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== References to ''The Tracy Ullman Show'' on ''The Simpsons'' ==
 
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{{TBT|[[File:I Could Love a Million Girls.png|250px]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 1|1]]}}
 
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{{TB|"[[Homer's Night Out]]"}}
 
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{{TB|The character [[Gulliver Dark]] appears, who appeared in several live-action sketches on The Tracy Ullman Show.}}
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{{TB|The character [[Gulliver Dark]] appears, who appeared in several live-action sketches on ''The Tracey Ullman Show''.}}
 
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{{TBT|[[File:Gulliver Dark.png|250px]]}}
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{{TRs|[[Season 7|7]]|2}}
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{{TB|129}}
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{{TB|"[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)]]"}}
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{{TB|[[Gulliver Dark]] re-appears as part of {{Ch|Tito Puente}}'s band, but is not voiced by [[Sam McMurray]].}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:138th Episode Spectacular (Simpsons Now and Then).png|200px]]}}
 
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{{TB|[[The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular]]}}
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{{TB|"[[The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular]]"}}
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{{TB|Several shorts are played partially or fully: [[Good Night]], [[The Perfect Crime]], [[Space Patrol]], [[World War III]], and [[Bathtime]]. Additionally, a portrait comparing the Ullman and modern Simpsons are shown.}}
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{{TB|Several shorts are played partially or fully: "[[Good Night]]", "[[The Perfect Crime]]", "[[Space Patrol]]", "[[World War III]]", and "[[Bathtime]]". Additionally, a portrait comparing the Ullman and modern Simpsons is shown.}}
 
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{{TB|[[Season 9|9]]}}
 
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{{TB|"[[Gump Roast]]"}}
 
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{{TB|[[They'll Never Stop the Simpsons]] mentions the Ullman shorts in its lyrics.}}
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{{TB|"[[They'll Never Stop the Simpsons]]" mentions the Ullman shorts in its lyrics.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Homer Ullman Clone.png|250px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Homer Ullman Clone.png|250px]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 14|14]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 14|14]]}}
 
{{TB|292}}
 
{{TB|292}}
 
{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XIII]]"}}
 
{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XIII]]"}}
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{{TB|In the 'Send in the Clones' segment, one of Homer's clones is the Ullman version of him, who says his catchphrase "[[Let's all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes!]]"}}
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{{TB|In the 'Send in the Clones' segment, one of Homer's clones is the Ullman version of him, who says his catchphrase "[[Let's all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes!]]".}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Dan Castellaneta (character).png|250px]]}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Dan Castellaneta (character).png|250px]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 17|17]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 17|17]]}}
 
{{TB|371}}
 
{{TB|371}}
 
{{TB|"[[Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife]]"}}
 
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{{TB|Homer meets {{ch|Dan Castellaneta}} at the Fox lot, where a tour guide refers to him as a star of the Tracey Ullman Show.}}
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{{TB|Homer meets {{Ch|Dan Castellaneta}} at the Fox lot, where a tour guide refers to him as a star of ''The Tracey Ullman Show''.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:Happy 1987.png|250px]]}}
 
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{{TB|[[Season 18|18]]}}
 
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{{TB|"[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]"}}
 
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{{TB|The [[Family Portrait]] short is played instead of the couch gag.}}
 
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{{TBT|[[File:Tracey Ullman Simpsons corpses.png|250px]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 24|24]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 24|24]]}}
 
{{TB|511}}
 
{{TB|511}}
 
{{TB|"[[Adventures in Baby-Getting]]"}}
 
{{TB|"[[Adventures in Baby-Getting]]"}}
 
{{TB|Corpses of the Ullman Simpsons are found below the leaky faucet.}}
 
{{TB|Corpses of the Ullman Simpsons are found below the leaky faucet.}}
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{{TBT|[[File:Clown in the Dumps Homer Ullman.png|250px]]}}
 
{{TRs|[[Season 26|26]]|2}}
 
{{TRs|[[Season 26|26]]|2}}
 
{{TB|553}}
 
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{{TB|"[[Clown in the Dumps]]"}}
 
