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* Bill's presence in the show isn't that much of a stretch. While slasher films aren't a TV genre, they were still popular in the '80s.

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* Bill's presence in the show isn't that much of a stretch. While slasher films [[SlasherMovie Slasher Movies]] aren't a TV genre, they were still incredibly popular in the '80s.
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* Bill's presence in the show isn't that much of a stretch. While slasher films aren't a TV genre, they were still popular in the '80s.
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** Not likely, given the deceased victims of Bill aappear to be cured of Intronitis, [[EatenAlive unless…]]

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** Not likely, given the deceased victims of Bill aappear appear to be cured of Intronitis, (though it can also appear shortly after death, though only at Bill’s hands) [[EatenAlive unless…]]
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** Not likely, given the deceased victims of Bill aappear to be cured of Intronitis, [[EatenAlive unless…]]
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* At the end of the cop show part, we see the pie given its own credit. Unlike the coat though, we can’t see any actor’s face. Given what we see of Bill’s [[ImAHumanitarian meals]] later, this pie may be one of his early victims.
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* The idea of Intronitis being a problem, and its symptoms, are shown in the second sketch change to a police drama; normally a ''criminal'' character isn't going to stop what he's doing and smile at the camera for a credits sequence.

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* Katie Adkins and the doctor who catches Intronitis are [[AndIMustScream still aware even as they're forced to smile and pose]]. What must have a floating credit in front of you be like? It's the last remnant of your old self, a name only you know but no one else will call you by. And you can never make it leave, even if, like in Katie's case, the credit makes you easier to find.

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* Katie Adkins and the doctor who catches Intronitis are [[AndIMustScream still aware even as they're forced to smile and pose]]. What must have a floating credit in front of you be like? It's the last remnant of your old self, a name only you know but no one else will call you by. And you can never make it leave, even if, like in Katie's case, the credit makes you easier to find.find.
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* Barry Tolman, the district attorney of the novel who clashes with Wolfe and Archie, is generally depicted as being a bit ineffective and pathetic. In typical ObstructiveBureaucrat-in-a-mystery-novel style, he gets things wrong, latches on to the wrong conclusion, unnecessarily antagonises the protagonists, and so forth; it's heavily implied that he wouldn't even have gotten anywhere at all with Constanza, the beautiful woman he longs after throughout the novel, had Archie not willingly took a step back in his favour. While not as virulent about it as some, he also expresses some casually racist sentiments. However, where it gets really interesting is that he's also constantly described in handsome and athletic terms; blonde-haired, blue-eyed, well-built, engaging in physical activity like horse-riding, and so forth. The novel was written in 1939, at a point where the Nazis were in power in Germany, and is a critique of American race relations. Tolman is essentially Creator/RexStout taking the piss out of the Aryan ideal.
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* The creators' [[TrollingCreator intended purpose]] for the short plays perfectly into the show's title; ''Too Many Cooks'' spoiled the viewer's late night television binge.
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* The writer/director of the short explained the killer's story in an [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/too-many-cooks/ interview]]: though he tried to be a sitcom dad it wasn't meant to be, and implied that his killing spree was his way of getting revenge. Well, the killer's face pops up one last time at the end of the introduction, indicating that he's not quite dead after all. And who's head does his face appear over at the very end? The show's main ''sitcom dad''. Whatever that imagery implies, it seems he got what he wanted in the end.

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* The writer/director of the short explained the killer's story in an [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/too-many-cooks/ interview]]: though he tried to be a sitcom dad it wasn't meant to be, and implied that his killing spree was his way of getting revenge. Well, the killer's face pops up one last time at the end of the introduction, indicating that he's not quite dead after all. And who's whose head does his face appear over at the very end? The show's main ''sitcom dad''. Whatever that imagery implies, it seems [[TheBadGuyWins he got what he wanted in the end.end]].
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* Not that he wouldn't deserve it, but, given that his name always goes staticy when it appears, [[BodyHorror what would happen if the killer appeared in front of one of the credit people?]]

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* Not that he wouldn't deserve it, but, given that his name always goes staticy when it appears, [[BodyHorror what would happen if the killer appeared in front of one of the credit people?]]people?]]
* Katie Adkins and the doctor who catches Intronitis are [[AndIMustScream still aware even as they're forced to smile and pose]]. What must have a floating credit in front of you be like? It's the last remnant of your old self, a name only you know but no one else will call you by. And you can never make it leave, even if, like in Katie's case, the credit makes you easier to find.
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* The writer/director of the short explained the killer's story in an [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/too-many-cooks/ interview]]: though he tried to be a sitcom dad it wasn't meant to be, and implied that his killing spree was his way of getting revenge. Well, the killer's face pops up one last time at the end of the introduction, indicating that he's not quite dead after all. And who's head does his face appear over at the very end? The show's main ''sitcom dad''. Whatever that imagery implies, it seems he got what he wanted in the end.

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* The writer/director of the short explained the killer's story in an [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/too-many-cooks/ interview]]: though he tried to be a sitcom dad it wasn't meant to be, and implied that his killing spree was his way of getting revenge. Well, the killer's face pops up one last time at the end of the introduction, indicating that he's not quite dead after all. And who's head does his face appear over at the very end? The show's main ''sitcom dad''. Whatever that imagery implies, it seems he got what he wanted in the end.end.
* Not that he wouldn't deserve it, but, given that his name always goes staticy when it appears, [[BodyHorror what would happen if the killer appeared in front of one of the credit people?]]
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* The writer/director of the short explained the killer's story in an [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/too-many-cooks/ interview]]: though he tried to be a sitcom dad it wasn't meant to be, and implied that his killing spree was his way of getting revenge. Well, the killer's face pops up one last time at the end of the introduction, indicating that he's not quite dead after all. And who's head does his face appear over at the very end? The show's main ''sitcom dad''. Whatever that imagery implies, it seems he got what he wanted in the end.

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