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Team America: Trey and Matt String TogetherInside a huge empty warehouse, Trey Parker is speaking into a microphone and looking at two puppets in a mini-spaceship in front of him. Nearby, they're blowing up a rocket near Mount Rushmore.
"Pull your vehicle over, this is the world police," Parker says over and over again for the puppet that looks suspiciously like Michael York. Finally, he turns to Zap2it.com and says, "I f---ing hate this, it's so slow."
His curly-haired partner-in-creatio n, Matt Stone, is a few feet away bouncing back and forth from the tiny set to the camera's view, adding, "Y'know, our summer's been shot."
It's hard to tell if the creative team behind "South Park" is frustrated for real or just fooling. They said that after doing the big screen version of their Comedy Central cartoon "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" (and getting an Oscar nomination for best song), they vowed never to do another movie because it was such a hassle. But, now they're spending their summer doing a $32 million movie for Paramount Pictures, "Team America: World Police," set to come out Oct. 15 and Stone says, "We're not sure how it's going to end."
Parker and Stone stumbled across the campy 1960s "Thunderbirds" British TV series, which is now on DVD and is performed completely using marionettes. The series depends on big explosions and rocket ships manned by
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