The comedy is anything but elementary. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most gut-bustingly hilarious scenes from the Hulu series “Only Murders in the Building.”
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00:00The cake is on its way, but this was very last minute and this is not about the cake.
00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most
00:08gut-bustingly hilarious scenes from the Hulu series, Only Murders in the Building.
00:12Would an amateur pretend to be making a call while secretly taking photos for our murder board?
00:18Oh yes, uh, yes, I can hold.
00:21Our list contains some light spoilers.
00:24Number 10, Oliver tests the murder theory.
00:27In 1981, I participated in a 24-hour kickline fundraiser.
00:32Like a rockette?
00:33Exactly like a rockette.
00:35It was called Let's Kick Rickets to the Curb, and if we have extra, send it to AIDS.
00:40The fourth season of Only Murders in the Building introduces us to the Arconia's West Tower,
00:44from which the gang's presumed murderer took the shot that killed Saz Pataki in the previous
00:48season's finale. But a troubling question arises as the trio attempts to piece the puzzle together.
00:54Could the suspect have committed the crime and run back to the main building
00:58to collect the body in time? 12 minutes to be exact?
01:02Well, Oliver bravely tests out this theory, and the results are unsuccessful but hilarious.
01:08Kids on leashes should be illegal, I'm trying to do something here, get back!
01:11Hey, hey, nice outfit, jackass!
01:14After battling birds, berating a group of children on leashes,
01:17and being screamed at by John McEnroe, Oliver asks Mabel what his time was.
01:22To which she replies,
01:23It's been 38 minutes.
01:25What?!
01:26So close, Oliver.
01:28Number 9. The Knife.
01:30Ew, God, do you not wash these?
01:36What? Is that blood?
01:38The main trio is getting a lot of extra help from an unknown source.
01:42Evidence from the latest murder keeps showing up in their apartment.
01:45A bloody knife, presumably the murder weapon, becomes the object of some tension.
01:49But Oliver, spooked by a knock at the door,
01:52flings it so violently it embeds in Charles's ceiling.
01:57Why am I holding this knife?!
02:01A hilariously suspenseful scene with their needy and eccentric neighbor Howard plays out
02:06as he unknowingly stands right under the precarious weapon.
02:09No one can manage to go from calm to panic with as fast a turnaround as Martin Short.
02:14Nina Lynn punched me.
02:16She is violent.
02:18And after backstabbing Bunny, I think she might have frontstabbed her too.
02:22She will cut a bitch.
02:24You can use that in the podcast.
02:26It gives the eccentric theater director he plays a flair for being completely unhinged.
02:31Number 8. Everyone Hated This Guy.
02:33Our podcast is never going to pop until we know who is Tim Kono.
02:39Who was Tim Kono.
02:41Yeah, well, I've already named the episode Who Is Tim Kono, so...
02:45Charles, Mabel, and Oliver attend a building-wide memorial service for the dead Tim Kono,
02:49hoping to spot a likely suspect among their neighbors.
02:52Unfortunately, Tim is not anyone's favorite person.
02:56Every single resident of the building seems to have had beef with the guy,
03:00and no one is all that sorry to see him go.
03:02I have a lovely memory, a kindness.
03:09Anyone?
03:12Yes.
03:12Does this mean we get to use our fireplaces again?
03:15Yeah, he was the guy with bad asthma, right?
03:17In fact, they're just thrilled they can use their fireplaces again.
03:20And the neighbor next door already called dibs on his now vacant apartment.
03:24Instead of limiting the pool of potential suspects,
03:27this scene just opens up an overwhelming number of possibilities.
03:31So our victim is less likable than a dead cat.
03:33Number 7. Oliver Needs a Moment.
03:36The Tony Award goes to...
03:40The Night!
03:43So that's our showstopper.
03:45Do you love it or do you love it?
03:46The show's third season presents murder and mayhem behind the scenes of a musical.
03:51Oliver puts his director cap back on for the whodunit musical Death Rattle Dazzle.
03:55While it gives him a great vantage point to investigate a new murder in the building,
03:59it also introduces some great moments of stress, beautifully played by Martin Short.
04:03And here come the crabmen.
04:05The what?
04:06And the crabmen are breeding, breeding, breeding, breeding.
04:11And now, cue the nanny.
04:17Money troubles and lackluster performances dog the production.
04:20One disastrous rehearsal leaves Oliver feeling a little devastated.
04:24Hopeless, he tries to put on his best face before
04:28calmly disappearing into the kitchen to hurl verbal abuse at himself.
04:32Ah! You screwed Putnam!
04:35Ah! Your brains are dust now!
04:39Welcome to hell and you're your own Satan!
04:42Number 6. A Quadruple Threat.
04:44Do you think someone will die again?
04:46Oliver's career might die again.
04:48Ooh, I like the way you think, Matthew Broderick.
04:51His leading actor takes a little too much chemical assistance before the musical's big opening.
04:56But Oliver Putnam believes the show must go on.
04:59He assumes the role himself.
05:01Well, it rattles your soul as the dark takes control.
05:05It's enough to drive you wild.
05:08This last-minute switch goes about as well as you would expect.
05:12The acerbic Uma Heller sums it up in as harsh a way as possible.
