# "South Park" 3/19/08: Britney's New Look **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081 "2008-03-20T15:51:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/21 "2008-03-22T03:08:26Z")
Yeah, this is a South Park episode I’ll probably never watch again, as are about 10% of the episodes that have aired so far. I get the feeling that the writers wanted to do a Britney Watch-themed episode, but weren’t sure where to go with it, and had NO IDEA how to end it until the last 24 hours. So where is the doper discussion about how much of your head you can blow off and still continue living in real life? What if you followed it up with a hemicorporectomy and amputation of both arms? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/22 "2008-03-22T03:23:51Z")
The connection to the historical sacrificing of young women was the point. Good crops require a human sacrifice. We still do it but we drive them into killing themselves with excessive adoration and the pressure of endless following and flash photography. It was not as compelling a theme as some others. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/23 "2008-03-22T03:32:42Z")
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist] Maybe _Wicker Man_ and _The Lottery_? I haven’t seen either in years. [/QUOTE] _The Lottery_ (1969) is viewable in two parts on YouTube. After seeing this episode, I just had to see _The Lottery_ again. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/24 "2008-03-22T06:41:21Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] The [mostly] headless Britney really squicked me out for some reason [/QUOTE] Yeah, me too, and I’m usually not all that squickable. I’ve always been a huge South Park fan but I turned it off at about the time her manager showed up at the hospital. I don’t remember any other time I turned off an episode because I just didn’t want to see any more of it. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/25 "2008-03-22T17:09:29Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] So where is the doper discussion about how much of your head you can blow off and still continue living in real life? What if you followed it up with a hemicorporectomy and amputation of both arms? [/QUOTE] Kinda reminds me of that headless chicken from a while back who wasn’t entirely decapitated and they fed him with a little eye dropper. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/26 "2008-03-22T17:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Kinda reminds me of that headless chicken from a while back who wasn’t entirely decapitated and they fed him with a little eye dropper. [/QUOTE] [Mike](http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.html). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/27 "2008-03-22T19:22:18Z")
For whatever it’s worth, or says about me…_I_ thought it was great. Seriously, I don’t think I’ve laughed that much in weeks. At _least_ weeks. BTW…what was with that sculpture garden that Kyle ran into? Movie reference? Real-world landmark? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/28 "2008-03-23T13:05:25Z")
Moderator notes: I’ve changed the thread title to reflect the actual title of the episode, since the prior title was a spoiler. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/29 "2008-03-23T17:59:16Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] What **was** that song they were singing/chanting in [last night’s episode](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney%27s_New_Look)? It seemed be evocative of [“Ave Satani,”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen#Music) the theme from _The Omen,_ but the melody and, so far as I could make out, the lyrics were entirely different. [/QUOTE] According to the transcript at South Park Scriptorium, the words are Hetus. Alte omnebus. Virtu e poquebus. Rectus. Hoc honebus They are nonsensical Latin words that have no direct translation into English. [Ufabet](http://spscriptorium.com/index.htm) has every script from all 12 seasons of South Park online for anybody who needs to refer to specific episodes. The latest scripts are usually up 2-3 days after the episode first airs. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/30 "2008-03-26T05:06:16Z")
I liked Butters’ resolute declaration that he was a squirrel. But not much else. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/31 "2008-03-26T07:30:17Z")
The ep had some funny bits but it really was the most heavy handed episode I’ve ever seen - pretty obnoxiously so at some points. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081/32 "2008-03-26T07:41:42Z")
I had a really hard time looking at the Brittany with 2/3’s of her head gone. But they did make me laugh several times. Definitely one of the creepier episodes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-park-3-19-08-britneys-new-look/442081.md?page=1)