Too Many Cooks
Tags: comedy, murder, violence, absurd, psychedelic, plot twist

Plot synopsis:
Engaged couple Albert Bennett (Bert Wheeler) and Alice Cook (Dorothy Lee) plan on leaving the city they live in order to build their dream house in the country. They visit the site of their future home while it is only the foundation. The happiness of the new foundation soon dissolves as Albert and Alice start to argue about the floor plan. This problem is made worse when dozens of Alice’s family members come to help, each offering different opinions for the new house.
Albert’s bachelor uncle/employer George (Robert McWade) comes to inspect the house. He offers to pay for it, in exchange for living with the newlywed couple on its completion. Alice’s family vehemently opposes, causing the offended George to fire Albert. Due to his unemployment, Alice calls off the engagement.
Time passes, and the unemployed and single Albert completes the house himself and decides to sell it. Alice returns to see the now completed house and she and Albert reconcile. A now happily married George returns and rehires Albert, and buys the house, only to give it to the new couple as a wedding gift.

Review: Every show that ever had titles, that existed or exists now, has been included in this expensive looking montage.
Its boring, it CANT go on anymore can it?
The person responsible for this obviously did their homework and watched a LOT of TV over the past 30 years.
Too Many Cooks is pure genius.The review on the main page says it's worse than The Heart, She Hollers(sic)(which would still mean it's really good).That was clearly written by a fool with no sense of humor and no idea what comedy is all about.Probably a child who grew up on Barney and Teletubbies and now laughs at lame shows like Blackish and that dumb show with the janitor from Scrubs.If that fool had seen anything made before 1995 he would have gotten all the jokes and realized this is possibly the funniest thing ever made.I didn't bother to read any other reviews because life is too short.The plot summary basically explains the whole eleven minutes so there's no reason for me to get into it.Anyone who watched television in the 80s will love this.A definite must see..
The first time I watched Too Many Cooks on Adult Swim I feared that I had suffered a stroke.
I saved it on the DVR and made my wife watch it to confirm that I was actually seeing this twisted madness.
Like vines crawling up the back of your spine and tapping into your brain linking us all through a maddening vision we see Too Many Cooks as a new horizon.....
Okay, maybe not all of that but it's twelve minutes of your life you'll never get back and you'll be a changed person from the experience..
many easter eggs in " too many cooks by typer Harry Grut.
There are many hidden messages and easter eggs i have encountered when watching this amazing piece of art many of which are parodies and memes of other movies, for instance when fuzzy (the fury animal) was playing the piano.
This looked quite normal the first time around when watching it, but then the 6-7 time watching it you begin to realize there is a deeper meaning, a easter egg!
In the game we see a ghost playing the piano just as fuzzy did in "too many cooks"!
There are many other easter eggs as well, such as when fuzzy shoots rainbows from his hands.
At first you may think it is just an ordinary scene, but as you get into the deeper many we realize this is actually miming a movie called "Harry Potter".
Just as harry (the wizard in Harry Potter) can do spells and has an owl who delivers his mail the owls name is whodini the character fuzzy can perform a magic that includes love.
"No its a feeling deep inside" dang I'm hungry, no your lonely, i can see it in your eyes.Also kahoots is very funMuch of the short movie "too many cooks" is obviously part of a easter egg that relates to other movies and games..
It isn't even a show - it's just fifteen minutes of 80s/90s era opening credits which includes a creepy serial killer randomly lopping people's heads off with a machete.
A has some off the wall programs like "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell", "Lucy, Daughter of the Devil", "Metalocalypse", "Superjail", "Aqua Teen Hunger Force", and "Squidbillies" which are all pretty bad in their own right, but at least they have an edge and some semblance of a plot that makes them work.
Gets better each time you watch it.
A kaleidoscopic pop-culture send up, Too Many Cooks gets better each time you watch it.
At first it appears to be a spot-on parody of a 1980s sitcom, then it slowly morphs into something that moves through TV tropes and genres until it becomes unsettling as a gleeful murderer (William Tokarsky) begins offing the cast.
He continues to do so as the genres change - cop show, nighttime soap, action cartoon, space opera.
It isn't until the end that we learn that he might have been doing the cast a favor.Watch it again.
Second, you will start noticing the killer showing up in weird places far earlier than what seemed to be his initial appearance.
Plus, in subsequent viewings his murders become more and more funny.Arguments can be made about the meaning of the entire thing - does it have a plot?
Very few films get better the more often they are watched.
And you've got...Too Many Cooks!
I feel....mesmerized, like I've been sucked into a vortex of nostalgia and confusion.
Wait, I get it, it's called "Too Many Cooks" because the intro just goes on forever with a family that never ceases to end in size.No, wait, now they're at a dinner table, with another family, a black family.
Why is the camera panning across the table with changing characters?
What is with the creepy guy that appears in the background of all these introductions?
Hold on, why is there a guy with binoculars staring at a naked woman?
