Clancy Wiggum

Chief Clancy Wiggum (voiced by Hank Azaria) is a fictional character from the TV show The Simpsons.

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Hank Azaria - TV - The Simpsons

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Wiggum is the archetype of a dopey doughnut-eating cop, who is also not overly concerned with constitutional rights, being 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 ... good food though.") and flaunts his power, albeit with good intentions most of the time. He does not get along well with Mayor Quimby. He is generally incompetent, but is often assisted by his more intelligent (but still quite lazy and often rather cocky) "top (and only) cops" Lou and Eddie who usually accompany him.He also exhibits a great lack of knowledge of Springfield's laws and also quotes sayings from the police handbook which cannot actually be found in the book('like the book says, if you can't beat them ,join them'). His early attempts to get into the Police Force were unsuccessful on account of his asthma, so he took a job as a security guard for C. Montgomery Burns. Wiggum was present in one of Burns's laboratories when Mona Simpson sabotaged his germ experiments. Wiggum inhaled the fumes, which had the pleasant side affect of curing his asthma, but had no affect whatsoever on his acne. This allowed him to pursue his ambition to become a professional police officer, a position he recieved by being handed the badge on the street. Clancy's voice is based on that of Edward G. Robinson. He is the husband of Sarah Wiggum (who he met when arresting her for possession of drugs that he planted on her in order to "make her notice him) and father of Ralph Wiggum. His relationship with Ralph is surprisingly loving and possibly redeems his otherwise lazy and self centred character.

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Archetype - Doughnut - Cop - Pig - Sideshow Bob - New Year's in February - Mayor Quimby - C. Montgomery Burns - Mona Simpson - Edward G. Robinson - Sarah Wiggum - Ralph Wiggum

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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:

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• 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, then firing his gun at a nut when he was unable to crack open the shell of that nut.
• Attempting to shoot the Third Dimension.
• Using a shotgun to shoot a piñata, but with a blindfold: "Am I getting warmer?"
• At the wedding of Sideshow Bob and Selma Bouvier, he left his handgun on the table with the wedding cake.
• In Treehouse of Horror 15, he lent his handgun to Homer instantly upon request.

Wiggum's incompetence is brilliantly showcased in Homer's Triple Bypass. In a parody of FOX's Cops, Wiggum investigates a cattle rustler and uses a tank to knock down the suspect's door ... only to find he has the wrong house. The occupant, Reverend Lovejoy, is very angry, especially since the cattle are in the neighbor's yard. Snake, the suspect that Wiggum is after, is able to make a clean getaway; Wiggum fails to give a coherent description of Snake or his direction of travel. ("The suspect is hatless! Repeat, hatless!")

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Homer's Triple Bypass - Cops - Tank - Reverend Lovejoy - Snake

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Wiggum also fails to comply with his police duties in a real emergency. In one episode, he refused to believe calls from people saying that an elephant (Bart's pet elephant Stampy) destroyed their property. After two calls, he thought a call reporting a "liquor store robbery in progress, officer down" was also a fake call. In another episode he mocks people who come in to report crimes to him by telling them he will "write on his invisible typewriter". This includes a man with a lighter saying "I just torched a building down town and I'm afraid I'll do it again"

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Elephant - Stampy - Liquor

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