There are many people that need kudos for Only Murders in the Building Season 3, but the prop team surely deserves its own shoutout. The attention to detail in this instalment of the crime caper — from Paul Rudd-themed memorabilia and in-jokes to amusing fictional news articles — has been next level.
The show’s end credits are a homage to this. Each episode finishes with images of two items, both of which feature in some capacity in the preceding episode. Some of these items contain text that requires a zoom-in to read, others require context. Most are clues that our intrepid trio of podcasters, Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short), and Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), must explore on their quest to track down the murderer of Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd).
‘Only Murders in the Building’: Every word of that silly end credits article about Ben Glenroy
From theatre posters to bus tickets, we’ve broken down each episode’s end credit Easter eggs below.
Episode 1, “The Show Must”
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On the left is a poster for Oliver’s doomed play Death Rattle, which shows a red baby stroller superimposed on the backdrop of a black-and-white lighthouse (a nod to the play’s impressively silly plot about an infant that becomes a murder suspect).
On the right is a brown fedora, which looks like the same one Ben is wearing during the show and when he surprises everyone by coming back from the dead. In the episode, Ben takes it off and throws it to his brother, Dickie (Jeremy Shamos).
Episode 2, “The Beat Goes On”
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On the left is a security badge for Gregg Rivera (Adrian Martinez), the Ben Glenroy stalker posing as a security guard who kidnaps Charles and Mabel.
On the right is a movie poster for Cobro 3, which sees a man in a cobra outfit facing off against Ben’s titular lead character.
Episode 3, “Grab Your Hankies”
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On the left is a poster for Death Rattle Dazzle (Oliver’s musical reinvention of the play), which has clearly been made by hastily updating the original Death Rattle poster design (a mirror ball has been added to the top of the lighthouse along with some stars and silhouettes of figures dancing, plus there are now three baby strollers instead of one — a nod to the “Pickwick Triplets”).
On the right is a handkerchief like the one Ben was clutching when he was found dead. Oliver, Charles, and Mabel realise at the end of episode 3 that Kimber (Ashley Park) doesn’t have her hanky, which makes her a suspect.
Episode 4, “The White Room”
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On the left is some “Liquid Venom” ageing serum, a bottle of the anti-ageing product Kimber creates that she wanted Ben to promote for her (“I even wrote him the copy,” she tells Mabel. “‘I might be CoBro in the movies, but in real life I don’t want to walk around with snake skin!'”)
On the right is a miniature Statue of Liberty, which is the centrepiece of Charles’ girlfriend Joy’s (Andrea Martin’s) enormous fish tank, a giant version of which Charles glimpses through a window during one of his “White Room” episodes.
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