The WORST episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show
Every episode of The Tracey Ullman Show ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show!
A variety/sketch show brought to you by funnywoman Tracey Ullman. The show was one of the first programs on the then-new FOX Network in the U.S. in the mid 1980s. Tracey's show was a sketch comedy show including lots of singing and dancing. The Simpsons appear as short, animated sketches, interspersed between the main, live-action sketches. Spinoffs: The Tracy Ullman Show led to the creation of the hit FOX show, The Simpsons. It began as short skits on Ullman's Show. Overall the Simpsons made appearances in 50 episodes in the show's first three seasons and one additional apppearance in the fourth and final season.
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Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1988
ON HER TOES; After the lead ballerina Cristina drops out, the understudy Stacey Duncan (Tracey Ullman) goes through weeks of grueling training to star in the lead role in "The Nutcracker." TINA AND THE PROFESSOR; Tina goes out on a blind date with an ecentric and boring high school biology teacher (Dan Castellaneta). (She must be really getting desperate.) THE HIGH AND THE NOT SO MIGHTY; The USO troup Lisa Morgan and the Mob (Tracey Ullman, Sam McMurray and Joe Malone) are on a U.S. Army plane that is going down in the Pacific and they decide to sing one last song before they all bail out to their doom. GONE FISHIN; Bart and Homer go fishing on a river where they have problems with everything.
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Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1988
DINNER THEATER; While acting in the play, "Butterflies are Free" before a live audience at a restaurant, the lead actress (Tracey Ullman) tries to convince a fat man in the audience (Mike Starr) to take his mind off his food and on her act. CINEMA VERITE; Robert Parket (Sam McMurray) and his film crew visit the run-down apartment of single mother Betty (Tracey Ullman) to make a movie about urban squalor. THE MEDLEY; At a nightclub, a man and woman singing duo (Tracey Ullman and Sam McMurray) makes a final awful medley of 1960's songs in their act. ZOO STORY; The Simpsons visit the zoo and pay a visit to the ape family cage which resembles them.
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Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/1988
THE SLEEPOVER; Francesca invites three friends over for a slumber party and they spend the night talking, playing games and making prank phone calls on the high school stud, Jerome. DR. GIBSON'S MENTOR; Dr. Margaret Niederman (Tracey Ullman), Dr. Gibson's mentor from medical school, pays him a visit to talk of her problems about her thinking that her teachings to him were not favorable. THE ART MUSEUM; The Simpsons visit an art museum for the afternoon while Bart gets carried away with some of the artwork.
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Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1988
KAY: R.E.S.P.E.C.T.; Kay is invited over for dinner at co-worker Polly's (Julie Kavner) apartment and causes friction when she finds out that Polly is stealing office supplies which irritates Polly's boyfriend Mickey (Dan Castellaneta). LATE NIGHT CHECK-OUT; Bored, late night convenience store clerks Debbie and Lynn (Tracey Ullman and Julie Kavner), play "burned-out" to the late night customers for fun to see them get irritated. THE MONEY JAR; Bart, Lisa, and Maggie struggle with their good and bad egos over deciding weather or not to take money from the family's money jar.
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Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1988
GINNY REDUX; Ginny Tilman goes out on her first date since her divorce with a black man named David Black (Harold Sylvester), a teacher from her teenage daughter Pamela's school where she rambles on and on about her ex-husband. FEAR; Phyllis (Julie Kavner), a woman with lots of fears, pays Dr. Gibson a visit to ramble on and on about her everyday fears. REAL LACE; Irish room service waiter Liam (special guest star Frank Patterson), and fellow maid Kate (Tracey Ullman), sing to cheer up a depressed hotel guest (Sam McMurray) in his room. BART'S HICCUPS; Lisa and Maggie try to cure Bart's hiccups, with various methods.
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Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1988
FRANCESCA ALONE; After Dave and William leave town for the night, Francesca invites Scott, a spoiled rich boy, over at her apartment for dinner. PEOPLE AT WORK; After being insulted by a hyped motorist, construction worker Laraine (Tracey Ullman), sings to the other workmen who try to cheer her up. FAMILY PORTRAIT; Homer tries to get everyone to sit still for a moment to have the annual family portrait taken.
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Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/28/1988
CHANGING LANES; After learning that she has a few months to live, world traveler Samantha (Tracey Ullman) spends some time with her boring sister Jill (Miriam Flynn) and her family in the suburbs. TREASURE; A group of five British and Israeli treasure hunters (Tracey Ullman, Sam McMurray, Joe Malone, Dan Castellaneta and Frank McGrun) find a sunken ship with gold in the Mediterranean and their greed takes over as they pile so much gold onto their boat in which a storm hits the area and the boat sinks from the weight of the loot. WINGS OF LOVE; A travel agent's (Joe Malone) dull life changes when a frantic girl (Tracey Ullman) enters the office, desperate to get a passage to Los Angeles. THE AQUARIUM; Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie visit an aquarium and Bart gets carried away when he jumps into the shark tank.
