Team America World Police?
Since I'm late in posting, I figured I'd try to post something that hasn't been mentioned...(which doesn't mean it will be anything brilliant, unfortunately.)
To me, the foremost cliche in Team America World Police is the title. While America has long been considered a world mediator (oftentimes meddling unwanted and uninvited in conflicts), it certainly hasn't been something our country has chosen to pride itself upon. We don't go around cheering for ourselves and our unnecessary input in world affairs. We accept the idea that our actions as a nation have been deemed "policing," but we are not proud of it. While we struggle to make domestic decisions regarding health care, education, and immigration, liberals have a hard time prioritizing arms build-up and increased spending on our military, which would function to help us continue to "police the world." As far as meddling outside of the US, we find ourselves in these situations and typically have to apologize or admit regret and poor decision making. I think the title of this puppet show is ironic, satirical, and an apparent display of a cliche that we're proud to fight off world terrorists and save the planet. Of course 4 people can't save the world, but America thinks it can, and will. Regardless of subplots, random hook-ups, disgusting puking, and amazing puppets, the whole moral of Team America World Police is a re-enactment of long-held untruths--that America has the resources, intelligence, and answers to the entire world's problems.

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