Too Many Cooks Trivia Quiz

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'Too Many Cooks' is part of Adult Swim's Infomercials series, which features various parodies of TV shows and adverts. It was created and directed by Casper Kelly, and broadcast during Halloween season in 2014, before being posted on the channel's YouTube channel and taking on a life of its own as a viral video. The theme tune to 'Too Many Cooks' has multiple verses and this is just part of it. It also changes depending on the genre being parodied; the office sitcom section mentions 'him and Steve from Corporate too', while the police procedural section mentions 'a dash of crime'.

'Too Many Cooks' starts out as a parody of a '70s/'80s family sitcom; it also includes parodies of a black family sitcom, a sitcom set in an office, a police procedural, a Saturday morning cartoon, a slasher movie (where things really get dark), and even a sci-fi show featuring C.O.O.K.S. (Cybernetic Operational Optimized Knights of Science) versus B.R.o.t.H. (Beast Rebels of the Hellscape). Shows parodied include 'GI Joe', 'Dallas', 'Hill Street Blues', 'ALF', 'Family Matters', 'Happy Days' (with a Fonz-esque character), 'Law & Order', and 'Battlestar Galactica'. The font for the title screen is a shout-out to 'Family Ties'. Each character appears with the name of the actor playing them; this is later revealed to be a symptom of 'intronitis', and the credits are physically attached to the actors. All the characters have 'Cook' or 'Cooke' as a surname, although this isn't revealed until the (very long) credits.

Bill, a bearded serial killer with a machete who didn't get the role he wanted, is the villain of the piece. In the slasher movie parody, he pursues a woman who runs through a set and hides in a wardrobe, only to be given away by her actress's name shining through the wardrobe doors. He also murders several other characters, and multiple versions of him appear in the different worlds. Meanwhile, the characters find themselves in each other's sitcoms and at one point, the credits and characters swap places, with the credits becoming sentient and the characters screaming in agony. The original theme tune becomes increasingly warped and out of tune as the madness progresses.

The father of the original Cook family appears in the medical parody segment and is revealed to have a bad case of intronitis, where he mindlessly repeats his lines while the music plays and his actor's name appears. It is also revealed to be contagious, as the male doctor catches it and is forced to smile for the camera while begging his colleague to kill him, as the theme tune plays. Smarf, a puppet, tries to end things by destroying Bill with his eye lasers and pressing a big red button...only to find himself as one of many characters in a 'Brady Bunch' parody screen. At the end of the clip, all the characters - including Bill - pose together in the original Cook family's living room.

'Too Many Cooks' was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, with the majority of actors being extras from the area. According to Kelly, it was filmed on an 'infomercial budget' and the actors were informed that they would only be paid a small amount, but that they would all be credited at the end. All the actors' names are their real names. Kelly also had to make several cuts, such as a fire juggler at the end, a stinger for another Adult Swim show, and some scenes involving Bill (whose actor, William Tokarsky, was an extra on one of Kelly's shows, 'Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell').