Netflix has no qualms about using its Sesame Street deal to promote the next star-studded installment of its Knives Out franchise.
The streamer released a long-winded promo for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery on Tuesday, which features Sesame’s most popular muppets in a kid-friendly mystery of their own—replete with a muppet-fied Benoit Blanc, voiced by the on-screen man himself, Daniel Craig, in the character’s signature southern drawl.
The new video, aptly titled “Forks Out: A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery,” renames Benoit to create Beignet Blanc, in the “unlikely crossover” Netflix’s Tudum says “fans have been crying out for.”
Detective Beignet is on the case when Cookie Monster’s triple-berry pie is mysteriously eaten by an unknown suspect. “I have arrived to this stree

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