Folge 2469

Sesamstrasse
Plot	Rumpel vs. the trashmen
Air date	February 8, 2009
Season	36

Picture	Segment	Description
	Cold Opening	Frau Kowalski is carrying various items out of her house and placing them on the street.
	Intro
	Scene	Rumpel is very curious about what all those items are doing out on Sesamstrasse. He congratulates Frau Kowalski for having a great-looking trash heap. She informs him that she is cleaning out her cellar and the items are those that she wants to throw away, and that everyone on the street does it because it's trash day. Rumpel quickly leaves to prepare to collect all the nice items before Frau Kowalski tells him that the city trashmen will collect it.
	Scene	The city trashmen arrive to collect the items. Frau Kowalski is happy to see them, and warns them that her neighbor Rumpel has shown interest in the junk. She informs them that her garden chair, which is also outside, is not junk. The trashmen start to collect everything except the chair. When Rumpel returns, all the good junk is gone and all that's left is a chair that's not even broken, which he throws in his cart. He asks Frau Kowalski what happened to the junk. She tells him that the city trashmen have collected it. Rumpel is unhappy that some strangers are going to collect all the junk on his street; if someone is going to collect junk on Sesamstrasse it should be him. After Rumpel leaves to collect the junk before the trashmen do, Frau Kowalski notices that her chair is missing.
	Scene	Rumpel tries to persuade the trashmen to leave his junk alone, but they insist that he should let them do their job, and a race for the junk on Sesamstrasse begins. Rumpel manages to collect most of the junk by trapping the trashmen. After Rumpel has unloaded most of the junk at his place and gone out to collect the rest, the trashmen arrive and start loading up on it. Rumpel comes back and they fight over the trashmen's cart. Frau Kowalski arrives and notices her chair among the junk in the cart, and as she pulls it out all the junk falls off the cart and is mixed with Rumpel's stuff. Rumpel is happy now that all of the junk is his.
	Scene	Ernie and Bert have seen it all from their balcony. Ernie says that Rumpel has to be an expert on junk and making messes. Ernie also says that Bert is an expert on bottle caps, paper clips and keeping things tidy. Bert is flattered by the praise from Ernie, and tries to play it down by saying he is not an expert, but he has some knowledge about those things and likes to have his collections sorted. Ernie then says that's good, because the paper clip collection and bottle cap collection have been messed up in the bedroom, but it should be easy for an expert like Bert to sort them out.
	Film	A girl cleans old toys out of her room and takes them to a flea market.
	Film	A high speed film of preparation for the opening of a vegetable market.
	Muppets	In the park, Ernie wonders if his banana can make friends with Bert's orange. Bert thinks fruits can't make friends, but Ernie tries to convince Bert that the difference between the two doesn't matter. (EKA: Folge 2322)
	Cartoon	A dice rolls a bike.
	Muppets	Wolle visist a wholesale market, where he wants to find out what a wholesale market is.
	Animation	"Guess that animal" clay animation. The animal in question is a chimpanzee.
	Muppets	Hoots the Owl and Cookie Monster sing "A Cookie is a Sometime Food". (EKA: Folge 2411)