The "South Park" episode "Britney's New Look" parodies an American short story by what author?
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Britney's New Look "Britney's New Look" is the second episode in the twelfth season of the animated television series "South Park", and the 169th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 19, 2008. In the episode, Kyle Broflovski and Stan Marsh take pity on Britney Spears after a botched attempt at suicide that removes the upper two-thirds of her head, and try to save her from the cruel cycle of cultural martyrdom. The episode parodies the American short story "The Lottery". The episode also features cameos of all the one-off adult characters of the entire series throughout the episode, including Radiohead and Gene Hackman.
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The Lottery "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, written just months before its first publication, in the June 26, 1948, issue of "The New Yorker". The story describes a fictional small town which observes — as do many other communities, both large and small, throughout contemporary America — an annual ritual known as "the lottery". It has been described as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature".
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Sponsored Content (South Park) "Sponsored Content" is the eighth episode of the nineteenth season and the 265th overall episode of the animated television series "South Park", written and directed by the series co-creator Trey Parker, and is also the first episode of a three-episode story arc that serves as the season finale. The episode premiered on Comedy Central on November 18, 2015. It parodies the abundance of online advertising, native advertising and clickbaits while humorously linking them to artificial intelligence, while continuing its season-long lampoon of political correctness. The story arc of this episode continues into the following episode "Truth and Advertising" and concludes with the episode "PC Principal Final Justice".
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Time and Again (short story) "Time and Again" is a short story by American writer Breece D'J Pancake, first published in 1977. This American Gothic tale tells the story of an aging murderer, a farmer who feeds the bodies of his victims to his hogs. The short story appears in Pancake's only book, "The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake" (1983). It can also be found in the anthology "American Gothic Tales", edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
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Neck (short story) "Neck" is a short story by Roald Dahl. It first appeared in the 1953 collection "Someone Like You".
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Craigslist (song) "Craigslist" is a song and single by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a style parody of The Doors, and contains lyrics inspired by postings at the online classified advertising service, Craigslist. Yankovic described the idea of the song coming about thinking how it would be "anachronistically weird" for Jim Morrison to scream about Craigslist. Yankovic opted to use Craigslist as an example of something big in both the popular culture and his own life, and spent time exploring its listings to compose the lyrics. The song was released shortly after the closure of the Michael John Anderson (Craigslist Killer) case, a factor Yankovic considered "unfortunate timing".
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Allal "Allal" is a short story written by American writer, composer, and world traveler Paul Bowles. This story was first published in "Rolling Stone" on January 27, 1977, and since has been included in many compilation short story books. "Allal" is about an outcast boy and his fascination with a pet snake that eventually leads to his very unusual death. This short story contains many Gothic Fiction themes such as loneliness, human attraction to one's own atavistic natures and the uncanny.
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Hester Kaplan Hester Kaplan is an American short story writer, and novelist.
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A Party Down at the Square "A Party Down at the Square" is a short story by the American writer Ralph Ellison, first published in 1997, three years after the author's death. It is a story of a Deep South lynching as perceived by a white boy from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Hop-Frog "Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta.
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I'm Crazy "I'm Crazy" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger for the December 22, 1945 issue of "Collier's" magazine. Despite the story's underlying melancholy, the magazine described it as "the heart-warming story of a kid whose only fault lay in understanding people so well that most of them were baffled by him and only a very few would believe in him."
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Little Things (short story) "Little Things" is a short story by American writer Raymond Carver. It was originally title "Mine", but was first published in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" under the title "Popular Mechanics." It was then republished with the title "Little Things" in Carver's 1988 collection "Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories".
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Trapped in the Closet (South Park) "Trapped in the Closet" is the twelfth episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series "South Park". The 137th episode of the series overall, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 16, 2005. In the episode, Stan joins Scientology in an attempt to find something "fun and free". After the discovery of his surprisingly high "thetan levels", he is recognized as the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the church. The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker. The title is a reference to the R. Kelly serialized song of the same name and a satirized version of R. Kelly appears in the episode.
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St. Amy's Tale "St. Amy's Tale" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection "Maps in a Mirror".
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The Commuter "The Commuter" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick.
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Wilton's Holiday Wilton's Holiday is a short love story, first published in the United Kingdom in "The Strand Magazine" in July 1915. In the United States it was published under the title "Wilton’s Vacation" in "Illustrated Sunday Magazine" and in "Minneapolis Tribune Sunday Magazine" on 19 March 1916. It was also included in the collection "The Man with Two Left Feet" published in the UK in 1917.
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To Whom This May Come To Whom This May Come is a short story by American author Edward Bellamy. The story was first published in February 1889 in "Harper's New Monthly Magazine."
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Mary La Chapelle Mary La Chapelle (born April 28, 1955 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), is an American short story writer.
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Melissa Pritchard Melissa Pritchard is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and journalist.
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The Cissy "The Cissy" is the third episode in the eighteenth season of the American animated television series "South Park". The 250th overall episode, it was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker. The episode premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on October 8, 2014. The episode explores the culture of transgender individuals and gender identity.
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Where My Country Gone? "Where My Country Gone?" is the second episode of the nineteenth season of the animated television series "South Park", and the 259th episode overall, written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker. The episode premiered on Comedy Central on September 23, 2015. It parodies illegal immigration to the United States and the 2016 presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, along with Caitlyn Jenner and political correctness.
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O Ye Jigs &amp; Juleps! O Ye Jigs & Juleps! is a short book by Virginia Cary Hudson, first published in 1962 with illustrations by Karla Kuskin. It is a series of 10 short essays written by the then 10-year-old Hudson in 1904, while attending an Episcopalian school in "Leesville" (actually Versailles, Kentucky). The essays concern religion to a considerable extent, but the book is largely known for its somewhat unintentional humor. The book was a bestseller in 1962.