Lou+&+Eddie


 * Lou and Eddie **



Lou and Eddie are two policemen in Springfield. They are subordinated Chief Wiggum and often assist him. Their relationship to their boss isn’t the best. Both of them are smarter then him, but he won’t accept it. They are also quite lazy and often rather cocky. Still, they play important roles in The Simpsons. Lou is a policeman in his 30’s. He has dark-brown skin and short, curly black hair. He actually used to be yellow during his first episodes, but later turned like this. It looks like the directors found out that the character would be better if Lou was black. Lou also has a little moustache and often wears his blue police uniform with a “club” on. Altogether, he is quite handsome. In addition, Lou is said to be the most intelligent policeman in Springfield. And he thinks so too. Whenever he can, he tells his boss, Wiggum what he is doing wrong. As a matter of fact, his boss is doing a lot of mistakes. What makes this character a little special is that he is a cool guy. There aren’t many characters in the Simpsons, which are good-looking, smart and cool. Lou is self-confident and people admire him. He simply is the typical “Black-character” you can find in nearly every American movie. As an example, in “Separate Vocations” when Bart asks him what he likes by being a cop, Lou answers: “ You can run red light, park wherever you want and get hot and cold running chicks.” Although Lou seems a bit haughty because of the way he comments his boss faults, he sometimes shows us other sides as well. In “Stop or my dog will shoot”, he says: “Sometimes I forget why you’re chief, but now I remember”, after Wiggum said that the Santa’s little Helper wouldn’t follow his nose, but his heart to find Bart. In some episodes, certain facts about Lou’s life shine trough. In “Stop, or my dog will shoot” we see that he has a kind of girlfriend. But it doesn’t seem like it is a very god relationship. Lou: “Remember, they don’t love us, they love our uniforms.” In another episode, we get to know that he is a graduate of Princeton University. But after all, Lou is a flat character. We don’t get to know much about his past or him as a person, at least not in details. What is more, Lou made his first appearance in “There’s no Disgrace like home”. According to the DVD commentary on season one, he was based on Lou Whitaker. And in America, he is voiced by Hank Azaria. Eddie Eddie is Lou’s partner. He is yellow, like most Simpson’s-characters and has only some single hairs on his head. Even if he is a little more stubby then Lou, he is also rather good-looking. Wiggum is always wondering how it comes this man has no girlfriend. Eddie isn’t talking much, what makes him a little mysterious. But we understand that he is also one of the more talented police officers in town, at least in contrast to his superior Chief Wiggum. Eddie also is a flat character. You don’t even get to know him as “much” as Lou. What we do learn is that he’s got an ex-wife, but not much more. Still, he plays an important role. The Simpsons simply need some more quiet characters like him. In addition, Eddie is a parody of the white, boring, uncool partner of the cool black character. In “Separate Vocations”, when Bart asks him and Lou what they like by being cops, he answers:” When you go home at night you know you’ve made a difference.” That shows us how different he and Lou are. Eddie made his first appearance in the same episode as Lou: “There’s no Disgrace like home”. In America he’s voiced by Harry Shearer. Sources: http://nohomers.net/showthread.php?p=1904663 http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Lou http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Eddie http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Separate_Vocations