Jimmy Valmer

James 'Jimmy' Vulmer (formerly Jimmy Swanson) is a character that appears on the cartoon series South Park. Like Timmy, he is handicapped, but he uses crutches to walk and is able to speak to people (albeit with a stutter), although he sometimes ends his sentences with "very much" when there is no need for it. He is voiced by Trey Parker. This character is inspired by Tiny Tim Cratchit from Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

In the episode Cripple Fight he and Timmy engage in a fistfight that is, shot-for-shot, nearly identical to the fistfight scene in They Live. Later, though, they get along very well. Jimmy seems to be the only one who can understand Timmy's utterances.

Like Timmy, the humor of Jimmy's character comes from his endless optimism despite his handicap; his disability is not mocked per se, but rather his exaggerated eagerness to be a successful "handi-capable" person is. Jimmy has recently started to expand his role on South Park; it is unknown if he is being eased in as a main character. His crutches seem to hinder his arm use. This is shown in Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes as he tries to get Sharon Marsh a shopping cart out of a row.

Appearance
He wears a yellow long-sleeved shirt, and blue jeans. His face is rather lop-sided. He wears braces. His hair is brown, and he seems to have sideburns.

Talents and interests
He likes to perform stand-up comedy, in the style of Jay Leno, but he is often criticized for his jokes, even though everyone considered them hilarious in Cripple Fight.

Jimmy seems to be good at fighting, as he fought rather well against Timmy, in Cripple Fight.

Jimmy also likes singing. His favorite song is The Twelve Days of Christmas, but he sings it painfully slowly in front of the City Hall in Red Sleigh Down. He has also acted on a few occasions, such as The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers. He is also very competitive, taking steroids just so he can win the Special Olympics. He and Timmy also competed against Christopher Reeve in Crazy Cripples.

Jimmy also seems to be eager to be a fourth member - In Professor Chaos he is one of the final ten fourth members, and also becomes a suck-up, which may be why he was declined as a fourth member.

Relations
He had a girlfriend in Up the Down Steroid, named Nancy. They had met in Free Period the week before. He beat her up after a rush of testosterone hit him after consuming steroids. He had accused her of cheating on him. He also beat his mother up when she came to defend Nancy. It seemed as if Nancy forgave him for that, though, as she still rooted for him at the Special Olympics.

He is the only 4th grader to lose his virginity. He once told another boy of how he and his girlfriend had had sex recently. This girlfriend may or may not have been Nancy. In another episode, Erection Day, Jimmy started getting erections, and in an effort to stop them in time for the talent show, he had sex with a prostitute who went by the street name Nut Gobbler.

Name Dispute
His last name is uncertain; he was known as "Jim Swanson" in Krazy Kripples, but "Vulmer" in the episode Up the Down Steroid, Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina, and Erection Day. This was referenced in a recent episode Tsst, in which Jimmy asked Eric Cartman what his last name was, after he said they were best friends, but Cartman didn't know.