Sh*t Show Podcast: Team America: World Police (2004)

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4 жыл бұрын

Making puppets act is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Team America: World Police, from getting marionettes to drink scotch to removing a NC-17 rating.
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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. And we are going to talk about these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, It Was A Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.
Sources:
ABC News: • Trey Parker and Matt S...
Box Office Mojo: www.boxofficemojo.com/release...
The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/film/2004...
In Focus: web.archive.org/web/201107272...
The Independent: www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
LA Times: web.archive.org/web/201107272...
Movie-Censorship: www.movie-censorship.com/repo...
Reddit: • Matt Damon: Reddit Ask...
Rolling Stone: web.archive.org/web/201107272...
South Park Studios: southpark.cc.com/clips/f09rjd...
Time: • Alec Baldwin on Tracy ...
Today: www.today.com/popculture/team...
USA Today: usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/...
Zap2it: web.archive.org/web/201107272...
Featured Footage:
Pinocchio (1940)
Team America: World Police (2004)
Music:
Ryan Hudson - Sh*t Show Theme
#teamamerica #itwasashtshow #southpark

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@ScottLandOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

As a lead puppeteer on Team America you were very close on most information. Trey and Matt learned a lot ... I think they chose the most difficult puppet animation... and what they created will never be replicated. That’s genius. I’m very proud of my work and the film itself. By the way... I did Gary vomiting and all of Kim Jong Il

@ItWasAShtShow 3 жыл бұрын

Whoa! That’s incredible! We pride ourselves in the research and try our best to get the full story. We’d love to have you on in a follow up interview to discuss anything we left out and (in keeping with our theme of sh*t show productions) hear any other crazy stories you have from your career in puppetry. Shoot us an email if you’d be interested!

@Fuckthis0341 2 жыл бұрын

Master work 👏

@a110100 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Amazing puppetry!!! I'll be thinking of your work for the rest of my life!

@zaprese 2 жыл бұрын

Gary was a great actor but Kim Jong was a bit unrealistic lol

@antitoastthe2nd 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question, did trey and Matt ever mention anything about thunderbirds or supemartionation? (super-marionette-animation, or those wondering)

@aethersurfer6793 Жыл бұрын

I’ve cried with laughter, with real tears, in the cinema at only one film. Team America is that film. The first time they played the Team America song I couldn’t breathe. Really great podcast, a deep dive on what must have been a hellish shoot with the steepest learning curve for using puppets for an entire film. Art through adversity.

@botz77 2 жыл бұрын

I forced my entire family to go see this in the theater. My parents did not enjoy it. My sister and I loved it.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

That would have been hysterically awkward. How old were you?

@botz77 2 жыл бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow 27 probably. I already saw a preview of it and told them it was the most hilarious movie ever made. I stand by that, although Airplane! is really the king of comedy movies.

@booboothecool 2 жыл бұрын

just found you guys yesterday and its blowing my mind how you guys arent bigger, this is exactly my kind of content and you put a lot of quality in your stuff

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

Ah thanks for noticing. Glad you found us!

@M4GG0TK1NG 2 жыл бұрын

Same man I just stumbled across it like last week and the quality of this show is so good

@turtleanton6539 Жыл бұрын

I been bringing a few epsiodes a day haha ! It sure is fun stuff. Great content

@stevenecarrier 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like a live action Team America would end up a lot like The Boys

@third.act.countdown 2 жыл бұрын

My first R rated movie in theaters! legally wise. I was a Trey and Matt, stan. Still am really. The film came out October of '04 I turned 17 on the seventeenth of May in 2005. Just caught it at the end of its run at the dollar theater. Movie catchphrases were uttered all over the hallways and library my Senior year. The making the cut worse bit is from their experiences making the South Park movie. With Team America, to combat the eventual NC-17 they foresaw coming from their "old enemy", the MPAA. They put "more" in the sex scene which they never intended to be in the final release. Their theory was to film something so outrageous, the MPAA would primarily focus on THAT and leave the rest or most of the movie alone. Brilliant Offense, really.

@kylesmith8135 4 жыл бұрын

Lol pissed myself at the snyder cut "we did it"

@viva2archive 2 жыл бұрын

Your podcast made me pause halfway through and rewatch Team America. I forgot that Kim Jong's backstory is revealed in the last 60 seconds via song.

@puertoriconnect4611 2 жыл бұрын

With the quality of the content this channel puts out i’m surprised the subscriber count isn’t at least over 100,000. Don’t get me wrong 62k is not a small number but they deserve even more.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

Ah thank you!

@TheCashiron Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thought!

@Charmer4856 2 жыл бұрын

Matt Damon! I still use that to this day!

