After its original airing, the piece became a viral video online and was repeated each night at midnight Eastern Time during the week of November 11, 2014. The short begins as a parody of opening credits sequences of 1970s, '80s, and '90s American sitcoms, listing the actors in the fictional series "Too Many Cooks".

Nov 8, 2014 · But the sketch is more than just playing with these forms; it quickly becomes darker, more surreal (Lars von Trier as "Pie"), and more malevolent. That happy couple now kisses other lovers, that sexy neighbor is now always topless, and that adorable cat is now bleeding as it attempts to crawl, painfully, across the kitchen floor.

Nov 9, 2014 · Lars von Trier plays a pie? Where does an idea like this come from? “I’ve always been a fan of humor that just pushes things past the point of funny,” Kelly told Rolling Stone.

With Ken DeLozier, Tara Ochs, Katelyn Nacon, Justin Scott. A series of montages that parodies the introductory title sequences of generic 70s, 80s and 90s TV shows of various genres slowly turns into an absurdist meta slasher and then the parody becomes even weirder.

The obvious exception is "Lars von Trier as Pie." For characters seen in the animated segment or only shown as body parts, the names are the real names of various crew members involved with the short, e.g. Aimee Holmberg and Paul Painter .

The pie in the cop show segment is credited as being played by Lars von Trier. The supersuit scene homages both Wonder Woman and Green Lantern , using a pastiche of the former's theme song. The sci-fi segment looks a whole lot like a mix of Star Trek: The Original Series and Battlestar Galactica .

Nov 2, 2019 · At 4 a.m. on October 28, 2014, “Too Many Cooks” debuted on Adult Swim and those words have never been uttered the same way ever since. Five years and now almost 18 million views on YouTube...

A metaphysically stimulating and philosophically dense meditation on mankind's descent into a state of civil, nuclear warfare, communicated metaphorically and starring Lars von Trier as an apple pie.

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Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984).