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Ay María qué puntería

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4830745 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ay María qué puntería! (English: María, what an aim!) is a Mexican sitcom, from Televisa. It centers on the adventures of an indigenous Mexican woman named La India María, who works as a maid in Mexico City.

Synopsis

When indigenous orange seller María Nicolasa Cruz is chased by a government inspector, she crosses paths with television producer and his crew. She is offered a job and soon becomes involved in many of their projects, leading to a series of comedic situation.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ay María qué puntería” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around María, puntería and television.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current 81-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with María, puntería and television providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ay María qué puntería”, the useful work is to connect “television series” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4830745. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ay María qué puntería” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.