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Too Many Cooks | Adult Swim

Adult Swim · 29.8M views · 2014-11-07 · 11:12

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Overview

Too Many Cooks is an Adult Swim absurdist parody of sitcom opening credits that spirals into a surreal horror comedy. It runs about eleven minutes.

On Hacker News

HN mentions it mostly as a joke or pop-culture reference, and as a famous YouTube oddity with its own CSS selector.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2020–2024

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Satire & parodyStand-up & sketch comedyInternet culture & memes
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015a · 2024-02 · Reference

My favorite YouTube oddity: If you hunt over the CSS the site downloads on, IIRC, every page; you'll eventually come across this selector: [VIDEO] h1.ytd-watch-metadata { color:#e6d140; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:250%; font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:normal; transform:skew(-5deg,0deg); text-shadow:1px 1px #000,1px 1px .1px #000 } A selector that appears to be referencing a very specific video ID; as far as I can tell, the only video in the billions of videos on YouTube to receive this treatment (at least, in terms of a "css selector with video-id in it"). The video: Adult Swim's "Too Many Cooks" skit ( [VIDEO] )

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DonHopkins · 2022-06 · Joke / meme

Everybody wants to make it into the "Too Many Cooks" credits. [VIDEO] (Is that RMS with the machete?)

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yowlingcat · 2020-12 · Joke / meme

I know they're annoying, but sometimes, a fun thing to do with these tropes is to enjoy them for how campy and trashy they are, along the lines of B-movies and the perennial Adult Swim sketch which satirizes these tropes, Too Many Cooks [1]. [1] [VIDEO]

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