Team America: World Police - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[kyle]

The leaves on the palm trees in Hollywood during the F.A.G. meeting are made out of dollar bills.

[kristina]

Released almost three months the same year after Jonathan Frakes's live-action adaptation of Thunderbirds.

[carla]

In the opening scene in Paris, the Mime resembles Trey Parker.

[frederick]

All the background foliage in the Panama sequence is cannabis plants.

[kenzi]

In the opening sequence in Paris when the Team America vehicle slides into a vendor, there are actually pawn chess pieces along the road.

[victoria]

Matt Stone referred to the puppet technique used in the film as "supercrappymation".

[gabriel]

The motorcycle that the puppet Gary Johnston rides is a remote control red Harley Davidson VRSC, available in toy stores.

[sophie]

Matt Stone was interviewed by Michael Moore for his film Bowling for Columbine (2002) because he grew up near the infamous school. However, he was very unhappy about the animated section of his film, believing that Moore had intentionally left the impression that he and Parker had made it. For that reason, Michael Moore was portrayed in an amusingly negative fashion in Team America: World Police (2004).

[lonnie]

The idea for the film came in 2003 when Matt Stone and Trey Parker were watching television and came across re-runs episodes of Thunderbirds (1965), which Parker had never seen. Instantly intrigued, the two decided a marionette action film would be "the perfect way to send up all those Jerry Bruckheimer movies."

[sara]

Most of the Korean spoken in the movie is not Korean, but rather Asian-sounding gibberish. Three exceptions are 1) When the North Korean soldier is torturing one of the team members, he is saying, "Die, you bastard."2) When Jong-Il Kim tells his soldiers to salvage Team America's planes after the ambush, the soldiers reply with, "Yeh," which is "Yes".3) When Gary enters the North Korean palace, the North Korean soldiers are shouting, "Who are you, you bastard?"

[camila]

When the Film Actors Guild decides to go to North Korea, the members all shout "Qapla!" which is Klingon for success.

[francisco]

When Gary Johnston walks to the tavern in Cairo disguised as a Terrorist, in the background there is a "Coca-Cola" bottle cap mounted against a stone wall.

[cameron]

Above the front entrance of the Film Actors' Guild building there are two quotes on acting by two equally famous poets of theater. On the left side is William Shakespeare's famous quote, "All the world's a stage and we are merely actors in it." On the right is satirical poet Alexander Pope's quote, "Act well your part, therein all honor lies."