There's also a puppet shooting rainbows out of it's hands but this still doesn't help, I'm still confused, yet mesmerized.We move into various other scenarios and cartoon-introductions yet that creepy guy still appears everywhere?
We go back into the bedroom and we see the credit for a character named Katie Adkins, the creepy guy appears and chases her, her name is stuck to her, why?
Then a woman starts to spin and changes characters, but why?
Creepy binoculars guy gets his head chopped off and is reintroduced, but why?
Creepy killer guy is now eating dead bodies.
Then the characters are really words and the names on them are the actors and they're stuck and everyone is dying and then the show starts, which promptly ends.Yet it all comes down to this moment, I've never written a review on IMDb and likely never will.
I feel as though as this has taken over my life, I feel like everything is confusing and there's no connection to anything I do.
I don't know what the hell I just watched, all I can say was that it was weird and hilarious!
From a pretty dopey 80's style family to a peeping tom to a serial killer, this explores all the nostalgically bad elements of 80's television in a laugh-riot sitcom parody!
"Mister Corporate", I don't have the slightest idea which sitcom he was making fun of but he was pretty cool, and the slasher movie serial killer flips the whole thing into something beyond description.
I recommend watching it, in just 11 minutes you'll see one of the strangest things you've seen in some time!
Keep an eye out for various parodies like Full House, the Cosby Show, Clarissa Explains It All, Alf, and many more of those 80's TV shows!.
Too Many Cooks isn't something I saw coming.
It has a great production value for something that aired at 4AM on Adult Swim, as though its viral nature had been planned from the very start.
Its slow descent into insanity is hilarious once you realize what's happening, and foreshadowed well enough that you can actually notice that, for example, the murderer shows up in the first round of the theme song.
It forms a surprisingly cohesive narrative, as seen from several points of view in many different versions of the theme song, all with the same name: Too Many Cooks.
This is both very simple to describe, and impossible to summarize.It is, at its heart, a parody of 80's and 90's TV show opening credits.
It incorporates all the usual TV tropes - sitcom, cop show, low rent sci-fi, Saturday morning cartoons, rich white people drama - and then throws in an 80's slasher movie plot within itself.This may be the best parody of American television ever done.
It speaks to everything wrong, silly, and forced that executives do to ruin TV shows.
Amazing, amazing, stuff.Watch this several times and see if you don't spot something new every time..
This surreal dark short comedy was indeed very thought-provoking.
Written and directed by Casper Kelly, this short, parodies the many different types of opening credits sequences of 1980s and 1990s American TV Shows, such as the American situation comedy, the television crime dramas, prime time soap operas, Saturday-morning cartoons, the superhero live-action series, and last, the science fiction television shows, by having a never ending loop song, typing them all, up, together.
In the middle of those sequences, is a surreal narrative that includes slasher film elements, in which many of the multitude of stock characters introduced in the opening credits are murdered and eaten by a maniac (William Tokarsky) with a machete.
The only way, they can be save is, for one of those character, to push the start button, allow the show to continue, pass the opening credit sequence.
Can the characters save themselves by pushing that button or will them, end up, in a never-ending nightmarish loop?
Watch the special to find out!
Originally aired as a special during Adult Swim's 4 A.M "infomercials" block in 2014.
It wasn't until, it was release by a third party on YouTube; that "Too Many Cooks" became a "instant cult classic" viral phenomenon that reach a million viewers.
Don't get me wrong, I kinda love that long-drawn out meta trolling vague comedies, but the special does, go, a little too long, at times, even for those, looking forward to seeing it.
It felt like a double edge sword.
I really like what too many cook is trying to say, with its postmodern satire of what happens when studio head start to interference on creatives on television show, but the hardest part about the special is also its repetitive nature.
I really doubt, I can watch it, multiply times, without going mad.
The special is good for a one time, watch, but not recommended for repeat-viewing.
Often, the special repeat old television treads, to show, that even the media can be somewhat unwatchable, when studios start, feeding the same old stuff, over and over again.
I think, this special was create by the creators as an insider jab against Time Warner as well as Adult Swim.
The Machete Man in 'Too Many Cooks' represent Time Warner in a way, because it does what normal network executives often does, they kill shows, when they or the viewer lose interest.
This is why, the killer is always hidden in the background in Too Many Cooks.
This is why, everybody got replace with the Machete Killer, within Too Many Cook timeframe.
Represented here as Smarf, the absurd sock puppet.
Like Adult Swim, Smarf tries to save television programming, by doing something new, even if it's a bit bizarre or out of context.
This is why, after he shows up, in Too Many Cooks, the subject matter often began to mix up with each other.
Smarf don't care, if it make sense or not, as long, as it makes people, happy.
This is why characters outlandish actions can clearly outlive good solid performances.
The scene where the credits that are the size and shape of human beings walking and running around with the actors superimposed horizontally across the credit people shows that.
The whole intronitis disease part with Ken DeLozier represented the addicting absurdism of this.
It shows, how bad, both over-creativeness and control-programming can kill a show.
