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  • ONE generic item AH AH AHHH! TWO generic items AH AH AHHHH!

  • Ahhhh, I LOVE the Count! I got in trouble in kindergarten for counting like him. "One! Two! Three! Four! Five, AH AH AH AH AH!" because it disrupted class.

    "No, children, not now! Later. Beat it!" LOL Count, I love him to pieces.

  • I wish he was still slight scary, coddleing our children is not the answer.

  • HAHAHA I remember this... my parents had it on tape, it was probably my favorite part of the whole episode.

  • SHIRT WOOT!!!

  • NO I DONT HAVE FRIEND I SEND IT TO MYSELF

  • I love the Count's laugh when the mailman leaves-he's all like- "I fooled 'em! HA HA HA HA"- "1"- "2"- "3"! Such a beloved character. I certainly wish they would have a "Best of Count Von Count" DVD. "Elmo Says Boo"-HARDLY scrapes ANY surface of the genius of THE COUNT!

  • Now THE COUNT is way more hip than any "sparkly" vampire....

    How ANYONE could choose Elmo over this master of "numerical hijinks" is a crime! Count Von Count doesn't "act" like a vampire-only the Hollywood archetype popularized by our favorite "bat man"-Bela Lugosi!

  • I think the count had a little OCD.

  • The COOLEST character on Sesame Street was ALWAYS the COUNT!

  • he has this nosferatu nose xd

  • Count was kinda creepy back then. I kinda like it :)

  • the count is the best!

  • i think you should all go onto mystery google.

  • Very creepy...but still funny;D

    "You terrible mirror!"

    "I don't have any friends."

    "AH AH AH AH AH!!"

    I remember that I saw a Count von Count sketch in Finnish when I was four years old. His Finnish name is Kreivi Kamreeri;3

  • I love how he gets a sexual thrill by counting.

  • Oh wow! I never knew he started out so spooky. I love it! :D

  • omg the good times when i used to watch this show... I love sesame street omg...

  • I believe there actually is a mental disorder about compulsive counting, isn't there?

  • This takes me baaaack! I was six I think when I saw this, must've been about when it was first aired. Count von Count was one of my faves-- and he didn't scare me, I thought he was funny! I didn't know he was purple back then because we didn't have a color TV until just in time for the Bicentennial.

  • it's called being P.C. no more elmer and bugs, everyone gets trophy's,we dont keep score etc. we are slowly killing our culture.

  • it's called being P.C. these days and softening things up.  No more elmer and bugs, everyone gets a trophy, we don't keep score etc. we are killing our culture slowly

  • wow i didn't grow up with this version of the count lol. he was always my favorite character on the show.

  • Shows were way better back then.

  • Today's number is "40" for Sesame Street turning 40.

  • I LOVED the Count when I was little. He should've had his own show.

  • i remember seeing a rerun of this sometime in the early 90s

  • The count used to scare me too when I was little. I think if is hilarious now! I guess a lot of other kids were afraid too because the count got quite tame after this.

  • The count of today looks like he's had a makeover .. he looks cleaned up .. haha! but he is still my favourite character .. so many years later he is still my favourite ..its that laugh .. the only difference with sesame st nowadays is that it no longer has the humour that it used to have ..which is why the 70s and 80s episodes can be enjoyed by all ..

  • I love how the bats are all spazzing out in the background.

  • Some1s at the door...i better answer it. HAHA

  • nutcase :)

  • lol i think the count has to much time on his hands....

  • Correct me if I'm wrong, but is a vampire a type of monster or undead human?

  • OMG this scene has haunted me since i ws 4

  • What a creepy fucker, I wish I could get an orgasim from counting too...

  • This counting bum was up to his purple beek in asses, the dames loved this creepy prick! That blue dude is a wise ass. Greetings! Vonderful!!

  • he was always my fave character and i still love him

  • His door had an evil laugh, even! o_o

  • i love the count so much!

    he totaly seems like a rapist in this video tho hahahaha

  • very enthusiastic towards counting, eh?

  • "You've got birds in here fella . . ." - hilarious.

  • i dont remeber the count being that scary

  • Why does his voice remind me of ALF?

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  • Well, isn't this a true masterpice?? The music, the count's lair with all those wonderful bats, the mailman and his sarcastic dialogues... and the pile of letters, some of them even via air mail...