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{{TB|In the couch gag, Homer rewinds to April 19, 1987 and transforms into his Ullman form.}}
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{{TB|In the couch gag, Homer rewinds to April 19, 1987, and transforms into his Ullman form.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:THOH25 - Family Portrait.png|250px]]}}
 
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{{TB|"[[Every Man's Dream]]"}}
 
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{{TB|The Ullman Simpsons (in black suits) appear in the [[The Yellow Album]] parody cover in the couch gag}}
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{{TB|The Ullman Simpsons (in black suits) appear in the [[The Yellow Album]] parody cover in the couch gag.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:TABF20 title screen.png|250px]]}}
 
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{{TB|"[[Lisa with an "S"]]"}}
 
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{{TB|The Ullman Simpsons appear in the title screen.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:GCYHM Title Screen.png|250px]]}}
 
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{{TRs|[[Season 29|29]]|3}}
 
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{{TB|[[Grampy Can Ya Hear Me]]}}
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{{TB|"[[Grampy Can Ya Hear Me]]"}}
 
{{TB|The [[Title screen gag]] contains Ullman Homer and Bart ghosts.}}
 
{{TB|The [[Title screen gag]] contains Ullman Homer and Bart ghosts.}}
 
{{TBT|[[File:The Aquarium.png|250px]]}}
 
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{{TB|[[Lisa Gets the Blues]]}}
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{{TB|Part of "[[The Aquarium]]" is shown before the title screen.}}
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{{TBT|[[File:Flanders' Ladder Homer Ullman.png|250px]]}}
 
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{{TB|"[[Flanders' Ladder]]"}}
 
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{{TB|Homer and Marge dig up an old VHS of The Tracy Ullman Show, and Homer imitates his voice then.}}
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{{TB|Homer and Marge dig up an old VHS of ''The Tracey Ullman Show'', and Homer imitates his voice then.}}
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{{TBT|[[File:Tracey Ullman's Show.png|250px]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 30|30]]}}
 
{{TB|[[Season 30|30]]}}
 
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{{TB|"{{ap|Krusty the Clown|episode}}"}}
 
{{TB|"{{ap|Krusty the Clown|episode}}"}}
 
{{TB|Among the TV shows mentioned on the scrolling list is ''The Tracey Ullman Show''.}}
 
{{TB|Among the TV shows mentioned on the scrolling list is ''The Tracey Ullman Show''.}}
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{{TBT|[[File:Ullman Homer Mothers and Other Strangers.png|250px]]}}
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{{TB|[[Season 33|33]]}}
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{{TB|"[[Mothers and Other Strangers]]"}}
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{{TB|In Homer's dream, Ullman Homer trips and falls, then exclaims "[[D'oh]]!".}}
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Latest revision as of 19:45, February 22, 2025



The Tracey Ullman Show logo

The Tracey Ullman Show was a weekly American television variety show, hosted by British comedian and onetime pop singer Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5, 1987 as the FOX network's second primetime series and ran until May 26, 1990. The show featured sketch comedy along with many musical numbers, featuring Emmy Award-winning choreography by Paula Abdul. It's nowadays best remembered for its animated bumpers before and after commercial breaks, which marked the debut of The Simpsons.

The Simpsons[edit]

The Simpsons as they originally appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show

The Simpsons first appeared as short vignettes on the Tracey Ullman Show. These cartoon shorts acted as bumpers that are shown before and after commercials. The shorts were written by Matt Groening and animated at Klasky-Csupo by a team consisting of David Silverman, Bill Kopp and Wes Archer (in the later seasons, the shorts were animated by Silverman and Archer) Dan Castellanata, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith and Julie Kavner provided the voices of characters Homer, Bart, Lisa and Marge.

The characters were crudely drawn because Matt Groening assumed that the animators would clean them up after he submitted the rough sketches them. Instead, the animators simply traced over the sketches.

