This is what happens when you hire everyone at the audition

I’m convinced that everytime you watch this, a new character is added

Whoever decided to make the pie be played by Lars Von Trier deserves a raise

I can only imagine what people's first reactions were to this masterpiece when it first aired at 4 in the morning

I love how it almost looks like it's about to have a plot and then it just doesn't

Well, that escalated slowly

both will dove and his superhero version falling over because the killer got him mid-transformation was honestly a pretty good joke

When you die you become a character in Too Many Cooks

This is how actual dreams feel

What's interesting to me, is that Katelyn Nacon played in this skit. She is perhaps best known for her role as Enid from The Walking Dead. A show, which in my very humble opinion, suffered from the same issues of which this skit is named after.

What a lovely subversive peace of art. The fact it makes more sense on watching again, the subtle extra content you notice. The way it points out the over saturated market of media, how they will re-air programs, re-boot and generate spin off's to keep feeding us our brand of slop. The metaphor of the producer being the killer, cutting the cast, the ego to make it about himself in the end, needing to control so much ends up in frame

I watched this in an empty hospital waiting room in the middle of the night, initially thinking it was a real show.

The idea of the intro for a show being so long that the actual episode is only, like, 3 seconds long makes me laugh EVERY SINGLE TIME I rewatch this.

Best part is now you can actually pause and go frame by frame in the credits to see what everyone's character name was.

I love how this transitions back and forth from comedy to horror.

Imagine putting this on Netflix and pressing the skip intro button lmao

9 years later and this is still one of the greatest things I've ever seen on television 😂

Timestamps for every sighting of ʰⁱᵐ: 0:20 - Right of Morgan Burch 0:29 - Stairs 1:14 - Behind Ginny Gibbons 1:37 - Behind Gregory Rose 1:54 - Walks from left to right behind Marc Farley 2:03 - Left cubicle 2:23 - Stairs 2:28 - Grabbing food from under table in front of Tara Ochs (Shout out to MrCritic77 for that one) 3:02 - Behind Ali Froid 3:15 - Behind 3 cops at table 3:17 - He right there. EUGENE, LOOK BEHIND YOU 3:40 - Animated 4:13 - Machete's Candace Mabry 4:18 - Ope there he is again 4:24 - Hot dog, he plays tennis too 4:31 - Elena Norde has left the chat 4:35 - Amy Rollins got a little wet 4:45 - Katie Adkins hit and run 6:07 - Kayte Giralt sliced into action 6:13 - Will Dove dove down 6:34 - Derick Huffmaster didn't secure the area 6:38 - Not on screen, but actions on screen are his 6:44 - ᖽᐸᖻᒪᘿ ᕲᓍᒪᘿᑢ 6:48 - Room with a view 6:51 - Just got banned on twitch 6:56 - ₮Ø₥ ₥ØⱤɆ₮Ⱬ 7:04 - A balanced breakfast 7:48 - Glerb the interstellar serial murderer 8:04 - He's a firin his lazer 8:16 - Clone wars 10:41 - Say cheese 11:01 - Just left of credits

I didn't know about this short and I loved it! Thank you Dead Meat 🤩

Remember when adultswim had that “we’re going to redefine horror with ten minute skits” phase

Whoever approved this and let the creative team see their vision through is the real hero.

I rolled my ankle a few years back and couldn't train martial arts. I can't tell you how many times I watched or just listened to this. Never gets old.

Man. I used to hate falling asleep with the tv on after watching such heartwarming shows like Family guy and robot chicken just to wake up at 3am and this be on, like waking in a nightmare

At the 3 minute mark I thought “this can’t go on for the whole time…right?” Then it got wierd and I thought “okay so this is where it actually starts” and then it just...kept going

Matthew did a fantastic performance as “Coat”, but Lars Von Trier won my heart with his portrayal of “Pie”.

Back in 2014 I had just started my first job and had to be up every morning at 5 for work. I usually watched Malcom in the Middle, but for some reason one morning the commercial break was exceptionally long. I thought maybe some new show was airing, so i figured I’d stick it out until I had to get ready for work. The next 11 minutes of my life were transcendent. That was the first time I ever saw Too Many Cooks, and to this day I still chase the thrill of experiencing Too Many Cooks for the first time. This is pure art.

