Sarah Wiggum (2024)

“Clancy!”

―Sarah Wiggum's catchphrase

“Clancy! Use the remote!”

―Sarah Wiggum reacting after Chief Wiggum shoots the television

“I love you, Poppin' Fresh, Aw Clancy!”

―Sarah Wiggum reacting to the sky writing

“Homer, can you make me look Fancy?”

―Sarah Wiggum asking Homer to cut her hair

Sarah Wiggum (née Kanneke)^[1] is Clancy Wiggum's gentle and sweet wife and mother of Ralph Wiggum. She is always elated and in a good mood much like her son and even husband and is mainly seen in crowds, charity groups, bake sales, book clubs or with her family. She doesn’t speak all the time, but she acts very similar to both her husband and son combined and is in no way a one dimensional character. It’s clear both Clancy and Ralph can’t function without her, she is the glue that holds the Wiggum family together. Sarah somewhat sounds like her husband, but she has a more nasally southern like voice (except for 4 Episodes^[2][3][4][5])

History and Marriage[]

In the Season 13 episode, "Half Decent Proposal" ^[6], It is shown Sarah and Clancy are at High School Prom in the 1970's dancing with each other, indicating they may have met or perhaps dated in High School before their eventual marriage.

In the Season 14 episode, "A Star Is Born Again" ^[7], Clancy mentions she was more beautiful at the dance than the day he met and arrested, she giggles and blushes in reply. He then mentions he only planted the crystal meth on her so she would "notice" him, so he has an excuse to arrest her and fall in love with her, despite not doing the crystal meth, any drugs, or any crimes in general. Sarah (according to Clancy) is his "home force". At one time, she immediately dials the authorities at Clancy's command as a reference to the old-fashioned operator who had the stereotypical name "Sarah."

In the Season 25 episode, "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" ^[8], Clancy mentioned to Marge that during Sarah's pregnancy with Ralph, she exclusively listened to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Winston Churchill speeches.

Appearance[]

Sarah has round eyes and normal lashes and wears pink lipstick. She usually wears a light teal (almost white) shirt with rolled up sleeves and collar under a light pinkish-orange dress and wears reddish-orange shoes. She has bluish-purple hair, a normal looking nose, and is about 5'8 feet tall along with being relatively fat, but not as fat as her husband, but she does have a fairly big belly like that of Patty and Selma. In one episode, in the present her hair and body design were changed, and in the same episode during her youth, she was very noticeably thinner.

When it’s cold outside, She commonly wears a dark and light blue jacket with a brown dress underneath, and when she is at church or dressing for something fancy, she wears a light pinkish dress under a light teal or light pink jacket and a red bow tie, other times she wears a magenta shirt under an olive green jacket and light brown dress. Specifically during the winter, she has worn a very light green shirt under a purple jacket, light pink gloves and pearl necklace along with an olive green skirt and purplish-pink shoes.^[9] Another time, she wore a red coat with a black stripe in the middle, along with a white beanie, scarf, mittens, and brown boots.^[10] She has also been seen wearing a red plaid robe.^[11]

Personality[]

Sarah's personality is mainly established by her actions and emotions and not primarily by her talking. She has a mix of characteristics and mannerisms to that of her Husband and Son, such as having a childlike innocence and tendencies, along with being somewhat piggish and dimwitted, but she also has a caring and protective maternal nature as well, with the likes of naivete, kindness, and lovingness, which makes for her being a loyal wife and mother, along with her and her Husband being a perfectly matched couple and functional family compared to some other Springfield families, and is shown consistently how well her and Clancy's marriage is and how much they love each other and care for Ralph.

Non-Canon Appearances[]

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In "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", where various supporting characters get spin-offs, one spin-off (Wiggum, P.I.) has Sarah's marriage to Clancy eventually dissolve and they get a divorce. He gets custody of Ralph and moves to New Orleans.

