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Team America: World Police
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Team America: World Police is a 2004 American satirical action comedy film produced and written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (the guys who made South Park) and directed by Parker, who used (deliberately cheap) marionettes by the Chiodo Brothers to lampoon U.S. foreign policy and the War on Terror, the action films of Michael Bay, liberal Hollywood actors, and everyone else, for that matter.Gary Johnston is a skilled actor who joins Team America, a group of five counterterrorists whose preferred method involves Stuff Blowing Up. The leader, Spottswoode, wants him to go undercover to discover the next terrorist plot, dubbed "9/11 times a hundred" (91,100).Unbeknownst to our heroes, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il is secretly funding and arming the terrorists. He is also encouraging the Film Actors Guild (led by Alec Baldwin) to shut down Team America and its ultra violent antics.As aforementioned, the film is notable for using marionettes and miniatures for its visuals, largely in the style of Thunderbirds. The reduced scale allowed different shots and large scenes to be produced cheaply; its cartoonish qualities also let the film turn up the sex and violence because, hey, they're puppets!The script for this film was actually Plan B in Parker and Stone's plans to make a marionette movie. There were apparently a bunch of other ideas they tried (see the Trivia tab), and one of them was to remake either Armageddon (1998) or The Day After Tomorrow with puppets. The idea was that the script of either movie was silly enough, and the movie would only improve if it was being filmed with Supermarionation. | |
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Self-Plagiarism: Trey and Matt wrote the "Montage" song for a South Park episode, but it ended up here. | |
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Last Breath Bullet | |
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Last Breath Bullet: Carson is mortally wounded after being shot by a seemingly dead terrorist in the film's opening. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Punny Name: On Lisa's Team America business card (when she's giving it to Gary), the L and the I of Lisa are closer together than the other letters, making LISA look like USA. | |
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The Heart | |
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The Heart - Sarah. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "I'm so Ronery", which also counts as a Villainous Lament. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Every member of F.A.G. has quite a gory death. Some highlights: Susan Sarandon gets shot dozens of times by Gary, before tumbling off a tower and leaving blood and guts strewn on the pavement below. Sean Penn and Danny Glover are mauled to death by "panthers", complete with a shot of Penn having his limbs graphically ripped off. Tim Robbins is slowly burned to death when Chris flicks a cigarette on him while he's standing on a gas puddle. Their leader, Alec Baldwin, isn't killed by Team America but rather Kim Jong-Il, who becomes furious at his inability to out-act Gary and pumps him full of lead until he blows off his head. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: Gary wrapped a bath towel around his head as part of his "disguise" as a Muslim terrorist. He's a Towelhead. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Too soon for 9/11 or the perfect wakeup call for broken politics? You decide! | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Gary's infamous "dicks, pussies and assholes" speech was first given to him by some random drunk after he quit the team. Also, the German representative's pickelhaube. | |
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Patriotic Fervor | |
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Patriotic Fervor: Team America's vehicles are covered in red, white, and blue, their base is in Mount Rushmore, and their logo depicts an eagle posed against the backdrop of an American flag with a globe clenched in its beak. "America, Fuck Yeah!", which extols the virtues of everything American such as baseball, Disney, Wal-Mart, and Popeye, also includes non-American products like sushi. Though, considering one of the lines is "Immigrants (fuck yeah!)", it could be seen as a stealthy reference to America's multicultural history. | |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All | |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All: The Film Actors Guild believes themselves to be highly knowledgeable and compassionate intellectuals, but they're really just Stupid Good actors who have no idea how the world outside of Hollywood works. | |
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Credits Montage | |
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Credits Montage: The musical version, including a stinger. | |
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Landmarking the Hidden Base | |
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Landmarking the Hidden Base: Team America's headquarters is located inside Mount Rushmore. Subverted in the fact that when a group wants to protest them, they can show up at outside the monument and then inside the hangar. | |
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Trap Door | |
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Trap Door: Kim's preferred method of dealing with nuisances and ball-breakers. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Kim Jong-Il. | |
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British Teeth | |
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British Teeth: Seen on the "BW" (a parody of The BBC) newsreader in a deleted scene. | |
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Analogy Backfire | |
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Analogy Backfire: | |
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More Dakka | |
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More Dakka: Almost every gun fired anywhere in the movie is a fully automatic, with only few exceptions. As a rather odd case, a terrorist in the Cairo Bad Guy Bar is shown firing an SKS carbine fully-automatic. | |
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List Song | |
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The male chorus enthusiastically joins in with a proud, patriotic "FUCK YEAH!" for every verse of the title song "America, Fuck Yeah"...except for the verses "Sportsmanship" and "Books", on which they remain dead silent. (There are, however, a few scattered and muffled but clearly heartfelt "Fuck yeah"s for "Bed, Bath and Beyond" and "Republicans".) | |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting | |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: The American anti-terrorism squad is being portrayed as causing more damage to other countries than actually helping them. An important story arc too, as Gary is shocked by their actions and refuses to help his country any longer. However, the film also made a jab at this mindset with members of Film Actors Guild being portrayed as self-righteous stooges who are dumb enough to put an evil dictator like Kim Jong Il as the host for World Peace without realizing his real intent to devastate entire civilization despite their good (if naive) intentions. | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
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Theme Music Power-Up: America (Fuck Yeah!) plays when the team goes into action. | |
