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xps thanks for the link amateurist

I only watched this twice, a week ago, and that damn song is still running through my head clear as a bell.

That said I didn't like any of their recurring characters and they often went way too far in an unfunny direction.

I couldn't watch it because it felt like 35 minutes of Swan and that manchild showing his underwear to the camera.

I'm sure they had funny sketches but fuck if I was ever going to sift through all their bad ones to find them.

The only part in "Too Many Cooks" that I didn't really care much for and which struck me more as "typical Adult Swim" stuff was the Wonder Woman gag.

http://popculturespectrum.com/?tag=shawn-coleman

xxpost Luann Lockhart. That's all you need.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ygZIdyDJM

the Wonder Woman gag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xZOUXNyQg

Yes! Was trying to remember the artist who did that.

The only part in "Too Many Cooks" that I didn't really care much for and which struck me more as "typical Adult Swim" stuff was the Wonder Woman gag.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 4:34 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah clearly they were letting it go on a little too long for the 'payoff' at the end but it was the only time when i was like ok are they just padding this thing out to fill the timeslot they were given? the hawk loop also went on for too long but at least musically it was catchy enough that i didn't mind.

i loved mad t.v. ilx always made fun of me for loving that show. fuck the haterz! way better than snl. too many sad randy newman fans on ilx. get all indignant when they made fun of randy...

― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 17:39 (Yesterday) Permalink

I think about the randy Newman sketch every once in a while

https://twitter.com/adultswim/status/532929012491116545

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Kind of weird to me that "Too Many Cooks", which is probably the weakest example I've seen of a style of surreal horror comedy that Adult Swim normally does really well, is blowing up so big. I thought "The Newbridge Tourism Board" fake infomercial was much funnier, but I would 'cause I am a Scharpling fan.

xxp alright, that got me

I'm a huge Scharpling fan, and as a Scharpling fan, I have to concede that the Newbridge infomercial was mostly for Scharpling fans (i.e. I can't imagine that it's going to convert many people who were previously unfamiliar with Scharpling & Wurster).

The popularity of "Too Many Cooks" seems linked to the nostalgic touchstones (Roseanne, GI Joe, etc) it employs up until the serial killer stuff starts happening. Really the only explanation I can think of for it's mass appeal.

The Newbridge infomercial was fantastic, but very niche in a lot of it's humor. Felt like I was watching Tom Goes to the Mayor again (a good thing)

i'm not 18 and i don't really watch adult swim but man if you can't see why too many cooks would stand out in a sea of internet stuff i don't even know what to tell you. it's pretty epic weirdness. and i've seen lots of weirdness.

i like when people really go for it. you know? commitment! it's just so well made...

It occurred to me, too, that the insane logistics of the whole endeavour were on par with Michel Gondry's music video golden era, which I hold in the highest esteem.

yeah this thing is successful because they got so many small details right / wrote a really catchy song, not because the underlying joke is super funny (cf the terrible madtv sketch)

I swear I'm not bearing Mr. Cynical Old Man. I was rooting for Too Many Cooks when I hit play! I just really didn't see anything particularly mindblowing about it. I only got one laugh out of it -- it was a big laugh (the credit shining through the closet door), sure, but I didn't see anything particularly brilliant or outstanding about in the funny, fucked-up, or funny-in-a-fucked-up-way categories, and it's hard for me to forgive something that feels overlong at 11 minutes.

Oh, and here's the Newbridge thing if you didn't see it and are interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-2E-X0RVYM

There's definitely some Blair Witch Syndrome here, in that the earlier you stumble across it, the more likely it is to work on you.

(I thought the credit people with the screaming humans on them was pretty fucked up)

my wife didn't think it was long enough at 11 minutes...

yeah it's an agree to disagree thing. that newbridge thing isn't that funny to me. i like parks & rec though...as far as loser town stuff goes.

yeah this thing is successful because they got so many small details right

The shaky helicopter shot of the skyline in the first :01 is what sealed the rest of it for me.

xpost The Newbridge infomercial is building on thirteen years of jokes and character- and world-building from a radio show. I can't imagine that it'd be super accessible if you aren't already down. And even then, it doesn't work nearly as well as when it was an audio-only undertaking.

