Krazy Kripples

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“Krazy Kripples”
South Park episode
Jimmy and Timmy in their "Crips" uniform.
Episode no.	Season 7 Episode 98
Written by	Matt Stone
Directed by	Trey Parker
Production no.	702
Original airdate	March 26, 2003
Season 7 episodes
South Park - Season 7 March 19, 2003 – December 17, 2003
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"Krazy Kripples" is the 98th episode of the Comedy Central series South Park. It originally aired on March 26, 2003.

[edit] Plot

When Jimmy's comedy act is snubbed by the townspeople in favor of an inspirational talk by Christopher Reeve, Timmy and he form a club for genuine cripples, born that way, not wannabe posers like he says Christopher Reeve is. Timmy and Jimmy start their own club, dubbed "the Crips" unaware of the notorious, real life street gang that shares the same name. Eventually Timmy and Jimmy find out about the Crips, and under the belief that it is a group of disabled people like themselves, the boys want to join the gang. The Crips leader tells the boys to "pop some punk ass Bloods". The boys do not know that the term actually means kill some Bloods, so they wander the town to find the Bloods while believing that they are supposed to buy soda pop for them. They find 13 Bloods at a gas station called "Ribs 'n' Gas". While walking across the street a trucker swerves to avoid hitting Jimmy and Timmy but winds up blowing up the whole gas station, killing all the Bloods inside. The Crips are now desperate to have Jimmy and Timmy in their gang, because they killed 13 Bloods in 1 night (a new Crips gang record) and brought back marshmallows and ginger ale. Jimmy's parents ask Jimmy if he is in a gang, which he admits to. It is revealed at this point that the Vulmers had made fun of handicapped kids at High School and believed that God had made Jimmy handicapped to punish them, so they naturally believe that this is part of a punishment. One night the Bloods gang members commit a drive-by shooting on Jimmy's and Timmy's houses. In order to prevent further reprisals, Jimmy decides to call a meeting at the local recreation center between the two gangs, and lock themselves in for the evening until they can sort out their differences. Expectedly, both gangs initially act hostile to one another, but Jimmy manages to convince them to sort out their differences by saying "Come on!" and manages to bring the two gangs together, as they all then participate in various games and activities inside the recreation center as friends.

Meanwhile, Christopher Reeve campaigns for stem cell research for the handicapped. By cracking open fetuses and sucking out their juices, he soon regains mobility, and even super powers like the character he portrayed, Superman. He eventually takes on the role of a supervillain, and is opposed by his archnemesis, Gene Hackman (the actor who portrayed Lex Luthor, Superman's archnemesis, whom Reeve refers to as Hack Man). This ironic comedy causes one reporter to comment that "if irony were made of strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now." Reeve continues to use stem cells even after he is healed and becomes addicted to power, and eventually puts together a Legion of Doom (see below) made up of villains from the comic and South Park universes. At the end Hackman manages to get a law passed to end Reeve's "fetus-sucking days," and traps Reeve in the Phantom Zone.

The episode ends with the four boys — Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny — having watched all the events, remarking that they were "so glad [they] stayed out of that one."