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| first = Episode 0406 (November 13, 1972)
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'''Count von Count''' (known simply as '''the Count''') is a ] character on the ]/] ] ''].'' He is meant to parody ]'s vampiric character, ]. His first appearance on the show was in the 4th season premiere in 1972, where he counts blocks in a sketch with ].


==Description and personality==
'''Count von Count''' (b. ], 1,830,653 BC? ]'']), often known as simply '''The ]''', is one of the ] characters on '']'', performed by ]. The Count is a ] obviously modeled after ]'s interpretation of ].
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The Count's main role is to teach ] skills to children.<ref>Coffey, Jerry (October 6, 1972). "". ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''. p. 6-B.</ref> His catchphrase is, "Greetings! I am The Count. They call me the Count because I love to count...things". The Count loves counting so much that he will often ] 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, ]s roll (even indoors or on sunny days) while he laughs his iconic "Ah-Ah-Ah!" staccato laugh.


The Count lives in an old ]-infested ] 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. ]).
The Count's main purpose is educating children on simple ] concepts, most notably counting. The Count has a ] love of counting ('']''); he will count anything and everything, regardless of size, amount, or how much annoyance he is causing the other Muppets. Some have suggested that including an obsessive-compulsive Muppet on the children's program was ]'s way of teaching young people about the nature of those with ], and how they should be accepted socially and treated the same as the general population. This is a minority viewpoint; however, it does jibe with the overall educational message of ''Sesame Street''.


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.
Interestingly, some ]al ] ]s depict vampires as having a similar obsession with counting small objects, providing a means of distracting them by tossing a handful of seeds or ] on the ground. The Count's own arithmomania 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!"


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, 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?".
Originally, following a counting session, the Count would laugh ]cally, "AH! AH! AH!" as ] roared overhead and ] flashed. This practice, however, has been discontinued, as it scared some young children.


According to BBC News, during an interview with the '']'' 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 ], being 187<sup>2</sup>.<ref name="BBC America">{{cite news|title=Why was 34,969 Count von Count's magic number?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19409960|access-date=August 31, 2012|publisher=BBC America|date=August 30, 2012}}</ref>
When the Count sings, the background music resembles ], no matter what the song.


The Count's signature song is "The Song of the Count". The song was written by Jeff Moss as a traditional Hungarian ].
The Count bears a noticeable resemblance to ] as ], including a similar accent and oversized, pointed ], but it would appear that he is different from other vampires. For example, most vampires wither in direct ]light; the Count does not and in fact enjoys being outside, plus he doesn't suck blood, doesn't sleep in a coffin, usually sleeps at night, and never changes into a bat. In some ways, he's just like a regular human.


==Character history==
The Count lives in an old, cobweb-infested ] which he shares with many ]s. Sometimes he counts them. Some of the pet bats are named, including Grisha, Misha, Sasha, and Tattiana. He has a ], ], as well.
The Count debuted on ''Sesame Street'' in Episode 0406, the premiere of Season 4 (1972–73). He was conceived by ],<ref>"". ''The Evening Sun'' (Westminster, Maryland). May 23, 1985. p. 59.</ref> who wrote the first script. In the Count's very first scene, ] told ] to watch his ] of blocks and make sure nothing happened to it while he got his camera to take a picture of the pyramid. The Count then walked by, counted the blocks, and in the process, took Ernie's pyramid apart before Bert could stop him. He then counted the blocks again, moving them back into place. Bert yelled at the Count for moving Ernie's blocks, so the Count counted the blocks again, taking the pyramid apart.<ref>Luparello, Ben (October 29, 1972). "". ''New York Daily News''. p. 20.</ref> The Count was performed by ], who brought the character to life. He is made out of the Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet pattern.


Before a counting session, he originally greeted the viewers (and the characters) by saying, "Greetings. I am the Count. They call me the Count because I LOVE to count... things." Nelson voiced the Count until his death on August 23, 2012. At that time, ] had taken over performing the puppetry of the Count. Upon Nelson's death, Vogel started performing both the Count's voice and puppetry. His first performance of the Count was in a YouTube video called "Counting the Yous in YouTube", a song about the celebration of ''Sesame Street''{{'s}} ] channel reaching 1&nbsp;billion views.
The Count's former girlfriend, Countess von Backwards, was known for counting backwards. More recently he has been seen with a new girlfriend, ]. His brother and mother have made appearances on the show. His grandparents also made an appearance. When Grandma Count laughs, it rains. When Grandpa Count laughs, it snows.