The button pushing scene, represented, the stop of absurdism and going back to basics.
It shows how creators can fight back.
At least, that's my theory on what this special means.
Other people can believe, whatever they want, like it's just Ken Delozier's losing his mind, or a connection to other shows, but in the end, that's what I saw.
It's often offbeat, bizarre, and holds a peculiar kind of humor that some people might not get.
It might seem random, too vague or deliberately unfunny, but once you get a chance to watch it.
I think, that's the best thing to come from this special.
"Too Many Cooks" succeeds not because it is funny or weird, but because it creates an experience for the viewer that is completely unique and original.
If you haven't watched it yet, find it on YouTube and give it a view...don't look at the time it's going to take, don't read any other reviews - just watch it and you'll understand why it's so hilarious.
You begin by floating along peacefully in a cartoonish world, then the sudden drop and the whole ride changes.The ideal audience for "Too Many Cooks" is someone in their mid 30s, as many of the spoofed intros are from shows which aired during the 80s and 90s ("Dallas", "Falcon Crest", "Dynasty", "Full House", "Clarissa Explains It All", and the list goes on).
But then halfway through, it completely changes and takes on a life of its own, spoofing something else, the 80s slasher flick.
Eventually you don't know what you're watching, but you know it's good.Watch it a second or third time and you'll start to notice lots of Easter Eggs (how many times can you spot the killer before he starts slashing?).
Too Many Cooks Poison the Broth.
A sitcom intro.
Remember Ken Delozier or you might have to watch the whole eleven minutes again.
A Second iteration only realized after some names repeat but meanwhile Smarf?
And after that actual cooks.
So now you realize it is some kind of joke unless you were watching it at four a.m. on October 28, 2014 when it first aired on adult swim cause you were probably high.
Smarf shoots rainbows WOW!
Bored.
Going round the table like that seventies show.
The song is going to be stuck in my head forever.
Too many cooks or too many actors.
Ohh Noo the intro is spiralling out of control G.I. Cook.
A castle, a falcon and now suddenly the plot to the intro thickens.A man goes about killing the actors DARK.
Hilarious dark comedy the chase for Katie Adkins.
So Smarf is our hero and I'm just listing things now Sci-Fi, abbreviations for cook and broth knight rider music.
Is it me or does it feel like all the simpsons intros throughout the years is what we are looking at.It has become one of those things that people look for reasons to explain it and two theories are emerging.
Two this is a battle between the creator, the one with the idea for a show and the network executive who only looks to make money.
After having heard the second explanation I watched it again and it explained a lot to me and even a bit enjoyable otherwise I was like WTF the first time I watched it.
It's a spoof of the openings of 70s, 80s and 90s TV shows.
It starts with a show about the Cook family and then it's a series of crazy connected parodies.
The minor problem I have is the machete serial killer Bill who comes in starting at the middle.
It's kind of off-topic unless it's spoofing some serial killer TV show that I missed from that time.
Also it's the thing people do when they can't figure out something better.
Although Katie Adkins hiding in the closet with her name shinning through got me good.
Nevertheless that character got way too much airtime to just land one good joke.
The rest of his time was somewhat confounding and even cringe-worthy.
I kept thinking of ISIS cutting people's heads off.
The one character that I truly love is Smarf.
In a way, this spoof arrives just in time as Network TV crash and burn with the good ole days long gone.
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At first glance Too Many Cooks seems like it's going to mainly stick to parodying intros of family sitcoms from the late 80's/early 90's in the vein of Full House, Step by Step, Family Matters and so forth.
But as the film keeps on progressing it begins to reveal it's true colors, and nothing is more representative of this than the introduction of Smarf (Because what makes an adorable family even more lovable than a cat/alf/muppet/terminator hybrid who shoots rainbows out of his arms).That's really when the brilliance of Too Many Cooks begins to shine.
Within the confines of this spoof on sitcoms, Too Many Cooks manages to rip on almost every staple of 90's television and film ranging from police procedurals to slasher films to Saturday morning cartoons to sci-fi programs and more..And it does so with great wit, as if all of these unrelated sequences are all part of one big Cook family, all the while acknowledging and capturing the cheesiness of each genre it's tackling.I can safely say that my favorite part was the moments after the killer finished massacring everyone and the sitcom shifted to him being the different family members, then afterwards as he commenced to feast on all the dismembered limbs of the different Cooks.
It felt like a triumph (for me) on all these overly optimistic, happy-go-lucky shows which were so out of touch from reality.
Truly warms the heart :)For anyone with an open sense of humor and a soft spot for early 90's television I'd say this a must see.
This is an 11-minute short film by Adultswim from last year.
The writer and director is Casper Kelly and his work here is basically a spoof on intros from all kinds of old television series, all genres included.
My favorite part were the first couple minutes as it included parodies of "Family Matters" and "Roseanne", two shows I grew up with.
For some reason, the director also included to get in some slasher elements.
Should have stayed a harmless movie and run for 6 minutes max, maybe only 4-5, then it could have been a success from start to finish.