A few years ago I did a some of comedy talk where I ranked all the stutters in film. It can essentially be broken down into a few categories. The worst: Stuttering as a punchline. Bobby Boucher in Waterboy, Porky Pig. A fish called Wanda. Often characters stutter as comic relief. This is the most degrading type of stuttering in film. The only reason the character stutters is as a joke. Porky Pig hurts more because they fired the original voice actor who actually had a stutter because he "stuttered too much". Real Bad: Fake Stutters Tina in Glee, Ed Norton in Primal Fear, Professor Quirrell in Harry Potter. Any time a character fakes a stammer to appear innocent/unintelligent/unapproachable a part of me dies. Bad: Stuttering/Speech impediments to let you know a character can't be trusted Benicio Del Toro in The Last Jedi. Sam Jackson in Kingsman. Norman Bates Psycho. Another annoying trope. We get it. You don't see people who stutter as normal functional humans. This is nicely flipped in Urban Legend Fine: The King's Speech Like I get it. It was a oscar winning film about someone who stutters. And that's great. I just don't love that the whole goal in the movie is for him to no longer stutter. And at the end it seems he succeeds. It gives the message that we can't achieve anything if we continue to stutter. Which is nonsense. Top Tier: Actual representations of real stutterering Billy in IT, Hal from Rocket Science, Piglett in Winnie the Poo. Here we go. The best of the best. What sets Billy from IT and Piglett apart is that their stutter is irrelevant to the plot. It's simple representation. The character stutters because that's a normal thing for someone to do. Stuttering is actually a major plot point in Rocket Science but it's not about a cure, it's about acceptance. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.