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Censor Decoy | |
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Censor Decoy: The explicit sex scene was thrown in entirely to distract the MPAA from the movie's other offensive elements. It worked perfectly. The film's original rating with the sex scene was NC-17. The theatrical cut only alters this scene to get the R. When paired with the extremely tame and brief Gary/Spottswoode oral sex scene, the over-the-top Gary/Lisa sex scene may be interpreted as a satiric protest against the But Not Too Gay double standard. | |
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Beard of Sorrow | |
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Beard of Sorrow: Gary gets some stubble when he goes off to drown his sorrows. Part of the Training Montage is dedicated to shaving it off. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: They usually blow up most of the city they're trying to save in the process. Exaggerated in the opening credits, which themselves explode... followed by the entire planet exploding. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Lampshaded, musically. | |
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The Unintelligible | |
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The Unintelligible: Kim Jong-Il's accent sometimes renders his speech this way. | |
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Dies Wide Open | |
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Dies Wide Open: Carson, after being struck down by a Last Breath Bullet in the Action Prologue, dies in Lisa's arms with his eyes wide open. | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power | |
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Heart Is an Awesome Power: Gary's acting skills are considered critical to the mission, especially when he sees through Susan Sarandon's ruse. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: "America, Fuck Yeah!" is the most notable. | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World | |
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There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Well, three: Dicks (who fuck everything), Pussies (who get fucked by everything), and Assholes (who shit on everything). It seems that Parker and Stone are a bit more "ha ha only serious" than they originally let on; you can see the same speech given by a conservative blogger, Bill Whittle. He calls it TRIBES, and the three groups are "sheepdogs (protect sheep, attack wolves)", "sheep (protected by sheepdogs, attacked by wolves)" and "wolves (attack everyone)", respectively, but it's the same basic idea. This is also a standard US response to accusations of imperialism: Namely, that no matter how bad some might consider the American government, there's always someone worse; and that while said government's behavior is a long way from perfect, it does allow the rest of the world to continue on in relative normalcy, which would be considered uncertain if another country gained preeminence. | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The Smart Guy - Lisa. | |
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Psychopathic Manchild | |
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Psychopathic Manchild: Played for laughs with Kim Jong-Il, where a good chunk of his appearances have him throwing tantrums for one reason or another. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: By the end, Gary successfully convinces Spottswoode that Team America doesn't always have to adopt a "blow everything to Kingdom Come" philosophy when dealing with terrorists. From the other end, Gary learns that running away or debating doesn't always fix a problem you might have and sometimes you do have to fight to protect the people and places you love. All of this is summed up in the "Dicks, Pussies and Assholes" speech Gary learned from the bum at the bar. | |
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Flat "What" | |
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Flat "What": Gary's reaction when Spotswoode tells him that he'll agree to trust him and let him back on the team, if Gary performs oral sex on him. | |
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon | |
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Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Chris has a penchant for this. Just two examples: and... | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Whenever it's not Captain Obvious, it's completely wrong. She senses that Gary's trapped inside the Cairo tavern, when he and the terrorists have escaped in a jeep. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis: Apart from Gary Johnston, the rest of the team goes only by their first names. Only Spotswoode is on a Last-Name Basis. | |
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The One Thing I Don't Hate About You | |
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The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: While Gary sings an entire song roasting the hell out of Pearl Harbor, he admits to liking Cuba Gooding Jr.'s character and wishing he had a bigger part. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Lisa would only have sex with Gary if he promised he wouldn't die. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Most of the movie, but particularly the opening puppet show. This was done to freak out the financers (the story goes that one of them yelled "My god, they fucked us!")... but then the camera pans back to show the crude puppet and backdrop are part of a rather more sophisticated puppet's performance. Some of the DVD extras reveal that the puppeteers were actually capable of even more complex and realistic puppetry than is seen in the movie, though at times it is deliberately done overly simply, partly because it was simply funnier, and partly because overly realistic puppets can be creepy, which they wanted to avoid. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Kim Jong-Il's song "I'm So Ronery". | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: As Gary drives away on a motorcycle, what is supposed to be a tragic love ballad ends up stuck rambling about Pearl Harbor. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
| Team America: World Police / int_4523420b | comment |
Love Dodecahedron: Carson and Lisa loved each other, but Carson got killed and tells Lisa to find someone who will love her as much as he did. Gary and Lisa fall for each other, but Sarah falls for Gary and Joe falls for Sarah. And then Gary has to perform oral sex on Spotswoode to get back onto the team. That wasn't about sex, it was about trust! | |
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Latex Perfection | |
| Team America: World Police / int_47325888 | comment |
Latex Perfection: Gary reveals himself to his captured friends when he takes off a rubber mask he used to pass as a North Korean guard. | |
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You Have Failed Me | |
| Team America: World Police / int_474e3977 | comment |
You Have Failed Me: Kim shoots Alec Baldwin after the latter fails to "out-act" Gary. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| Team America: World Police / int_48b9731f | comment |
Gary's transformation into an Arab is a parodied version of the one James Bond went through in You Only Live Twice with similarly unconvincing results. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
| Team America: World Police / int_496569e8 | comment |
Race Against the Clock: Kim Jong-Il sets the WMDs on a five-minute timer at the film's climax. | |
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Friendless Background | |
