Wiggum family

In the television series, The Simpsons, the Wiggum family consist of Clancy (father and police officer), Sarah (mother), and Ralph (child).

Family Members

Ralph

Ralph Wiggum (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is a classmate of Lisa Simpson at the Springfield Elementary School. Ralph is a good-hearted child, but has learning and social difficulties, which are evidenced by his tendency to utter hilarious and stupid sayings - such as "I bent my Wookiee" - throughout the course of the show.

One particularly revealing example is a sequence where Ralph's class is doing craft activities, and Miss Hoover tells Ralph to "please stop eating the paste." He is regularly bewildered by the teasing he receives when he reveals his ignorance to his more clued-in classmates. His cat's name is Mittens, which is strange because he considers that word to be a "swear."

Ralph Wiggum is a caricature of a stereotype -- in this case, he is a caricature of the "'special' kid" stereotype.

Clancy

Chief Clancy Wiggum (voiced by Hank Azaria) is the stereotype of a doughnut-eating cop pushed to absurd levels. He has pig-like facial figures (pig being a common epithet directed toward police officers). Wiggum once complained that Sideshow Bob once called him "Chief Piggum." He is disturbingly uninformed on several issues ("Some Chinese people claimed they were celebrating New Year's in February ... They've good food though.") and flaunts his power, albeit with good intentions most of the time. His voice is similar to that of Edward G. Robinson.

Wiggum does not use his police handgun in a safe manner. Nor is he a very good shot with his handgun. There are many examples of his abuse. These include,

• Firing into a cloud on a city street.
• When Joan Rivers told a joke about him over the TV, he attempted to shoot out the TV screen by firing his gun three times. The shots all missed, but woke up his wife, who said, "Clancy, use the remote."
• Using his handgun to crack open nuts. And firing his gun at a nut when he was unable to crack open the shell of that nut.
• Attempting to shoot the Third Dimension.

Sarah

Sarah Wiggum is Clancy Wiggum's wife. Sarah rarely speaks in the shows, but she does often appear in crowd scenes, Sarah is a soft housewife whose nickname is "Poppin' Fresh".

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