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Maria Pappas
Gender Female
Animal Rabbit

Hair color Golden brown (s1-s5; ALaF; APC),
Orange-brown (s6-present; AIORnR);
Blonde (AT, ATT),
Dark brown (AOtS)

Residence Steve and Maria's House, Elwood City
Family Mother,
Steve (brother)

Maria[1][2][3][4] is a third grader who attends Mr. Ratburn's class at Lakewood Elementary School.

Biography

Pre-Lakewood years

Maria is not in the class picture of Mrs. Robertson's kindergarten class from three years ago, meaning that she came to Lakewood at a later year than the majority of her current classmates did.[5]

Second grade

Maria was present at Lakewood Elementary in second grade,[6] but was not in Mr. Marco's class,[7][note 1] unlike most of her third grade classmates. Her most noteworthy event during this year was walking into the girls' bathroom when Arthur had accidentally entered moments earlier.[6]

Third grade

When Principal Haney announced that she and her classmates were going to be in Ratburn's class, Maria screamed with the rest of the crowd.[8] Eventually, she became used to Ratburn and now likes being in his class.

Future Life

In a possible glimpse into the future, an adult Maria is in the crowd behind President Mary Alice Crosswire at the new president's inauguration ceremony.[9] Maria wears a trench coat and holds a notepad, suggesting she will be a journalist. It is unknown if this is actually a glimpse of Maria's future.

Personality

Quietness

Maria is normally quiet in class, usually from shyness.[4] In spite of this, however, she does often participate in class lessons. She is also willing to have lines in a class play, so long as they aren't solo lines.[10] For a history report she had given orally, the grade she received was a 'B'.[11] She once said something that upset Francine, although exactly what she said is unknown.[12]

Interests

Maria in line for Bionic Bunny's autograph

Maria likes the Scare-Your-Pants-Off series,[13] the Finnish band BINKY,[14] and several sports, for example basketball[15] and soccer.[16] Maria likes hopscotch[17] and reading.[18] Maria owns a doll that she plays with on occasion.[19] She is also a fan of Bionic Bunny.[20][21] Her favorite food appears to be cheese, considering how she brought a plate of cheese for the 'one food to bring to a desert island' project.[22]

Club activities

Despite never talking, Maria is a member of the Lakewood Elementary Choir.[23] Maria also plays the tambourine for the school band.[24] She participates on the Track and Field Team[25] and was a member of the Lakewood Pride Committee during its short existence.[25] She also often visits the community center and the library.

Relationships

Family

Mother

Maria's mother was with Maria at the Sugar Bowl[26] and at David's Toys.[27]

Steve

Maria's older brother Steve also goes to Lakewood. They often talk with each other between classes. The two were confirmed to be related by their participation in the brother-and-sister race at the Annual Picnic.[28]

Friends

Alex and Maria

Alex

Maria and Alex are friends. They are with each other more often than with any of their other classmates.

Buster

Buster once bounced a crumbled piece of paper on her head, which annoyed her.[29][note 2] However, they are still friends, seen in the facts that Maria danced with Buster at Prunella's birthday party[30] and that they talked at Jenna's Athlete of the Year party.[31] When Arthur imagined that Buster would suck his thumb all the time, he imagined Maria gasping in shock at Buster.[32] When Buster imagined having a large family, Maria was in his fantasy as a potential cousin.[33]

Fern

Maria and Fern have gone to the Ice Cream Shop to get ice cream and a drink.[34] They also did a hand-clapping game together.[35]

Jenna

Maria talks with Jenna[36] and sometimes walks to class with her.[37][38]

John

Maria has been seen talking with John.[6][39]

Muffy

She and Muffy went scuba diving in Muffy's pool when Arthur told them that Buster was coming home.[40]

Prunella

Prunella must know Maria somehow because she invited her as one of her six guests to her birthday party.[30]

Sue Ellen

She and Sue Ellen went to the Harvest Day festival together.[41] They sometimes also share a desk group.[42]

"3rd Grade Male Rat"

He and Maria went to see the Bionic Bunny 5-movie marathon together.[20]

Physical appearance

Maria is an anthropomorphic rabbit with a cream complexion. She wears a light blue skirt, a dark blue and pink striped shirt, and brown shoes. She has orange-brown hair in the form of a bob cut. Not including her ears, she is a few inches taller than Arthur.[3] In some instances, though, her height has varied from preschooler size[43] to Prunella's size.[44]

Alternate apparel

  • Magenta jacket 1

  • Magenta jacket 2

  • Blue jacket

  • Winter clothes 1

  • Winter clothes 2

  • Summer clothes 1

  • Summer clothes 2

  • Swimsuit 1 and scuba gear

  • Swimsuit 2

  • Party outfit

  • Formal clothes 1

  • Formal clothes 2

  • Gym clothes

  • Track and field uniform

  • Karate uniform

  • Pajamas

  • Costume 1

  • Costume 2

  • Imaginary band uniform

  • Surgical mask

  • Ice cream-making clothes

  • She can be seen with a haircut in the background of this picture.

