Britney Spears is already having such a nightmare 2008 that she could use any crumb of good news that she can possibly get.
And last night Britney Spears got the best news of all – she got all the way through an extended cameo on How I Met Your Mother without crying or fighting anyone or pawing at herself or thrashing away at her hair with a pair of industrial clippers.
And now she's gained mostly favourable reviews for How I Met Your Mother, the sky's the limit for Britney Spears again. Who knows, if she can say about ten lines of dialogue sitting behind a desk for a mediocre sitcom, maybe next she'll be deemed legally capable of seeing her own children without frightening them again!
Britney Spears has a had a rough couple of months, what with the whole 'public meltdown/ psychiatric hospital/ gravely disabled' thing meaning that the Britney we know and love – the one who'd spend hours and hours wandering around carparks in a pink wig babbling nonsense in a dreadful British accent at 1,000 paparazzi – was replaced by a new Britney who we know but just creeps us out a bit.
But lately three things have helped to pull Britney Spears around. One is the ongoing conservatorship of her father Jamie Spears, another is her semi-regular gig teaching children how to dance and the final one is her cameo on How I Met Your Mother.
At first, Britney Spears appearing on How I Met Your Mother seemed like a dreadful idea for all involved – it seemed far too soon to thrust Britney back into the spotlight, plus the other stars of How I Met Your Mother seemed slightly weirded out by it, and the whole thing seemed to signal How I Met Your Mother's new lurch into 'cameos by notoriously unstable celebrities' territory, to be followed with roles by Amy Winehouse, Phil Spector and the ghost of Burgess Meredith.
However, Britney's How I Met Your Mother appearance aired in America yesterday and – surprisingly – nobody hated it all that much. The New York Post reports:
Now clean and sober and under her dad's thumb once again, Britney looked as adorable last night as she did waaay back when. On the show, which she filmed in the last few weeks, Brit looked slim, (OK she was behind a desk), trim and gorgeous. And, more importantly, her acting was nothing short of adorably believable. Good for her. Britney's nerdy, needy character falls for Ted and, in the process, steals every scene out from under the whole cast. Without overacting or overreaching, Britney stared googly-eyed every time Ted came in, telling him how very Magnum, (as in "Magnum P.I.") he looked. Very funny bit.
Wait, Britney Spears is stealing scenes now? We thought she only limited herself to stealing plastic $1.39 cigarette lighters. What next? The Victoria-Transvaal diamond? Has she no shame?
Anyway, people, let's not get too carried away here – the only reason that Britney Spears got such good reviews for How I Met Your Mother is because her mental illness lowered everyone's expectations of her to the point where even hearing her speak a full sentence felt like an important breakthrough.
But let's not forget that that's all Britney Spears did. She's still got a long way to go, because all she did was memorise some words and say them back in the right order. Admittedly that's a level of competency that Kevin Federline can only aspire to, but let's judge Britney Spears against normal humans for now.
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mst3kster says
Britney, clean and sober!!
It’s not so much that she’s off drugs and alcohol, but that she douched.
shawna says
Newsday had a scathing review of her on the show.