It sounded funny.Ĭasper Kelly: I said to Mike, “I’m not sure how long that will work.” He said, “I don’t know either you should have some other stuff ready.” I just wrote everything I could think of and things started developing in real ways. Kind of like this endless credit sequence - and lizard people. It was something they wanted to do, and they just told me about it over lunch. I don’t know if I would have ever pitched it, but Mike liked it, and I didn’t want to let that opportunity go by.Īlex Orr (producer): I grew up in Atlanta, and I’d done a couple live-action pilots for Adult Swim.
There was an awkward pause, and Nick told my idea to Mike to fill time. Then we were at a work party with our boss Mike Lazzo. Paul PainterĬasper Kelly: I had this idea but didn’t know if I could keep it going for 11 minutes. "We were brainstorming at lunch for a few months and then all of a sudden, we were shooting. We were brainstorming at lunch for a few months, and then all of a sudden we were shooting. Casper had the idea, and we would go out to lunch all the time. Paul Painter (editor): I was in from the start.
He’d written it out before but didn’t know if he would pitch it. This was an idea he’d said he had floating around for a while. Matt Foster (crew): I was working on Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell with Casper. Something gave me a funny feeling looking at that, and I had the idea of continuing it for an uncomfortably long time. slot where they were doing weird experimental stuff, and I guess I saw an old sitcom with people smiling and looking at the camera in the opening. Here’s the story of Too Many Cooks, in the words of its unlikely creators…Ĭasper Kelly (creator): I knew Adult Swim had that 4 a.m. To mark its four-year anniversary, and shed a little light on how a bit of late-night stoner comedy won over the internet with surrealist humor and a catchy tune, Inverse spoke to 10 people behind Too Many Cooks, from creator Casper Kelly to the musicians who wrote the song, to the villain. It took a full year, a skeleton crew, and dozens of extras to bring this half-baked concept to life. (In the years since it’s pulled in another 15 million streams on YouTube, and that’s not even counting all the parodies, explainer videos, and unofficial rips.) Within a week, the surreal 11-minute parody of a ‘90s sitcom theme song had racked up over 5 million views on YouTube and earned public praise from the likes of Zach Braff and Star Wars director Rian Johnson. When Adult Swim debuted Too Many Cooks in that early morning time slot, almost no one thought it would find an audience. The world changed forever on October 28, 2014, at four in the morning, but most of us wouldn’t know it until almost a week later.
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