Cripple Fight

"Cripple Fight"
South Park episode
Episode no.Season 5
Episode 2
Directed byTrey Parker
Written byTrey Parker
Production code503
Original air dateJune 27, 2001 (2001-06-27)

"Cripple Fight" (also stylised as "Cripple Fight!") is the second episode of the fifth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 67th episode of the series overall. Going by production order, it is the 3rd episode instead of the 2nd. It originally aired in the United States on June 27, 2001. In the episode, the boys join a Mountain Scouts troop originally led by Big Gay Al, who is fired due to his homosexuality. Meanwhile Timmy faces competition from Jimmy Valmer, another disabled child who is introduced in this episode and would become a series regular. The episode is based on the controversy over scoutmaster James Dale and the Supreme Court case Boy Scouts of America v. Dale.