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 ] 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.<ref>'']'' Episode 0406</ref> And after counting, he would ], "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|date=July 2016}} 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 appeared on a video package aired on the first episode of ] that was shown after Letterman's emergency quintuple bypass operation. He appeared as a surgeon in an operating theatre, counting "One bypass... AH AH AH! Two bypass...", to thunderous acclamation.


], in New York's ], was used for exterior ]s of the Count's castle on the show.
==History of the character on ''Sesame Street''==
The Count debuted on ''Sesame Street'' in Season 4 (1972-73), performed by ].


He made an appearance in '']'', then in the ''Sesame Street'' movies '']'' and '']''. The Count made an appearance in the film '']'' at ] and ]'s wedding, then in the ''Sesame Street'' movies '']'' (1985) as a supporting character and '']'' (1999) as a minor character. The Count appeared onscreen during the closing credits of ''Follow That Bird,'' where he proceeded to read and count the credits. He also said, "Hi, Mom." when a credit appears for ], creator of ''Sesame Street''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089994/trivia |title=Follow That Bird (1985) - Trivia |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>


In Season 33, the Count got a daily segment on ''Sesame Street'', simply called The '']''. In Season 33, the Count was given a daily segment on ''Sesame Street'', simply called '']''.


The Count was originally portrayed by ]. 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. Due to his increasingly failing health, Nelson could no longer puppeteer the character of the Count, so he handed over puppeteering duties to ], though Nelson still continued to voice the Count. After Nelson's death in 2012, Vogel took over voicing and puppeteering the Count full time the following year.
==Internationally==
* In the ] show ], the Count's name is ''El Conde Contar''.
* In the Spanish Show, Barrio Sésamo, The Count's name is Conde Draco.
* In the Hebrew show ], the Count's name is ''מר סופר''.
* In the ] show ], the Count's name is ''Graaf Tel''.
* In the ] show ], the Count's name is ''Graf Zahl''.
* In the ] show ], the Count's name is ''Conde de Contar''.


==In other languages==
==Trivia==
* In the ] version of the series, '']'', the Count's name is Graaf Tel (literally, "] (nobleman) ] (the process of counting)").
* Once, he ] ].
* In the Finnish dub of the series, ''Seesamtie'', his name is Kreivi Kamreeri ("Count Chamberlain")
* In one episode, his ] 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, preventing Ernie from falling asleep.
* In the French series '']'', his name is Comte von Compte.
* The Count is one of the few Sesame Street muppets that owns a car. The Count's ] ] number (as seen in '']'') is 12345678910.
* In the German series '']'', his name is Graf Zahl (literally, "] Number").
* There is a ] utility called ''countmail'', written by ] founder Charles M. Hannum, whose purpose is to count the user's new ] messages. But instead of simply displaying the number it will output e.g. ''FOURTEEN! FOURTEEN MAIL MESSAGES! HAHAHAHAHA!''
* In the ] series '']'', his name is 'מר סופר', phonetically pronounced 'Mar Sofer', which literally means "Mr. Counter".
* In the episode ] of '']'', Peter wondered if the Count ever sucked blood:
* In the Mexican series '']'', his name is Conde Contar (literally, "Count of Counting").
**'''Peter:''' Have they ever shown him doing somebody in and then feeding on him?
* In the ] series '']'', his name is Liczyhrabia (literally, "Countcount").
**'''Brian:''' You're asking me if they've ever done an episode where the Count kills someone, and then drinks their blood for sustinance?
* In the Portuguese series '']'', his name is Conde de Contar (translated as "Count of Counting").
**'''Peter:''' Yeah.
* In the Russian series '']'', his name is Graf Znak (Граф Знак) (translated as "symbol" or "sign" as the mathematical categories).
**'''Brian:''' No, I don't think they've done that one yet.
* On the short-lived FOX sitcom '']'', Count Blah claimed adamantly that the Count stole his act. * In the Spanish series, '']'', his name is Conde Draco.
* In the ] series '']'', his name is Sayıların Kontu (literally, "the Count of Numbers")
*The Count is the subject of one of ]'s comedy routines. Chapelle cites his cape as one of the primary reasons he feels that the Count is a pimp. "You'd even see him pimping. 'You are late with my money, bitch! How many times must I smack you? One! *smack* Two! *smack* Two smacks! AH! AH! AH!'"
* In the ] series '']'', his name is Addad (literally, "Number").
*In an episode of ] where they meet the original ], the character Xander believes the vampire is simply a goth poseur, and accuses him of having a "Count von Count accent", and actually does a counting impression of the Sesame Street character. He is subsequently turned into Dracula's slave.
* On ], The Warner Siblings go to ] and meet ], Yakko askes him "Don't you teach math on Sesame Street?"


==Appearances outside ''Sesame Street''==
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* The Count was interviewed in character on the ] economics programme '']'' on December 11, 2009, where he mentioned his favorite number, 34,969.
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* He appeared on the ] edition of '']'' to count down the top ten trick plays of the ].
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* He was a guest on '']'' for the first-anniversary episode.
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* In the ] 2014 ] Christmas Concert '']'', ] ] along with the Count, performed "]" on the 7,667-pipe ].
* He was a guest on '']'' on March 27, 2015, to help out in the feature "This Week in Numbers".
* He was interviewed in character by '']'' in a video released on February 22, 2017. In the interview, he cannot decide on a single favorite number, and says he will be 6,523,728 years old "next October."<ref>Archived at {{cbignore}} and the {{cbignore}}: {{Citation|title=The Cast of 'Sesame Street' Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions|magazine=Wired|date=February 22, 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2yFoq09ug|access-date=1 March 2017|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* He has an ongoing role in supporting the ] in public service announcements.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sesame Street wants to get young children counted in the census|website=] |date=2020-03-09 |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/sesame-street-wants-to-get-young-children-counted-in-the-census}}</ref>


==In popular culture==
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The ], an ] ] ] team in ], known for unique and sometimes over-the-top promotions, announced that it would give away 2,500 bobblehead dolls dressed as the Count at its May 23, 2009 game. However, instead of the Count's regular head, this doll's head featured ] on one side and ] on the other, and was called "Count von Re-Count"—referring to the extraordinarily prolonged ] and legal battle surrounding the ] between the two men. The team made further jabs at the election during the game.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/news/story?id=4201396 |title=Saints' gimmick jabs at Senate race |agency=Associated Press |publisher=ESPN |date=May 23, 2009 |access-date=23 May 2009}}</ref>
]

Australian ] football international ] has been nicknamed "the Count" due to his striking resemblance to the character.<ref> at dailytelegraph.com.au</ref>

During the ], which required a ballot-counting period of four days before ] was declared the winner, the Count was featured in many internet memes and social media posts, such as playful wishes that he could be called in to assist the tabulation and the insistence that President ]'s demand to "Stop the Count" was hopeless against the ''Sesame Street'' character.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Connie |title=Meme makers enlist Sesame Street's Count von Count in the fight to tally every vote |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90572571/meme-makers-enlist-sesame-streets-count-von-count-in-the-fight-to-tally-every-vote |access-date=7 November 2020 |agency=F@stcompany |date=7 November 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
*] and ] for other vampires with a compulsion to count

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Fictional character
Count von Count
Sesame Street character
First appearanceEpisode 0406 (November 13, 1972)
Created byNorman Stiles
Performed by
In-universe information
AliasThe Count
SpeciesMuppet Vampire
GenderMale
NationalityRomanian

Count von Count (known simply as the Count) is a Muppet character on the PBS/HBO children's television show Sesame Street. He is meant to parody Bela Lugosi's vampiric character, Count Dracula. His first appearance on the show was in the 4th season premiere in 1972, where he counts blocks in a sketch with Bert and Ernie.

Description and personality

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The Count's main role is to teach counting skills to children. His catchphrase is, "Greetings! I am The Count. They call me the Count because I love to count...things". 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. Some residents of Sesame Street have been disturbed by it in a few episodes. For example, 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. 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 187.

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

Character history

The Count debuted on Sesame Street in Episode 0406, the premiere of Season 4 (1972–73). He was conceived by Norman Stiles, who wrote the first script. In the Count's very first scene, Ernie told Bert to watch his pyramid of blocks and make sure nothing happened to it while he got his camera to take a picture of the pyramid. The Count then walked by, counted the blocks, and in the process, took Ernie's pyramid apart before Bert could stop him. He then counted the blocks again, moving them back into place. Bert yelled at the Count for moving Ernie's blocks, so the Count counted the blocks again, taking the pyramid apart. The Count was performed by Jerry Nelson, who brought the character to life. He is made out of the Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet pattern.

