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Count von Count, often known simply as "the Count" or "Count Count", is one of the Muppet characters on ''Sesame Street''. The Count is a vampire modeled after Bela Lugosi's interpretation of Count Dracula. ==Description== The Count's main purpose is to educate children about simple mathematical concepts, most notably counting. The Count loves counting; he will count anything and everything, regardless of size, amount, or how much annoyance he is causing the other characters. For instance, he once prevented Ernie from answering a telephone because he wanted to continue counting the number of rings in Season 6. Another time, while serving as an elevator operator, he refused to let Kermit the Frog get out at his selected floor so he could count on every floor in the building. The Count is typically portrayed as friendly and cheerful, but he can lose his temper when someone interrupts his counting, or get sad when he has nothing around him to count. The Count lives in an old, cobweb-infested castle which he shares with many bats and a cat named Fatatita. He spent his childhood in the Carpathian Mountains.〔Lyrics of "The Batty Bat," first performed in Episode 2096.〕 His pet bats tend to have Slavic names, such as Grisha, Misha, Sasha, and Tatiana. He views the bats as his "children" and sometimes counts them. 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, designed to look like a bat. The Count has been shown with a number of girlfriends, who tend to be vampire Countesses. These include Countess von Backwards (debuting in Sesame Street's 28th season) who counts backwards; Countess Dahling von Dahling (debuted in the 12th season); and one simply named "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. 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. The Count mentions 2:30 at any chance he can get and often makes jokes about it. This number may represent an inside joke ("Tooth Hurty"). During the afternoon, his segments of the show always come on at exactly 2:30 p.m. or during the "fashionably late" segment, which airs at 2:31. The Count's signature song is "Eight is Great" ("You can hold it this way, you can hold it that way, it is still 8"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Count von Count」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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