History Series / OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding

* CelebrityParadox: Charles sometimes hallucinates people dressed as Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. Steve Martin had a role in Looney Tunes: Back in Action as Mr Chairman

* CelebrityParadox: Charles sometimes hallucinates people dressed as Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. Steve Martin had a role in Looney Tunes/ Back in Action as Mr Chairman

* ImagineSpot: A few surreal ones get thrown in, tying into Oliver's opening narration involving trampolines. Such as dropped objects bouncing once they hit the floor such as Mabel dropping Tim's ring. Oliver also has these as he imagines who the suspects are; imagining them at an audition confessing their crimes to him

* CampStraight: Oliver's got the flamboyant personality and dress sense one would expect for a hammy theatre director, and when introduced it wouldn't be hard for viewers to assume he's an elderly gay man, but he flirts with women and has an adult son, indicating he's at least had relations with women in the past.

** Mable herself, who is introduced recapping how she's hyper-fixated on TrueCrime largely because of a paranoid belief that she might be victimised, and has a reoccurring fantasy about waking up to a man trying to rape her before she kills him, which is apparently such a calming idea to her it helps her sleep. Besides that, she's aloof and casually lives in an unfinished, renovated apartment, and spends her free time digitally drawing profiles from memory.

* AsHimself: Music/{{Sting}} appears as a fictional version of himself who lives in the Arconia alongside the three protagonists.

* ShowerScene: Mabel has a brief gratuitous shower scene at the end of the first episode, using ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack.

* AmateurSleuth: Charles, Oliver, and Mabel have zero investigative experience but decide to look into Tim Kono's death because their shared love of TrueCrime convinces them that there's something afoot. Mabel is also partly inspired by ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' mystery novels she read as a child, while Charles once played a TV detective and recalls some of the skills he learnt for the role.

** Mable herself, who is introduced recapping how she's hyper-fixated on true crime largely because of a paranoid belief that she might be victimised, and has a reoccurring fantasy about waking up to a man trying to rape her before she kills him, which is apparently such a calming idea to her it helps her sleep. Besides that, she's aloof and casually lives in an unfinished, renovated apartment, and spends her free time digitally drawing profiles from memory.

** Discussed in regards to Mabel. Charles and Oliver acquired their apartments decades prior when the Arconia was affordable, but Mabel is a young new arrival at a time Manhattan real estate prices are through the roof. She eventually reveals that the apartment belongs to her aunt and she's living there temporarily to oversee a renovation.
** Also subverted with Oliver, who's inability to find work has made him struggle to maintain payments for the Arconia's rent and bills, and is close to being kicked out. Something similar was going on with Tim Kono prior to his death, as they find a pile of unpaid bills on his mantle and the detective on his case notes money troubles as their assumed reason behind his "suicide".

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Charles and Oliver are just old enough to be Mabel's grandfathers but the three form a friendship thanks to shared interests.
* ImagineSpot: A few surreal ones get thrown in, tying into Oliver's opening narration involving trampolines. Such as dropped objects bouncing once they hit the floor such as Mabel dropping Tim’s ring. Oliver also has these as he imagines who the suspects are; imagining them at an audition confessing their crimes to him

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: At the Arconia's memorial service for Tim Kono, not a single person can muster a kind word about him and instead talk about how much he annoyed them. As the episode goes on, Charles himself, who barely knew the guy, grows increasingly annoyed by what he learns about him.
** Both Oliver and Charles separately seem to have also been this themselves. Charles' views on tipping, aloof nature, and difficulty remembering people's names makes him unpopular among the other Arconia residents and staff, while Oliver's flamboyant and needling personality makes him quite grating to those around him, best seen with how his own son and Charles both react to him.

* AmateurSleuth: Charles, Oliver, and Mabel have zero investigative experience but decide to look into Tim Kono's death because their shared love of TrueCrime convinces them that there's something afoot. Mabel is also partly inspired by ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' mystery novels she read as a child.

* FriendsRentControl: Discussed in regards to Mabel. Charles and Oliver acquired their apartments decades prior when the Arconia was affordable, but Mabel is a young new arrival at a time Manhattan real estate prices are through the roof. She eventually reveals that the apartment belongs to her aunt and she's living there temporarily to oversee a renovation.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: At the Arconia's memorial service for Tim Kono, not a single person can muster a kind word about him and talk about how much he annoyed them.

* TitleDrop: When Oliver suggests that they bank material for their podcast by covering another murder in Central Park, Charles immediately declares they'll cover "only murders in the building!"
** This ends up being the title of their Podcast as well

* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Charles once starred in a successful detective series, but is now out of work and his star is rapidly fading.

* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: The podcast that Mabel, Oliver, and Charles are listening to is magically cut off by the fire alarm just as an important the podcast is about to reveal an important plot point. When the three assemble at a restaurant nearby their desire to find out what the dog Beau had in his mouth brings the three together.

* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: The podcast that Mabel, Oliver, and Charles are listening too is magically cut off by the fire alarm just as an important the podcast is about to reveal an important plot point. When the three assemble at a restaurant nearby their desire to find out what the dog Beau had in his mouth brings the three together.

PlotBasedVoiceCancelation: The podcast that Mabel, Oliver, and Charles are listening too is magically cut off by the fire alarm just as an important the podcast is about to reveal an important plot point. When the three assemble at a restaurant nearby their desire to find out what the dog Beau had in his mouth brings the three together.

ImagineSpot: A few surreal ones get thrown in, tying into Oliver's opening narration involving trampolines. Such as dropped objects bouncing once they hit the floor such as Mabel dropping Tim’s ring. Oliver also has these as he imagines who the suspects are; imagining them at an audition confessing their crimes to him

* MistakenForEvidence: The garbage bag Tim carried in the elevator the day of his death. Charles and Mabel find it suspicious, due to the building having a garbage chute. [[spoiler: It has a couple of unfinished suicide notes.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Charles, Oliver, and Mabel sneak into Tim Kono's apartment, see his body, and are repulsed to find that a chunk of his skull is missing and his brains are leaking out. Charles immediately says that it's nothing at all like the neat bodies he encountered as a TV detective.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Charles and Oliver are old enough to be Mabel's grandfathers but the three form a friendship thanks to shared interests.