| Team America: World Police / int_4a57732a | comment |
Friendless Background: Kim Jong Il's Freudian Excuse... and Villain Song! | |
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I'm Cold... So Cold... | |
| Team America: World Police / int_4ab9720d | comment |
I'm Cold... So Cold...: Carson, Lisa's love interest, who gets killed in Paris, France. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
| Team America: World Police / int_4c851777 | comment |
Black Comedy Rape: Chris' Freudian Excuse for why he hates actors. He was molested and raped by the cast of Cats. | |
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Mook–Face Turn | |
| Team America: World Police / int_4f8037fd | comment |
Mook–Face Turn: Subverted with Susan Sarandon, who claims to have been tied up when she refused to go along with the plan. It turns out she just wanted to lure the heroes close enough that she could kill them with machine guns, but Gary saw through her acting. | |
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Trash the Set | |
| Team America: World Police / int_4ff6f484 | comment |
Trash the Set: Every miniature set is either blown up or damaged beyond repair over the course of the movie. Trey Parker claimed that this was because he wanted to really use the sets as much as possible so they wouldn't just collect dust in a warehouse forever. | |
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The Big Guy | |
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The Big Guy - Joe. | |
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Fake-Out Opening | |
| Team America: World Police / int_50f17484 | comment |
Fake-Out Opening: the very first shot of the film features two very low-quality, stilted-looking marionettes. After a few seconds — just long enough for the viewer to think the whole movie's going to look like that — they are revealed to be in-universe marionettes, being controlled by another character. The puppetry for the rest of the film has much higher production value (though is still deliberately coarse to some extent). | |
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Obliviously Evil | |
| Team America: World Police / int_51c70be6 | comment |
Obliviously Evil: The F.A.G. toward the end. | |
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Bookends | |
| Team America: World Police / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Lisa uses the "Terrorize this!" one-liner just before gunning down a terrorist in the opening battle in Paris. She uses it again when kicking Kim Jong-Il off the balcony. | |
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Proscenium Reveal | |
| Team America: World Police / int_53b84f6d | comment |
Proscenium Reveal: The crappy-looking puppets in the film's first scene, which are quickly shown to be actual puppets in-universe, controlled by a puppeteer puppet. | |
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The Dragon | |
| Team America: World Police / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Alec Baldwin, to Kim Jong-Il's Big Bad. It's that kind of movie. | |
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Guns Akimbo | |
| Team America: World Police / int_548bd053 | comment |
Tim Robbins mocking Team America for "coming so close to stopping peace"... while pointing two AK-47s in their faces. | |
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10-Minute Retirement | |
| Team America: World Police / int_566f1565 | comment |
10-Minute Retirement: Gary after the retaliatory attack on the Panama Canal, which he blames himself for. | |
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Mistakenly Attacked Mole | |
| Team America: World Police / int_58717344 | comment |
Mistakenly Attacked Mole: Gary, the newest member of the counterintelligence team, goes undercover to try to uncover the terrorist plot. While undercover, his teammates mistake him for an actual terrorist despite his Paper-Thin Disguise and nearly kill him during a Chase Scene. | |
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Disguised Hostage Gambit | |
| Team America: World Police / int_5942bb71 | comment |
Disguised Hostage Gambit: Susan Sarandon pretends to be a prisoner, tied up for her dissent, to fool Team America. Gary sees through this, and Susan sheds the ropes and attacks, but doesn't do any damage without the element of surprise. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
| Team America: World Police / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: Inverted by the FAG, who side with the antagonist Kim Jong-Il, rather than the anti-heroes Team America. | |
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| Team America: World Police / int_5ce2c9c6 | type |
Suddenly Shouting | |
| Team America: World Police / int_5ce2c9c6 | comment |
Suddenly Shouting: When a depressed Gary is at a bar, hungover and depressed, he gets spotted by a fan who asks him to sing. Gary replies, in a low and depressed voice, that he doesn’t do that anymore, he gave that up, and stop bothering. When this fan continues to beg him to do a scene, Gary shouts, “I SAID GET AWAY FROM ME!� scaring the pedestrian to quickly leave. | |
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The Lancer | |
| Team America: World Police / int_60b21fa3 | comment |
The Lancer - Chris. | |
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The Power of Acting | |
| Team America: World Police / int_623d69e0 | comment |
The Power of Acting: Why Gary got hired. Turns out that when he's confident enough, he can pull off Jedi Mind Tricks, defend others from the same, and pull them on several hundred people at a time. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
| Team America: World Police / int_6293c185 | comment |
Sequel Hook: An obvious onenote Kim Jong-Il is actually a cockroach inside the body of a man, who escapes after his body is impaled and boards a spaceship to make a Villain: Exit, Stage Left, however, Stone and Parker don't want to touch marionettes anymore, and the movie, while not a bust, fared quite poorly. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
| Team America: World Police / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Lots of little details are hidden in the film's vehicles and locations; the streets in France are paved with miniature croissants, Carson carries a fingernail clipper on his harness, a woman in Egypt carries goldfish in a basket on her head, and the Korean fighter jets have sailing-ship steering wheels and broken off gas pump handles in them, to name a few. | |
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Cyanide Pill | |
| Team America: World Police / int_6363937b | comment |
Cyanide Pill: Mocked. When Gary is being prepped for a mission, they somberly tell him that he might be captured and wish to take his own life. So they give him... a hammer. It turns into a Brick Joke when the hammer reappears by Gary's side as he drinks himself into depression at a bar, contemplating suicide. | |
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[Verb] This! | |
| Team America: World Police / int_64536542 | comment |
[Verb] This!: "Hey, Terrorist! Terrorize THIS!" | |
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Wimp Fight | |
| Team America: World Police / int_688238d6 | comment |
Wimp Fight: Fight scenes consist of two marionettes flailing arms and limbs for about ten seconds before one of them abruptly stops moving and the other declares victory. | |
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Ivy League for Everyone | |
| Team America: World Police / int_6b3c357e | comment |
