.....we wouldn't have Team America
.....we wouldn't have Team America
LOL! My nephew is a big South Park fan and loved the movie Team America, as did I. But I had to explain to him that one of the reasons that I found it so funny was that as a kid in the ‘60’s, I watched Thunderbirds and Stingray. He had no idea that this was where the SP guys got their inspiration for Team America, the use of marionettes and had never seen Thunderbirds.
I had to send him clips from YouTube to convince him that the show was real and that it was produced by Brits:
Of course there was no explicit "Supermarionation" sex scenes back then…. : ),
Of interest:
The Making Of Thunderbirds The Documentary
This documentary actually shows how really advanced they were in back then in model making and in filming the special effects. I have to wonder if George Lucas didn’t learn a few things from watching the Thunderbirds as a kid…