Line #3 NightmareFuel/TooManyCooks


1	Too Many Cooks starts out as a parody of sitcom intros featuring large families a la ''Series/FullHouse'' with Adult Swim's typical absurdity, but turns into some of the most violent and nightmarish imagery ever seen on the network.
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3	* Everything about the Killer. Within minutes of his arrival the show is hijacked and he turns a funny parody video into a chilling horror story.
4	** He makes cameos all throughout the first half of the video, even as early 20 seconds after it starts. While those where he's right behind kids or a baby (coming closer to the latter) certainly are the creepiest, the following ones where he smiles at the camera [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall as he noticed the viewer]] are pretty shocking too.
5	** There's something unsettling about how, during the animated segment with its [[StylisticSuck Sunbow-esque cheap animation]], the Killer appears, looking [[UncannyValley disturbingly realistic.]]
6	** When he starts his takeover, he kills the three following actors on-screen: Candace Mabry is screaming in fear as the screen freezes [[GoryDiscretionShot right before she's stabbed]], Ben Peck remains clueless as the machete comes to his head during the freeze, then Dian Triandiflou is stabbed in the back and spitting blood before falling on the ground, the Killer smiling behind.
7	** Right after, you can see a pillow fight between three young woman... who are gruesomely killed one by one while [[SoundtrackDissonance the intro song is still playing]]:
8	*** The first woman, Elena Norde, is hitting a glass on a door, begging for someone to open it, before she's grabbed offscreen, her right hand being the only visible part of her when the screen freezes.
9	*** The second one, Amy Rollins, is grabbed by the neck in a kitchen before the Killer drowns her in the sink, the screen freezing on her panicked face... but even in this situation, she's trying to smile at the camera before she lacks of oxygen.
10	*** The third one, Katie Adkins, legitimately has the most disturbing death. After brushing her pigtail, she gets her little intro freeze-frame, smiling for the camera with her name displayed like any other... until the Killer starts clambering into view, the rest of the shot remaining completely motionless as he does, making Katie's frozen smile unnerving. Then Katie's eyes dart in his direction, and her smile [[StepfordSmiler starts to falter]], like if [[FrozenFace she was frozen in that position]]. And then as he prepares to take a swing at her, Katie (who's [[AndIMustScream still transfixed in the smiling freeze frame at this point]]) looks again, and her picture-perfect smiles goes, but less like she took a natural face and more like her smile was badly edited as a frown... And it only gets worse from there, with her barely managing to dodge the swing in time and then running through what appears to be the backstage of some sorts. After an escape sequence where she hides in the "room" closet, the Killer finds the said room, looks under the bed, then sees glowing yellow letters in the closet, and finally kills Katie offscreen.
11	** Right when a detective is investigating Melinda's murder scene, he gets himself stabbed with a machete from off-screen. His GoryDiscretionShot lasts for only a couple of seconds before it cuts back to his bloodied face which ''screams bloody murder'' right before he dies. All while the same song is still playing.
12	** The part where the [[HellIsThatNoise theme song becomes distorted/corrupted]] and the screen slowly becomes red as the Killer chows down on his victims is probably the most disturbing, unsettling part of the short.
13	*** During this part, the intro song changes and gets a whole new meaning:
14	----> "It takes a lot to make a stew, [[ImAHumanitarian especially when it's made of me and you, and him, and her]], [[EatsBabies and the baby too]]."
15	* The reveal of Intronitis, a disease that makes your name appear and forces you to act like a sitcom character, made worse by how contagious it is. So terrible that a doctor who catches it ''[[FateWorseThanDeath begs to be killed]]''. And it manages to get even worse from here:
16	** [[JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites The Credit-People, as well as the actors forced to be their "names"]]. T.L.[=/=]Marc Farley's reaction is appropriate, he's ''[[AndIMustScream screaming]]''. And the Credit-People's unnerving AsideGlance, with their featureless faces...
17	** The video title on [=YouTube=] is [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou written in the same yellow font]].
18	* The ending might seem like a ResetButton with everything being brought back to normal. The cast is back alive and gathered at the couch... [[HereWeGoAgain which also includes the Killer too]]. And his face takes the longest to fade into black when it cuts to the proper episode itself.

Context NightmareFuel / TooManyCooks