Folge 2308

Sesamstrasse
Plot	Grouch mail service
Air date	January 8, 2006

Picture	Segment	Description
	Scene	Rumpel has written a dust letter that he wanted to mail to himself. However, when he gets to the mailbox there's a sign saying that the mailbox won't be emptied this week. While Rumpel complains about the sign, Samson and Finchen come by. Rumpel tells them about his plan and that he can't use the mailbox. Samson suggests that Rumpel should make his own mailbox.
	Muppets	Ernie tries to help a mailman deliver a letter to Mrs. Mary Ann ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. (EKA: Folge 2227)
	Cartoon	What comes next?
	Scene	Samson and Finchen have helped Rumpel make his very own Grouch mailbox, and he can now finally mail the letter. However, Samson reminds him that he should really use a Grouch stamp.
	Film	Kids are writing and mailing letters to the beat of the music.
	Muppets	Elmo watches as Grover tries to demonstrate "next to" with a wily mailbox, which keeps moving away from Grover. When they can't catch it, Elmo points out that he and Grover are next to each other.
	Scene	Rumpel is looking in his barrel for a Grouchy stamp, but he can't find anything he can use as a stamp. Finchen suggests one of her finest leafs from her leaf pile, but Rumpel refuses to use it. Samson suggests that he should use a huge piece of wood, but Rumpel once again refuses it. Rumpel then proceeds to explain what a Grouchy stamp should be like. Then Finchen notices a label from a can of sardines, and Rumpel agrees that those are real Grouch stamps. Rumpel finally mails his letter in his Grouch mailbox. Samson would like to know who will empty the mailbox, and Rumpel says that would be himself, of course. However, Finchen tells him that before he can be a mailman, he needs a uniform.
	Cartoon	A plane writes the letter "V" on the sky.
	Film	A kid from the Fiji-islands, talks about a letter they got.
	Animation	A clay animation about a pair of glasses that tried to read a paper.
	Scene	Rumpel tries to find something fitting he can use as a Grouch mailman uniform.
	Film	A close-up of a pen
	Muppets	Phil Harmonic introduces Charmin', who performs an opera about the fax machine. (EKA: Folge 2021)
	Cartoon	A penguin repeats the rhythms of the sounds it hears, which include a drum, a door knock, a saw and a typewriter. Artists: The Hubleys
	Scene	Mailman Rumpel empties the mailbox, and starts to sing a song about being a Grouch mailman as he walks over to his barrel to deliver the letter. Finchen and Samson can't understand why Rumpel would mail a letter to himself, and how he knows what's inside the letter without even opening it. Rumpel says that you don't open a dust letter, and he gives a demonstration of what you do with a dust letter: he bangs on the letter and dust fills the air around them.