Editing Gary Chalmers

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{{Quote|Skinnerrrrr!!!|Superintendent Chalmers' catchphrase}}
{{Character
|name = Gary Chalmers
|image = [[File:Gary Chalmers.png|200px]]
|caption = Official artwork of Gary Chalmers by [[Matt Groening]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|alias = Superintendent Chalmers<br>Chalmers<br>Super Nintendo Chalmers
|age = 
|hair = Gray (balding; toupee<ref name="Replaceable">"[[Replaceable You]]"</ref>) (formerly brown)
|job = Super-duperintendent of [[Springfield Elementary School]]<br>'''Formerly:''' Teacher<br>Superintendent of [[Springfield Elementary School]]<br>Vice-principal of [[Springfield High School]]<ref>''[[The Bart Book]]''</ref>
|relatives = '''Wife:''' [[Rosemary Chalmers]] (deceased)<ref name="Bart Stops">"[[Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts]]"</ref><br>'''Sister:''' [[Muriel]]<br>'''Daughter:''' [[Shauna Chalmers]]<ref>"[[What to Expect When Bart's Expecting]]"</ref>
|appearance = "[[Whacking Day]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]]
}}

'''Superintendent Garibaldi "Gary" Chalmers''' is the superintendent<ref name="Bart Stops"/> of [[Springfield]]'s [[Springfield Elementary School|school]] district.

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Chalmers originally hails from [[Utica]], [[New York]],<ref>"[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]"</ref> but has also said that he comes from Queens, New York and [[Intercourse]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He attended Ball State University and is a proud owner of a red 1979 Honda Accord (and later, a Camry, which [[Otto Mann]] promptly wrecks). He mentioned to [[Principal Skinner]] that he is a Sagittarius (b. November 22-December 22).<ref>"[[The Heartbroke Kid]]"</ref>

=== Teaching days ===
Chalmers used to teach, until he supervised a group of detention students called [[The Fight Club]] and they beat him up when he mistakenly called them "The Breakfast Club". After this, he never taught again and only superintended. Years later, he ended up teaching [[Bart Simpson]] and several other students about {{Ch|Theodore Roosevelt}} when [[Principal Skinner]] challenged him to take over Bart's education.<ref name="Bart Stops"/>

=== Personality ===
Chalmers is a strict, no-nonsense, and largely humorless man, with a short temper and low tolerance for disorder or rule-breaking. His general demeanor and personality are like those of a military officer. Whenever he visits Springfield Elementary, some sort of disaster strikes. He produces extreme anxiety in [[Principal Skinner]], who offers increasingly improbable stories to explain what is happening. Chalmers is known for throwing open the doors to the room and bellowing "SKINNER!!!" or "SEYMOUR!!!", to which Seymour's usual response is to stammer "S-Superintendent Chalmers!" Evidently, Chalmers' trademark bellowed catchphrase has caused some paranoia in Skinner.<ref>"[[Lisa's Date with Density]]"</ref>

Chalmers's own competence and dedication to his job are questionable. He let [[Ned Flanders]] allow the school to descend into anarchy when he was principal, freely admitting that he had fired Skinner for far less, explaining simply that "Skinner really bugged me." In fact, the only reason Chalmers even allowed Skinner to be reinstated as Principal was because Ned Flanders introduced prayer into the school, and thus was fired because Chalmers felt that religion should never be placed within school walls, just as school or government shouldn't be placed in church walls. He seems disturbingly unconcerned with the school's decline, saying that "the way America's public schools are sliding, they'll all be like this in a matter of months. I say enjoy it — it's a hell of a toboggan ride!" He also promotes people based on personal bias as opposed to actual competence, promoting Principal Holloway, described by Skinner as a "drunk" and Chalmers as a "pill-popper", to assistant superintendent, overlooking the efforts made by Skinner to improve his school's standing.
[[File:Chalmers bald.png|thumb|left|Chalmers with a bald head]]
When Springfield began erecting surveillance cameras around [[Springfield]] and [[742 Evergreen Terrace]] was discovered to be a blind spot and transformed into a crowding place for rebellious activity, Superintendent Chalmers was spotted swinging nunchucks while prancing in a Tutu.<ref>"[[To Surveil with Love]]"</ref>

He was once involved in a large brawl in the teacher's lounge and was knocked out after [[Dewey Largo]] punched him over a wooden balcony.

Chalmers and Skinner have also made [[Chalmskinn Productions]], an organization that the two school workers make when they sponsor [[Lisa]] in a film competition.

