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Too Many Cooks

You might remember it as Adult Swim Too Many Cooks

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2014·The social era

An eleven-minute parody of the opening titles of an American sitcom, which never ends and slides into other genres.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
Adult Swim Too Many Cooks
Spread in
2014
Began as
A television broadcast
Where it started
broadcast
Format
Event
Era
The social era
Made by
Casper Kelly, for Adult Swim
Recorded
Filmed over three days in October 2013 near Atlanta; finishing it took a year
Origin
Not an upload originally
Available
Playable from the source

Why it matteredWhat changed

It was broadcast once, unannounced, at four in the morning, in a slot for infomercials. Somebody else put it on YouTube, and the channel repeated it at midnight a fortnight later.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    It is broadcast at 4 a.m. Eastern Time.1

  2. Came back

    In the week of this date the channel repeats it at midnight.1

  3. Later

    Rolling Stone ranks its theme tenth among television theme songs.1

The version you rememberNot the same thing

The version people rememberA YouTube video

Posted by a third party after the broadcast.1

The originalA 4 a.m. broadcast

Shown on Adult Swim’s infomercial block on 28 October 2014.1

More from hereIn this collection

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast. The version shown here is the broadcaster's own copy on YouTube.

Where it came fromWhat we know

There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.

View the broadcaster's copy on YouTube

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Too Many Cooks (short)

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