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{{quote|'''Jimmy:''' Mr. McClure?

'''Troy McClure:''' Oh! Hello Bobby.

 

Little Jimmy is a young character without any distinguishable traits other than complete ignorance related to the subject at hand. Most likely found in educational films, commercials, and public service announcements. Their only job is to represent the young and stupid viewers of the film who know nothing about common sense and would very well get into a car with a stranger offering candy unless some superhero or other fictional character comes along and tells them that it's wrong.

 

Compare [[Constantly Curious]] and [[Curious as a Monkey]], both of whom have insatiable curiosity and are quite willing to indulge it on their own. See also [[The Watson]], [[Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket]].

 

* Used quite frequently in [[Jack Chick|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.

 

== Films -- Live Action ==

* In ''[[Dodgeball]]'', the [[Redundancy Department of Redundancy|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.