Count Blood Count
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Count Bloodcount (originally voiced by Ben Frommer and later by Bill Farmer and Jeff Bennett) is a vampire from the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes animated shorts.
[edit] Bio
The Count's first appearance was in the 1963 short, Transylvania 6-5000. In this short, Bugs goes to Transylvania and looks for a telephone at what he thinks is a motel (but is in reality an ominous castle). At the castle, Bugs meets Count Blood Count and is given a room for the night (much to his chagrin) by the blood-thirsty vampire. Unable to sleep, Bugs skims through a magic book which states that saying the magic words "abracadabra" will turn a vampire into a bat form and "hocus pocus" which turns Blood Count back into human form. He says this when Count Blood Count turns into a bat when trying to suck Bugs blood and back to human form just outside the castle window, where the count falls into the moat. Bugs later says this while wandering the castle which turns Blood Count into a bat and a vampire many times. When Count Blood Count states that he is a vampire, Bugs turns into an umpire. When Count Blood Count turns into a bat, Bugs turns into a baseball bat and hits him (despite the Count's bat form wearing glasses). Count Blood Count tries to crush Bugs with a piece of the floor only to turn into a bat and get crushed many times. Amused by the results, Bugs then says random words which turn Blood Count into a whole range of things: "abra-ka-pocus" turns Blood Count into a being with his bat head and human form body, while "hocus kadabra" does the opposite (Blood Count's human head with his bat form's wings). One of the many things Blood Count is turned into is Witch Hazel, another Looney Tunes character (through the incantation "Newport News"). Finally, Bugs turns him into a two-headed vulture (through "Walla Walla Washington"). Seeing an opportunity to be rid of the vampire, Bugs calls over a female two-headed vulture from earlier in the episode (named Emily and Agatha, respectively). Emily and Agatha are immediately smitten with passion, while Count Blood Count is immediately smitten with fear, and the female vultures amorously chase the terrifed count away into the distance, sighing "How romantic! I always said, four heads are better than one!" Soon, Bugs finds a telephone and calls for a ride home. While waiting, Bugs hums and accidentally turns his ears into a pair of bat wings. Bugs then changes his mind and decides to fly home, using his new batwinged ears.
[edit] Other appearances
Count Blood Count would reappear many years later in various Looney Tunes-related media. He was used as a boss in the video game Bugs Bunny and Taz: Time Busters, and voiced by Joe Alaskey.
He appeared in the "Fang You Very Much" segment of the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Stuff That Goes Bump In The Night" attempting (with hilariously painful results) to suck the blood of series regular Elmyra Duff only for any light to turn Count Blood Count into a bat.
He appeared in an episode of The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries called "Fangs for the Memories."
He most recently appeared as Count Muerte in an episode of Duck Dodgers titled "I'm Gonna Get You, Fat Sucka" (voiced by Jeff Bennett), in which he aimed to suck the fat of the Eager Young Space Cadet. In the episode, his appearance was based on that of Count Orlok, the vampire from the silent film Nosferatu.
Count Blood Count's voice was sampled for the Gorillaz track "Dracula", which features the lines "Rest is good for the blood!" and "I am a Vampire!".
