Clancy+Wiggum

**[[image:245px-Chief_Wiggum.png align="right"]]Clancy Wiggum**
By Ådne

Clancy Wiggum is the police chief in Springfield. He is married to Sarah and has one son, Ralph. He was born in Baltimore. Before being a cop he used to sell ribbons with his father Iggy. Clancy was also a classmate with Homer Simpson. Clancy became a police officer at the age of 32. He got the chief job by just meeting the former chief, because he was so frustrated that he decided to give his job to the first person he met witch was Mr. Clancy Wiggum. Clancy Wiggum can only be described as a police stereotype. He is lazy, incompetent, ignorant, dim witted and morbidly obese. He is just like all other police men we see in American comedies: Fat, loves coffee and donuts and very lazy. Clancys greatest achievement is his son Ralph. He has also solved two crimes, both involving the Simpson family.

His goal is to get out of the bed in the morning. And maybe solve some crimes, if that doesn't tire him to much.
Clancy Wiggum has a flat role in the Simpson’s episodes. He is not involved in every episode and when he is, we only see him a couple of seconds, often doing silly things. He is what we call a stock character. Immediately recognized and not very often shown. You can say that he is a dynamic character, but only because he has changed his hair colour in a couple of episodes. Clancy has a much directed way of speaking. But he says almost everything on a clumsy way. Ex: Can you describe where you are? I’m in a car, looks like we are driving on asphalt, we’re driving by two trees and we are right under the sun….now. I think that this makes the character funny and interesting to watch. Clancy Wiggum is in every action he does clumsy. But if the other characters laugh of him, he is not very happy about it and is rude back. Even if he isn’t a good cop, Clancy has a good and caring relationship to his family. Especially his son Ralph. He backs him up and can be really patient with him. And he use the money he earn to take care of his family. Even if Clancy Wiggum isn’t a great cop he knows how to take care of his family, and in the end that is what really counts! Sources: [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_Wiggum  [|http://www.thesimpsons.com/bios/bios_townspeople_wiggum.htm  [|http://youtube.com/watch?v=nTKbVkkTPhs 

Episode analysis
=Ådne= I’ve seen the episode Midnight Rx which is episode number 6 of the sixteenth season. The episode was first aired in January 16. 2005. The main characters in this episode is Homer Simpson, Mr.Burns and Grampa Simpson. This episode takes place mainly in Springfield but also in Canada. In this episode Mr. Burns prepares a company party for his employers. He is unusual kind with everybody but he has a hidden agenda. He wants to terminate the prescription drug plan. This is not popular with his employers who are worried about how they will get their sickness healed. Burns then escapes in and old fashion flying machine from the angry mob. The Simpson family like other families cannot afford to buy the prescription drugs. Homer wants to get a new job, but soon the other companies follow Mr. Burns’s lead and cancel all the prescription drug plans. The Simpson family takes the case in their own hands. Homer and Grampa Simpson drives to Canada to buy drugs. They stop at an old people’s home to borrow a health record. Because in Canada you can get as many drugs you want. And they drive away from Canada with car full of drugs. Homer and Grampa pass the custom easily and drives back to sell the drugs to other people in Springfield. On one of their trips, Homers neighbor Ned and the salesman Apu are to come along. When they are about to leave Canada a border guard thinks that Apu are expressing his faith and thinks he’s a Muslim. They leave Canada with the promise to never return. Then Mr. Burns’s secretary gets a disease. Mr. Burns then decides to take his own plane made of wood and fly to Canada to bring home some medicines for him. Homer and his friends are with him. But on the way back Mr.Burns jumps out of the plane with a parachute and Homer has to take the plane down. The theme in this episode is health care. The Americans has a discussable health care program. The state doesn’t pay their medical bills like they do in Norway. In the US you need insurance to get paid, but you need a very good reason to be paid because the insurance companies are always looking for a loophole. This episode sets the issue on the poster. People in America have a very bad health system. And I guess that this is just a picture on how it would be without the drugs prescriptions. The people would be desperate. Without the drugs you cannot heal specific diseases, like Mr. Burns’s secretary who neck swelled up. He needed a specific drug, and Mr. Burns had to fly all the way to Canada to get it. And that is special even for Mr. Burns! The drugs in America are expensive and hard for Americans to get. Mr. Burns fills up his whole wood-plane with it and wants to give the drugs to the citizens of Springfield. This is much exaggerated because of the plane and the amount with drugs that he imports to the US. I think that the writer’s opinion of this is that USA should get a proper medical system, without insurances and expensive drugs. I think that they wants to set the light on this issue and show the people how America really is and what people who can’t afford drugs have to do to get them. And I think that most of the people who watches this episode agree and want the government to change the situation to a better for the citizens in the United States of America. And they do it in a very good way! Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Rx Midnight Rx – Simpson episode