# Jerry Nelson, Sesame Street's The Count, confirmed dead \[updated title\] **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488 **Category:** Cafe Society **Created:** [August 24, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488 "2012-08-24T14:28:35Z") **Posts on this page:** 14 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville) #### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/21 "2012-08-24T19:52:29Z")
[Here’s Floyd singing with John Denver at THE GRAMMYS!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJSuPEca74) ---
### Author: ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers) #### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/22 "2012-08-24T20:09:20Z")
Suggested epitaph: _He Counted._ ---
### Author: ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine) #### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/23 "2012-08-24T22:10:06Z")
Aww. Sad news ☹ One of my favorite bits: [The Count meets Patrick Stewart](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNatvLe18ro). ---
### Author: ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist) #### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/24 "2012-08-24T22:33:38Z")
Awww ☹ When I did tech support, I had a little floppy Count stuffed thingy on my monitor at all times. Lost that somewhere, but my sweetie got me a Count bookmark. Not the same, but yeah. Really liked that guy. One Two Three, RIP ---
### Author: ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter) #### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/25 "2012-08-24T23:47:48Z")
[Batty batty bat, batty batty bat bat.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7yAe2MBIpE) ---
### Author: ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad) #### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/26 "2012-08-25T00:08:13Z")
[Halfway Down The Stairs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFR3zz12p0) ---
### Author: ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks) #### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/27 "2012-08-25T02:38:24Z")
Aw, geez, it sure is dusty in here… ---
### Author: ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton) #### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/28 "2012-08-25T02:56:13Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Sad news. > > Besides The Count, he was also Emmet Otter, Gobo Fraggle, Herry Monster, and the Trash Heap. But who’s counting? ---
### Author: ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko) #### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/29 "2012-08-25T03:41:25Z")
Nobody, anymore…☹ ---
### Author: ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas) #### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/30 "2012-08-25T15:07:45Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > He was also Robin the Frog, and Emmett Otter. He was very good at signing while in character. Kermit & now Robin. Oh, man:( The Simpsons rerun last night was the Halloween Treehouse of Horror XXI, which featured [“Tweenlight”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrua4v9Qj5Q), which actually featured The Count. ---
### Author: ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow) #### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/31 "2012-08-25T15:21:13Z")
[Emmet](http://youtu.be/wrpTNHbqBNE)’s gone? ☹ ---
### Author: ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG) #### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/32 "2012-08-25T21:21:37Z")
Someone should list all the characters he portrayed in one post so we can count them. ---
### Author: ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants) #### Post date: [August 25, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/33 "2012-08-25T23:06:18Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Someone should list all the characters he portrayed in one post so we can count them. Just go to [his Muppet Wiki page.](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Jerry_Nelson) There’s way too many to cut & paste, plus there’s lots of neat pictures of him performing some of his more popular characters. He also had a small part in _ **The Cube** _, that experimental TV movie Henson did in 1970 (the one every Gen-Xer thinks might have just been a dream!) ---
### Author: ![Tblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tblue) #### Post date: [August 28, 2012, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488/34 "2012-08-28T11:01:44Z")
Puppets have always said things better than I, (poor human) can. I wish I had one to express my sorrow, that another mind that contained loved characters has gone to the puppeteer pit in the… well. To the vaudeville theatrehouse with the puppeteer pit, next to some of his good buddies. RIP (Revel In Puppeteerheaven), Jerry! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-nelson-sesame-streets-the-count-confirmed-dead-updated-title/632488.md?page=1)