Folge 2541

Sesamstrasse
Plot	The junk fairy (Repeat of 2330)
Air date	June 27, 2010
Season	37

Picture	Segment	Description
	Cold opening	Wolle is about to start Sesamstrasse, so he hits the yellow button and all the lights and monitors in the control room go out. He concludes that it was the wrong button and pushes the red one instead. Everything starts up again and he declares that, just as he had thought all along, the correct button was the red one. (First: Folge 2518)
	Intro
	Scene	Rumpel is admiring the junk garden around his barrel; however, Nils doesn't exactly agree with him on that. They then hear a loud scream. It turns out that the scream is coming from a junk fairy, who has decided to spend the night in Rumpel's junk garden. Rumpel gets excited, and Nils tries to calm Rumpel down by saying they will find a way to get rid of her. However, Rumpel is happy with her being there, as it's an honor for a Grouch to have a junk fairy living in their junk garden. However, there is room for improvement in Rumpel's junk garden; the fairy notices a big screw laying nicely in a box, but Rumpel quickly empties it out. Nils quickly says goodnight and leaves.
	Scene	Rumpel is working hard to keep the fairy happy; he is making sure that all his junk is dirty and he is getting tired of it. However, just as Rumpel has complained about the hard work to Nils, the fairy awards Rumpel with 1 out of 5 points for having a good junk garden. Rumpel doesn't get to celebrate for long, because the fairy has found some old hubcaps that could be a little rustier and the fairy has decided that she will stay for another night. Rumpel is unsure what he thinks about it, but Nils tries to convince Rumpel that now that he has received one junk point, they should try and get rid of the fairy. Nils tries to be nice to the fairy and asks her politely to leave; however, she likes the place too much to leave, but it could do with some good Grouchy music. Nils gets a cassette player and plays a quiet little song, but the player eats the tape and the fairy likes that grouchy sound.
	Scene	Nils suggests that Rumpel should be nice, and maybe then she would leave. Rumpel objects at first, but decides that it is worth a try. Nils and Rumpel then try to pretend to be nice to each other, but Rumpel is having difficulties with it and it ends up in an argument, which the fairy enjoys.
	Scene	While the junk fairy sleeps, Nils has convinced Rumpel that in order to get rid of her they need to clean up all the junk, and then there would be no reason for her to be there anymore, so they clean everything up. Nils then wakes her, and she screams right after she notices that all the junk is gone. She decides that she needs to get away from Sesamstrasse in a hurry. Both Nils and Rumpel are very happy, until Nils says that now it will be nice and quiet on the street. Rumpel then realizes what they have done: they have cleaned up the area around his barrel, so he quickly starts to do something about it by throwing junk around.
	Cartoon	A tiger loses its color in the rain. (EKA: Folge 2412)
	Muppets	Ernie makes a few animal sounds and wants Bert to guess which sounds he is making. Bert just wants to read his book and keeps guessing correctly by accident. Eventually, Ernie decides to agree to stop playing the game and leaves, but then a lion comes in and roars. Bert isn't paying attention and thinks that Ernie is making the animal sounds even though he promised not to. (EKA: Folge 2382)
	Muppets	Wolle is about to sneeze as his boss asks him to start the next segment. Wolle is still about to sneeze, so his boss tells him "Gesundheit!" and Wolle stops and says that he has not sneezed yet. Just then he sneezes and hits the red button that cues the next segment. (First: Folge 2516)
	Film	A group of kids build cardboard dinosaur costumes.
	Muppets	Bip Bippadotta sings "Opposite Stuff."
	Animation	Les devinettes de Reinette: The answer to Reinette's riddle is a frog. (First: Folge 2479)
	Muppets	The Count von Count invites the Countess to his castle to watch their favorite show, "twentysomething", where a couple (played by themselves) and Prairie Dawn learn that "twentysomething" is not a number.
	Muppets	Wolle declares the day to be over and pushes the black button. All the lights in the control room go out, and he fumbles towards the door. (First: Folge 2519)