Adult Swim OPO

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

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

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

― Johnny Fever, Monday, November 10, 2014 10:39 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Somehow I got the killer too. What is it about liking chicken noodle soup, "Don't You Want Me" and wanting to be played by Justine Bateman?

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

― Karl Malone, Monday, November 10, 2014 5:58 PM (31 minutes ago)

what this guy said...

Copy/pasting what I wrote about this on Letterboxd: "Delightfully perverse, and, for once, a worthy viral sensation, but the turn towards all-out horror in the final minutes might put too fine a point on the whole thing. Aren't the patronizing racial politics, family-friendly smut and the overall tone of squeaky-cleanliness all sinister enough without letting a slasher on the loose?"

I dunno, but for the first time in a long time, I got sort of spooked out walking down dark halls of my own residence.

It kinda reminds of that legitimately hilarious fan video going point-by-point over why Star Wars Episodes I-III were so horrible, especially compared to the original trilogy.

Its only stumbling point was this reoccurring "gag" of the narrator having a kidnapped female hostage tied up in his basement.

it's everything i ever liked about mr. show and wonder showzen and all that stuff compressed into 11 minutes. a tour de force!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8u4CEBVq7s

I'm working from home and the theme song keeps running through my head and every now and then I turn around and look nervously at the closet behind me

Worried she might get out?

I've only watched it twice and the theme song seems to be on permanent autorepeat in my brain.

"It's Not Jackie Chan" is, with "Here She Comes," probably my favorite T&E bit.

I looped the falcon loop and CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD.

there are no good tim and eric bits

i beg to differ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Re6pZri8Gw

"haha black people"

you gonna post i'm shithead and i can do a blackflip next?

Uh...what?

Tom Goes To The Mayor was pretty funny but the joke got old super fast once T&EASGJ started

Did you not watch that Toes video, RAG?

― imago, Monday, 10 November 2014 17:58

Actually that was some of the most excruciating violence I've seen since Inside. But I didn't think Adult Swim would regularly have the sort of gory rampage of Too Many Cooks.

Isn't Adult Swim mostly aimed at teens?

I know the 80s was quite a long while ago but it's kind of amazing to me how this sort of content could land people in jail back then and in that Video Nasties documentary you see this old politician who still believes today these cheesy films were actual snuff films, and Walking Dead, Game Of Thrones and Adult Swim shows violence more extreme (than most of those films) to a much wider audience.

Also surprised this forum has taken so kindly to Too Many Cooks. I was expecting "I'm sick of this lol random shit".

did I tune out during the really violent part or something, because all I saw was ridiculous fake blood spurting and really fake looking dismembered appendages/heads

adult swim has always been a later night broadcast, probably more so back at the beginning when it didn't come on until 11pm. more of a college-aged audience.

Yeah, thought the gore in this was fake looking/hokey enough to not really be bothersome.

Caught some eps of Superjail on AS once and was kind of blown away by how hellishly gruesome that was.

I would think the programming name "Adult Swim" would provide some clue as to the demographic they're courting

Shoot, I wouldn't even let my kids watch "Small Wonder" if it was still on.

Superjail is so great :D