In 2025, Sesame Avenue delighted followers with an unofficial crossover with Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. The skit noticed Benoit Blanc (truly, his Muppet doppelganger Beignet Blanc) resolve a thriller on behalf of Cookie Monster.
Nevertheless, hidden inside the comedy brief is a twist so audacious, it is how Daniel Craig’s position within the franchise should finally finish.
Daniel Craig known as the Sesame Avenue brief “transferring” after rising up watching the present.
Knives Out x Sesame Avenue Turns Benoit Blanc into the ‘Assassin’
Within the comedy brief, Beignet Blanc investigates who ate Cookie Monster’s triple-berry pie, with Elmo, Zoe and Oscar the Grouch as suspects.
Arriving on “this avenue known as Sesame, on a sunny day turned cloudy,” Blanc rapidly deduces that the entire thing is a misunderstanding – Elmo, Zoe and Oscar thought a ‘Free Pattern’ signal for one more pie utilized to Cooke Monster’s too, with every consuming a bit bit (a understanding wink to the conclusion of Agatha Christie’s Homicide on the Orient Specific, the place each suspect was in on the crime.)
As Cookie Monster concludes, “Everybody ate me pie!” … together with Blanc himself, who’s uncovered due to a berry stain on his lapel. However whereas the humorous brief was loved by followers – together with Daniel Craig, who known as the brief “transferring” after rising up watching Sesame Avenue – its remaining twist can be how the actual Benoit Blanc’s story has to finish.
Knives Out Has to Flip Benoit Blanc into the Killer
Within the Sesame Avenue brief, Blanc is secretly the perpetrator, regardless of additionally investigating the crime. That is an superior set-up for a Knives Out film, and would completely match with the established theme of Blanc in search of to vindicate the wrongly accused. What higher motive for Blanc to clear an harmless of a criminal offense than the very fact he dedicated it himself?
As Wake Up Useless Man emphasizes, Blanc lives for the chase. So what would he do if he knew he’d caught a assassin however could not show it, leaving them to go free and kill once more? Probably the identical factor as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot.
In 1975’s Curtain: Poirot’s Final Case, Poirot discovers a killer who manipulates others to take lives. Figuring out the legislation cannot contact the villain, Poirot carries out a homicide of his personal, then (ambiguously) causes his personal loss of life, not desirous to reside as a assassin. Johnson has mentioned up to now how a lot he was impressed by Christie, and a murderous Blanc would put its personal spin on Poirot’s iconic ending.
Ought to Benoit Blanc’s Ending Be a Tragedy?
It will be a tragic albeit satisfying ending for Benoit Blanc’s final case to contain the detective investigating himself, with Craig’s hero revealing his personal guilt moderately than see an harmless individual punished for his crimes.
Nevertheless, if Blanc’s crime is much less excessive than outright homicide, this may very well be simply one other nice entry within the Knives Out franchise, moderately than the final (although Craig’s Southern detective positively observes an impactful exit, when the hopefully long-distant time comes.)
In providing up its personal Knives Out parody, Sesame Avenue has unintentionally revealed the simplest solution to twist the franchise’s themes – flip Benoit Blanc into the actual perpetrator, and make his need to exonerate the harmless conflict together with his personal freedom.