    Wonderful Ha Ha Ha (Thunder)

    By the way, he was indeed scary because he was freaking NUTS!!! XD

  • I love it :D

  • ok every single muppet scared me as a kid. all of them.

  • this was pretty scary... o.O

    ow and sunnyblonde, I think i´m gonna be afraid of him coming down my stairs too O_O!

  • the count is acts like a pimp

  • Whahaha.

  • ONE..! Derful!

  • the spooky,scary.'evil' count is much cooler than the wussy count of a few years later......

  • Totally in agreement!!!

  • Definitely. The original count was the man! So much better when he was more dark and evil. Cookie Monster was the shit too..

  • Count: Today's number is number 12!

  • the count kind of scared me when I was a kid.

  • This isn't scary at all, but Pee Wee's playhouse is probably one of the scariest children's shows I've ever seen

  • Yeah, what about Mr Rodgers!

  • @LadTheViking I agree..Larry Fishbournes jheri curl still gives me nightmares...

  • I wonder what it'd be like if the Scooby-Doo gang ever came across Count von Count? I know for sure Count von Count would be the "creepy suspect" that turns out to be real and innocent, but there would also be a fake monster that would be the criminal.

  • oscar has allways hated the count. I amagin he would wan't to git him in trubal.

  • I couldn't agree with you more about the Count being scarier in 1972 than he is today! This was one scary video! YIKES!

  • but that was the idea right? i mean when i was a kid i loved this kind of things because they were showed as good things rather being bad and such i mean life has both sides the creepy and softy, so teaching kids that the dark things were good too was a nice thing to do.

  • I couldn't agree with you more about the count being a lot scarier in 1972 than today! I saw this skit for the first time in 1974 when I was 3 years old. I was watching SS downstairs, while my mom was upstairs cleaning, paying bills etc and after seeing that video, I always feared of the count coming down the stairs in my house to scare me away! YIKES!

  • I had a Count doll in the late seventies at about that age and it scared the crap out of me, because it sat at the top of the stairs, being a creep. I made my mom throw it out, but she only pretended to. I haven't ever really forgiven her. . .

  • I couldn't agree with you more about the count being a lot scarier in 1972 than today! This video scared the crap out of me ! YIKES!

  • LMfao....

  • This has the seventies written all over it.

  • yes, if it appears BETTER, you know it's from the 70's. Like everything else

  • Nah! the 90's rock! I was born in 86 so i got to remember everything from the early 90's and and also the late 90's.

  • @NikhoZ

    i agree i was born in 87

    the shows back then was way better then tv is nowadays.

  • He scares the shit out of me!!! Well... maybe not :P

    Thanks a lot for sharing!

  • The Count is my kind of guy <3

  • The Count certainly had all kinds of letters to count.

  • Mailman: Wow, you must have a lot of friends..."

    Count: No, I have no friends.

    I love Count.

    hahahahahahahahhah

  • I love the voice Jim Henson gives the mailman. So spot on!

  • By that I mean very funny.

  • Are you kidding? He sound JUST LIKE the mailman!

  • I love the voice of the Count :P

  • Kid's shows were so much better then than they are now.

  • rofl :P

  • mailman: "you got bats here fella what are you a bird watcher or something" Bats are birds huhhhhh...

  • It's funny how "The Count" said from 2:07-2:09 that he doesn't have any friends when on other skits he talks to a lot of people, muppets, and monsters and has great conversations with them like they're all his friends. Unless, "The Count" is still brand new at this time to Sesame Street where he is still trying getting to know people, muppets, and monsters. So maybe he didn't quite make a friend yet at this time which could be the reason why he said from 2:07-2:09 that he doesn't have friends

  • The Count : no children not now, no children!

    i'm not going to read them, i'm goind to count them... HAHAHAHAHA

  • EPIC!! The Count's best showing ever.

  • HA-HA-HA-HA-HA !!!!!!

  • Weird...

  • love de count ah ah ah ah ah

  • Love the count! I love his attachment to his bats!

  • he even calls the bats his children

  • "Oh, I'm not going to read them. I am going to count them!"

    "Oh yeah, well, sure. Well, have fun."

    XD

  • oh my god! yes ahahahah

  • Yeah, I had a bad dream about the count when I was little. I wasn't scared of him after that, or anything, though.

  • omfg my parents let me watch this????? the count is scarry here!

  • You are so right..... *gulp*

  • this was my favorite character of Sesame Street

  • "You have bats in here."

