Sadly, this insight is no cure for my own affliction. My theory is that the Count caught the counting bug due to the trauma of discovering that American capitalism denied him the privileges afforded by European aristocratic feudalism.
Count von Count, with his purple skin (denoting nobility and incest) and dark green cape, is surely proof of this (a proof that we owe to the genius of Jim Henson, R.I.P.). Perhaps this is something to look forward to in my old age. So far I haven’t found myself counting outdoors at night in a thunderstorm, nor while roaming old ruins. ‘Three! Three cups! Four slices of toast! Four! Ha ha ha ha!’ My eyes roam the space – how many corners in this room? – in a never-ending task. When the underground stops at the next station, three people get off, five get on – time for a recount. How many of them are wearing a tie? Constant vigilance is required to check whether the total has swollen or shrunk. I never count very far – mostly to 20, rarely as far as 50. During interviews or domestic arguments I break down the other person into a numbered list of parts. Thanks to him I’m always counting everything, constantly taking stock: how many people in the room, how many chairs, doorframes or surfaces, how many lines in this article, how many steps on the staircase? How many noses does this person have, how many protruding ears? Every day, every hour. He counts flapping bats and rattling bones, laughing like a madman after each enumeration and shouting the result out loud. The name of the monster who turned me into one of his kind is Count von Count – the vampire obsessed by numbers who lives in exile in a broken-down shack on Sesame Street. I should have realized that the vampire who was to have the strongest influence on my life already held me in his power in my tender pre-school years. At bedtime the garlic was replaced by the thrill of fear – ‘come and get me Count Dracula’, I thought. When I was slightly older and able to quite easily watch Dracula AD 1972 (a stirring Hammer production set in a comatose version of Swinging London) – I began to sense the sweet dangers of adolescence. Sesame Street Dracula, Count von Count Ernie Oscar the Grouch Elmo Cookie. Count von Count Dracula Vampire Character Embroidered Iron On Patch. The garlic was marginally less problematic. Sesame Street, Ernie Bert Count von Count Elmo Cookie Monster, Elmo, child. Count von Count Sesame Street Applause PVC Figure The Count with a Jack-o-Lantern. I would have loved to wear a gold crucifix, but it would have been hard to explain to my Muslim father. I checked my neck for bite marks every morning. Years later, I still couldn’t sleep without taking garlic to bed. What followed was terrible: Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu in the 1979 Werner Herzog remake. When he's seen in Dracula-la Land, he has blue hair and skin, two distinct eyebrows, and an elongated head.I was just an innocent kid, sneaking into the living room at night to watch TV.
Changing appearance: On TV, the Count has black hair, lavender skin, a unibrow, and a round head.Marge's reaction to the Count (in " The Girl Who Slept Too Little") is somewhat understandable, as he was laughing in a scary laugh as he counted, instead of his usual gleeful laugh. You might have found it amusing as a child when Count von Count from Sesame Street had the need to go around counting things so often, but theres a real.He is also frequently accompanied by thunderclaps and eerie music. Personality Ĭount von Count's personal quirk (often seen on Sesame Street) is that he loves to count things, so much that he laughs with glee as he says each number and again when he's done counting. He and Homer then took off in pursuit of the kids, leaving the Count behind. By the time he got to three kisses, Dracula saw the kids on a bell tower. He then began counting the kisses, laughing as he counted each kiss. The Count replied that he had seen them and said that they were sneaking kisses. Count Von Count, Abby Caddaby and Big Bird dancing in Sesame Street. They stopped the car, showed the Count pictures of the kids, and asked if he'd seen them. He had just bitten Big Bird and was drinking his blood when Homer Simpson and Count Dracula drove into Dracula-la Land searching for their children ( Lisa and Edmund) who had run away together. The Count was once seen in the Dracula-la Land neighborhood of Springfield. The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened or existed. In a hockey game that Homer saw on TV, people costumed as the Count, Elmo and Big Bird were seen seated behind the glass, waiting to appear in a performance of " Sesame Street on Ice" after the game. Marge took an instant dislike to the Count and yelled at him to "Go back to your own country!" In the clip that Marge saw, the Count was in his castle counting coconuts and laughing as he counted each one. Maggie was watching Sesame Street and Marge happened to be in the room when the Count came on.