This theme song still, to this day, manages to worm its way randomly into my brain from time to time whenever it deems fit. It's been years since I saw this last.

Scariest thing is that the creators could add another character and we would never know...

I heard a rumor that if you say 'Too Many Cooks' three times in the mirror at night, then you become part of the intro

0:00-1:00 season 1: your standard family sitcom staring the cook family 1:00-2:26 season 2: greatly expands the cast by introducing the cooks extended family, a trio of chefs, smarf, and the cooks neighbors, steve from accounting and his wife, who are in a polymarius relationship with mr and mrs cooks 2:26-3:27 season 3: a soft reboot. One half of the season is dedicated to a shared household between the cook families relatives, the police commissioner’s family, and the head detective and her fireman boyfriend. The other half is a semi serious crime show. The banter between coat and pie is the best part. 3:27-4:26 season 4: a timeskip where the cook’s eldest son has grown up to be head of national sercurity, while his subordinates run a propaganda cartoon. Characters start getting killed off one by one, and no one seems to address it. 4:26-7:19 season 5: another timeskip. The cooks teenage daughter has grown up and gone to college, where her friends are being axed off. Half way through the season, it’s revealed that the show is a show in universe, and its cast(as well as other shows being filmed on the studio) are being killed off. 7:19-8:24 season 6: its revealed that the previous seasons were a training simulation by C.O.O.K.S to combat B.R.o.t.H. The show turns into a space opera. 8:24-11:11 the movie: it’s revealed that the show was actually a collective fever dream of those suffering from a virus called introvitus. Eventually, the fever dream starts bleeding into reality. In the end, the hero’s get the afflicted to believe in a reset button, which manifest into reality as a result. Fans still debate the meaning of the ending.

Bro, I just realized something. At the end, the actual show starts, but then it says "to be continued" because of how long the intro is. "To Be Continued" means that it will continue at the next episode. This means that the intro will happen all over again, until their lives end. There is 3,153,600,000 seconds in 100 years, and I counted eight seconds when the actual episode starts. The intro is 647 seconds, so every eight seconds, the 647 second intro plays for either one of their heads, and then the life starts again. 3,153,600,000 times 647 is 2.0403792e+12, so that means they have to spend that many seconds until their lives finally end. 2.0403792e+12 is 2,040,379,200,000, and that in seconds is 64700 years. Imagine having to wait 64700 years, so your life, and pain, finally ends.

The video that feels like you’ve aged 19 years in 13 minutes

Imagine you fell asleep sitting on the couch late at night watching TV, you wake up at 3:45 AM in a daze, you squint and see the TV is still on. You start watching the intro to this show you haven't seen before. 10 minutes later, you think you're having a mental breakdown

The longest 11 minutes of my life, but i enjoyed every year of it

Revisiting this for the first time in 9 years and only just discovered youtube gave it a custom font for the video title

What a masterpiece and that theme song will be stuck in my brain for 10 years

Everytime I watch this I feel like an entirely new scene gets put in help

10:45 skip the intro

i love this episode!!!! too bad you didnt upload any other ones.

This is a great watch every once in a while. You think they'll ever continue the series?

Let’s not forget the selfless sacrifice made by smarf to end this nightmare

I had to look this up just to make sure it wasn’t some psychopathic fever dream I had seven years ago.

9 years later, still one the best videos I've ever seen

9:35 I know this probably isn't meant to be funny, but I always end up laughing from this part

This feels like an SCP. The never ending sitcom opening.

Plot twist: The people in this video were not actually paid actors.

Watching this high for the first time. So much better this way OMG

Words can't explain how much i love this.

I still can't believe that Matthew Kody Foster's performance as "Coat" didn't get an Emmy nomination

I love how they have more people sitting around the table in that rotating shot than is physically possible.

I have genuinely had nightmares like this. And I love seeing it depicted in audio-visual form.

The fact that this is the only video that has a font in diffrent color and font is amazing.

