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Chief Wiggum

Character from The Simpsons franchise

Summary

Character from The Simpsons franchise

Field	Value
name	Clancy Wiggum
series	The Simpsons
image	Chief Wiggum.png
first_major	"Homer's Odyssey"
first_date	January 21, 1990
creator	Matt Groening
designer	Matt Groening
voice	Hank Azaria
gender	Male
occupation	Police Chief of Springfield
family	Iggy Wiggum (father)
Mark (cousin)
Unnamed brother
spouse	Sarah Wiggum
children	Ralph Wiggum (son)

Mark (cousin) Unnamed brother

Chief Clancy Wiggum is a character from the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. He is the chief of police in the show's setting of Springfield, and is the father of Ralph Wiggum and the husband of Sarah Wiggum.

Gluttonous, irresponsible, and immature, Wiggum is often too lazy, cowardly, and corrupt to bother fighting crime. His more responsible subordinate officers Eddie and Lou play the straight men to his shenanigans.

Character development

His surname "Wiggum" is Matt Groening's mother's maiden name and her parents were Norwegian immigrants. As "a conscious pun", Wiggum was designed to look like a pig. Hank Azaria first based his voice for Wiggum on David Brinkley, but it was too slow and he switched it to an Edward G. Robinson impression. The first use of his first name being Clancy was in "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", but in the script for "The Telltale Head" his name was Abner Wiggum.

Biography

Many episodes have dealt with the back story of how Wiggum, despite his incompetence, occupies such a high rank in the Springfield Police Department. However, these jokes tend to contradict one another, as is typical with side characters on The Simpsons. Wiggum was temporarily promoted to Commissioner of Police for the state in which Springfield resides during the 2005 episode "Pranksta Rap". He also appeared on a Halloween novel depicting Netflix's Stranger Things Chief Jim Hopper.

References

Bibliography

References

(9 March 2015). "Sam Simon's Iconic 'Simpsons' Characters".
"[[The Italian Bob]]"
[[The Secret War of Lisa Simpson]] - Wiggum: ''"What about military school? It set my brother straight. Now he owns and operates a famous cave."''
Rose, Joseph. (2007-08-01). "The real people behind Homer Simpson and family".
Rhodes, Joe. (2000-10-21). "Flash! 24 Simpsons Stars Reveal Themselves". [[TV Guide]].
(2018). "[[Springfield Confidential". [[Dey Street Books]].
Whiton, Christian. (September 30, 2018). "'The Simpsons' turns 30 -- a big milestone for Gen X and America".
Sokol, Tony. (March 25, 2019). "The Simpsons Season 30 Episode 18 Review: Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy".
Yeates, Cydney. (July 15, 2019). "The Simpsons to spoof Stranger Things in Treehouse Of Horror XXX this Halloween".

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