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How Britney Stole 'Your Mother'
Posted by Seth at 7:19 AM on March 21, 2008
After the chilling lessons of last night's South Park, in which paparazzi and handlers carried on mistreating the surviving bottom-third of Britney Spears's blown off head as if nothing at all was wrong, we thought we'd take this opportunity to instead focus on some of the more exciting and positive things going on in her life. For one, Britney released an album this year! It's called "Blackout," it's available on iTunes, and mark our words when we tell you, this thing is going to pop up on more year-end Top Ten lists than you can shake a stick at. (We wish we were even kidding.) Moving along:
After the chilling lessons of
Have you checked out her latest video? It's some mangajapanimation thing, and, like, way cooler than anything Christina Aguilera or Mandy Moore put out this year. (We'd add Mariah Carey to that list, but then she went and put Kenneth the Page and a freaking unicorn in her video, which pretty much trumps everything.) And then there is her much touted cameo on How I Met Your Mother, for which a promotional clip was posted to CBS's website today. Let's count the things right with her performance:
1. Looks pretty.
2. No accent.
3. Remembers lines.
4. Good eye contact.
5. Nice comic pacing.
6. Uses stage direction as mere jumping-off point.
7. Resists rolling eyes while delivering hacky sitcom dialogue paying off some tired recurring joke about star's moustache.
Britney, ladies and gentlemen, is back.
- How I Met Your Mother [CBS]
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Leviticus_71
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
I'm wondering the same thing brecht. It's hard to find the funny in a show full of powerfully unfunny situations.
Leviticus_71
brechtgirl
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
The canned laughter is really unsettling.
Was there a joke in that clip?
brechtgirl
Benovite
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
She puts the phone down awkwardly though, you can hear the crashing sound.
-1
Benovite
RocketRockit
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
I eat my words. Good for her.
RocketRockit
bonniegrrl
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
can't wait to see the full episode!
Her hair is even acting better!
bonniegrrl
SteamyMcFirecrotch
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
I hear her next video trumps Mariah's and features dancing giant fucking panda bears! (Furries everywhere, rejoice!)
SteamyMcFirecrotch
fembot
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
go brit brit
fembot
mccauller=texaspride.
Posted 11:19 AM 21/3/08
Okay, Britney. Cameos where you're totally cute and not cracked and Cheetoed out? YES. Adnan and Lufti=NO.
It's not that hard, okay, sugar?
mccauller=texaspride.
heidiho
Posted 12:10 PM 21/3/08
Did she just say "Tong Selleck?"
heidiho
TryThisAtHome
Posted 2:09 PM 21/3/08
That is thankfully the first and last HIMYM I will ever see. Can I have my 21 seconds back, please?
TryThisAtHome
yvonnjanae
Posted 4:26 PM 21/3/08
I love HIMYM. Please don't mess it up for me Britney
yvonnjanae
UnklStinky
Posted 6:47 PM 21/3/08
The same dunderheads who bought -- and continue to buy -- Britney's records are obviously the target market at which CBS aims its craptastic programming. Terrible meets Terribler. Enjoy, suckas!
Wake me when Nick Lowe appears on an episode of "Flight of the Conchords."
UnklStinky
moondawg9
Posted 7:56 PM 21/3/08
She looks so much like herself from a few years back I am wondering if the paparazzi version of Britney has been some strange fever dream.
Or maybe there is a Bizarro Britney amongst us?
I will reserve full judgment till I see her performance at this year's MTV Music Awards.
Since you only see her from the waste up in this clip, could be an elaborate puppet controlled by Frank Oz.
moondawg9
Tenno
Posted 4:03 AM 22/3/08
It's power of the camera adding 10 much needed pounds.
Oh wait. This isn't Amy Winehouse.
Whatever, she's looking amazingly normal here. I hope it keeps up, I'm getting really tired of train wrecks, even when its artists I neither listen or masturbate too. It gives me hope.
Tenno
hhpeterson13
Posted 5:28 AM 22/3/08
Hey, the girl can do some light comedy. She was great on SNL a couple of times. My favorite was Britney as the butter-churning girl at the Colonial Williamsburg or Jamestown exhibit w/Jimmy Fallon and Rachel Drach playing the South Bostonites who are always inappropriately making out.
hhpeterson13