Ivy League for Everyone: Intentionally subverted. When Team America is giving Gary the Team Member's dossiers, you expect everyone to be The Ace with top-tier and relevant education considering their secrecy and funds. Nope. Gary, the newest recruit, double-majored in theater and foreign languages at Iowa State University. Joe, the "natural-born leader", went to the University of Nebraska with an unknown major. Lisa majored in psychology at an unknown university, but presumably of similar quality to the latter two. These are good schools, mind, but they're relatively standard and nowhere close to the Ivy League level qualifications you'd expect from top agents, nor do they have anywhere near Ivy League levels of prestige. Meanwhile, Sarah went to the phony "Berkeley School of the Clairvoyant" in San Francisco, while Chris is only introduced as "the best martial-arts expert Detroit has to offer." | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Team America: World Police / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Although not necessarily gay, Spottswoode evidently has some homoerotic fascination with getting oral sex from another man — and "spots wood" = "notices an erection." | |
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Ending Fatigue | |
| Team America: World Police / int_6d23fddb | comment |
Ending Fatigue: Invoked in the Vomit Indiscretion Shot scene by having the music climax three times whenever Gary continues vomiting. | |
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Deconstructive Parody | |
| Team America: World Police / int_6dcbe9aa | comment |
Deconstructive Parody: Of Michael Bay movies, among other things. | |
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Repeat Cut | |
| Team America: World Police / int_7115b262 | comment |
Repeat Cut: Used when Kim Jong-Il shoots Alec Baldwin in the head. | |
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Culture Equals Costume | |
| Team America: World Police / int_71b28b78 | comment |
Culture Equals Costume: The delegates of the Peace Conference all wear national costumes. | |
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Straw Character | |
| Team America: World Police / int_722171e7 | comment |
Straw Character: Team America are gung-ho, collateral-causing Straw Conservatives taking on Michael Moore and the Film Actor's Guild who are Stupid Good Straw Liberals who are unknowingly helping tyrants and terrorists. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
| Team America: World Police / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: One DVD cover of the movie shows a member of Team America with his back turned. At first, it could be mistaken for Gary but a closer look shows that his hairstyle is much closer to Chris', a secondary character. When you don't have the main character as the one on the front of the cover, it tends to be a bit of false advertising. | |
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Unwitting Pawn | |
| Team America: World Police / int_733e007a | comment |
Unwitting Pawn: The FAG - initially at least, though they gradually transition from useful idiots to out-and-out villains. | |
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The Horseshoe Effect | |
| Team America: World Police / int_73f799ed | comment |
The Horseshoe Effect: The Film Actors Guild (who all preach non-violence, reason and peace) wind up working for Kim Jong-Il (who wants nothing more than to destroy everything and let the world descend into chaos) due to their mutual hatred of Team America. This is later lampshaded with "Dicks, Pussies and Assholes" analogy at the very end. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
| Team America: World Police / int_76b4b7dd | comment |
The Comically Serious: Everyone (except Kim, who's more outwardly silly). The characters sincerely act like they're in a summer blockbuster, which is undermined both by their absurd lines and the fact that they're very fake puppets. This even extends to the soundtrack: Parker instructed Harry Gregson-Williams to score the film as he would a serious action film. Highlights of this approach include: Lisa: "Gary, you didn't kill your brother! Those gorillas did!". Chris: "I was 19 years old when the musical Cats came to our town. I couldn't wait to see it. After the show I was asked if I wanted to go meet some of the performers backstage. Man, I was thrilled. But when I got back there, they were drunk and out of control. Rumpus Cat and Macavity kept feeling up my leg. I tried to leave, but, Rumpleteazer held me down, and... I was raped by Mr. Mistoffelees." Gary: "9/11 times a hundred? Jesus, that's-" Spottswoode: "Yes. Ninety-one thousand one hundred." | |
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Curse Cut Short | |
| Team America: World Police / int_78270847 | comment |
Curse Cut Short: Subverted. | |
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Like Brother and Sister | |
| Team America: World Police / int_78540917 | comment |
Like Brother and Sister: Sarah's response upon learning that Joe "has feelings for her". | |
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Japanese Ranguage | |
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Japanese Ranguage: The Korean version. Kim Jong-Il talks like this constantly. | |
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Eagleland | |
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Eagleland: Essentially, the whole movie's purpose is parodying both Boorish and Beautiful flavors of this trope represented by the reckless and arrogant nature of Team America, and the naivete and self-righteous nature of Film Actors Guild. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
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All Love Is Unrequited: Joe has the hots for Sarah, who has the hots for Gary, who has the hots for Lisa, who initially refused to date a coworker after her previous fiancee was Killed In Action. | |
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Dying Declaration of Love | |
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Dying Declaration of Love: Defied when Joe tries to tell Sarah how he feels when they're trapped, but Sarah declares that she won't let things end this way. | |
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The Ending Changes Everything | |
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The Ending Changes Everything: After the revelation that Kim is an alien cockroach, the movie goes from being about a team of dicks screwing everything up to stop an asshole, to being a movie about a team of dicks who are unknowingly fighting to save the earth from an alien invasion. | |
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Balance of Power | |
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Balance of Power: The Aesop preaches the checks and balances of society with the "Dicks, Pussies and Assholes" analogy. Pussies need Dicks to stop Assholes, and Dicks need Pussies to call them out if they fuck too much or when it isn't appropriate. | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Kim Jong Il. He's plotting the destruction of society as we know it, but deep down, he's just "a rittre ronery" (read: little lonely). | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A recurring gag is that Team America, in an effort to stop terrorists, wind-up destroying the area they were supposed to protect way worse than what the terrorists may have planned, such as Paris and Cairo. This is generally the reason why the general public hates them so much. | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
| Team America: World Police / int_8042e814 | comment |
