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Podcast: Verbal Diorama
Episode: (From the Archive) Team America: World Police
Description: A musical with sweary puppets might be one of the biggest movie miracles of all time.Team America: World Police started out as an homage to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds mixed with Jerry Bruckheimer all-action, post 9/11 US foreign policy and a hint of disaster movies. It's likely that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone simply had no idea what they were in for when they agreed to make this movie and release it in October 2004.They had five months(!)Five months to make a fully practical movie starring marionettes, with scale sets...