--- title: CNN 'Too Many Cooks' Parody Hits American Politics description: Washington is a sitcom canonical: https://time.com/3753058/too-many-cooks-cnn/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-20T20:56:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:52.973Z og:title: Here's What 'Too Many Cooks' Would Look Like If It Were About U.S. Politics og:description: Washington is a sitcom og:url: https://time.com/3753058/too-many-cooks-cnn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1193fc259b2060e8/6987849af887dcf664e8ab5b/too-many-cooks.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: too-many-cooks og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What 'Too Many Cooks' Would Look Like If It Were About U.S. Politics twitter:description: Washington is a sitcom twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1193fc259b2060e8/6987849af887dcf664e8ab5b/too-many-cooks.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What _Too Many Cooks_ Would Look Like If It Were About U.S. Politics  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 20, 2015 8:56 PM UTC   by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Mar 20, 2015 8:56 PM UTC If you loved _Too Many Cooks,_ you’ll love CNN’s version of the viral internet sensation. With a cast including everyone from Barack Obama to Vladimir Putin to Sarah Palin to Kim Jung Un, the fake ad casts U.S. politics as a bad ’80s sitcom, complete with cheesy footage of hunky cowboys and glorious bald eagles. There’s also a terrifying demon sheep at the end that will haunt your dreams more than the image of John McCain doing the robot dance. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3753058/too-many-cooks-cnn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3753058/too-many-cooks-cnn/"},"headline":"Here's What Too Many Cooks Would Look Like If It Were About U.S. Politics","datePublished":"2015-03-20T20:56:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:52.973Z","description":"Washington is a sitcom","url":"https://time.com/3753058/too-many-cooks-cnn/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","CNN","Internet","viral","Vladimir Putin","video","Parody","Election 2016","Sitcom","Sarah Palin"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1193fc259b2060e8/6987849af887dcf664e8ab5b/too-many-cooks.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1193fc259b2060e8/6987849af887dcf664e8ab5b/too-many-cooks.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"too-many-cooks","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3753058/too-many-cooks-cnn/","name":"Here's What Too Many Cooks Would Look Like If It Were About U.S. Politics"}}]}] ```