The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour).
One of the sponsors of Cindy Canning's podcast is the Rand Corporation. Rand Corporation is a major feature in the Marvel TV series Iron Fist, which is another New York set Disney owned production.
Steve Martin first came up with the concept for the show 10 years earlier. Back then, his idea was that the three leads would be elderly gentlemen who had a shared interest in murder but not in leaving their homes, hence they would only investigate murders in their building.
The typeface used to spell 'Only Murders in the Building', in the opening credits is reminiscent of, or a near copy of, the typeface used to spell 'The New Yorker' on the cover of the magazine.