And Matt Damon. According to the IMDB trivia page for this film, they wanted to portray Damon as intelligent and articulate (or at least capable of saying more than his own name), but chose not to do so because his puppet "looked retarded". Damon himself apparently thought it was hilarious, and wished that they'd asked him to do the voice work. | |
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Monster Suit | |
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Monster Suit: Kim Jong-Il is actually an alien cockroach. Once his plans are ruined, the insect crawls out of Kim Jong-Il's mouth and flies away in a miniature shuttle. A credits-only song gives more background story to this: apparently his planet is also inhabited by alien bees, who the cockroaches are in war with and Kim was sent to Earth to nuke it so that the cockroaches could move there. | |
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Slurpasaur | |
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Slurpasaur: See Mega Neko. Also, a Shark Pool is stocked with nurse sharks. | |
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Anvilicious | |
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Anvilicious: Played for Laughs in-universe with the Show Within a Show, Lease, a parody of RENT that builds itself around making the HIV/AIDS aspect of Rent's storyline feel significantly less subtle. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: Kim Jong-Il argues that there are no clichéd happy endings because they live in the real world ...and then starts a 5-minute coundown that the Big Damn Heroes stop. The filmmakers intentionally designed non-American locations to look like what Americans might assume those places to look like. All of France's monuments are within walking distance of each other, and citizens of Cairo all dress like they're in Aladdin. | |
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Gay Paree | |
| Team America: World Police / int_85832a47 | comment |
To the degree that the Eiffel Tower can fall over and land upon the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Baxter doesn't show up and is never even brought up again after Michael Moore destroys the Team America HQ, the fact there's no confirmation of his death leaves his fate ambiguous. Of the members of the Film Actors Guild whom are fighting Team America, Martin Sheen is seen being knocked offscreen by Joe. It is unknown what happened to him after this. | |
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Adaptational Dumbass | |
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Adaptational Dumbass: Played for laughs with Matt Damon. While by all indications a pretty thoughtful guy in real life, the puppet of him "came out looking retarded" in the manufacturing process per Trey Parker and Matt Stone's words, so they changed his personality to fit. In the film, he can only say his own name. | |
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World of Ham | |
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World of Ham: Everyone is prone to shouting and melodrama. Played for Laughs, naturally. | |
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Show, Don't Tell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: Parodied. Sarah and Lisa are supposed to be good friends, but hardly share a scene. To "compensate", they just awkwardly say "I treasure your friendship" at the end of every conversation. Chris says it to Gary at the end, too. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Lampshaded in the "dicks, pussies and assholes" speech. Team America, the "dicks" fight for good causes, protecting the innocents and serving justice to the evil, but can go too far. The "pussies", F.A.G. and the rest of the world, can tell when the "dicks" are out of line, but can become evil if they are too self-righteous. The "assholes"- Kim Jong Il and terrorists, are simply evil. | |
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Protagonist-Centered Morality | |
| Team America: World Police / int_89434320 | comment |
Protagonist-Centered Morality: The main theme of this film, as it explores and makes a case for My Country, Right or Wrong. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car/Boat/Plane: Team America's "Valmorphanizing" vehicles. | |
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Bullet Time | |
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Bullet Time: Parodied, it's not the cameras that revolve around the characters, it's the characters that stop in the air and turn around with the room standing still. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Often using missiles to destroy lone terrorists. Which usually blows up the city as well. | |
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Macross Missile Massacre | |
| Team America: World Police / int_8b93a168 | comment |
Macross Missile Massacre: The desert Chase Scene. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
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Dumb Blonde: Despite being the team's psychology expert and having the ability to pilot advanced aircraft, Lisa apparently thinks it's possible for someone to promise that they will never die. | |
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Credits Medley | |
| Team America: World Police / int_8f50849 | comment |
Credits Medley: Starts with America (Fuck Yeah!) then goes into every song used in the film. | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be: Sarah does this to Helen Hunt. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
| Team America: World Police / int_91cab736 | comment |
The Panamanian people just say "no me gusta" while dying. | |
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Five-Man Band | |
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Five-Man Band The Hero - Gary. The Lancer - Chris. The Big Guy - Joe. The Smart Guy - Lisa. The Heart - Sarah. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
| Team America: World Police / int_94e4b975 | comment |
Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Absolutely intentional and takes up 60 seconds of screen time. There are several points where it seems like it's over, only to suddenly continue harder. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Kim Jong Il has one after Gary's speech turns the delegation against him. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Kim Jong-Il is supported and positively received by F.A.G. for organizing a peace ceremony, when behind the scenes he provides weapons of mass destruction to the terrorists and the ceremony is meant to distract the World Leaders as he sets off his world domination plan. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Kim Jong-il. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
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Kill It with Fire: Tim Robbins is put down by Chris throwing a lit cigarette on the gasoline he and the other actors were trying to douse Chris and Gary with earlier, incinerating him. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: A deleted scene at the time of Gary's 10-Minute Retirement involved Joe complaining about Chris smoking, since it's bad for his health, only for Chris to assert that cigarettes "can save your life." Chris throwing his cigarette at some gasoline on the floor enables him to kill Tim Robbins, saving the team. | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy: None of the puppets have nipples or genitalia, which is especially evident during Gary and Lisa's sex scene. Subverted on the uncensored DVD, as Lisa definitely has nipples. | |
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This Is Reality | |
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This Is Reality: Subverted with Kim Jong-il when he's about to activate the bombs. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: The first two lines of the theme song. | |
