Count Von Count.

Appearance: The Count is a Muppet puppet, standing about 120 centimeters tall. He has light purple fleece skin, and we mustn't forget his fangs! He is a vampire, but he does not feed on blood. He wears a monocle on his left eye. His eyes themselves are slightly narrowed, with folds at the corners that resemble wrinkles. His eyes are black, and he has expressive black eyebrows that are arched, adding intensity to his gaze. His ears are pointed and also purple. He has black hair, combed back, and also sports a styled long beard, slightly curved forward. His nose is aquiline; a true native of the Carpathian Mountains! He is dressed in a white shirt with a yellow and red ascot, which is tucked into a black jacket. He also wears a white bow tie. The cuffs of the white shirt sleeves are slightly visible beneath the jacket sleeves. He wears black trousers and black patent leather shoes, accentuated by the white fabric of his trouser socks showing from under the trouser hems. And of course, a cape with a high, triangular collar. The cape itself is a dark emerald green, while the lining is colorful, somewhat reminiscent of a leopard print. The cape is often clasped together with the jacket sleeves. The Count speaks with an accent, reminiscent of Russian or Transylvanian. He also has a very strong passion for counting; it's safe to say he has OCD. As a personality dependent on the routine of counting, he is easily irritated if he is not allowed to do so.

Despite the fact that the Count is now friendly and non-threatening, in his earliest appearances from 1972 to 1975, he showed a much more villainous nature. To begin a counting session, the Count would enter the scene holding his cape over his face in an exaggerated Lugosi-style pose before reciting his greeting, and he was often accompanied by creepy organ music. He would not even let anything interrupt him while counting, and to prevent this, he shouted "SILENCE!" and used hypnotic powers to temporarily stun people with a wave of his hands (although he sometimes did this without shouting anything, and even did it for no reason, occasionally). He only did this twice. In his first appearance, he hypnotized Bert before counting Ernie's pyramid blocks, while on season 5, during a skit with Grover, the waiter, he hypnotized Grover to serve him more hot dogs to count instead of eating, leaving Grover breathless.[5] And after counting, he would laugh maniacally, "MWAH HA HA HA HA HAAAA!!!", while thunder and lightning flashed in moody colors, and then he would exit the scene, once again, holding his cape over his face. This aspect of the Count's personality, however, was abruptly ended in 1975 out of concern that it might frighten younger viewers, and this practice was changed, as he became friendlier, did not have hypnotic powers, did not enter or exit the scene holding his cape over his face, and interacted more pleasantly with the characters (both live actors and Muppets).[citation needed] Also, the creepy organ music was removed, the lightning flashes were changed from moodily colored to normally colored, and his laugh was changed from a maniacal laugh to a more throaty, triumphant Lugosi-style laugh, "Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

The Count has a personal cloud hovering over him, which is the source of his thunder and lightning. Some residents of Sesame Street have been disturbed by it in a few episodes. For example, in episode 0974, he was counting at midnight, disturbing others, and as his punishment, the Amazing Mumford used magic to detach his cloud, therefore taking his thunder and lightning away until he understood. This episode was inspired by the 1978 Sesame Street bedtime storybook titled Who Stole the Count's Thunder?.

According to BBC News, during an interview with the More or Less team's Tim Harford, the Count said his favorite number is 34,969. The Count was quoted as saying, "It's a square-root thing.": 34,969 is a perfect square, being 1872.[2]

The Count's signature song is "The Song of the Count". The song was written by Jeff Moss as a traditional Hungarian Csárdás.

The Count's main role is to teach counting skills to children.[1] His catchphrase is, "Greetings! I am The Count. They call me the Count because I love to count ... things".[note 1] The Count loves counting so much that he will often count anything and everything regardless of size or amount, to the point of annoying other characters. The Count can occasionally lose his temper if interrupted while counting, or feel sad when there is nothing around for him to count. Apart from these, he is typically portrayed as friendly and cheerful. Once he reaches the total number of items he is counting, thunderstorms roll (even indoors or on sunny days) while he laughs his iconic "Ah-Ah-Ah!" staccato laugh. The Count lives in an old cobweb-infested castle which he shares with many bats, a wolf named Yuba, and a cat named Fatatita. 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. The Count drives a special car, the Countmobile, which is designed to look like a bat (cf. Batmobile). The Count has been shown with a number of girlfriends, who tend to be vampire Countesses. These include Countess von Backwards (debuted in Sesame Street's 28th season), who counts backwards, 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 von Count family includes an unnamed brother and mother as well as an Uncle Uno and grandparents. When the grandmother counts, it rains, and when the grandfather counts, it snows. The Count has a personal cloud hovering over him, which is the source of his thunder and lightning.