Information about Maggie Simpson

The Simpsons character
Maggie Simpson
Gender	Female
Hair color	Yellow (blond)
Job	None
Relatives	Parents: Homer and Marge Siblings: Bart and Lisa Grandparents: Abraham, Mona, Jacqueline and Clancy Aunts: Patty and Selma Bouvier Uncles: Herbert Powell, Arthur Cousin: Ling Bouvier (See also Simpson family)
First appearance	The Tracey Ullman Show, Simpsons short "Good Night"
Voice actor	Various[1]

Margaret "Maggie" Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. She is the youngest of the five main family members, and is eternally a baby. She first appeared in the Tracey Ullman short "Good Night" and was quite prominent during the Ullman days, often being featured alongside Bart and Lisa. Maggie has since become the least seen of the five main Simpsons.^[1]

Role in The Simpsons

Like average babies, Maggie is impressionable and easily influenced by what she sees around her. She once hit Homer on the head with a mallet, shot a suction dart at his picture, brandished a pencil in imitation of Itchy and Scratchy. Despite her age, Maggie is a formidable marksman, as seen in "Who Shot Mr. Burns?"^[2] and "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge," where she is able to shoot the fingers off of a group of mobsters in rapid succession with a rifle.^[3]

During the early seasons of the show, Maggie's equivalent of a hallmark or calling card would be to trip over her clothing and fall on her face while trying to walk, causing a loud smack on the floor. Indeed, throughout the Tracey Ullman shorts, Maggie fell down a total of 39 times.^[3]

She is keenly aware of her surroundings, and can usually be seen imitating the flow of action around her. Like Bart, Lisa and Homer, she is not fond of spending time with her aunts Patty and Selma.^[5]

Character

Creation

Maggie was named after Matt Groening's younger sister Margaret "Maggie" Groening.^[6] She often sucked on a pacifier and wore a sleep suit, two traits Groening used for Maggie.^[7] Groening thought that it would be funny to have a baby character that did not talk and never grew up, but assinged any emotions that the scene required.^[7] Her comedic hallmarks include her tendency to stumble and land on her face while attempting to walk (though this has been downplayed in later seasons), and a penchant for sucking on her pacifier, the sound of which has become the equivalent of her catchphrase and was originally created by Groening during the Tracey Ullman period, and by Nancy Cartwright during the regular series.

During the show's opening credits, Maggie is run through a supermarket checkout scanner, which reads that she is worth $847.63 (a reference to the monthly cost of infant-rearing in 1989)^[8]. In "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular," the scanner instead reads "NRA4EVER," a reference to the running joke that the show's creators are right-wing radicals.

Voice

With few exceptions, Maggie never speaks but is very participatory in the events around her, emoting with subtle gestures and facial expressions. Maggie has spoken in "Good Night", the first short to air on The Tracey Ullman Show, after the family falls asleep, she speaks. On this occasion, Liz Georges provided the voice of Maggie.

Maggie's first word spoken in the normal continuity of the series occurred in "Lisa's First Word", when she was voiced by Elizabeth Taylor and says "Daddy" in an empty room.^[1][10] Elizabeth Taylor's performance as Maggie was later named the 13th greatest guest spot in the history of the show.^[11] James Earl Jones, who voiced Maggie in Treehouse of Horror V, was in seventh place.^[12] She would later have brief dialogue in Treehouse of Horror IX, voiced by Harry Shearer, who used his Kang voice.^[13] Her squeaks and occasional speaking parts are regularly done by Nancy Cartwright or Yeardley Smith.

References

External links

• Biography from the official Simpsons website
• Maggie's page at BBC.co.uk
• The Maggie File unofficial trivia compilation
• The Cutest Baby

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