05:15Broadway's first quadruple threat.
05:18Can't sing, dance, direct, or act.
05:21You know, I'll have fun.
05:22You creature of the night!
05:25Oliver is a quadruple threat.
05:27He's bad at everything he does.
05:29She may be blunt, but maybe she's the theater critic the show needs.
05:33We can only imagine how quickly her reviews would make her the show's next murder victim.
05:38Number 5. Charles Goes Full Brazos.
05:41You know, I've played this scene a hundred times on my show.
05:44Especially season nine when the budget got cut
05:47and we could only afford to shoot in interrogation rooms.
05:50So I knew your tricks.
05:51With a new season came an entirely new mystery to solve.
05:54Charles Hayden Savage, formerly the star of the fictional police procedural Brazos,
05:59dips back into his character's hard-boiled persona when he's arrested for murder.
06:03Unfortunately, Brazos just doesn't hit the same way in real life.
06:06And Brazos is doing a cross-promotion with Golden Girls,
06:09so we go on password and my partner is Betty White,
06:13who turns every clue into like something naughty.
06:16As he's been reminded several times over the course of the show,
06:19investigating murders is not as easy as it looks on TV.
06:23Everything he knows is really just what TV writers came up with.
06:26He mistakes a decorative mirror for a two-way mirror
06:29and generally makes a fool of himself in front of the interrogating officers.
06:33Hi, Charles Hayden Savage.
06:36It's a decorative mirror, Charles.
06:38I think the two-way you're looking for is on this wall.
06:42I knew that.
06:43Number 4. Oliver's Tooth Comes Out.
06:46You do like pork chops though, don't you?
06:48Oh, sure. Love solid food.
06:52Chewing on a chop.
06:53In season three, Meryl Streep joins the cast
06:56as an aspiring actress who falls for Oliver.
06:59During what should be a romantic candlelit dinner for two,
07:02Loretta's pork chop proves to be a tough sell.
07:05So solid, so fully formed, you know.
07:08Damn broiler.
07:16It's actually so tough that Oliver's tooth literally becomes embedded in the meat.
07:20What might spoil anyone else's meal becomes something truly sweet and totally bizarre.
07:25Oliver starts whistling through the gap in his teeth
07:28and Loretta compares his snorting laugh to an adorable little piglet.
07:36These two weirdos deserve each other.
07:38It makes it even sweeter that Streep and Short are such close friends in real life.
07:43Number 3. Charles' Father.
07:45So my father was the subject of a very pricey piece of erotica.
07:49It's not every day that a picture of your father ends up being a clue to a murder mystery.
07:53It's also not every day that you find out your father
07:56might have posed without clothes for a portrait.
07:58When a mysterious person, presumably the killer,
08:01leaves an erotic portrait of Charles' father in his apartment and then vanishes,
08:05it raises a whole lot of questions.
08:20Who was his father? Did we know him at all?
08:23Is that a shadow or...
08:30Between Charles' ensuing identity crisis,
08:32Oliver's focus on the wrong things,
08:34and Mabel's exasperation with men being weird,
08:37it's moments like this that really make the show.
08:40Number 2. The Parrot.
08:42You said you know who did it.
08:43Who did it?
08:44It's just perfect that Bunny had a pet as obnoxious as she was.
08:48A prized piece of evidence arrives at Charles' door.
08:51It's the latest murder victim's pet parrot,
08:53who tells them it knows who the killer is.
08:56Mabel, being the most sensible one,
08:58suggests they try imitating the parrot's deceased owner
09:00to get it to spill what it knows.
09:02Mrs. Gambolini, it's me, Bunny.
09:06What the f*** happened to me, huh?
09:09That was a terrible bunny.
09:10The key to a good bunny is raising your voice
09:12without raising your voice.
09:14Oliver and Charles, ever the hams,
09:16take turns trying to adopt the owner's
09:18characteristically nasal croak of a voice.
09:21Of course, because these two can't ever work together,
09:24it becomes an impromptu contest
09:26to see which of them can do the best impression,
09:28while an annoyed Mabel looks on.
09:30This won't take long unless you make it take long.
09:33Yeah, but we're doing Bunny.
09:36If you're a murderer, stop murdering!
09:40Hey!
09:42We need to start making progress here.
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10:02I heard this once and maybe you can appreciate it.
10:06A cat never really leaves you
10:09because they transmit parasites.
10:12Mabel and Charles drop in on their grieving neighbor, Howard,
10:15to pay their respects after the recent death of his cat, Evelyn.
10:18However, their real motive is to question him
10:20about Tim Kono's murderer.
10:22This goes as disastrously as we could hope for
10:25when Howard passes out at the sight of Charles' nosebleed
10:28and they're forced to take care of him.
10:30In his panic, Charles goes to the freezer for some ice
10:33and comes face to face with Evelyn herself.
10:36Howard has frozen his cat and stored her in his freezer.
10:40Presumably next to some frozen pizzas.
10:49It's one of those moments when the show asks how much we know
10:52and how much we want to know about our neighbors.
10:54You know, there's a cat in your freezer.
10:58What's the moment that made you fall in love
11:00with the residents of the Arconia?
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