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THE GREAT MUPPET SURVEY

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1.   Who are your three favorite characters from The Muppet Show, Muppets Tonight, The Jim Henson Hour, the Muppet movies, etc. and why?

Gonzo - An energetic performance artist who evolved into a daredevil, actor, singer, writer and host, proud of being undefinable into one thing

Kermit the Frog - The leader who, no matter how stressed and fed up, discovers the potential in those whose society deems as "freaks", admiting that deep down he must be a "freak" too

Miss Piggy - A model of strenght, confidence, elegance, sophistication and charisma who always pursues what she wants while not being ashamed of showing vulnerability

2.   Who are your three favorite characters from Sesame Street and why?

Grover - Bumbling like me

Oscar the Grouch - Sometimes I am in a bad mood and want to be left alone

Bert and Ernie - I love how the naivety and energy of one completes the grumpiness and quieteness of the other

3.   Who are your three favorite characters from Fraggle Rock and why?

I have only seen two episodes of the series and the crossover event of Muppet Family Christmas, but already am in love with the characters

Uncle Traveling Matt - I love how he is an old man that has a curious and adventurous spirit and how he makes philosophies out of his researches

Wembley Fraggle - His innocence and tendency to give reason to everybody just to avoid fights is so relatable

Boober Fraggle - Also relatable is the anxiety and fear of the unknown of this little fella

4.   What is your favorite television program starring any of Jim Henson’s creations (e.g. The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Dinosaurs, etc.) and why?

Its a tye between the anthology series The Storyteller, wich presents least known european folk tales and classic cinema greek myths with great seriousness and sophisticated practical effects, and the family sitcom Dinosaurs, that subtly mixed elements of urban fantasy and satire to present a creative world with anthropomorfic dinosaurs as a way of comenting about the problems of human society.

5.   What is your favorite Muppet movie and why?

Muppet Treasure Island feels for me like the perfect mix of heartfelt storytelling with wish fullfillment action filled adventure and energetic musical sequences

6.   What is your favorite Muppet/Sesame/Fraggle song and why?

Turn the World Around, from The Muppet Show episode guest staring Harry Belafonte

7.   If you could have dinner with any living Muppet performer who would you choose and why?

I like to have dinner with Brian Henson, because I feel that his role to keep his father's legacy alive as a performer, director and producer is so underrated!

8.   If you could tell Jim Henson one thing, what would it be?

"Don't sell anything to Disney!"

9.   If the President called you and asked to discuss Muppet projects, what would you tell him was the “Greatest Muppet Moment of All Time”?

Miss Piggy's underwater ballet fantasy sequence

10.   What’s the name of that song?

Jamboree

11.   If a judge ruled that Grover had to be your personal assistant for a month, what jobs would you have him do?

Help me to write stories.

12.   In your opinion, what is the worst Muppet production ever made?

Based on backstage history, the mess that was to produce The Jim Henson Hour.

13.   Who is one celebrity you would love to see cameo in the next Muppet movie?

BRIIIIAAANNN BLEEESSED!

14.   If you could take a picture with any Muppet, who would you choose and how would you pose?

I would like to take a picture hugging and kissing the nose of Gonzo.

15.   What is your favorite piece of Muppet merchandise that you own? (Feel free to include a picture!)

I sadly still don't own any Muppet merchandise (better do a list of what I want for Christmas)!

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Count von Count

PERFORMERS

Jerry Nelson 1972-2012

Matt Vogel 2013-present

DEBUT 1972

PATTERN Large Lavender Live Hand

Count von Count is a mysterious but friendly vampire-like Muppet on Sesame Street who is meant to parody Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Count Dracula. He first appeared on the show in the Season 4 premiere in 1972, counting blocks in a sketch with Bert and Ernie.

The Count has a compulsive love of counting (arithmomania, an affliction of legendary vampires); he will count anything and everything, regardless of size, amount, or how much annoyance he causes others around him. In one song he stated that he sometimes even counts himself. When he finishes counting, The Count laughs and announces his total (which sometimes appears on screen). This finale is usually accompanied by a crash of thunder and a flash of lightning, even on sunny days. (According to The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook, the Count has a personal cloud that hovers over his head and provides the thunder and lightning.)

Many of the Count's songs, including "Counting Is Wonderful" and "The Batty Bat," are in the style of Roma music.

