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The Tracey Ullman Show
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The Tracey Ullman Show was one of the startup FOX network's inaugural programs, premiering on April 5, 1987 and running for four seasons. It was the second longest-lasting show on FOX's original primetime lineup, behind Married... with Children (eleven seasons).Hosted by Tracey Ullman, the series was a Variety Show that featured comedy skits and musical numbers. Among the players in her troupe were Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Sam McMurray and Joseph Malone, as well as a slew of guest stars. The show also had Paula Abdul as its choreographer.Among the recurring characters Ullman played included: Kay Clark: A timid, Cockney-accented office worker who tends to her sick mother. She later appeared on Ullman's HBO series Tracey Takes On... Francesca McDowell: A teenage girl living with her father Dave (Castellaneta) and his partner William (McMurray). Kiki Howard Smith: An Australian professional golfer. Summer Storm: A Los Angeles disc jockey.Of course, the reason most people today know this show even existed is because of a series of animated skits that were used as interstitial material on the show: The Simpsons, featuring Castellaneta and Kavner as Homer and Marge. After becoming the show's Ensemble Darkhorses, producer James L. Brooks spun them off into their own series, and the rest is history. Besides Castellaneta and Kavner, many of the Ullman writers also went to work on The Simpsons full time after this show went off the air. Ullman herself guest-starred in season 2's "Bart's Dog Gets a F". | |
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Narrative Shapeshifting | |
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Narrative Shapeshifting: In "The Perfect Crime", Maggie informs the family who stole the cookies by pulling her hair back to look like Bart. | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong: In "Good Night," Homer tells Marge as they go to bed, "We may be the best parents in the world." The terrified kids then come running in, having been frightened by their good night messages (Lisa by Marge's "don't let the bedbugs bite," Bart by Homer's unintentionally Mind Screw-inducing answer to a question he had about the brain, and Maggie by the lyrics to "Rock-a-Bye Baby"). | |
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So Long, Suckers! | |
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So Long, Suckers!: Note to Bart: this is not the ideal exit when you're shoplifting. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: In "Shoplifting," Bart steals candy bars and gets a scolding from Homer and Marge after they pick up him from the store. He boasts that he isn't really being punished—after all, they're still driving him home. Right on cue, they kick him out of the car and make him walk the rest of the way. In the very first sketch—"Good Night"—Marge and Homer congratulate themselves on what a good job they did putting the kids to bed. Cue Bart, Lisa, and Maggie coming into their room and panicking over various troubles. | |
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Men Can't Keep House | |
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Men Can't Keep House: One sketch has Marge taking Lisa and Maggie to the ballet, leaving Homer in charge of dinner. He's only able to come up with a mix of fish nuggets and "pork-a-roni," which disgusts Bart. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: "Maggie in Peril: The Thrilling Conclusion" opens with a Previously on… narrated by Bart, who of course wasn't paying attention to Maggie in the first place and insists that nothing is wrong. | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming | |
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Hypocritical Heartwarming: In the short "Family Therapy" The Simpsons go to a psychiatrist due to driving each other crazy and while there proceed to be their usual dysfunctional selves. However, once the annoyed psychiatrist gets sick of them and starts listing their faults, the Simpsons get indignant on each other's behalf and assault him. They then have a good laugh about the situation after being kicked out of the office. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In "Watching TV", Maggie changes the TV channel and the show's theme song, "You're Thinking Right", can be heard coming from it. | |
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Animated Actors | |
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Animated Actors: In season 3, the Simpsons are shown in the opening titles in makeup chairs along with the rest of the (human) cast. | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles | |
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Promotion to Opening Titles: The Simpsons were given their own spot in the title sequence in Season 3. They were removed the following season, as they got their own show during that season. | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase: When Bart pulls off Krusty's nose, Krusty promptly says, "Why you little..." and then strangles Bart. | |
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Unnamed Parent | |
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Unnamed Parent: In the credits, Homer and Marge were referred to as either "Dad" and "Mom", or "Mr. Simpson" and "Mrs. Simpson". This is strange in the case of Homer who is actually referred to by his final name on several occasions in the shorts themselves. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Marge sets one up in "The Money Jar". She warns Bart, Lisa and Maggie not to touch the jar of money in the kitchen. Bart falls for this ploy, only to discover that she put a single dollar inside. | |
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Fright-Induced Bunkmate | |
