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How the Tiny Chef Creators Animated a Broken Heart
“We thought, What if Chef got that call? He would be totally devastated.”
He asks, “But what about my fwiends?” He begs, he promises to do better, and he eventually ends the call with an “I understand” and “I love you too.” He smooths his apron, tries to go back to his dusting, begins to weep, covers his face, sits on his bed, and sobs. The video is sad, of course, but it’s also metatextually funny: Going through weeks of labor to lovingly animate a stop-motion sequence dramatizing the network dumping you is pure petty genius, even if the emotions behind it are achingly sincere. ?” Similar comments have flooded Tiny Chef’s old videos, many of which document his struggle to make it as a cooking-show host, his excitement to be picked up by the network, and his joyful interactions with the humans animating the show in careful, colorful stop-motion.
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