10 Best Heartwarming Lessons South Park Ever Taught Us

South Park has a tense relationship with disabled characters. But in each episode that focuses on disabilities, characters in question have always come away the better person.

For aspiring stand-up comedian Jimmy Valmer, he's been a character who openly laughed about his condition and encouraged others around him to either join in his laughter or engage in a discussion with him. Jimmy meets his match later on with PC Principal, but is unwavering in his dismissal of virtuous signalling.

Nurse Gollum's short-lived run involved the town of South Park patronizing and awarding her for simply being alive. The unwanted attention she receives from the town culminates in her berating South Park for how narrow-minded their intentions were.

But the real winner of the series is Timmy Burch, a boy whose portrayal has been open for debate as to whether he is offensive.

For the episodes where Timmy does take centre stage, he is looked upon by the other kids as simply a friend. When he joins a rock band in "Timmy 2000", it is the condescending townsfolk that sees him as someone to be pitied, all the while his band mates never talk down, and only ever treat him as a person.