#Howard Morris

[livmoorez]

I just adopted her. I went looking for a cat, and I came home with Gravey.

[thereigning-lorelai]

I'm guessing names and waiting for a reaction.

— ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING | 4x03

[retrotvblr]

Get Smart (1965 – 1970) season 1, episode 1: "Mr. Big" dir. Howard Morris original air date: September 18, 1965

[lonelyzarquon]

# pure oliver putnam™

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING 3.10 Opening Night

[dailyputnam]

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING — 4.06 'Blow-Up' Martin Short as Oliver Putnam Michael Cyril Creighton as Howard Morris Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora

[azertyrobaz]

I need to get LASIK, and he only needed two words.

[potterandpromises]

Season 4 premiere liveblog!

Are those home movies of the actors?

Typical Sazz!! (I know from the reviews they won't find her body right away but I'm still waiting for it)

Mabel I know it's conveniently dark but you should know what blood looks like by now

Howard's walking a new dog in the intro!

Mabel crashing at Oliver's is such a parallel to Oliver crashing at Mabel's in season 1

Oliver's really milking it!

I like that they're addressing that Howard's had at least eight cats, seemingly one at a time (seven Evelyns and one Barbra.)

Mabel I can think of a place for you to live

At this point they need the buddy system

Okay, per my last post, I think it might be "Todd Shettinger, EVP International." No glasses yet but look at that hairline! Also, he's giving me killer vibes.

Oh Brothers, I really did call that siblings theme.

Mabel's like yeah I'm gonna stay homeless

Zach Galifianakis is a highlight

Eugene Levy is like dark palette Charles

Also per my last post--there's that guy in background with the glasses, but he hasn't said anything so I don't know why he'd be [redacted for spoilers.]

THEY DID GET SCOTT BAKULA!!!

To be honest, those three have got to stop having drinks together. Doesn't go well.

If I had a nickel for every time this show's made a joke about joint/bone replacement I'd have two nickels.

So the initial clues up on the murder board are form Sazz herself, or someone who put them in her apartment.

This is like the opposite of Poppy trying to frame them in season 2.

This is darrrk for this show

There is something poetic though, about Charles holding Sazz in his hands. Something about her having been his stunt double and protecting him all these years, and having acquired that metal for/because of him.

[aurorakhaotung]

Okay, find all the other pieces with the same font. Who knows you might get a spot on the podcast. I can be on the podcast? I said "might" and "who knows".

MABEL and HOWARD in ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING S3.E8 ∙ Sitzprobe

[ghosthorse-tracks]

Only Murders in the Building | 3x08

[mayapapaya33]

People who act like Only Murders in the Building isn't Queer anymore because either their old man yaoi ship didn't happen or because Mabel isn't currently dating a woman need to get over themselves immediately. Bi people are still Bi when they're in a "straight passing" relationship. And yes, Oliver and Charles would make an adorable couple, but Oliver and Loretta are the sweetest couple ever and you're depriving yourself of enjoying a wonderful storyline for no reason. (And if rep is what you're after, how about supporting the rep that is older women getting quality roles, let alone quality ROMANTIC roles, because Hollywood treats women over the age of 35 like garbage and this relationship is like seeing a unicorn in the wild lmfao).

Mabel and Alice dated. That's a thing that happened. Pretending it didn't or doesn't count so you can be performatively mad at the show for no reason is literally Bi phobia, stop it.

Mabel has a new love interest every season! How cool is that? That never happens for Women! Unless they're the joke "slut character" that the show doesn't really respect. But this show does respect Mabel and treats it as a normal, unremarkable, unremarked upon amount of dating for a young woman. Usually that's a "man thing" like James Bond and his Bond Girls who come and go through each storyline. How rad is it that we get these great storylines for female characters now?

Sazz Pataki (pretty sure she's a lesbian but definitely some flavor of queer) is Charles' oldest friend and stunt double and has dated TWO of his girlfriend's lmfao. Jan Bellows is queer, and Cookie is also queer! Howard (the cat guy) and his boyfriend Johnathan are right there and so are Detective Donna Williams and her wife Kiara and son Keith.

Not to mention the tragedy of whatever Uma and Bunny were to each other because it was definitely something. (Ok maybe that one is just my shipper goggles at work but tell me you don't see it I dare you).

Honorable mention to Charles' kinda daughter Lucy who might be thinking about various pronouns aka also casual Queer rep.

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I also want to talk about the weird edge to some of the commentary about Oliver and even Martin Short as a real person. If you think about it, some of it is both weirdly homophobic and also inadvertently trying to press toxic masculinity standards onto straight men. I'm referring to the "Wow I can't believe that Martin is straight! There's NO WAY that man is straight! There's no straight explanation for that!" kind of things. Or the "Oliver dating Loretta is so unrealistic, that is a gay man right there! The show is ruined!" people. I get the jokes about how flamboyant Oliver is and a lot of them are fun, but some of them really do end up sounding like the same tired tropes of "emotional flamboyant man likes theater = gay and woman likes sports and cars and flannel = lesbian, uugg uugg."

As for the comments about Martin, look, his chemistry with Steve is off the charts, I get it, but they've been best friends for a thousand years and frankly if your friendship doesn't look a little gay from the outside, is it even really a friendship? lol. Martin Short is a real human being who was with a woman he clearly adored for 36 years, his wife Nancy Dolman, until she died of cancer. He's a confident and charming performer who's comfortable with himself.

I enjoy viewing the character of Oliver through a queer lens, it wouldn't surprise me at all if he at least did some experimenting in the 70's. (He mentioned orgies at some point, are you telling me he was the ONLY guy at the orgies? Come on Oliver!) I'd enjoy it if they explored some element of queerness to the character on the show and I wouldn't be that surprised if they did eventually do that. But there's a difference between that and a forceful attitude of; THERE IS NO WAY A MAN WHO BEHAVES LIKE THAT IS STRAIGHT!!! END OF STORY!!!

First of all, it's just not true. Lots of straight men in the performing arts (or just life in general) are incredibly flamboyant and comfortable with both themselves and things traditionally seen as "queer" and aren't afraid to express themselves beyond the narrow box traditional masculine values would limit them too. Circling back to my earlier points of old man yaoi and biphobia, just because your specific ship didn't happen on the show, it doesn't automatically make the character NOT queer. Again, Bi/Pan people exist. Oliver being in a relationship with Loretta doesn't automatically make him straight, why do I have to explain this on the queer people website?

Also Oliver has two hands, and this is what fanfiction is for. The fact that there aren't a ton of Oliver/Loretta/Charles fics on AO3 is astonishing to me.

[taiturner]

Only Murders in the Building   ━ 3x06 "Ghost Light"

[livmoorez]

[after-the-end-times]

Howard may not be a librarian anymore. He may not have a boyfriend anymore. And he now has more pets than just Sevelyn

But four seasons later, Howard continues to faint at the sight of blood!

[oldshowbiz]

Supposedly Jack Carter and Howard Morris were at each other's throats when they were recording this.

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[dailyputnam]

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING — 1.02 'Who Is Tim Kono?' Martin Short as Oliver Putnam Michael Cyril Creighton as Howard Morris