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"Britney's New Look" is episode 1202 (#169) of the animated series South Park. It was broadcast on March 19, 2008.[1]
Plot
Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Butters are bored out of their minds while watching a Democratic Party debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama with Randy when the show is interrupted by a news bulletin: Britney Spears has been spotted in South Park, and a man has been paid $100,000 for a photo of her urinating on a ladybug. The kids (and Randy) are so excited by Britney's latest PR disaster that they don't notice Senator Clinton making a spectacularly racist remark when the debate coverage resumes.
The boys decide to stage a photograph of her "crapping" on a squirrel (actually Butters in costume). Butters opposes this idea, saying that Britney's been through enough and that they should leave Britney alone, but they refuse to listen to him. They pass the security at the "Komfort Inn", at which she is staying, by claiming to be her children.
Spears is elated that her "children" have come to see her and appears to come out of her depression for a brief moment. Once she realizes that they are not her kids, however, she falls in deeper than before. The boys tell Butters to get next to her, but he coldly refuses. Annoyed, they request that Spears "just flash us your crotch or something." Finally overwhelmed by the constant harassment and jokes, she attempts suicide by shooting herself in the head with a shotgun. The boys are shocked: both Cartman and Butters run away, the latter accusing them of killing her, and Stan and Kyle stand staring in the suite until security comes by.
Miraculously, Spears survives. Guilt-ridden, Kyle and Stan visit her in hospital to apologize, telling themselves that they should have left her alone, just as Butters advised. When her manager shows up, he stuns the boys by saying "First you shaved your head, and now this!" When one of the paparazzi breaks through the window, Spears's manager manages to sneak her and the boys out the back into his car, but the paparazzi chases them. They escape to her recording studio, where she is made to record a comeback song, although Stan and Kyle insist that this will only make matters worse. She later performs at the MTV Video Music Awards, where the crowd nitpicks at her "flaws". Stan and Kyle seem to be the only people who notice she is missing 2/3 of her head (one critic says she's obviously lip-syncing her songs and Stan disgustedly says "She doesn't have any lips!") and are finally sympathetic to her wretched condition.
The boys decide that they need to help Britney and devise a plan to take her to the North Pole by train to escape from it all. Kyle diverts the paparazzi by switching hats with Spears and eventually confronts them for abusing her, pointing out that she is no longer in any condition to handle it and that she might die. To Kyle's horror, they explain that she "has to die" and begin singing in loud semi-Latin chanting.
A narrator announces Stan's mission to bring Britney to the North Pole. The train engineer notices Spears on his train — he has a picture of a camel's toe which is supposed to resemble her cameltoe — and stops at a village site where the paparazzi, villagers and Kyle are waiting.
The villagers explain to the boys that ritual human sacrifice is needed for a good corn harvest but that, in modern, more civilized times, people prefer to drive their sacrifices to suicide rather than stoning them to death. The crowd overwhelms Spears and proceeds to somehow photograph her to death, leaving Stan and Kyle in shock.
Months later, South Park residents comment on the good corn harvest while at the supermarket. A newsflash appears on TV, informing the townspeople that Miley Cyrus (star of Hannah Montana) is quickly becoming a major superstar. The shoppers in the supermarket see her as their next target and begin singing in Latin again. Stan and Kyle give up reasoning with them and reluctantly join in the singing.
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