Team America (On Pluto)
We were DENIED last week, but like any good American, I do not give up*. Here it is! Team America. Let’s keep that July 4th vibe going. I was super tired over the 4th, I spent most of it travelling. I got home on the 4th, and slept to the sound of fireworks going off everywhere. On the 5th the whole world smelled like fireworks, which is how it should be. But again, I felt DENIED, because I was too beat to stay up for fireworks. Thankfully my neighbors have been providing a nightly fireworks show ever since then. Americans find a way!
Now, on to Team America. Does this really need an introduction? To me, this was a timeless classic from the moment it came out. What i will do is give you some great trivia. Look around, and you might see a lot more fun details. Trivia courtesy IMDB:
- The streets are paved with croissants in the opening scene in Paris.
- All the background foliage in the Panama sequence is cannabis plants.
- The Team America male puppets have the tails side of an American Susan B. Anthony one-dollar coin on the front of their belts.
- The statue in Jong-Il Kim’s palace is actually a human in heavy makeup. In the first scene in which he appears, you can see his eyes blinking.
And now, a game – How many times is the word “f*ck” used in the song “America, F*ck Yeah?” Get it right and get ten Glib points. What else can you see or hear tonight? I look forward to your thoughts in the comments. The detail in this film is incredible. Enjoy!
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, we will have someone’s suggestion for our audience appreciation Thursday! Not sure which one yet. Leave me some ideas below!
*Excluding our soccer team
Murica!
Fuck yeah!
Diving in. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this.
Same here. *presses play*
(On Pluto)
So far didn’t crash like every other time.
Good
The puppets walk like they are in the Ministry of Silly Walks skit. I never noticed that.
I couldn’t find any good trivia on that. I think that is just how marionettes walk.
Matt Damon though – apparently his mask came back from the shop horribly distorted, and he looked retarded. So Trey decided to play him that way.
Matt Damon!
Fun fact: Both Trey Parker and Matt Stone voiced the Matt Damon puppet. Why? Because: Why not?
There was also a rumor going around, probably apocryphal, that the first time movie execs saw the film was close to the final cut. There was palpable panic in the room for about 15 seconds on the opening scene. It’s too good not to be true.
I can’t remember if it’s in the ‘uncensored’ version or theatrical, but there’s a great line after the Panama Canal where Gary is all shook up that everyone hates them now. something like:
Spottswoode: Well everybody hates Winnie the Pooh too, and that doesn’t stop him!
Gary: No they don’t! Everyone loves Winnie the Pooh!
Spottswoode: Well I do. That cocking-sucking bear killed Jack Kennedy!
I researched it. Couldn’t find a connection between Pooh and Kennedy, but… And of course now I can’t find the line in the movie, so maybe I just hallucinated it.
He was nine-years-old.
I want to hear about more of your hallucinations.
Such a fantastic flick, project, and legit message. Nails it all.
“Kim Jong Il died on 17 December 2011 as reported. December at 8:30 am of a massive heart attack while traveling outside Pyongyang.” Many big laughs were had, and this flick came up repeatedly. No outward celebration, IIRC, from the SoKos, but I’m quite sure certain things weren’t allowed to be said or done.
Repeatedly, the North would do some drill or something and I’d see/ hear US Americans on FB+ screeching in fear. Folk’d would message me to see if I was okay, or what the ‘word on the ground’ was. I quickly learned no Koreans gave a shit. Same ol’ same ‘ol, on repeat for ~60yrs. I found that rather entertaining.
Chauffeur looking longingly.
Buck oh five?
I wonder what that is with inflation.
$20, same as downtown
I heard it’s now $25 downtown.
So, I’ve never seen this before. I feel like I’m about to get an education.
*Inserts STEVE SMITH joke.
*squints* Not sure I recognize you, though ya still seem familiar. Welcome, hazy Tulpa. *squint … tightens*
Don’t tighten if you see Steve, relax. Think loose thoughts.
Bad OpSec
In the opening Paris scene, there is one puppet with a velvet jacket walking in the background. I looked closely. It’s Jon Pertwee wearing his Doctor Who costume.
