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The Count's main purpose is educating children on simple mathematics concepts, most notably counting. The Count has an obsessive love of counting ( arithomania ), and will count anything and everything, regardless of size, amount, or how much annoyance he is causing the other muppets. Interestingly, some traditional vampire myths depict vampires as having a similar obsession with counting small objects, providing a means of distracting them by tossing a handful of seeds or salt on the ground. The Count's own arithromania may simply be a coincidence, however, inspired by the pun on his title of nobility.

According to his theme song, The Song of the Count: "When I'm alone, I count myself. One count!" Following a count the Count always laughs maniacally, "AH! AH! AH!" and thunder roars overhead. When he sings, the background music resembles gypsy music, no matter what the song. The Count lives in a castle which he shares with many bats, sometimes he counts them. He bears a noticeable resemblance to Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, complete with pointed eye-teeth; but it would appear that he is different from other vampires. For example, most vampires wither in direct sunlight; the Count does not and in fact enjoys being outside.

The Count is very occasionally seen to have a girlfriend, Countess Dahling Von Dahling .

His brother and mother have made appearance on the show. He has a cat, Fatatatita , as well as a family of pet bats, Batty Bat, Grisha, Misha, Sasha, and Tattiana.

1 History of the character on Sesame Street

The count debuted on Sesame Street in season 4 (1972-73), performed by Jerry Nelson.

He made an appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan, then in Sesame Street movies Follow That Bird and Elmo in GrouchlandProduced in 1999, Elmo in Grouchland is a movie based on the characters of Sesame Street. It co-starred Mandy Patinkin of TV's Chicago Hope. See also The Pesties 1999 films Musical films Sesame Street..

In season 33, the Count got a daily segment on Sesame Street, simply called The Number of the Day .

2 Other notes

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• In the DutchDutch is a West Germanic language spoken worldwide by around 21 million people. The variety of Dutch spoken in Belgium is also informally called Flemish . The Dutch name for the language is Nederlands or less formal Hollands and Dutch is sometimes called show SesamstraatSesamstraat is a children's television show in the Netherlands, spun-off American program Sesame Street''. Characters Pino, a blue Big Bird-like character Tommie, a dog Ieniemienie, a mouse Purk, a pig Troel, Tommie's girlfriend Humans in Sesamstraat Buur, The Count's name is Graaf Tel
• In the GermanGerman (called Deutsch in German in which germanisch refers to prechristian times), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and one of the world's major languages. It is the language with the most native speakers in the European Union. show SesamstraßeSesamstrasse or Sesamstrasse is the German-language version of the Sesame Street a children's television program. It airs primarily in Germany and the surrounding German-speaking nations. The show premiered in 1972. The main character is Samson, a large b, The Count's name is Graf Zahl
• Once, he hypnotised Bert and Ernie.
• In one episode, his sheep went on strike because he would not stop counting them. In another, he stays for the night at Bert and Ernie's house, but counts all night, causing Ernie to not be able to sleep.
• For many individuals who became interested in horror and/or became gothic later in life, Count von Count was the first vampire to which they were exposed.