  • Hard hat

  • Future self

In the fall, she wears a magenta jacket,[45] a magenta jacket with buttons,[46] or a blue jacket.[47]

In the winter, she wears a green-blue jacket, a pink scarf, pink mittens, purple leggings, and snow boots.[37] For cold weather, she sometimes instead wears a pink sweater, teal sweatpants, and green-blue sneakers.[37]

In the summertime she wears a pink T-shirt with light blue stripes and a white collar, a light blue dress, and her usual brown shoes.[48] For hot weather, she will also wear a light blue T-shirt and dark blue shorts.[49] She wore a light blue and pink swimsuit while swimming at Muffy's mansion.[48] She also wore an orange swimsuit with an orange scuba mask, oxygen tank, and black flippers when scuba diving with Muffy in her pool.[40]

She has had two different types of formal clothes. One was a white shirt, a blue dress, long white socks, and brown shoes. She wore this outfit for a class picture, albeit in Brain's dream.[50] Her other outfit was worn at Muffy's Christmas party: a green dress with a red collar and red sash, long red socks, and black Mary Jane shoes.[37] At Prunella's birthday party, she wore a pink sweater with a dark blue collar and her usual light blue skirt.[30]

For sleeping, Maria wears pink pajamas.[51]

Her gym clothes are a light blue T-shirt, dark blue shorts, white socks, and red and white sneakers.[52] When she participates in track and field, she wears the new green and yellow uniform.[25] She also wore a karate uniform when learning karate at the community center.[53]

Her costume for the Thomas Edison play was a dark blue top hat, a burgundy coat, olive green trousers, a white collared shirt, and a magenta necktie.[54] Her costume for the Elwood City centennial play was a white long-sleeved shirt, a pink vest, jeans, dark blue sneakers, and a pink baseball cap.[55]

After Buster ate the remainder of his fundraiser chocolates, he imagined the school band with makeshift instruments and old uniforms. Maria was wearing a dark blue button-down shirt with gold highlights and gold shirt cuffs, gold suspenders, an alizarin crimson skirt, and tan cowboy boots with gold stripes.[56]

Maria wore a surgical mask, hairnet, and medical scrubs when she and the class were making ice cream.[36] She wore a surgical mask again in one of Francine's imagination sequences.[57]

At a presidential inauguration in the possible future, Maria wears a brown trench coat.[9]

Glasses

Maria wearing glasses

One time in second grade when she was talking with John in the hallway, Maria was wearing glasses.[6] She wore her glasses through the first days of third grade, but stopped wearing them after that year's Spellathon.[58] It is likely that now she wears contact lenses instead.

Nose

  • Aardvark nose

  • Aardvark nose

  • Bear nose

  • Cat nose

  • Aardvark nose

Maria's nose is normally a "Y"-shaped nose typical of rabbits. On several occasions, however, her nose has appeared like an aardvark's nose.[59][60][61] Other times, she has had a bear's nose[62] or a cat's nose.[23]

Character development

Maria in Arthur's Tooth
Maria in Arthur's Teacher Trouble

Maria and Alex were created to keep the classroom from looking too empty.[63] Both Maria and her brother Steve were designed based on characters from the 1986 book Arthur's Teacher Trouble.[64] Though Maria had previously appeared in the 1985 book Arthur's Tooth, her design for the cartoon was mainly taken from her appearance in Arthur's Teacher Trouble.

In Arthur's Teacher Trouble, Maria had glasses. This was carried over to one brief scene in "Arthur's Eyes". However, she did not have the glasses in Robert Waldren's original layout of the scene.[65] Additionally, in the original layout Maria had an aardvark nose, instead of a rabbit nose. Although this was kept in the final version of the scene, it was not permanent for her design; she has a rabbit nose in almost all later appearances.

Her name, Maria, was decided prior to the show's premiere. On the Mr. Ratburn's Class lineup modelsheet, she is labelled "#2 Maria".[3] Maria is likely named after her designer or someone who worked at Cinar at the time.[64]

Maria is currently the only student in Mr. Ratburn's class to not have a solo speaking role. This may soon change, however.[4]

Appearances

Maria has made many appearances throughout the series. Her significant roles are in bold.

