T-t-t-totally Awesome! The 10 Best Stuttering Characters

T-t-t-totally Awesome! The 10 Best Stuttering Characters

International Stuttering Awareness Day

the 10 best stuttering characters...

Bobby Boucher

ADAM SANDLER AS BOBBY BOUCHER IN THE WATERBOY (1998)

A stuttering waterboy with pent-up anger who's transformed into a hard tackling football star, Bobby Boucher is the reason we don't pick on people with speech problems...if they're big and enraged enough to drive a shoulder through our sternum.

Smiley

ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH AS SMILEY IN DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)

M-M-M-Malcolm X and M-M-M-Martin Luther King, Jr. are the obsession of this mentally handicapped stutterer who finally gets a picture of a black man on the Wall of Fame in Sal's Pizzeria by setting fire to the joint in a race riot and putting one up on his own. You might think "slow" folks who stutter are harmless but you'd be wr-wr-wr—incorrect.

Jimmy Vulmer

TREY PARKER AS JIMMY VULMER IN SOUTH PARK (1997-PRESENT)

According to Jimmy's parents, he has withered legs and a stutter because God is punishing them for making fun of cripples. Considering himself "handi-capable," he doesn't let that prevent him from chasing his dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. And he can deliver a one-liner in five to ten minutes, so the joke's on them!

Aaron Stampler

EDWARD NORTON AS AARON STAMPLER IN PRIMAL FEAR (1996)

Sp-sp-sp... It turns out that Aaron, the meek, stuttering altar boy accused of killing the Archbishop who molested him, is actually violent and cunning sociopath Roy, who invents the sympathetic alter ago and a multiple personality disorder to get off on grounds of insanity. What? We tried to call "Sp-spoiler alert!"

Ken Pile

MICHAEL PALIN AS KEN PILE IN A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)

A London gangster's stuttering animal-loving assistant, Ken accidentally kills three Yorkshire Terriers instead of the old woman who witnessed his boss' diamond heist. He's then tortured, forced to watch a double-crossing partner eat his pet fish, so he'll give up the location of the hidden stones. We could hit him with a "cat got your tongue?" joke but we won't—that would just be excessive.

John Gibbons

AUSTIN PENDLETON AS JOHN GIBBONS IN MY COUSIN VINNY (1992)

Most people on trial for murder would pass on a stuttering public defender like Gibbons. We say: Every second he spends trying to spit out the word "objection" is a one you're not in a cell!

Stuttering Stanley

BRUCE NORRIS AS "STUTTERING STANLEY" CUNNINGHAM IN THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)

You have no idea what a loser your teacher was when they were your age, but the ghosts in your classroom do. And those Casper-ass bitches LOVE to snitch. Ain't that right, "Stuttering Stanley"?

Duh Duh Duh Man

BILL NUNN AS DUH DUH DUH MAN IN NEW JACK CITY (1991)

It's pretty difficult to talk tough if you're a stuttering drug dealer. And if you've allowed yourself to be called Duh Duh Duh Man, you should probably just shut your bitch-ass yap anyway.

Stuttering Bill

JONATHAN BRANDIS & RICHARD THOMAS AS

Porky Pig

MEL BLANC AS PORKY PIG IN LOONEY TOONS (1930-PRESENT) & MERRIE MELODIES (1931-1969)

This swine may stutter, but at least he doesn't have a lissssthp. Or a gaping vagina like that pansy Piglet.