Adult Swim OPO

Josh in Chicago
Posted: November 9, 2014 at 5:22:14 PM
This was sort of Tim and Eric, right?

Well except for the part where it wasn't unwatchable fucking garbage

otm

lol *nods*

whew thought that was just me

I caught a similar vibe to the "Horse Apples" episode of Wonder Showzen, and so I assumed it was put together by the same guys who did WS, Delocated, Xaviar and The Heart She Holler. WRONG.

Nope, Squidbillies and Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, though.

It doesn't remind me of Tim & Eric at all.

WS, Delocated, Xaviar and The Heart She Holler.

I've seen every episode of WS, Xavier, and Heartshe Holler, but I only ever watched the pilot of Delocated and it didn't grab me. I didn't actually realize it was also a PFFR thing until now. Does it get super weird? Do you guys love it?

(Oh - if it's relevant - I love the Tim & Eric stuff, unlike I guess you guys)

the best part is when the credits become the people and the people become the credits

and i love how instead of being primarily funny that part is legit terrifying

yeah some videodrome shit there

c'mon that part is hilarious

Space part is really the only misstep imo.

Showed to Carl and Je55e. Not sure it was successful.

― Jeff, Monday, November 10, 2014 1:14 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It mostly made me wish I caught it accidentally at 4 am while on whatever drugs had me still up at 4 am because that would have been pretty amazing.

Here, if you can't get the song out of your head, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87p53rAD7Sk

punchline is a+

I didn't actually realize it was also a PFFR thing until now.

It's a Williams Street thing. I incorrectly assumed it was PFFR.

If it were Tim & Eric or Abso-lutely related, there would have been more AV Club-jokes and degraded-VHS looking stuff.

yeah the actual end to this thing was hilarious, what a great payoff

This reminded me more of Sex House than anything else.

The vibe if not necessarily the aesthetic.

Didn't this have degraded VHS stuff? Anyway, I don't like Tim & Eric, either, but the general gist - ironic appropriation of VHS-era or otherwise late-night TV, low-budget detritus kitsch, plus grossness and rule of infinity awkwardness - is def in its DNA.

If it were Tim & Eric or Abso-lutely related, there would have been more AV Club-jokes and degraded-VHS looking stuff

So you thought this was better than the Eric Andre Show, wanna make sure we got that on the record.

The oft-overlooked thing that makes Adult Swim great is that their stuff is pretty pointedly not for everyone, and even people who generally dig what they do aren't going to necessarily dig everything they do. A lot of AS stuff leaves me kinda cold, TBH, but Tim & Eric and most of the AS/Comedy Central shows handled by their production company (e.g. Eric Andre, Nathan For You, Review) often hits just the right note in my personal brain. I felt like Too Many Cooks! definitely had some similarity to that stuff, less because of the VHS aesthetic than because of its willingness to follow the premise down a dark and very weird road (sorta like the currently-airing Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories, a show which would likely appeal to people who disliked their earlier stuff but which those people are probably hugely disinclined to check out).

But: http://www.adultswim.com/videos/tim-erics-bedtime-stories/toes/

Very little is better than The Eric Andre Show, on or off AS.

For everything that's great about TMC, nothing beats the note-perfect Jesse Frederick parody.

But: http://www.adultswim.com/videos/tim-erics-bedtime-stories/toes/

― I'm In The Mood To Munch! (Old Lunch), Monday, November 10, 2014 2:43 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol ok the punchline to this

http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/too-many-cooks-behind-the-scenes.html

I imagine you shot more than you could use. What didn’t make it in?

We used most of it because we shot this in pretty much two days. I’m going to give you little aside: We shot in two days and we used extras because we didn’t have a lot of money. They were very excited they were going to get a screen credit. But, yeah, there were two things I’ll tell you. At the very end, when they’re all on the couch we had a flaming juggler, but we decided that was too wacky — although obviously the whole thing is wacky. And, during the ending credits, I had a stay tuned for “Two in the Bush” and I had a little soundbite of a different type of show, but we decided it was funnier just to get out very quickly.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/which-too-many-cooks-cast-member-are-you

Basically, fuck quizzes, but I got Smarf so I win.

I got The Killer. Sweet.

https://38.media.tumblr.com/1e46138905c23543d3aded721560c84e/tumblr_neoomtEVOP1rkg2f4o1_500.gif

this is the world's easiest quiz to game

PS: I tried for and got The Killer aka Machete Man

Oh yeah, this also reminded me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

Liked the Toes episode. I've never seen Tim & Eric.

Most of this Too Many Cooks thing didn't really do it for me but I liked the Lars Von Trier bit best.

I feel a bit lukewarm about all the Adult Swim stuff but these are the first things I've seen in years from them.

Knowing that the names are all really their names added a whole other layer to this. The imdb credit listing is almost as clever as the video.

Watching this blow up is pretty interesting. This thing is like, almost a decade after Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, and Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, all which tread pretty similar ground, but were way more inventive and wild imo. Too Many Cooks is like a watered down, dumbed down version of those shows ... it's like watching a bell curve in action--shift the creative, intelligent "out there" shit closer to the middle of the curve, and you start to hit a sweet spot with the masses.

^^ this guy

As great as it is, I don't understand why, of all the similar material floating around out there, this particular video has blown up. Particularly since the majority of the comments I've seen/heard have been basically "That's weird...is it supposed to be funny?".

Old Lunch otm

While this isn't in quite the same bracket as peak PFFR, it doesn't need to be and succeeds imo on its own terms. Is the world ready for another Xavier? :P

anti-hype feels like a powerful tool; this had no promo, no advertising and no early press so when you find 2manycooks, you feel like it's a personal secret that you want to share with other people
a season of this would not be as well discussed or beloved

Maybe it's the extreme violence? Is any other Adult Swim stuff this gory?

Tons.

Yeah, this is pretty mild in comparison to some stuff I've seen on AS.

Too Many Cooks is maybe the best thing I've seen on the internet all year

Did you not watch that Toes video, RAG?

I mean, the main joke is "this aired on television at 4 a.m." and "it basically hammers away at one punchline for 11 minutes"

Like I guess the Wonder Shozen "Patience" episode is the only thing close, but it's not a joke that makes it to TV all that often

reading too much more into it is a fool's errand

the last episode of eric andre's second season did the opening for more or less the whole show and eventually ran the entire season superimposed over itself at high speed as a shuddering kaleidoscope of violence and disjointed images
that struck me as fairly revolutionary

That Patience episode did a lot more tbf, ditto Cooperation. By comparison this is much cuddlier (but still good)

lol that EA thing is a str8 WS ripoff

Twitter user and contributing ILXor max almost ruined it for me by posting this:

http://i.imgur.com/KuFF4oM.png