jenna has her Athlete of the Year award from "The Good Sport".
- Muffy likes opera. She first tried it in "Lights, Camera... Opera!".
- Francine mentions Hoping with Hoprah from "Three's a Crowd".
- Buster wears a tin foil hat similar to his foil ears from "Phony Fern".
Errors
- Alberto is seen at Lakewood even though he is a teenager.
- When Maria is seen from behind at the news desk, her shoes are pink when they are normally gray.
Gallery
Videos
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20160430190054/http://www.ket.org/episode/ARUR%20%20001906/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05zhfxd/arthur-series-19-11-maria-speaks (archived page)
- ↑ http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/arthur/ZX9962A026S00 (archived page)
- ↑ http://www.tvcatchupaustralia.com/abc4-kids/arthur/series-19-episode-26-138507 (archived page)
- ↑ "마리아의 생방송". EBS. Retrieved May 6, 2015. (archived page; retrieved May 6, 2015)