# Only Murders in the Building
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu
**Created:** [September 6, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152 "2021-09-06T00:37:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 15
### Author:  [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/281 "2024-08-30T07:38:30Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> I didn’t get the joke about “New Orleans burn unit”.
> [@solost](#):
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> OMITB
I think the joke here is that this show’s own title does not abbreviate cleanly. OMIT B? Omitbah?
> [@simster](#):
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> The other option, of course, is that Sazz faked her death
Sazz is a stunt double but she could have a stunt double of her own.
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### Author:  [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/282 "2024-08-30T11:10:33Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> And like most places where amateur detectives are at work the police are incompetent.
I don’t think that the NYPD is particularly incompetent on this show. At worst, they’re guilty of “when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras” thinking.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/283 "2024-08-30T15:18:56Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Meryl Streep. Acting too happy. Of course, she’s just an early red herring. Or is she? I didn’t get the joke about “New Orleans burn unit”. Anyway she already had her turn as “person who had something to gain” from - MURDER. But still.
I think the show was called Grey’s Anatomy New Orleans Family Burn Unit, and the joke is simply about show spin-offs, like the multiple CSIs or NCISs.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/284 "2024-08-30T15:30:46Z")
It’s just a generalization, going back at least to Sherlock Holmes.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/285 "2024-08-30T16:24:19Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> I think the show was called Grey’s Anatomy New Orleans Family Burn Unit, and the joke is simply about show spin-offs, like the multiple CSIs or NCISs.
Compounded by the fact that Meryl showed up beautifully gowned, as if she had just come from winning the Oscar for Best Actress.
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### Author:  [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/286 "2024-09-11T16:12:53Z")
3 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Keyhotea Cornfielded Posts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keyhotea-cornfielded-posts/1007125/25)
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### Author:  [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/288 "2024-08-31T03:28:47Z")
> [@DWMarch](#):
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> I think the joke here is that this show’s own title does not abbreviate cleanly. OMIT B? Omitbah?
Probably doesn’t help that the “G” in GNORFBUN is apparently silent.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/289 "2024-09-03T14:40:50Z")
Well, we know why Jane Lynch is credited for more episodes now.
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### Author:  [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2024, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/290 "2024-09-04T06:29:07Z")
So Charles has moved on from hallucinating visions of Bugs and Porky, to hallucinating visions of Sazz. I’m feeling kind of worried for the guy now.
Also, Bev Melon, the Sauce Family, Vince Fish and a dog named Grav(e)y. Not to mention a plethora of ham references. I think OMITB is readying the stealth launch of a cooking show spinoff.
Only Marinaras in the Building?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/291 "2024-09-04T14:13:56Z")
> [@zbuzz](#):
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> So Charles has moved on from hallucinating visions of Bugs and Porky, to hallucinating visions of Sazz. I’m feeling kind of worried for the guy now.
He’s traumatized. I wouldn’t worry until he starts seeing Scorpius and Tricia Helfer. (I’m really kind of tired of that trope, though.)
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/292 "2024-09-04T22:03:49Z")
“I need to borrow a shirt. This one’s covered in prison guard brain.” 😁
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/293 "2024-09-04T22:40:49Z")
By the way, the show was renewed for a fifth season.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/294 "2024-09-05T00:38:56Z")
Regarding the metal replacements found in the incinerator, I don’t think that would be something planted there, be it by her faking her death or the person that killed her, since there was no good reason for anyone to find them. If there was a trail of blood or footprints leading from Charles’ apartment to the chute or even a witness that saw something, I could understand. However, without the coincidental appearance of a cadaver dog, those metal replacements would’ve just sat there for who knows how long. IOW, I don’t think they were put there with the intention of being found, at least not any time soon. [later thought, I suppose the police would have found them at some point in the investigation.]