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Future Copter | |
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Future Copter: The team's deploys from the mouth of Abe Lincoln. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
| Team America: World Police / int_a188ac4b | comment |
Overly Long Gag: The Vomit Indiscretion Shot, and the original/uncensored cut of the sex scene. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Gary's acting killed his brother, and then caused the death of thousands. | |
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The Living Dead | |
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The Living Dead: Kim Jong-Il's statue is actually an actor made up to look like a statue. You can see the actor breathing if you look closely. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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Gary's acting skills count, though this one falls somewhere between Rule of Funny and Suspension of Disbelief. | |
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Destructive Saviour | |
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Destructive Saviour: The reason Team America is so hated is because they fight terrorists, but in the process usually end up causing as much destruction as they tried to prevent. The mission in Cairo is what spurs the Film Actors Guild to take a stand against them in particular. | |
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Mega Neko | |
| Team America: World Police / int_aa92a5d2 | comment |
Mega Neko: Kim Jong-Il's panthers are enormous compared to the puppet characters (they're played by domestic house cats). | |
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Not-So-Phony Psychic: Sarah. Throughout the film she makes simple, obvious assumptions (or reasonable but incorrect guesses) in a Pstandard Psychic Pstance. At the climax, despite Joe admitting that the team was just humoring her claims of psychic abilities, she uses a genuine Jedi Mind Trick to turn Kim Jong Il's "deadly panthers" on their captors. And it is awesome. | |
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French Accordion | |
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French Accordion: The movie's first scene is set in Paris (albeit one populated by puppets) and is accompanied by accordion music. | |
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Rousing Speech | |
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Rousing Speech: Gary's Big Speech that changes the mind of everyone in the stadium. | |
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Equal-Opportunity Offender: Neither conservatives nor liberals (or "dicks" and "pussies", if you prefer) come out of this film looking good. Basically the dicks use the "asshole" terrorists as an excuse to be dicks, and the pussies hate the dicks so much that they can be tricked into backing the even-worse-than-the-dicks assholes. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The vomiting scene, which wouldn't be half as funny without the swelling violin music. Hand-to-hand combat scenes combine a high-octane riff with what is fundamentally two marionettes flailing uncontrollably. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Or "Jesus Titty-Fucking CHRIIIIIIIIST!" Kim Jong-il's translator also gets one: | |
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Parody | |
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Parody: The play "LEASE" with its theme song "Everyone has AIDS" is a parody of RENT. | |
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Idealized Sex | |
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Idealized Sex: Absolutely Subverted. Not only is the sex deeply uncomfortable to watch, especially the uncensored DVD version that goes so far as to include scat, but the hero only gets it by blatantly lying to her. | |
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Stupid Good | |
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Stupid Good: A dark variant; the Film Actors Guild is composed of celebrities who believe Team America is bad for world peace and want to help the countries unite. However, their blind devotion to world peace allows Kim Jong-Il to manipulate them. They have the ambition for peace but they lack the actual skills, qualities, and abilities to properly see it through. | |
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Celebrity Casualty | |
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Celebrity Casualty: Alec Baldwin gets shot by Kim Jong Il, Samuel L. Jackson gets decapitated, Michael Moore blows himself up, Matt Damon's neck is snapped, Susan Sarandon falls to her death, Tim Robbins is burnt to death, George Clooney is blown up by a grenade, etc. Kim Jong Il, who is the Big Bad, dies at the end of the movie, but reveals himself to be a cockroach piloting the body and escapes. | |
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Attack of the Killer Whatever | |
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Attack of the Killer Whatever: Kim's killer deadly panthers! D'aaaaaw. | |
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Take That! | |
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Many fans believed that of all the people to get a Take That! it would be President George W. Bush, due to public opinion starting to turn against him in the fallout of the Iraq War. However, in an interview, Trey and Matt said they very intentionally chose to leave out Bush entirely from the movie, both as an anti-joke to expectations and due to the fact that Bush had been parodied hundreds of times already. | |
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Power of Trust | |
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Power of Trust: Gary has to prove his dedication to the team to Spottswoode to be allowed back after leaving...by performing oral sex on him. | |
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Hypocritical Humor: A deleted scene has Spottswoode, lamenting that the disaster in Panama was a result of his failure to suspect the non-Middle Eastern Kim Jong-Il in the terrorist plot, promising he'll "never be racist again"... immediately after calling Kim a "goddamn gook". Tim Robbins mocking Team America for "coming so close to stopping peace"... while pointing two AK-47s in their faces. | |
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Blood from the Mouth | |
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Blood from the Mouth: Carson when being shot in the Action Prologue. Gary after the Final Battle. | |
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Berserk Button: Apparently Kim's roneriness. More like "Worthy Enemy Button", since this was probably the first time anyone figured out his Freudian Excuse. | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word: "Valmorphanize" and its variants, referring to any use of Applied Phlebotinum. | |