=== Romantic Interests ===
Chalmers once dated [[Agnes Skinner]], much to Skinner's dismay<ref>"[[Bart the Fink]]"</ref> (although on other occasions he has mentioned being married). Later, it is revealed that Chalmers is a widower and his wife's name was [[Rosemary Chalmers|Rosemary]].<ref name="Bart Stops"/>

Skinner once received a note by Bart's [[Raymond Bird|carrier pigeon]] stating that Chalmers and [[Edna Krabappel]] were "doing it", after Skinner read it, Chalmers backed out of the room awkwardly and claimed she was on the rebound from [[Groundskeeper Willie]].<ref>"[[How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?]]"</ref> Chalmers also once said that he was dating the mother of one of the [[Springfield Elementary School|Springfield Elementary]] band students.<ref>"[[Flaming Moe]]"</ref>

He hooked-up with [[Brunella Pommelhorst]] during "Grownup Halloween".<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref>

=== Hair ===
When Chalmers was younger and a teacher, he had brown hair.<ref name="Bart Stops"/> However, he has since gone totally bald. His gray balding hairstyle is actually a toupee.<ref name="Replaceable"/>

=== Traits ===
On a few occasions, Chalmers says Skinner's name this way when absolutely nothing has gone wrong, implying that he probably pronounces Skinner's name this way out of habit (e.g. once saying "SKINNNEERR! and [[Agnes Skinner|Mrs. SKINNNEERR!]]") This habit seems to also have an effect on words that rhyme with "Skinner", such as "I must get home to make sure my pool boy is using his SKIMMMEERR!", "...catch a fish for his DINNNEERR!" and "SPINNNEERR" after yelling at [[Bart Simpson]] for spinning in Skinner's chair.

== Non-canon  ==
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=== Future ===
In one possible future, Chalmers is practically a vegetable, wheelchair-bound and only capable of saying his trademark line: "Skinner!"<ref>"[[Future-Drama]]"</ref>

In another possible future, Chalmers is a colonel of an army that he leads on the planet [[Rigel 7]] to fight the [[Rigellians]], to get [[Hillarium]], a liquid that makes everything funny. He is defeated after Bart makes Chalmers slap himself in a large robot suit that he controls by movement, telling him he had something on his face, thus making Chalmers fall off a cliff.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XXII]]"</ref>

In one comic story he revealed he had been dating [[Lunchlady Dora]].<ref>''[[The "X" Men]]''</ref> Chalmers and Dora were also seen making out in "[[Brick Like Me]]"

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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== Behind the Laughter ==
[[File:Police Superintendent Chalmers.png|thumb|right|70px|Police Super-<br>intendent Chalmers]]
*In the DVD commentary for "[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]", ''Simpsons'' creators noted that Superintendent Chalmers seems to be one of the few "normal" characters on the show, and Chalmers is frequently alone in his awareness of the show's zaniness.
*His first name was revealed to be Gary in "[[Yokel Chords]]" by Bart.
*In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "{{w|Shanksgiving}}", it's revealed that Gary has a brother, Police Superintendent Chalmers, who was raised by their mother after their parents divorced. The two brothers have apparently never met since they were old enough to remember.
*In the [[season 32]] episode "[[The Road to Cincinnati]]", it's revealed that his full name is Garibaldi Chalmers.
=== Foreign dubs ===
{{Dub voices
|czVoice=Milan Slepička
|esLAVoice=Miguel Ángel Botello
}}

== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Whacking Day}}
*{{ep|Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song}}
*{{ep|The PTA Disbands}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)}}
*{{ep|Team Homer}}
*{{ep|Bart the Fink}}
*{{ep|'Round Springfield}}
*{{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Date with Density}}
*{{ep|Grade School Confidential}}
*{{ep|The Principal and the Pauper}}
*{{ep|Lisa Gets an "A"}}
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|I'm Goin' to Praiseland}}
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
*{{ep|The Heartbroke Kid}}
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
*{{ep|We're on the Road to D'ohwhere}}
*{{mov}}
*{{ep|Girls Just Want to Have Sums}}
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
*{{ep|G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)}}
*{{ep|Yokel Chords}}
*{{ep|The Debarted}}
*{{ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
*{{ep|Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
*{{ep|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee}}
*{{ep|What to Expect When Bart's Expecting}}
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Came to Be Dinner}}
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{ep|Bart's Not Dead}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(Intrusion of the Pod-Y Switchers)}}
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
*{{ep|'Tis the 30th Season}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content}}
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX|(Heaven Swipes Right)}}
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
*{{ep|Livin La Pura Vida}}
*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror|(A-Gobble-Ypto)}}
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
*{{spec|The Simpsons SU2C PSA}}
*{{ad|Hit a Homer}}
*{{bon|The Principal of the Thing}}
*{{bon|K-Bart}}
*{{bon|The Secret Life of Bart Simpson|(Bart daydreams that he's "Superintendent Simpson")}}
*{{bk|The Marge Book|(Old high school photo)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
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== References ==
{{Images|Gary Chalmers}}
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