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The Worst Episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show

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The Worst Episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show

The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show, hosted by British-born actress and onetime pop singer Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5,...

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    S1:E4

    LIKE MOTHER; Susan (Tracey Ullman) hates her nagging eccentric mother (Julie Kavner) until one night, she starts to physically turn into her. SPONTANEITY; A couple (Julie Kavner and Dan Castellaneta) argue over not being spontaneous because they sit every Sunday night in front of the TV. ANSWERING MACHINE; Soft-spoken Donna (Tracey Ullman) decides to improve her message on her answering machine with a little music flavor. FREEWAY; Dr. N!Godatu goes out for a drive with her friend Pat (voice of Nancy Cartwright), but they detour onto Pat's worst nightmare, the freeway.

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    S1:E10

    ARIEL'S COMEBACK; Ariel Faber (Tracey Ullman), an anorexic, formerly bisexual folk singer and ex-junkie, tries a comeback into the public eye and captures the attention of Duane Mason (Sam McMurray), a fireman who proposes marriage in exchange for her to give up her singing career. DANCE CHALLENGE; On a sing-and-dance contest show, the flashy Latino dancer Blanca Valaday (Tracey Ullman), faces a real challenge when she tries to do her dance routine knowing that she is not wearing underwear under her dress. SIR; A callous Englishwoman (Tracey Ullman) tries to become friendly with her long-time restaurant waiter (Dan Castellaneta) during his last day on the job. THE PACIFIER; Bart and Lisa try to make Maggie stop sucking her pacifier, but they can't take it away (she has a drawer full of them), can't play ""keep away"" with it (she bites Bart), and can't even put hot sauce on it (Maggie just adds more).

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    S2:E4

    THE AFFAIR; Greg reveals that he is considering an affair with his secretary to Sara which sets off a night long wave of talk, arguments, and hostility in their bedroom. WHEN IN ROME; In Salasaw, Oklahoma, Vic (Dan Castellaneta), a New York City mobster in a FBI witness relocation program, tries to adjust to his new life during his first day in town as the owner of the town's frozen yogert shop. WEATHER OR NOT; In Alaska, U.S. Army weatherman Louis Alletti (Dan Castellaneta), after years of living in isolation, gets a surprise visit from a USO tour featuring Lisa Morgan and the Mob (Tracey Ullman, Joe Malone and Sam McMurray). FOOTBALL; Bart tried to catch a football that Homer throws to him, several times.

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    S2:E5

    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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    S2:E6

    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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    S2:E7

    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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    S2:E8

    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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    S2:E10

    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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    S2:E12

    KAY'S LAST STAND; Kay must face Elizabeth Phelps (Julie Kavner), the shadowy CEO of a major insurance company, to ask her to put Kay's invalid mother back on her medical plan. AUTO EROTICA; The psychotic, nymphomaniac Brenda has a man she met on a California freeway (Sam McMurry) arrested just to meet him. WAITING; Nancy (Julie Kavner) visits her neurotic friend Audrey (Tracey Ullman), who has been waiting several days for the washing machine repairman to show up at her house. GRANDPA AND THE KIDS; Grandpa Simpson tells Bart, Lisa and Maggie boring stories of his life, and then plays a practical joke by playing dead.

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    S2:E13

    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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    S2:E14

    VALET; A lonely, drunken middle-aged woman (Tracey Ullman) asks a young hotel parking valet (Dan Castellaneta) to spent some time with her in her room. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1988; At a wedding reception, the young bride, Amy (Tracey Ullman), has to convince her friends and relatives that she did not marry a 70-year old millionaire, named Claude (special guest star William Hickey), for his money. SKATEBOARDING; Bart tries his new skateboard down a steep hill while Lisa and Maggie watch.

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    S2:E15

    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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    S2:E16

    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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    S2:E17

    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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    S2:E18

    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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    S2:E19

    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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    S2:E20

    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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    S2:E21

    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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    S2:E22

    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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    #20 - Backstage Special

    S3:E1

    Hour long special featuring a look behind the scenes, past sketches and a sneak preview for the third season.

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    S3:E3

    TELL AND KISS; Sandra Decker has her biography of her romantic escapes published which are full of lies in which an old flame, former actor Rolland DeEggo (special guest star Caesar Romero), pays a visit to rekindle the flame. THE BIG WHEEL; Flashy Latina dancer Blanca Valaday (Tracey Ullman) and ruthless businessman Hugh Jater (Sam McMurray) are two winning lottery contestants who both expect to win the $20 millon jackpot. THE SHELL GAME; Bart tries to hide cookies from Marge and Homer by playing the game of ""guess which shell it's under.""

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    S3:E4

    TO MASSEUR WITH LOVE; For her birthday gift, Kay Clark is given a free body masseuse with sexy bodybuilder Burke. CONJUGAL VISIT; Arthur (Dan Castellaneta) visits an Atlanta prison for women to see his sex-starved, mail-order wife, Ann Marie (Tracey Ullman), for the first time. THE BART SIMPSON SHOW; Tired of watching the violent cartoon 'Itchy and Scratchy,' Bart takes out the TV and puts his own show.

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    S3:E6

    SANTA BABY; Meg invites Tina over at her house for Christmas Eve while Tina takes an interest in the new Santa (Joe Malone) at the post office. NEW YEAR'S EVE; Elaine, Rosalie, and Darla, (Tracey Ullman, Julie Kavner and Anna Levine) are three desperate, lonely women who go all out to get dates for themselves for a New Year's Eve party. SIMPSON XMAS; Bart recites his own version of ""Night Before Christmas"" theme while waiting to open his presents.

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    S3:E9

    FRANCESCA'S TASK; Lazy Francesca is faced with writing a major term paper for school, and is apprehensive about William helping her. THE NUCLEAR FAMILY; At a family owned nuclear power plant, chairman Allen Gardener Dan Castellaneta) tells his supervisor mother (Tracey Ullman) that he has decided to let her go off the work force. BART THE HERO; Bart single-handingly captures a burglar robbing a candy store and trades the reward money for candy.

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    S3:E10

    SPECIAL SKILLS; CEO Renee Lawton (Anna Levine), decides to let yuppie finalists Leonard (Dan Castellaneta), Zizi (Tracey Ullman), and Patricia (Janeen Rae Heller) compete with each other to see what special skills they have in order to enter the company. FLESH AND DESIRE; William makes himself a midnight snack of a meatloaf sandwich which makes vegetarian Dave angry. HEAVEN; In orbit around Earth, astronaut Chuck (Dan Castellaneta) and cosmonaut Anna (Tracey Ullman), together in the space shuttle, discover passion for each other but they are prevented by the cameras watching them. BART'S LITTLE FANTASY; Bart tells Lisa and Maggie of his vision of where they are the parents, and Homer and Marge are the children.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"4W01" is the worst rated episode of "The Tracey Ullman Show". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/26/1987. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "4W10".