Dangle was briefly married to a woman named Debbie (see below) and he briefly believed that he fathered a son (a result of sex with what he thought was a drag queen), but DNA results proved otherwise. In one episode, Jones apparently had sex with him out of sympathy ('I'll try anything once'), after which Dangle was hospitalized because, as Jones said it, 'he can't fucking walk.' (The incident occurs off-camera, with the actual events undisclosed). He openly harbors an attraction to Jones and occasionally flirts with suspects. I guess people think he's closeted because Trudy is in love with him, but that has more to do with the fact that she's severely brain-damaged.' In an interview about Reno 911 and his character Dangle, Lennon says, 'There's always this question, 'When's Dangle coming out?' and I'm like, 'Have you seen the show?' On the first episode, he makes out with another man for about two minutes. Unfortunately, his jeans caught fire, forcing Dangle to cut the bottom parts of his pants off, resulting in the hot-pants he currently wears.ĭangle is gay. Lieutenant James 'Jim' Ronald Dangle (played by Thomas Lennon) is the flamboyant highest-ranking deputy in the department and is usually seen wearing his trademark short-shorts, which he claims that he wears for 'mobility.' In a season 6 episode where the officers watch a video of themselves in the late 1980s, Dangle is seen wearing full-length jeans.