In "Uncut Femmes", Sarah received a whole and rather forced character retcon and voice change to work with this episodes plot line, she speaks awkwardly and acts very weird in the beginning of the episode when she talks to Marge, and throughout the middle to ending of the episode, she acts differently then she has before as a more "badass" rebellious femme fatale prostitute with lesbian mannerisms, similar to mannerisms of Shauna Chalmers compared to being civil and motherly like beforehand, and her past shows her as a jewelry thief along with 2 other girls, and she met Clancy (at the time a security guard and not a cop) during a robbery the girls were doing and Sarah was the distraction of the 3 girls, she ended up falling in love with him while she was distracting and seducing him, despite not intending to actually fall in love in him.

This same version of the character would return in "Poorhouse Rock", only this time the original design of the character is back, but internally is still in the retconned fashion and still with the "normal" sounding voice and prostitute rebellious mannerisms. In "Lisa the Boy Scout" her mannerisms are different then her past 2 speaking roles, and are back to her Ralph/Clancy mix mannerisms that are consistent with her pre Retcon and post Retcon non speaking cameos and Pamela Hayden speaking roles. Her emotional aspect is like that of her traits of her original character, and not of the lesbian retconned Megan Mullaly version. Same thing would follow in "Iron Marge" where she again acts like her old self pre retcon.

Future[]

At the end of "Flanders' Ladder", she is shown to be one of the many deceased wives of Ned Flanders.

Video Games[]

The Simpsons: Hit & Run, in dialogue by Chief Wiggum, he mentions that Sarah has been asking him to get out of the house to get some fresh air.

The Simpsons Game, when you talk to Sarah, all she says is 'Clancy' (referring to her husband). This includes when you attack her and when she runs away screaming. Chief Wiggum mentions her during the Duff Ultimate Eating Challenge saying that the food was so much better than her cooking.

Tapped Out, in August 2018, Sarah was added as a Premium Character in a bundle which also contains the Springfield Aquarium. She is one of the 'Alcoholic' characters as her tasks include the hour-task of attending AA Meetings with characters such as Bernice Hibbert and Barney. The Sarah Wiggum/Springfield Aquarium bundle reappeared during the Black Friday 2018 event as one of the prizes inside selected mystery crates.

Trivia[]

• In her first appearance in "I Love Lisa" she is shown with brown hair in the crowd next to Clancy at the school play. This would later be changed to purple in her next appearance in "Duffless".
• She tries out for Poochie's voice for The Itchy & Scratchy Show, but of course, she isn't heard.^[12]
• Clancy's pet name for her is "Poppin' Fresh" based on the Pillsbury Doughboy.^[13]
• As hinted by Ralph: "You look like my mommy after her box of wine." She may be an alcoholic, but she is only portrayed as an alcoholic in Tapped Out, as in the series when she has appearances that are canon, she is not drinking in every appearance or every time a bar appears, she isn't in the background of a bar, or drinking such as like being in the background at Moe's Tavern. Only in a few episodes with her having appearances show her drinking or holding a glass of wine, which is mainly for a special occasion or if she and Clancy are at a fancy restaurant, but overall, she is Sober in episodes that are consistent with her characterization. But in a crime parody episode in Season 32, at night she steals the captain's beer and takes a large swig which causes her hair and characterization to be changed for the remainder of the episode. But taking a swig once or drinking alcohol once doesn't classify you as an alcoholic. She is also seen in another episode in Season 33 supposedly drunk from drinking eggnog, as well as in another Season 33 episode drinking as well, but the last one being the retconned version and in a non canonical episode.
• It is revealed that Marge Simpson does not like Sarah, but in later episodes, Sarah is seen hanging out with Marge meaning this was more then likely a throw a way one liner, or Marge made the effort to give Sarah another chance.^[14]
• In "The President Wore Pearls", she was shown with ginger hair, this was likely an editing or color mistake during production of this episode.

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