Sesame Street Season 55 Episode 5526 - Counting Bats

[Phillip]

Episode 5526 - Counting Bats
HBO Max Premiere: Thursday, July 10, 2025

Elmo, Abby, and The Count play a game of hide-and-seek in The Count's Castle to round up all ten Batty Bats before nap time.

This episode features an all-new street story, Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck ("Pine Nuts"), and Sesame Street Nature Explorers ("Spiders").

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[CoolGuy1013]

I know it was probably unintentional, but it was nice that an episode focusing on the Count premiered on what would’ve been Jerry’s birthday.

 

[eurbane]

We go into the Count's Castle for the bats nap time. Elmo, Abby and the Count play a game to hide and seek to find all 10 bats. We get a brief segment of Elmo and the Two Headed Monster before the letter of the day despite that it’s not a deal, we need to beware of. In cookie monster’s foodie truck, we make pesto pasta and we learn where puncuts come from. In a new segment, we count to things in the sky that are in 7. In a nature explorers segment of insects and bugs. We help Elmo, Gabrielle and tango count the legs of bugs to see if it’s a spider.

 

[The Count]

I'm interested to know what, if any, new sections or depictions of the interior of 's castle were shown. Sure, I could read up on this at the pertinent Muppet Wiki article, but forum friends can reply so much quicker and catch details other sources may have missed.

 

[CoolGuy1013]

As far as I can tell, everything was green screened, so no new sets unfortunately.

 

[Ahappyfan]

Although it now has an updated look, it was nice seeing the inside of the counts castle again for the first time in over 20 years