Having said that, introducing the cadaver dog and creating this entire story of Charles and Scott trying to get a hold of her, Charles going to her house etc, seems like a lot of work (even from a production POV) when they could’ve just had her laying there with a bullet wound. Off the top of my head, that wouldn’t have changed anything.
My WAG is still that she’s actually dead\*. But I’m wondering if there’s going to be more to it. I’m thinking either the dog will come back into play or Charles/Oliver/Mabel are going to be suspects. . WRT the dog, when Oliver thought it was barking at him, I thought it was barking at the ceiling. I remember seeing that and thinking they were going to end up finding something in the apartment above Charles’. WRT Charles/Oliver/Mabel…they’ve found (and partially cleaned) up blood in Charles’ apartment, they’ve removed evidence from the incinerator, they’ve broken into the victim’s house, plus whatever else I’ve missed, and they still haven’t contact the police. I think the police are more likely to think they’re suspects before believing that they did all that before they realized she was dead.
\*Unless the metal bones weren’t a red herring for a faked death but an unrelated coincidence.
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### Author:  [@CoolHandCox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoolHandCox)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/296 "2024-09-05T02:38:53Z")
“It’s a ham, Mabel! There’s a ham in the shower.”
For some reason that line had me cracking up.
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/297 "2024-09-05T02:40:05Z")
I’m not sure what would be more disturbing: If they were all going in there to stab it with the knife, or slice off a piece to eat! Mmm shower ham!
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### Author:  [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2024, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/298 "2024-09-05T03:45:13Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> My WAG is still that she’s actually dead\*. But I’m wondering if there’s going to be more to it.
I think her “you need to find your person, your number one” speech at the end and noting that Charles was her number one, pretty much ends the speculation on her death. The “tap in” clue was a message to Charles to that effect. She knows she took the bullet for him and she died at peace because Charles is her number one. Her being alive later would kick the legs out from that emotional moment.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2024, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/299 "2024-09-10T08:02:26Z")
What the hell is up with Eva Longoria’s pants in episode 3? Is that a style now?
Also, kinda weird that this is at least the second series to make references to what I assume is the fairly well forgotten _Perfect Strangers_. (The other being _The Leftovers_.)
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### Author:  [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/300 "2024-09-10T16:32:44Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> What the hell is up with Eva Longoria’s pants in episode 3? Is that a style now?
I mentioned that in the comments section of Vulture’s recap; the slits practically had her whole ass hanging out. I mean, Eva, I get it; you’re still a highly desirable woman even at nearly 50 years old, but yeesh.
I loved Oliver explaining the rules for his anecdotes:
1. Must take place at some point between 1960 and 1980.
2. Must involve a celebrity that you’re shocked to discover is still alive.
3. Must take place at a nightclub that is now an Applebee’s.
4. Must involve taking a drug that no longer exists.
My head also went to _The Leftovers_ when they kept bringing up _Perfect Strangers_.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/301 "2024-09-11T18:40:37Z")
> [@zbuzz](#):
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> > [@Joey\_P](#):
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> > My WAG is still that she’s actually dead\*. But I’m wondering if there’s going to be more to it.
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> I think her “you need to find your person, your number one” speech…
FWIW, when I posted that I had only watched the first episode. It wasn’t until I went back and continued the thread that I realized the second episode had already aired.
> [@SwissMan](#):
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> I loved Oliver explaining the rules for his anecdotes:
I kinda didn’t like that. I never considered his stories to be made up so it kinda changes the whole character for me. If we, the audience, were supposed to know that, I missed it. However, throughout the run of the show I did find it odd how he was portrayed as both a not very good (or at least unlucky) director, but at the same time tells stories of hobnobbing with the Hollywood and Broadway elite.
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/302 "2024-09-11T23:40:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Also, kinda weird that this is at least the second series to make references to what I assume is the fairly well forgotten _Perfect Strangers_. (The other being _The Leftovers_.)
Ohhhh… if you think “Perfect Strangers” is well forgotten… You’re either a bit over 50 or under 30
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