Folge 2586

Sesamstrasse
Plot	The witch's broom (Repeat of 2363)
Air date	May 8, 2011
Season	39

Picture	Segment	Description
	Cold Opening	The boss tells Wolle that it's time to push the red button. He then notices the strange contraption that Wolle has made. Wolle tells him that it's his "fully automated red button pusher". He activates the machine with the yellow button but the hand slaps Wolle in the back of the head, so he hits the red button. (First: Folge 2581)
	Intro
	Scene	Finchen and Samson are looking at the stars and the full moon, when Samson hears a flying sound and shortly afterwards Finchen notices a shadow that quickly passes the full moon; it looks like a witch. Finchen and Samson imagine what it would be like to meet a nice witch with a cool broom. A broom passes by Samson and Finchen a few times and a women emerges from the forest. She introduces herself to Finchen as Amalia and that she comes from the witch school and she seems to have lost her broom. Samson comes out from the shadows and tells her that they have seen it. Amalia quickly runs away, as she is scared of bears. Finchen concludes that if she is scared of bears then she can't be an evil witch, and quickly goes to find her. Meanwhile, Samson will attempt to catch the broom.
	Scene	Samson has brought a lasso and plans to catch the broom with it. Finchen returns with a worried witch, but Finchen assures her that Samson is a nice and friendly bear. The broom flies over their heads a couple of times and Samson attempts to catch it, with no luck. Amalia tells them that every young witch gets a broom that they will have to learn to fly on, but her broom took off without her. Amalia also tries to catch the broom with the lasso, but ends up capturing Samson. Samson decides to pick a fight with the broom, but loses as the broom knocks him to the ground. But at the broom's second pass, Samson manages to catch it, but the broom carries him off into some nearby trees.
	Scene	Samson has caught Amalia's broom and landed in a tree. Amalia and Finchen run to the tree and Samson tells them he has the broom. Amalia is impressed, and Samson jumps down and suggests to Amalia that she give the broom a name so that she can call it to her the next time. Amalia likes the idea, but what should she call the broom? Finchen begins to sing name suggestions starting with "F", then Samson suggest names starting with "S", but Amalia thinks a funnier name would be better. She settles on "Kröten Willi" (Toad's Willy) and she thanks Finchen and Samson and flies away on the broom. Finchen and Samson wonder how someone can pick a weird name like Kröten Willi. Samson thinks that "Knallfrosch" (squib) is a funnier name, but a frog comes by and objects.
	Cartoon	A dice rolls a chicken.
	Muppets	Against Bert's will, Ernie plays a game with him in which he says a word which is the opposite of every word Bert emphasizes. When Bert finally agrees to PLAY, Ernie becomes stumped, since he can't figure out of the opposite of the word PLAY.
	Muppets	Wolle shows his boss how he can balance things. The boss tells him that it's time for the next segment and Wolle slowly moves over to push the button, and then drops everything. (First: Folge 2581)
	Film	Anna Maria explains that she lives in a special type of village called an "SOS Children's Village". (First: Folge 2515)
	Muppets	A diva sings the Alphabet Song while the stagehand instructs the gaffers to raise and lower the alphabet sign, but the diva thinks he's asking her to alter her singing voice.
	Muppets	Ernie and Lena Meyer-Landrut look for Bert while singing "Bert, oh Bert." In the online release of this episode, this segment was replaced with Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures.
	Film
	Muppets	Monty reads a slightly different version of Little Red Riding Hood, with help from Prairie Dawn.
	Muppets	The boss tells Wolle that the day is over and that he can turn off the lights, but Wolle is nowhere to be seen. It turns out that he is up on the ceiling, as he wants to dive down and push the button. The boss realizes that something bad is about to happen. Wolle dives down, but is tangled in his rope and stops just above the button. And just as they both think that Wolle is unable to turn the lights off, the rope breaks and Wolle lands on the button and the lights go out. (First: Folge 2581)