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Too Many Cooks

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Too Many Cooks	type	TVTItem
Too Many Cooks	label	Too Many Cooks
Too Many Cooks	page	TooManyCooks
Too Many Cooks	comment	Too Many Cooks is a 2014 short film written and directed by Casper Kelly, edited by Paul Painter, and distributed by [adult swim]. It was broadcast on [adult swim] at 4 a.m. each morning from October 31st to November 6th, then posted on their YouTube channel (where it quickly went viral). The short is an Affectionate Parody of '80s sitcom openings that introduces the loving Cook family — one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one by one...What starts out as a mostly straight spoof of family shows progresses to spoofing work sitcoms, police shows, Saturday morning cartoons, and so on. Then things get even weirder, into a Mind Screw unlike the family sitcom it seemed to be. See the whole short HERE, all eleven mind-scrambling minutes of it.
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Too Many Cooks	isPartOf	DBTropes
Too Many Cooks / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Too Many Cooks / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Laura Cook.
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Too Many Cooks / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Too Many Cooks / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Throw a serial killer in the mix, and this trope comes into play.
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Too Many Cooks / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Too Many Cooks / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Paul Painter's name appears◊ during the G.I. Joe spoof. He plays the Token Non-Human.
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Too Many Cooks / int_136d170b	type	Unreadably Fast Text
Too Many Cooks / int_136d170b	comment	Unreadably Fast Text: The closing credits.
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Too Many Cooks / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Too Many Cooks / int_1777688d	comment	Samantha Cook seems Genre Savvy, figuring out she's in a slasher story. Unfortunately for her, it's also a surreal dark parody of an '80s sitcom, and she still has a title credit...
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Too Many Cooks / int_19661850	type	Just the Introduction to the Opposites
Too Many Cooks / int_19661850	comment	Just the Introduction to the Opposites: After the hostile takeover, we see human-like credit text with actual humans as their labels.
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Too Many Cooks / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Too Many Cooks / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Jebediah comes to a family dinner in a stripper's firefighter costume.
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Too Many Cooks / int_1b6c5aa2	type	The Couch
Too Many Cooks / int_1b6c5aa2	comment	The Couch: It takes center stage in most scenes, appropriate for the genre that is parodied.
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Too Many Cooks / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Too Many Cooks / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The Too Many Cooks title becomes literal at one point, with several kitchen cooks being introduced in succession. Marilyn McCook draws a large rooster and peas on the board in the charades game. Given that she's topless, it's probably intentional. Also counts as a Stealth Pun.
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Too Many Cooks / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Too Many Cooks / int_1c7555f1	comment	While Bill is coming closer to Samantha, she's frozen and can only move her eyes until he's close enough to distort her name, and when he's chasing her backstage, credits show up on every person the two pass by. This not only leads to her demise, but also gives a big hint towards the credits' true nature.
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Too Many Cooks / int_1d52614a	type	Somethingitis
Too Many Cooks / int_1d52614a	comment	Somethingitis: Intronitis, a disease that causes its sufferers to manifest credits of their names and act like they're in the opening Video Credits of a sitcom.
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Too Many Cooks / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Too Many Cooks / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Samantha Cook seems Genre Savvy, figuring out she's in a slasher story. Unfortunately for her, it's also a surreal dark parody of an '80s sitcom, and she still has a title credit... The same could go for Melinda and Chris, and Det. W.J. Cookowski. All think they're there to stop the murders, then are quickly slain.
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Too Many Cooks / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Too Many Cooks / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Bill cooks and eats his victims.
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Too Many Cooks / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Too Many Cooks / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: While the short only shows the actors playing the various Cooks, the rapid end credits reveal most if not all characters' in-universe names (listed on the IMDb cast page).
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Too Many Cooks / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Too Many Cooks / int_222dc873	comment	The show keeps going with its parodies of openings even as Bill starts offing actors until it turns into an unnerving slasher story as Samantha Cook tries to flee him. After that it's a Black Comedy with tons of blood, then a surreal horror story as the show distorts and mutates.
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Too Many Cooks / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Too Many Cooks / int_224c9aef	comment	Laugh Track: One starts playing as Bill hijacks the show.
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Too Many Cooks / int_24181268	type	Childish Pillow Fight
Too Many Cooks / int_24181268	comment	When everything goes to hell in the end, various characters randomly start changing roles and recreating shots from early in the video, leading to space aliens having a Childish Pillow Fight and the chief of police suddenly getting replaced with one of the teenage girls.
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Too Many Cooks / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Too Many Cooks / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Almost everyone, in true cheesy sitcom fashion. Bill too, although he switches to a tennis outfit at one point.
