Baseketball is such a guilty pleasure. Its so stupid. That line “i swear if you guys rip on me 13 or 14 more time’s im out of here” gets me every single time
@@jamstonjulian6947 I do remember it well for the fact that Bob Uecker and Dale Earnhardt Sr both appeared as guests. Bob called the games, and Dale was the taxi driver.
Fun fact: the plot point of Gerald being a troll in South Park season 20 originated from an idea trey and Matt had for a movie or musical about a normal man being a troll in secret. I’d honestly like to see the idea revisited someday, has a lot of potential as a movie.
I don’t know a single person who uses, “America, Fuck Yeah” unironically. I don’t know if you know this, but here in America it’s cool and hip to be anti American, and someone who actually has even just a little pride in their country is demonized because people can’t tell the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
Yet at the same time, the movie seems to be somewhat apologetic to American militarism. Like the villains are anti war activists and celebrities can be seen as “bad faith” representation. Like Team America was shown to be “good guy who needs to learn” than criticism of it. By contrast, anti war side wasn’t shown with any positive sides or provide lessons that heroes need to learn. Keep in mind, it was written in 2003 and Matt and Trey had libertarian bias. Then again, it was more well written enough to be assumed as parody.
Team America is probably the closest to making a South Park product featuring the same satire, comedy and celebrity ribbin’ while at the same not being a South Park product.
True. I feel like the main difference between Team America and South Park is that Team America is missing the emotional depth that makes South Park great. Idk I just couldn’t get connected to the main dude in Team America. But maybe that was intentional since a lot of the humor in that movie is just laughing at how ridiculous everything is lol
@@usmaanilyas8639Yeah that was the whole point lmao you weren’t supposed to connect to the main character in Team America. He’s literally the cookie-cutter action hero you see in every war film. The whole thing is a parody of war movies I love it sm
I love the fact that Team America came out the same year as the live action thunderbirds, and feels more like a more faithful adaptation to the series than movie ever was.
Heres an extra fun fact about Trey Parker: Trey Parker voiced the villain in Despicable me 3 so his daughter could watch something appropriate with him in it
Mark mentioned that he wonders what a South Park fan stumbling across these films would think, and I found them all about 15 years ago and loved all of them. Also fun fact: In Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Kenny's heart is accidentally replaced with a baked potato. This is another reference to Cannibal, where the song mentioned with the ending jingle has the lyrics "my heart's as full as a baked potato."
He uses the baked potato analogy several times over the course of that song; the charm of Shpadoinkle (the song in question) is the amateur "first draft/placeholder" vibe.
I watched them all a couple years ago and enjoyed them all. Team America is clearly the best, coming from a South Park fan, but there is fun to be had in all of them.
From Mormon musicals to owing a restaurant to a weed company to Kendrick Lamar what a career. Also I like how Matt Stone's character in Cannibal has the same hat as Kyle his most prominent role in South Park.
Plus, Cannibal is a Troma film, as a New Jerseyan, Lloyd Kaufman's Troma put out some great B-movies. Plus, they were the 1st to do an English dub of "My Neighbor Totoro" in 1994... (Fox Video, now 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment, released the dub exclusively on VHS here in America, until Disney re-dubbed it in 2003 for a limited edition DVD release.)
The whole plot of Orgazmo falls apart when you learn Mormon Temple weddings are free and the guy wouldn’t have needed money for it in the first place. I thought Matt and Trey knew their Mormons? Sheesh!
Additional fact, in case anyone wanted to know. Team America's score was produced by Harry Gregson Williams. While he's produced a lot of music for a lot of films, he also produced the music for Metal Gear Solid 2 through Ground Zeroes. So, yes. the Snake Eater theme was scored by the same guy as Team America.
I’m finding out so much shit from this video, and your comment was the icing on the cake. I would have never connected the dots. I love mgs2, so that blew my mind
Team America is one of my favorite comedy films of all time. I love how unfiltered and unhinged the jokes are, and I don't even need to mention how iconic "America, Fuck Yeah" is as a theme song.
One thing I took away from Team America is that it took me the longest time to realize that the musical "Lease" was a parody of the real-life musical "Rent", which explains all the AIDS...
I'm one of the very few (only?) that have Team America as my favorite movie of all time. My top 3 will always be TA, Holy Grail, and Anchorman... it's weird even to me TA beats the Southpark movie by a hair even tho that's 5th alltime to me. Yes I'm basic af to comedy. F&ck you Kyle, my childhood kicked a$$.
