Cast your mind back, if you can, to 2014. It was a simpler time, when we could live our lives with more peace of mind than we can today. It was also the year that Adult Swim induced countless nightmares with “Too Many Cooks”, a masterful parody of the TV program introductions of the 80s and 90s. To distract herself from everything that was happening in January, the writer and comedian Jenn Welch recreated the classic viral video, shot by shot, in a completely different medium: Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
“Too Many Nooks” is an incredibly faithful remake of the original. I don’t want to spoil anything if you haven’t seen “Too Many Cooks” (if not, fix it right away), but the title and 11-minute run time are big parts of the joke. Welch perfectly reshapes a certain character like the cute, but kind of scary, villager Pietro from the megahit Nintendo Switch.
If you need evidence that the videos match almost perfectly, you can play them side by side simultaneously in ViewSync. Just don’t blame us if you can’t look at Animal Crossing: New Horizons the same way always.