Bats

The Bats are pets of Count von Count on Sesame Street. According to the book There's No Place Like Home two thousand and twelve bats live in the Count's castle. In the book The Count Counts a Party, his number one bat is identified as Lyuba. Other named bats include:
*Albert (Episode 1045)
*Beatrice (Sunrise)
*Beauregard (Episode 1149)
*Bernie (Ready, Set, Ride with Elmo)
*Bitty-Bat (Ready, Set, Ride with Elmo)
*Brenda (Ready, Set, Ride with Elmo)
*Bruce (Episode 1573)
*Bruce Wayne (Episode 3767)
*Cynthia (Episode 1573)
*Dancer (Episode 3767)
*Dasher (Episode 3767)
*Fifa (Sunrise)
*Ftatateeta (Episode 2334)
*George (Sunrise)
*Grischa (Episode 1573)
*Igor (2334)
*Louis (Sesamestreet.org's Number 5 Day, May 15, 2009)
*Louisville (Episode 2297)
*Louisville Slugger (Episode 3767)
*Luba (Episode 1121, Dance Along!)
*Matilda (Episode 1573)
*Milo (YouTube Short)
*Mischa (Episode 1573, Math Is Everywhere)
*Mousey (Episode 3767)
*Persephone (Episode 5015)
*Sandor (Episode 1573)
*Sascha (Math Is Everywhere, YouTube Short)
*Slugger (Episode 2297)
*Spotty (Episode 3767)
*Tattiana
*Winnie Mae (Episode 1573)
*Yasha (Episode 1457)
*Yuba (Episode 1045)
The bats rarely speak; most of the time they just flap around like real bats do. In one 1970s sketch when the bats spoke, the leading bat was voiced by Frank Oz.
As a singing group, they have been credited as Ftatateeta and the Bats on "The Batty Bat" and "Count Up to Nine."
==Other Bats==
On The Muppet Show, Judy Collins performed "Leatherwing Bat" with Brown Bat in episode 205, and some more realistic bats were featured in Episode 119 and in the Dracula-themed number, "Welcome to My Nightmare" in episode 307. Bats were also featured in the "Bats: the Musical" sketch in episode 108 of Muppets Tonight, in which host Jason Alexander and his old college buddy Gonzo wore bat costumes for the performance.
Leah the Fruit Bat was featured in the second episode of The Animal Show, and the puppet was later reused as Benny the Bat on Bear in the Big Blue House.
Elmo is imagined as a bat by Dorothy in the Elmo's World segment "Sleep." 
==Book appearances==
*The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook (1973)
*The Sesame Street ABC Storybook (1974)
*The Sesame Street Postcard Book (1976)
*The Sesame Street Bedtime Storybook (1978)
*Big Bird's Rhyming Book (1979)
*The Count Counts a Party (1980)
*Prairie Dawn's Upside-Down Poem (1981)
*There's No Place Like Home (1983)
*Big Bird Brings Spring to Sesame Street (1985)
*Pumpkin Patch Party (1997)
*The Count's Castle (2001)
==See also==
* Batman
* Dracula
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