The Count lives in an old, cobweb-infested castle that he shares with many bats. Sometimes he counts them. Some of the pet bats are named, including Grisha, Misha, Sasha, and Tattiana. He also has a cat, Fatatita, and an octopus named Octavia. He also plays a large pipe organ, and in some illustrations he is seen playing the violin. In recent years, the Count has appeared on each episode to announce the Number of the Day, playing notes on his organ to count up to the featured number.

The Count's most recent girlfriend, Countess von Backwards, is known for counting backwards. He had previously been linked to Countess Dahling von Dahling and shared a brief romantic tryst with Lady Two. His brother and mother have appeared on the show, and he also has an Uncle Uno.

The Count's profile on Sesame Workshop's website does not use the word vampire but does suggest that he may be a distant relative of Count Dracula. However, the book Sesame Street Unpaved describes the Count as a "Numerical Vampire." In contrast, the 2001 Sesame Street Muppets Drawing Guide insists "The Count is not a vampire."

Nevertheless, the Count resembles Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula in voice (speaking in an Eastern European accent and pronouncing his Vs as Ws), appearance, and sometimes mannerisms. For example, in early sketches, the Count waves his hands to exercise hypnotic power over other Muppets and holds his cape over the lower part of his face while moving. In addition, an early skit revealed that the Count shows no reflection in a mirror. Unlike vampires as traditionally depicted in legend and motion pictures, however, the Count often relaxes in the sunlight (as seen in "Counting Vacation" and "Coconut Counting Man," among others).

EARLY DAYS

The character was created by Sesame Street writer Norman Stiles. Performer Jerry Nelson recalled his immediate enthusiasm for the character in a 1999 interview:

“ Norman told me he was writing this piece with this new character who's called the Count... He's a vampire, but not a real vampire... He just has a jones for numbers. He's obsessed with counting things. So I went, "Oh, cool," and I went to Jim [Henson] and said, "You know, Norman's writing this new character called the Count." Jim said, "Let me hear it." So I went (in my Count voice), "Yes, I vould love to do it!" and Jim said, "Yes, you can do it." ”

The Count is now a friendly, non-threatening figure on the Street, but his early appearances in 1972 had a more sinister edge. He had hypnotic powers, and was able to stun other Muppets by waving his hands. After counting, he uttered a villainous laugh as lightning flashed in moody colors. He was often accompanied by creepy organ music. As the character matured, the sinister aspect of his personality was toned down, and his laugh became a throaty, Lugosi-style chuckle.

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APPEARANCES

He made cameo appearances in The Muppet Movie (in the finale) and The Muppets Take Manhattan (in the wedding), and has also been featured in the Sesame Street movies Follow That Bird and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. He also appeared in The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years and A Muppet Family Christmas.

The Count made a special appearance on episode 518 of The Muppet Show, emerging with his Sesame co-stars from the Three Bears' cave when Ali Baba shouts, "Open Sesame!"

On November 14, 1988, Count co-hosted The Today Show with Meryl Sheep.

On December 11, 2008, the Count was interviewed on More or Less, a BBC radio show about numbers.

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NOTES

The Count's New York license plate number is "12345678910" in the movie Follow That Bird. However, in Count All the Way to Sesame Street, a book based on Follow that Bird, the Count's license plate number is simply "123."

The Count was a DJ for his own radio station on the album The Count's Countdown, and hosted a music video show in Count It Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street.

In a Number of the Day segment for 0, The Count stated: "Oh hello, it is I, The Count. I'm called the Count because I love to count. Err, that, and I inherited my father's royal title." Despite this claim, the title of Count is one of nobility rather than royalty. (sesamestreet.org) Thus, The Count's claim to royalty might rest on his having inherited a lesser title of a royal ancestor.

According to the book Sesame Street Unpaved, after Jon Stone read the first script of a Count skit, he sent it back to the writer, Norman Stiles, with a note scribbled atop: "Good character, bad bit". That skit was never produced.

In Count it Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street, The Count says that his favorite song is "Count it Higher". However, the book Sesame Street Unpaved states that his favorite songs are "Born to Add" and "Count on Me." Sesame Workshop's "Muppetbook" page also includes the song "99 Red Balloons."

The Muppetbook page also states the Count's favorite TV shows are 24 and 60 Minutes.

The Count's car is the Countmobile.

According to the 1998 book Sesame Street Unpaved, the Count is "written to represent an adult with the psychological age of someone who is 1,832,652 years old -- and still counting".

