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Maggie Simpson speaks!
Lindsay Lohanlends her voice toThe Simpsons' youngest daughter in anew clipfrom Sunday's episode of the show, "Parahormonal Activity," which features a flash-forward scene of the animated family chatting it up in the kitchen.
"I'm driving to school today," a moody, slightly older teen Bart says at the beginning of the clip, which Lohan posted on Instagram. "How am I gonna learn not to kill people if you don't let me practice?"
Maggie then nervously shivers, about to speak up — until Marge jumps in and insists, "Maggie, Maggie, rest your voice! You're still getting over that laryngitis!"
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But Maggie chimes in against her mother's wishes. "Please don't let Bart drive!" she yells. "It's too scary! He drives so wiggly, and everybody honks at us and yells bad words and shows us fingers!"
Bart then reluctantly hands over the keys.
Lohanshared her enthusiasmfor her guest role on the animated sitcom in a separate post.
"Catch me on #TheSimpsons this Sunday on Fox!" the actress wrote. "What a dream come true to be part of this iconic family."
Maggie traditionally only communicates via gestures, grunts, and pacifier-sucking sounds, and her nonverbal sounds are usually voiced by Nancy Cartwright, who also voices Bart.
However, she has occasionally spoken with other voices, usually in dream sequences, flash-forwards, and alternate reality episodes. Maggie first articulated words in the season 2 episode "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," in which Bart imagines his sister saying, "It's your fault I can't talk!" Carol Kane voiced Maggie for that single line.
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Perhaps most memorably, Maggie uttered her first word in the season 4 episode "Lisa's First Word" — and the scene wasn't framed as a dream or a possible future, which made it one of the only moments in which the baby canonically spoke. Elizabeth Taylor delivers that single word —"daddy" — as Maggie sits alone in her crib, unheard by the rest of the family. Fun fact: Lohan portrayed Taylor in the 2012 Lifetime movieLiz & Dick, which unfortunately did not depict the Hollywood legend's moment in theSimpsonsrecording booth.
Cartwright also spoke one word as Maggie during the credits of 2007'sThe Simpsons Movie: "Sequel?"
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Later, in the season 20 episode "Four Great Women and a Manicure," Jodie Foster delivered a verbose monologue in a fantasy sequence parodying Ayn Rand'sThe Fountainhead. The scene saw Maggie defend her architectural ambitions (as displayed through complex structures made of building blocks) after criticism from her daycare teacher, arguing that she strove to "achieve things that are the glory of all humanity." Fun fact No. 2: Lohan has a connection to theSilence of the Lambsactress, too, as she starred in the 2003 remake ofFreaky Fridayas a teenage character similar to the one Foster portrayed in the original 1976 film.
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Other performers who have voiced Maggie include James Earl Jones, Kevin Michael Richardson, andSimpsonsregular Harry Shearer in non-canon "Treehouse of Horror" episodes. In the most recent "Treehouse of Horror," Viola Davis spoke for Maggie, who was revealed as the narrator of the final segment in the ep's closing moment.
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