There is now a Sesame Street Knives Out Pastiche, Called "Forks Out."
Meet the world's greatest Muppet detective, Beignet Blanc. (I'm screaming with joy.)
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, PEOPLE. *NOT* a DRILL!!!!!
Sesame Street has unveiled a new segment, a Knives Out pastiche called “Forks Out.”
The premise? Classic. A crime has occurred on Sesame Street… someone has eaten Cookie Monster’s triple berry pie! But don’t worry… the world’s greatest Muppet detective is on the case!
Meet… Beignet Blanc.
Beignet Blanc stars in FORKS OUT. A @SesameStreet whodunnit… pic.twitter.com/hQYbcq86Qk
— Netflix (@netflix) December 2, 2025
Look at this Muppet! Look at his haircut and the BLUE of his eyes!!! What an adorable rendering.
And the whodunnit is not bad, too. See if you can guess who the perpetrator is.
Well done, Sesame Street. Now what we need is Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc solving a crime on Sesame Street WITH Beignet Blanc the muppet.
Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