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Anti-Hero: Team America are Unscrupulous Heroes, causing large amounts of property damage on their missions and using lethal force on everyone in their way. Gary even admits that "pussies" are needed because assholes need someone to call them out whenever they go too far. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: Alec Baldwin loves to remind his fellow Film Actor Guild members they are FAGs. Team America's computer is named I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. so they can remark how they have no I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. when the power goes out. Also, when Spottswoode scolds the computer, saying, "That was bad, I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E! Very bad I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E!" it references the common belief that America got into the war in Iraq based on bad intelligence reports. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Lisa's reaction to Carson's death in the beginning. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: The lyrics to America Fuck Yeah in their entirety. If you listen to them casually, they sound very patriotic, but if you actually read the lyrics, they are brutally ripping on every Eagleland cliche in existence and in truth are actually pretty insulting. | |
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Mooks | |
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Mooks: Terrorists, KPA soldiers, and F.A.G. members. The latter are a special case: they function exactly like Mooks, but every one of them is a named celebrity, making them something like sympathy-flipped meta Mauve Shirts. | |
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Qurac | |
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Qurac: Parodied, of course; the terrorists are based in a country called, wait for it, "Derkaderkastan". | |
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One-Woman Wail | |
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One-Woman Wail: During the scene after the Panama Canal is destroyed and everyone drowns. | |
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America Saves the Day | |
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America Saves the Day: Fuck Yeah! | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: Gary comes back to the team homebase and finds it in ruins, with Spottswood planning to blow up Kim Jong-Il - and everyone/everything around him - before he can launch his plans for world domination. Gary pleads with Spottswood for a chance to rescue the team, but the latter informs him that the only way he can trust Gary with this mission ... is to perform oral sex on him. Why? Because that will "prove" to Spottswood that Gary will give 100% for the mission. Insult Backfire: Of course, even the people who do recognize the satire in this song have taken on the phrase as an exclamation of patriotism. Insult Misfire: ...to say nothing of the people who just think the song is funny regardless of whether or not they get the irony or not. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out. Tons of them, such as Gary starring in a Broadway production of Lease which concludes with a song about how "Everyone has AIDS". The lyrics of the song "America, Fuck Yeah" include "Whatcha gonna do when they come for you now". The film's spoof of The Matrix-style bullet time is especially noteworthy because director of photography for Team America: World Police Bill Pope was also the DP on all three Matrix films. Also Samuel L. Jackson taunting Chris to "Stop trying to hit me and hit me!" Gary's transformation into an Arab is a parodied version of the one James Bond went through in You Only Live Twice with similarly unconvincing results. The music of the Arab pub/terrorist hideout that is heard when Gary enters is an obvious homage to the Cantina scene music from A New Hope. Later Gary references the Jedi Mind Trick to make two guards let him through. There are plenty of moments that South Park viewers would recognise, such as the Montage song. The Lisa puppet is the dead spitting image of Lady Penelope. This cannot be accidental, considering the film is an Affectionate Parody of Thunderbirds. Much of Team America’s aesthetic, including the flying motorcycles and the Elaborate Underground Base, is inspired by Megaforce, a film that Parker and Stone are big fans of. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Chris doesn't trust Gary (or actors in general) because when he was a teen he was gang-raped by the cast of Cats. | |
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"London, England" Syndrome | |
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"London, England" Syndrome: Whenever they change location, a subtitle points out its distance to America. "Paris: 3635 Miles East of America." (It's actually the distance to New York). Panama is simply located "south from the real America". | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Kim Jong-Il's demise. On the German representative's pickelhaube, no less. | |
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If We Get Through This… | |
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If We Get Through This…: As a show of apologizing for being a Jerkass towards Gary, Chris offers to buy him a beer after they stop Kim Jong-Il's plans. | |
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Informed Ability | |
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Informed Ability: Lisa is declared to be the team's psychologist. Apart from a single line of psychobabble, as well as a single moment later in the film where she correctly guesses at Kim's motivation, she largely sticks to shooting guns. Gary's acting skills count, though this one falls somewhere between Rule of Funny and Suspension of Disbelief. | |
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Wisdom from the Gutter | |
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Wisdom from the Gutter: Gary's iconic "Dicks, Pussies and Assholes" analogy was given to him by a random drunk at a bar. | |
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Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends | |
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Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: In his Dying Speech, Carson tells Lisa to find someone else to love. | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Most of the team's reaction to Gary coming back after his 10-Minute Retirement. The F.A.G. also gets in on this from time to time, and Gary points out that they're sometimes right. | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Parodied. Pyongyang resembles a 16th century Japanese town, complete with an Osaka Castle lookalike standing in for Kim Jong-il's palace. Kim Jong-il sounds exactly like the City Wok guy and gets Lisa dressed up in a Qipao, which is a Manchu dress later adopted by the Chinese. He also has katanas strewn about his palace. | |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job | |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: Gary, pride of the dinner-theater circuit. | |
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Monumental Battle | |
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Monumental Battle: Every action scene. | |
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Try Not to Die: Parodied to the point of becoming a Running Gag. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: Sarah and Lisa, especially the former. | |
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Elaborate Underground Base | |
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Hand Wave | |
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Magic Bullets: Sarah enters the Egyptian bar wielding a Gatling gun, and somehow manages to machine-gun every terrorist while leaving all the innocent bystanders intact. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Played with "The End of an Act". The melody and scene it accompanies is very sad and 15% of its lyrics are appropriately about Gary missing Lisa. The thing is that the other 85% of the lyrics are about ripping apart Pearl Harbor. | |
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Monumental Damage | |
