 The character's last name, "Lemon," is apparently intended to imply an acerbic personality and possibly also to make her full name alliterative.Fey has stated that she wanted Liz to have a good last name since she knew the character would often be called by it.Among the child actors who portrayed Liz in flashbacks to her youth was Fey's own daughter, Alice Richmond, in "Mazel Tov, Dummies!