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Too Many Cooks / int_2a94a479	type	Outside-Genre Foe
Too Many Cooks / int_2a94a479	comment	Outside-Genre Foe: Of all the sitcom genres this show is, Bill comes from one not usually seen on TV: horror.
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Too Many Cooks / int_30d2689a	type	Ominous Visual Glitch
Too Many Cooks / int_30d2689a	comment	Ominous Visual Glitch: Bill's opening credit is deliberately scrambled and obscured by VHS artifacts.
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Too Many Cooks / int_36fa3e83	type	Garnishing the Story
Too Many Cooks / int_36fa3e83	comment	Garnishing the Story: The YouTube video, of all things, does this, as the normally black, bolded title under the video instead became the yellow and black italic text used for the character names. This design element was scrapped for a time after the site was redesigned, though it has since been restored.
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Too Many Cooks / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Too Many Cooks / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: Too Many Cooks refers to how almost every character's last name is "Cook", though the writers are banking on the viewer being familiar with '80s sitcom logic in order to get the pun (or if you can read three hundred actor credits in about five seconds).
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Too Many Cooks / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
Too Many Cooks / int_40217655	comment	Faux Action Girl: Despite turning out to be a superhero, Melinda Cook does nothing but spin pointlessly and get killed.
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Too Many Cooks / int_411e652e	type	Broken Smile
Too Many Cooks / int_411e652e	comment	Broken Smile: Samantha's smile starts looking really forced as she realizes Bill is behind her.
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Too Many Cooks / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Too Many Cooks / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The short nails the grainy low-budget look of an '80s show on a VHS, as well as the later sci-fi segment. Those seemingly model ships on strings? CGI.
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Too Many Cooks / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
Too Many Cooks / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Jim Cook is introduced holding Warren O'Cook in a headlock and giving him a noogie.
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Too Many Cooks / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
Too Many Cooks / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: Not actually shown, but the once-innocuous lyrics about baby too, etc., overlap with Bill eating various body parts at the dinner table.
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Too Many Cooks / int_48cbd223	type	Machete Mayhem
Too Many Cooks / int_48cbd223	comment	Machete Mayhem: Bill's favored weapon. Even the Beast Rebels of the Hellscape have them.
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Too Many Cooks / int_48f0ca7f	type	PostModernism
Too Many Cooks / int_48f0ca7f	comment	Postmodernism: A great many television genres and character archetypes throughout the '80s and '90s are spoofed, even if only for a few seconds each, and forcibly combined by the end. The cast credits for each character are eventually revealed as a symptom of "Intronitis", which is running rampant throughout the universe of this short.
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Too Many Cooks / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Too Many Cooks / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Samantha's death. Bill finds her, she screams, cut to blood splatter. In fact, most of Bill's early victims die offscreen, but as things get darker and his rampage escalates the murders start being witnessed, with a lot of blood involved. Subverted in one instance. As the detective is murdered, the camera cuts to blood splatter. Then it immediately cuts back to the victim screaming with a machete in his head.
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Too Many Cooks / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Too Many Cooks / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Often, but especially in Samantha's death, where Bill tries to strike during a freeze-frame, but she runs through the set, the actors in-character still frozen, ultimately alerting him to her location by the glow of her credits.
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Too Many Cooks / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Too Many Cooks / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: Hundreds of credits fly up the screen in the last few seconds of the short. Many of them are for characters with the last name "Cook".
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Too Many Cooks / int_4b1ca7d2	type	Genre Roulette
Too Many Cooks / int_4b1ca7d2	comment	Genre Roulette: Both in a fictional and meta-fictional sense. The show starts out as a Growing Pains-esque parody sitcom, then includes some elements of office comedy, moves on to a police show, an animated G.I. Joe spoof, a rich elite show, and just when you think it's done shifting it goes sci-fi Space Opera. The show keeps going with its parodies of openings even as Bill starts offing actors until it turns into an unnerving slasher story as Samantha Cook tries to flee him. After that it's a Black Comedy with tons of blood, then a surreal horror story as the show distorts and mutates. As the show falls apart the disparate genres start blending together. Finally, Smarf's reset of the show results in combining all the characters into being part of the family sitcom cast, making it a massive ensemble sci-fi drama police office family comedy.
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Too Many Cooks / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Too Many Cooks / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "This is the worst case of Intronitis I've ever seen. And the thing is, we have no idea how contagious this strain is."
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Too Many Cooks / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Too Many Cooks / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The G.I. Joe parody has Bill stop hiding and move into the foreground. The last shot of the opening, with Bill's head appearing over Dad Cook's.
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Too Many Cooks / int_4f01dd61	type	DreamWorksFace
Too Many Cooks / int_4f01dd61	comment	DreamWorks Face: Grammy Cook makes this face at the camera.
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Too Many Cooks / int_5addd374	type	Your Makeup Is Running
Too Many Cooks / int_5addd374	comment	Your Makeup Is Running: Samantha Cook's mascara gets runny as she hides in a closet from Bill.
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Too Many Cooks / int_5b2e1e5e	type	Fake-Out Fade-Out
Too Many Cooks / int_5b2e1e5e	comment	Fake-Out Fade-Out: There are a couple points where it looks like the song and video are about to end (in particular the first two family photo sequences) only for it to keep going.
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Too Many Cooks / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
Too Many Cooks / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: At the climax Smarf crawls to one in hopes of it fixing things. It's unclear whether or not he managed to press it before he died.
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Too Many Cooks / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
Too Many Cooks / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: As Bill's rampage begins.
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Too Many Cooks / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Too Many Cooks / int_60eac4ba	comment	Off the Rails: When Samantha flees during a freeze-frame. A pity that her freedom didn't last for long.
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Too Many Cooks / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Too Many Cooks / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Beast Rebels of the Hellscape, who appear to be at least partly composed of dozens of clones of Bill.
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Too Many Cooks / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Too Many Cooks / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Dozens, including some plot-important ones: Bill is hiding in the background as early as 20 seconds in the short. All his background appearances are pictured in this link. At one point he even disguises himself as a painting. The lightning-speed end credits, which name most of the live-action characters. Magazine: The Magazine, that also counts as Droste Image. The sorority at 4:26? Zeta Alpha Zeta.
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Too Many Cooks / int_6547474e	type	Subverted Sitcom
Too Many Cooks / int_6547474e	comment	Subverted Sitcom: It begins as a standard cheery sitcom theme song that introduces the residents of a charming house in the suburbs. But then the song keeps on going and going, with more and more characters being introduced with no end in sight. That would be unsettling enough by itself, but then it abandons the sitcom entirely, moving on to other genres. And then the audience gets a macabre spree killing of the many characters before it loops right back around to cheery sitcom at the end... or did it?
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Too Many Cooks / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
Too Many Cooks / int_6563aeb6	comment	Marilyn McCook draws a large rooster and peas on the board in the charades game. Given that she's topless, it's probably intentional. Also counts as a Stealth Pun.
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Too Many Cooks / int_6a1a1f8a	type	Glasses Pull
Too Many Cooks / int_6a1a1f8a	comment	Glasses Pull: Melinda Cook pulls off her glasses before supersuiting up... even though she wasn't wearing glasses at all before this scene. Chris Cook, who at least had been established to wear glasses, also does this before his turn to transform.
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Too Many Cooks / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Too Many Cooks / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Bill, who invades the show, starts killing off actors, and hijacks it to be his.
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Too Many Cooks / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
Too Many Cooks / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fisher King: When his presence is ominous, Bill will distort the theme song and the credits.
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Too Many Cooks / int_6d23fddb	type	Ending Fatigue
Too Many Cooks / int_6d23fddb	comment	Ending Fatigue: Played for Laughs. Twice in the first five minutes there's a freeze frame that looks like the end of the song, but it's just a cruel twist of the knife. Later happens in-universe to... well, everyone, but Smarf especially as he weakly crawls across the floor, bleeding out his last in a last attempt to press the Reset Button.
Too Many Cooks / int_6d23fddb	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_6d23fddb	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_6d23fddb
Too Many Cooks / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Too Many Cooks / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Bill and the Intronitis: the former wants to kill the whole cast because he didn't have the role he wanted while the latter tries to spread itself through more and more actors. However, these two examples (and the decision to separate them) depend on your interpretation.
Too Many Cooks / int_72cdfc33	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_72cdfc33	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_72cdfc33
Too Many Cooks / int_72f98935	type	Heroic Build
Too Many Cooks / int_72f98935	comment	Heroic Build: The first shot of Melinda is her showing off her body for the camera, while Savannah looks on annoyed.
Too Many Cooks / int_72f98935	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_72f98935	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_72f98935
Too Many Cooks / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
Too Many Cooks / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: You betcha.
Too Many Cooks / int_757bbdb8	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_757bbdb8	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_757bbdb8
Too Many Cooks / int_7a0056e7	type	Last-Second Photo Failure
Too Many Cooks / int_7a0056e7	comment	Last-Second Photo Failure: The Bumbling Dad trying and failing to time a picture with his ever-growing sitcom family happens three times. On the first two attempts, the camera catches him in the middle of his run to the couch. On the third time, he does manage to sit down for the picture, but he still doesn't get to be in the picture; his face gets replaced with Bill when the picture is taken.
Too Many Cooks / int_7a0056e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_7a0056e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_7a0056e7
Too Many Cooks / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Too Many Cooks / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The G.I. Joe parody.
Too Many Cooks / int_7a265daa	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_7a265daa	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_7a265daa
Too Many Cooks / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Too Many Cooks / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: One plays over the sci-fi opening.
Too Many Cooks / int_7d7a7d0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_7d7a7d0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_7d7a7d0f
Too Many Cooks / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Too Many Cooks / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: A couple of characters get beheaded by Bill.
Too Many Cooks / int_7e6c0522	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_7e6c0522	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_7e6c0522
Too Many Cooks / int_80f38afe	type	Background Music Override
Too Many Cooks / int_80f38afe	comment	Background Music Override: The sitcom theme music overrides whatever is playing when Bill shows up and is how Intronitis presents itself in newly infected victims.
Too Many Cooks / int_80f38afe	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_80f38afe	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_80f38afe
Too Many Cooks / int_85f6dd21	type	Power Palms
Too Many Cooks / int_85f6dd21	comment	Power Palms: Smarf can shoot rainbows beams from his palms.
Too Many Cooks / int_85f6dd21	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_85f6dd21	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_85f6dd21
Too Many Cooks / int_884e513b	type	Medium Awareness
Too Many Cooks / int_884e513b	comment	Medium Awareness: Bill, most definitely. He knows that his victims are helpless during their Video Credits, and even makes fun of the format himself later on.
Too Many Cooks / int_884e513b	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_884e513b	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_884e513b
Too Many Cooks / int_8871bbd8	type	Eye Beams
Too Many Cooks / int_8871bbd8	comment	Eye Beams: One of Smarf's powers, which he uses to defeat Bill.
Too Many Cooks / int_8871bbd8	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_8871bbd8	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_8871bbd8
Too Many Cooks / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
Too Many Cooks / int_89baee12	comment	Too Many C.O.O.K.S. the Space Opera.
Too Many Cooks / int_89baee12	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_89baee12	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_89baee12
Too Many Cooks / int_8ee72ccd	type	Sickeningly Sweet
Too Many Cooks / int_8ee72ccd	comment	Sickeningly Sweet: Much of the opening's super-saccharine nature, especially the shots of the little kids and Smarf shooting rainbows out of his hands. Then Bill comes to change all that.
Too Many Cooks / int_8ee72ccd	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_8ee72ccd	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_8ee72ccd
Too Many Cooks / int_9255105a	type	To Be Continued
Too Many Cooks / int_9255105a	comment	To Be Continued: By the time the show actually starts, we only see about 10 seconds of it before we're hit with a To Be Continued and the credits.
Too Many Cooks / int_9255105a	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_9255105a	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_9255105a
Too Many Cooks / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
Too Many Cooks / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: Keeping with the '80s-'90s setting, it bears signs of VHS degradation. The slasher film segment has film scratches and dust.
Too Many Cooks / int_92dfffae	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_92dfffae	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_92dfffae
Too Many Cooks / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Too Many Cooks / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Bill and his later actions in the video add significance to some of his appearances before then, particularly looking through a cupboard at spices. Some of the places he appears in and the expressions he makes also make more sense if you know what Casper Kelly's interpretation behind him is.
Too Many Cooks / int_97926168	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_97926168	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_97926168
Too Many Cooks / int_98412467	type	Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul
Too Many Cooks / int_98412467	comment	Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Nearly everyone infected with Intronitis smiles to the camera against their will. Not even Bill is immune.
Too Many Cooks / int_98412467	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_98412467	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_98412467
Too Many Cooks / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Too Many Cooks / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The opening goes animated at one point, as a clear parody of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
Too Many Cooks / int_985795ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_985795ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_985795ab
Too Many Cooks / int_99305f1f	type	Round Table Shot
Too Many Cooks / int_99305f1f	comment	Round Table Shot: The camera makes two full continuous rotations around the dinner table with different people each time.
Too Many Cooks / int_99305f1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_99305f1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_99305f1f
Too Many Cooks / int_9acd7704	type	Dom Com
Too Many Cooks / int_9acd7704	comment	Dom Com: What the "original" show was supposed to be. The short parodies many cliches and conventions of the genre.
Too Many Cooks / int_9acd7704	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_9acd7704	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_9acd7704
Too Many Cooks / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Too Many Cooks / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Bill appears at the 20-second mark, and continues to show up hidden in the background despite the fact that everyone else who has appeared only did so after being introduced. Kind of last minute, but the lyrics during the G.I. Joe parody mentions resisting the forces of evil. Cue Bill appearing in the foreground immediately afterwards. While Bill is coming closer to Samantha, she's frozen and can only move her eyes until he's close enough to distort her name, and when he's chasing her backstage, credits show up on every person the two pass by. This not only leads to her demise, but also gives a big hint towards the credits' true nature. A few characters can be seen during the backstage chase before the intro has properly introduced them yet, such as the robot from the Space Opera sequence. Why is Bill carefully inspecting those spices behind the cooks? Because he's planning a very special meal... Josh Lowder's criminal character is screaming in rage, but abruptly gives a warm smile when his credit comes up. This is an early indicator that the smiles aren't necessarily willing.
Too Many Cooks / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_9d12bbc1
Too Many Cooks / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Too Many Cooks / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: The last group shot implies Bill has been resurrected by the Reset Button too.
Too Many Cooks / int_9e86e227	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_9e86e227	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_9e86e227
Too Many Cooks / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Too Many Cooks / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The theme music changes genres to match the changed settings, but maintains the melody most of the time. Creepily enough, the theme song becomes Bill's leitmotif as he chases Samantha. Note how it gets louder as he gets closer, almost as though he's creating it...
Too Many Cooks / int_9f6fb586	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_9f6fb586	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_9f6fb586
Too Many Cooks / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Too Many Cooks / int_a10775b7	comment	Mean Boss: Archer Cook, who yells at T.L. and hands him a ton of paperwork to do by himself. Aimee gives him some mild comeuppance by putting a box on his head.
Too Many Cooks / int_a10775b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a10775b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a10775b7
Too Many Cooks / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Too Many Cooks / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: The whole point of the short. As well as the repetition of slight permutations on the theme, Melinda's superhero Transformation Sequence has her spinning in place for a full twenty seconds of silence, and between the G.I. Joe parody and Athena Cook's introduction, there's a quadruple loop of an Establishing Shot of a mansion followed by a shot of a falcon turning to the camera.
Too Many Cooks / int_a188ac4b	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a188ac4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a188ac4b
Too Many Cooks / int_a18a7c01	type	Hand-or-Object Underwear
Too Many Cooks / int_a18a7c01	comment	Hand-or-Object Underwear: Marilyn McCook is first seen, while changing, holding up a top in a way that hides her breasts from the camera. After she catches Chris Cook spying on her, she starts using just her arm, and is seen doing the same in a different circumstance. Bill later mimics this.
Too Many Cooks / int_a18a7c01	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a18a7c01	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a18a7c01
Too Many Cooks / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Too Many Cooks / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Meanings of "too many cooks" include: The initial, rather large family named "Cook", and the second, and the various other families named variants of "Cook". An apparent Cast Herd of literal professional cooks. The possible judgmental reactions to the quadrilateral relationship of first two Cook families. The G.I. Joe like organization "C.O.O.K." The spacefaring "C.O.O.K.S."note Cybernetic Operational Optimized Knights of Science in an eternal war with "B.R.o.t.H."note Beast Rebels of the Hellscape The rapid and bizarre shifts in tone being the consequence of an overlarge production staff, as in the phrase "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup". It's also possible Bill simply thinks there are too many cooks, and is "solving" the "problem". There's also one iteration of the "stew" metaphor becoming far more literal, with Bill eating various characters — "when it comes to me and you" becomes "when it's made of me and you" in this iteration of the theme.
Too Many Cooks / int_a4905771	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a4905771	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a4905771
Too Many Cooks / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Too Many Cooks / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Sgt. Cook is introduced yelling and pounding his fist on his desk. The scene is revisited later on, with Chloe suddenly replacing him and acting like him as everything goes out of control.
Too Many Cooks / int_a4be7043	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a4be7043	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a4be7043
Too Many Cooks / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Too Many Cooks / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The first genre shift to a cop show parody. Bill beginning his rampage. Too Many C.O.O.K.S. the Space Opera. The abrupt end credits.
Too Many Cooks / int_a4c37cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a4c37cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a4c37cbe
Too Many Cooks / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
Too Many Cooks / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: Darren and Claire appear to be in a relationship with T.L. and Sasha. The former two are seen nuzzling together, as the latter two join them. Without skipping a beat Darren and Claire turn to kiss the other couple.
Too Many Cooks / int_a5de0ab9	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a5de0ab9	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a5de0ab9
Too Many Cooks / int_a67371c2	type	Character as Himself
Too Many Cooks / int_a67371c2	comment	Character as Himself: Smarf.
Too Many Cooks / int_a67371c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a67371c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a67371c2
Too Many Cooks / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Too Many Cooks / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The gag of Darren trying and failing to beat a camera timer to the couch is done three times. The third time, he makes it but is replaced in the photo by Bill.
Too Many Cooks / int_a6cda066	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a6cda066	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a6cda066
Too Many Cooks / int_a73cfb7f	type	Animate Inanimate Object
Too Many Cooks / int_a73cfb7f	comment	Animate Inanimate Object: Matthew Kody Foster as "Coat". And probably Lars von Trier as "Pie" too.
Too Many Cooks / int_a73cfb7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a73cfb7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a73cfb7f
Too Many Cooks / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
Too Many Cooks / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Chris Cook as a guy spying on Marilyn McCook half-naked (specifically, a pervier spoof of Sam from Clarissa Explains It All). Later, Bill peeps in on himself in a dark parody of said scene. The end credits have a brief shot of a repeat of Marilyn being peeped on, this time by T.L.
Too Many Cooks / int_a74ca4fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a74ca4fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a74ca4fc
Too Many Cooks / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
Too Many Cooks / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: Everyone gets a brief two-second clip to smile at the camera and do something trait related, like bake cookies or hold up lab flasks. Everyone.
Too Many Cooks / int_a8556a04	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_a8556a04	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_a8556a04
Too Many Cooks / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Too Many Cooks / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The upbeat sitcom theme keeps playing as Bill slaughters his way through the cast. It keeps on playing as things get steadily worse, culminating in the show completely falling apart.
Too Many Cooks / int_abad35b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_abad35b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_abad35b4
Too Many Cooks / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Too Many Cooks / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Melinda Cook, introduced posing in a revealing tank top and later in a busty red supersuit. Marilyn McCook, who's topless in all her appearances, even around other people.
Too Many Cooks / int_b032e4ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_b032e4ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_b032e4ed
Too Many Cooks / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Too Many Cooks / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Dr. Bennett Hamilton Cooke certainly thinks that contracting Intronitis is this.
Too Many Cooks / int_b1346878	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_b1346878	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_b1346878
Too Many Cooks / int_b2283870	type	Retool
Too Many Cooks / int_b2283870	comment	Retool: One reason as to why the series adds on more characters and changed genres.
Too Many Cooks / int_b2283870	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_b2283870	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_b2283870
Too Many Cooks / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Too Many Cooks / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: The tennis player spouts blood when he gets a knife In the Back by Bill.
Too Many Cooks / int_b8dbe475	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_b8dbe475	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_b8dbe475
Too Many Cooks / int_b9616deb	type	Transformation Is a Free Action
Too Many Cooks / int_b9616deb	comment	Transformation Is a Free Action: Subverted when Chris Cook attempts to turn into a superhero, only for Bill to decapitate him during the crossfade between forms, resulting in Will Dove's name being displayed over two transparent, headless Chrises.
Too Many Cooks / int_b9616deb	featureApplicability	-0.3
Too Many Cooks / int_b9616deb	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_b9616deb
Too Many Cooks / int_bc6c6c90	type	Drop-In Character
Too Many Cooks / int_bc6c6c90	comment	Drop-In Character: Several, it appears — Melinda is introduced with Darren's family, but not seen in group shots, and Armondo Del Cook is an obvious Fonzie expy.
Too Many Cooks / int_bc6c6c90	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_bc6c6c90	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_bc6c6c90
Too Many Cooks / int_bcdfbe4a	type	Chef of Iron
Too Many Cooks / int_bcdfbe4a	comment	Chef of Iron: One of the Cook soldiers in the animated G.I. Joe-like segment appears to be a literal cook, complete with chef hat.
Too Many Cooks / int_bcdfbe4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_bcdfbe4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_bcdfbe4a
Too Many Cooks / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Too Many Cooks / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Who better than an actual slasher?
Too Many Cooks / int_bd4264a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_bd4264a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_bd4264a3
Too Many Cooks / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Too Many Cooks / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: This short was played at four in the morning just to get anyone who stumbled on this even more confused.
Too Many Cooks / int_bef696dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_bef696dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_bef696dd
Too Many Cooks / int_c14ca4e0	type	Zombie Infectee
Too Many Cooks / int_c14ca4e0	comment	Zombie Infectee: Dr. Bennett Hamilton Cooke gets infected while treating an intronitis patient.
Too Many Cooks / int_c14ca4e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_c14ca4e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_c14ca4e0
Too Many Cooks / int_c1d5b78	type	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
Too Many Cooks / int_c1d5b78	comment	Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: As Ken/Darren lays sick in a hospital, he says: "That's a fine how-do-you-do, laugh track..."
Too Many Cooks / int_c1d5b78	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_c1d5b78	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_c1d5b78
Too Many Cooks / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Too Many Cooks / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: The war between Cybernetic Operational Optimized Knights of Science and the Beast Rebels of the Hellscape.
Too Many Cooks / int_c25c7890	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_c25c7890	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_c25c7890
Too Many Cooks / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Too Many Cooks / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Each time it seems like someone's figuring out what's going on and about to solve things, Bill pops in to finish them off.
Too Many Cooks / int_c3c18143	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_c3c18143	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_c3c18143
Too Many Cooks / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Too Many Cooks / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: The acting credits end "And featuring William Tokarsky," whose character is called "Bill" by IMDb.
