The Terror. The Terror.

I was visiting yesterday with some friends, and one of them put on the first ten minutes of Team America: World Police. (For those who haven’t seen it, the first ten minutes are the brilliant part of the movie, and after that it’s just so-so, except for Kim Jong Il’s plaintive little song halfway through.)

Imagine my terror when I saw, parodied in the film, some dialog I had just written for my characters a couple days earlier. Parker and Stone had parodied one of my scenes years before I’d even written it!

What they had parodied, of course, was some dreadfully cliche’d dialog, dialog which I hadn’t realized was so completely dreadfully cliche when I wrote it.

Rewrites are now under way. I am trying not to panic.