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The Original Plan for ‘Team America’ Was Even More Ridiculous Than the Movie We Got

The duo’s 2004 puppet movie was shaping up to be a full-on parody of Roland Emmerich’s ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ at one point

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South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had a slightly different plan for their 2004 puppet movie Team America: World Police in the early stages of development. In addition to taking inspiration from the 1960s sci-fi series Thunderbirds, Parker and Stone became fixated on doing a send-up of Roland Emmerich’s disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow as soon as they read its synopsis in a magazine. The idea of making a movie about sudden global warming that would attack the Earth sounded so ridiculous to the duo that it brought them to tears. In fact, Parker and Stone found it hard to........

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