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Sketches that take place in Count von Count's Castle.
Sketches
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The Count hires Ernie to answer the phone | The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. However, when the phone rings, the Count wants to count the rings, and won't let Ernie pick up the phone until it's too late. "I told you it wasn't going to be easy," the Count explains. | |
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Bats get to count | The Count's Bats are upset because The Count always gets to count, but the bats don't. The Count decides to let the bats count all of the Counts, while The Count counts all the bats... but there is only one Count. | |
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Counting Letters | As ominous music plays, The Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman comes (a Fat Blue performed by Jim Henson), with a bunch of letters for Count. The mailman wonders why there are so many letters. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them... and he does! | |
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Sheep on Strike | It is time for The Count to go to bed, but his sheep go on strike and don't want to jump over his bed, so The Count calls in a substitute. | |
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Outside a Castle | The Count takes Susan Sarandon to a castle. He keeps knocking, just to count knocks, and Susan soon learns that it's his castle. | |
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The Count's Fairytale Theatre | The Count tells a new version of "This Little Piggy Went to the Market" for ten toes. The little piggy who stayed home, did so to read a book: War and Peace. | |
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The Count's Storybook Theatre | The Count reads the story of "The Magnificent 7" who would save a village from becoming lonely. A mediocre 7 and a magnifecent 5 show up first, to the behest of the villagers. Next time on The Count's Storybook Theatre: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." | |
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Extinguishing Candles | The Count extinguishes electric candles by counting them with his finger. As he heads up the stairs for bed, he steps on Fatatita. He also tells his wolf Yuba to run and play with his friends. |
