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{{quote|"Please, everyone knows that Jimmy Carter is just a fairy tale Republicans use to scare children."|DiZ, ''[[Ansem Retort]]''}}
Considering that it happened more than thirty years ago, 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 ''[[Mis Blamed|inherited]]'' [[Mis Blamed|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 [[Useful Notes/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 [[Useful Notes/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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* An episode of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|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.
* In ''[[The Critic]]'', Marty Sherman and his friends play a video game concerning blasting space aliens. Jimmy Carter appears in the game and urges the player to reconsider shooting any more aliens, suggesting they could work towards a peaceful solution instead. Marty shoots him anyway. Amusingly, [[Self
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