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00:003 little babes in their bassinets, angelic little triplets, or triple threats, they might

00:20have fooled the others but they won't fool me, it's time to give these teething seething

00:27three the third degree.

00:34Which of the pickwick triplets did it? Who of the crew would commit this crime?

00:39My little brat make a mommy go splat, it's a story pretty gory for a nursery rhyme.

00:43Which of the pickwick triplets did it? Which of the spawns had the brawn to kill?

00:47Will a baby get tried for patricide? Time for you, you, you to admit it.

00:52So quick as a whip, got a pickwick, pickwick triplet did it.

00:57Penelope in pink sure is making quite a stink, is she trying to throw me off the scent?

01:04Though she bats her little eyes, is she a killer in disguise?

01:08With a diaper full of criminal intent.

01:12Preening Patrick is pernicious, with an appetite so vicious, he would bite the hand that feeds him with a snare.

01:19But could that rotten tot be behind this evil plot?

01:24Baby's stepping towards a murderous career, howdy little Paco's looking coy, but he's a bad, bad boy.

01:30Could Paco's passion prove apocalyptic?

01:33With his passy and his rattle, did this pisher go to battle, proving he's the perp amidst this pickwick critique?

01:40In this picker-esque puzzle of the pickwick pack, will a lighthouse shed some light?

01:47On which kid gave old Ma the whack? There's an end then to indict.

01:54I'll back this little crook tonight.

01:58But which of the pickwick triplets did it? Who of the crew would commit this crime?

02:03Which little brat made Barbie go splat? Which Grim, which Sim will be doing on time?

02:07Which of the pickwick triplets did it? Which little putz had the guts to kill?

02:12Like a forensic pediatrician, I'll complete this inquisition. I will name the neonatal from the cradle that grew fatal.

02:17I will find the perpetrator who did murder to their nature.

02:23Or, coochie coochie coo, what if none of it is true?

02:31Has my inspection been too cursory? Should I look outside this nursery?

02:35What if none of the pickwick triplets did it?

02:39Who'd have had a menacing motive and hidden?

02:43Who? Who? Who?

02:45Well, I pick you!

02:56Hello.

02:57Hello, how are you?

02:58I'm good. This mic is hot.

03:00So, this is a very musical-filled season of Only Murders in the Building.

03:06Tell me about how this came to be.

03:09And basically, I mean, you're working with a ton of songwriters here.

03:13Yeah, well, Only Murders in the Building is one of our favorite television shows.

03:17And in the true power of manifestation, I was on vacation and a friend of mine said,

03:22I'm starting to be in the writer's room for season three.

03:26And we said, if we ever have the opportunity to write a ditty, anything for Only Murders, just sign us up.

03:31We're doing it for free. It doesn't matter.

03:33She calls us back a week later and she's like,

03:35you will not believe the entire plot of season three is going to be a musical.

03:39And I told them that you guys were in and you guys were doing it.

03:42Do you actually mean that?

03:43We were like, yes, we actually mean it.

03:45And then she was like, and Meryl Streep is going to be in it.

03:47And we were like, oh, my God.

03:50And it was such a thrilling process for us.

03:52We got to work with some of our favorite other Broadway folks,

03:58including Mark Shaman and Scott Whitman, who co-wrote this song with us.

04:02And it's so fun to get to do essentially what TV folks do all the time,

04:07which is create a little writer's room, but for musical theater people.

04:10Yeah, we asked John Hoffman, the incredible showrunner on the show,

04:16we said, could we do what you guys are doing?

04:19When we got to be in the writer's room at the beginning of the season,

04:21we said, could we do the same thing?

04:23Could we get together a group of some of our favorite songwriters

04:27and all create this fake, insane musical together, Death, Rattle, Dazzle,

04:32which is the sort of imagined fictional musical in the season?

04:35Could we do the same thing?

04:37And he said, yes.

04:39The theme of the show is sort of more is more.

04:42So yes, if you've seen the show, you know that it's true.

04:46Like the theme of Martin Short is more is more, et cetera.

04:49You know what I mean?

04:50So he said, yes, let's do it.

04:52So we got to work with Mark Shaman, Scott Whitman, Michael R. Jackson,

04:55Sara Bareilles, et cetera.

04:57So we got to work all together to create this sort of bananas show.

