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{{presidents|[[Gerald Ford]]|[[Ronald Reagan]]}}
[[File:JimmyCarterJimmy Carter crop.jpg|framethumb|400px|"You just have to have a simple faith."]]
 
{{quote|"Carter [[Ironic Echo|lusted in his heart]] for peanuts."|'''[[Jonathan Coulton]]'''}}
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{{quote|"Please, everyone knows that Jimmy Carter is just a fairy tale Republicans use to scare children."|DiZ, ''[[Ansem Retort]]''}}
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Considering that it happened more{{Years thanor thirty yearsmonths ago|1981}}, a look around the Internet will astonish many readers with just how firmly '''James Earl "Jimmy" Carter''''s presidency remains in [[Your Mileage May Vary]] territory. Conservatives declare that his watch was a mess, while liberals assert that he ''[[Misblamed|inherited]]'' [[Misblamed|a mess]] ([[Barack Obama|Why does that sound familiar?]]): the huge [[Vietnam War]] deficit, an economy that for the first time ''ever'' suffered rampant inflation ''while stagnating'', and a national post-Vietnam, post-Watergate funk which was described as a "malaise" -- a word that is hung around his neck by conservative commentators (and ''[[The Simpsons]]'') to this day, though Carter himself [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|never actually used it]]. "Stagflation" was exacerbated by the 1979 oil crisis; long gas lines and high energy costs contributed to the national unhappiness. In an attempt to lead by example, the President lowered the thermostats in the White House and donned sweaters to keep warm instead -- which became for many a hated symbol of the lifestyle sacrifices which they believed his policies had made necessary.
 
On the foreign policy front, meanwhile, the [[Iran|Iranian]] Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent protracted holding of American hostages seemed to many to demonstrate the feebleness of the Carter administration's foreign policy, an impression by no means dispelled by a bungled attempt to free the hostages by force. (Conspiracy theorists have held -- and not without reason or completely without evidence -- that there was an arrangement between the Ayatollah and the Reagan campaign as the hostages were released on Inauguration Day 1981, [[Let No Crisis Go to Waste|almost immediately after Reagan had taken the oath]].) Carter's term saw the Soviets deploy better [[From Russia With Nukes|nuclear weapons]] and [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan|invade Afghanistan]], resulting in the SALT II arms control treaty not being put before the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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* Gave an interview to ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine in which he defended his own monogamy but admitted that he had at times had "lust in [his] heart" for women other than his wife (reference to [[As the Good Book Says...|Matthew 5:28]]), words that would haunt him.
* Was attacked by a [[Killer Rabbit]] during a boating excursion.
* Shot his neighbor's cat. To death. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130618225402/http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/11/jimmy_carter_ca.html That's the rumour, anyway.] Something he now constantly regrets and has nightmares about to this day.
* Became good friends with [[Gerald Ford]] after his presidency.
* Was a submariner and nuclear engineer in his early life (although he never got to serve on a nuclear submarine, he did help [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574 prevent a complete nuclear meltdown in December 1952], being exposed to high levels of radiation in the process). This is why he got a submarine<ref>USS ''Jimmy Carter'' (SSN-23), a [[Types of Naval Ships|fast-attack nuclear boat]], last of the even-scarier-than-the-name-makes-it-sound-but-also-ludicrously-expensive ''Seawolf'' class</ref> named after him rather than a carrier (as is typical for presidents).
 
{{examples|Jimmy Carter in fiction:}}
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* In [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''Timeline 191'' series, Carter is a Confederate naval officer and is {{spoiler|killed in 1942 while home on leave, defending Plains, Georgia from an attack by black guerrilla fighters}}.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', clairvoyant Johnny Smith meets Carter when he's campaigning for the presidency in 1976, and predicts to him that he's going to win.
 
 
== Puppet Shows ==
* His puppet appears in every episode of ''[[D.C. Follies]]''.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Ansem Retort]]'' claims that Jimmy Carter isn't real, and is just a tale told by Republicans to scare children.
* ''[[Xkcdxkcd]]'' mentions his [[Killer Rabbit|Swamp Rabbit attack]] [http://xkcd.com/204/ here].
 
 
== Web Original ==
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* Carter appears in ''[[Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72]]'', an [[Alternate History]] in which the 1972 presidential election ended in a messy stalemate. After completing his term as Georgia Governor, he was elected as one of that state's Senators and is still largely nationally unknown - [[For Want of a Nail|without the precise circumstances of the '76 election from our history, he would never be considered presidential material]]. His main role has been to help prevent Henry Kissinger being made Secretary of State to President James Gavin.
* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', Jimmy Carter was the president who ordered the formation of the government sponsored squad of flagsuit heroes called Team America, using them to rescue the hostages from Iran. It was on the strength of these actions that [[Alternate History|he won reelection as president]] over former California Governor Ronald Reagan of California in 1980.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
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{{quote|'''Carter''': You too, huh? Hey, I know a good yogurt place.
'''Bush:''' ''(shoving Carter out of his way)'' Get away from me, loser. }}
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]''. DeeDee's imaginary friend says that turning your lips inside out makes you look like Carter.
* An episode of ''[[American Dad]]'' showed that he is head of a cover-up {{spoiler|that peanut brittle was invented by ''[[Abraham Lincoln]]'''s wife, not George Washington Carver}}.
* He also appears in an episode of ''[[God, the Devil and Bob]]'' in reference to his Habitat for Humanity work. The Devil uses his powers to stop his work including getting a family he is helping to turn on him and having Bob trip him up while carrying building supplies.
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