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Ralph Wiggum (voiced by Nancy Cartwright), son of Police Chief Wiggum, is a classmate of Lisa Simpson at the Springfield Elementary School. Ralph is a good-hearted child, but has learning and social difficulties, which are evidenced by his tendency to utter hilarious and stupid sayings - such as "I bent my Wookiee" and "I'm going to live with my underground grandma" - throughout the course of the show.
One (actually this happens many times) particularly revealing example is a sequence where Ralph's class is doing craft activities, and Miss Hoover tells Ralph to "please stop eating the paste." He is regularly bewildered by the teasing he receives when he reveals his ignorance to his more clued-in classmates. His cat's name is Mittens, which is strange because he considers that word to be a "swear." Ralph also has a pine cone which he claims is his "baby brother".
When Ralph originally appeared on the Simpsons, he wasn't associated with the Wiggum family (He also had a different voice & personality). It was later on in the series that the writers decided that he would be perfect as the son of Police Chief Wiggum.
A lesson in life you could only learn from Ralph is: "The leprechaun tells me to burn things!!"
Ralph Wiggum is a caricature of a stereotype -- in this case, he is a caricature of the "'special' kid" stereotype.
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