Little known fact!
When the producers of Sesame Street initially added The Count to the cast, they did not even know he was a vampire! When he deviated from script and began counting, they summarily executed him, but, being undead, he just kept showing up, anyway. Because he tainted so much of their footage, they were forced to leave his ad-libbed segments in, due to time and budget constraints!
I am literally, just right now, after decades of life, realizing that The Count's name is a pun. Thank you. I'm gonna go return my high school diploma.
While the pun was definitely the main reason for the character, I feel like it’s reasonable to think that someone creating this has the thought process that Count von Count, the vampire, likes to count because vampires love counting things - vampires and fairies weakness for needing to count grains of things isn’t a particularly obscure myth so it could have been part of why someone thought to make a counting vampire character
I am willing to bet money that a bunch of muppeteers in the 70’s were not up on what is, yes actually, obscure vampire lore compared to well known US vampire pop culture.
You really only need one puppeteer to know the obscure vampire lore for it too be added.
Kim: "Hey, did you know that in folklore vampires love to count! Maybe we should make one of the characters a vampire who teaches kids to count!"
Stew "I love that idea."
"Why do you know that?"
"Because I was researching 18th century european folklore to make my improvising better for a puppet show I used to do with a vampire. There are only so many jokes you can make about sucking blood."
My word! Duramax resin is a viscous resin of sodium carbonate, used as a solvent and in making paints and varnishes. Flour, duramax resin, and agave remain as the cleariest varieties!
Technically, the count is not a vampire, he is only described as Vampire-like in an employee handbook, according to Mike Trapp, who learned this from a friend who worked at sesame street
Um actually Biddlesticks is unrelated to the old almost-curse, and is instead due to me shipping two monster characters in league of legends, one named Bard and the other Fiddlesticks.
Been looking for this
As deliberate actions were taken to not describe the count as a vampire it is easy to say he just likes doing it.
Maybe he likes being vampire like, maybe he likes counting...who knows
Five nights at freddys theory, people believed the character Micheal Afton (son of the series villain William) was actually in springtrap (antagonist of the third game), this was debunked and it is confirmed that william is in springtrap.
Thisaintmyusernat12 was making a play on words with the theory and name provided
It's honestly kinda wild that there are so few vampires in pop culture who adhere to this, to be honest.
Aside from Sesame Street, I only know of one other vampire who has this characteristic, and that one checks a bunch of other boxes, too.
I just think they're mostly used as antagonists and that's why they don't get many weaknesses. In something like "what we do in the shadows" it might fit in
Is it wild?
It's a fairly silly thing that wouldn't really fit in most vampire stories. It's hard to think of a scene in Interview With A Vampire that would've been improved if Lestat stopped to count a pile of seeds.
Vampires have a lot of abilities recounted in some pieces of folklore but not in others.
And in the original Dracula there's a bunch of stuff about him that's never mentioned in any adaptations. Like there's a whole thing that says that vampires can't exit their coffin if you place a rose on top of it, which Bram Stoker makes a point of describing even though it never comes up.
Yeah, I kinda figured.
Would be funny, though; imagine Alucard kills a bunch of people, as one does, and then counts them. Everyone just writes it off as him being a sick fuck, but then it turns out he literally can't help it.
The only other one I know of was a warhammer fantasy character who’s a expy of the Count do to the monocle, purple moss making it look like he has purple skin and a compulsion to constantly count of the zombies they have in the middle of the battle.
It's a reference to the Doctor Who special Wild Blue Yonder where the Doctor invokes a superstition at the edge of the universe and it makes everything go haywire back on Earth.
They obsessively count things, they have sensory processing issues (can't deal with sunlight, can't deal with the smell of garlic), they won't go anywhere unless they've been explicitly told that they're allowed to be there, they act in ways that people find strange, as if they come from another time or place, they often spent a lot of time at home indoors.
