Editing Count von Count (section)

==Description and personality==
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The Count's main role is to teach [[counting]] skills to children.<ref>Coffey, Jerry (October 6, 1972). "[https://www.newspapers.com/image/632901431/ New Faces Coming to 'Sesame Street']". ''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{{nbs}}... things".{{Notetag|During the first several years of The Count's incarnation in the 1970s, it was "Greetings! I am The Count. Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count!"}} The Count loves counting so much that he will often [[arithmomania|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, [[thunderstorm]]s 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, disturbing others, 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 (radio programme)|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 [[square number|perfect square]], 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>

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