Cooking By The Book Lil Jon
Origin
Season 1 Episode 6 was broadcast in North America by LazyTown on August 20, 2004, and featured a music clip for “Cooking by the Book”, a song that teaches children how to cook right while following the directions.
The song gained a considerable fanbase over the next four years, resulting in numerous YTMND pages consisting of loops of the song over various images throughout 2006 and 2007, including a remix made for a YTMND competition that gained over 10,000 views and one featuring an echoed loop of the song over a photoshopped image of jihadist Abu Mus`ab Zarqawi that garnered over 70,000 views in roughly 15 years.
YouTuber HatPerson uploaded a remix of the video’s music on October 1, 2008. It featured a mashup version of “Cooking by the Book” and Lil Jon’s performance from 2004’s Snoop Dogg collaboration, “Step Yo Game Up.” The “Cooking by the Book’ a Lil’ Bigger Mix” is shown below. This video became viral and was viewed over 10,000,000 times in just 12 years.
Spread
Over the next years, many others remixed and parodied this remix. (Examples are below on left and right).
As early as 2009, the words to “Cooking by the Book” became mildly viral on copypasta4chan (examples below). The remix was also used in a bait-and-switch prank in the same vein as Rickrolling called getting “cakeroll’d,” where one user was tricked into clicking on the remix video.
YouTuber, emt1287, uploaded the remix on October 4th 2010. The video received more than 40 million views and became the most watched version 11 years later.
Just Snowy’s November 15th 2016 YouTube video “Cooking by the Book” was uploaded. His edit gets the bass pumping whenever the words “cake”, generating over 3.8,000,000 views within four years. TwinkieMan shared a video in which he combined audio-video footage and Donald Trump’s voice with the music video. This video was viewed over 3,000,000 times within 4 years.
The Lil Jon remix was set, and received more than 2 million hits in one year.
.Cooking By The Book Lil Jon
