Classic Sesame Street - The Count goes shopping

[Hakarfox]

This is what I want to do when I'm old.

[VAPX007]

An excellant example of an obsessive compulsive vampire!

[liquidoxygen0]

Brilliant. Just brilliant!

[RudyDaily]

I love how the grocer sounds like he's really terrorizing her. "Mario! That guy who always counts the potatoes was just here again!"

[PapagenoJuan2]

Classic :))

[spiderlime]

he is a vampire yet people comment more about his counting fixation...uncanny.

[JasonMC72]

Counting is not a crime! The count did the merchants a favor by counting their inventories and now each vendor knows how many items are in their sales stocks.

[sikazsalem]

i just fookin love this

[AoiShiroyama]

Yah...!

Classic Sesame Street was the best!

I really love remembering those days when I was a kid , watching Sesame Street.

This was really educating AND entertaining!! :D

I still love the Count! :3

[Garrettk41]

I think the newsstand person is Fran Brill. A similar setting to this one was used in the song "In My Neighborhood", as were some of the Muppets. Plus those songs appeared back to back on the "People in Your Neighborhood" album. Does anyone have an English copy of "In My Neighborhood"?

[wookie72]

The Count's crippling struggle with OCD was sadly always played for laughs.

[tuncvidinli]

You know I like to go shopping, but I love counting so much it's very hard to get any shopping done.

[shandamoon]

Hahaha, almost 40 years later and it still cracks me up when they all go berserk at the end. What can they do, the Count is just that catchy.

[Caortannach]

One umbrella, two umbrellas, three umbrellas, four...GO GO, COUNT VON COUNT!!;DD

[manyvideoinerests]

Oh, this was the one that I thought was with the one that was edited out. I think these were on the same tape where he talks about the thingshe likes to count.

[elfgirl931]

omg this brings back childhood memories!!! i had this cassette tape when i was a little kid and listened to it all the time... this was my favorite song!!!

[ncfwhitetigress]

count is so cute in this clip XDDDDDDDDD

[kingsize127]

he's gone insane!

[HxCn00b666]

lmao the ending is AMAZING!

[XxChaosDemonChildxX]

lmao i have never heard this one before! Lol I love all of The Count's music XD there so very interesting and hypnotic! XD thank you very much for sharing this with us!

[SageOfDarkness13]

I work in a small store, and it would be great if someone came in, broke into song, and began counting our stock. :) The song makes or breaks it, but it would be hilarious to see in real life.

[lilacpilgrim13]

Agreed; I'd be more than happy to join in =D

[Greeenfairy]

Please, please, people, just look at the cop at the end.. when he dances along...XD XD XD

The funniest thing EVER!!!

[ChrisTheSpiritOfGods]

yee i lold so much a the bet sooo funnnny:)

[crimsonchaos5]

what a miraculous mathematician

[FranThePan]

This is absolutely amazing! The Count is truly brilliant.

[Hawkeyes125]

You gotta luv the Count..bloa bloa! Way to go Vlad!

[brightbite]

They ought to just give him a job in retail. LOL

[JasonMC72]

@brightbite Isn't that the truth?

[muertodelsusto]

larga vida al conde!!!

[Navahinueve]

I LOVE THIS!

[joslynandy]

why dos the base of the music chang when the salsmas talks.

[stckytree]

everyday that man comes and counts my newspapers............it's enough to make a person angry

[MoonPhantom]

pretty incredible that this music is way better then most Disney sequels (Just to have some eksample)

And it is really funny. and am finding myself shaking my head in rhyme to the music. and smile even though my day up to now was pretty bad. But now I am just sitting with a big childish smile. Love the count

[parabolamaster]

the count has obsessive compulsive disorder

ah ah ah ah ah ah

[Zoldor]

I'm slightly obsessed with the Count. I find myself wondering what he'd do in various situations. (Can you picture him counting threads at a fabric mill? How about counting lice on schoolchildrens' heads? And just what in the world would he count in a whorehouse?)

[bub21us]

i believe the umbrella guy is richard hunt.

[Scythemantis]

In what third-world hellhole do the cops tail you just for counting things?!

[CountOrlokMS]

What does it mean that the audio is from an LP?A Let's Play (I know I'm ridiculous,but I don't understand so I ask!Is there something wrong with that?)

[FranBMan]

An LP is just a record.

[yamihoole]

An LP is short for Long Player record

[54spiritedwill54]

I've heard that too. Sounds like a good vampire trap to me.

[triviaer]

Anybody know who voices the newsstand lady, and whom was the original voice for the umbrella salesman because of the audio track for him? I believe that Kathy Mullen does the grocer and obviously the Count was Jerry Nelson.

[puchifox]

the umbrella salesman is the greatest FRANK OZ¡¡¡¡...

[Garrettk41]

No, no, the umbrella man is Richard Hunt.

[puchifox]

your totally right¡¡¡...my mistake¡¡¡

[triviaer]

No, what I meant to say was who voiced the umbrella salesman when this clip first appeared on television because of Richard Hunt's voice in the audio?

