Team America: World Police: Difference between revisions

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[[Trey Parker and Matt Stone|The guys who made]] ''[[South Park]]'' use marionettes to lampoon US foreign policy and the war against terrorism, 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 [[Hiroshima As a Unit of Measure|"9/11 times a thousand"]] (911,000).

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 [[Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure|"9/11 times a thousand"]] (911,000).

Unbeknownst to our heroes, North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Il is secretly funding and arming the terrorists. He is also encouraging the '''F'''ilm '''A'''ctors '''G'''uild (led by Alec Baldwin) to shut down Team America and its ultra violent antics.

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{{quote| '''Spottswoode''': Remember, there's no "I" in "Team America".<br />

'''I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.''': Yes, there is! }}

* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Parodied mercilessly. The "Islamic" terrorists' vocabulary consists of: durka, durk, ha, sherpa, Allah, Muhammad, and jihad. Everyone who doesn't speak American has their vocabulary similarly chopped.

* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: Parodied mercilessly. The "Islamic" terrorists' vocabulary consists of: durka, durk, ha, sherpa, Allah, Muhammad, and jihad. Everyone who doesn't speak American has their vocabulary similarly chopped.

** The French are pretty much only saying "frere jacque" over and over again, even when running away in fear.

** The Panamanian people just say "no me gusta" while [[Major Injury Underreaction|dying]].

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* [[Credits Medley]]

* [[Credits Montage]]: The musical version, including [[The Stinger|a stinger]].

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Every member of [[Fun ~~With~~ Acronyms|F.A.G.]] has quite a gory death.

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Every member of [[Fun with Acronyms|F.A.G.]] has quite a gory death.

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: Subverted.

{{quote| '''Spottswoode''': ''Jesus tittyfucking- [boom] '''CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST'''}}

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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Chris doesn't trust Gary (or actors in general) because when he was a teen {{spoiler|he was gang-raped by the cast of ''[[Cats]]''.}}

* [[Friendless Background]]: Kim Jong Il's [[Freudian Excuse]]... and [[Villain Song]]!

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Guns Akimbo]]: {{spoiler|Both Gary and Susan Sarandon draw and shoot submachine guns akimbo. [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|Not that Susan hits anyone, though.]]}}

** Gary is actually able to pull this off rather well during his rescue attempt, dispatching several soldiers in short order.

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* [[Informed Ability]]: Lisa is declared to be the team's psychologist. Apart from a single line of psychobabble, she largely sticks to shooting guns.

* [[I'm Cold... So Cold...]]: Carson, Lisa's love interest, who gets killed in Paris, France.

* [[Impaled ~~With~~ Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Kim Jong-Il}}'s demise. On the German representative's pickelhaube, no less.

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Kim Jong-Il}}'s demise. On the German representative's pickelhaube, no less.

* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]

* [[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 [[Eagle Land]] cliche in existence and in truth are actually pretty insulting.

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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.

* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: The first two lines of the theme song.

* [[Rape As Comedy]]/[[Double Standard Rape (Male On Male)]]: Chris' [[Freudian Excuse]].

* [[Rape As Comedy]]/[[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)]]: Chris' [[Freudian Excuse]].

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Kim Jong-Il's argues that there are no clichéd happy endings because they live in the real world ...and then starts a [[Time Bomb|5 minute coundown]] that the [[Big Damn Heroes]] stop.

{{quote| '''Kim Jong Il''': "You see, no Prince Charming rode in on a white stallion to save the day. This is the real world. '''I'm afraid your world is over!''' ''...in five minutes.''}}

** 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 (Disney)|Aladdin]]''.

** 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 (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Lots of violence. The sex scene is extremely explicit (especially since they have no genitals.) The vomit scene involved two or three times the volume of vomit as the vomiter's entire body.

* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]

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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 just funnier, and partly because overly realistic puppets slam deep into the [[Uncanny Valley]], which they wanted to avoid.

* [[Surrounded By Idiots]]: Kim Jong-Il's song "I'm So Ronery".

* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Kim Jong-Il's song "I'm So Ronery".

* [[Take That]]: Well, yeah.

** For some reason, Matt and Trey are ''extremely'' cruel to Susan Sarandon in particular.

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** To the degree that the Eiffel Tower can fall over and land upon the Arc de Triomphe in [[Gay Paree|Paris]].

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]

* [[There Are Two Kinds of People in ~~The~~ World|There Are Three Kinds of People in the World]]: Dicks (who fuck everything), Pussies (who ''get'' fucked by everything), and Assholes (who shit on everything).

* [[There Are Two Kinds of People in the World|There Are Three Kinds of People in the World]]: 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, there. You can see the same speech given by another libertarian luminary, Bill Whittle. He calls it [http://pajamasmedia.com/ejectejecteject/2009/10/07/tribes-2/ 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.

* [[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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* [[World of Ham]]

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Kim shoots Alec Baldwin.

** [[South Park ~~(Animation)~~|Not the Baldwins!!]]

** [[South Park|Not the Baldwins!!]]