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Fright-Induced Bunkmate: "Good Night" ends with all three of the kids jumping into bed with Homer and Marge. | |
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Three Shorts | |
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Three Shorts: The typical format for the show was three separate sketches, with their own title cards and credits. When the creative team moved on to The Simpsons, they were able to adapt the format to things like Treehouse of Horror with ease. | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation: "Weather or Not" had an isolated military weather station manned by a lone serviceman. Every day, after practicing talking, he would play with his pet patch of air. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: It would probably take up the entire page to list the number of examples of this trope. But the most notable are the crude animation (mainly a result of the staff at Klasky-Csupo basically just using Groening's storyboards as a guide) and Lisa essentially being a "female Bart". | |
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Always Second Best | |
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Always Second Best: Bart was already a trickster here, but kept finding himself bested by Lisa and sometimes even Maggie, who often proved shrewder than him. For example, they outperform him in skateboarding, they steal the cookie he managed to hide from his parents, and they manage to sneak in a funny face on the family photo while Bart gets caught and violently disciplined by Homer. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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Crazy-Prepared: In one short, Bart and Lisa steal Maggie's pacifier in an attempt to get her to kick the habit. After they do, she makes her way to her dresser and pulls open a drawer, where she has hundreds of back-up pacifiers at the ready. | |
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Multi-Part Episode | |
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Multi-Part Episode: "Maggie in Peril" was a two-part sketch. | |
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Eat the Evidence | |
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Eat the Evidence: In "Shoplifting", Bart gets busted for trying to steal candy bars and is taken into security. Bart is left alone with the goods for a moment and he eats them before the guard comes back, expecting not to be held accountable without evidence. He then looks in a mirror and sees chocolate smeared all over his face and hands. | |
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Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films | |
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Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Bart drags Lisa and Maggie with him to watch a scary alien invasion film rather than the latest installment of the Happy Little Elves. Lisa and Maggie wind up dealing with the movie just fine, but Bart ends up screaming in terror when one of the aliens in the film happens to look just like him. | |
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The Shrink | |
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The Shrink: The sketch "The Little Neurotic from Down Under" involved Kiki seeing a psychiatrist for her fear of flying. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: There is one episode that is a Whole-Plot Reference to Clement Moore's A Visit From St Nicholas complete with Rhymes on a Dime. | |
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Funny Answering Machine | |
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Funny Answering Machine: The sketch "Answering Machine" involves a sad-sounding woman being criticized for her machine recording (with one caller, a wrong number, referring a suicide hotline), so she decides to record an elaborate song message with a studio band to the tune of "Something's Coming". Then when she tries to listen to her messages the next day, she gets a series of tones and beeps, indicating that callers got fed up from waiting and hung up. | |
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Jump, I'll Catch You! | |
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Jump, I'll Catch You!: "Bart Jumps" revolves around Homer encouraging Bart to jump into his arms, only to get distracted or sidetracked and ends up leaving Bart to jump onto the ground in a painful manner. | |
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Last-Second Photo Failure | |
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Last-Second Photo Failure: Homer has to take a family photo and starts setting the timer. Whenever he tried to take a picture things, things went wrong. He shouted D'oh in the first attempt. The second attempt he accidentally stood in front of his family. The third attempt, he strangled Bart for making funny faces while Lisa and Maggie do the same. | |
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Animation Bump | |
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Animation Bump: The first shorts were incredibly crude and reused frames on many occasions. By the end of the series the characters' designs are more or less finalised and the animation is much more crisp and fluid, if still looser and still more or less cartoony than what was used in the actual series after. | |
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Good Angel, Bad Angel | |
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Good Angel, Bad Angel: "The Money Jar" features Lisa, Maggie, and Bart contemplating whether or not to steal Marge's money from her jar, represented tiny angels and devils of themselves. Bart's angel actually encourages him to take the money. | |
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Lies to Children | |