Arthur

Postcards from Buster

Specials

Books

Games

Quotes

“

We don't believe it!

”
—Maria, Alex, and Fern, "Francine Frensky, Superstar"

Gallery

It's Too Much.JPG
The full image gallery for Maria Pappas may be viewed at Maria Pappas/Gallery.

References

  1. ↑ "MacFrensky" - Her name is seen on the student-of-the-month chart. (see File:Class Names.JPG)
  2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=137197789771210
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 File:Mr. Ratburn's Class Modelsheet.JPG
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 https://www.facebook.com/PBSArthur/posts/10153330808875203
  5. ↑ "Brain's Shocking Secret"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Arthur's Eyes"
  7. ↑ "Arthur and the True Francine" (see File:Mr. Marco's Classroom Goof.png)
  8. ↑ "Arthur and the Real Mr. Ratburn"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The Election"
  10. ↑ "Francine Frensky, Superstar" - She says, along with Alex and Fern, "We don't believe it!"
  11. ↑ "Brain Gets Hooked"
  12. ↑ "If you say that again you're going to get it!" — Francine Frensky, "Francine Goes to War"
  13. ↑ "The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club" - She is seen waiting in the line outside the library. (see File:Friends 7.JPG)
  14. ↑ "Meet Binky" - She is in the audience of the concert. (see File:Meet binky - arthur running.jpg)
  15. ↑ "The Wheel Deal"
  16. ↑ "Arthur Weighs In"
  17. ↑ "The Long, Dull Winter"
  18. ↑ "Buster's Best Behavior" and many other episodes.
  19. ↑ "The Boy with His Head in the Clouds"
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Buster Gets Real"
  21. ↑ "Buster's New Friend" - She is in line for an autograph from Bionic Bunny.
  22. ↑ "Desert Island Dish"
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 "Tipping the Scales"
  24. ↑ "Brother, Can You Spare a Clarinet?
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 "The Pride of Lakewood"
  26. ↑ "The Perfect Game"
  27. ↑ "Cents-less"
  28. ↑ "Sue Ellen's Little Sister"
  29. ↑ "Buster Makes the Grade"
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 "Prunella Gets It Twice"
  31. ↑ "The Good Sport"
  32. ↑ "All Thumbs"
  33. ↑ "Among the Hmong"
  34. ↑ "Buster the Myth Maker"
  35. ↑ "Grandma Thora Appreciation Day"
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 "My Dad, the Garbage Man"
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 Arthur's Perfect Christmas
  38. ↑ "Muffy and the Big Bad Blog"
  39. ↑ "Sue Ellen Moves In"
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 "Buster's Back"
  41. ↑ "Arthur's Number Nightmare"
  42. ↑ "A is for Angry"
  43. ↑ "The Perfect Game" - At the Sugar Bowl.
  44. ↑ Arthur, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll - At the U Stink concert, when she is next to Alex.
  45. ↑ "Buster's Amish Mismatch"
  46. ↑ "I Owe You One"
  47. ↑ "Arthur Accused!"
  48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 "Desk Wars"
  49. ↑ "Buster's Dino Dilemma"
  50. ↑ "Bugged"
  51. ↑ "The World of Tomorrow"
  52. ↑ "The Chronicles of Buster"
  53. ↑ "Popular Girls"
  54. ↑ "Francine Frensky, Superstar"
  55. ↑ "Elwood City Turns 100!"
  56. ↑ "Buster's Sweet Success"
  57. ↑ "Vomitrocious"
  58. ↑ Arthur's Teacher Trouble
  59. ↑ "Stolen Bike"
  60. ↑ "Arthur's Dummy Disaster"
  61. ↑ "Fifteen"
  62. ↑ "Bitzi's Beau
  63. ↑ http://www.toonzone.net/2013/10/nycc-2013-arthur-aardvark-ages-panel-wonderful-time-day/ (archived page; retrieved December 27, 2013)
  64. ↑ 64.0 64.1 http://elwoodcitycentral.createaforum.com/arthur-news/arthur-ny-comic-con-2013/msg1747/#msg1747 (archived page; retrieved December 27, 2013)
  65. ↑ File:Posing-layout-1995-arthur-school-hall1.jpg (file retrieved from: http://rwaldren.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/robert-waldren-portfolio-006/)

Notes

  1. ↑ She actually was in Mr. Marco's class in the book Arthur's Tooth. However, the episode adaptation set the story in Mr. Ratburn's class. The cartoon supersedes the books in terms of canon.
  2. ↑ In the Hebrew dub, Maria says "ow!". In the original English version, she remains silent.


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