    "Yes, aren't they darling?"

    Haa ha ha ha ha ha ha (thunder)!

    :)

  • That's actually kinda creepy... and our parents let us watch that?

  • I agree. It was very scary. It's also very strange that "The Count" is a vampire but, he usually doesn't act like one but here, he is acting like a vampire, (probably the only skit where he acts like a vampire). At 0:56, he said "greetings" like a vampire when he usually doesn't talk like that or say "greetings." Usually he would say "hello" and talk fast like a human would. Instead here on this skit, he talks like a vampire would. Plus at the end, his laugh was just like a vampire laugh.

  • I've seen a few later 1980s/1990s-era skits where he addresses people with "Greetings" as well. Also, note that even though he enjoys sunlight, does not drink blood and cannot turn into a bat, he still has NO reflection, like a vampire would!

  • Yes. I know that there is another skit where "The Count" first appeared on Sesame Street which was the skit where he met Cookie Monster for the first time. (That was also the first skit "The Count" was on). In that skit, "The Count" did say "Greetings" to the audience but, he said it a little faster and not like a vampire. However, his laugh at the end of the skit sounded like a vampire laugh, and as he walked away off screen, he put his cape on his face and zoomed away like a vampire.

  • afriendofbean: Well, Count Von Count has arithnomania--an obessive love of counting--which is based in true vampire mythos. As well, his laugh, cape-around-face walk, and and manner of speaking are all derived from Bela L. acting as that other famous Count...Count Dracula.

  • You wasted ALOT of stamps there, Count! (Luckily in 1972, the stamps were MUCH cheaper!)

  • Jesus, he was freaky in the seventies. 0_0

  • This is before he started saying it "sewen" and "elewen".

  • AHHHH!! THE COUNT is pimp! HE IS MY HERO!! "No chilldrren, not now. Later!"

  • he's my idol!

  • I grew in the philippines with sesame street where i learned probably my basics in english. i remember not wanting to get up from bed because i was so scared count might be by my bedroom door.

  • One thing make me wonder...is he from Romania-country of vampires hahaha

  • I think he is. There was a song about it.

  • ah ah ah ah, counts da best i used 2 luv him as a kid, still do hes awesome =P

  • Oh man, crazy Count! What are we going to do with him?! Someone lock him up! ah ah ah.

  • I love Count!! Ah Ah Ah !! Sesame St is not shown in Holland, I can only see online here

  • Of course it's shown in holland, the original is just waaaaaaay better

  • The greatest team ever would be Bela and the Count. Shame they never got to work together

  • "You are a terrible mirror! No reflection on you, of course."

    Oh, I love that!

  • Glorious! I love The Count!

  • Wow, he must have OCD!

    (I have; I'm allowed to make light of it!)

  • "No children, not now! Later!"

    <333 Oh, Count!

  • now im realisig,that the count is kind of scary.

    when i was younger,i wasnt afrait of the count

  • i always love the count. i dont know why i just was not scared of him tha ti remember. i especially loved the way he moved and called the bats his pets and children. love the count. him and kermit rule

  • my god, ive got this epsiode on tape somewhere! havent seen it in years!

    brilliant! lol

  • A consler sugesded counting as a tharepy to git over his blood sucking urges. That was a mistake.

  • When I was a little girl, the first time I heard that laugh at the end I ran out of the room screaming. Seriously, some parts of the show freaked me out as a kid for no reason, LOL

  • "why would u want to read a bunch of letters you wrote to yourself"? "No I am not going to read them, I am going to count them" Hahahaha !!!!! so funny lol!!!!

  • hahaha, I was thinking, "Damn...this dude gets alot of mail." until he said he wrote them himself.

  • Poor Count...He was the first Vampire i heard of^^

  • I love the older version because hes more scarier, and he looks more real.

    Poor Count...He most be lonely...

  • The Count has always been my favourite Semase Street character. :)

  • I used to scream "NO SHARPS!" (his teeth) and cry when the count came on. Skeeerryyy!!!

  • Because I love to count.....things. LOOOL

  • this guy would tripp me out.

    when i was like 5

  • Hmm... I'm starting to realize just how frightening The Count is. Not because of his vampirism (which we never see), but because he's freakin' NUTS. O_O

  • 'Ah, you are a terrible mirror! No reflection on you, of course.'

    Excellent start!

  • Bird Watcher...? LOL

  • "I wrote them myself"

    "I am going to count them, I am going to count them!"

