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
- Format
- Event
- 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
- Made
It is broadcast at 4 a.m. Eastern Time.1
- Came back
In the week of this date the channel repeats it at midnight.1
- Later
Rolling Stone ranks its theme tenth among television theme songs.1
The version you rememberNot the same thing
Posted by a third party after the broadcast.1
Shown on Adult Swim’s infomercial block on 28 October 2014.1
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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
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.
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