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Billy Joel Approved Only Murders in the Building to Use 'Scenes From an Italian Restaurant' As a Joke to Taunt Characters

“Having ‘a bottle of red, a bottle of white’ over and over again really made me laugh.”

Just when you thought Only Murders in the Building exhausted every cameo opportunity over its four seasons, episode seven gave us yet another surprise in a wig: Melissa McCarthy playing Charles’s estranged younger sister, Doreen, whose house in Suffolk County the trio flees to in fear of being hunted by the unknown killer. No other songs from Joel’s catalogue were seriously considered due both to the ubiquitous nature of “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant” and how its melody foretells the growing chaos inside the home. By the episode’s end, Eugene Levy, Meryl Streep, Eva Longoria, Molly Shannon, and Zach Galifianakis all make appearances to provide their theoriesabout who the killer might be.

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