05:04So for those who haven't seen episode 8, set it up as far as where the song appears

05:09and your whole approach.

05:13You got this?

05:14Yeah.

05:15So this song is which of the Pickwick triplets did it?

05:20And it is, I mean, so it's about.

05:27I can't imagine having watched that and having no context,

05:29so let's help you guys out.

05:31So I mean, it is, I'll try to give context for it after,

05:35but it's about Steve Martin plays a character.

05:39He plays a character in a musical who is a constable who is trying to solve

05:45a crime, and that character is analyzing which.

05:50He's convinced that one of three triplets murdered someone

05:53and he's trying to get to the bottom of it.

05:55But what's amazing, I mean, it's absolutely insane and bonkers,

05:58and, you know, the character that Martin Short plays is, you know,

06:02an insane theater director and conceiver of musicals.

06:05So, again, they wanted it to be insane,

06:07and hopefully we delivered something insane.

06:11But what was so wonderful about this is that the song was set up

06:15throughout the entire season, and it's so great when the writers

06:19give a moment for a song to shine like that,

06:22because the entire plot revolved around whether or not

06:25Steve Martin's character, Charles Hayden Savage,

06:27could perform this song, and every time he attempted to do it,

06:31because it is a patter song and because it is really

06:34a pretty difficult to sing patter song,

06:36and we have tried to do it and failed many times,

06:40the plot point then became, can this character actually sing it?

06:43And it had a lot to do with his character's sort of offstage anxieties

06:47and neuroses and all of this, so sort of they ended up building

06:50a season arc around his inability to perform this song

06:54and sort of some of the demons that he needed to shake off

06:57throughout the season, sort of building up to that moment

07:00where he finally was able to perform it.

07:02And what's so cool is that it created a situation where

07:05then the audience is rooting for the character and the actor

07:09to be able to perform it, and this is the moment, finally,

07:12in episode 8 where he gets through it for the first time

07:15after many, many failed attempts.

07:17So were you on set when Steve Martin performed it?

07:21We were in the recording studio with him, and then the day on set

07:27they were going overtime, and they thought that the hours shrunk

07:33from like...

07:34It was supposed to be half the day to be shot,

07:39and instead they had two hours left to shoot it.

07:42And we were like, I'm sure they're just going to push

07:44and give it another half day the next day.

07:46And they were like, no, we only have this venue today.

07:50And so the footage that you can see of the other actors

07:52watching the character, a lot of it is very real because

07:55there was a two-hour window, and he actually performed it

07:59and knocked it out of the park, and so I think everybody's

08:01actually surprised that Steve Martin nailed it.

08:04And so you see that on everybody's face, and Steve Martin's kind of like,

08:06yeah, I'm Steve Martin.

08:09I mean, he's a genius, he's an incredible musician,

08:11so it sort of tracks.

08:13I was going to say, he takes it to another level.

08:15Can you talk about that, the extra zhuzh that he adds?

08:19Well, we kind of always wondered what is he going to be doing

08:22during this performance, and I don't know how you describe that exactly.

08:29You know what I mean?

08:30And I don't know where it came from.

08:33That's why he is who he is, and he does what he does,

08:37and it was brilliant and incredible.

08:41And again, the writers and creators of this show

08:44did such a beautiful job of setting up this character.

08:48And I mean, as songwriters and musical theater people

08:52and all this, I just feel very grateful that in 2024,

08:57we have an audience at home rooting for a musical theater patter performance.

09:01I find that insane and incredible.

09:04You know what I mean?

09:06I love that, you know what I mean?

09:09It's just our hats off and our gratitude to this show

09:13and to the audience and everyone.

09:15What are you guys working on next?

09:18Oh, I'm trying to make it through today.

09:22Justin was just playing, and I feel like, are you okay?

09:25Yeah, I just was trying to follow the click tempo map of that song, honestly.

09:30So that was what I was working on.

09:31He was very nervous about it backstage.

09:32I was very nervous.

09:33And he drank two bottles of water before he came out here, so I'm proud of you.

09:36Better than drinking something else.

09:38I took a beta blocker, and I was just watching.

09:44They're near EGOT winners.

09:47Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

09:50Thank you very much.

09:51Thank you all, thank you all.

09:55Thank you.

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