Too Many Cooks is a surreal comedy horror short that originally aired as a special during Adult Swim’s “infomercials” block on October 28, 2014, at 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time. It was created, written, and directed by Casper Kelly, and produced by Williams Street. After its original airing, the piece became a viral video online and was repeated each night at midnight Eastern Time during the week of November 11, 2014.

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    11 hours ago

    I’m convinced that this and the other weird films they did were broadcast at times to deliberately fuck with people watching TV on drugs.

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      4 hours ago

      Oh 100%. They were definitely firmly in that “acid trip/stone as hell” genre of shows and animations. The whole vibe of adult swim fit that.

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      10 hours ago

      Lol you don’t need to be convinced. It started with late night infomercials and slowly evolved into the Brady Bunch.

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      10 hours ago

      I think they’re all on HBO (or at least were a year or two ago).

      The Sarah Sherman one is absolute madness.

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    23 hours ago

    That show/video made me feel uncomfortable things that I don’t even have words to express and I loved it. I didn’t technically see it live when it first aired, but most have seen it not long after on the internet. It always stuck with me and helps me to understand that even if I don’t understand the appeal of any specific piece of art work, that those pieces of work speak to other people in the way that Too Many Cooks spoke to me. It made me feel things that are indescribable.

    There was another show called “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” that presses the same buttons and causes similar emotional responses from me.

    Dunno why but I can’t get enough of this shit and I want more.

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    IT TAKES A LOT TO MAKE A STEW

    A PINCH OF SALT AND LAUGHTER TOO

    A SCOOP OF KIDS TO ADD THE SPICE

    A DASH OF LOVE TO MAKE IT NICE

    AND YOU’VE GOT…

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      24 hours ago

      members of the Cook family

      Ohhhhhh, that’s why there’s too many cooks. Only took me thus many years to figure that out, lol

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    1 day ago

    I really wanted to get into that show, but I can not make it past the opening 😤

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      1 day ago

      Man once the opening credits are done the show opens with a banger you should try again

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      1 day ago

      I love Too Many Cooks but I haven’t seen Unedited Footage of a Bear before. I’m excited to get into it but there is some sort of weird ad that the skip button doesn’t work on. Thanks for the link!

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        23 hours ago

        Yeah just ignore the skip button, it’ll go away when the Claridryl kicks in

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    1 day ago

    Fuck you OP, now I’m going to be singing this to myself for weeks.

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    1 day ago

    Too Many Cooks was the best thing to just start watching without any expectations. Even having someone say “hey, you should watch this” sort of ruins it.

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    1 day ago

    Too Many Cooks is 12 years old? How could this happen?

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    23 hours ago

    Casper Kelly is amazing. I also recommend his workplace sitcom in hell, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell.

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    absolute masterpiece. I went from crying of laughter to trembling panic so quickly. I will never forget my first watch.

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    I love this. I only watched it for the first time like 2 years ago.