In his book, Mike Reiss offers decades-worth of insights, including his take on Elizabeth Taylor’s brief but significant cameo as the voice of Maggie all the way back in 1992. Taylor was brought in to record one line. Actually, to be more specific, she was brought in to record one word: “Daddy.” This, of course, was in the context of a baby speaking to her father for the first time, and therefore needed to be as sweet and heartwarming as possible. Unfortunately, Taylor wasn’t initially able to distinguish between this more wholesome approach as a more, shall we say, alluring version. As Reiss writes:

“Liz created the biggest stir of any guest we’ve had on the show. Three hundred people packed our tiny studio to hear her record her one-word part: ‘Daddy.’ She had to do six takes because, as you can imagine, it kept coming out too sexy. We had to remind her she was a baby talking to her father, not hitting on him.”

Of course, Taylor being a pro, and “The Simpsons” writers clearly not being willing to waste their one Liz Taylor line by having Maggie come across as inappropriately sexy, the line was eventually recorded to the production teams’ satisfaction — but not before Taylor took the opportunity to actually hit on one of the three hundred people in the studio that day …