Posted on 11/29/2005 8:07:40 AM PST by EveningStar
Earlier this year, a poll was conducted on Ouch!, a BBC-sponsored Web-zine (www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/) devoted to disability issues. Users were invited to vote for "The Greatest Disabled TV Character," and for fans of "South Park," the results offered a pleasant surprise: By a considerable margin, the winner was ... Timmy!
It's impressive that the BBC has the foresight to offer such a Web site and fascinating to discover a variety of disabled characters on British TV. But what's equally interesting from the Ouch! poll is that the all-American Timmy was even more popular among disabled voters than nondisabled, with telling differences in the total-vote breakdown.
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Timm-ah!
GOBBLES!!!!
CRIPPLE FIGHT!
Dang, beat me to it.
TIMMAH!
One of the greates animated fight scenes in television history.
Sure changed my perception. I used to feel sorry for them, but now I openly laugh at them.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Totally true story.
A few years back, Bacon and Hap and Xena's Guy and I were at our friend's beach house, where we go periodically to drink refreshing adult beverages and set off fireworks of the guys' devising.
The four of us, plus the Dread Boston Salty, slept in the beach house's bedroom (which had two huge beds).
Early one morning, Salty decided he'd had enough of me and the Guy, and decided to join Bacon and Hap in their bed. Climbing in, he managed to work his little dog toenails right into a sensitive portion of Bacon's anatomy.
Bacon rolls over, still half-asleep, and whispers, "Timmeh!"
(I have no idea why it was funny, but it was.)
For extra credit, name the movie that fight scene was choreographed from.
timmaaaaah
Timmy is extremely happy and loves life. What's not to like about him?
A classic. Rowdy Roddy Piper was robbed at Oscar time.
Well, the left is pretty ticked off at them right now... they'll be sure to correct the mistake :~D
Was it that movie with Roudy Roudy Piper or whomever his name was? The wrestler? A movie about aliens living among us (I think).
It's outrageous because we live in an outrageous world, and while issues like disability are treated with kid gloves in the cultural mainstream, "South Park" tackles them with blunt-force honesty, free from the politically correct restrictions that curtail open discourse in more "respectable" forums of debate.
To give credit where credit is due, people have been attacking Howard Stern for doing the same thing for twenty years.
Timmah has nothing on Beetlejuice.
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