[lorena7318]

miralo, yu inglish spik inglish is guanderfull! jajajaja

NUESTROS TIEMPOS?

[lorena7318]

jajajaja, o mejor debiera reirme asi.. lol

[puchifox]

jajajajaja...estas contestaciones tuyas no las habia leido...jajajajajajaja¡¡¡...me moria de la risa... o mejor dicho: de la riseichion¡¡¡...es que me encanta plaza sesamo pero no encuentro nada en "españoleichon"...no me negaras que el Conde Contar era la pura ondeichon¡¡¡..."lol"

[javierortiz82]

I love the count, in fact nowadays I'm a math teacher, and the loving for numbers started influenced by him.

[TheStapleGunKid]

I didn't know the cops were interested in people who go into stores and count things.

[DeathDragon4000]

*loves this*

[DeathDragon4000]

the count got nicked! xD

[LegendarySuperMario]

What were they thinking back then?!? How are these little kids going to count to 125 potatoes?!? This is one of the best Count songs ever and I just made this into a mp3 5 minutes ago! I'm so happy! 5/5 from me and favored!

[lalldaffer]

Oh my goodness! I love this song! Do you have it as a audio file?

[MarioGirl03]

1 potato 2 potatoes 3 potatoes 4! 5 potatoes 6 potatoes 7 potatoes more! 8 potatoes nine potatoes EVEN more than TEN! I MUST COUNT ALL THE POTATOES AND I'LL COUNT THEM ALL AGAIN!

:D

[benshawtraining]

I love this clip, so does my two year old.

"Thank you wery much, I'll be back later. Goodbye."

[triviaer]

I believe that Kathryn Mullen voices the grocer, and I could be wrong in saying that Camille Bonora supplies the voice for the newslady.

[Garrettk41]

I think you are. I don't believe Camille was with the Muppets at the time.

[cutebasoma]

thats is veeeeeeeery funny,he is so kind and nice to be a vampire...lol

i think his accent sounds like arabian more,kind a vamparian accent though..hehehe

and i do like the batty bat clip too..he is hilarious

[madmaxninja]

The Count is not Arabic or even sounds Arabic. The Count is Romanian.

[dorourke105]

Actually according to Count Blah on Greg the Bunny he said Count was italian.

[TheMadLiteralist]

You could probably hack together a transition with a fade to make the missing beginning less noticeable. There's a decent transition point where the video is available

[Hikari0709]

The count is awesome

[Garrettk41]

Does Kathryn Mullen voice the grocer or the newslady? And who voices whichever is not Kathryn?

[triviaer]

I believe that Kathryn Mullen voices the grocer, and I could be wrong about this in saying that Camille Bonora supplies the voice for the newslady.

[Mariomarinette]

i like the way how he walks at 00:26 :D

[Mariomarinette]

yay that was fun!

[32888999]

Where is his accent from?

Arabian?

Spanish??

[startrek12156]

It's supposed to be Romanian.

[linzoy]

Transylvanian

[CALABAZADECHOCOLATE]

JAJAJAJA buenisimo este tipo, one potato, two potato XD no mas faltaron los rayos XD

[zilliebob]

HAHAHAHHAHA I love the Ending when the cop dances along OMG

[NijenK99]

oh man, this guy can make a Klezmer song out of anything! The Count friggin' rocks!!!

[yobitch678]

the fuching count is soooo epiccccc

[richiefirefly]

Ahhhh the count I wish I had his dedication I hated maths at school....I prefered words. God bless you count!!

[Stepneydude]

I feel the urge to go down to my local market and annoy everyone in sight by singing this song. God I love the Count!

[startrek12156]

But anyway, doesn't anybody ever wonder if Jerry Nelson gets tired of counting?

Or perhaps he counts everything, all the time, just because it's become a habit? I dunno, just a thought.

[startrek12156]

Wegetables. xD

[Mikeypcfc]

genious

[DerBenne21]

What's the name of the song or where can I get music like that? It's fun!!

[lordjesq]

The genre is called klezmer. It's an Eastern European musical style that is popular in Jewish culture even today.

[UltrasonicMailman]

I'd hate to be one of those street vendors.

[elegantblackcat]

There was an old Romanian legend that if you put a pile of rice or grain outside the tomb of a vampire, he would have to stop and count each one before he could move on. I am betting Jim Henson knew that legend...

[HigherPlanes]

Where did you hear about this legend?

[joeboy68]

I've heard that too. Sounds like a good vampire trap to me.

[wattamack4]

This kind of sounds like "Bones(Inside Of You).

[Minfire]

It kind of does, but don't be so sure about that.

[Flamefire]

Can anyone link me to a website to download this song XD

[Garrettk41]

Boy. The Count's obsession with counting is even worse that Cookie Monster's with eating. By the way, how come the sound always falters whenever the umbrella salesman says something?

