2nd February 2015, 12:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 2nd February 2015, 1:53 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
I heard there's a remake of that series coming along, or a sequel series... something or other.
Anyway, just saw the too many cooks thing there... I really wanted to like it, I really did. I had the best of hopes for it with all the hype it's been getting. To summerize: good concept, poor execution
I think my biggest issue is that it just... drags on and on and ON. I know it's only 10 minutes, but wow does it feel like about an hour's worth of 10 minutes. They totally botched the comedic timing. When it finally got to changing up the initial joke (like 6 minutes in!), I just waiting for it to be over and I didn't get as much out of those later bits as I think I otherwise would have. That humor was otherwise right up my ally, I think, but wow, they REALLY could have trimmed that down. That should have been a 4 minute video, tops. I mean, that initial joke of "we're called "Too Many Cooks" and we keep on adding actors!"... Too much... just too much...
Also, some of those individual gags dragged on for way too long too. It kills the joke. And yes, I know that "that's the joke, they screwed up the timing!" in that antihumor kind of way, but it still wasn't funny, and they still screwed up their own jokes.
Edit: I'll say this though, really catchy song.
Anyway, just saw the too many cooks thing there... I really wanted to like it, I really did. I had the best of hopes for it with all the hype it's been getting. To summerize: good concept, poor execution
I think my biggest issue is that it just... drags on and on and ON. I know it's only 10 minutes, but wow does it feel like about an hour's worth of 10 minutes. They totally botched the comedic timing. When it finally got to changing up the initial joke (like 6 minutes in!), I just waiting for it to be over and I didn't get as much out of those later bits as I think I otherwise would have. That humor was otherwise right up my ally, I think, but wow, they REALLY could have trimmed that down. That should have been a 4 minute video, tops. I mean, that initial joke of "we're called "Too Many Cooks" and we keep on adding actors!"... Too much... just too much...
Also, some of those individual gags dragged on for way too long too. It kills the joke. And yes, I know that "that's the joke, they screwed up the timing!" in that antihumor kind of way, but it still wasn't funny, and they still screwed up their own jokes.
Edit: I'll say this though, really catchy song.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)