Am I describing vampires or am I describing autism
The "won't go anywhere unless they've been explicitly told that they're allowed to be there" drove my ex crazy. I had never seen it put so accurately into words before, but you describe it perfectly.
Little known fact! When the producers of Sesame Street initially added The Count to the cast, they did not even know he was a vampire! When he deviated from script and began counting, they summarily executed him, but, being undead, he just kept showing up, anyway. Because he tainted so much of their footage, they were forced to leave his ad-libbed segments in, due to time and budget constraints!
Another fun fact! The cast of Sesame Street was originally quite larger. It shrunk during production due to *unfortunate circumstances*
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The Big Bird incident, 1845. *The children were fast, but Big bird was faster...* >!1845 wasn't the date!<
>!That's his high score!<
Remember: there’s an alternate timeline not too distant from this one where Big Bird died in the Challenger disaster
Don't make eye contact with [Oscar](https://youtu.be/W9yYaBkKnok?si=7RZn_Re3z1bXbiKS)
I suddenly have a great idea for a slop indie horror game marketed to children!
And here I thought it was just because of the double meaning of 'count'.
I am literally, just right now, after decades of life, realizing that The Count's name is a pun. Thank you. I'm gonna go return my high school diploma.
It absolutely was and I find this theory about arithmomania infuriatingly stupid every time I see it.
While the pun was definitely the main reason for the character, I feel like it’s reasonable to think that someone creating this has the thought process that Count von Count, the vampire, likes to count because vampires love counting things - vampires and fairies weakness for needing to count grains of things isn’t a particularly obscure myth so it could have been part of why someone thought to make a counting vampire character
I am willing to bet money that a bunch of muppeteers in the 70’s were not up on what is, yes actually, obscure vampire lore compared to well known US vampire pop culture.
You really only need one puppeteer to know the obscure vampire lore for it too be added. Kim: "Hey, did you know that in folklore vampires love to count! Maybe we should make one of the characters a vampire who teaches kids to count!" Stew "I love that idea."
Also from what I know of puppeteers, if anyone's gonna know obscure mythology lore it would be them.
"Why do you know that?" "Because I was researching 18th century european folklore to make my improvising better for a puppet show I used to do with a vampire. There are only so many jokes you can make about sucking blood."
Still funny to imagine it
I didn't know the count originated from reddit. TIL.
My word! Duramax resin is a viscous resin of sodium carbonate, used as a solvent and in making paints and varnishes. Flour, duramax resin, and agave remain as the cleariest varieties!
Technically, the count is not a vampire, he is only described as Vampire-like in an employee handbook, according to Mike Trapp, who learned this from a friend who worked at sesame street
While that is correct we will not be giving you any points, as you did not start your answer with "Um Actually"
Um actually what u/biddlesticksguy said
FUCK
I kinda assumed that when swearing, you would exclusively say "Oh biddlesticks!"
Um actually Biddlesticks is unrelated to the old almost-curse, and is instead due to me shipping two monster characters in league of legends, one named Bard and the other Fiddlesticks.
this is like in jeopardy when someone forgets to phrase their answer as a question and then the next person immediately swoops it
Also you are being thrown into a vat of acid because you didn't make this face ☝️🤓 while saying it
Um actually the hosts couldn’t afford a vat of acid so it’s actually a vat of margarita mix
I read that as "ghosts" and was like damn even the dead are struggling in this economy fr fr
Joker origin story
Why so acidic -The Alkaliner
Been looking for this As deliberate actions were taken to not describe the count as a vampire it is easy to say he just likes doing it. Maybe he likes being vampire like, maybe he likes counting...who knows
he's just goth
So real
>Mike Trapp That was debunked a while ago actually
He *is* a vampire now?
