Folge 2498

Sesamstrasse
Plot	Hot air balloon
Air date	August 30, 2009
Season	36

Picture	Segment	Description
	Cold Opening	Rumpel is putting the final touches on his hot air balloon he's building, so he can use it to get to a Grouch convention. He goes over to the store to see if he can find some food for the trip in Nils' refrigerator.
	Intro
	Scene	While Rumpel is away, Nils comes by, wanting to ask him if he has any trash he wants to get rid of. Nils decides that Rumpel would probably not miss a few of the worst looking items, so he puts a few things in the trash can. Among them are what Nils belives to be an old rag and an old basket, and he then hurries over to the trash truck. Rumpel returns with his newly found supplies to discover that his hot air balloon is missing. While Rumpel searches for his balloon, Nils walks by and Rumpel asks him if he has seen his hot air balloon. Nils then realizes that it was the hot air balloon he just threw away. They hurry over to the trash truck to see if they can rescue the balloon.
	Scene	Just as they get to the truck, the basket are going in and gets crushed. The trash man then starts to sing a song about what people throw away, and Rumpel and Nils join in. After the song, Nils gets an idea. He hurries away with an old box.
	Scene	Nils starts to use a sewing machine, and shortly afterwards he shows Rumpel that he made him a new hot air balloon. Rumpel is excited; now he can get to the Grouch convention, and he flies away.
	Scene	Bert asks Ernie why he is holding an umbrella when the sun is shining. Ernie tells Bert that he needs the umbrella while Rumpel takes off in the hot air balloon. As Bert is about to laugh at it, he gets hit by trash falling from the sky. Ernie tells him that the trash is the ballast that Rumpel had to drop to gain altitude.
	Film	Melvin and Sabrina build a music machine out of trash.
	Cartoon	A dice rolls a trumpet. (EKA: Folge 2418)
	Muppets	Ernie asks Bert how well the soup bowl fits. Bert is not sure what's going on. Ernie tells Bert that he dropped their glass full of sweets, and now the sweets are in the breadbox, the bread is in the umbrella stand, the umbrellas are in the trash can and the trash is in Bert's straw hat. As Bert starts to yell at Ernie about what he should wear on his head when he takes his walk, Ernie suggests he use the soup bowl, and places it on Bert's head. As it drops from Bert's head, Bert chases Ernie off screen. This is a remake of a classic Ernie and Bert sketch from the original American version of Sesame Street.
	Film	A high speed movie of a car being disassembled. (EKA: Folge 2488)
	Muppets	The Wolf vom Wörtersee drops some trash in the lake by accident, and the Wörterfee asks him if he knows who did it and he says no. As the Wörterfee suspects that Wolf is lying, she tells him that liars get short legs. Wolf gets very worried that he will get short legs, so he does what he can to get the trash out, but he just ends up with more stuff in the water. When the fairy returns, Wolf confesses that it was him and pleads her not to give him short legs. She informs him that it is just something you say, and Wolf is happy to keep his current legs.
	Animation	Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures:Bert and Ernie are now the world’s greatest inventors, making their latest creation. They name their new robot Frankie and begin commanding it to do things, such as squeaking Ernie’s duckie or yodeling. Bert makes him do something “useful” by making Frankie knit him some argyle socks. He leaves to get a pair as a visual aid, leaving Ernie alone with the robot. Frankie gets carried away with Ernie’s orders and makes a mess of the lab. Bert stops the madness by asking Frankie to “please stop.” He makes Ernie and Frankie clean up, then joins them in their clean-up dance.