If you hadn’t heard of The Tiny Chef Show before, you almost certainly have now. An animation announcing the show’s cancellation has gone viral this week. That has prompted those unfamiliar with Tiny Chef to go back and check out some of his greatest hits, including a mock addition forThe Last of Us.
The Tiny Chef Show airs on Nickelodeon and is primarily aimed at children. However, Tiny Chef’s animators have used the show’s social media platforms to put the lead character in scenarios that wouldn’t make sense in the show. A lot of the shorts pull from pop culture in a way that appeals to a more grown up audience, including the ode to The Last of Us you can check out below.
The clip was originally shared onTiny Chef’s TikTok, but it has been doing the rounds on other platforms along with quite a few other Tiny Chef clips in the wake of the heartbreaking cancelation clip going viral. The self-taped audition begins with Tiny Chef proudly declaring that he is auditioning for the role of “an infected one”, one big mushroom strapped to his head as he tries his best to cosplay a clicker.
The World Is Discovering The Tiny Chef Show
And A Back Catalog That Includes An Audition For The Last Of Us
Tiny Chefs adds more mushrooms to his body as the audition continues, building to the end when he’s right up close to the camera and covered in funghi, clicking away as he goes. It’s all very good, and if he wasn’t so small, made of cloth, and fictional, he’d be perfect for the role of a clicker in HBO’s hit adaptation when it returns for season three.
The push for people to notice Tiny Chef and hopefully save the show seems to have been pretty effective so far. The Last of Us audtion tape clip already has more views than it managed on TikTok, clocking in at 581,000 and counting. That’s nothing compared to the emotional animation that started all this, though.
The viral clip that shows Tiny Chef being told over the phone that his show has been canceled currently has more than 110 million views on Twitter alone, and it keeps going up. As Tiny Chef quite rightly points out, his show won an Emmy, hence he and his creators likely being in shock that Nickelodeon would pull the plug.
Even though the show won’t be on Nickelodeon anymore, Tiny Chef’s creators want to continue the little guy’s journey.They’ve transformed the show’s Linktree into a donation hubwhere fans can join the push to save the show in whatever form it might take moving forward. If you can’t donate, the best way to support Tiny Chef is byfollowing and interacting with the show on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. There are a lot of other homages to various elements of pop culture tucked away in those clips, including a shoutout to RuPaul’s Drag Race, anda fantastic cover of Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy.
