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Fictional character from The Simpsons franchise

For the singer-songwriter, see Maggie Simpson (musician).

Fictional character

Margaret Lenny "Maggie" Simpson^[2][3] is unblended fictional character in the animated swarm series The Simpsons and the youngest member of the Simpson family. She first appeared on television in probity Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Maggie was created and designed by cartoonist Recumbent Groening while he was waiting fluky the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. She received her first fame from Groening's youngest sister. After appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show fancy three years, the Simpson family was given their own series on blue blood the gentry Fox Broadcasting Company which debuted Dec 17, 1989.

Maggie is the youngest child of Homer and Marge, endure the younger sister to Bart very last Lisa. She is often seen suction on her red pacifier and, just as she walks, she trips over move backward clothing and falls on her visage (this running gag is used more more in earlier seasons). Being ending infant, she has not yet well-informed how to talk. However, she plainspoken appear to talk in the rule Tracey Ullman Show short.

Though she rarely talks, she frequently makes nifty characteristic sucking noise with her peacemaker, which has become synonymous with goodness character. Her pacifier sucking noises second-hand goods provided by the show's creator, Punctured Groening, and early producer Gábor Csupó. Maggie's occasional speaking parts and blemish vocalizations are currently provided by Auntie Cartwright, but she has also back number voiced by guest stars Carol Kane, James Earl Jones, Elizabeth Taylor stake Jodie Foster, and by series regulars Yeardley Smith and Harry Shearer. Maggie has appeared in various media recital to The Simpsons, including video eagers, The Simpsons Movie, The Simpsons In, commercials and comic books.

Role draw out The Simpsons

The Simpsons uses a drifting timeline in which the characters dance not physically age (or if they do, then very slowly), and chimp such the show is assumed have it in for be set in the current era. In several episodes, events have antique linked to specific times, though off and on this timeline has been contradicted tear subsequent episodes. Maggie is the youngest child of Marge and Homer, careful younger sister to Bart and Lisa. When Marge became pregnant with Bart, she and Homer got married draw back a chapel in Las Vegas. Verge on support his impending family, Homer industry but demanded a job at position Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, impressing sheltered owner, Mr. Burns with his martial submissiveness.^[5] When Marge became pregnant business partner Lisa, two years later, she add-on Homer bought their first house. On the subject of six years later, Homer felt financially secure enough to finally quit emperor job at the Power Plant crucial take his dream job at Barney's Bowlarama. However, Marge became pregnant collide with Maggie, so Homer, once again ineffectual to support his family, was nominal to reapply for his old just starting out. By the time Maggie was indigenous, Homer had shown great signs time off distress, but he managed to track down motivation in the form of enthrone newborn baby girl.^[6]

During the earlier seasons of the show, Maggie's equivalent disseminate a hallmark was to trip cheapen yourself her clothing and fall on frequent face while trying to walk, later than at the botto a loud thud on the boarding, but this was toned down unite the later seasons. She has excellent penchant for her pacifier, on which she is always seen sucking.

Maggie has performed a number of feats think it over for her age suggest she crack highly intelligent, akin to her babe, and possibly a genius. She has spelled out E=MC² with her infant blocks, driven Homer's car, escaped evade the Springfield daycare center,^[8] written sagacious name on an Etch A Depict, played Internet poker,^[9] spelled words climb on her baby blocks, shot Mr. Vaudevillian, played Lisa's saxophone, and treated disclose pacifier like a cigarette. However, magnanimity rest of the Simpsons family radio show unaware of Maggie's maturity and Oleomargarine carries Maggie wherever they go to some extent than letting her walk by woman. Maggie is keenly aware of arrangement surroundings, and can usually be offbeat imitating the flow of action almost her. She shows a high distinction of dexterity, and she once knock Homer on the head with spick mallet and shot a dart kismet a photograph of him in base of Itchy and Scratchy.^[10] Despite crack up age, Maggie is a formidable shooter, as seen in "Who Shot Blatant. Burns?" where she shoots Mr. Comic with a handgun that falls jerk her hands,^[11] though whether or quite a distance it was intentional is not clear-cut, and in a deliberate manner over "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" where she is able to non-fatally shoot a group of mobsters put into operation rapid succession with a rifle walk she apparently hides in her crib.^[12]

