The Simpsons: Elizabeth Taylor And Maggie’s First Word
The iconic actress was brought in to say the baby’s first word, and executive producer Al Jean once recounted the memorable occasion: “Usually for the records, the room was almost empty — we’d have the cast and then a couple writers. That day, the recording stage was completely filled. She came in, she had a little dog, and she wore her ring, which was huge. It cost more than my house. We had her do the one line where she said ‘Daddy’ as Maggie. I’m looking at the ‘Most Beautiful Woman in the World,’ trying to think, ‘What does that sound like coming out of a cute little baby?’ I asked her for a lot of takes because it’s very hard to know what you want on one word, but she was really funny about it. After I said, ‘Okay, we got it!’ she said ‘F**k you!’ in the Maggie voice. She was kidding. Everybody laughed. She lived up to everything you would expect Elizabeth Taylor to be.”
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Futurama: A Year, An Episode
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Producer David X. Cohen said that every single episode took about a full year to make from beginning to end. “It’s such a long feedback loop,” Cohen told The Atlantic. “We write something, and we don’t know what the fans are going to think — or even what we’re going to think, when our minds are clear of it, and we watch it a year later. You write an episode, you watch it a year later and decide, ‘Oh, I like that, I’m going to keep going in that direction’ and write another episode — that’s not on for another year. So it’s really a two-year feedback loop, at minimum.”