Too many Cooks - Adult Swim (1 Viewer)

[Vike Me]

Gwydion Lashleee-Walton

 

[shuke]

Make sure to watch the "normal" stuff again at the beginning to see what you missed.

Like what? Saw the creepy guy in the background of a few scenes.

 

[Time Kibitzer]

Got through about 50 seconds and bailed.

Dude, this entire thing is amazing.

I'll watch it today without the sound on.

This is one you can't watch without sound.

I watched the first couple of minutes last night and closed it once I realized they weren't going to stop the intro. I still don't know why it's funny or it they're trying to spoof another show. Maybe I missed something not having grown up in the US. If anyone cares to enlighten me, TIA.

That's not it...

 

[Premier]

Make sure to watch the "normal" stuff again at the beginning to see what you missed.

Like what? Saw the creepy guy in the background of a few scenes.

In one scene a painting had the murderer. Think it's the first Dallas scene.

 

[mquinnjr]

These guys did an AMA yesterday for anyone who is curious to know more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2lm9se/we_are_the_gobsmacked_creators_behind_too_many/

[–]Butmac 203 points

18 hours ago What's been your favorite response to Too Many Cooks so far?

[–]pdpainterPaul Painter 289 points

18 hours ago "And now there are no Cooks. Thanks a lot, hobo serial killer Terry Gilliam" — Gonzo http://disq.us/8ku3ec

For the Tim Cook thread:

I also just decided to make this topical Too Many Cooks pic and post it in various places on Reddit

 

[Dragons]

Make sure to watch the "normal" stuff again at the beginning to see what you missed.

Like what? Saw the creepy guy in the background of a few scenes.

Just this, as far as I know. He's in 9 or 10 scenes before it turns into a cartoon.

 

[Steve Tasker]

I've watched this approximately 10 times since yesterday and have been singing the song all day. Already changed my Facebook picture to one of Bill. This is a ####### classic.

 

[Annyong]

Gf didn't "get it". I would ditch her if she wasn't the mother of my children and willing to see me naked

 

[mquinnjr]

I've watched this approximately 10 times since yesterday and have been singing the song all day. Already changed my Facebook picture to one of Bill. This is a ####### classic.

"Too many cooks, too many cookssssss, ...." I can't get it out if my head.

If you guys want to see some other freaky Adult Swim stuff, I highly recommend "Off the Air." Mind-breaking visuals and the audio is perfect in line with it.

 

[FlapJacks]

Machete guy has a bunch of 'Where's Waldo" moments in the early part of the video before he goes psycho

 

[tommyboy]

i've watched it twice, weird. Not sure where the funny is but its definitely interesting and whoever put it together was high as ####.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

i've watched it twice, weird. Not sure where the funny is but its definitely interesting and whoever put it together was high as ####.

The funny is in all of those bottles under the sink. Feel free to try them all.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Just tried to describe this to the wife

 

[cstu]

Just tried to describe this to the wife

Good luck with that.

 

[cstu]

i've watched it twice, weird. Not sure where the funny is but its definitely interesting and whoever put it together was high as ####.

The doctor scene was hilarious.

 

[mquinnjr]

i've watched it twice, weird. Not sure where the funny is but its definitely interesting and whoever put it together was high as ####.

The funny is in all of those bottles under the sink. Feel free to try them all.

actually laughing.

 

[mquinnjr]

http://i.imgur.com/FjTEXvf.jpg

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

A clinic in escalated absurdity.

 

[shuke]

Make sure to watch the "normal" stuff again at the beginning to see what you missed.

Like what? Saw the creepy guy in the background of a few scenes.

Just this, as far as I know. He's in 9 or 10 scenes before it turns into a cartoon.

Standing right behind Morgan Burch at about 0:20. This gets less funny but creepier every time I watch it.

 

[shuke]

OP needs to put 1080 version in first post.

 

[heckmanm]

IMDB page is

 

[heckmanm]

For the Tim Cook thread:

I also just decided to make this topical Too Many Cooks pic and post it in various places on Reddit

Now my FB cover photo.

 

[Gawain]

On right now! Too many cooks

 

[rockaction]

Make sure to watch the "normal" stuff again at the beginning to see what you missed.

Like what? Saw the creepy guy in the background of a few scenes.

Just this, as far as I know. He's in 9 or 10 scenes before it turns into a cartoon.

Standing right behind Morgan Burch at about 0:20. This gets less funny but creepier every time I watch it.

