Episode 2485



For years, Maria and Luis had just been friends and co-workers, but around season 19, Sonia Manzano became pregnant, and it was decided to have Maria and Luis fall in love, get married, and then have Maria become pregnant with Gabriella. They had fallen in love in episode 2404, and then got engaged in episode 2455. But in this episode they finally get married.

Previously, Maria and David had been seen as a couple. Both Street Gang and Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street give different explanations as to why Luis was chosen over David. According to 40 Years of Life on the Street, David was considered to marry Maria first but Northern Calloway declined so he could obtain treatment for a long-standing and depilating illness ,while Street Gang states that he was devastated over the fact that Maria wasn’t marrying David. As Dulcy Singer said, “I thought it would be better to do it with Luis because I didn’t want to open another kettle of fish. It was enough to get a wedding on the show and have a family without opening ourselves to more difficulties. And I thought it would be a good and helpful thing to show a stable Latino family.”

Much of the episode is musical; Several of the street scenes are musical numbers.

Clips of the wedding sequence are often shown in Sesame Street documentaries and retrospectives, including Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting, Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!, A&E Biography: Sesame Street, and The Street We Live On. The entire wedding scene appears in Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days.