Marge Simpson voice is performed by Julie Kavner, who also does the voices of Marge's mother Jacqueline and her sisters Patty and Selma. Kavner had been part of the regular cast of "The Tracey Ullman Show". Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member Dan Castellaneta to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors. Part of Kavner's contract says that she will never have to promote "The Simpsons" on video and she rarely performs Marge's voice in public because she believes it "destroys the illusion. People feel these are real people."
Marge vs. the Monorail seventh season, Yeardley Smith said of the episode as "truly one of our worst – we [the entire cast] all agree". In 2012, "Marge vs. the Monorail" was the second-place finisher in a "Splitsider" reader poll to decide on the best episode of any television sitcom, losing to the "Community" episode "Remedial Chaos Theory". Conan O'Brien and Hank Azaria performed the monorail song live at the Hollywood Bowl from September 12–14, 2014 as part of the show "The Simpsons Take The Bowl". Marge vs. the Monorail "Marge vs. the Monorail" is the twelfth episode in the fourth season of the