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Who on Netflix decided to have Sesame Street make a Knives Out parody detective? Because that is exactly what has happened, and the internet deserves a moment to breathe for this once-in-a-lifetime canon event.

The scriptwriters of Sesame Street woke up one morning and decided to give the world a version of Benoit Blanc who solves a dessert-based crime. And they DID. But there has been a slight change in names.

Enter Beignet Blanc, a soft, blond puppet in a beige suit who rolls in like he has been waiting his whole (stitched) life for this investigation. The case? Cookie Monster’s triple-berry pie has vanished. This is bigger than any missing cookie. This is dessert treason.

And Beignet Blanc shows up speaking in full dramatic monologue mode: “I have arrived to this street of Sesame… on a sunny day turned cloudy.” Daniel Craig probably would’ve watched that line and approved it right away.

The video is titled “Forks Out,” because apparently the puns are free this season, and it is part of Netflix’s new partnership with Sesame Workshop. And whoever pitched this deserves a raise. It’s filmed like a mini-mystery, except the suspects are Elmo, Zoe, Oscar, and maybe even Cookie Monster himself because… look, we all know he has history.

Beignet goes door to door, asking questions and behaving as if he is in the middle of a prestige drama (he is). Zoe tries to be helpful, but that makes her look suspicious. Oscar does nothing except exist, which makes him look suspicious by default. Elmo is just Elmo, which, again, is also suspicious. And Cookie Monster? That man looks GUILTY before the conversation even starts.

The best part is how committed the whole thing is. They drop references even hardcore mystery nerds will catch, like tiny nods to Murder on the Orient Express, a wink at Poirot, and even a throwback to Herbert Birdsfoot, whom literally only long-time fans remember. Like… who told Sesame Street to go THAT deep?

And of course, this isn’t random timing. This whole crossover drops right before Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery hits Netflix on December 12th. So, Sesame Street basically thought to help promote Benoit Blanc before his next big case.

By the end, Beignet Blanc pulls the classic detective move. He gathers clues, pieces them together, and delivers the big reveal with extraordinary confidence. And yes, the case gets solved. And yes, Cookie Monster is dramatic about it. And yes, you will watch it twice because the whole setting is adorable.

So if you want something silly and something guaranteed to put you in a good mood, this crossover is exactly that.