Character Maggie Simpson

maggie in first appearance in ullman short night .

matt groening first conceived maggie , rest of simpson family in 1986 in lobby of james l. brooks s office. groening had been called in pitch series of animated shorts tracey ullman show, , had intended present adaptation of life in hell comic strip. when realized animating life in hell require him rescind publication rights life s work, groening decided go in direction, , hurriedly sketched out version of dysfunctional family , named characters after members of own family. baby of family named maggie after groening s youngest sister. maggie made debut rest of simpsons family on april 19, 1987 in short night . in 1989, shorts adapted simpsons, half-hour series air on fox broadcasting company. maggie , rest of family remained main characters on new show.

the entire simpson family designed recognizable in silhouette. family crudely drawn, because groening had submitted basic sketches animators, assuming clean them up; instead, traced on drawings. maggie s physical features not used in other characters; example, in later seasons, no character other lisa shares hairline. while designing maggie , lisa, groening couldn t bothered think girls hair styles . @ time, groening drawing in black , white , when designing lisa , maggie, gave them kind of spiky starfish hair style, not thinking drawn in color .

groening thought funny have baby character did not talk , never grew up, scripted show emotions scene required. maggie s comedic hallmarks include tendency stumble , land on face while attempting walk, , penchant sucking on pacifier, sound of has become equivalent of catchphrase , created groening during tracey ullman period. in seasons of show, maggie suck pacifier on other characters dialogue, discontinued because producers found distracting.

voice

with few exceptions, maggie never speaks participates in events around her, emoting subtle gestures , facial expressions. maggie s first lines spoken in night , first short air on tracey ullman show, after family falls asleep. on occasion, liz georges provided voice of maggie.

rather talking, maggie known producing characteristic sucking sound pacifier. sound effect provided show s creator matt groening, episodes of tracey ullman show, , gabor csupo (who animation executive producer, first 60 episodes). sucking noise heard in of maggie s appearances date, , archive audio either of groening or csupo s initial recordings (from show s episodes). other sucking noise, maggie has been known make other noises, such occasional squeals , babbling. in instances, these vocalisations provided either nancy cartwright or yeardley smith.

although had spoken in fantasies , dream sequences, maggie s first word spoken in normal continuity of series occurred in lisa s first word , when voiced elizabeth taylor. although 1 word ( daddy ), taylor had record part numerous times before producers satisfied. james earl jones voiced maggie in treehouse of horror v . maggie later have brief dialogue in treehouse of horror ix , voiced harry shearer, used kang voice. in earlier episodes, yeardley smith did many of maggie s squeaks, cries, laughs , occasional speaking parts, although in later seasons parts done nancy cartwright (including single word spoken during end credits of simpsons movie). jodie foster voiced howard roark-inspired maggie in season 20 episode 4 great women , manicure .

in occasional episodes set in future ( lisa s wedding , bart future , future-drama , holidays of future passed , days of future future ), although older maggie depicted, running gag within these episodes never shown speaking.