Today, we look at the Only Murders in the Building opening title Easter Egg for the finale of Season 5, “The House Always Wins.”
In Pop Culture Easter Eggs, I share with you pop culture “easter eggs.” An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/homage/in-joke that is hidden in works that you are meant to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So come check ’em all out and enjoy!
The excellent Hulu TV series, Only Murders in the Building, created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman and starring Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, has a brilliant opening title sequence produced by Elastic, the same design firm that produced the iconic Game of Thrones opening credits (among many other credit sequences and other awesome design stuff).
The credits also include Easter Eggs hinting as to the plot of the episode in question.
Season 5 just ended, so I’ll share the easter egg for each episode after it airs.
Obviously, SPOILERS AHEAD!
THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS
In the end, Charles, Oliver, and Mabel are able to prove that the Mayor committed the murder through a recording device hidden in a roulette wheel, so it is only appropriate that the roulette wheel is the easter egg in the finale’s opening credits…
There’s an extra easter egg with Howard walking both his animals AND LESTR…
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