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 later, it’s time to look back on how this viral hit came to be.

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Adult Swim's Too Many Cooks: Spot the Killer 11 IMAGES

Created by Chris “Casper” Kelly, who also created Adult Swim’s "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell," "Too Many Cooks" didn’t become a hit overnight. Instead, it took about four nights before the madness finally caught on.After being posted during the late night hour by Adult Swim, YouTube user tortoise5210 ripped and uploaded the sketch in a (now deleted) video on November 4, 2014. It was after that posting that "Too Many Cooks" amassed millions of views within hours and went viral. Soon after, Adult Swim officially uploaded the video to their channel, and the rest is history. Celebrities such as Edgar Wright Simon Pegg , and Mark Hamill sang its praises, and everyone from CNN to Bleacher Report adapted the meme featuring the 2016 Presidential Candidates and 2015 NBA Draft Picks, respectively."Too Many Cooks" was released as one of Adult Swim’s ongoing Infomercials series that parodies various tropes of television and media. Kelly’s singular log-line for the video was "TOO MANY COOKS is a sitcom with the world’s longest opening sequence." The sketch is a parody for the intros of the classic '80s and '90s sitcoms (think Full House Family Matters , and Rosanne ) with a frankly very catchy song of its own, but it slowly morphs into something more unnerving and more relative to surrealist Internet fares like Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared and HI STRANGER . Depending on how you felt about the sketch, it quickly became a litmus test of which of your friends were real freaks.The sketch also seemingly follows the evolution of TV itself: family sitcoms and dramas of the '70s and '80s, to office workplace sitcoms to cop procedurals of the '90s to Dynasty-esque dramas then takes a sharp left turn to crediting characters such as "Coat" and Lars von Trier as "Pie."The breakout star of the entire sketch is William Tokarsky, the creepy murderer who gives Twin Peaks’ Killer BOB a run for his money (though they probably are neighbors at the Black Lodge), seemingly transcending genres to murder all the different takes on Cooks in the inner-television universe. His inclusion also rewarded repeat viewings, as you can see in the slideshow below, because the killer appeared far earlier than you may have realized . Tokarsky’s face has become so synonymous with the sketch that it threw many people for a loop when he appeared in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle as a bread vendor How did a late-night TV sketch on a in a time of online viral hits strike such a nerve with Twitter? Do we miss TV show theme songs? Is our generation a complete sucker for nostalgia and post-modern humor? Do we love it because it is seemingly a love-letter to television?Too Many Cooks takes the fourth-wall-breaking nature of sitcom intros and takes it to a meta-extreme logical end. Other than maybe Saved by the Bell, which featured Zack Morris’s Time Outs that paused the show for his witty asides, sitcoms don’t address the audiences at home or in their studio, but yet they do so in the opening credits, as if they know they’re putting on this charade and are being filmed, like a willing Truman Burbanks. It almost makes you think that Tokarsky’s character is rebelling against the structure of sitcom TV intros and he’s the advent of the Golden Age of Television’s anti-opening credits.Where were you when you first watched Too Many Cooks? Me, I don’t particularly remember, but boy was I there for it . (I was also 20-years-old and just entering the weird part of being Online™.)When was the last time you watched it? A while? Well here , go back and visit your friend, the Cooks. You'll be surprised just how much you may have forgotten.

Francesca Rivera is an Associate Video Producer at IGN. She wants you to know that the shot of the mansion in the Too Many Cooks is the same one Succession uses for their opening credits . You can follow her on Twitter at @fbrivera