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After Nelson's death in 2012, Vogel took over voicing and puppeteering the Count full time the following year. Due to his increasingly failing health, Nelson could no longer puppeteer the character of the Count, so he handed over puppeteering duties to Matt Vogel, though Nelson still continued to voice the Count. However, Nelson's health began to deteriorate in 2004, so he retired from performing all his characters except for the Count and his other Sesame Street characters. The Count was originally portrayed by Jerry Nelson. He might not be a vampire in the classic sense, given that he has been seen with a reflection in a mirror, and he has no problem with being out in the daylight. The song was written by Jeff Moss as a traditional Hungarian Csárdás.

The Count's signature song is 'The Song of the Count'. The Count was quoted as saying, 'It's a square-root thing.': 34,969 is a perfect square, being 187 2. This episode was featured in a 1978 Sesame Street bedtime storybook titled 'Who Stole the Count's Thunder?'Īccording to BBC News, during an interview with the More or Less team's Tim Harford, the Count said his favorite number is 34,969. For example, it interrupted Kermit's broadcast at the Three Little Pigs' house, and the pigs were frightened by it, thinking rain would follow, and in episode 0974, he was counting at midnight, and as his punishment, the Amazing Mumford used magic to detach his cloud, therefore taking his thunder and lightning away until he understood. Some residents have been disturbed by it in a few episodes.

The Count has a personal cloud hovering over him, which is the possibility of the source of his thunder and lightning. His grandparents are unnamed, but they too love to count and have a similar laugh (ah ah ah!), but instead of thunder and lightning, Grandma Count’s counting makes it rain, and Grandpa Count’s counting makes it snow. The von Count family includes an unnamed brother and mother as well as an Uncle Uno and grandparents. These include Countess von Backwards (debuting in Sesame Street‘s 28th season), who counts backward, her total is indicated by a wolf howl Countess Dahling von Dahling (debuted in the 12th season) and one simply called 'The Countess' (first appearing in season 8). The Count has been shown with a number of girlfriends, who tend to be vampire Countesses. The Count drives a special car, the Countmobile, designed to look like a bat. As a running gag, his castle has a squeaky door, which visitors always point out, only for the Count to instantly change the subject to his counting addiction. He views the bats as his 'children' and sometimes counts them. His pet bats tend to have Slavic names, such as Grisha, Misha, Sasha, and Tatiana. He spent his childhood in the Carpathian Mountains, which makes it clear he is Romanian, as explained in his most famous song, 'The Batty Bat'. The Count lives in an old cobweb-infested castle which he shares with many bats, a wolf named Yuba, and a cat named Fatatita. Once he reaches the total number of his targeted item to count, thunderstorms roll (even indoors) while he laughs his iconic 'Ah-Ah-Ah!' staccato laugh. But apart from these, he is typically portrayed as friendly and cheerful. The Count can occasionally lose his temper if interrupted while counting, or feel sad when there is nothing around for him to count. In Episode 3489 (Season 27, 1996), he tricked Oscar the Grouch into saying the word 'no' 17 times, by continuously knocking on his trash can and prodding him to help the Count find something to count 17 of. In Episode 1970 (Season 16, 1984), on his first day of serving as an elevator operator, he foolishly neglected to let Kermit the Frog out at his selected floor, because he wanted to count all 10 floors in the building, and was unable to stop until he finished, leaving Kermit very angry. He then impulsively forbade him from answering the first call that came through until it was way too late because he wanted to count all 5 times the telephone rang, and a mêlée resulted when the caller re-tried, resulting in an argument with Ernie. In Episode 0539 (Season 5, 1973), for example, he hired Ernie to answer his telephone so that he would not be bothered while looking for things to count. The Count loves counting so much (as said in his signature greeting, “They call me the Count because I love to count things.”) that he often will count anything and everything regardless of size or amount, to the point of annoying other characters. The Count's main role is to teach counting skills to children. ( March 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification.