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Too Many Cooks | Adult Swim

29.8M views · Nov 7, 2014 · 11:12 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2020–2024

Too Many Cooks is an Adult Swim absurdist parody of sitcom opening credits that spirals into a surreal horror comedy. It runs about eleven minutes.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN mentions it mostly as a joke or pop-culture reference, and as a famous YouTube oddity with its own CSS selector.

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Cites it015aFeb 2024

“The video: Adult Swim's "Too Many Cooks" skit”

Only video with a dedicated CSS selector on YouTube.

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My favorite YouTube oddity: If you hunt over the CSS the site downloads on, IIRC, every page; you'll eventually come across this selector: this video h1.ytd-watch-metadata { color:#e6d140; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:250%; font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:normal; transform:skew(-5deg,0deg); text-shadow:1px 1px #000,1px 1px .1px #000 } A selector that appears to be referencing a very specific video ID; as far as I can tell, the only video in the billions of videos on YouTube to receive this treatment (at least, in terms of a "css selector with video-id in it"). The video: Adult Swim's "Too Many Cooks" skit ( this video )

JokeyowlingcatDec 2020

“the perennial Adult Swim sketch which satirizes these tropes, Too Many Cooks”

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I know they're annoying, but sometimes, a fun thing to do with these tropes is to enjoy them for how campy and trashy they are, along the lines of B-movies and the perennial Adult Swim sketch which satirizes these tropes, Too Many Cooks [1]. [1] this video

JokeDonHopkinsJun 2022

“Everybody wants to make it into the "Too Many Cooks" credits.”

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Everybody wants to make it into the "Too Many Cooks" credits. this video (Is that RMS with the machete?)

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