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Little Jimmy

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Little Jimmy	comment	Little Jimmy is a young character without any distinguishable traits other than complete unawareness related to the subject at hand. He's typically young, white, middle-class and freckled, and lives in a bland suburbia. His only job is to represent the young and unaware viewers of the film who know nothing about common sense and would very well get into a car with a stranger offering candy or try to climb an electric power line to free up their tangled kite, unless some superhero or other wise adult character comes along and tells them that it's wrong or unsafe. They are a flat stock character because their only job is to provide an in-universe audience for the wise adult's sermon. Most likely found in old educational films, commercials, a Very Special Episode and public service announcements (or parodies thereof), but similar youngsters sometimes appear in dramatic works, when a wise old Mr. Exposition needs to narrate a detailed explanation of the setting or give a nostalgic retelling of their past. Both techniques help to provide Backstory to for the audience or readers. Using flat characters whose only job is to ask questions and then listen to a wise mentors answers is Older Than Print, as it was used in ancient Greek dialogues by philosophers such as Plato. This technique should be used with caution outside of didactic works for children, as the flatness of the question-asking character will soon bore the audience/readers, as there's no interesting interactions or reactions. As well, with such a static character, the author's work can become a dry Info Dump. In the worst cases, nothing happens in the novel or story except for the bland child asking questions and the wise mentor then launching into a lengthy monolog. May include Mr. Exposition providing Instructional Dialogue, to explain the topic to Little Jimmy. Mr. Exposition's partner may bring up weak objections ("But maybe the stranger offering me candy to get in his car is a nice man?), but Mr Exposition easily rebuts these objections with more stern instructional dialogue. Compare Constantly Curious and Curious as a Monkey, both of whom have an insatiable curiosity and are quite willing to indulge it on their own. See also Naïve Newcomer, The Watson, Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket, Easy Evangelism. Examples
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Little Jimmy / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the episode "Lisa the Vegetarian", Lisa begins to have doubts about eating meat, so her school shows her class a propaganda video from the meat industry titled "Meat and You: Partners in Freedom". It features our good friend Jimmy as he is "educated" (and traumatized) about the wonders of the meat industry. Similar videos show up every now and then, with earlier ones featuring Troy McClure.
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Little Jimmy / int_2af4f467	comment	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero features And Knowing Is Half the Battle segments in which dumb kids do things they shouldn't and the heroes have to come along and tell them not to. The Transformers also adopted And Knowing Is Half the Battle sequences, though these ones never aired on TV.
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Little Jimmy / int_30e9309f	comment	In the 1997 informative video The Kids Guide to the Internet Peter and Dasha's friends Lisa and Andrew fill this role. Their knowledge of Internet things varies according to whatever subject is being discussed.
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Little Jimmy / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers also adopted And Knowing Is Half the Battle sequences, though these ones never aired on TV.
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Little Jimmy / int_4d8e5ec	comment	The Daily Show's "Midterm Elections" Schoolhouse Rock parody.
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Little Jimmy / int_561fe866	comment	Zigzagged with James "Jimmy" Flynn, the youngest of the bunch in Kid Nation. Having volunteered for the the show to kickstart his aspiring career as an actor, Jimmy is lost on why he and thirty-nine other kids are being brought out into the middle of New Mexico by a TV personality he doesn't know, thrown in a scenario much more real than the one his mother signed him up for. Despite not understanding the grim bureaucracy of the television industry, Jimmy shows a noteworthy amount of awareness when he immediately recognizes the potential child endangerment and opts out of the show at the first opportunity.
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Little Jimmy / int_5e2b1ad0	comment	One issue of Action Philosophers! features Karl Marx giving an explanation of communism, as he originally interpreted it, to a Little Jimmy character.
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Little Jimmy / int_5f7aea6d	comment	C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, set in an alternate timeline where the South won the American Civil War, has a Little Jimmy character early on who appears to be at least 12 years old. An older character lectures him on the necessity of slavery to the Confederacy's economy.
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Little Jimmy / int_8f66a261	comment	R-Truth, after a Face–Heel Turn, said that he was sick and tired of all his younger fans, referring to them as "Little Jimmies". As his Sanity Slippage progressed, he became convinced that all the Little Jimmies were in on a conspiracy to prevent him from holding a title belt. After turning face again, he claimed that he and Little Jimmy had made peace with one another after an absence due to injurynote Said injury being sustained after The Miz beat him down on an episode of Raw.
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Little Jimmy / int_a144cb39	comment	Moral Orel: The titular character, a young WASP, is often in trouble due to his ignorance to the world. His frustrated mother and his hypocritical alcoholic father contribute to Orel's confusion, as they keep him shielded from things like human anatomy, sexual education and elements of society considered "undesirable" or "sinful". Orel's father especially has a condescending way of explaining things to Orel, but will contradict his self-righteous behaviour in scenes showing how seedy he really is. Orel often seeks to eliminate boundaries, satisfy God or simply educate himself on the world's sins, but takes it too far. This usually results in his father literally belting him in his study and following it with a drink.
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Little Jimmy / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama has a similar video where a little girl is taught about Global Warming. The same clip is also used in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
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Little Jimmy / int_a78cc92f	comment	Used quite frequently in the Chick Tracts, one prominent example being the child in "The Missing Day" who has the "true" meaning of Thanksgiving explained to him by his fundamentalist uncle, leading him to convert. There is also a reoccurring character named Li'l Suzy who might fit this trope as she does go to her fundamentalist grandfather for explanations for things like Islam, but then more often than not she's the one explaining things to her naive and uninformed classmates, so she could be a subversion.
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Little Jimmy / int_b310c8f4	comment	The Barney-esque series Hip Hop Harry featured Scott, a boy whose ignorance often lead to him asking what a dried apple is among other rhetorical questions, usually so that the titular rapping bear can explain the subject at hand to younger viewers. Taking note of Scott's outstanding lack of common sense, Joel McHale of The Soup nicknamed him "Stupid Scott."
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Little Jimmy / int_b4fe32c9	comment	This trope was parodied in an Invader Zim episode, where ZIM is sent to judgement for his actions. In it, Tallest Red tells "Little Timmy" what an Irken PAK is... but when he's done, Tallest Purple promptly orders a pair of guards to drag him kicking and screaming to the dungeons because He Knows Too Much.
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Little Jimmy / int_cb3f37de	comment	In DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, the American Dodgeball Association of America training film includes a Little Jimmy character, who is visibly shocked when the Narrator addresses him in the beginning of the film.
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Little Jimmy / int_d5d98e35	comment	Police Squad! had a running gag where the squad's forensic scientist would explain what he's doing to his young assistant.
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Little Jimmy / int_d96395da	comment	Freddy Got Fingered: Gordon's neighbour Andy is a young, naive boy suspectible to injury. Despite his friendly innocence, the nature of the incidents are quite gory. In one scene, he runs into Gordon's car and breaks his teeth (filling his mouth with blood). In the restaurant scene, Gord's dad throws an empty beer bottle and it lands in Andy's face (which was already bruised). In the final scene, Andy runs into an airplane propeller, and blood splatters all over a crowd of people.
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Little Jimmy / int_f4345923	comment	Parodied by Bob & Ray in the multiple installments of their "Mr Science." "I feel as though one of nature's eternal secrets has just been unlocked before my very eyes." "You wouldn't try to slip me the old rubber peach just because I'm a gullible child, would you, Mr. Science?"
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