Jimmy Valmers

**Jimmy Valmer**, formerly **Jimmy Swanson**, is a male fourth grader. He is voiced by Trey Parker. He was originally created as a one-time character for "Cripple Fight" as a rival for Timmy Burch, but he quickly became a fan favorite and plays a supporting role in many episodes. He and Timmy became best friends and less of a rival to one another.

## Background

### Personality

Like Timmy, the humor of Jimmy's character comes from his endless optimism despite his handicap. His disability is not overtly mocked; rather his exaggerated eagerness to be a successful "handi-capable" person. Jimmy's role has more recently been expanded, bringing him more screen time and giving his character more depth. In "Professor Chaos", he is one of the final 10 chosen to be their fourth member, but ultimately he is not picked. In later seasons, he is shown hanging with Craig's Gang.

He is generally popular and successful at school; he is moral and knows how to be a friend. However, he is foul-mouthed and very competitive; he took steroids just to win the Special Olympics. He and Timmy also competed against Christopher Reeve in "Krazy Kripples".

Despite being foul-mouthed and competitive, he is generally well-liked and nice always looking after his friends.

### Comedy

He likes to perform stand-up comedy in the style of Jay Leno(often starting jokes with "Have you seen this?" or "Have you heard about this?"), but he is often criticized for his jokes, although everyone considered them hilarious in "Cripple Fight". When finishing a joke, even if only one person was listening to him, and no matter what their reaction to the joke, he will usually say "Wow, what a great audience!".

## Trivia

* In his very first appearance in "Cripple Fight", Jimmy was intended to be a one-shot character and "didn't really live in South Park", but Trey Parker enjoyed him so much he was brought back periodically in seasons five ("How to Eat with Your Butt") and six ("Professor Chaos", "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", and "Red Sleigh Down"), eventually becoming a regular supporting character in the seventh season.
* In "Tsst", his house address is given as 1331.
* Behind Ike Broflovski, Jimmy is the second youngest kid in South Park known to have had consensual sex ("Erection Day").
* In "Crippled Summer", it is shown that, while unable to walk without crutches, he can stand on his own without any support.
* Jimmy is a Christian, and possibly a Protestant. He was not seen at the church in "Red Hot Catholic Love", meaning he is not Catholic, but in "Krazy Kripples", he mentions doing "a lock-in at the Rec Center for church".
* Jimmy was not a regular student of Garrison's class until "D-Yikes!" and "Le Petit Tourette", where he seemingly replaced Pip. However, Jimmy was shown to be in the class in various episodes before this.
* Jimmy tends to be the more prominent character in his episodes with Timmy. He slowly started to displace Timmy in season 7 and has since become a regular secondary character, whereas Timmy has been reduced to mostly background appearances starting in season 9. This is likely due to more capable characters being easier to develop.
* Jimmy is usually part of the boys' gang whenever they go past 5 or one of them is preoccupied elsewhere.
* Although he has an askew face, he is not considered one of The Ugly Kids. The same is true for Timmy. Jimmy was ranked #10 on the girls' list of boys from cutest to ugliest and was ranked higher on the true list.
* Jimmy has spoken in every season since his introduction in Season Five.
* Jimmy most likely suffers from Pfeiffer Syndrome, judging from his misshapen head and face, as well as his speech problem. People who suffer from Pfeiffer Syndrome also tend to have underdeveloped feet and teeth, which may explain why Jimmy has crutches and braces. However, his eyes and hands are normal-sized, whereas real-life people with the disorder have bulging eyes and large hands.
* Despite having a love for stand-up comedy, Jimmy has been depicted less and less as time has gone by, perhaps becoming closer to the boys has cultivated the development of interest in other activities.
* Jimmy is shown to have a girlfriend at the end of "Skank Hunt", who broke up with him.
* Like Leslie Meyers, Jimmy maybe, or once, was an ad. In "Cripple Fight", Jimmy uses his stand-up comedy to help attract attention to the bake sale and the "Scouting is for Everyone" movement. In "Freemium Isn't Free", Jimmy is paid to advertise "Terrance and Phillip: Give Us Your Money". This would also explain why Jimmy has such hatred, as well as knowledge, for ads in the Ad Trilogy.
* In *South Park: The Stick of Truth*, Jimmy has an attack called the brown note which causes enemies to crap their pants, this is a reference to "World Wide Recorder Concert", where the boys use it as retaliation against the New York Kids.