I just went out to eat. Had fish and chips and a beer. I then was perusing outdoor furniture at Nebraska Furniture Mart, got sick and barfed it all up in the bushes outside. Fantastic evening.
Yuck. Sorry.
The upcoming vomit scene (spoiler) was quite similar.
Reenacting the scene from the film?
Almost exactly!
Is Team America the new Rocky Horror Picture Show?
It should be
“You gave up on life, didn’t you?!
Capitalism can be sickening.
Yikes! You OK now?
Kinda. I think it was food allergy. Too fast for food poisoning. Wife is driving us home.
The salmon mousse?
(Seriously, feel better)
I had lasagna.
It’s better to let it out and bear the shame than hold it in and bear the pain. Just like flatulence.
Feel better you green headed bulbous alien.
Corporation-y.
Huh. That’s all we need.
Lots of commercials.
That is a downside to Pluto
About the same as Tubi for me.
Quite possibly the best song is at the end of the credits, so it’s worth sitting through the credits.
And if you sit through the credits, you can see the two great talents, yes two, that were required to voice Matt Damon properly.
La Cucaracha?
Ah, beat me to it.
RJ, you don’t give up or surrender because you aren’t French.
(Just kidding,my French brothers).
Bad Guy Mistake.
Just launch the weapons.
I know. Countdowns are for Bond villains.
I think I’m going to make the wife watch this one.
Well, I’m sorry to say but this wasn’t as good as I remember. But, I still made it to the end.
Thanks RJ!
It was a bit a product of it’s time.
Yeah, I have to agree. And it’s no Bigger, Longer, and Uncut.
Pluto worked.
The curse is lifted?
Playing an on-demand movie was surprisingly effortless on this hotel TV, unlike Pluto “Live TV” which is flaky as shit here. If I get a channel running I don’t dare change it.
Rhy at checkout “What is this $2,000 additional charge?”
Desk Clerk “Working video.”
Weirdly I didn’t see any of the PPV and bow-chicka-bow-wow channels I recall seeing from most previous hotel stays. Just basic cable, sports, and some streams like Netflix, Youtube, all of which require an account except for Pluto.
“you had me at dicks fuck assholes”
That is the beat speech.
Beat=best.
*Vomits again
I don’t care, but I kinda hope Morocco wins. I’m really glad I went on that trip. Volubilis was a Roman fort, a few hundred years before Christ and a couple after. Columns, Forum architecture, fresca’s on the streets. I loved it was pretty much *the* westernmost bit of the Empire. It was 2015 and I only had a tablet with a dying battery to take pics. I technically have them, but I’m unable to get the few pics I was able to get with it. Dies as soon as I hit share and has to ‘do’ something.
France also deserves to lose. WTF is ‘France,’ anyway? And.. “K. MBappe” just scored for the surrender monkeys. It really is silly.
I hope the fans rush the field and rip both teams to shreds along with the officials.
/Blood Bowl
Are you… writing from the past?
UCS may be. It’s on FS1 right now and it doesn’t say “Encore” or “Replay.” I just saw it was on and am background watching. If you placed a bet, let me know *wink wink* and I’ll see *cough* if I can make events unfold in your favor.
Don’t be absurd. If anything I’m posting from the future! It’s the Year 2000
*Error in Real Time Clock Module
I have found that if it doesn’t say “LIVE” it isn’t live. I only caught the last five minutes or so earlier but I won’t spoil.
I’m not ‘watching,’ though I did see the ending. Diamondbacks @ San Diego’s is live! I like Arizona more than many others. 2001 WS was epic.
On my drive today, fantastic Cubs @ Baltimore game to radio-listen. Didn’t end how I wanted, but we took 2/3. Near the IN/MI border, I drove through a downpour that, for perhaps the first time in memory, considered pulling off because of the rain alone. It was nuts. Swept by fairly quickly, but everyone was driving carefully. Successfully, AFAICT.