The David Foster Wallace list-serv is doing a good job diagnosing its creepiness, and while not claiming that it's influenced by Wallace, they're coming very close to saying that. They're claiming it is very Lynchian and Wallace-esque. Zizek (who the hell is that? Oh, that's who.) came up. It's horror mixed with banality and bourgeois tropes which are turned on their head to show you that the horror is actually lurking in the tropes themselves, in a way.

Anyway, it creeped me out as soon as I saw the cannibalism. I just stopped watching it. I think I knew from reading critiques of Lynch by Wallace exactly what the dudes were going for. It's John Wayne Gacy. It's the dude that cut up people and just saran wrapped them in the freezer along with the Eggo waffles. It's what Wallace said Lynch was excellent at, which was to take the banality of middle class life and show the evil lurking just underneath it along side of it.

No, it doesn't make me cool nor literate. (I've only seen Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Oh, and Mulholland Drive, too. But I don't think I find that stuff interesting anymore.) It just means I didn't find Too Many Cooks funny in any way, because I had two lenses through which to view it. One is the sincerity lens, where irony is shunned. The other is surreal and abstract horror, where the horror itself is hiding in the facade of happy and middle-class tropes.

Sorry, OPM. tommyboy has a point.

eta* Interesting take here. http://biblioklept.org/2014/11/08/a-too-many-cooks-riff-focusing-on-the-killer-who-is-there-right-from-the-beginning/ It seems like the author is claiming that our own humorous appreciation of irony actually obscures the horror lurking within the film, which is REALLY a DFW-influenced thesis, for sure. And it doesn't seem too far off.

 

[mr roboto]

Rockaction why do you try so hard?

 

[Annyong]

Rockaction why do you try so hard?

To make up for your complete lack of try hardinger.

 

[shuke]

Make sure to watch the "normal" stuff again at the beginning to see what you missed.

Like what? Saw the creepy guy in the background of a few scenes.

Just this, as far as I know. He's in 9 or 10 scenes before it turns into a cartoon.

Standing right behind Morgan Burch at about 0:20. This gets less funny but creepier every time I watch it.

The David Foster Wallace list-serv is doing a good job diagnosing its creepiness, and while not claiming that it's influenced by Wallace, they're coming very close to saying that. They're claiming it is very Lynchian and Wallace-esque. Zizek (who the hell is that? Oh, that's who.) came up. It's horror mixed with banality and bourgeois tropes which are turned on their head to show you that the horror is actually lurking in the tropes themselves, in a way.

Anyway, it creeped me out as soon as I saw the cannibalism. I just stopped watching it. I think I knew from reading critiques of Lynch by Wallace exactly what the dudes were going for. It's John Wayne Gacy. It's the dude that cut up people and just saran wrapped them in the freezer along with the Eggo waffles. It's what Wallace said Lynch was excellent at, which was to take the banality of middle class life and show the evil lurking just underneath it along side of it.

No, it doesn't make me cool nor literate. (I've only seen Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Oh, and Mulholland Drive, too. But I don't think I find that stuff interesting anymore.) It just means I didn't find Too Many Cooks funny in any way, because I had two lenses through which to view it. One is the sincerity lens, where irony is shunned. The other is surreal and abstract horror, where the horror itself is hiding in the facade of happy and middle-class tropes.

Sorry, OPM. tommyboy has a point.

eta* Interesting take here. http://biblioklept.org/2014/11/08/a-too-many-cooks-riff-focusing-on-the-killer-who-is-there-right-from-the-beginning/ It seems like the author is claiming that our own humorous appreciation of irony actually obscures the horror lurking within the film, which is REALLY a DFW-influenced thesis, for sure. And it doesn't seem too far off.

Interesting.

Or an easier explanation is that the creators were paying homage (or poking fun at?) as many old shows as possible, and that included Twin Peaks, where the dad = killer.

 

[shuke]

By the way, that is the original Married With Children set, right?

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

By the way, that is the original Married With Children set, right?

This guy seems to agree

 

[rockaction]

Rockaction why do you try so hard?

What's weird is that it was the first thing that occurred to me. I'm not the only one. It was about “hell-like banality and degrading repetition,” as Vice put it

Make sure to watch the "normal" stuff again at the beginning to see what you missed.

Like what? Saw the creepy guy in the background of a few scenes.

Just this, as far as I know. He's in 9 or 10 scenes before it turns into a cartoon.

Standing right behind Morgan Burch at about 0:20. This gets less funny but creepier every time I watch it.

The David Foster Wallace list-serv is doing a good job diagnosing its creepiness, and while not claiming that it's influenced by Wallace, they're coming very close to saying that. They're claiming it is very Lynchian and Wallace-esque. Zizek (who the hell is that? Oh, that's who.) came up. It's horror mixed with banality and bourgeois tropes which are turned on their head to show you that the horror is actually lurking in the tropes themselves, in a way.

