Too Many Cooks vs. Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared: Decoding the Disturbing – Wisecrack Edition

38 thoughts on “Too Many Cooks vs. Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared: Decoding the Disturbing – Wisecrack Edition”

1. This episode was written by Leo COOKman. We, too, have Too Many Cooks! Join WisecrackPLUS to download the script, join our Discord server, and get exclusive access to our research and team at http://wscrk.com/WisecrackPlus

2. That clock guy messed me up when I first saw him.

3. (Swastica) = mc^2

4. It's nice to be able to feel how you're right, I don't feel scared or even anxious watching too many cooks, I focused more on the comedy, because I don't watch sitcoms really, never have. But, don't hug me I'm scared disturbs the shit outta me

5. wait…people are scared by too many cooks? i thought it was just funny

6. ok how can these two things be scaryier than SALAD FINGERS!?!??! too any people how to dont know what salad fingers is i recommend it its a scary thing about a dude who likes rusty spoons but in 5 or 7 minnutes it scares you with jumpscares out of no where , where you least saw them happing its ol so a little brutal and has alot of gross imedry so people who see tish comments would you rather be in a song that never ends , be in a scary muppet choas or be in the middle of no where with a tall man? comment down below

7. Lmao when I saw too many cooks I thought it was a commercial for an upcoming show, and I'm like why doesn't it end? Or is this a real show? But then why is it not starting? Very entertaining.

8. So Damage by Despair.
   Thats half my answer, the other i need is how to reverse this against itself.
   There lies the glory of the hunt

9. Metacognition overload
   I’m actually dumb af..

10. I think an important thing that isn’t mentioned here about Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is that the creators refuse to explain anything about the series. Every question asked or theory suggested is answered with a simple, chilling answer: “yes”. Which means that all of this disturbing stuff is either meaningless or the meaning is so deeply hidden beneath references and Easter eggs and winks and nods that any effort to find the true meaning of DHIS will be far too much for any answer to be satisfying for the seeker.

    Maybe it’s a rebuke against Quaker ideology? Maybe it’s a portrayal of the Absurd as Camus explained it? Maybe it’s a portrayal in the futility of trying to define a complex world through terms a child could explain and how that ultimately is harming us than helping us. All of these theories are correct according to the creators, and that is so much more terrifying than any answer they could ever give.

11. I felt that Too Many Cooks was too funny and cheesy to be scary or unsettling. DHMIS legitimately plays on contrast to invoke a sense of unease, but Too Many Cooks has such good comedic timing that it's hard to take seriously or seem disturbing.

12. holy shit, thanks for intoducing me to too many cooks, i had never seen it lol

13. I will never use Hims just because of the stupid ass name

14. The Last Jedi is far more horrific than either of these

15. I watch this to escape university but than I see my university lecturer name on the nostalgia paper

16. This video is so cool I want to inject it into my bloodstream #toomanycocks

17. Time?

18. Do Wondershowzen!

19. ED is erectile dysfunctions

20. This is the best analysis.

21. I want everybody to know that Bertolt Brecht was a massive fraud. Most of his work was stolen from his Collective.
    Also the "Alienation effect" is more properly known as the Verfremdungseffekt

22. youre just like nostalgia chick. Autistic analysis. ITs about a dude stuck in a endless loop of sitcoms and wants end the cycle by killing everyone only to become part of those sitcoms for all eternity. Fuck all that other shit you fucking nerd…..NEEEEEERRRRD

23. Genuinely surprised to know Brecht wrote Alabama Song!

24. Too many cooks is a comedy. It was made by adult swim for fucks sake

25. ???⚖️?

    We are all God and we should be fucking ashamed ..well y'all are god, I just work here

26. So based on what you're saying here (that the source of horror for TMC and DHMIS is nostalgia), how would these videos affect someone who didn't have the experiences necessary to be nostalgic about? (E.g., a Gen Z kid who didn't grow up with 80s sitcoms)

    To me it's not the removal of terror mangement via nostalgia that makes these videos creepy, it's just the eeriness of inverting something we associate as being happy and harmless with vaguely threatening and/or disturbing imagery… It's unsettling. It's like a video version of the game Eversion.

    Appreciate the knowledge you dropped in this one anyway, even if I disagree.

27. It's a butterfly not a bee and it it was a bee it doesn't resemble one

28. Ok but I find Don't Hug Me I'm Scared super uneasy and horrifying and I never watched any kids shows with felt or otherwise live-action puppets. I also never watched old sitcoms. So I don't think we can say nostalgia is the main ingredient. I think contrast is the key – contrast between something innocuous, like cute puppets or a family comedy, and incredibly creepy dialogue and graphic imagery.

29. The irony of how the philosophy of 'dont touch me I'm scared' is followed by a lesson, then an ad that paid for the whole thing is probably the best part of this whole thing.

30. 9:07 It's a baby pigeon!

31. Anyone seen Look Around You? It did a similar thing, where familiar things from one's childhood were made strange and uncanny. Series 1 is a frighteningly accurate pastiche of British education for schools videos of the '80s, and series 2 is a looser parody of the programme Tomorrow's World which ran from the '60s to the '90s.

32. Im 12. I don't have that kind of nostalgia

33. too bad Katelyn Nacon died tonight. . . on AMC's "The Walking Dead"

34. So you're saying Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared understands, deconstructs and reconstructs children's entertainment?

35. PESKY COOKS

36. Too creative! We've got to go now!

37. This totally reminds me of Boards Of Canada.

38. if you lack the balls to say fuck
    don´t write it into your script

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