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He's typically young, white and freckled.
 
Compare [[Constantly Curious]] and [[Curious Asas 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 Aa Blanket]].
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== Comics ==
* One issue of [[Action Philosophers (Comic Book)|Action Philosophers]] features Karl Marx giving an explanation of ''communism'', as he originally interpreted it, to a [[Little Jimmy]] character.
* 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.
 
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== 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.
* ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]]'' has a Little Jimmy character early on who [[Dawson Casting|appears to be]] ''[[Dawson Casting|at least]]'' [[Dawson Casting|12 years old]]. An older character lectures him on the necessity of slavery to the Confederacy's economy. [[Alternate History|(The premise of the film is that the South won the]] [[American Civil War]] [[Alternate History|and instituted slavery throughout the United States, with the abolitionists all fleeing to Canada.)]]
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* [[Trope Namer]] is the kid from ''Mr. Wizard'', a neighbor boy who'd come to see Mr. Wizard's science tricks.
* The ''[[Barney and Friends (TV)|Barney]]''-esque series ''Hip Hop Harry'' featured Scott, a boy whose ignorance often lead to him asking what a fried '''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."
* ''[[The Daily Show]]'''s "Midterm Elections" Schoolhouse Rock [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-6-2002/indecision-2002---the-daily-show-rocks parody].
{{quote| '''Jimmy:''' Sounds like midterm elections are a chance to really change things!<br />
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