Talk:Count von Count

message: Was the Count based off of David Bowie? There is a distinctive physical resemblence (especially the lazy eye), and their singing voices are similar as well. And Bowie was topping the charts when the Count made his debut... hmm. UndeniablyJordan 15:35, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Naah, can't be, as David Bowie is British and Sesame Street is a US show... Seriously though: this might just be a coincidence. Bowie was way up in the charts routinely since about the end of the 60s. If, on the other hand, you know some authoritative sources backing your supposition, this really should be in the article, together with the relevant citations.--GrafZahl 09:16, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  David Bowie 

message: why von and not of? I only ever heard of...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.155.79.172 (talk) 21:55, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  of vs von 

message: The following text was added by anon:
:* The count's only known active fanclub today is located in Jerusalem, Israel in the school of Leyada. The club has different activities such as counting and worshiping the count.
I'm deleting it from the article because the information is hard to verify. Especially that the fan club should be the only known active seems somewhat dubious to me. Nevertheless, if Count fan clubs are for real, it should get a mention, I think.--GrafZahl 08:44, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fan club 

message: That mental disorders paragraph (currently the second paragraph) has gotta' be bunk, if not vandalism.  Anyone want to source it?  If no one responds I'm gonna' delete it after a while.  --Mrcolj 22:43, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably more like Original Research, if anything.  It'd be interesting if a source could be found, though.  Powers 02:32, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mental Disorders sentence 

message: I am really not liking this picture. Would it really be that hard to get a screenshot of The Count, rather than a person dressed up as him with a fan. I'm not critising the photo, I just think one of him on Seasame Street would suit the article better.
I'll look for a screenshot and change the pic. Any objections? --Rachel Cakes 06:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously, this never happened. But I agree. Ideally we should have a pic of the actual puppet. I'm going to see if I can fix this. - It doesn't stick. (talk) 18:27, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Alright, I'm going to have to read-up on uploading pix to Wikipedia as I've not done that before. If it proves to be too big a PITA, I might take a pass on it for now, but upon looking at the current pic's details I see that it is incorrectly labeled as Public Domain (it isn't). Better we find something suitable for Fair use. --- It doesn't stick. (talk) 18:37, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I think Eric Jacobson should take over as Count, when Jerry leaves Sesame Street. Why ? Because I want him performing more than just Frank's characters (if you heard his Guy Smiley, i'm sure you'd agree). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.229.57.239 (talk • contribs) .
:If anything Matt Vogel should take over that character. -- 173.76.121.93 (talk) 21:38, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: And apparently, Matt Vogel did get the character!! He sounds exactly like Jerry Nelson!! -- 134.241.28.252 (talk) 15:00, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eric Jacobson as Count ?

message: There should be some mention of the various 'parody' videos of The Count that have surfaced on youtube that show The Count's words 'censored', most notably the "Song of the Count censored" video by Lemon Demon.
Anonymous  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.191.144.220 (talk) 08:31, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Youtube 

message: This section keeps getting disproportionately longer, bizarre, and obscure; not to mention entirely uncited and unverifiable.  I think some sort of guidelines need to be established as to what is appropriate (what constitutes popular culture?  must it be cited? considering there are thousands of Sesame Street parodies, do they all go here?).  Thoughts, please? -Sme3 (talk) 12:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  References in Popular Culture 

message: As mentioned in a previous review the picture had to be deleted because it was not a screenshot and so far there has not been another image added at all. There has got to be thousands out there so I think one should be put up soon. trainfan01  —Preceding undated comment added 03:04, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any image? 

message: Can we move over to a table here instead of near-identical prose just with different countries? I really think a table would be appropriate here. -andy 217.50.43.173 (talk) 12:08, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In the xx series yy, his name is zz..." 

message: If you do a quick Google, dozens of sites are claiming the count's birthday to be "Oct. 9, 1,830,653 B.C.".  Is there any citation to back this up?  Thx.  -Ayeroxor (talk) 17:58, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthday? 

message: "He spent his childhood in the Carpathian Mountains, which makes it clear he is Romanian. Perhaps not surprising, he speaks in an accent from that area of the world. His pet bats tend to have Slavic names, such as Grisha, Misha, Sasha, and Tatiana." Just for the record and for the majority that doesn't know: Romanians are not Slavs, neither was the fictitious Count Dracula nor the real Vlad Tepes. They chose Slavic names for his pets because they sound more familiar to the ordinary audience and it might have been pretty difficult coming up with four female Romanian names... ;.-)--87.184.134.186 (talk) 09:18, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just for the record 

message: Article says
:The Count appeared on a video package aired on the first episode of the Late Show with David Letterman that was shown after Letterman's emergency quintuple bypass operation. He appeared as a surgeon in an operating theater, counting "One bypass... AH AH AH! Two bypass..."[citation needed]
That episiode is on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkncCHefWKI and I flipped through it (didn't view the whole thing) and didn't see Count von Count.  Robin Williams appears dressed up as a surgeon about 31 minutes in.  Not going to revert yet but maybe someone has an update or correction.  The Count supposedly was called in to assist with reporting vote totals after the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses but I don't have a secondary source for that so who knows. 2601:648:8202:96B0:0:0:0:E118 (talk) 22:34, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  David Letterman 

message: I removed the unsourced statements, "The Count mentions 2:30 at any chance he can get and often makes jokes about it. 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 problem with this is that "Sesame Street" didn't air at the same time on every PBS station, and this would only make sense if the show aired at 2 PM or possibly 2:30 PM. For example, when I was a child, "Sesame Street" aired on my local station at 4 PM daily, so it would have been impossible for the Count to appear at 2:30 PM. And now "Sesame Street" episodes debut on HBO MAX, which is a streaming service, so episodes don't air at any particular time of day. Only during the 2016-2020 HBO run could there have been a consistent time of day for the episodes to run, but even on HBO episodes would not run at the same time for everyone, due to time zones. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:32, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  2:30 

message: The title really needs to be changed back, the character’s name is Count von Count, as he’s literally been saying for decades. —- 2601:18C:500:5DA0:5C6E:DC20:B3D3:B100 (talk) 21:52, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: - Aoidh (talk) 22:00, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for listening to me. —- 2601:18C:500:5DA0:B175:CFC6:82D9:8A3B (talk) 22:20, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change the title back