# Too Many Cooks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976 "2014-11-07T14:03:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/21 "2014-11-07T23:51:47Z")
Is that what it’s like to be on drugs? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/22 "2014-11-07T23:56:33Z")
Someone [beat you to it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=740096). Reported for merging. The video was great, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/23 "2014-11-08T00:08:28Z")
[Reddit AMA](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2lm9se/we_are_the_gobsmacked_creators_behind_too_many/) by the creators. (I haven’t read any of it.) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/24 "2014-11-08T13:14:37Z")
Be sure to rewatch. You’ll notice things the second time. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/25 "2014-11-08T13:22:20Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > I thought this was going to be about the Nero Wolfe mystery. +1 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/26 "2014-11-08T13:36:18Z")
Saw this while mentally altered. It was a fuckin’ trip. **Too many cooks! Too many cooks…** ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/27 "2014-11-08T14:02:00Z")
Merged duplicate threads. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/28 "2014-11-08T14:58:19Z")
Slow to start, then funny, then “lets beat this dead horse so far into the ground that it comes out in China” dull. A good humorist knows when to stop. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/29 "2014-11-08T15:18:36Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Slow to start, then funny, then “lets beat this dead horse so far into the ground that it comes out in China” dull. > > A good humorist knows when to stop. I feel like you didn’t watch the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/30 "2014-11-08T17:27:29Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > I feel like you didn’t watch the whole thing. Or maybe he’s a B.R.o.T.H. sleeper agent. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/31 "2014-11-08T17:46:18Z")
I forced my wife to watch the entire thing. She didn’t find it nearly as funny as I did. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/32 "2014-11-08T19:09:51Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > I feel like you didn’t watch the whole thing. You’re damn right I didn’t. No punchline in the history of the world is worth sitting through 11 minutes of boredom. I gave up at the science fiction parody. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/33 "2014-11-08T22:51:21Z")
Yeah if you made it to the scifi part and weren’t digging it then it just isn’t the right humor for you. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/34 "2014-11-09T02:28:54Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Yeah if you made it to the scifi part and weren’t digging it then it just isn’t the right humor for you. It needed more Oaming. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/35 "2014-11-09T17:47:02Z")
That was far too many cooks. And incredibly brilliant. > [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > I haven’t finished watching, but I caught the rotating table shot from Roseanne. I don’t remember that from Rosanne, but definitely from That 70s Show. But Roseanne would certainly be earlier. > [@Smapti](#): > > “Smarf” from Thundercats Thundercats had “Snarf”. Smarf seemed to be more a nod to Alf, Small Wonder, or Out of This World. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/36 "2014-11-09T20:14:18Z")
Is there a complete list anywhere of the shows parodied? I spotted Married with Children, Magnum PI, Dallas, 3’s Company and of course Brady Bunch at the end Which cop shows were they spoofing? Which Sci-Fi shows? I saw the visor guy from Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/37 "2014-11-09T22:11:28Z")
The sci fi show felt like Buck Rogers and the Cop show Law & Order but I think they were basically parodying a genre more than a particular show. Just as an aside, I get that it seems like a joke stretched thin but to me, what brings it back to brilliant is the Doctor mumbling “Kill me” and the words with people across their chest near the end. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/38 "2014-11-09T22:43:14Z")
There’s a Falcon Crest parody in there with the hooded bird repeatedly turning to the camera. And, of course, Wonder Woman. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/39 "2014-11-09T23:08:35Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I don’t remember that from Rosanne, but definitely from That 70s Show. But Roseanne would certainly be earlier. That was definitely Rosanne. That 70’s show intro was of the gang driving the car with different people taking turns at the wheel. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZFdKW43yGM) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976/40 "2014-11-09T23:17:02Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > There’s a Falcon Crest parody in there with the hooded bird repeatedly turning to the camera. And, of course, Wonder Woman. I had been wondering what the deal with the falcon was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-many-cooks/703976.md?page=3)