June 30- July 6 Puke Week!: Throwing up isn’t very funny, but making your internet friends watch a puke movie is!

I always say the one line — well, many of the lines, but this one line — when Gary Johnston throws up non-stop after he hits rock bottom. Someone yells, “You threw away your life!” and for some reason, it’s the way it’s said — more yelled — that always makes me laugh.

Directed by Trey Parker, who wrote it with Matt Stone and Pam Brady, this takes the creator of South Park into the world of Supermarionation. After watching Thunderbirds, they wondered if an adult movie could be made of it. There was one getting made, which surprised them, and they were even more weirded out that it was live action. There was a rumor that they wanted to make the script from The Day After Tomorrow, got turned down and ended up making this.

This movie took 270 puppets, which were made by the Chiodo Brothers, the same guys we all know and love from Killer Klowns from Outer Space and Critters. Stone would call this time — working with more than thirty marionette operators at a time — as the “worst time of my life” and Parker agreed, saying it was “the hardest thing they’d ever done.”

Team America polices the world. Made up of psychologist Lisa, Carson, the psychic Sarah, Joe and martial artist actor hater Chris, they are led by Spottswoode. After a mission gone wrong costs Carson — Lisa’s fiancee — his life, they have to add a new member, Broadway actor Gary. As they work to defeat Kim Jong Il and his army of terrorists, they are also opposed by Alec Baldwin and the Film Actors Guild.

Sure, that’s a basic description. There’s so much in this movie, like George Clooney being the enemy when he was the man who helped get South Park on the air. A puppet sex scene so intense that it got the movie an NC-17 (Parker said of dealing with the MPAA, “They said it can’t be as many positions, so we cut out a couple of them. We love the golden shower, but I guess they said no to that. But I just love that they have to watch it. Seriously, can you imagine getting a videotape with just a close-up of a puppet asshole, and you have to watch it?”). Celebrities being abused — Sean Penn wrote a letter signed “a sincere fuck you, Sean Penn.” — and murdered. 37 uses of the word fuck. Bill Pope shooting this with anthromorphic lenses. A Michael Moore puppet stuffed with ham and blown up. A cockroach in the body of a dictator. Man, just writing about it makes me want to watch it all over again.

Also: That major puke scene.