History Film / TeamAmericaWorldPolice

** The creator of Thunderbirds liked this movie (except for the profanity in the dialogue) and said that it is FAR closer in spirit to Thunderbirds than the live action Thunderbirds movie was.

** The film's spoof of ''Film/TheMatrix''-style bullet time is especially noteworthy because director of photography for ''Team America: World Police'' Bill Pope was also the DP on all three ''Matrix'' films.

** Creator/SamuelLJackson taunts Chris to "[[Film/TheMatrix Stop trying to hit me and hit me]]!"

* {{Slurpasaur}}: See Mega Neko. Also, a SharkPool is stocked with dogfish.

* {{Eagleland}}: Essentially, the whole movie's purpose is parodying both Boorish and Beautiful flavors of this trope represented by [[DestructiveSavior reckless]] and arrogant nature of Team America, and [[GoodIsImpotent naivete]] and self-righteous nature of Film Actors Guild.

* FakeOutOpening: the very first shot of the film features two ''very'' low-quality, stilted-looking marionettes. After a few seconds - just long enough for the viewer the realise the whole movie's going to look like that - they are revealed to be in-universe marionettes, being controlled by another character. The puppetry for the rest of the film has much higher production value (though is still deliberately coarse to some extent).

--->'''Kim Jong Il''': "You see, no {{Prince Charming}} rode in on a {{white stallion}} to save the day. This is the real world. '''I'm afraid your world is over!''' ''...in five minutes.''

* FakeOutOpening: the very first shot of the film features two ''very'' stilted-looking marionettes. Subverted in that these are revealed to be in-universe marionettes, being controlled by another character. The puppetry for the rest of the film has much higher production value (though is still deliberately coarse to some extent).

* FreezeFrameBonus: Lots of little details are hidden in the film's vehicles and locations; the streets in France are made out of miniature croissants, Carson carries a fingernail clipper on his harness, a woman in Egypt carries goldfish in a basket on her head, and the Korean fighter jets have sailing-ship steering wheels and broken off gas pump handles in them, to name a few.

* BlackComedy: TooSoon for 9/11 or the perfect wakeup call for broken politics? You decide!
* BlackComedyRape[=/=]DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Chris' FreudianExcuse for why he hates actors. [[spoiler:He was molested and raped by the cast of ''Cats''.]]

--> ([[CrossesTheLineTwice Fuck Yeah!]])

** The filmmakers intentionally designed non-American locations to look like what Americans might assume those places to look like. All of France's monuments are within walking distance of each other, and citizens of Cairo all dress like they're in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''.

** Lisa is declared to be the team's psychologist. Apart from a single line of psychobabble, she largely sticks to shooting guns.

* MistakenlyAttackedMole: Gary, the newest member of the counterintelligence team, goes undercover to try to uncover the terrorist plot. While undercover, his teammates mistake him for a an actual terrorist despite his Paper-Thin Disguise and nearly kill him during a ChaseScene.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Baxter doesn't show up and is never even brought up again after [[spoiler: Michael Moore destroys the Team America HQ,]] the fact there's no confirmation of his death leaves his fate ambiguous.

** The "Islamic" terrorists' vocabulary consists of: durka, durk, ha, sherpa, Allah, Muhammad, and jihad. One of the streets is Cairo is named "Bakalakadaka."

** Whenever they change location, a subtitle points out its distance to America. "Paris: 2,258 miles from America." (It's actually the distance to New York).[[note]]to split hairs, the distance between Paris and New York is actually 3,627 miles. ArtisticLicenceGeography? [[/note]].

* ShowDontTell: Parodied. Sarah and Losa are supposed to be good friends, but hardly share a scene. To "compensate", they just awkwardly say [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry "I treasure your friendship"]] at the end of every conversation. [[spoiler:Chris says it to Gary at the end, too.]]