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Monumental Damage: The Eiffel Tower falls over and smashes the Arc de Triomphe, and Team America blows up the Louvre because a terrorist ran inside. Later, the team blows up one of the Pyramids, the Valley of the Kings tomb, and the Sphinx. Still later, Michael Moore blows up Mount Rushmore and the Panama Canal is destroyed. | |
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Stock Scream | |
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Stock Scream: Wilhelm fell... AGAIN! | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating | |
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Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Inverted. The original cut received an NC-17 rating but Parker and Stone wanted a R rating, so a scene depicting graphic puppet sex was added to ensure this. | |
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Television Geography | |
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Television Geography: Done on purpose. Any country that isn't America has all of its landmarks within blast radius. To the degree that the Eiffel Tower can fall over and land upon the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. | |
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Dystopia Justifies the Means | |
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Dystopia Justifies the Means: The end goal of "9/11 times 2356" is to turn every nation on Earth into a Third World Country by unleashing enough terrorist attacks to create worldwide chaos. | |
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Bad Guy Bar | |
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As a rather odd case, a terrorist in the Cairo Bad Guy Bar is shown firing an SKS carbine fully-automatic. | |
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Completely Unnecessary Translator | |
| Team America: World Police / int_e125c425 | comment |
Completely Unnecessary Translator: Kim Jong Il's translator, whom he kills in his first scene before spending the rest of the movie talking Engrish. | |
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Name Order Confusion | |
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Name Order Confusion: Hans Blix calls Kim Jong-Il "Mr. Il". It should be "Mr. Kim". | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
| Team America: World Police / int_e3c20140 | comment |
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Parodied mercilessly. Everyone who isn't American has their language butchered. The "Islamic" terrorists' vocabulary consists of: durka, durk, ha, sherpa, Allah, Muhammad, and jihad, and is simplistic enough to be spelled out in captions instead of just labeled as "gibberish" like the rest. One of the streets in Cairo is named "Bakalakadaka." The terrorists' home country is called Durkadurkistan. The French are pretty much only saying "frère Jacques" over and over again, even when running away in fear. The Panamanian people just say "no me gusta" while dying. The North Korean MiG pilots scream "KAMSAHAMNIDA!" while exploding.note "Thank you." | |
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The Hero | |
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The Hero - Gary. | |
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Expy | |
| Team America: World Police / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Michael Moore's personality is nearly identical to South Park's portrayal of Rob Reiner, right down to both eating fast food constantly. | |
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Pokémon Speak | |
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Pokémon Speak: MATT DAMON! | |
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But Not Too Gay | |
| Team America: World Police / int_e90f5682 | comment |
When paired with the extremely tame and brief Gary/Spottswoode oral sex scene, the over-the-top Gary/Lisa sex scene may be interpreted as a satiric protest against the But Not Too Gay double standard. | |
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Hobbes Was Right | |
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Hobbes Was Right: What Kim Jong-il believes in. | |
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Groin Attack | |
| Team America: World Police / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: Lisa finally puts an end to Kim Jong-Il by kicking him in the crotch, which sends him over the balcony to get Impaled with Extreme Prejudice on the helmet of the representative from Germany. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Chris, towards Gary, because of his hatred toward actors. | |
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Killer Gorilla | |
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Killer Gorilla: Gary Johnston's saddest memory is the day when his brother fell into the gorilla enclosure in the zoo and got pummeled to death. Justified: he had blueberries in his pocket. | |
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Lesser of Two Evils | |
| Team America: World Police / int_eec329f5 | comment |
This is also a standard US response to accusations of imperialism: Namely, that no matter how bad some might consider the American government, there's always someone worse; and that while said government's behavior is a long way from perfect, it does allow the rest of the world to continue on in relative normalcy, which would be considered uncertain if another country gained preeminence. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
| Team America: World Police / int_eef90616 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: | |
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Insult Misfire | |
| Team America: World Police / int_f1d13e39 | comment |
Insult Misfire: ...to say nothing of the people who just think the song is funny regardless of whether or not they get the irony or not. | |
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Evil Plan | |
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Evil Plan: Kim Jong-Il is planning "9/11...times two thousand, three hundred, and fifty six!" Yes, he is that cruel. | |
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Cliché Storm | |
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Cliché Storm: Intentional, and mocked constantly. invoked | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: America, Fuck Yeah (Bummer Remix). | |
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Strongly Worded Letter | |
| Team America: World Police / int_f6b70c98 | comment |
Hans Blix, and by extension the United Nations, are depicted as hopelessly incompetent bureaucrats who are incapable of doing anything meaningful to prevent global conflicts other than write Strongly Worded Letters. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: Of course, even the people who do recognize the satire in this song have taken on the phrase as an exclamation of patriotism. Insult Misfire: ...to say nothing of the people who just think the song is funny regardless of whether or not they get the irony or not. | |
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American Title | |
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American Title: Of the subversive variety. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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It turns into a Brick Joke when the hammer reappears by Gary's side as he drinks himself into depression at a bar, contemplating suicide. | |
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Asian Speekee Engrish | |
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Asian Speekee Engrish: Kim Jong Il's Villain Song "I'm so Ronery". | |
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