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Trivia

• The episode references Britney Spears' personal problems and the media scrutiny she faced in 2007 and 2008.
• The storage closet at the train station is the same as the one from "Cartoon Wars Part II".
• Paris Hilton, who appeared in "Stupid Spoiled W**** Video Playset", appears in the crowd at the MTV Music Awards, which could imply that she managed to escape Mr. Slave's ass that she got stuck in at the end of the said episode.
• Britney Spears previously appeared in "Christian Rock Hard" as one of the musical artists on strike due to the illegal download of their music. She's also referred to in "Stupid Spoiled W**** Video Playset"; in the titles of Season Seven; as one of Shelly's favorite artists; in an alternate scene for "Cherokee Hair Tampons" where Cartman notes that he will make her his love slave, paying her ten million dollars (with the money he would receive had Kyle paid him for his kidney); and in "AWESOM-O" when Cartman dresses as her.
• Though Kenny does not appear in this episode, his parents appear briefly near the end taking photographs of Britney with everyone else. The same also goes for multiple of the boys' classmates that do not appear in this episode.
• Cartman does not re-appear after the scene where Britney shoots herself, nor does Butters, the latter outside of a photo that Tracy shows later on.
• The woman who says "Come on, hurry up" while the crowd takes pictures of Britney Spears, is Thomas's mother who appeared in "Le Petit Tourette".
• The real Britney Spears was not fond of episode, even though the point was about defending her instead of mocking her. She was so upset, she once demanded that Family Guy make an episode the mocks South Park with her as a guest star. However, creator Seth MacFarlane refused due to not wanting to start a feud, especially since Trey Parker and Matt Stone deeply hate Family Guy already.

References to Popular Culture

• In the scene where Britney's manager and the boys secretly get into the manager's car, his car is an animated copy of a 2008 Mercedes E-class. The logo on the front is a four-point star, rather than the actual three-point star Mercedes use as a logo. This was most likely done for copyright reasons.
• Lieutenant Dawson made a no-lines cameo appearance among the crowd who waited for Britney Spears in the small town in the end of the episode.
• The news reporter at the beginning of the episode closely resembles Walter Cronkite.
• The Wicker Man - References to the harvest and sacrifices for farm crops are inspired by this film from 1973.
• The Lottery- The plot elements of this episode are taken from the infamous horror short story, including where everyone is taking pictures of her while in the real story they are throwing rocks at the person who gets picked. The story was written by Shirley Jackson.
• Frosty The Snowman - Helping Britney escape from the mob on a train parallels the way the children helped Frosty get to the North Pole so he would not melt. The narrator has a Jimmy Durante-esque voice.
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers. - When the reporters are chasing Britney out of the hospital one of them howls in homage to the pod people from this 1978 remake to the 1956 original film.
• The Omen - The mob chants a similar to the spooky chant of the soundtrack from this 1976 horror film.
• MTV Video Music Awards - The performance mimics Britney Spears at her comeback at the VMAs in 2007. Many critics and viewers proclaimed it a disaster.
• The constant saying of sentences such as "leave Britney alone" is a reference to internet celebrity Cara Cunningham (famous known as Chris Crocker) YouTube video Leave Britney Alone which boosted his channel views and fame in 2007. Similar versions of the sentence would be used in "Canada on Strike".
• The clothing that Britney Spears is wearing while recording in the studio is the same schoolgirl uniform she wore in the music video for "...Baby One More Time".
• Instrumental versions of Britney Spears' songs can be heard in the episode:
  • Toxic - When she is recording in the studio
  • Gimme More - Heard when she is performing at the MTV Music Awards.
• The cameras at the end of the episode are all parodies of real life brands, including Zony (Sony), Manon (Canon), and Kujifilm (Fujifilm).
• A man taking pictures of Britney is wearing a shirt that has a logo similar to Nike's, which also says "JUST DO IT, NOW!", referring to their slogan "Just Do It".
• A presenter on TV at the end of the episode is on the show Entertainment Tonight (ET), who announces that Miley Cyrus is the world's next celebrity target.