Anyway, it creeped me out as soon as I saw the cannibalism. I just stopped watching it. I think I knew from reading critiques of Lynch by Wallace exactly what the dudes were going for. It's John Wayne Gacy. It's the dude that cut up people and just saran wrapped them in the freezer along with the Eggo waffles. It's what Wallace said Lynch was excellent at, which was to take the banality of middle class life and show the evil lurking just underneath it along side of it.

No, it doesn't make me cool nor literate. (I've only seen Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Oh, and Mulholland Drive, too. But I don't think I find that stuff interesting anymore.) It just means I didn't find Too Many Cooks funny in any way, because I had two lenses through which to view it. One is the sincerity lens, where irony is shunned. The other is surreal and abstract horror, where the horror itself is hiding in the facade of happy and middle-class tropes.

Sorry, OPM. tommyboy has a point.

eta* Interesting take here. http://biblioklept.org/2014/11/08/a-too-many-cooks-riff-focusing-on-the-killer-who-is-there-right-from-the-beginning/ It seems like the author is claiming that our own humorous appreciation of irony actually obscures the horror lurking within the film, which is REALLY a DFW-influenced thesis, for sure. And it doesn't seem too far off.

Interesting.

Or an easier explanation is that the creators were paying homage (or poking fun at?) as many old shows as possible, and that included Twin Peaks, where the dad = killer.

Yep, and probably the correct explanation about the authorial intent. I read part of the AMA with those guys, and it seemed like that's what they were going for. Said they liked irony (which was not my original point) and that Andy Kaufman Great Gatsby joke (until everyone left the theater). So the answer is probably simpler (or somewhere in-between) than the one I offered. Plus in-references, too, like the Married With Children set you pointed out.

 

[Chemical X]

i watched this and thought i ate something so bad it tripped me.

 

[cstu]

No, it doesn't make me cool nor literate. (I've only seen Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Oh, and Mulholland Drive, too. But I don't think I find that stuff interesting anymore.) It just means I didn't find Too Many Cooks funny in any way, because I had two lenses through which to view it. One is the sincerity lens, where irony is shunned. The other is surreal and abstract horror, where the horror itself is hiding in the facade of happy and middle-class tropes.

Reminded me of Funny Games.

 

[rockaction]

No, it doesn't make me cool nor literate. (I've only seen Lynch's Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Oh, and Mulholland Drive, too. But I don't think I find that stuff interesting anymore.) It just means I didn't find Too Many Cooks funny in any way, because I had two lenses through which to view it. One is the sincerity lens, where irony is shunned. The other is surreal and abstract horror, where the horror itself is hiding in the facade of happy and middle-class tropes.

Reminded me of Funny Games.

Watched that movie until the golf clubs, paused it, and read a review. Did the same thing I did with Too Many Cooks. Just stopped watching.

 

[shuke]

On at midnight eastern

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

On at midnight eastern

The same video that was posted here?

 

[shuke]

On at midnight eastern

The same video that was posted here?

Yes. Somehow more exciting watching it on TV.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

On at midnight eastern

The same video that was posted here?

Yes. Somehow more exciting watching it on TV.

Makes sense.

 

[shuke]

On at midnight eastern

The same video that was posted here?

Yes. Somehow more exciting watching it on TV.

Makes sense.

Don't act like you're not going to tune in.

 

[EYLive]

It must've been made by high teenagers. Ungood.

 

[Thunderlips]

Funny and not funny in the same way that Portlandia is funny and unfunny.

 

[rockaction]

I just went to eat some leftover pasta with sausage and it looked like a finger.

I threw it away. :X

Too Many Cooks

 

[heckmanm]

Anybody snag to woot shirt?

 

[cstu]

Anybody snag to woot shirt?

 

[shuke]

Was just about to come in here saying I'm disappointed in the lack of apparel available by now. I'll hold out for something better.

 

[shuke]

On an unrelated note, what is that button Smarf has to push?

 

[cstu]

Was just about to come in here saying I'm disappointed in the lack of apparel available by now. I'll hold out for something better.

The Smarf one is brilliant.

If the shirts weren't such terrible quality I would buy one.

 

[heckmanm]

bump

 

[mquinnjr]

"...a pinch of salt and laughter, too!"

song is in my head again.

 

[shuke]

On an unrelated note, what is that button Smarf has to push?

Anyone get to the bottom of this yet?

 

[Dan Lambskin]

On an unrelated note, what is that button Smarf has to push?

Anyone get to the bottom of this yet?

PM Shuke