According to Sesame Street Stays Up Late!, the Count knows the exact time, and therefore knows when the new year arrives.

In Episode 4109, the Count states that he used to be a professor of counting from one to ten at the Institute of Technology at Moldavia.

In a few appearances (including The Street We Live On, episode 4109 and "Five By"), the Count sports a purple cape instead of his usual green one.

In Jerry Nelson's later years, Matt Vogel took over the puppetry of the Count while Nelson continued to provide the voice. This lasted until Nelson's death in 2012; Vogel debuted with his first vocal performance of the character in the 2013 video "Counting the "You"s in YouTube."

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FILMOGRAPHY

See Count von Count Filmography

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VIDEO GAME APPEARANCES

Sesame Street Countdown

Numbers

Get Set to Learn!

Search and Learn Adventures

Elmo's Number Journey

Count TV iPhone app

Elmo's Musical Monsterpiece

Kinect Sesame Street TV

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BOOK APPEARANCES

Books starring Count von Count

The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook (1973)

The Sesame Street ABC Storybook (1974)

The Sesame Street Book of Fairy Tales (1975)

Big Bird's Busy Book (1975)

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil (1975)

Bert's Big Band Paint-with-Water Book (1976)

The Sesame Street Postcard Book (1976)

Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree (1977)

The Sesame Street Block Party Coloring Book (1977)

Sesame Street Goes West (1977)

The Sesame Street Mystery Coloring Book (1977)

Who's Who on Sesame Street (1977)

The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook (1978)

The Exciting Adventures of Super Grover (1978)

A Day on Sesame Street (1979)

Down on the Farm with Grover (1980)

Early Bird on Sesame Street (1980)

Look What I Found! (1980)

Molly Moves to Sesame Street (1980)

The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)

The Sesame Street Pet Show (1980)

Special Delivery (1980)

The Tool Box Book (1980)

What Did You Bring? (1980)

Oscar's Rotten Birthday (1981)

Prairie Dawn's Upside-Down Poem (1981)

The Sesame Street Circus of Opposites (1981)

The Sesame Street Sun (1981)

What Do You Do? (1981)

City (1982)

A Day at School (1982)

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The Sesame Street Library, Volume Four, 1978, Part Two ... The #Sesame #Street #Library, Volume Four, #1978, Part Two, Stories included in part two: #Jack and the #Beanstalk - #Roosevelt #Franklin and #Little #Bird (First published: The #Sesame #Street 1977 Calendar) (Michael #Smollin) #Oscar and the Number Four (First published: The #Sesame #Street 1, 2, 3 #Storybook) (Mel #Crawford)  H: #Hopalong #Herbert #Out #West - #Herbert #Birdsfoot  (First published: The #Sesame #Street #ABC Storybook) (Marc Nadel)   #Oscar's #Grouch #Puppets  (First published: #Big #Bird's Busy Book) (Dave #Gantz)  Big Bird's Story Hour still continued  (First published: The Sesame Street Book of #Fairy #Tales) (Joe #Mathieu)  It's the Letter Game! - #Guy #Smiley, #Herry and #Granny #Fannie #Nesselrode  (First published: Big Bird's Busy Book) (Jon #McIntosh)  #Little #Miss #Muffet - #Bert  Fire! Fire!  (First published: Big Bird's Busy Book) (Mel Crawford)  2-page photo spread: firefighter, baker and police officer Anything #Muppets (Charles #Rowan)  The Song of the #Count  (First published: Big Bird's Busy Book) (Michael Frith)  What's Missing? - #Sherlock #Hemlock puzzle (First published: Big Bird's Busy Book) (Mel #Crawford)  #The #Count Inks an I  (First published: The Sesame Street ABC Storybook) (Michael Frith)  #Bookend: #Ernie and #Bert   (First published: The Perils of Penelope) (Michael Frith) Written by: Michael Frith, Emily Perl Kingsley, David Korr, Sharon Lerner, Nina B. Link, Jeff Moss, Norman Stiles, Daniel Wilcox ... Illustrators: Mel Crawford, A. Delaney, Michael Frith, David Gantz, Joe Mathieu, Jon McIntosh, Harry McNaught, Marc Nadel, Michael J. Smollin, photos by: Charles Rowan ...  #Children's #Television #Workshop, #Jim #Henson, #Muppets, #Childhood #Memories, #Teaching #Book, #Learning Book,  #Funk & #Wagnalls

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