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Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/1988
STORM AT SEA; Summer Storm with her friends Keith, Jerry and Freddy, open a pirated radio station on a boat in the Pacific for a little adventure. A LITTLE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM DOWN UNDER; Kiki Howard-Smith's thoughts are shown during a tense golf game with her thinking if she will make the 18th putt. THE PITS; New York Wall Street stock broker Paula (Tracey Ullman), tries to get her boyfriend Ricky's (Dan Castellaneta), attention to get another chance with him. THE CLOSET; Bart gets locked in a closet while trying to hide from Homer.
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Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/14/1988
CHAINED MELODIES; Angel and Marty Tish, a husband and wife singing duo named "America's Sweethearts," go to Sing-Sing to perform for the prisoners while trying to mend their long-term marital problems. THE TEST; Sara and Greg don't know what to tell Max about the possibility of Sara being pregnant while taking a home pregnancy test. THE PAGANS; Bart, Lisa and Maggie dress as pagans to escape going to church one Sunday with Homer.
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Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1987
ROCK BOTTOM; At her studio producer Keith's urging (Dan Castellaneta), Summer Storm gets admitted into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic and tries to adjust to a different life at her radio station when she gets out. THE CRYONIC MAN; In 20th century London, Laura (Tracey Ullman) finds out that her husband, Lawrence (Dan Castellaneta), has been cryonicly frozen to escape from her constant nagging. SCARY STORIES; Bart tells Lisa and Maggie scary stories in a dark room of the house.
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Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/1987
KAY'S ADVENTURE; Kay wins a free weekend in Atlantic City and goes to see a famous singer, named Gulliver Dark (Sam McMurry), in concert. TOM NODDY blows unusual bubbles during his segment of bubble magic. CUSTOMS; Sue (Julie Kavner), a USA customs official, meets Kristy McDoon (Tracey Ullman), a Scottish rock singer, and won't let her through customs until she sings a song that Sue wrote for her. THE PERFECT CRIME; After Marge bakes cookies, Bart plans the perfect crime of eating all of them and blaming it on Maggie.
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Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1987
MEG'S SHOWER; Tina throws a bridal shower for Meg which brings growing hostility from Tina that Meg is getting married and not her. FOREIGN EXCHANGE; Pakistani convenience store owner Azai (special guest star Cheech Marion), tries to get the local English delivery girl, Ruby (Tracey Ullman), to notice him. WORLD WAR III; Homer tries to get his family into the storm shelter in the basement, several times, during a night-long practiced nuclear alert.
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Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1987
ROMANTIC MOMMY; Francesca's drifter mother Marina (Julie Kavner), pays a visit to Francesca and family. K-AIR; Summer Storm (Tracey Ullman), a stoned, former 1960s punk rocker, is the D.J. of the L.A. airport information radio station and grows insanely bored in her work with Sidney, a fan and co-worker. BART'S HAIRCUT; Bart goes to the barber to get a haircut and tries to hide from the family when the barber accidently cuts off all of his hair.
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Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1987
MAX'S BIRTHDAY PARTY; Sara and Greg hire a drunkard in a Teddy bear costume for Max's 4th birthday party. TWO TOO GOOD PEOPLE; Real estate agent Judy (Julie Kavner), recovering from a failed relationship, meets client Larry (Dan Castellaneta) who wants to buy the house and it's love at first sight. BEVERLY HILLS PROC; Ginny Tillman (Tracey Ullman), a 40-something, real estate agent, goes over the final divorce papers from her husband, Lawrence Tillman (Dan Castellaneta), a Beverly Hills proctologist. SPACE PATROL; Bart, Lisa and Maggie play space patrol with Bart, having a vase stuck over his head, playing a robot.
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Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1987
MONKEY WENCH; Ceci Beckwith (Tracey Ullman), an anthropologist living with the apes in the wilds of Borneo, gets a visit from her sister, Peg (Julie Kavner), who takes her home to New York which makes Ceci homesick. THE CONCERT; Organist Georgia Hale (Tracey Ullman) prepares herself for a concert, providing the music for a National League Hockey game. BIRTHDAY BOY; Stan (Dan Castellaneta), a lonely depressed man, gets a boost in life when Amanda (Julie Kavner), an exotic dancer looking for a birthday party, gets his address by mistake. BART AND DAD EAT DINNER; With Marge, Lisa and Maggie away for the night, Homer cooks dinner for Bart.