@andywright1634 2 ай бұрын

Every time, and I mean EVERY time I either read his name, hear his name or see/hear him on a tv show/film, a voice inside my head does that exact phrase and voice. Every time.

@wcookiv Жыл бұрын

WTF is Jonathon Franks?! I'm just ribbing you guys, I love your discussions and video essays.

@jimtheedcguy4313 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely adore this movie!!! My girlfriend thinks it's a silly puppet cartoon movie but it's so much more than that! I don't understand how Stone and Parker haven't run out of jokes yet!

@BradTheThird 2 жыл бұрын

"Say what you want about Alec Baldwin, I think he's great" Oof...

@404TVfr Жыл бұрын

It's true tho. So what if he shot someone by accident?

@robderiche 5 ай бұрын

The discussion of good puppeteers downplaying their skills reminds me of commentary around Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, where talented actors portray bad acting in a way that is funny instead of cringe.

@randellbrady1030 2 жыл бұрын

Why don’t you guys have the old movie clips with this video? This movie had me cracking up when it came out it would’ve been nice to be able to see visuals while listening to you guys talk about it. Keep up the great content👍🏼

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

That’s so much work! But thanks for listening!

@CraigKostelecky 2 жыл бұрын

Not only is it more work, it would be more likely to be taken down for copyright reasons.

@a110100 2 жыл бұрын

It's called podcast. Pod because Apple called their mp3 player iPod. I guess Apple thought doing a radio show needed an updated name that refers to themselves. That's what I think. I didn't research a thing.

@mooseeggs4999 Жыл бұрын

@@a110100 what are you talking about

@seanziethen1032 Жыл бұрын

SPOILER: For me one of the funniest moments in that film was when the main character described how tragically his brother died when he was a kid: "He got tossed around by those Zoo Gorillas as if he was a puppet". One of the most dangerous scenes to think about while you are drinking.

@nicklang6798 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, now I'm going to rewatch Team America #$@& yeah!

@ilvanezzo Жыл бұрын

The only (recent) piece of marionette cinematography I can think of is Thunderbolt Fantasy and that has like 3 seasons worth of the most insane quality puppeteering... Also I remember from the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated them admitting the puppet sex scene intentionally included the most disgusting shit they could think of so it could easily be cut down to an R rating after submitting it to MPAA

@nicklang6798 2 жыл бұрын

Would Puppetmaster be considered a puppet movie. Kidding

@CutsToTheChase 2 ай бұрын

Dang. 6:00 they learned them Trey and Matt learned them some HARD lesson from "BASEketball", it seems...

@gamalwilliams6763 2 жыл бұрын

Puppet Master, Trilogy of Horrors, Tales From The Hood. All with demonic puppets!

@antenna_prolly 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh, I actually know that last movie, though my mother and I only watched the first couple acts.

@grahamjhallaudio8198 Жыл бұрын

This was so researched and well talked about from all your perspectives! So glad found this channel and catching up on all ya shizzzz 👍

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

Welcome! Glad you found us!

@JoeShopper Жыл бұрын

The fact that this movie exists is more important than whether I liked it or not. But yeah. I liked it.

@charmygreen665 Жыл бұрын

Genuinely BAFFLED at how yall arent a 1mil channel. I qas actually confused when i saw the sub count. One of my fav channels now damn

@masturch33f87 2 жыл бұрын

Someone should take the Matt Damon sound and put it on the Crypto commercial he made 🤣😝

@turtleanton6539 Жыл бұрын

Such a great classic movie

@NilMortifey Жыл бұрын

Found the channel a while ago but only recently got time to give it full attention. Regarding your 'other puppet movie' question - I can't remember if they're marionettes or the Robot Chicken-style 'animated action figures', but there's a British WWII film in a similar style called "Jackboots on Whitehall" that came out a few years after Team America. One of those alternate histories where the NAZIs invaded Britain. It has Ewan McGreggor, Richard O Brian and Richard E Grant in the voice cast and everybody playing the NAZIs are clearly enjoying themselves hamming it up being the villains.

@haroldparsons9727 2 жыл бұрын

Baseketball was so damn funny.

@joki9121 2 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, just found the channel. I think Jen likes South Park and parker and stone. Just a hunch.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

We’ve had our suspicions…

@skullrider76 2 жыл бұрын

Good Dino to Team America, tonal whiplash as I mark them off but I’m down for this and you guys are the best shit show podcast around

@SteadiestRhyme 2 жыл бұрын

Not a movie but if you want wild puppet entertainment, you should look at Thunderbolt Fantasy. Btw I love the content on this channel!