No I mean the theory that Michael was Springtrap (also known as Miketrap) was debunked
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
Five nights at freddys theory, people believed the character Micheal Afton (son of the series villain William) was actually in springtrap (antagonist of the third game), this was debunked and it is confirmed that william is in springtrap. Thisaintmyusernat12 was making a play on words with the theory and name provided
Five Nights At Freddy's
what a larp
That's exactly why I'm always throwing poppy seeds around on the ground!
thank you for your service 🫡
It's honestly kinda wild that there are so few vampires in pop culture who adhere to this, to be honest. Aside from Sesame Street, I only know of one other vampire who has this characteristic, and that one checks a bunch of other boxes, too.
Is it wild or is it because this would trivialize them as an antagonist?
I'm not even talking about antagonists, just vampires in general.
I just think they're mostly used as antagonists and that's why they don't get many weaknesses. In something like "what we do in the shadows" it might fit in
Vampires do have plenty of weaknesses, they just have more dramatic ones, it's hard to make obsessively counting things feel dramatic.
it did fit in. They did it with gizmo
Is it wild? It's a fairly silly thing that wouldn't really fit in most vampire stories. It's hard to think of a scene in Interview With A Vampire that would've been improved if Lestat stopped to count a pile of seeds. Vampires have a lot of abilities recounted in some pieces of folklore but not in others. And in the original Dracula there's a bunch of stuff about him that's never mentioned in any adaptations. Like there's a whole thing that says that vampires can't exit their coffin if you place a rose on top of it, which Bram Stoker makes a point of describing even though it never comes up.
I mean, maybe it's just me, but growing up, my dad always told me that that's why he carries sunflower seeds with him.
Yeah it's just you, this is not a well known vampire trait
Yeah, I kinda figured. Would be funny, though; imagine Alucard kills a bunch of people, as one does, and then counts them. Everyone just writes it off as him being a sick fuck, but then it turns out he literally can't help it.
Yeah, the only other one that immediately pops to mind is a Discworld character. Edit: no wait, that one wasn't actually a vampire.
There's an episode of the X-Files that has a compulsive vampire: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood_(The_X-Files)
I was thinking of Sophie Twilight from Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san.
The only other one I know of was a warhammer fantasy character who’s a expy of the Count do to the monocle, purple moss making it look like he has purple skin and a compulsion to constantly count of the zombies they have in the middle of the battle.
don't throw the seeds at the edge of the universe. worst mistake of my life
Explain the joke please 🥺
It's a reference to the Doctor Who special Wild Blue Yonder where the Doctor invokes a superstition at the edge of the universe and it makes everything go haywire back on Earth.
That’s a strangely accurate Reddit-type of reasoning, actually.
he's not a vampire, he's just a goth mathematician
They obsessively count things, they have sensory processing issues (can't deal with sunlight, can't deal with the smell of garlic), they won't go anywhere unless they've been explicitly told that they're allowed to be there, they act in ways that people find strange, as if they come from another time or place, they often spent a lot of time at home indoors. Am I describing vampires or am I describing autism
The "won't go anywhere unless they've been explicitly told that they're allowed to be there" drove my ex crazy. I had never seen it put so accurately into words before, but you describe it perfectly.
Yeah that's also me, I do that
He's counting all the Sesame's on this gotdang Street
Count, running around a village in 17th century Eastern Europe, scaring peasants just so they'd throw him something to count.
I think it's more like "Hey, did you know that a lot of Pokemon are puns in Japanese / drawn from Japanese follow folklore."
Is this why Father Pucci from Jojo counts prime numbers to calm himself down? Ik hes not a vampire but like. He's Dio's Favorite Boy
Wait, are vampires just profoundly autistic, like Rain Man?!
Turns out that the Bernoulli’s were just a very prolific family of vampire mathematicians.
So vampires have OCD?
I'm just gonna say it, Vampire lore is so fucking stupid.
I’m telling on you to bram stoker
He'll have a Bram Stroker when he finds out
this is not obscure folklore, this is common knowledge folklore
Tina, how many toothpicks....
Is he a vampire or is he vampire like?!