    LMAO!

  • "I am the count. Dou u know why they call me the count? Because I love to count things.

    "Wll, I am the mailman. You know why they call me the mailman? Cos I carry your mail, DICKHEAD!"

    This dialogue is great in its irony! Could be from a Tarantino movie!

  • It's so funny that the count was all "I wrote these letters myself... I am not going to read them though... I am going... to COUNT them." Honestly, I don't know quite how the nice people in the white jumpsuits missed the guy.

  • 1 coconut, 2 coconut, 3 coconut! muahahahaha!

    epic

  • god i just love the count!

  • the counts a WIERDO!

  • the Count is awesome!

  • he's my idol!

  • I LOVE THIS!!! Totally my personality, omg. The count and Grover were alway me favorits of sesame street.

  • i wish the new sesame street still had good skits with a creepy count, super grover, waiter grover and those classic ernie and bert skits. they were awesome!!

  • The mailman is kind of in Johnathan Harker's position. Luckily this is a childrens' show...

    Still, does anyone think it's odd that the Count is a 15th century Eastern European aristocrat who lives in an ancient, ruined castle, even though Sesame Street takes place in the the City of New York

  • holy talk about over analyzing

  • Of course he teleported his Romanian castle using magic!

  • Classic - brings me back.

  • He'd probably count higher than 12, but I'd imagine he didn't want to get too high for kids who are just learning to talk, let alone count.

  • vonderful! The count is awesomely obsessive compulsive!

  • -And do u know why they call me the mailman? Because I have your mail here! Hah?

    -Wonderful!

  • it's always better when the bats are about!

  • nice. I love the count and cookie mnster

  • Wow, 12 is the highest number I've seen him get to.. Just, wow.

  • I just love the way he laughs ... ah ah ah...lol

  • I love the old count :D

    He and the cookie monster are so extremly, totally and utterly awesome.

  • thats what gets me off. Acid and counting

  • thats right, teach kids to open the door to people you don't know and let them across the threshhold of your house.

  • Are you serious? Parents should teach their kids cartoons/puppets? aren't real and should teach them not to answer the door, if the parents let the kids learn from this crap then that's bad parenting, not the tv show's fault.

  • I love how people think that kids are so stupid that if they see a person on television (and an adult character, mind you) open the door and let someone into their house that children will immediately try to do the same thing.

    Are you suggesting that children should never be allowed to see someone answer the door on television? Seriously, answer that question. And why do people assume that young children are complete morons? Because they're not.

  • TheTatter: If children weren't morons, then they wouldn't buy into the corporate drivel being put in front of them (i.e. wouldn't demand glory-hogging Elmo be on the last 15 minutes of the show). But, because they do and because parents encourage it, things will continue to spiral down until entertainment crumbles or until people wise up, whichever comes first.

  • TherealRNO: Are you suggesting that Sesame Street is corporate drivel? I mean really...this isn't the Disney channel we're talking about, it's frigging Sesame Street. I mean, I don't really like Elmo either, but I don't see how the leader in non-profit childrens educational television amounts to corporate anything...

  • He's barking mad... lmao..

  • haha type in "count the fcc violations" its freaking hilarious!!!

  • *L* No children, not now. Beat it! *l* Oh, I'll be your friend, Count!

  • Haha, legendary.

  • hahahaha i freakin love his laugh and the way he talks

  • OH MY GOSH.

    No reflection in the mirror...but no kid would have known that was a vampire joke! If I were that mailman, I'd have been running scared at the first creak of the door!

  • I love his laugh!

  • The Count is just hilarious, and this skit is a perfect example. I love the kick he gets out of counting the letters.

  • The Count could be the best supervisor the post office ever had. After all, he probably counted the letters as he wrote them in the first place, so he can tell how many the PO lost! LOL!

  • gosh the count's so much cooler then than he is now. bar none

  • It's a bloody shame what they did to him now. They might as well have yanked out his fangs!

    Balloons and confetti, how sad and demoralizing can you get?

  • I appriciate the Count so much more than I ever did as a kid. Does anyone remember the one where he counts the candles he puts out and he steps on his cat and tells his wolf to go outside?

  • I vaguely remember that one, it's been around 30 years or so since I've seen the good Count skits.

  • Okay, three of my favorite Sesame Street characters: Grover, Cookie Monster, and, you got it, the Count.