Episode 0702

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Maria tells Luis that she's recently applied for a job on her days off from school and is expecting them to call the Fix-It Shop any minute regarding it. Luis assumes it's a babysitting gig or something, when he answers a call from the X.Y.Z. Construction Company. He's surprised that the call is for Maria, who has been hired as a construction worker. Luis remains surprised, having never heard of a female construction worker before. Maria asserts that women can do anything they want and heads off.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	A man jumps up onto an UP.
 	Film 	Penguins take a bath.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Film 	U, for Underpass
 	Muppets 	Waiter Grover: Grover brings Mr. Johnson a bowl of alphabet soup. Mr. Johnson complains that some of the letters are missing, and makes Grover run back and forth to the kitchen to bring the missing letters. When all the letters are there, Johnson complains that the soup is cold, and makes Grover take it back.
 	Film 	People of all ages ride bicycles.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	Capital letter U for up
 	SCENE 2 	Big Bird and the kids (including John-John and Shola) sing "I've Been Working on the Railroad," then Maria steps out of 123 Sesame Street in her new construction uniform. She's on the defensive after Luis's reaction, but finds that Bob is very supportive of her new venture. However, Big Bird worries about the heights (something Maria didn't think of).
 	SCENE 2cont'd 	As she walks down the street, she stops in front of the Fix-It Shop where Luis is reading the paper. Having had some time to process new information and cool down from the excitement of a new job, they apologize to one another and agree that working people need to stick together.The dialogue is present in the script, but the scene in the final cut of the episode breaks away as soon as Maria confronts Luis in front of the Fix-It Shop.
 	Muppets 	"Five People in My Family"
 	Film 	Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man paints a picture.
 	Cartoon 	Hypnotic "Q" rainbow
 	Film 	Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A barber gives a boy a hair cut.
 	Cartoon 	"Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.Artist: Cliff Roberts
 	Film 	Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man eats a hot dog.
 	Muppets 	
 	Animation 	Counting 6 red balls
 	Film 	FlamingosMusic: Joe Raposo
 	Cartoon 	A man weighs himself to demonstrate how a scale works.
 	SCENE 3 	Maria arrives at the construction site, rising up on a girder to section 27. A foreman (Jerry Nelson) assigns her in the apprentice riveter program. Maria reveals she's a bit afraid of being up so high; the foreman confirms everyone on the job feels the same, but thinks fear helps them be more careful.
 	Cartoon 	U for uniform.
 	Muppets 	Roosevelt Franklin Elementary School: Roosevelt Franklin tells the story of an old king named Morty Moot Mope, from the kingdom of Boebitty Bope, who loves to hear words that sound the same. Morty has trouble finding words that rhyme with his name, so he calls upon Same Sound Brown to do it.
 	Film 	A turtle swims in a tank.Music: Joe Raposo
 	Cast 	Luis tries to open a door marked with a "CERRADO" sign. He gets a running start, when Maria changes the sign to read "ABIERTO." She opens the door and Luis runs right through it, crashing.
 	Song 	"1-2-3-4-5!"
 	Film 	Traffic lights
 	Cartoon 	U for Ugly: A man removes his mask, revealing a hideous monster face.
 	Cartoon 	A dog learns about U.
 	Muppets 	Fran Brill narrates two Anything Muppet hands who argue over a piece of cake before they decide to share it.
 	Cartoon 	La palabra cerrado
 	SCENE 4 	Bob talks with John-John and initiates a round of "Here Are Some Things." Bob switches things up by having them swap roles for the game, where John-John plays the knowledgable adult and Bob plays the child. "Bob" explains to "John-John" how all the construction vehicles belong together and the bus doesn't.
 	Cartoon 	Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm.Artist: Bud Luckey
 	Cartoon / Film	A cartoon man climbs a live-action boy.
 	Animation 	Sand U/u
 	Film 	A clown (Dennis Allen) takes off his make-up. Which face do you like better?
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: U for UP
 	Film 	George the Farmer demonstrates beginning and end.
 	SCENE 5 	Biff comes by to see the site's new hire, annoying Maria by calling her "little lady" as he always does. Biff passes on his knowledge of working a rivet gun, though Maria tries to let him know that she already knows how to use it. He gets so involved in his demonstration that he doesn't notice he's riveted his lunch pail to the girder.
 	Cartoon 	Simple Simon meets some strange-looking animals, all of whom have their parts switched around.Artist: Jeff Hale
 	SCENE 6 	On her way home at the end of the work shift, everyone congratulates Maria on her first day. She tells them they'll never guess who she met "up there" as the scene cuts to Biff and Sully who are trying to pry the lunch pail off the girder. Sully hits Biff's hand with a hammer by accident, and Biff loses his cool with Maria's voiceover announcing the sponsors.
 	CLOSING SIGNS 	Maria and Luis hold the Sesame Street sign, and Bob holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.
==Notes==
* Maria briefly recalls the events of this episode later in Episode 2059.
* This episode prompted a letter to Bob Hatch in CTW's public relations department from a Missouri mother who took issue with depicting Maria as a "he-woman" with a "mixed up personality" that she decided most Americans would find intolerable.@MrKamp July 12, 2020
==Sources==
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Category:Feminism
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 6