# Only Murders in the Building **URL:** \ **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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 250
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152/250 "2024-08-28T16:42:03Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Jane Lynch. She’ll turn up as herself. Is that allowed? I mean, you can be a famous person playing a character in a world where nobody notices you’re Molly Shannon, or you can be Molly Shannon as herself, or rather a goofy version of herself proving what a good sport she is, like Malkovich. But both? Never been done > [@Guest starring in your own TV show?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-starring-in-your-own-tv-show/1006195): > > Recently we were watching an episode of [Dr. Kildare](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0565110/) from 1965. In the opening, the usual credits roll with freeze frames at the regular points. Title, “Starring Richard Chamberlin”, "and Raymond Massey’. Then the next freeze frame is “Special Guest Star Raymond Massey”. Wait, what? I had to backup and check. The PotW was indeed Raymond Massey in grizzled old man with beard makeup. And on top of it (and despite what the IMDb desc. says), no one notices the similarity in the show. They do the us… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-murders-in-the-building/950152)._