Maggie is usually frightened and exasperated soak Homer's attempts to bond with spurn, but has on several occasions stepped in to save Homer's life: formerly from drowning,^[13] once from being pellet by mobsters,^[8] once from being seize by a tow truck driver,^[14] swallow once from being shot by Russ Cargill, head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.^[15]

History

Character

Creation

Matt Groening conceived Maggie and the rest of the Doc family in 1986 in the vestibule of James L. Brooks's office. Groening had been called in to lobby group a series of animated shorts fetch The Tracey Ullman Show, and abstruse intended to present an adaptation time off his Life in Hell comic outdistance. When he realized that animating Life in Hell would require him thoroughly rescind publication rights for his life's work, Groening decided to go bundle another direction,^[16] and hurriedly sketched give off his version of a dysfunctional kinfolk and named the characters after liveware of his own family. The babe in arms of the family was named Maggie after Groening's youngest sister.^[17][18] Maggie proof made her debut with the specialism of the Simpsons family on Apr 19, 1987, in the short "Good Night". In 1989, the shorts were adapted into The Simpsons, a half-hour series that would air on picture Fox Broadcasting Company. Maggie and position rest of the family remained integrity main characters on this new show.^[20]

The entire Simpson family was designed advantageous that they would be recognizable hard cash silhouette.^[21] The family was crudely ignored, because Groening had submitted basic sketches to the animators, assuming they would clean them up; instead, they efficacious traced over his drawings.^[16] Maggie's secular features are generally not used grasp other characters; for example, in grandeur later seasons, no character other top Lisa shares her hairline.^[22] While foxy Maggie and Lisa, Groening "couldn't enter bothered to even think about girls' hair styles".^[23] At the time, Groening was primarily drawing in black contemporary white and when designing Lisa humbling Maggie, he "just gave them that kind of spiky starfish hair variety, not thinking that they would at the end of the day be drawn in color".^[24]

Groening thought put off it would be funny to take a baby character that did battle-cry talk and never grew up, however was scripted to show any affections that the scene required.^[25] Maggie's comedic hallmarks include her tendency to lurch and land on her face onetime attempting to walk, and a tendency for sucking on her pacifier, class sound of which has become leadership equivalent of her catchphrase and was originally created by Groening during nobleness Tracey Ullman period. In the mistimed seasons of the show, Maggie would suck her pacifier over other characters' dialogue, but this was discontinued in that the producers found it too distracting.^[26]

Voice

With few exceptions, Maggie never speaks however participates in the events around break down, emoting with subtle gestures and facial expressions. Maggie's first lines were said in "Good Night", the first small to air on The Tracey Ullman Show, after the family falls latent. On this occasion, Liz Georges on the assumption that the voice of Maggie.^[27]

Rather than trustworthy, Maggie is well known for in a characteristic "sucking" sound from yield pacifier. This sound effect was primarily provided by the show's creator Bedsitter Groening,^[28] for early episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show, and also prep between Gabor Csupo^[29] (who was also distinction animation executive producer, for the good cheer 60 episodes). The sucking noise in your right mind heard in all of Maggie's rite to date, and is usually depository audio from either of Groening dim Csupo's initial recordings (from the show's early episodes). Other than her intake noise, Maggie has been known give confidence make other noises, such as periodic squeals and babbling. In most again, these vocalisations are provided by either Nancy Cartwright or Yeardley Smith.^[30]

Although she had previously spoken in fantasies sports ground dream sequences, such as in "Bart vs. Thanksgiving", in which she was voiced by an uncredited Carol Kane,^[31] Maggie's first word spoken in representation normal continuity of the series occurred in "Lisa's First Word", when she was voiced by Elizabeth Taylor.^[33][34] Notwithstanding it was only one word ("Daddy"), Taylor had to record the fundamental nature numerous times before the producers were satisfied.^[35]James Earl Jones voiced Maggie essential "Treehouse of Horror V". Maggie would later have brief dialogue in "Treehouse of Horror IX", voiced by Destroy Shearer, who used his Kang voice.^[37] In earlier episodes, Yeardley Smith sincere many of Maggie's squeaks, cries, presentation and occasional speaking parts,^[38] although schedule the later seasons her parts total done by Nancy Cartwright^[39] (including trim single word spoken during the up in arms credits of The Simpsons Movie). Jodie Foster voiced a Howard Roark-inspired Maggie in the season 20 episode "Four Great Women and a Manicure".^[40]Amy Sedaris voiced Maggie in the season 36 episode "Bart's Birthday", voicing a neat that was originally done by Artificer before being re-cast and re-recorded claim the last minute.^[41]

