Florence Pugh and Melissa McCarthy are among those supporting Tiny Chef 

As for how the idea of Chef himself receiving the cancellation call came about, Larsen shared, "Once we got the call that the show was done, we thought, What if Chef got that call? How would he feel? He would be totally devastated. This was his dream show. He went to the Manchester Academy for Cooking Show Hosts! So our creative director Jason, Ozi, and I wrote a script, and then we recorded Matt Hutchinson, and he ad-libbed a bit. It took seven days to animate, and then Ozi did an edit and posted it. We had another team member get a fan club going, get these accounts going, because if we don’t get funding, this will shut down. It’s expensive. So it was either shut down or open the door and see what fan support we can get. The video was maybe a three-week process of writing, recording, animating, editing, and getting it out there."

He continues to express that fundraising is going "awesome," revealing, "We’re at around $60,000 from onetime donations, then around 5,000 fan-club members, so around $20,000 from that. We didn’t expect that. And it’s still coming in! If we could get our overhead covered, my God, we would be in hog heaven! And any money that’s come in, we’ve reinvested into this, so the fans will see it."

So what's the plan for Tiny Chef? "Right now, he’s a little sad, but he’s so unpredictable! I feel like his next adventure is going to be shocking — whether it’s a movie, another cooking show, a variety show. The next thing he does is going to be unlike anything he’s done," Larsen concluded. "We can make good stuff no matter what. People should stay tuned and watch his journey. We’re one of so many shows in this situation and we just caught this moment, but maybe there’s a new way forward."