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When Lisa Cried
Yeardley Smith reflects on the early Simpsons episode that left her a blubbering mess.
It also contains some explosive moments, including one where Lisa screams at Homer for being so insensitive — “You, sir, are a baboon!” she roars — and another where she breaks down in tears at the train station while bidding farewell to Mr. Bergstrom, voiced in the episode by Dustin Hoffman. Recording the episode had a profound effect on Smith — she calls it “one of the most fantastic, fulfilling, meaningful, lovely, generous days of my career” — partly because of the rapport she established with Hoffman but also because she related so strongly to what Lisa was going through. “I absolutely bawled every single take, and I’m not kidding,” she says in a conversation about recording an episode that helped her sort through her feelings about herself and her own father by way of Lisa Simpson.
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