[wookie72]

By a bizarre coincidence, there are legends of vampires having to obsessively count things.... there was an X-FIles in which Mulder thwarted a vampire by throwing seeds on the ground that the vampire had to stop and count.

[thelittlearmadillo]

oi the count is the best *hehe but what's the name of the lp you got it from ?

[Minfire]

How did you put the LP version and the clip of this song together? That is soooo clever! =-)

[misscherrywhiplash]

God bless you Jim Henson!!

[auburn4wins]

I had the tape with this song! My Dad still talks about a time when my family and I were riding home in the car. My mother and brother passed out, and I put the tape in, and laughed hysterically! My Dad joined in, and before too long, he sang the song over and over again to himself! It remains a precious memory! Thanks for posting this!

[sjl62]

He's like a drug addict . . . except for counting.

[StaceSesame]

lol!

[TheSnabelmaster]

Oh, I hope he one day will count mighty elephants:d

[xThexRealxLiesx]

My sister is going berserk because I keep blaring the potato part over and OVER again. Just one through ten though. Haha.

ONE POTATOE TWO POTATOES THREE POTATOES FOUR FIVE POTATOES SIX POTATOES SEVEN POTATOES MORE! EIGHT POTATOES NINE POTATOES EVEN MORE THAN TEN! OH LET ME COUNT THE POTATOES OVER AND OVER AGAIN!

[citarasa]

The Count goes

A

Counting Spree..

Mua Ha Ha (;

[Mobee211]

HA! I remember this! The count used to scare me as a little kid.

[mdumas43073]

That policeman looks a little like Judd Hirsch.

[Vasquetz]

LMAO Hilarious! I love this song, and the Count xD

[kataankoryu]

Hehehe... Gods, I love Muppets....

[erbland2006]

Love this song!

[marbuse321]

I just love this video, especially the faces they are making...Thanks for posting it :-)

[efil4own1]

I think Kathryn Mullen was performing the grocer...look for the "Mokey Fraggle slow burn" the first time the Count starts counting the potatoes.

[Paiot]

LOL.. looks like the cop is raping the count at 3:15 LOL

[lovewithacapitalL]

Isn't the Count usually purple? Maybe he's just pale because he hasn't counted recently. I don't blame him. xP

This is the best!

[benhasic]

I love this song so much. I want to download it somewhere so i can listen to it forever!

[erbland2006]

Another brilliant song by The Count- thanks for posting this video!

[Nabo1zii]

Hahahaa so funny :D

[aybikeonur]

hah! the end is hilarious with all the puppets going crazyy

[beebooba]

LOL.

"Do you have some nice potatoes!". XD

[austinmuppet]

Was the cop's name different in the audio track? I could've sworn that the first woman called him Mario and the umbrella salesman called him Maurice.

[PaulDrapac]

His laugh was like Lew Zealand before he started to count the newspapers.

[austinmuppet]

Whoa, it really does sound ike Lew, doesn't it? XD

[b3d]

Who were the other muppets preformed by in this sketch?

[PaulDrapac]

This I remember from the album 'The People In Your Neighborhood' Although on the album Jeff Moss voices the Salesman, here it's Richard Hunt.

[culpit]

Have you noticed how the cops on Sesame Street always seem to stop what they're doing and dance whenever someone sings, like in the Born to Add skit? That could be a problem if criminal organizations learn those cops' weakness and just start singing and playing music so they can escape the law.

[jbl1975]

He but why should the law step in when all someone is doing is counting? Must be the Florida cops.

[jrdubeau]

idaho cops too

[JacQiiee]

That's funny ^^

[ISNorden]

One, two, three, four, five--five stars for this classic in the rough! Ah-ah-ah!

[efil4own1]

I've also heard that "The Muppet Show"'s Floyd Pepper has a tendency to get like this when he smokes too much pot.

[glowworm2]

Wow! I never realized how Jewish the Count seemed. Must be the Klezmer sounding music.The Count has an obsessive compulisive disorder for sure.

[ISNorden]

Considering how important numbers are in Judaism (especially some mystic sects), it wouldn't surprise me.

[rebeccatrishel]

No, counting is part of the vampire myth. Vampires are supposed to be compulsive counters, so they can be stopped in their tracks by throwing a lot of rice or corn at them. They'll stop and count all the grains.

[ISNorden]

I've heard of that weakness myself, even though Sesame Street seems to be the only place it's mentioned in modern pop culture.

[rebeccatrishel]

It was used in a vampire X-Files episode - Mulder threw his sunflower seeds at a vampire and she stopped chasing him.

[brick4sale]

Like in Pi!

[bennyraven]

Yay! I heard that song on Muppet Radio once, but never thought I'd see it!

[disneynut06]

Speaking of Muppet Central Radio, the version of this song that I heard on that station had Noel "Bear" MacNeal voicing the umbrella salesman instead of Richard Hunt.

[americanaccents]

Oh...when he noticed it was gonna rain, I thought the crackhead was gonna try and count the raindrops.

[jbl1975]

Well, there was the time when he counted the number of times lightning flashed.