@GreenPeelEL34 6 ай бұрын

You 3 are gems! ❤🌏🌍🌎🇨🇦👍

@basquat76 6 ай бұрын

South park has a huge impact on peoples perception and opinions. Take Al Gore and climate change and how they ridiculed him. We haven't heard a word from him in 20 years, and there's a lot of climate change deniers. And Matt and Trey turned into CEO's of bp lying on a bear rug naked apologizing for it. This uninhibited desire to mock and ridicule everyone and everything isn't always a good idea. Sometimes you live long enough to become the villains.

@TheMalf1978 Жыл бұрын

Frakes, not Frankes.

@404TVfr Жыл бұрын

Same thing

@RickMyBalls 6 ай бұрын

Who's Jonathan Franks??

@Deathstroke4200 2 жыл бұрын

Don't watch Josstice League if anything just pause at certain chapters in Zack Snyders Justice League. Its a more coherent story for sure.

@antenna_prolly 2 жыл бұрын

*WHO'S THAT POKÉMON??* ... "MaTt DaMoN!"

@maxlights6021 3 ай бұрын

love matt and trey theyre so goofy #ReleaseTheShitshowCut !!! hbo max needs to pay snyder to come on the shit show podcast for an interview had to turn my headphones all the way to hear Ian, is his mic getting quieter with each episode???

@antitoastthe2nd 2 жыл бұрын

Its so bizarre hearing Americans pronounce “thunderbirds” there’s something so weird about it in my opinion

@ryzekiv7147 2 жыл бұрын

Captain Scarlet (1970 series)

@404TVfr Жыл бұрын

Nobody asked

@doktor_ghul Жыл бұрын

I have to stand up here and represent for Gerry Anderson fans worldwide. TEAM AMERICA:WORLD POLICE is one of my favorite nutjob movies, and it's right up there with THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO and THUNDERBIRD SIX in terms of nutjob movies. CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS (1967) is my favorite Anderson Supermarionation series, and that is taking STINGRAY, THUNDERBIRDS, JOE 90, and THE SECRET SERVICE into consideration. Oh, and as far as I'm concerned, I'd like to take Jonathan Frakes out behind the garden shed and put a bullet through his peanut brain for his THUNDERBIRDS movie. ...and I know nobody asked. Fuck 'em if they can't take it.

@ChrisHarperBooks 2 жыл бұрын

My problem isn't so much with Trey and Matt, even if they are not my brand of comedy. My issue is with all the assholes who use that South Park style of lampooning as an excuse to be massive jerks, and then go "why can't you take a joke?!" when they are called out on it. Especially since they could not even approach a fraction of the talent of these guys.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

Very true. There is a level of self awareness (and intelligence) that is required to offend everyone equally.

@markphc99 4 ай бұрын

shitshow? great film

@pugbath2000 2 жыл бұрын

Anomalisa

@DontFeedTheTrolls 2 жыл бұрын

This podcast is pretty annoying to anyone who knows the difference between puppets, muppets and marionets. They are not the same... this is why we can't have nice things.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

So sorry!

@ShockerTopper 2 жыл бұрын

HUH?? Bruckheimer did NOT do Top Gun, wow come on guys...it was TONY SCOTT, Ridley Scott's deceased brother. Wow, that's the biggest swing and miss I can think of hearing lately lol. I'm sure many people said this in the comments but I don't care, it deserves another comment, because it's insane that anyone would think Jerry Bruckheimer made TOP GUN lol

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

… he produced it, buddy. Bruckheimer doesn’t direct. So, as for a sports analogy? Air ball.

@otomostubeofficial2697 2 жыл бұрын

Is this a copypasta coz if not it's gonna be

@404TVfr Жыл бұрын

Why is this unironically funny?

@mciheal7673PLUS 2 жыл бұрын

Matt Stone & Trey Parker make fun of everything and everyone except straight men and heterosexuality.

@Treyworld 2 жыл бұрын

Clearly you don't watch enough of their work to back up that statement. XD

@mciheal7673PLUS 2 жыл бұрын

@@Treyworld Do you have examples ? at least one, a KZfaq clip ? XD

@Treyworld 2 жыл бұрын

@@mciheal7673PLUS ever seen Orgazmo? Lots of hetero deconstructing starring a bunch of white dudes.

@404TVfr Жыл бұрын

@@mciheal7673PLUS nah, they insult everyone. Don't lie, dude.

@stirgy4312 Жыл бұрын

Yo less gabbin and get to the point. I got bored and fell asleep for real

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

It’s called a podcast, not a TLDR column. How dare we do an update on a previous episode!

@404TVfr Жыл бұрын

Yo less whining and more coping.

@rafuxec 2 жыл бұрын

the material and research is good but these guys are so unfunny, is just 50 minutes of some guy fake laughing at his wife's jokes and that other guy who doesnt add anything. Thats why they aren't bigger.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening!