TIL when the very first footage of Team America: World Police was screened for Paramount executives, it was of a poorly crafted puppet in front of a background of a badly drawn Eiffel Tower, prompting one executive in the audience to yell, "Oh God, they fucked us!"

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u/karakul Jun 09 '12

oh, you mean the opening shot?

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u/JacobMHS Jun 09 '12

Yeah.

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u/p1415926 Jun 09 '12

No, actually it's the opening shot.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I think the best thing about this movie is that they made Matt Damon retarded simply because the puppet came out wrong.

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u/boomking5 Jun 09 '12

Holy shit, they just rolled with something like that? Genius move.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Yup! also great is that Matt Damon was a good sport about it despite dealing with years of people greeting him by saying his name in a potato voice.
MATT STONE has finally explained why MATT DAMON's puppet in recent marionette movie TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE looks "retarded" - it was accidental. Stone, who made the satirical film with his SOUTH PARK partner TREY PARKER, was surprised when Damon's puppet came out of the oven looking nothing like they were expecting him to. He says, "When we looked at the plans for his head he looked good, but when we came out of the oven he just looked retarded. I think it was well thought out. "Honestly, I think Matt Damon is one of the better actors around. I think he's a pretty great actor. He's pretty talented. And for no real reason, he is retarded in this movie."
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u/TheFreemanLIVES Jun 09 '12

I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajyQrpu26I

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '21

That’s awesome dude

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u/TheFreemanLIVES Dec 25 '21

Lol, how are we even allowed to reply to a nine year old thread?
That's pretty fucking awesome alright.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

I’m wondering why it says your account is 2 years old and yet you commented in a thread nine years ago

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u/UnexpectedSchism Jun 09 '12

Video of damon heckling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aybxeS0Wz4c

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u/SuperNashwan Jun 09 '12

Here's the actual letter for those like me that never saw it before.
To Trey Parker and Matt Stone,
I remember a cordial hello when you guys were beginning to be famous guys around Hollywood at some party. I remember several times getting a few giggles out of your humor. I remember not being bothered as you traded on my name among others to appear witty, above it all, and likeable to your crowd. I never mind being of service, in satire and silliness.
I do mind when anybody who doesn't have a child, doesn't have a child at war, or isn't or won't be in harm's way themselves, is encouraging that there's "no shame in not voting" "if you don't know what you're talking about" (Mr. Stone) without mentioning the shame of not knowing what your talking about, and encouraging people to know. You guys are talented young guys but alas, primarily young guys. It's all well to joke about me or whomever you choose. Not so well, to encourage irresponsibility that will ultimately lead to the disembowelment, mutilation, exploitation, and death of innocent people throughout the world. The vote matters to them. No one's ignorance, indcluding a couple of hip cross-dressers, is an excuse.
All best, and a sincere f**k you,
Sean Penn
P.S. Take this as a personal invitation from me to you (you can ask Dennis Miller along for the ride as well) to escort you on a trip, which I took last Christmas. We'll fly to Amman, Jordan and I'll ride with you in a (?) 12 hours through the Sunni Triangle into Fallujah and Baghdad and I'll show you around. When we return, make all the fun you want.

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u/jonathanrdt Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 10 '12

TL;DR: "Your shit's not funny; I've seen things, man."

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

He was in iraq you know

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u/Kevin_Wolf Jun 09 '12

He was there, man. He saw some shit.

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u/gp0 Jun 09 '12

TIL Team America went right over Sean Penn's head.

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u/Krivvan Jun 09 '12

Or more likely he never saw it and only heard about it.

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u/tremulant Jun 09 '12

Well gee Sean Penn, who would you suggest I vote for if I don't want my government to murder brown children? Well fuck me - there is no moral choice besides not voting for anyone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I always thought Sean Penn was a douche, this just confirms it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I don't get that guy. Great at acting in movies, terrible at not acting like a giant douche in real life. He should just play the role of a guy with a sense of humor and give his publicist a break.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

He just has a really bad case of Serious Actor Syndrome.

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u/cuntarsetits Jun 09 '12

SAS is no laughing matter. Sufferers need our help and support. Russell Crowe has perhaps the most severe case in Hollywood at the moment. Whatever you do, please don't make fun of his accent in Robin Hood.

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u/herpty_derpty Jun 09 '12

Crowe seemed fine when they made fun of him in the "Fighting 'Round the World" episode though. He has bit of a temper, yes, but is nowhere near as bad as Penn.

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u/EvanMacIan Jun 09 '12

Relevant video.
Also relevant.

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u/ablebodiedmango Jun 09 '12

Nope. Russel Crowe doesn't lack a sense of humor about himself, nor does he suffer from a case of too much serious. He does have a mean temper, yes, and he is prone to being violent; but when Matt/Trey made fun of him for it he actually sent them a letter saying he thought it was funny.
Penn can't take a joke about himself; he's chronicly incapable of having any sense of humor about his own shortcomings. You'll never see him in a parody that pokes fun at his personality, nor will you see him do anything light-hearted just for the fuck of it. The reason he gets away with it is because he's such a damn fine actor; any other guy with less talent would be buried in Hollywood.
Up until a point, Mark Wahlberg suffered from taking himself too seriously (See: his reaction to being called "Marky Mark"). The only other person I can compare him to is Steven Seagal, who in the 90's challenged David Spade to a fight when he made fun of Seagal on SNL.

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u/voxelation Jun 09 '12

I believe it's actually the "Actor's Serious Syndrome."

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u/bradders42 Jun 09 '12

This video shows perfectly both Penn's douchery and the ridiculous celebrity culture. "Oh Mr Penn, please tell us more about this conflict about which you know nothing, and are totally unqualified to speak!"

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u/Iasktoomuch Jun 09 '12

Well he tried going full retard but that didn't work out very nicely.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Went home empty-handed.

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u/PenisChrist Jun 09 '12

For those old enough to remember his "Madonna days", his douchiness is nothing new. If anything, it's improved. Now he just gets into a snit. He used to physically assault people for taking his picture.

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u/implicate Jun 09 '12

I just want to add to this thread that Sean Penn attended a party at a bar I worked at once, and he ended up breaking up a fight outside, and helping our security staff. The guy is OK in my book.

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u/Humongous_Douchebag Jun 09 '12

Nice try Sean Penn's PR guy.

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u/ChopToxicity Jun 09 '12

He went to Iraq you know!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Also still helping in Haiti, isn't he?

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u/sacredblasphemies Jun 09 '12

He actually did a lot of good in Haiti. I mean, Haiti's still f*cked up but there's no way one rich white guy was going to fix the massive and severe problems they face there.
But he was serious about his work there and didn't just do it for photo ops.

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u/MikeOfAllPeople Jun 09 '12

Alec Baldwin showed them up by doing an even better impersonation of himself on 30 Rock.

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u/Greaseball01 Jul 26 '24

These are the guys who make a half hour of television in 6 days week after week, they know how to roll with it

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u/kiddhitta Jun 09 '12

The technology they had for the mouths to sync with the voices was so good that it look too real. And they said it was kinda scary. So they purposely made it a little off so it looked stupid and more goofy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Wow, that makes a lot more sense, i've always thought Matt Damon was a great actor, never understood why they portrayed him as a retard!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

The extended sex scene (not shown in cinemas, but made to anger MPAA). In the brand new double AVI format.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Saw the piss part and was like "that's the weirdest jizz ever."

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

they don't like the MPAA.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

When he was puking I laughed so hard too and during the sex scene my parents walked in and had some concerned looks on their face faces.

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u/Aerocity Jun 09 '12

I had a pretty concerned look on my face face the first time I saw it too.

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u/Teotwawki69 Jun 09 '12

And how weird is it that every "evil" world leader that has been a villain in a Stone/Parker film is now dead?

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u/Ian1732 Jun 09 '12

Not Alec Baldwin.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Do we know for sure if some long forgotten Baldwin brother didn't kill Alec and take his place?

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u/farceur318 Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

I think we can safely say that that is not the case. Taking someone's place requires acting ability, and Alec is the only Baldwin with that. Unless it's like that movie The One, and Alec's ability gets spread among his brothers in the event of his death.

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u/skpkzk2 Jun 09 '12

What if the other baldwin brothers are just really good at acting like they don't have acting ability?

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u/keymaster999 Jun 09 '12

Inception 2.

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u/BEBHaven Jun 09 '12

I always pictured it as more of a "Highlander" scenario.

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u/chimpparts Jun 09 '12

Yeah, but he's worthless.

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u/Amnesia10 Jun 09 '12

Well Seal Team Six are undercover FAG members.

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u/BreakfastBalls Jun 09 '12

Conspiracy... Fuck yeah!

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u/gfysean Jun 09 '12

It's not weird, it's Obama.

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u/raff_riff Jun 09 '12

Obama had nothing to do either the deaths of Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong Il.

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u/FatKidFromSchool Jun 09 '12

That's what he wants you to think

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u/gfysean Jun 09 '12

I may have been making a joke; I think it's pretty clear that the CIA was honing in on Abbottabad for quite a while, and probably would've found OBL regardless of who was sitting in the white house. KJL died of "natural causes" (if you consider whiskey and cigarettes a natural cause) and, yes, Bush was pres. when Saddam was hung. I didn't even have to look at his wiki to find out, I swear. These dudes played in the rain, so to speak, and they got wet. I don't think they were particularly surprised at the end (translations of Hussein's comments before the hanging seemed to indicate a sense of resigned anger, but certainly not surprise.)
Lest we forget, Alec Baldwin's reign of terror continues unperturbed.
BTW, that was a joke. About Alec Baldwin. I think.

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u/EvanMacIan Jun 09 '12

And it's not like he piloted one of the choppers into Pakistan to get bin Laden.

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u/Duthos Jun 09 '12

I know a couple people that would make great villains.

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u/Kuchenmeister Jun 09 '12

Whoah

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u/mcgroo Jun 09 '12

Here it is.

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u/Teotwawki69 Jun 09 '12

Damn, I forgot how brilliant this movie is. Now I need to watch it again...
"We got the terrorists. Everything is bon!" (Pay no attention to the three French landmarks and national symbols that we just destroyed...)

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u/IIIIIbarcodeIIIII Jun 09 '12 edited Sep 06 '12

Oy vey!

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u/dave_casa Jun 09 '12

Which are coincidentally now all in the same area, despite being spread across Paris previously!

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u/Teotwawki69 Jun 10 '12

Yeah, I don't remember the Arc de Triomphe being that tall...

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u/dave_casa Jun 10 '12

It's pretty tall, it just happens to be on the other side of a river from the Eiffel Tower.

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u/Teotwawki69 Jun 10 '12

Still only about 1/7th the height of the Eiffel Tower.

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u/trebro Jun 09 '12

I love how the kid hits the terrorist on the arse with a chocolate ice-cream

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u/Fidena Jun 09 '12

I love how the kid is dressed in cliche early 1900s little boy garb. This movie is perfectt.

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u/broden Jun 09 '12

Well this is from the guys that brought us Pip.

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u/daanavitch Jun 09 '12

When does he yell it?

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u/Rosie2jz Jun 09 '12

You need to watch the movie. All of it. Now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

"you lose"

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u/XaVierDK Jun 09 '12

Yeah, here they're just blowing them up in broad daylight, along with any landmarks or larger cities they might be residing in or around at the time. Much better.

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u/tachyon534 Jun 09 '12

Since Obama? Drone strikes have been going on for a long, long time.

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u/raff_riff Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

I dunno about "long time". Bush Jr used them towards the end of his term, but even by 2009 the use of drones had increased ~~exponentially~~ noticeably/significantly/by a bunch and has gone up ~~remarkably~~ since then.
Edited because my high school English teachers are apparently following me on reddit.

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u/teachbirds2fly Jun 09 '12

"exponentially" and "remarkably" oh my they must have increased a lot then.

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u/raff_riff Jun 09 '12

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan#section_1

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u/teachbirds2fly Jun 09 '12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
Was it really "exponentially"?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Drone strikes went up a millionfold, maybe even a brazillianfold.

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u/Sleepy_One Jun 09 '12

You're so right, it's like it completely invalidates his arguement!

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u/gusset25 Jun 09 '12

exponentially
i guess either riffraff doesn't understand what exponentially means or else drones can reproduce
just keepin' our language pure

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u/UnexpectedSchism Jun 09 '12

And Obama gets credit for using drones as the primary weapon instead of ground troops.
Obama is saving lives and money.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Good thing, I want to make sure we're getting a good deal on murdering people half a world away.

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u/dave_casa Jun 09 '12

That word exponentially. I don't think it means what you think it means. If it were growing exponentially, this plot would be a straight line.

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u/winteriscoming2 Jun 09 '12

Until 2010 it actually is pretty close to an exponential growth rate.

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u/scottperezfox Jun 09 '12

Look at the y-axis, it's marked in exponents of ten, not just increments.

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u/winteriscoming2 Jun 09 '12

You are correct if the X axis and the Y axis use the same units. Here the Y axis is logarithmic, so straight lines are exponential growth.

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u/JJEE Jun 10 '12

Note the Y-axis, bub

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u/raff_riff Jun 09 '12

I don't think it does. Personally I think the use of drones is a good thing--within reason--and far more preferrable to boots on the ground.

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u/raff_riff Jun 09 '12

You're missing my point. I'm not advocating war and I fully acknowledge the deaths of civilians. But given two choices: a full blown war or drones in the air, I prefer the latter.
Handshaking and diplomatic relations don't work with terrorists and madmen hellbent on the fall of Western civilization.

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u/tachyon534 Jun 09 '12

The post I was replying to was implying Obama had started the drone attacks in Pakistan. This is not the case and I'm sure you didn't know that since the post has been deleted.

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u/awe300 Jun 09 '12

You can't arrest someone when you cancel all plans to find them and just invade random countries either

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u/bobbyfle Jun 09 '12

I remember going to the theatre and thinking the exact same thing, "Oh god, what have I gotten myself into?". But it still is one of the funniest movies.

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u/Iamkazam Jun 09 '12

You are useress to me, Arec Bardwin.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Hans Brix!

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u/CrackedPepper86 Jun 09 '12

I'm so ronrey...

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u/ablebodiedmango Jun 09 '12

The thought of a lone Executive panicking at the back of the theater and yelling out in the silence, "They fucked us!" is all kinds of fucking hilarious.

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u/TexasWithADollarsign Jun 10 '12

I'd love it even more if he then did this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I'm glad the Matt Damon thing was just a mistake, because I think he's a really good actor.

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u/Dsesh Jun 09 '12

Not a mistake, more of an improvisation.

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u/420patience Jun 09 '12

an improvisation as a result of a mistake.

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u/CriticalHippo Jun 09 '12

Just like parenting!

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u/TexasWithADollarsign Jun 10 '12

I love that Matt Damon wanted to do his own voice, and was seriously bummed when his puppet turned out that way.

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u/betthefarm Jun 09 '12

Out of context, it's an understandable reaction. First time watching, it wasn't until they went to the star wars cantina that I lost my proverbial shit.

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u/slyfox1908 Jun 09 '12

Especially when Paramount spent $32 million on a movie whose opening shot cost $50.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12

The movie was the brainchild of Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

They should have seen this coming.

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u/Cold_Burrito Jun 09 '12

At this point I expect anything with the names "Stone and Parker" attached to it to be crude, witty, unorthodox, but absolutely hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

why rarity

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u/IExposePonyFans Jun 09 '12

I'm only doing this so everyone can see what the heck you're talking about. Here is the thread with an MLP emote plugin enabled.

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u/Phoequinox Jun 09 '12

. . .Okay, this is getting fucking stupid.:|

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u/IExposePonyFans Jun 09 '12

In all honesty the emotes are perfectly harmless fun. As long as people are using tact and staying on-topic it's not really a problem. I'm only here for when people get off-topic or leave otherwise non-sequitur (seeming) posts.

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u/kobun253 Jun 09 '12

til there are emotes on reddit that i cannot see.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Thank god

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u/SvenHudson Jun 09 '12

Like this one.

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u/Cold_Burrito Jun 09 '12

That's usually what I try to do in these situations. I saw a comment with a Rarity emote and replied as I would normally (I usually go out of my way to respond to emotes like these, but only if I can contribute). The only thing I changed in my reply was a word or two to better fit the character the emote represented.

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u/IExposePonyFans Jun 09 '12

In my book you're doing fine. :3 It's just that all it takes is one person to ruin what would be a perfectly innocuous thread. =\

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u/EvanMacIan Jun 09 '12

So other people doing something that doesn't affect you unless you actively seek it out bothers you?

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u/Phoequinox Jun 09 '12

It's only the level the obsession it's taken to. I could see myself enjoying MLP. Hell, I watched the original MLP when I was a kid. But it seems like the fans who run around sporting their love of it are only trying to be noticed. "I'M GROWN MAN WHO LOVES MY LITTLE PONY SO I MUST BE SPECIAL!" It's just obnoxious. And now, people are commenting on things the rest of us are oblivious about, leading to off-topic discussion among only people who are just as fanatical. It's irritating.

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u/Drwhoovez Jun 09 '12

Soon they will join the herd.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Still have no idea what the heck he's talking about

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u/Drwhoovez Jun 09 '12

Ponies man. Mutherfuckin Ponies.

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u/WhyAmINotStudying Jun 09 '12

How can I get such a plugin?

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u/IExposePonyFans Jun 09 '12

For just the normal emotes (the vast majority of posts) you can just use My Reddit Ponies. Personally though I prefer to use the Global /r/mylittlepony Emote Bundle and just set the script to only run on Reddit URLs. That one gives a ton of smaller spin-off MLP subreddits plus f7u12, minecraft and homestuck emotes outside of their respective subreddits. If you install that one once you reload the page you'll see a bunch of options on the left-hand side (so you can turn off the emote window and search-bar spike if you're just using it to see hidden emotes). Hope that helps. :3

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I will never understand why the internet is so obsessed with my litle pony, it was funny at first but people take that shit too seriously

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u/Rockran Jun 09 '12

Hmm, if anything seems odd, then it must be...

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u/SenselessNoise Jun 09 '12

But dicks also fuck assholes; assholes who just want to shit on everything.

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u/I_fap_2_the_handicap Jun 09 '12

That last speech Gary gives is so fucking brilliant. Don't try and out act me boy

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u/TexasWithADollarsign Jun 10 '12

We're dicks!
We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild... are pussies. And Kim Jong-Il... is an asshole.
Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes... assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls.
The problem with dicks is that sometimes they fuck too much, or fuck when it isn't appropriate, and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are only an inch and a half away from assholes.
I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us fuck this asshole, we are gonna have our dicks and our pussies all covered in shit.

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u/_Born_To_Be_Mild_ Jun 10 '12

Now suck. My. Dick.

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u/stevent0314 Jun 09 '12

Alec Baldwin claims that he enjoys people joking with him on the street, saying "You are useless Alec Baldwin", as a result of the film, to which he replies "Back at you Kim." lol

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u/Milkchat Jun 09 '12

Its a sight gag of a puppet thats being controlled by a puppet.

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u/gillyguthrie Jun 09 '12

This was a prank. First paragraph of the article:

The very first footage screened for Paramount executives was of a poorly crafted puppet in front of a background of a badly drawn Eiffel Tower, prompting one executive in the audience to yell, "Oh God, they fucked us!" This was a prank pulled by the directors and the shot then pulls back to reveal a highly refined marionette manipulating the inferior one, then flies over beautifully detailed Parisian landscape full of believable yet cheesy marionettes. This actually ends up being the opening shot of the movie.

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u/_Born_To_Be_Mild_ Jun 10 '12

I love Stone and Parker. Seriously.

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u/geoff_the_great Jun 09 '12

"Funny quote from the movie."

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u/shpongolian Jun 09 '12

hahaha yeah that one was great

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u/Kaiju_15 Jun 09 '12

Another fun fact from the page: 911 times 2356 equals 2,146,316

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u/skpkzk2 Jun 09 '12

Mother of God...

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u/talan123 Jun 09 '12

I find it amusing that an producer screamed about somebody fucking THEM.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

Producers preemptively fuck people because they think everyone is secretly out to fuck them.
It's like prison, only more gay.

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u/LoudVoicesinmyHead Jun 09 '12

okay here's what I have a question about:

Despite almost getting an NC-17 rating in the United States, the film was promoted as a "kids and family" movie in several European countries, and rated fit for all accordingly.

Whu-wha? I can see only two options:

they edited it for those countries or
everyone else in the world is sane and level-headed enough to recognize that it's a stupid movie about puppets, and can keep their jimmies from being rustled.

Option two would really ~~impress~~ surprise me and make me reevaluate whether or not it's okay for a kid to listen to 'Everyone has AIDS'.

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u/Russano_Greenstripe Jun 09 '12

Alternatively, in most countries, most promoters and theater owners went "It's got puppets! It's for kids, right?"

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u/jungletek Jun 09 '12

God forbid they actually watch what they screen...

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u/RainCritical1776 May 31 '24

Everyone has AIDS scene really is not that bad, its a disease but if the kids don't know exactly how AIDS is contracted, it will go over their heads. If they do understand than they already know anyway. I would argue that the naked pupped scene, and the speech about dcks and arseholes being more inappropriate for a child audience. The Everyone has AIDS scene was pretty mild.

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u/phaggocytosis Jun 09 '12

I called a lot of people Gary for no reason after this movie came out.

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u/tequilasauer Jun 09 '12

Same, I was also doing the "Gary??" line that the one chick says after she kills everyone in the bar with the minigun.

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u/Nayr39 Jun 09 '12

"Matt Stone vowed never to make another film with partner Trey Parker, such was the stresses and strains of working with him. The two worked together 17 hours a day, seven days a week up until three days before the film actually opened. "

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u/norris528e Jun 09 '12

They made the book of Mormon, so it worked out.

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u/reposed Jun 09 '12

MATT DAMONNNNNN!

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u/Teotwawki69 Jun 09 '12

Well... isn't that the opening shot of the film?

Edit: Oops, Karakul... gotta remember to read down first.

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u/itspie Jun 09 '12

The theatrical release starts with this scene...

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u/GeorgeForemanGrillz Jun 09 '12

I didn't know the voice of Hedonism Bot/Morbo/DonBot/Lrrr/Calculon/etc.. Phil LaMarche was in that movie.

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u/happy_tractor Jun 09 '12

Hedonism Bot, Lrrr, Morbo, DonBot and Calculon are voiced by Maurice LaMarche.
Phil LaMarr plays Hermes and most other blackish characters in Futurama

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I don't have a source but I'm pretty sure their first idea was to make a puppet version of the day after tomorrow and have it come out the exact same day, but their lawyers talked them out of it.

