Too Many Cooks (short)
| Too Many Cooks | |
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The main title screen, with a font similar to that of Full House
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| Genre |
Dark comedy Surreal humor |
| Created by | Casper Kelly |
| Written by | Casper Kelly |
| Directed by | Casper Kelly |
| Starring |
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| Opening theme | "Too Many Cooks", performed by Shawn Coleman, Cheryl Rogers, Michael Magno, and Patty Mack |
| Composer(s) | Shawn Coleman Michael Kohler |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Cinematography | Adam Pinney |
| Editor(s) | Paul Painter |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Williams Street |
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| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Picture format | 16:9 HDTV |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | October 28, 2014 |
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| Related shows | Infomercials |
Too Many Cooks is a surreal dark comedy short that originally aired as a special during Adult Swim's "infomercials" block on October 28, 2014, at 4:00 am 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.
The video begins as a parody of opening credits sequences of 1980s and 1990s American situation comedies, then television crime dramas, prime time soap operas, Saturday-morning cartoons, superhero live-action series, and science fiction television shows. In the middle of that sequence, it morphs into a surreal narrative that includes slasher film elements, in which many of the multitude of introduced in the opening credits are murdered, cooked, and eaten by a maniac with a machete. The opening credits sequence ends after about ten minutes and transitions into the "episode", with all the characters from the opening standing in the one house; the short ends roughly ten seconds later, cutting to closing credits before a single line of dialogue can be spoken.
According to Kelly, he conveyed the concept of the short to his Squidbillies writer-producer friend Jim Fortier, who in turn described it to Adult Swim executive Mike Lazzo, who loved the idea. The footage was filmed over a period of three days in October 2013 with a cast completely composed of extras from the Atlanta area.Post-production took a year, with Kelly recruiting friends and co-workers to help with the process.
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