The first short, Good Night, was aired on April 19, 1987. Through Season 1 of the show, the shorts alternated with another animated bumper, "Dr. N!Godatu" (which some cast members also voiced characters in), then becoming the sole animated bumper for Season 2. Later, the shorts were given their own segment on the show before the cartoon was developed into a 30 minutes TV animated spin-off in 1989. The Tracey Ullman show continued with Season 4, without the Simpsons, before being cancelled in 1990.

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One unseen short that was going to be part of the short Season 4 was storyboarded in June 1989, because the producers thought the shorts were going to continue. It appears that in the short Bart watches a scary sci-fi movie late at night and has a bad dream when he goes to bed.[1]

Cast[edit]

References to The Tracy Ullman Show on The Simpsons[edit]

Episodes[edit]

Picture Season Episode number Episode name Reference
I Could Love a Million Girls.png 1 10 "Homer's Night Out" The character Gulliver Dark appears, who appeared in several live-action sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show.
Gulliver Dark.png 7 129 "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" Gulliver Dark re-appears as part of Tito Puente's band, but is not voiced by Sam McMurray.
138th Episode Spectacular (Simpsons Now and Then).png 138 "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" Several shorts are played partially or fully: "Good Night", "The Perfect Crime", "Space Patrol", "World War III", and "Bathtime". Additionally, a portrait comparing the Ullman and modern Simpsons is shown.
9 181 "Lisa's Sax" Tracey Ullman is mentioned by Homer when explaining the origin of Lisa's saxophone.
CouchGagS11E01.png 11 227 "Beyond Blunderdome" The couch gag features the Ullman Simpsons, which also appears in "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses".
Gump Roast Ullman shorts.png 13 286 "Gump Roast" "They'll Never Stop the Simpsons" mentions the Ullman shorts in its lyrics.
Homer Ullman Clone.png 14 292 "Treehouse of Horror XIII" In the 'Send in the Clones' segment, one of Homer's clones is the Ullman version of him, who says his catchphrase "Let's all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes!".
Dan Castellaneta (character).png 17 371 "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" Homer meets Dan Castellaneta at the Fox lot, where a tour guide refers to him as a star of The Tracey Ullman Show.
Happy 1987.png 18 394 "Homerazzi" Among the family photos being recreated is a '1987 Party', with the Ullman versions of Homer, Lisa, and Bart.
Family Portrait.png 20 400 "You Kent Always Say What You Want" The Family Portrait short is played instead of the couch gag.
Tracey Ullman Simpsons corpses.png 24 511 "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Corpses of the Ullman Simpsons are found below the leaky faucet.
Clown in the Dumps Homer Ullman.png 26 553 "Clown in the Dumps" In the couch gag, Homer rewinds to April 19, 1987, and transforms into his Ullman form.
THOH25 - Family Portrait.png 556 "Treehouse of Horror XXV" In the 'The Others' section, the old Simpsons appear as ghosts. The section ends with a reference to the short Family Portrait.
Every Man's Dream couch gag 3.png 27 575 "Every Man's Dream" The Ullman Simpsons (in black suits) appear in the The Yellow Album parody cover in the couch gag.
TABF20 title screen.png 581 "Lisa with an "S"" The Ullman Simpsons appear in the title screen.
GCYHM Title Screen.png 29 623 "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me" The Title screen gag contains Ullman Homer and Bart ghosts.
The Aquarium.png 635 "Lisa Gets the Blues" Part of "The Aquarium" is shown before the title screen.
Flanders' Ladder Homer Ullman.png 639 "Flanders' Ladder" Homer and Marge dig up an old VHS of The Tracey Ullman Show, and Homer imitates his voice then.
Tracey Ullman's Show.png 30 647 "Krusty the Clown" Among the TV shows mentioned on the scrolling list is The Tracey Ullman Show.
Ullman Homer Mothers and Other Strangers.png 33 715 "Mothers and Other Strangers" In Homer's dream, Ullman Homer trips and falls, then exclaims "D'oh!".

Other[edit]

Picture Appearance Reference
The Yellow Album.jpg The Yellow Album The old Simpsons appear on the album cover.

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ TwitPic


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