Maggie Simpson Maggie's occasional speaking parts and other vocalisations are currently provided by Nancy Cartwright, but she has also been voiced by guest stars James Earl Jones, Elizabeth Taylor and Jodie Foster, and by series regulars Yeardley Smith and Harry Shearer. Maggie has appeared in various media relating to "The Simpsons" – including video games, "The Simpsons Movie", "The Simpsons" Ride, commercials and comic books – and has inspired an entire line of merchandise. "The Simpsons" uses a floating timeline in which the characters do not physically age, and as such the show is assumed to be set in the current year.
Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons) first season, it was the first episode in production and was intended to be the first episode to air from the half-hour show. The series is a spin-off from "The Tracey Ullman Show" in which the family already appeared in a series of animated one-minute shorts. The characters were already created, but had to be further developed in order to carry a half-hour show. The episode was therefore meant as an introduction to the characters. "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and writer/producer Sam Simon (of such television series as "Cheers") wrote the script for the episode. Both Groening and Simon