Was joking today was like a VisionQuest Vacation Drive. I really like taking 31 north. Crosses the Continental Divide!
Watching Danny Kaye movies.
https://x.com/australianarmy/status/2075378293289689449
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Oi! It’s Friday! Get on up, Glibs n Glibettes!
😴🥁🎺
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FljNILAozts
🎶🎶
*grumble*
This is far too early for sane people to be awake.
You’re not sane.
My mental health would be much improved were I not forced to be awake at such hours of madness.
Mercy Me:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMT-oiiY7DE
Good morning, Sean, U, and Ted’S.!
Morning, GT.
Made it to the office. hopefully it will be a quiet day.
How are things where you are at?
Okay, except I had a bit of a rude awakening this morning. I was maybe half awake at about ten ’til 5:00 when our land line phone rang once. Just once. All I could think of was the old campfire ghost story/horror movie line “The call is coming from inside the house!!!” 😳
Then I heard TT’s cell phone ping and my cell phone vibrate – it was a friend texting us info we’d asked her to send about her daughter’s softball tournament. I guess she didn’t realize one of the numbers she had for us was the land line. 🙄
Better that than Ninja Cat trying to kill you.
🐱👤🩸🤕
That’s just a regular weekday. It’s almost like you’ve never lived with cats.
Ninja Cat isn’t allowed in the bedroom at night, but goodness knows he tries. In the evening if we don’t shut the door in time, he hides under the bed. I’ve had to drag him out of there many times. 😒😸
When I tried to keep my cats out of the bedroom at night they just kept clawing at the door long enough to drive me nuts and let them in.
A few weeks back I mentioned a kerfuffle about the local school superintendent possibly fat-shaming people at a school board meeting. Things are getting wilder:
Kingston school president blasted for political post that quoted racial slur in report
I lost track of the thread in that story but it sounds like a lot of people just need to grow up.
As I understand it:
1) Woman running for Congress as TEAM RED.
2) Her dad may have grifted with the family business in the first DeBlasio term but didn’t grease the right palms.
3) Blood libel because TEAM RED.
4) Apparently one of the business’ sins is that an employee used slur words, which a TEAM BLUE hack didn’t blur out.
5) Republicans pounce! How dare they!
And these are mostly the people in charge of our children’s education….
Oh, no, mustn’t use wrongspeak!
You know, these evil words only have as much totemic power as you grant them.
I, for one, am sick and tired of the primitive superstition that saying or writing “nigger” somehow casts the evil on someone, or whatever.
Good Mornin’, Each and every Glibster!
Another fine morning in the woods.
I learned something this morning. If I cover the little button on the bottom of my indoor-outdoor thermometer
it lights up and I can see the temps/humidity clearly .
I never knew that. That’s something important (to me). It doesn’t take much to make a geezer happy.
Must be a light sensor to control the brightness of the display.
Sounds useful. Especially if the display isn’t properly illuminated when the machine thinks it’s bright enough to read.
Good morning, 4(20)! Aren’t you the tech-savvy one!
Huh. Suspicions confirmed that the “‘Canes'” are trash.
That’s an a-hole move.
Is there anything you can’t blame on Trump? How about a lack of color ink?
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260710_B1/index.html
This is why I print monochrome.
How white of him.
Mornin’
What is up?
The weights at the gym but I’d have to leave for the gym for that to happen.
I wish the weight on my scale would go down. It’s been teasing me, going between 281 and 282. I want to get into the 270s to celebrate a new milestone.
I’m still fat, but I’m getting better.
I saw your other posts on your numbers. You’ve made good progress.
My weight has been slowly creeping up since the powerlifting competition four months ago. I was at 271 for the meet. I went up to 280. I’m down to, as of today, 274.
And now I really must get my shit together and get to the gym.
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😊👍
Good morning!
Morning.
I need more caffiene before it can be classified as good. My left eye is tired. Not both eyes, just the left. Probably differential strain last night. I’ll have to look at the ergonomics of my computer setup again.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
TALL PAYDAY CANS!
Nah, payday is this coming Wednesday.