#Dickie Glenroy

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I don’t know if any of the showrunners actually scroll through tumblr, but if so—THANK YOU!!! Thank you for including Will and Dickie and Winnie in the wedding scene. Even if it was only 30 seconds, it was so important for them to be there.

And the scene with Charles and Sazz made me cry. He needs to spend his money from the movie rights to build her trampoline park.

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

I really hope we'll have Dickie back for Oliver and Loretta's wedding! If he walks her down the "aisle" my heart will burst 🥹

Oh! And Will! Will must be there as well, by Oliver's side!

Aaahh I can't wait!

[theguardianofmagic]

I’m SO glad Dickie and Will were at the wedding.

[dragonsareawesome123]

"Was there something you needed to say to me?"

Only Murders in the Building (2021-), 3x08 - "Sitzprobe"

[toyboy-molloy]

will and dickie at the wedding: haha guess we're brothers now

theo:

[kharjo-san]

Also, the reason Loretta was so GD nervous and distracted at the first table read in ep 1... She was literally staring across the room at Dickie, watching her son in person for the first time, while she should have been reading her line

She looks across the room at Dickie reading, then both Ben and Dickie look up at her in confusion, and she just smiles back cuz Dickie is looking at her

[ms-oswald]

But, you know, sometimes I think a person's just a... collection of a thousand little details. And when they're gone, those are the things you miss most. OMITB, S03E07

[columbocorners]

you know, going over to rewatch the third season of only murders in the building, the context of scenes with loretta make more sense right down to episode one because you immediately get why she is so nervous, it isn't because of the play, it's because of dickie.

[after-the-end-times]

Did Dickie even really know Ben?

Everything we learn about Ben from Dickie turned out to not be true?

Dickie: Ben stayed out every Thurs night to do drugs at a brothel

Reality: Ben had a sewing circle with 5 old ladies

Dickie: He had to cover up Ben's bloodwork cause he did hard drugs

Reality: Ben's Sewing Ladies said he sewed to stay off the hard drugs

I need to go back to the earlier eps, but I'm pretty sure hardly anything we're told about Ben is true in flashbacks?

[potterandpromises]

OMITB 3x10 (THE FINALE) liveblog:

Okay, before we begin I just want to say my fear is that they won’t do anything with Tobert and there won’t be any pay off with him being framed as suspicious.

This actually seems like a pretty good explanation of what a producer does.

They actually managed to make the scene with Donna and baby Cliff feel sweet despite all the… you know.

“I have a hard enough time calling him Tobert.” lmao (and her smile after Loretta fist bumps her seems off to me, like the camera lingers too long.)

Good on Loretta for figuring out Donna’s sick.

I’m so sad that we’re gonna get so little of Mabel and Loretta together.

Idk if the hankies had names on them or anything, but I’m thinking they know the hankie wasn’t Donna’s?

I like Donna more and more as time goes on. ‘Yeah, I poisoned Ben, what of it?’ (and Mabel’s line: ‘why’d I write all these queue cards’ iconic.)

Would you rather fight one Ben Glenroy sized rat or 80 rat sized Ben Glenroys?

The cue cards on Charles’ back ojvfgiopk

It was Cliff’s hankie. He wiped his mom’s lipstick off after she kissed him on the lips again.

Tobert quit saying cute.

Oh Jesus Tobert.

I mean, that’s not going to happen.

Dickie 🥹

That was such a sweat moment between Loretta and Dickie.

Mabel, have you considered not confronting the killer alone in a high up place?

This is so close to how Zoe died cinematic parallels make brain go burr

This is so stressful

Okay, I found that to be more predictable then the other two seasons, but it was so well executed that I’m not sure if I care.

Also, WHAT’s the deal with Tobert?!

And who’s about to die? (and is it Tobert?)

Sazz Pataki?! Please don’t die.

Nooooo Sazzzz

I guess she was right about someone being out to get Charles.

That’s actually kinda fucking poetic, with her wanting to protect Charles.

And yes I’m disappointed they didn’t give us any pay off with Tobert. If you make a character suspicious, it’s typically best to have them be hiding something

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Am I the only one thinking that the mystery male arm in so many of Loretta’s pictures belongs to HER SON? You know, the adult one who’s also her showbiz manager, who might not want to be all over her instagram yet? No, Dickie never struck me as super buff last season, but we never saw him in short sleeves either.

And we got a reminder about Ben in the same episode Mystery Man turns up on Oliver’s radar.

Just saying.

[sidleyparkhermit]

Aight, taking the latest episode into account I'm moving my top theory from Orient Express to what I'll call the Clouds of Witness theory: many people might have wanted to murder Ben, but no one did.

The big new clue this week was "FUCKING PIG" scrawled on Ben's dressing room mirror in lipstick. The trio think it was Joy because it was her lipstick, but they're wrong. Here's my reconstruction of Ben's steps that night:

Ben argues with Tobert, then storms off to his dressing room, where the camera captures him monologuing at a chocolate chip cookie.

He breaks his highly restrictive diet, eats the cookie, and soon sees a little red pimple appear on his face. Kimber sees him while the blemish is visible, and will see him later at some point when it's covered.

He calls Joy -- a veteran TV makeup artist (as the dialogue reminded us this week), and someone he may well have worked with on his own cop show -- who pops in and fixes him up perfectly, but leaves a stray item behind in her rush.

Ben, now at a self-loathing low, looks in his dressing room mirror and scrawls the cartoon pig face and the words "FUCKING PIG" across his own reflection with Joy's red lipstick.

Curtain time; a visibly stressed Ben takes the stage and collapses for reasons still unclear. But whatever goes down, whether mischance or foul play, it doesn't kill him.