Continuity

• This is the first appearance of Barack Obama.
• At the MTV Music awards, various musicians and actors from past episodes can be seen sitting at the tables:
  • R. Kelly
  • Michael Richards
  • Ben Affleck
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • P. Diddy
  • Kid Rock
  • Ron Zappolo
  • Nicole Kidman
  • John Travolta
  • Bono
  • Radiohead
  • Will Smith
  • Paris Hilton
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Angelina Jolie
  • Rick James
  • Travis Barker from Blink-182
  • Aaron Brown (Despite having to do nothing with music)
  • Chris Hansen
  • Vanna White
• The crowd which advances on Britney in the episode's climax contain several one-off characters among well-known ones.
• Recurring characters are seen in the mob:
  • Randy Marsh, Sharon Marsh, Stuart McCormick, Carol McCormick, Jimbo Kern, Thomas Tucker, Laura Tucker, Officer Barbrady, Principal Victoria, Mitch Murphy, Dr. Schwartz, Thomas Turner, Al Gore, Peter Nelson, Harrison Yates, Herbert Garrison, Mr. Mackey, Mrs. Streibel (though she is shown with a lime green shirt instead of her usual blue shirt), Hillary Clinton and Dr. Alphonse Mephesto.
• One-offs included:
  • The members of the Super Adventure Club from "The Return of Chef"
  • Irene, the city dump worker in "Casa Bonita"
  • Actor Gene Hackman who appeared in "Krazy K*******" (though he is missing his mustache)
  • Ronald, the clerk from "Le Petit Tourette".
  • Thomas's mother from "Le Petit Tourette".
  • The Exxoff tanker truck driver who drives into the Bloods at the Ribs -N- Gas to avoid Jimmy and Timmy from "Krazy K*******" (though he died in the explosion that followed the crash)
  • The band Radiohead who appeared in "Scott Tenorman Must Die"
  • Mrs. Garrison's girlfriend Allison from "D-Yikes!"
  • The big woman that Janet Garrison fights from "D-Yikes!"
  • Betsy, the woman with the WNBA jersey and tattoos from "D-Yikes!"
  • The day laborer with the New York Yankees hat and partial mustache from "D-Yikes!"
  • Then-President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"
  • The Hardly Boys's father from "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"
  • 911 Truth Webmaster from "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce"
  • Jenkins from "Make Love, Not Warcraft"
  • The Best Buy greeter from "Make Love, Not Warcraft"
  • Brian and Mike from "Free Willzyx" (despite the fact that one of them was shot dead)
  • The red-haired orca trainer from "Free Willzyx"
  • The leader of the Animal Liberation Front from "Free Willzyx"
  • The MC in "You Got F'd in the A"
  • Chief Runs With Premise's wife from "Red Man's Greed"
  • The Star Trek Nerds from "Fourth Grade"
  • One of the Napoleon Bakery pastry chefs from "Hell on Earth 2006" and "Freak Strike"
  • Leeroy and Earl from "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy"
  • A couple from "Cartoon Wars Part I"
  • Michael Richards from "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson"
  • The Hillbilly Brigade from "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson"
  • Coyote Brown, the comedian who calls out Randy at the Laugh Factory from "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson"
  • A bald African-American male who was in the audience during Randy's poetry reading from "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson"
  • Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak and Vanna White from "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson"
  • Jeff Goldblum from "Cancelled"
  • A female volunteer from "Up the Down Steroid"
  • Nut Gobbler from "Erection Day"
  • The African-American prostitute with red hair and green eye shadow from "Erection Day"
  • Butter's uncle and aunt, Bud Stotch and Nellie Stotch from "AWESOM-O"
  • The military general from "AWESOM-O"
  • The Catamount Pictures producer from "AWESOM-O"
  • Justacious, a member of P. Diddy's entourage from "Douche and Turd"
  • Bono's Butler from "More Crap"
  • CIA Director Alan Thompson from "The Snuke"
  • The Camp New Grace director and a staffer from "Cartman Sucks"
  • Pastor Philips from "Cartman Sucks"
  • Michael 's father from "Up the Down Steroid"
  • The Busy Beaver Truck Driver who pick ups Butters in "Butters' Very Own Episode"
  • A woman in a red bikini and cowboy hat from the pool party in "Guitar Queer-O"
  • A woman in a purple bikini with long black hair from the pool party in "Guitar Queer-O"
  • A man with black eyeglass frames and a dark grey sports coat from the pool party in "Guitar Queer-O"
  • Alex, the producer who hosted the pool party in "Guitar Queer-O" (though he does not have his tinted glasses and is wearing a different tie)
  • A firefighter with a mustache from "ManBearPig"
  • The Cave of the Winds gift shop cashier from "ManBearPig"
  • The bald psychic with a grey beard from "Cartman's Incredible Gift"
  • The psychic with a bowl cut and brown jacket from "Cartman's Incredible Gift"
  • The blonde female psychic with a green beret from "Cartman's Incredible Gift"
  • Jeffrey Maynard from "Helen Keller! The Musical"
  • Gary Harrison's mother from "All About Mormons"
• Also, a woman resembling Mrs. Stephenson who had a relationship with Ike in "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" could be seen wearing a coat similar to the one she wore to hide her identity. However, her coat and her hair were in different colors.
• Halfway through the episode, there is a news clip stating that animal control has captured a "giant squirrel" who thinks it is human (Butters, still in his costume). This is the third time Butters has been mistaken for an animal, the first two being in "Good Times with Weapons" and "Stupid Spoiled W**** Video Playset".
• Butters replaces Kenny for this episode, just like he did in Season Six when Kenny was killed "permanently." He also replaced Kenny two episodes later in "Canada on Strike".
• The same chanting of the townspeople can be heard in the episode "Damien", whenever there is a close up of Damien, Satan's son.
• The police officer holding back the paparazzi outside the hospital in Denver during the news report is, in fact, wearing a Chicago police uniform, much like the police in "A Million Little Fibers".