the element of surprise was a big part of the 'success' of it, that it was just a standalone thing that wasn't advertised ahead of time and featured no known stars. compare that to something like "The Greatest Event in Television History," another Adult Swim one-off lampooning '80s TV opening credits that featured famous people and had an ironically aggrandizing title and was advertised ahead of time but wasn't actually very entertaining at all.

the newbridge thing is also the victim of 25 years of simpsons springfield jokes.

this was one of my all-time favorite things when i was a little kid. the national lampoon did an entire sunday newspaper for a fake loser town like springfield and i couldn't believe all the details. all the t.v. listings for fake shows. the classified ads! an entire sunday comics section. i would look at it for hours. very similar in some ways to a lot of modern stuff now. and in tune with sctv and fernwood, etc of that day.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2869/8827923856_0312c9fd11_z.jpg

Def feel like Too Many Cooks just doesn't commit hard enough to what it's supposed to be -- should be longer, should be more even in tone, lose the serial killer and hero gags.

FWIW in the version I had in my mind the movement was less linear, like there wouldn't be an obvious relationship between one character and the next, location might jump around, etc. Of course this could be very expensive and complicated to shoot.

The Newbridge spot also suffers somewhat because Jon Wurster is one of the funniest human beings alive on the radio but his presence in the infomercial is like actors who made the awkward transition from silents to the talkies. Something is lost in translation because he doesn't work the medium with the same magic.

Sight unseen, I would highly, highly recommend the upcoming Best Show box set to anyone who thought there was a spark of anything in the Newbridge spot, but again, $100 is a pretty significant barrier of entry for anyone on the fence.

scott, you would LOVE this I think
Don Novello's ' Blade - The Shellville High School Yearbook'
http://www.amazon.com/The-Blade-Shellville-School-Yearbook/dp/0020295804
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/a-tale-of-two-dons-delillos-forgotten-memoir-and-novellos-yearbook-about-sheep/

Don Novello's The Lazlo Letters shaped who I am as a human being. I would read it over and over when i was a kid.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Lazlo-Letters-Don-Novello/dp/1563052857

I love the rest of the Best Show but could never get jazzed about the S&W stuff. I guess I just don't find Wurster that funny? A few of them I enjoyed but usually I found them kind of tedious. Maybe it helps to be fluent in Philly/Jersey things.

I always looked forward to Seven Second Delay WAY more than Best Show when I listened to a lot of FMU. It was good sometimes but I didn't feel the strong attachment to it a lot of people did.

There are definitely some shining star moments that would work for the uninitiated, but The Best Show definitely rewarded the superfans. So many of the Wurster calls in later years were all about the worldbuilding and ridiculously stupid callbacks. But I totally get that it isn't for everybody. Aside from a few choice calls here and there, I don't think I've sold a single person on it yet.

i like the comedy bang! bang! t.v. show. speaking of surreal modcomedy audio into video.

http://www.thewrap.com/adult-swims-upcoming-slate-boasts-30-new-original-series-specials-and-pilots/

after one episode, big time hollywood fl kinda sucked

also OMG at all those new shows that all sound fucking horrible

BAD GUYS – Design. Marketing. Looking fresh to death. These are things that are lost on modern-day terrorists, but one man is going to change the game forever. Bad Guys is a quarter-hour animated series about a bombastic, megalomaniac terrorist and his upstart terrorist organization; and their quest for global domination. World Governments and Fashionistas your days are numbered. Created by Paul Scheer (Fresh Off the Boat, The League) and Nick Giovannetti, produced by Bento Box.
UNTITLED MILLION DOLLAR EXTREME PROJECT – A live-action quarter-hour sketch show in an almost­present­day post­apocalyptic nightmare world. Created by Million Dollar Extreme.
NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE – Mr. Neighbor’s House is a children’s show hosted by Brian Huskey (Childrens Hospital, Veep). He’s like any other host of kids programming, except that he is barely able to contain the suppressed rage boiling underneath his quiet demeanor. From the safe confines of his home, he throws to various “educational” vignettes: puppets, animation, stop motion, spoken word and mixed medium elements that all blend together into one 15 minute show… that is NOT for kids. Created by Huskey, Jason Mantzoukas (Childrens Hospital, The League), and Jesse Falcon, who also serve as executive producers with Rob Corddry (Childrens Hospital, Hot Tub Time Machine).
BALLMASTRZ 9669 – Thousands of years in the future no one cares about traditional sports anymore. The only game that matters is THE GAME, and the new breed of heroes that play it: BALLMASTRZ. Inside giant battle arenas the size of a small city, teams of Ballmastrz face off against each other using their own hyper-creative artificially intelligent combat weapons to attack, defend, and score. These are the BALLS. Obstacles and challenges test the physical, mental, and psychological limits of the players while entertaining the masses. The player or team that masters their Ball will master The Game in the most spectacular action sport ever played. This quarter-hour animated series is created by Christy Karacas (Superjail!) and produced by Titmouse.
APOLLO GAUNTLET – Trapped in another world, a cop from Earth can finally fight crime the way he wants after acquiring talking magical gauntlets. Animated quarter-hour pilot created by Myles Langlois and produced by Six Point Harness.
BUBBLEGOOSE AND JUICE – Two best friends, a neurotic “Bubblegoose” and slacker “Juice” sharing a tiny no bedroom apartment as they try to maneuver through an unpredictable, supernatural, bizarro world, while still keeping up with the latest kicks. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by Carl Jones (Black Dynamite).
HOT STREETS – FBI Agent Mark Branski and his partner David French investigate supernatural phenomena, secretly aided by his niece and her cowardly dog, Chubbie Webbers. There will be alien invasions, government conspiracies, monster infestations, and more. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by Brian Wysol, with Seth Green, Matt Senreich, John Harvatine IV, and Eric Towner (Robot Chicken), Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty) and Wysol serving as executive producers. Produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.
CREATACEOUS CALIGULA – Los Angeles has been crushed by a title wave of radiated water. From the depths of the La Brea tar pits comes out a gang of dinosaur freaks led by a T-Rex Caligula. They want to take over mutant Gross Angeles and destroy anything in their way. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by JJ Villard (King Star King) and produced by Titmouse.
DOBLE FRIED – Doble Fried is a 6-pack of carnival freaks who run a low-rent amusement park smack drab on the border of Mexico and Not-Mexico. Whether it’s 4:20, beer-thirty, or crazy clown time, these dudes are constantly trying to scam money and score lady lizard honey. It’s a rickety roller coaster ride from the deep fried, clogged heartland of our failure. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by Matt Furie and produced by PFFR.
FISTHEAD – The relationship between two brothers is put to the test, as one, a loose-cannon action hero with a fist for a head, indiscriminately destroys not only villains, but his normal brother’s life as well. This quarter-hour animated series is created by Sean Glaze and Chris Prynoski, and produced by Titmouse.
OMG! EARTH – OMG! Earth is a quarter-hour stop-motion animated comedy series featuring small plastic action figures going on larger-than-life adventures in the real world. The show takes place against a backdrop of all the classic adventure environments, including the old west, the deep blue sea, and even the final frontier! The pilot is created by John Harvatine IV and Eric Towner, Ashley Arechiga, and Bradley Schaffer, with Harvatine and Towner as executive producers with Seth Green and Matt Senreich (Robot Chicken), Arechiga, and Schaffer as co-executive producers. Produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.
THE POUND HOLE – The Pound Hole is Adult Swim’s first ever late night dance party; a contemporary Soul Train. Think The Grind meets Project X, where DJ Douggpound (played by Doug Lussenhop) remixes both the audio and visuals of this club into surreal, and sometimes violent, but always danceable situations. The Pound Hole is a live-action quarter-hour pilot created by Daniel Weidenfeld (China, IL), developed by Weidenfeld and Lussenhop (Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Portlandia), and directed by The Daniels, the VMA award-winning directing duo of DJ Snake and Lil Jon’s Turn Town For What video.

china, il the musical episode starring cat power as a gorilla was fantastic

http://www.avclub.com/article/end-aqua-teen-hunger-force-marks-end-era-tv-animat-224414

There's a Parasyte anime in 2015?
The animation itself is a bit lackluster, but they updated it a little bit to match the times - the main kid is listening to music on his phone, he uses the internet to try to figure out what the parasyte is, etc. Unfortunately, this also means DUBSTEP ACTION MUZAK for the first fight scene.

huh, i am into that!

ok this is maybe the better thread to bump w/ this exciting new brad neely news:

https://vine.co/v/5uwEllPL1zB?video=1

unsettling and bad in a way i can kinda watch!