The Count Orders a Hot Dog (1973 Sesame Street Sketch)



The Count Orders A Hot Dog Originaly aired on episode 0904 on April 29,1976. The short featured Grover The Waiter working at Charlie's Restaurant. The Count, who is sitting at one of the tables, orders a hot dog. When Grover brings the hot dog to The Count, instead of eating it, he counts it and orders another one. Grover, being slightly confused, brings him another hot dog only to have The Count do the same. After the third time, Grover refused to bring him more if he was only going to count them. The Count then uses a hypnotism spell to bring him more.The clip goes into fast motion along with fast-pace music as Grover brings The Count more and more hot dogs and each time The Count counts one, thunder sounds. The pile of hot dogs keeps growing untill Grover eventually collapses to the ground due to exhaustion.

There are no copies or sceenshots of this short available online. Although, there is a transcript of the short available hereThe short may have been canceled due to parents finding hypnotism or Grover collapsing inapropriate for their children.

According to a user on the MuppetCentral forums, the clip made reruns into the 1980's, but the short has not been aired since. The forum thread is very old, (first post being august 2003) but has recently been bumped by a few users in 2011, and in 2013.