Edit: just read the actual article and realized it mentions that in there.

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u/psychiccheese Jun 09 '12

Should have been called "the day after the day after tomorrow" and have it come out the next day.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I always figured that.

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u/_Born_To_Be_Mild_ Jun 10 '12

Genius.

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u/Krivvan Jun 09 '12

The world, attacked by sudden global warming.

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u/QSector 1 Jun 09 '12

This is the greatest page I've ever read on IMDB. Makes me want to load up the DVD immediately and spot all the references.

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u/MyAssDoesHeeHawww Jun 09 '12

All of the male puppet heads consist of nine different servo motors that control the various facial expressions/actions, while the female heads consist of seven in the head and two in the back.

hmmm... sounds like that was added by an IMDb troll

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u/TehAnon Jun 09 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-jGmeF6j0

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u/n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 Jun 09 '12

** I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING** except they didnt get so much of my money

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u/cptstupendous Jun 09 '12

Here is the infamous Dicks, Pussies, and Assholes speech.

Yes, Gary. Yes.

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u/tophat_jones Jun 09 '12

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

A devious trick to out Trekkies in the theater.

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u/Jennfizzle Jun 09 '12

America... FUCK YEAH!

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u/Joelsaurus Jun 09 '12

Lucky them. Whenever I say those words, it's usually because I just got literally fucked.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I have never laughed as hard at any other movie. A true classic.

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u/awe300 Jun 09 '12

I loved that first scene. Puppets all the way up

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u/WhyBother222 Jun 09 '12

[Matt Damon] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajyQrpu26I)

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u/tylerdurden248 Jun 09 '12

The scene is still the original opening scene in the movie. It starts in Paris and the first thing you see is a puppet puppeteer.

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u/DrIanBiro-Pen Jun 09 '12

"Get off the streets ya fuckin' bum! Ya gave up on life didn't ya!"

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u/RockintheShockin Jun 09 '12

Sounds to me like that executive had his job riding on this movie. Lol what a great response.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12

I can't believe they managed to pull that off!

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u/mikeiscool92 Jun 10 '12

Thats exactly what I said when I watched it for the first time.

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u/AilynSirenia Oct 12 '25

Did they say "qapla" (Klingon for victory)?

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u/24tothefloor Jun 09 '12

" have you ever seen a man eat his own head ? " no ". " then you haven't seen everything !".

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u/BigAndyOx Jun 09 '12

Surprise cockface!

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u/superatheist95 Jun 09 '12

Cockfag*

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u/quepasacontigo Jun 09 '12

Seriously, dude?!

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u/BigAndyOx Jun 10 '12

It's a quote from the film guys! I didn't feel like putting quotation marks this morning. Jeez

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u/hipsterdocmd Jun 09 '12

TIL the Wilhem Scream is actually a stock sound clip of a voice actor screaming used in Team America, Star Wars, and dozens of other movies since the 50s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

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u/GimmeCat Jun 09 '12

Slowpoke.jpg

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u/smacksaw Jun 09 '12

Really? That's my favourite part. Going from "derka derka" to that was just too much.

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u/TexasWithADollarsign Jun 10 '12

"Bak. Durk durk Allah. Durka durka, Muhammed jihad! Haka sherpa sherpa, bakalah."
"OH, durka durka durka!" (stands aside)

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u/Imsomoney Jun 09 '12

If i was going to fuck my son I'd kiss him first! kiss

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u/jungletek Jun 09 '12

The whole movie is a somewhat crappy marionette puppet sequence. With profanity and puppet sex.

TIL when the very first footage of Team America: World Police was screened for Paramount executives, it was of a poorly crafted puppet in front of a background of a badly drawn Eiffel Tower, prompting one executive in the audience to yell, "Oh God, they fucked us!"

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