Too Many Cooks

This is easily the worst thing I've ever seen. It was worse than "The Heart, She Hollers" and that show is just terrible. 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. But this "show" is just bad on bad.

'Too many cooks' is a delightful absurdist parody, a send-up of television and credit sequences we've all been familiar with. Family comedies like 'Step by step' or 'Full house'; crime thrillers like 'Miami Vice' or procedurals like 'Law & Order'; space operas like 'Battlestar Galactica' or animated kids' shows like 'G. I. Joe'; even family dramas like 'Dynasty' or medical shows like 'General Hospital' - nothing escapes the vision of writer-director Casper Kelly.

There is no overarching plot per se, only a building, elongated spoof of TV, with a bouncy, happy-go-lucky theme song that just keeps going, and going, and going. As the scene changes to take on other genres, so the song goes through permutations that reflect the tone of themes such series would bear.

Living organisms pass on DNA as they reproduce, sometimes resulting in a mutation that produces a change in the biology of offspring. As 'Too many cooks' continues and scenes change, glitches begin to appear in the straightforward credit sequences that portend dastardly goings-on - including some notable blood and gore. And then the short gets meta, as title cards themselves become visible to the characters they label.

Things get very weird. And there's still no plot. 'Too many cooks' is an 11-minute lesson in surrealism, with no narrative to follow, deeper meaning to parse, or interpretation to make - only a loosely related series of scenes. The comedic punch is in the absurdity, and as a result the short is one that viewers will either love or hate.

Anyone familiar with the type of shows that have populated Cartoon Network's Adult Swim over the years are likely to think 'Too many cooks' hilarious; there's no reason it can't find favor with a general audience, but it's probably a lot to take in if one isn't already familiar with the company it keeps.

Seven years after its debut, 'Too many cooks' remains wonderfully entertaining, and worth watching again and again as the song sticks firmly in our minds.

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.

I now have small gritty particulates spread throughout all of my bodily tissues. Gritty particles that are singing. Poisoning my bones and eyeballs and tongue with too many cooks. I am lost to the cooks. There are too many. The singing particles are multiplying, my body is more cook than man.

*edit* Today I awoke without too many cooks in my head. There is a small chance I will survive.

Everyone I show it to, became high after! I became a cook and so did my cohort.

I'm so shocked Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim didn't have anything to do with this. There's no way to describe how amazing it was, I'll never forget it and God bless the Cooks!