In the episode, the boys join a Mountain Scouts troop originally led by Big Gay Al, who is fired due to his homosexuality while Timmy faces competition from another disabled child.
The episode is based on the controversy over scoutmaster James Dale and the Supreme Court case Boy Scouts of America v.
A new, masculine, scoutmaster named Mr. Grazier is appointed, and he promises the parents he will whip the boys into line and make them good scouts.
Timmy tries to undermine Jimmy in any way possible, including offering him an orange parka as a gift, in order to make him resemble Kenny (playing off the running gag that Kenny dies in almost every episode in the first few seasons) and even though Jimmy is nearly killed by a falling safe, a hawk, a fire, a stampede of cows, one of the American Space Shuttles, and gunshots from Jimbo and Ned, his efforts proved futile.
In an attempt to get rid of Mr. Grazier without giving away his secret, the boys assemble their own protest march all the way to the grocery store parking lot, and use Jimmy's stand-up comedy to draw in a crowd.
Big Gay Al sues the Mountain Scouts, while Mr. Grazier is revealed to be a pedophile who goes by the name "Mr. Slippyfist" and is arrested.
[1] "Cripple Fight", along with the thirteen other episodes from South Park: the Complete Fifth Season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on February 22, 2005.
[3] "Cripple Fight" was released on VHS in June 2002, along with the episodes "Scott Tenorman Must Die" and "It Hits the Fan," on a video titled Insults to Injuries.