Fun fact the opening shot with the fake smaller puppets legit had a executive pissed saying they fucked us only to reveal the budget was spent and not wasted
Like said with the Seth Mcfarlane movies vid, It’s always fascinating to see creators who you mainly associate with animation branch out to live action projects, whether it be from Brad Bird or Mike Judge.
Either that or seing Voice actors be in something that isn't aniamted like David hayter in the guyver movies or Eric buaza in the banana spilts movie if that counts
Legend has it, the 'Indian' chief actually is the owner of a sushi restaurant Trey liked. Trey asked him if he wanted to be in the movies because he figured they'd get free food out of it.
To answer your question on the airplane “Braniff” company logo, I believe that stopped showing up on the show by mid-season 10 (aside from its first two episodes). Braniff was eventually folded into the very short lived Parker-Stone productions, and then two years later into SP’s current day production studio South Park Studios.
The Unsolved Mysteries bit in Baseket Ball is probably my favorite bit, "I don't care if he fucking hung himself" cuts to some fat middle age man hanging in a closet and then he took a puff from a cigarette
Remember Trey and Matt made a short film at Universal Studios Hollywood? Yeah look it up. It’s called “Your Studio and You” and they are a lot of cameos no one would expect.
I love the interview where Trey and Matt talk about how Sean Penn sent them a letter but it was addressed to the public instead of them. The irony of that is insane considering the way he is portrayed in Team America
I was looking for the cannibal comments lmao the songs are burned in my head from childhood and I had no idea it was made by them. What a Spadoingal day
I just finished watching the Cannibal! segment and since it's honestly one of my favorite movies, I wanna say some things in its defense: I don't mind many of its "low-budget" aspects because 1) I personally have a fondness for things like that as I find it can really add charm and fun when used in the right ways/circumstances, and 2) as you noted, Trey and his friends made this movie while they were still in college. In COLLEGE. That blows my friggin' mind. For what's basically a student film, Cannibal! is really impressive. It still has flaws (sound issues, costume issues, etc.), but I think this aspect highlights all the things that the film succeeds at. And it succeeds at a lot! I was surprised to hear that you didn't like most of the songs. I find Cannibal!'s soundtrack to be fun and catchy all throughout (While I don't dislike any of the songs, the only one I think is a little slow or "drags" a bit is Polly's love song: one of the ones that you liked the most). And as for your comment about the film taking place in "nondescript fields"? That reminds me of something else I appreciate: its location shooting. This is a story about a group of people who tried to travel through Utah and Colorado. Because Trey and his friends were going to school in Colorado, they were able to film in environments similar to what the characters would have traveled through! AND they actually filmed in a location where Alferd Packer had 100% been: the courthouse where Packer was tried. I admire that dedication to detail! Finally, there are all the little things about the movie that make it so charming in my eyes, like the fact that Trey Parker's dad plays the judge at Packer's trial, or the opening credits that play during a medley of the soundtrack (referencing a tradition of other movie musicals). There's really a lot to love about Cannibal!, and while I respect that it's not your cup of tea, I hope that other people aren't deterred from checking it out for themselves.
7:55 Not true, Dian didn't just do a "single voice" in South Park. Along with Satan's boyfriend Chris, he also played a game show announcer (not to be confused with the gameshow host) in the season 2 episode "Cow Days" and he played a shopping mall Mr Hankey in the season 2 episode "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson!"
I'm not going to lie, I kinda hoped you WOULD mention Despicable Me 3, not because I'm a diehard fan, but because I don't plan on watching it anytime soon, and I enjoy your commentary.
I watched BASEketball for the first time like a month ago. It's fantasticly bad but amazingly great. It has so many visual gags that aren't acknowledged its great. Like when they start getting paid note that fro boy starts wearing more and more jewelry every scene it's great.
What's bad about baseketball? That movie just works, its a comedy which is actually funny. I don't get how its bad since it accomplishes everything it set out to accomplish as a comedy movie.
@dingola_ Yeah but it was still very obvious that the movies didn't have anything to do with South Park, just the creators. It was aaking a question. This new title is one step away from that "From the creators of South Park!" Shit.