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Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1987
THE GARDENER ON THE FLOOR; A theater producer (Julie Kavner) looks over a recreation of a play written by Mrs. Putney (Tracey Ullman), a retired mystery novelist and her house staff. CALENDAR GIRL; A photographer (Sam McMurray) tries to get a cheesecake model (Tracey Ullman) become more active by referring to the money she will get for the shoot. DECORATION DAY; Black-clad housewife Molly (Tracey Ullman), decides to have her kitchen painted her favorite color (black) after arguing with her husband (Sam McMurray) over what color to paint it. HOUSE OF CARDS; A house of cards that Bart builds keeps falling down while showing Lisa and Maggie.
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Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/6/1988
9 MINUTES AND 52 SECONDS OVER TOKYO; Angel and Marty Tish are to make an appearance on a Japanese sing and dance show when living memories of Marty's service in Japan comes to meet him. OUR DINNER AT TROY'S; Sara and Greg Downey have dinner at a popular New York restaurant which turns out not all it's cracked to be. When Greg complains about his food being undercooked, they have a first-hand look at the teenage, but egotistical, chief Troy, who responds by having them thrown out of the restaurant. SHUT UP SIMPSONS; Bart, Lisa, Homer and Grandpa fight over their personal problems that they never seem to solve.
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Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/1990
UNDER THE BOUNDING MAIN; Angel and Marty Tish are on a cruse ship to the South Pacific when they meet Gulliver Dark, who happens to be Marty's former singing partner (now rival) from the old days. ARMS CONTROL; After Rosalie kills a burglar with a gun, Big Tony descends into fear thinking she may one day kill him with the gun.
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Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/21/1990
THE HORMONAL CONVERSION; Dr. Gibson's mentor (Tracey Ullman) pays another visit, revealing that she is now a man named Hans after a sex change operation. WHO IS HE?; Henpecked, New York doorman Jimmy (special guest star John Ashton), returning home from work, asks a depressed girl (Tracey Ullman) outside his apartment building who is the boyfriend that dumped her. FACE THE MUSIC; Chorus dancer Andy (Joe Malone) asks Miss Alexander (Tracey Ullman), the veteran lead dancer in the play he is in, to dance with him backstage in a nostalgic dance sequence.
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Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1990
GINNY EATS ESCROW; Ginny tries to sell Lawrence and Mae a fancy house that is on wretched land to get even with them. Fails, but witnesses their first fight and make up. I HATE PARIS; When Dave goes to Paris for a week on a business trip, William becomes angry and alone, so Francesca tries to cheer him up.
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Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1990
DUE DILIGENCE; Hollywood movie director Buzz Schlanger (special guest star Mel Brooks), tries to control himself when attractive movie actress Miranda Kentner (Tracey Ullman), comes to his office to ask him to cast her in a major movie role. YOU CALL THAT A DRESS?; Madonna-like punk Teresa (Tracey Ullman) gets a visit from the ghost of her father (Dan Castellaneta) at his own funeral who complains that he does not like the dress she is wearing, and also to ask for forgiveness from her in order to get into heaven.
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Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1990
I'M DATING A CORPORATE LAWYER; Sara Downey tells her marriage counselor about the time in 1977 when Greg and her first met at a law office where she worked as a secretary and found that they had a lot in common. A GINNY NOCTURNE; A desperate Ginny beds down with Tony, a non-English speaking Italian pool man and tells him of her dull life. DAWG DAY AFTERNOON; Lou (special guest star Martin Short) is a Cleveland football fan who's nagging wife (Tracey Ullman) tells him not to go to a Cleveland Dawg's game with his friend Arnie (Sam McMurray) because he should spend the afternoon with her.
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Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/14/1989
PSYCHIATRIC HOUR; Zizi, Stacy, and June (Tracey Ullman, Ann DeSavo and Andrea Martin) are three unsure-of-themselves women who meet at a psychiatrists office to talk of their life problems unaware who the psychiatrist is. SUMMER GOES SHOPPING; Summer Storm is caught while instinctively trying to steal dog food and spends the time talking to the store clerk (Dan Castellaneta) of her life problems. WHO NOW, BROWN COW?; A unhappily married couple (Tracey Ullman and Joe Malone) are in a cow suit rehearsing to find the perfect dance steps before their appearance at a carnival. TV SIMPSONS; After Bart's kite gets caught on the TV antenna, Homer goes on the roof to get TV picture working again.
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