Goofs

• At the MTV awards, in the wide shot where the audience is watching the performance on stage, there are two copies of Tumon on the left side of the screen: one is sitting at the same table as Stan and Kyle, while the other is at the table directly behind them.

Hidden Visitors

• When Britney Spears is performing, one of the silhouette girls in the background is a hidden visitor.

Dubbing Changes

International Titles

Language	Title	Translation
Czech	Hon na Britney	Hunt for Britney
French	Le Nouveau Look de Britney	Britney's new look
German	Britney's neuer Look	Britney's new look
Hungarian	Britney új külseje	Britney's new look
Italian	Britney deve morire	Britney has to die
Polish	Nowy wizerunek Britney	Britney's new look
Portuguese (Brazil)	O novo visual da Britney	Britney's new look
Spanish (Latin America)	Nueva moda de Britney	Britney's new look
Spanish (Spain)	La nueva imagen de britney	Britney's new look
Ukrainian	Нова зовнішність Брітні (Nova zovnishnistʹ Britni)	Britney's new look

Common

• List of changes to the lyric of "love elation" which Britney attempted to sing at the recording studio:
  • Czech: Mám ráda chlast ("I like booze"), from Mám ráda slast ("I like pleasure").
  • French: Love érection ("Love erection")
  • Hungarian: Csodás pirkadat ("Wonderful dawn"), from Csodás pillanat ("Wonderful moment")
  • Italian: Gelosia d'amore ("Jealousy of love"), from Euforia d'amore ("Euphoria of love").
  • Ukrainian: Любовний маразм (lyubovnyy marazm, "love marasmus"), from Любовний Екстаз (lyubovnyy ekstaz, "love ecstasy")
• In the Italian and Ukrainian dubs, the news reporter Robert Pooner does not mispronounce "South Park" as "South Mark" during the first Britney Watch episode, changing it to the correct pronunciation.
• In the German and Ukrainian dubs, the news anchor Ron correctly addresses Robert Pooner as "Robert" during the Britney Watch episode discussing Britney's "camel toe", from "David" in the English version.

Czech

• The use of "spearchuckers" by Hillary Clinton is changed to "homeless people".

French

• At the MTV Video Music Awards, the woman commenting on Britney becoming "chubby" specifies her having gained 10 kg.

Hungarian

• At the MTV Video Music Awards, the background vocals by Britney singing "It's Britney, b****!" are removed.

Ukrainian

• Randy explains that the boys should care about the presidential debate. Instead of telling him otherwise, Cartman makes a sarcastic reply of "Sweet".
• In the first Britney Watch episode, the news anchor's report of someone earning $100,000 from taking Britney photos has an additional comment: От бачите вона ось тут (Ot bachyte vona os tut, "So you see, she is here").
• The use of "spearchuckers" by Hillary Clinton is changed to "aborigines".
• In the ET report on Miley Cyrus, the news anchor further reports that Cyrus is also on her way to the Eurovision Song Contest, on top of being a major superstar.