Anything on Adult Swim is already bizarre, but one of their parody Infomercials is going viral because it’s just too bizarre to even believe it exists. It’s a tribute to television of the ‘80s and ‘90s, when more thought was put into theme songs than the actual show content.
Titled Too Many Cooks, a fan-uploaded version has scored over 1.4 million views, but you can check it out in better quality on Adult Swim’s website.
Too Many Cooks is a play on all those innocent theme songs that introduced characters and it runs for ELEVEN MINUTES. Over that time, more and more members of the Cook family are introduced and as it continues, it gets weird... really weird. About three minutes in, we learn that Too Many Cooks is a cop show... or is it a G.I. Joe style cartoon? Is it a Twin Peaks-esque story of murder? Is it a show about a superhero?
By the end of the video, there’s a lot of dead bodies. So, there’s a few less Cooks.
As AVClub points out, the video was created by Casper Kelly who has thanked fans for watching and sharing. He also thanked the cast and crew, plus Shawn Coleman and Michael Kohler, who wrote the music that is now stuck in your head.
Here’s the clip and be sure to watch it all.
screenshot via YouTube video posted by tortoise5210