Before a counting session, he originally greeted the viewers (and the characters) by saying, "Greetings. I am the Count. They call me the Count because I LOVE to count... things." Nelson voiced the Count until his death on August 23, 2012. At that time, Matt Vogel had taken over performing the puppetry of the Count. Upon Nelson's death, Vogel started performing both the Count's voice and puppetry. His first performance of the Count was in a YouTube video called "Counting the Yous in YouTube", a song about the celebration of Sesame Street's YouTube channel reaching 1 billion views.

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. 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). 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!"

Belvedere Castle, in New York's Central Park, was used for exterior establishing shots of the Count's castle on the show.

The Count made an appearance in the film The Muppets Take Manhattan at Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy's wedding, then in the Sesame Street movies Follow That Bird (1985) as a supporting character and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) as a minor character. The Count appeared onscreen during the closing credits of Follow That Bird, where he proceeded to read and count the credits. He also said, "Hi, Mom." when a credit appears for Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street.

In Season 33, the Count was given a daily segment on Sesame Street, simply called The Number of the Day.

The Count was originally portrayed by Jerry Nelson. 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. 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. After Nelson's death in 2012, Vogel took over voicing and puppeteering the Count full time the following year.

In other languages

  • In the Dutch version of the series, Sesamstraat, the Count's name is Graaf Tel (literally, "Count (nobleman) Count (the process of counting)").
  • In the Finnish dub of the series, Seesamtie, his name is Kreivi Kamreeri ("Count Chamberlain")
  • In the French series 1, Rue Sésame, his name is Comte von Compte.
  • In the German series Sesamstraße, his name is Graf Zahl (literally, "Count Number").
  • In the Hebrew series Rechov Sumsum, his name is 'מר סופר', phonetically pronounced 'Mar Sofer', which literally means "Mr. Counter".
  • In the Mexican series Plaza Sésamo, his name is Conde Contar (literally, "Count of Counting").
  • In the Polish series Ulica Sezamkowa, his name is Liczyhrabia (literally, "Countcount").
  • In the Portuguese series Rua Sésamo, his name is Conde de Contar (translated as "Count of Counting").
  • In the Russian series Ulitsa Sezam, his name is Graf Znak (Граф Знак) (translated as "symbol" or "sign" as the mathematical categories).
  • In the Spanish series, Barrio Sésamo, his name is Conde Draco.
  • In the Turkish series Susam Sokağı, his name is Sayıların Kontu (literally, "the Count of Numbers")
  • In the Arabic series Iftah Ya Simsim, his name is Addad (literally, "Number").

Appearances outside Sesame Street

In popular culture

The St. Paul Saints, an independent minor-league baseball team in St. Paul, Minnesota, known for unique and sometimes over-the-top promotions, announced that it would give away 2,500 bobblehead dolls dressed as the Count at its May 23, 2009 game. However, instead of the Count's regular head, this doll's head featured Al Franken on one side and Norm Coleman on the other, and was called "Count von Re-Count"—referring to the extraordinarily prolonged recount and legal battle surrounding the 2008 U.S. Senate election between the two men. The team made further jabs at the election during the game.

Australian rugby league football international Anthony Minichiello has been nicknamed "the Count" due to his striking resemblance to the character.

During the 2020 United States presidential election, which required a ballot-counting period of four days before Joe Biden was declared the winner, the Count was featured in many internet memes and social media posts, such as playful wishes that he could be called in to assist the tabulation and the insistence that President Donald Trump's demand to "Stop the Count" was hopeless against the Sesame Street character.

See also

References

  1. Coffey, Jerry (October 6, 1972). "New Faces Coming to 'Sesame Street'". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 6-B.
  2. "Why was 34,969 Count von Count's magic number?". BBC America. August 30, 2012. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
  3. "WMC to conferr 300 degrees on Saturday". The Evening Sun (Westminster, Maryland). May 23, 1985. p. 59.
  4. Luparello, Ben (October 29, 1972). "Few New Sights on Sesame Street". New York Daily News. p. 20.
  5. Sesame Street Episode 0406
  6. "Follow That Bird (1985) - Trivia". IMDb.
  7. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "The Cast of 'Sesame Street' Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions", Wired, February 22, 2017, retrieved March 1, 2017 – via YouTube
  8. "Sesame Street wants to get young children counted in the census". PBS. March 9, 2020.
  9. "Saints' gimmick jabs at Senate race". ESPN. Associated Press. May 23, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
  10. Movie star Muppets at dailytelegraph.com.au
  11. Lin, Connie (November 7, 2020). "Meme makers enlist Sesame Street's Count von Count in the fight to tally every vote". F@stcompany. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
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