Ben regains consciousness, goes from the hospital to the party, makes his rounds, gets a phone call and steps out. Then -- for reasons also still unknown, and clutching the handkerchief belonging to either a crew member or Dickie -- he either falls or jumps down the elevator shaft onto the broken elevator parked on the ground floor. His body cracks the roof of the elevator, but does not fully break through it until the podcast trio board the elevator some time later.

The biggest problem with this theory, to me, is the question of how it could ever end up being substantiated, since the Arconia evidently still doesn't have any security cameras for some reason.

From Dickie's breakdown in the penthouse, though, I wonder if he may have seen more than he's admitted to seeing. Even if all he realized is that Ben was being deeply hurt on his last day alive by that restrictive showbiz diet, there's a guilt that Dickie's holding inside that might help piece together the real story.

[cytryndor]

Buckle up people, I’m about to tell you who’s this season’s killer

It’s Donna.

Why, you might ask? Nothing up to this point actually let to her, right? Wrong!

Have you ever seen that musical, The Producers?

The Producers’ plot is really simple. There’s this guy Max Bialystock, who - with help from this other guy, Leopold Bloom - scheme a plan of how to make 2 million dollars in profit from a total and utter disaster of a play. They think of this amazing five stages of a plan, which only the first two will be useful for us.

Step One: Find the worst play ever written.

Step Two: Find the worst director in town.

So, what does it mean for us?

Death Rattle (the play) is this ridiculous murder mystery where the main suspect is a baby. It’s, it’s just ridiculous, right? Step one speaks for itself.

Okay, but what about step two?

We know that there were at least two directors signed for this play: Jerry Blau and Oliver Putnam. Now, I’m not a critic, but I do have a feeling like both of them can be seen as a disasters just waiting to happen. We’re talking about people who are either a) living in the theater cause they’re broke and too proud to go back home, b) director of Splash! The Musical (2005). Like I said, not a critic, but doesn’t seem like a money making machine for me.

Okay, but what about it? It might as well be a coincidence that it fits, right? Wrong.

There are two real life people cameos in this season - opposed to last two ones, where we got just one per each. This time, we got this silly little guy, (who’s extremely talented and funny) Matthew Broderick, and this other silly guy (who’s more famous and more accomplished than any other star cameo in the series) Mel Brooks. What do they have to do with it, you might ask?

Well, it’s time to skip to the year of our lord 2001, and the Broadway premiere of The Producers, whom were written by silly guy number two, Mel Brooks. It had an amazing cast, everyone was so talented, and later nominated for Tony’s. One of which, was this silly guy number one, Matthew Broderick, for the role of Leo Bloom. Unfortunately, he lost in his category to his co-star, our own Teddy Dimas, Nathan Lane, who’s suspiciously absent from this season (sure, he was having some other, Broadway related play gig, but hey).

And you might say, okay, they got Broderick, and what? Well, let me tell you: not every show got a chance of Mel Brooks’ cameo. I mean, come on, Broderick has an incredible filmography and stage career, why The Producers out of all of them? Why Mel Brooks?

Okay, so you might ask now, if you’re still not convinced: what was her motive? What, was it money? That doesn’t make sense! And you’d be right. I think, that her motive was something far more important to her: Cliff, her son.

Up until last Tuesday I was convinced she wanted Death Rattle to fail. I mean, that was meant to be Cliff’s debut, and if it would turned out to be a hit, he would most probably leave her - or so she thought he would, so she poisoned the cookies, and left them for show’s biggest name, knowing Ben wouldn’t resist to try them.

But now I know, or at least suspect, that that’s not the case, thanks to one scene from this week’s episode.

While in the bathroom, Donna did said to Loretta, that a mother would do everything to protect her child; now, we were meant to be focused on Loretta and her struggle, but what if there’s more to that scene? What if she wanted her son to succeed, and the show to be a hit, but sensed that Ben Glenroy was a threat to not even her, but her baby, and his Broadway debut?

This week’s episode was about mother who was able to confess to a crime she didn’t commit, just so she could protect her baby. I think that this seasons murderer is a mother, who committed said crime, just so she could protect her baby.

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

I just watched episode five of OMITB, and I suddenly realised Oliver never considered the possibility that the arm hugging Loretta was Dickie's; I mean, he's her son, and her manager, and maybe he has started going to the gym.

[theodimasbabygirl]

Finding out Dickie is adopted basically confirms that Loretta is his bio mom right???

[jerzwriter]

OMITB... My guess...

Donna did the poisoning, but she did not end up killing Ben. The killer is Cliff.

I think Ben knew he was poisoned. Since he was fasting in advance of the play, the only thing he ate was the cookie, so he knows that's the source. While it was Cliff who offered him the cookies at the door, he mentioned that his mother ordered them. Then, there is one cookie waiting for him in his dressing room.

Ben confronts Donna, maybe he even has proof that it was Donna, and Cliff comes to her defense. He pushes Ben down the elevator shaft to protect his mother from going to jail for poisoning Ben.

Or... perhaps he was just stressed out and did his "anxiety dance" and accidentally knocked Ben into the elevator shaft.

Somehow, it's a mother/son tag team.

My second guess... it was Dickie.

Relieved that O/M/C has found Dickie "innocent," Loretta recants her confession. It's proven she couldn't have poisoned Ben, and she is released. She's eager to have a mother/son reunion, only to arrive at the Arconia to see Dickie being led away in handcuffs after all. That is angst worthy of our Queen Meryl

He was driven mad because he thought he was finally rid of Ben, and then he had the audacity to "come back." That's why he told Loretta "You understand."

So those are my guesses...

@icecoffee90, what do you think?