After a recent rewatch of both, I honestly like Cannibal: The Musical more than Orgasmo. I think it’s because Orgasmo had a decent budget and ultimately falls short. It could’ve been so much better. With Cannibal, you can tell they are young and working with intense limitations.
i remember when my dad worked as theatre security and absolutely loved the book of mormon, but he’d never tell me anything about it cuz i was too young lol
Man when I saw all this at 12, my DNA changed lol I was obsessed with south park and the creators because I was banned from watching it until my parents split up. My dad hated the show. And I want to make my cartoon one day so they're one of those people give me hope
The complete lack of mention for Thunderbirds in the entire Team America segment was great for retention in genuinely leaving me wondering whether Mark straight up didn't know the inspiration or if it was just not mentioned due to obviousness/irrelevance
It's almost embarrassing how kind of obsessed with BASEketball I was, if I could bury every single time I've quoted this movie including just yesterday, I would, and it even got me into one of my favorite bands Reel Big Fish
Couple years back I watched the first episode of South Park and fell in love. I then proceeded to watch the entire show, the banned episodes and the movie. I then watched Baseketball and and Team America and loved both of them. South Park is now my favorite adult animated show of all time and I have a Towlie plush to prove it. Second is Futurama which I proceeded to watch after all that.
Stanley's Cup was not one of the most hated episodes, it's over of the most beloved. Can online critics please stop trying to rewrite entertainment history based off their own biases?
I remember being 9 when Team America came out; I knew of South Park, but hadn't seen more than a few episodes at that point. For some reason, when I saw the trailers, I thought the villain was Mr Garrison (they have the same glasses, and when you don't hear him speak long enough for the accent to show, it's the same voice). By the time it was out on DVD and I saw it I knew better.
Cannibal the Musical is a masterpiece. You take that back! You're right, it's rough, but its so endearing. Every time that a group of friends and I watch it, it's a hit.
It’s such a fun movie & so silly. I laugh my ass off & love seeing them in their start as filmmakers before they ever made the show that would propel their names to glory
Interesting thing is that although I watched all of South Park twice, saw Book and Mormon live, watched Team America, and even checked out That’s My Bush a while back (it’s pretty underrated), I’ve still never seen Baseketball.
I love what you said at 23:12 to the end, because I see Matt and Trey as Two of my icons. I inspire to be just like them, once I finish my last year of high school, and go to a college like they went to for film and music, I wanna make a animated tv show like them I wanna make movies and stuff like them, I don’t wanna just do it for the comedy sake although there will be lots of it. I wanna do what they do talk about politics or economic issues happening in the real world, while putting a comedy spin on it now I don’t wanna just copy them completely, I’ll have my own way of doing what I do.
7:56 He had more than one role on South Park. He was in the "Cow Days" episode and he also voiced the guy in the Mr. Hankey costume on the episode where the kids visit Cartman's family for Christmas. I knew this off the top of my head, you couldn't be bothered to check IMDB?
@@sketchydude8431 He literally stopped the video to make a joke about it. The only thing missing was a record scratch. He's supposed to be such a fan and he was pretty proud of this little piece of trivia... that he got wrong. 🙄
@ekahnoman7331 Oh wow, you know how jokes work Seriously, that's what your complaint is about? "Wow, you said he voiced one role, when he actually voiced 2 ROLES!!!!" VIDEO RUINED!!!!" I thought the "Uhhmm actually" jokes were an exaggeration but you proved me wrong.
I know BaseKetball isn't loved much either, but I still enjoy the hell out of it since I first saw it... as a 7-8 year old around when it came out on VHS. XD Plus, gave us "Stevvveee.... PERRY!" along with the Reel Big Fish cover of "Take on Me".
Oh Mark, you have no idea how happy this video makes me! As a huge fan of the channel and someone obsessed with Trey and Matt’s work, I am so happy to see you covering their other creations! I saw the Book of Mormon musical live on broadway about a month ago and it was one of the best days of my life, no joke.
Seeing this made me realize i did see BASEketball at some point on tv, as an kid at an point i did not watch South Park yet, and i loved that movie I think South Park was also not running for long yet at that point, the movie is very old now
I had a bootleg copy of Orgazmo a couple of weeks before I actually saw an episode of South Park(I didn't have cable but I shopped at a cool/sketchy comic shop with a crazy bootleg video section)
Cannibal the musical is something I have a soft spot in my heart for because you can tell just by watching it that it was a film made by buddies or giving a film school group a budget! Also I have since then incorporated Shpadoinkle into my vocabulary.
Quentin Tarantino cited Team America as one of his top 20 favorite films he's seen that have been made since he started making movies (1992), that list was made in 2009.
Team America’s puppet style was genius considering how much I am a fan of the Original Thunderbirds series. Only Matt and Trey would have made a movie like that work with their comedy.
The script: The creators of South Park, Matt Stone & Trey Parkrrrrrrrrr Are bar far some of the most succesful names in animationnnnnn Film an televisiunnnnnnn Under peforming movieeeeeeeeee biggest animated shows in historyyyyyyyyyy And so on for 24+ minutes
