# The Simpsons; (Elizabeth Taylor guest-starring) 4/3/11 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093 "2011-04-03T23:50:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/1 "2011-04-03T23:50:01Z")
Heads up to anyone who’s interested; Fox is rerunning the episode where Maggie (voiced by none other than Dame Elizabeth Taylor) says her first words. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/2 "2011-04-03T23:57:56Z")
Dame Elizabeth Taylor? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/3 "2011-04-04T00:03:43Z")
Yes. She received the honour in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/4 "2011-04-04T00:11:05Z")
This has to be one of my most favourite _Simpsons_ episode. I almost ever get touched by a TV show, but the ending to this episode is great ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/5 "2011-04-04T00:25:32Z")
It’s terribly amusing that the episode is set in the 80s. Right now, Bart would have been born in 2000, and Homer and Marge would have been 12 in 1984. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/6 "2011-04-04T00:46:14Z")
So anybody want to share their (or their kids’) first words? Mine was _shit_; which I started saying over and over again in the most awkward (for others) of circumstances. Mom was very mad at the person who taught me that word. Of course that person was her, who’d you think it was? 😃 She’d constantly say it when changing my diapers or when something bad happened. My older brother’s first word was “fuck”. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/7 "2011-04-04T01:53:46Z")
I noticed one error in tonight’s episode. In the flashback, Homer meets Flanders for the first time. Flanders offers any help, and Homer asks to borrow his TV trays. Flanders says he just bought them. Then it’s a cut away to Homer putting a drink of the TV tray and Homer says, he’s had those trays eight years now. But Bart is 9 years old and was two years old when they moved, so Homer overestimated how long he had those trays. I wonder if you need to to simple math to be a safety inspector at a nuclear power plant? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/8 "2011-04-04T02:14:49Z")
Bart’s current age is always 10. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/9 "2011-04-04T04:00:28Z")
Wow I didn’t realize. I guess I messed up as he is in the 4th grade. And Lisa is 8 and in second grade. Where I am 4th graders are typically 9 and 2nd graders are usually 7. I guess that through me off ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/10 "2011-04-04T04:16:43Z")
Lots of kids turn 10 before finishing 4th grade, if their birthday is in the first half of the year. You’re right that it doesn’t make a lot of sense in the episodes obviously set in the fall or around Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/11 "2011-04-04T04:28:34Z")
The M_A_S_H references really jumped off the screen when I watched it this time, because I’d watched about 90% or so of M_A_S_H since the last time I saw this Simpsons episode. Funny how long-running series are like that. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/12 "2011-04-04T06:01:31Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I wonder if you need to to simple math to be a safety inspector at a nuclear power plant? > > 🙂 Only if you want to be a _good, competent_ one. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/13 "2011-04-04T06:21:57Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Only if you want to be a _good, competent_ one. As Bart said to Homer “Do you even have a job anymore?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/14 "2011-04-04T09:17:50Z")
I’m pretty sure there was a first season episode where Bart turned 10. Certain of it. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/15 "2011-04-04T10:40:43Z")
Season 3, Radio Bart ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/16 "2011-04-04T12:59:34Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > Season 3, Radio Bart Ooh, right, the one where ‘Timmy fell down the well.’ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/17 "2011-04-04T16:53:25Z")
How old did Lisa turn in the Michael Jackson episode? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/18 "2011-04-04T16:59:39Z")
“You two are way overdue for a growth spurt.” ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/19 "2011-04-04T17:15:24Z")
Why did they air Lisa’s First Word rather than Krusty’s Komeback Special, where Liz had more than one line and actually appeared on screen? Besides, James Earl Jones and Jodie Foster both do a much better job voicing Maggie. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093/20 "2011-04-04T18:00:56Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Why did they air Lisa’s First Word rather than Krusty’s Komeback Special, where Liz had more than one line and actually appeared on screen? I think only the former episode used Liz’s real voice; the other was an impersonator. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-elizabeth-taylor-guest-starring-4-3-11/577093.md?page=2)