Too Many Cooks / int_c40c8b74	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_c40c8b74	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_c40c8b74
Too Many Cooks / int_c4e4e17f	type	Electronic Speech Impediment
Too Many Cooks / int_c4e4e17f	comment	Electronic Speech Impediment: As things get thoroughly out-of-control, the music eventually gets messed up as well, particularly during Bill's murderous Hostile Show Takeover and the part with the credits and actors switching places, in which multiple copies of the theme layer over each other cacophonously.
Too Many Cooks / int_c4e4e17f	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_c4e4e17f	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_c4e4e17f
Too Many Cooks / int_c55c31e2	type	Non-Standard Character Design
Too Many Cooks / int_c55c31e2	comment	Non-Standard Character Design: During the brief animated segment, Bill is animated in a much more realistic style than the '80s Sunbow-style animation.
Too Many Cooks / int_c55c31e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_c55c31e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_c55c31e2
Too Many Cooks / int_c605da88	type	Establishing Shot
Too Many Cooks / int_c605da88	comment	Establishing Shot: There are repeated location shots of the Cook's house and also a quadruple loop of an establishing shot of a mansion.
Too Many Cooks / int_c605da88	featureApplicability	1.0
Too Many Cooks / int_c605da88	featureConfidence	1.0
Too Many Cooks	hasFeature	Too Many Cooks / int_c605da88
Too Many Cooks / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Too Many Cooks / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Bill redoes the scene of Marilyn/Victoria putting on a show for Chris, with himself in both roles.
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Too Many Cooks / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Bill can come from anywhere.
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Too Many Cooks / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The family segment of the show is based on ones like Full House (where the font for the title logo came from), Family Ties, Growing Pains, Family Matters, etc. The sequence of a family sitting around the table as the camera pans around showing all of them in particular is a direct parody of Roseanne's opening. The kitchen and living room scenes are lifted directly from Married... with Children. Smarf is a clear parody of ALF and Snarf. The pie in the cop show segment is credited as being played by Lars von Trier. The supersuit scene homages both Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, using a pastiche of the former's theme song. The sci-fi segment looks a whole lot like a mix of Star Trek: The Original Series and Battlestar Galactica. Plus, it has a clone army. The melodrama segment looks similar to ones from Dynasty, Dallas, and Falcon Crest.note The music and the falcon are specifically parodying Falcon Crest Bill looks a lot like Jack Torrance in The Shining, especially his sudden appearance in a group photo at the end. He has long hair and a blue jacket like Bob, as well as an ordinary name ("Bill"), and he uses a machete like Jason Voorhees. Word of God says his patterned sweater is an homage to The Cosby Show, but in the context of a slasher movie it's also reminiscent of Freddy Krueger. Smarf's robot body underneath his fur resembles that of The Terminator. There's even a homage to Manimal of all things shortly before the ending. The ending has the whole cast arranged like The Brady Bunch's opening. Darren Cook also appears to be an architect, like Mike Brady. The opening shot of the "show" is a shout-out to the outside-the-house transition shots from The Brak Show (right down to using the same music). There's a section during Bill's rampage that parodies Law & Order, particularly with similar music. The cop section is heavily influenced by T.J. Hooker, with the "taking a perp down by throwing a baton" scene directly lifted from it. During Bill's killing spree, there's an extended shot of a cop searching for the killer, while the BGM makes a direct reference to the theme song of Hill Street Blues. The transition between the "Intronitis" scene and the characters mixing up between the genres is underscored by the distinctive Seinfeld slap-bass music.
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Too Many Cooks / int_c76b215e	comment	Bait-and-Switch Credits: And switch, and switch, and switch, and switch... Once it gets to the actual show, it's managed to switch back to the original family sitcom setting, but with characters from the other settings still existing.
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Too Many Cooks / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The killer, the only character whose name is unknown due to the VHS artifacting covering it up whenever his credit appears. No name in the credits, either, where he's only credited as "and featuring William Tokarsky". The creators call him Bill.
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Too Many Cooks / int_ccc73c34	comment	Spooky Painting: As Athena Cook is murdered by Bill, a painting behind her shows a familiar figure...
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Too Many Cooks / int_ced766cb	type	Metafictional Device
Too Many Cooks / int_ced766cb	comment	Metafictional Device: Characters start running around with their names from the Video Credits attached to them. Samantha Cook gets caught out by Bill because the label gives her away in the cupboard.