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Lies to Children: Throughout "Making Faces", Marge repeatedly gives the stock "your faces will freeze that way" warning to her children. She eventually gives them an "I Warned You" speech and tells them to look in the mirror, so Bart and his sisters look and see their completely normal faces... and freak out, yelling, "We're doomed!" | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: In "Punching Bag," Bart and Lisa take out their frustrations on a punching bag, and Lisa draws Homer's face on it to give them inspiration. Homer, who's trying to nap, forces Marge to go in and have them stop making noise, largely because he's too lazy to get off the couch and do it himself. A clearly-angry Marge gets up and storms away—and the noise gets louder than ever. An incensed Homer goes to investigate...and discovers that Marge is punching his face on the bag now. In "Burp Contest," Bart, Lisa, and Maggie compete over who can make the loudest, most disgusting belching sound. Marge tries to get them to stop—but Homer joins the contest instead. In "Home Hypnotism," Marge briefly tries to talk Homer out of his plan to hypnotize the kids into behaving until he shows her that they're literally bouncing off the walls, at which point she instantly becomes his accomplice. | |
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Sleep Cute | |
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Sleep Cute: At the end of "Bart and Dad Eat Dinner," Marge comes home with Lisa and Maggie and exclaims over the adorableness of Homer and Bart having fallen asleep together on the couch (never mind that they're continuing the argument they were having earlier in their sleep). | |
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Trust-Building Blunder | |
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Trust-Building Blunder: In "Bart Jumps," Homer repeatedly urges Bart to jump off a table into his arms as a trust exercise, but he's met with various distractions which cause Bart to fall on the floor every time. | |
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Unaffected by Spice | |
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Unaffected by Spice: In "The Pacifier," Bart and Lisa try dipping Maggie's pacifier in hot sauce to break her of the habit. Maggie's reaction after tasting it is to eagerly dip the pacifier again. | |
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This Is Not a Drill | |
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This Is Not a Drill: "World War III" has Homer repeatedly waking up the family, saying that it's World War III, and taking them down to the fallout shelter before berating them for not making it sooner. They eventually turn the tables on him by making up their own drill and locking him in the shelter for the night. | |
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Not Hyperbole | |
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In "Home Hypnotism," Marge briefly tries to talk Homer out of his plan to hypnotize the kids into behaving until he shows her that they're literally bouncing off the walls, at which point she instantly becomes his accomplice. | |
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Mock Cousteau | |
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Mock Cousteau: "Bathtime" has Bart pretending to be "Bart Simpseau" while taking a bath. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_ad641426 | comment |
Trademark Favorite Food: In a Running Gag, the whole family loves to drink "frosty chocolate milkshakes." | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
Be Careful What You Wish For: Bart asks Grandpa to tell him a scary story. He then promptly fakes his death. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_b3c0ed0c | comment |
Spoof Aesop: In "Shoplifting," Marge and Homer have to pick Bart up after he's caught shoplifting and Marge tells him she hopes he's learned that "crime hurts the criminal." He points out that all that really happened was that he got a free ride home, causing his parents to kick him out of the car. | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_b6cc7fc0 | comment |
Dysfunctional Family: The Simpsons. In fact they were arguably more dysfunctional in these shorts then they would eventually be in their own show. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: In "Watching TV", Bart and Lisa argue about changing the channel, and then get angry when Maggie changes the channel. In "Family Portrait", Homer says to Bart, "You watch your mouth, you little smartass! In "The Money Jar," Marge makes the kids promise they won't steal from the money jar in the kitchen. When Bart goes to steal from it anyway, he's disappointed to find only one dollar in it, complaining, "Can't even trust your own mother." | |
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Accidental Hero | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_bd1faab9 | comment |
Accidental Hero: "Bart the Hero" revolves around Bart inadvertently thwarting a candy store robbery. He is offered a $10,000 reward, but chooses to be paid in candy bars instead. | |
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Signing-Off Catchphrase | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_be5247e5 | comment |
Signing Off Catchphrase: "Go home! Go home!" | |
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Wingding Eyes | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_c02925f0 | comment |
Wingding Eyes: Happens to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie in "The Money Jar" when they decide to look in the money jar. | |
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By the Lights of Their Eyes | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_c25f7913 | comment |
By the Lights of Their Eyes: Bart, Lisa and Maggie all can't sleep in one episode, as depicted by this trope. | |
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Exiled to the Couch | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_c3782352 | comment |
