I am not sure if this is a cliche exactly, but I noticed a pattern of Team America professing their feelings for one another during the battle scenes. Starting with the first scene in France when the guy proposes to Lisa right before he gets killed to the last scene when Joe is finally able to tell Sarah he loves her as they are battling the "leopards," the characters tend to let their emotions get the best of them at the most inappropriate times. I might be off the mark, but I think Trey Parker and Matt Stone are doing a few things with this pattern: making fun of the sappy chick flicks that American audiences (typically female, but not always) get caught up in and satirizing the ridiculous way that Americans prioritize issues. Some of the lines that the characters use remind me of scenes from Dawson's Creek ("maybe feelings are feelings because we can't control them")- except Team America is saying this while fighting terrorists and attempting to save the world. Clearly their minds are not on their jobs. As far as prioritizing issues, Americans tend to get caught up in celebrity gossip and unimportant relationship trivia while there are much more serious problems in the world. Team America is illustrating how unproductive and possibly dangerous it is for the United States to be eliminating evil on a global scale while the majority of the population is self-absorbed and out of touch with what is actually going on.