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Team America: World Police

4/2/20261 hr 17 min

Paul and Amy salute (and side-eye) Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s anything-goes puppet satire that took aim at everyone in the post-9/11 era. They unpack the film’s wild blend of Thunderbirds-style craftsmanship and Jerry Bruckheimer bombast, from its rapid-fire production to the army of puppeteers behind its explosive set pieces and yes, they discuss that infamous sex scene that pushed the MPAA to its limits.

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Clips

Is Team America Conservative?
Couldn’t Be Made Today
Why Celebrities Protest
The Funniest Offense
Unbelievable Puppet Craft
Harder Than The Matrix
Vote Or Die Backlash
Matt Damon Felt Hurt
Cut The Jokes, Play It Straight
Sean Penn’s Scathing Letter

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Amy Nicholson· Host0:01

    The year is 2004.

  2. Paul Scheer· Host0:03

    All right, team, that's it. We've got a job to do. Let's go police the world.

  3. Speaker 30:08

    America. America. America. Fuck yeah.

  4. Amy Nicholson· Host0:19

    The movie, Team America: World Police. [singing] Hello, everyone, and welcome to Unspooled.

  5. Paul Scheer· Host0:36

    Unspooled. Yes, welcome to Unspooled. This is a podcast about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-sees, and in-case-you-missed-'ems.

  6. Amy Nicholson· Host0:43

    We have covered the AFI Top 100, and now we are checking off movies from three major lists: the Letterboxd Top 250 Films with the Most Fans, the IMDb Top 250, and The New York Times 1,000 Essential Films.

  7. Paul Scheer· Host0:56

    And Amy, we will also, as always, be chasing our own curiosity. That's right, wherever we wanna go, we will go, because we're rebels, we're renegades. I'm Paul Scheer. I'm an actor, a writer, a, a director, and I once worked with a puppet cat, and it was a nightmare.

  8. Amy Nicholson· Host1:14

    [laughs] Did you really? What kind of a cat?

  9. Paul Scheer· Host1:16

    It was, uh, for a TV show called Meow TV, and I, I mean, it was just a generic tabby.

  10. Amy Nicholson· Host1:22

    Oh, just some cat?

  11. Paul Scheer· Host1:23

    Is that a kind, tabby?

  12. Amy Nicholson· Host1:25

    It is. It is.

  13. Paul Scheer· Host1:25

    Okay.

  14. Amy Nicholson· Host1:25

    It is. When my boyfriend and I are jerks, we call them some cats, but we also are aware that we're being

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