Too Many Cooks (2014)

“It takes a lot to make a stew, when it comes to me and you.”

How many cooks is too many cooks?

The answer to that question and so much more are contained within Casper Kelly’s Too Many Cooks, an unremitting and increasingly nightmarish 11-minute onslaught of 1980s-style television title sequences, complete with puppet cat, anthropomorphic typography, and, of course, a cannibal machete murderer.

Much like the TV shows it’s lampooning, Too Many Cooks begins innocently enough. An overlong and intentionally unfunny Family Matters-esque opening slowly but surely unravels, dovetailing sitcom and soap, police procedural and sci-fi adventure show, Saturday morning cartoon and every genre in between, before ultimately descending into utter madness. It also features a theme song so catchy, so insufferable that you’ll be singing it all day.

The Adult Swim short turned viral video hit is exactly the kind of fantastic, non sequitur weirdness viewers have come to expect from the channel behind shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Tim & Eric, and yet nothing can possibly prepare you for it. Too Many Cooks is at once a bizarre love letter to a bygone era of American TV title design and a hilarious deconstruction of our shared pop culture heritage.

A discussion with Too Many Cooks writer/director CASPER KELLY of Adult Swim.

Tell us a bit about yourself, in terms of your background.

I started at Cartoon Network doing promos. I did a Scooby Doo/Blair Witch parody in the late ’90s that kind of took off and then I was able to slide over to Adult Swim where I've had the pleasure of writing for Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies, and I've also written a book called More Stories About Spaceships and Cancer . And I'm working on a feature. And I'm doing season two of Your Pretty Face…

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