Maggie Simpson

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.

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Fictional character - Animated cartoon - Television - The Simpsons

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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.

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1993 - 1987 - 2005 - November 18 - August 1

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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.

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Pacifier - Matt Groening - Tracey Ullman era - Nancy Cartwright - The Simpsons

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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-Mexican gunfight).

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Moe Szyslak - Moe Baby Blues

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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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Charles Montgomery Burns - Who Shot Mr. Burns? - Homer Simpson - Saxophone - Lisa - Pacifiers

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Some 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=MC²) 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.

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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.

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Lisa's Wedding - Bart To The Future - Astronaut - Lisa The Simpson

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