Folge 2457

Sesamstrasse
Plot	The new soapbox car (season premiere)
Air date	November 16, 2008
Season	36

Picture	Segment	Description
	Cold Opening	Mehmet has made a soapbox car for Rumpel; however, Rumpel is not happy about it; it looks too new. As he suggests changes to it, something crashes on Sesamstrasse.
	Intro
	Scene	A spaceship has crashed on Sesamstrasse and an alien is stuck in the tree. Mehmet helps him down and welcomes him to the Earth. The alien realizes that he is a long way from home--more than 80 lightyears from the planet Orbiton. He then realizes that his ship is totally ruined. Rumpel tries to calm him down; after all, he landed near the best mechanic in the universe. The first thing that the alien notices is the steering wheel. Mehmet says that he has a new one but it's in the soapbox car. Rumpel doesn't want Mehmet to use any parts of the soapbox car to fix the space ship. The Alien then starts to sing a horrible song about how much he misses his home planet. Rumpel tells the alien that taking spare parts is ok as long as he doesn't sing that horrible song again.
	Scene	Mehmet puts in the steering wheel. The alien then notice that the protective glass is broken. Mehmet is not sure if he has anything to replace it with, but the alien quickly notices something similar on Rumpel's soapbox car. Once again Rumpel says no, but then the alien starts to cry. Rumpel gives in again on the condition that the alien stops crying.
	Scene	The alien thanks Mehmet and Rumpel for the help and prepares to takes off. However, something is wrong; the ship won't fly and the alien doesn't know why. Rumpel laughs, as he knows what's wrong. It turns out that the wheels on the landing gear are flat. But the only wheels that Mehmet has are those on the soapbox car. As Rumpel starts to criticize the alien for having such a crummy old space ship, he realizes something and quickly offers the wheels to the alien in exchange for the broken spaceship parts.
	Scene	The wheels have been replaced and now the alien takes off to Orbiton. Mehmet can't understand why Rumpel wants the broken spare parts. He tells Mehmet that the parts are perfect for his Grouch soapbox car. Rumpel is happy that he has the best Grouch soapbox car in the world.
	Scene	Ernie are building a soapbox for Bert and he can't see it until it's finished. Bert are excited, as he loves to drive soapbox cars down the street. Ernie finishes the soapbox, but can't understand how Bert expects to fit into such a small soapbox.
	Film	A boy visits his father at work, who is a scientist that studies the surface of Mars. (EKA: Folge 2368)
	Cartoon
	Muppets	Die Grosse Sesamstrassen-Musikshow: Rumpel and Lena sing a song about traveling in space.
	Film	High speed film of graffiti being painted, featuring Cookie Monster and Ernie. (EKA: Folge 2450)
	Muppets	Wolle and Pferd are naming Wolle's new spaceship the "Star Sheep 2." Wolle has hung a bottle of lemonade on the side of the ship that Pferd has to sling toward the ship in order to christen it properly. However, when the bottle hits the spaceship, it falls over. (EKA: Folge 2235)
	Animation	Les devinettes de Reinette: The answer to Reinette's riddle is a bat.
	Muppets	Grover is a jungle photographer. "Hold still, little tsetse fly!" he says as he clicks the shutter. "Thank you. I will send you a print." He tries to find an elephant to photograph, but he never turns around in time. Finally, the elephant takes a picture of Grover for his collection.

Notes

• Starting with this episode, the show is show in widescreen high-definition. Because of this, all archived 4:3 segments are modified into 16:9 aspect ratio.

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