Sonia Manzano — known to multiple generations as Maria on “Sesame Street” — confesses that there was flirtatious chemistry between her character and Oscar the Grouch.

“That’s absolutely true,” she said with a laugh during an exclusive interview with Page Six. “I really love Oscar. He was my favorite Muppet character.

“I always kid around, saying, ‘I left the show because 44 years was long enough for me to wait for him to propose.”

Manzano, 75, explained that she loved Oscar because of his sense of humor, as portrayed by late Muppeteer Caroll Spinney .

“He would just say things, ‘If you don’t want to be a murderer, don’t be around people who shouldn’t be killed,'” she said, still laughing. “‘I know my mother used to rock me to sleep, she used real rocks.’

“You know, those kinds of qu

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