#sesame street count von count

[horrorvillaintourney]

DRACULA SMACKDOWN QUARTERFINALS: Count von Count (Sesame Street) vs. Dracula (1931 Film)

PROPAGANDA FOR THE COUNT:

“He is a vampire count who also counts numbers! Possibly the first vampire many of us encountered! He has batty friends and is the only Dracula to teach kids the basic foundations of math for decades!”

PROPAGANDA FOR LUGOSI:

“The most beautiful girl I've ever seen the absolute OG of all Draculas. The man was literally buried in his Dracula cape if Bela Lugosi doesn't win Baby of the Year I'm going to kill myself on live tv”

“He’s the original movie one lol, I sure hope he counts. He’s also *the classic*. If you think Dracula, you think of this overdramatic mf. It’s been a min since I’ve seen it, but he just is so silly :) manipulating Renfield :) making him eat bugs :) mudering an entire ship of people :) king stuff :) [...] I don’t like how he killed Lucy and attacked Mina tbh, but he really did that, and I can’t help but forgive him (Jkjk but he’s just that iconic tho)”

[gwydionae]

Behold, one of my best friend's Halloween costumes, recorded and uploaded by a complete stranger with over a million views on tiktok! (I'm so proud!!)

[bungcar]

[mage-ical-character-person]

I can’t explain why this image is so funny to me but it is.

[the-swift-tricker]

the look of absolute dread on that ticker seller's face

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Count von Count puppeteer Jerry Nelson - Sesame Street

[amberkendslacy]

Long Face - The Vampire Lestat (2024)

[themuppetmasterencyclopedia]

Goodnight Friends

[gifs-of-puppets]

Sesame Street (1969-Present)

[crimfckeyt]

possibly ill in thr head

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1234

Despite his resemblance to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, The Count's status as a vampire is questionable.

While the specification chart in the 1998 style guides says Count von Count's only similarities to Dracula are visual, his profile on the Sesame Workshop webpage suggested that he is related to the famous vampire.

Additionally, the creator of Count von Count, Norman Stiles, said to performer Jerry Nelson that The Count is "a vampire, but not a real vampire."

However, in his WIRED interview, Count von Count said in response to the question "Is the Count on Sesame Street a vampire?": "Yes, but I am a vampire with an unquenchable thirst for numbers." This is in reference to traditional vampires who exhibited arithmomania.

Even though Count von Count has never been explicitly labeled as a vampire on screen, the current information leaves it ambiguous at best.

Sources:

"Specification Chart." In Sesame Street Style Guide. Children's Television Workshop. 1998. (Pages accessed on the Muppet Wiki.) https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Sesame_Street_style_guide_(1998).

Sesame Workshop. Character profile: Count von Count. http://www.sesamestreet.org/onair/characters/count_von_count. (Archive link to be added).

Plume, Keith. "Still Counting: An Interview with Muppeteer Jerry Nelson." Muppet Central. March 1, 1999. https://muppetcentral.com/articles/interviews/nelson1.shtml.

WIRED. "The Cast of 'Sesame Street' Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED." YouTube. February 22, 2017. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2yFoq09ug.

[horrorvillaintourney]

DRACULA SMACKDOWN ROUND 2 MATCH 5: Count von Count (Sesame Street) vs. Countess Marya Zaleska (Dracula's Daughter)

PROPAGANDA FOR THE COUNT:

“He is a vampire count who also counts numbers! Possibly the first vampire many of us encountered! He has batty friends and is the only Dracula to teach kids the basic foundations of math for decades!”

PROPAGANDA FOR THE COUNTESS:

“direct descendant of the man himself. held his funeral. when we make dracula sexy and make him manipulative and weird and cringefail, we're stealing traits from his daughter. kidnapped a secretary to make a psychiatrist fall in love with her. eater of men and liker of women. spayed by the hayes code but they couldn't stop her bi emo swag”

[systimming]

🎃- count's halloween spooktacular

[bungcar]

[kodaswrld]

sesame street dividers

for @sunkidd 🫶🏼

[mage-ical-character-person]

I love modern benign numbers grandpa but I also love earlier Count being a menace.

Count von Count Sesame Street is the strongest vampire ever because he can do whatever he wants uninvited.

No one invited him he is clearly unwelcome, yet here he is anyway. To count things. He’s unstoppable. He’ll break into your house.