Sometimes when there's too many people in public and I'm overwhelmed "too many cooks" start playing in my head

Me: please stop. I want to sleep My brain: *IT TAKES A LOT TO MAKE A STEW*

Back for another watching. Never gets old.

Watched this right before the kill count on Dead Meat and, this is probably one of the most random things I have ever watched in my life. Like top 10 weirdest and most mind boggling thing I have witnessed as a first viewing (maybe top 5), but I respect that.

I came here for the title

Matthew Kody Foster truly does an outstanding performance as Coat. His subtle, but brilliant acting seems to go wildly unappreciated. My friend showed me an episode of Too Many Cooks and I didn't even realise it was Foster as Coat. His acting is so believable and I think he deserves an award.

This has more creativity in 10 minutes than the whole wandavision series

I approve of this pilot. This is gonna be a great series.

No matter how many times I watch, I still die at "Lars von Trier as Pie"

Now I want a “don’t hug me I’m scared” style sitcom which is secretly a horror show about a killer on the studio where it is filmed at

Dead Meat told me to watch this , and so I will!

i love how the font is different then all the other youtube video's!!

I was first shown this video by a guy who told me the first time he watched it was after eating too many edibles and that he cried halfway through the video because he was so high that he was unable to move and thought that this was his life now.

Still waiting for the 2nd episode

Well, all I can say now is that this masterpiece had me just to stop every single frame to see if there’s anything that I haven’t notice. THAT’S WHY THIS IS A MASTERPIECE… WOW

5:30 I still like how they didn't have some "goofy" moment where she realises too late that her name is glowing, so for her this moment must have been even more terrifying, since she had no way of knowing how he found her

Assuming that the screen at 10:31 shows every character with no repeats, there are 1849 cooks. Depending on your personal definition of what too many cooks would be, that may be, in fact, too many cooks.

This should be added to the National Film registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

This is awesome, thank you Dead Meat for introducing me to this lol

10:39 A reference to the end of The Shining

8/10, not enough cooks.

Why did I just discover this? This is pure gold, and I would unironically watch a sitcom with *that many Cooks*

I can't believe it's almost been 10 years since this video came out.

Watching it again knowing the twist is so much creepier when you see _him_ in the background early on

The part where she's spinning and just about to turn superhero but can't quite do it is so accurate of those fever dreams and nightmares where you can just about get off the ground but the killer can still grab your ankles...

merci Fuze pour cette découverte

9 years.... still a masterpiece

Seeing this in a yt video is one thing, but I can't explain the feeling of waking up in the middle of the night to this or being up late and absolutely baked and having shit like this or unedited footage of a bear pop up on tv randomly at the twilight hours of the night. Didn't know if it was a show, an ad, or a nightmare.. amazing videos

I started watching this three years ago and it still hasn’t ended

5:50 When you start running in Roblox

The new UKposts interface layout has removed the pertinent title easter egg.

Still one of the most brilliant comedic sketches ever. Bonus points for airing it at 4am and confusing the late nighters.

I’ll never forget the time I was stoned out of my mind and someone showed me this video, it was the longest 11 minutes of my life

I swear this thing is like sadakos curse your stuck with it driving you mad till you pass it on to somebody else absolutely horrifying yet brilliant well done

I love how the font changes due to this video

Everybody's gangsta until you're eating a family meal around the non-Euclidean dinner table

I'm simultaneously excited about and worried about the day AI is advanced enough to flawlessly generate infinite Too Many Cooks and my entire existence is just watching it 24/7.

I LOVE THE FONTS

That's the first time that I see a vidéo of aldut swim by myself. I've already seen some videos explain some. Like unedited footage of a bear or this house of people in it. I'm french and this video creator name is feldup by the way. It's so satisfying to see it and do my own theories. Thanks for that adult swim

This show would be PERFECT if it just had a few more cooks!

I feel bad for the guy that's murdering everyone beacuse he's the only one who isn't credited.

I will cherish this forever

the title is labeled in gold I did not see it all along

gonna tell my kids this was full house

Oh my god, I remember this show from the 90’s. I had the CRAZIEST crush on Smarf.

THE TEXT OF THE VIDEO IS SO COOL

i wonder if episode 2 will be out soon...

This should be preserved in the Library of Congress.