Yeardley Smith, The Voice Of Lisa Simpson, Told Us 9 Little Tidbits You You Might Not Know About "The Simpsons"

The show has a really surprising famous fan!

So recently, BuzzFeed had the honor of having the voice of Lisa Simpson herself, Yeardley Smith, come in and take one of quizzes. While she was here, Yeardley told us little tidbits about herself and the show that any The Simpsons fan would love to know! Here are the nine we loved.

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1. The Brazilian Tourism Board sued the show after The Simpsons aired an episode where the family visited the country.

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In 2002’s “Blame It on Lisa,” the family went to Rio de Janeiro. While the episode featured a lot things that weren't flattering to the city — like muggings and kidnappings happening in the city — according to Yeardley the tourism board seemed to be especially upset about the Simpsons being attacked by monkeys (because it's a city and monkeys don't live in Rio).

2. Glenn Close (who voiced Mona Simpson on several episodes) and Yeardley had actually worked together before.

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In 1984, Yeardley got her first big break after she took over Cynthia Nixon's role in the Broadway play The Real Thing (the play's director, Mike Nichols, cast Cynthia in another play and Yeardley was her understudy). The play starred Glenn, who Yeardley says was completely welcoming and nice to her.

Years later, the two saw each other again when Glenn came to do some voice over work for the show, and Yeardley also happened to be in the studio that day. Yeardley says Glenn gave her a HUGE hug when she saw her.

The Real Thing also starred Jeremy Irons; which I think makes this classic moment even funnier:

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3. The entire Simpsons cast records their parts together like "an old radio show."

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They record together and usually do four takes of something (to give the animators and producers different things to work with).

4. Special guest stars usually don't record with the cast.

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Which makes sense since there roles are usually smaller and it's also probably hard to schedule them into the general cast recording time.

5. Lady Gaga was one of the few exceptions and recorded her voice role with the rest of the cast.

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According to Yeardley, Gaga was extremely sweet, humble, and down for anything. She also did multiple takes of everything and pick-ups, just like the regular cast.

6. It's a lot of work for the animators to put the Simpsons family members or any of the other characters in different outfits.

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Which is why everyone wears the same clothes all the time.

7. For this same reason, the voiceovers for the Halloween episodes are recorded a year in advance.

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It takes extra work and time for the animators to create new clothing for all of them, as well as backgrounds.

8. Yeardley admitted she has a hard time remembering a lot of details of what has happened in the episodes.

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Once she has done the initial recording and the ADR (dialogue that is re-recorded after the original dialogue is completed) for an episode, she is done with it and won't see that episode until nearly a year later.

9. Dame Judi Dench is a huge fan of the show.

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According to Yeardley, she found out about that after running into Dame Judi and her daughter at the National Movie Awards in London (where she had been sent to pick up an award for The Simpsons Movie).