The Simpsons: Maggie SimpsonBy Wikipedia
Margaret "Maggie" Simpson is a fictional character
featured in the animated cartoon television series The Simpsons.
She is the youngest daughter of their household, eternally a baby.
Maggie was born in 1993, according to the show's chronology (though the
fact she appears in 1987 and is still a baby as of 2005 confuses this).
Her exact birthday is unknown, but she was conceived on November 18, thus
making her birthday around August 1.
Her claim to fame is falling down frequently as she struggles to walk
and sucking on her pacifier, reputedly voiced by Matt
Groening during the Tracey Ullman
era and by Nancy Cartwright during the half-hour length series.
However, during the series, the sound effect is called from a sampler,
making any voice attributions moot. She was named after Margaret
"Maggie" Groening, youngest sister of Matt Groening, creator of
The Simpsons.
Little Maggie has gotten herself into many dangerous situations.
However, she has always depended on the help of other creatures to get her
out of these fixes, like other imprisoned babies when she wanted to escape
from a Daycare Center, or a group of grizzly bears when she was lost in
the forest. The most significant of Maggie's allies is the town barkeeper Moe
Szyslak, who proved himself an unlikely hero in Season 14 ("Moe
Baby Blues") when he saved her life twice (once from falling off a
bridge and drowning and a second time from an Italian gunfight).
Maggie is also a crack shot. She shot Charles
Montgomery Burns in the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" cliffhanger
and gunned down the mobsters who had the intention of whacking Homer
Simpson. She knows how to play the saxophone better than Lisa, but Lisa is
the only person who knows this and shows no intention of telling anyone.
She has a seemingly limitless supply of pacifiers that she distributes to
people and animals who are sad or otherwise seem to need them.
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fans have suggested that Maggie will probably be the real Simpson genius
of the family ahead of Lisa. For example, Maggie at one year old could
spell EMCSQU (E=MC˛) with her toy building blocks whereas Lisa at three
considered it impressive that she could spell STAR with her building
blocks even if the rest of her family did not.
Episodes set in the far future make a few predictions about Maggie. In
"Lisa's Wedding", she seems to take after her brother in being a
rebel. She is a sullen teenager who has won a motorcycle trophy at some
point. She also wears her pacifier around her neck. She will apparently
have an "amazing" singing voice, but her voice is not actually
heard in the episode. The episode "Bart To The Future" revealed
that Maggie has become an astronaut and has a daughter called Maggie
Junior, who is identical to as she was as a baby. Whether these
predictions are reliable is questionable, not least because The Simpsons
never age, but the success of the two female Simpson children (Lisa goes
onto become President) and the relative failure of the male Simpson child
(Bart works in demolition in "Lisa's Wedding" and is an
unemployed musician in Bart To The Future) is consistent with the episode
"Lisa The Simpson", which reveals that genetically, the Simpsons
are incredibly intelligent, but the male Simpsons carry a defective gene
which reduces their intelligence dramatically. Maggie could possibly be
more intelligent than Lisa.
Maggie talking
With a few exceptions, Maggie does not speak. However, she is keenly
aware of events around her and emotes with subtle gestures and facial
expressions. Unfortunately, these are the easiest parts to clip out of an
episode for syndication, so they may be missed by most people.
Maggie's first word ever spoken in the normal continuity of the series
was "Daddy" (voiced by three-time Academy Award winner Elizabeth
Taylor). However, it was not heard by the Simpson family:
Homer: The sooner kids talk, the sooner they talk back
[tucks Maggie in] I hope you never say a word.
[shuts the door]
Maggie: [taking her pacifier out] Daddy.
(from 9F08, Lisa's First Word)
Fans generally agree that her second spoken word in the normal
continuity of the series was "Daddily-doodily" (voiced by
Yeardley Smith, in episode 3F01 - "Home Sweet Home- Diddily- Dum-
Doodily").
In one early episode, Homer attributes Maggie burping as the word
"Burlap" after being chastised earlier in the episode for
missing many of Bart's and Lisa's early achievements.
Maggie did say "Good night" in "Good Night," the
very first Simpsons short on the Tracey Ullman show, broadcast on April
19, 1987. On that occasion, Liz Georges (later a star of As Told By
Ginger) provided the voice.
Maggie has talked during fantasy sequences and Halloween episodes of
The Simpsons. In one Halloween show (2F03, Treehouse of Horror V), she was
played by James Earl Jones. "Her" line was "This indeed is
a disturbing universe," said after killing Groundskeeper
Willy.
In episode 8F23 Maggie makes a wider-than-usual range of noises which
are rendered as speech by an electronic baby translator invented by
Homer's half brother Herb.
Relations
Maggie is:
Maggie's arch-nemesis is Baby Gerald, a baby with a unibrow.
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