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Too Many Cooks / int_cf64a80d	type	Hostile Show Takeover
Too Many Cooks / int_cf64a80d	comment	Hostile Show Takeover: Bill does this progressively, first by hiding in the background, then by killing actors in their presentation: one of his victims escaping transforms the sitcom intro into a slasher. He continues in the superhero and Law & Order segments, and after everybody's gone, he makes multiples copies of himself who start re-enacting scenes from earlier in the video before cooking and eating his victims while staring at the viewers. When everything goes to hell in the end, various characters randomly start changing roles and recreating shots from early in the video, leading to space aliens having a Childish Pillow Fight and the chief of police suddenly getting replaced with one of the teenage girls. Toward the end, anthropomorphic credit-people apparently usurp their roles from the actors, forcing the actors to appear in front of them as their credits, although it's hard to tell if they did so intentionally or it's just a mistake.
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Too Many Cooks / int_cffd71bd	comment	Melinda Cook, introduced posing in a revealing tank top and later in a busty red supersuit.
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Too Many Cooks / int_d1f66080	comment	Crowded-Cast Shot: Darren's final attempt at a family photo.
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Too Many Cooks / int_d439c910	type	Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup
Too Many Cooks / int_d439c910	comment	Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup: The short is reportedly a spoof of the tendency for American sitcoms to be burdened with far more writers and producers than are necessary as production moves on, eventually resulting in them losing sight of what their original vision was.
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Too Many Cooks / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Too Many Cooks / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Barbara Bruce's character is credited as simply "Grammy Cook".
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Too Many Cooks / int_d93eca0d	type	The Story That Never Was
Too Many Cooks / int_d93eca0d	comment	The Story That Never Was: The world is brought back to (very, very relative) normality by Smarf, at the point of death, pressing a mysterious Big Red Button in the kitchen.
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Too Many Cooks / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Captain Jen Simmer, briefly seen on an alien planet gun-toting while a space battle rages overhead. Policewoman Laura Cook has her Video Credits be taking out a crook with a thrown baton. Subverted with Melinda Cook; see Faux Action Girl.
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Too Many Cooks / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Puppet cat Smarf, who destroys Bill with his laser-beam eyes and tries to hit the red button to save the show. Subverted with Melinda and Chris Cook. They turn out to be superheroes, but end up being killed by Bill before they can do anything.
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Too Many Cooks / int_ddb124b3	comment	An apparent Cast Herd of literal professional cooks.
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Too Many Cooks / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: Marilyn McCook is the Affectionate Parody of your typical 80s sitcom Ms. Fanservice in that she is meant to be so shameless about it, she plays even Pictionary topless.
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Too Many Cooks / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: "Too many cooks! (Too many coooooks.) Too many cooks! (Too many coooooks.)" It usually goes for about a minute before a break, at which point it'll repeat something else we heard already before looping for another minute.
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Too Many Cooks / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Bill is seemingly laser-beamed dead by Smarf, but the evil B.R.o.t.H. forces in the sci-fi section turn out to be an army of doppelgangers of him and he makes one last cameo at the end.
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Too Many Cooks / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: The Too Many C.O.O.K.S. sci-fi segment.
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Too Many Cooks / int_eb5cbe42	comment	Me's a Crowd: The evil forces of B.R.o.t.H. turn out to be an army of clones of Bill.
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Too Many Cooks / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Too Many Cooks / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Samantha hides in a closet to escape Bill, but he figures out where she is when he sees her actress's name, Katie Adkins, shining through the closet blinds.
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Too Many Cooks / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: The doctor overlooking Ken/Darren begs his assistant to kill him as he catches Intronitis and starts posing with his own name like all the other actors.
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Too Many Cooks / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Too Many Cooks / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: During the scene where Bill is eating, the lyrics are a lot darker. A darker version of the song also plays when Smarf tries to press the button in the kitchen while he's bleeding to death.
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Too Many Cooks / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Ambiguous, just like everything else in the short, but after Smarf kills Bill and painfully drags himself over to push the Reset Button, literally everyone is shown to be alive and well, and Smarf seems happy to be reunited with his family again.
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Too Many Cooks / int_f94756fe	type	Faceship
Too Many Cooks / int_f94756fe	comment	Faceship: In the sci-fi segment, B.R.o.t.H. have one with Bill's whole head forming the bow. It can shoot lasers from its mouth.
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Too Many Cooks / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The dad of the Cook family setting up a family photo, but never getting in the right pose for the camera before the picture is taken. On the last time, though, he makes it only for Bill to take his place.
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Too Many Cooks / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Veronica and Grammy Cook are shown reading a magazine titled "Magazine" with a picture of magazines on the cover of it. What magazines? Magazine magazine, of course. And those on the cover have the exact same picture of Magazine magazines on them as well.
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Too Many Cooks / int_fd8edf01	comment	Bit Character: According to Word of God, Bill's Start of Darkness was that he was a background character who wanted to be the main sitcom dad. He went postal because he couldn't live his dream.
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