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“Britney's New Look”
South Park episode
Britney Spears, preparing to shoot herself.
Episode no.	Season 12 Episode 169
Written by	Trey Parker
Directed by	Trey Parker
Production no.	1202
Original airdate	March 19, 2008
Season 12 episodes
South Park - Season 12 March 12, 2008 – TBA
Tonsil Trouble Britney's New Look Major Boobage Canada on Strike! Eek, A Penis! Over Logging Super Fun Time

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"Britney's New Look" is the second episode of season 12 of South Park and the Comedy Central's animated comedy series South Park. It was broadcast on March 19, 2008. The episode is a loose parody of "The Lottery".

[edit] Plot

Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Butters are watching a Democratic Party debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama with Randy when the show is interrupted by a news bulletin that Britney Spears was spotted in South Park, and that a man was paid $100,000 for a photo of the celebrity urinating on a ladybug.

The boys decide to stage a photograph of her "crapping" on a squirrel (actually Butters in a costume). Butters opposes this idea, saying that they should leave Spears alone, but they don't listen to him. They pass "Komfort Inn" security by claiming to be her children. Once in her room, they tell Butters to get next to her, but he angrily refuses. Annoyed, the boys asked Spears to 'just flash us your crotch or something'. Spears, finally overwhelmed by the constant harassment attempts suicide by shooting herself in the head with a shotgun. The boys are shocked by this, and both Cartman and Butters run away, leaving Stan and Kyle in the suite until security comes by.

Miraculously she survives, but is missing her head above the lower jaw. Guilt-ridden, Kyle and Stan visit her in the hospital to apologize, saying to themselves they should have left her alone like Butters said before. When her manager shows up, one of the paparazzi breaks through the window. Britney's manager manages to sneak Britney and the boys out the back into his car. The paparazzi chase them in the style reminiscent of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but they escape to her recording studio to record a comeback song. She then performs at the MTV Video Music Awards where the crowd nitpicks her 'flaws'.

The boys decide that they need to help Britney and devise a plan to take her to the North Pole by train to escape. Kyle diverts the paparazzi by switching hats with Spears. He confronts the paparazzi for abusing the celebrity, saying she might die on that, but they explain that Spears must die on it, and begin singing in loud semi-Latin chanting, reminiscent of the theme from The Omen.

A narrator announces Stan's mission to bring Britney to the north pole (in the voice of Jimmy Durante ala "Frosty the Snowman.") The train engineer identifies Spears on his train, 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 in modern times, people prefer to drive the sacrifice to suicide rather than stoning them to death. The crowd overwhelms Spears and proceed to somehow photograph her to death, leaving Stan and Kyle in shock. This segment of the episode is closely based on Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery". The story is about the selection and stoning of a sacrifice for a better harvest season.

Months later, South Park residents comment on the good corn harvest while at the supermarket. A newsflash appears on the 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 the next target and begin singing in Latin again. Stan and Kyle give up any hope of reasoning with the adults and reluctantly join in on the singing.