Comment by Nition
In a way Cow Tools was too simple rather than too hard, so people thought there must be more to it.
I don't think the joke itself is a bad idea. I remember The Simpsons doing the room full of monkeys on typewriters where one comes up with "it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" which in a way is a similar joke, right? i.e. Not a good result, but funny because it's still much more than you'd ever expect in reality.
Simpsons joke has a reference. It’s not a Simpsons original.
It is the infinite monkey theorem from the late 19th and early 20th century.