Exiled to the Couch: In the Francesca sketch "I Hate Paris", William is furious that Dave is going to France without him and opts to spend the night in the bathtub. | |
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Vacation Episode | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_c87737d9 | comment |
Vacation Episode: The sketch "Kay on Vacation" involves Kay going to a beachside resort and not exactly fitting in with other vacationers. | |
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No Name Given | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Marge isn't named in the shorts; the credits list her as either "Mom" or "Mrs. Simpson". She would not be named until the series proper. | |
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Nightmare Fuel | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_cf4d770 | comment |
Nightmare Fuel: The first short has two in-universe examples. First, Marge tells Lisa not to let the bedbugs bite which keeps Lisa awake. Second, Marge sings "Rock-a-Bye Baby" to Maggie who imagines herself rocking on a treetop and falling. Homer and Marge later invite the two daughters to sleep in their bed. | |
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Calling Me a Logarithm | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_d2e4289b | comment |
Calling Me a Logarithm: One of the Tina and Meg sketches had Tina asking Meg what "satiated" meant, and then phoning her boyfriend to apologize for what she had done after he had said he was satiated following sex. | |
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Implausible Deniability | |
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Implausible Deniability: In "The Perfect Crime," Bart blames Maggie for eating Marge's freshly-baked cookies, while his mouth is full of cookies. | |
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The Tracey Ullman Show / int_d34cbda2 | |
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The Perfect Crime | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_d39d4b71 | comment |
The Perfect Crime: "The Perfect Crime" has Bart bragging that stealing cookies and pinning it on Maggie is this. Later, the others follow a trail of cookie crumbs to find Bart on the floor with a tummy ache from gorging on cookies, moaning "There's no perfect crime." | |
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Hypno Fool | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_d40d7fc1 | comment |
Hypno Fool: The parents using hypnosis to make the kids behave in "Home Hypnotism" backfires on them by turning them into zombies, though whether they really were mindless zombies or just faking it is unclear. | |
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Sketch Comedy | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_d66b73ca | comment |
Sketch Comedy: The big selling point was that it was a sketch show produced more like a Sitcom than a Variety Show. Fox even used the term "skitcom" to promote it. | |
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Spin-Off | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_d9ee7048 | comment |
Spin-Off: The Simpsons, probably one of the most famous examples in television history. | |
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Art Evolution | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: The Simpsons' designs were initially crude and very prone to being Off-Model (due to the artists basically using Matt Groening's rough storyboards and sketches as a preferred character design choice), but they were eventually streamlined. By the end of their run they look essentially like they do at the start of the spin-off series. | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_e4f48a7f | comment |
The "Fun" in "Funeral": "The Funeral" involves the Simpsons going to a funeral for their Uncle Hubert. Bart is excited to see a dead body, but turns green when he finally sees it. He then has some fun misdirecting the progression to his grave. | |
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Hiccup Hijinks | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_ef478375 | comment |
Hiccup Hijinks: Bart gets the hiccups in "Bart's Hiccups". Lisa and Maggie try to cure them by blending an anti-hiccup serum, spinning Bart around in a chair and scaring him with a picture of Homer. Neither works. | |
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Dartboard of Hate | |
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Dartboard of Hate: In "Punching Bag", Homer forces the kids to play with a punching bag and they get into it by drawing his face on it. Marge eventually joins in. | |
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Society Is to Blame | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_f8084d07 | comment |
Society Is to Blame: In "Grampa and the Kids", Lisa blames Bart for Grampa's apparent death, and Bart instead claims that "society killed Grampa". | |
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Dead Hat Shot | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_fdc83c2c | comment |
Dead Hat Shot: In "The Aquarium," Homer and Lisa assume the worst when Bart's swim trunks float to the top of the aquarium tank he's been swimming in. Naturally Subverted when Bart himself surfaces a few seconds later. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
| The Tracey Ullman Show / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: Homer promises to take the kids for milkshakes if Bart successfully catches a football, causing Bart to get hurt in various ways making the attempt. He finally does "catch" the football...in his mouth, and it's still jammed there when they get their milkshakes, meaning he can't explain to an oblivious Homer why he isn't drinking his. Homer thinks he's just not hungry and is about to take his milkshake too, but Lisa quickly sticks Bart's straw past the football. | |
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