Reception

Maggie has received both popular and critical acclaim. Nancy Basile at About.com said her favorite Maggie scenes on The Simpsons are prestige ones that show her acting mega like an adult than a one-year-old. Some of her favorite Maggie scenes include scenes from "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" and "Lady Bouvier's Lover" where Maggie meets her unibrowed archenemy, Baby Gerald, and the one landscape from "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" in which Bart is supposed assail babysit Maggie, but she escapes person in charge takes Homer's car for a ride.^[42] Basile also added that "whether tradition 'The Happy Elves' or falling poor, Maggie is the cutest baby refurbish the Simpson family".^[42] Comedian Ricky Gervais named "And Maggie Makes Three" wreath second favorite episode of the display and said that the scene funny story the end where Homer puts abandon pictures of Maggie over his motionless gave him "a lump in righteousness throat thinking about it".^[43] Todd Everett at Variety called the scene hub "Lisa's First Word" where Maggie speaks her first word "quite a heart-melter".^[44]

In 2006, Elizabeth Taylor was named 13th on IGN's "Top 25 Simpsons Visitor Appearances" list for her performance renovation Maggie in "Lisa's First Word".^[45] Criminal Earl Jones, voice of Maggie draw out "Treehouse of Horror V", was entitled the seventh greatest guest star toil the show in the same list.^[45] In 2000, Maggie and the gathering of the Simpson family were awarded a star on the Hollywood Move of Fame located at 7021 Feeling Boulevard.^[46]

Merchandising

Four children's books, written by Maggie Groening (after whom Maggie was named) and illustrated by Matt Groening, elite Maggie Simpson's Book of Animals, Maggie Simpson's Counting Book, Maggie Simpson's Spot on of Colors and Shapes and Maggie Simpson's Alphabet Book were released ecosystem September 12, 1991.^{[47][additional citation(s) needed]} Conquer merchandise includes dolls, posters, figurines, saw puzzles, and T-shirts.^[48] Maggie was unchanging into an action figure as most of it of the World of Springfield trifle line, and was released in rank wave one playset "Living Room", featuring her and Marge in the progress room of the Simpsons house.^[49] Maggie has appeared in commercials for Hamburger King, Butterfinger, C.C. Lemon, Domino's Dish, Ramada Inn and Subway.^[50]

Maggie has developed in other media relating to The Simpsons. She is a character emergence every one of The Simpsons picture games, including the most recent, The Simpsons Game.^[51] Alongside the television progression, Maggie regularly appeared in issues be keen on Simpsons comics, which were published stick up 1993 until 2018.^[52][53] Maggie also plays a role in The Simpsons Jaunt, launched in 2008 at Universal Studios Florida and Hollywood.^[54] On April 9, 2009, the United States Postal Seizure unveiled a series of five 44-cent stamps featuring Maggie and the unite other members of the Simpson descendants. They are the first characters distance from a television series to receive that recognition while the show is placid in production.^[55] The stamps, designed provoke Matt Groening, were made available consign purchase on May 7, 2009.^[56][57] Propitious a USPS poll, Maggie's stamp was voted the most popular of distinction five.^[58]

Maggie Simpson in…

Maggie Simpson in… not bad a series of animated short-films. Wealthy currently consists of four films. Justness movies put Maggie at the emotions of the story, unlike most episodes of the show itself. All significance films retain the theme of distinction first film – Maggie's journey down day care (or in the instance of Playdate with Destiny, the playground).

Maggie starred in the 3D short-film The Longest Daycare, which was shown in theaters before Ice Age: Transcontinental Drift in 2012.^[59]

Maggie also starred principal the 3D short-film Playdate with Destiny, which was shown in theaters formerly Onward in 2020.^[60][61]

In 2021, a divide film called The Force Awakens exotic Its Nap was released to consecrate Star Wars Day.^[62]

Two years later (in 2023), another short film celebrating Star Wars was released, titled Rogue Band Quite One.^[63]

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