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Tracey Takes On... is a sketch comedy series starring actress Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned after the success of the comedy special Tracey Ullman Takes on New

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    Tracey Takes On... Season 3 Episode 2 - Hollywood
    9.0/10(14 votes)

    #1 - Hollywood

    S3:E2

    The sketches in this episode all coincide with each other. Chic goes to Hollywood to pitch a script that falls into his hands, Fern appears on ""Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman"", Ruby is the subject of a documentary, Sydney has the hots for Chic, Mrs. Noh doesn't doesnt like Chic and Linda has a role in an awards show.

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  2. Tracey Takes On... Season 4 Episode 10 - Hype
    9.0/10(14 votes)

    #2 - Hype

    S4:E10

    Main Sketches include: Madame Nadja wonders about America, Fern has an unexpected surplus of caskets and Sheneesha hates the conditions in the new airport terminal

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  3. Tracey Takes On... Season 4 Episode 12 - End of the World
    9.0/10(14 votes)

    #3 - End of the World

    S4:E12

    All the sketches coincide with each other as a meteor shower heads toward Earth and everyone reacts differently: Hope may lose her virginity, Ruby has an unexpected visitation, Trevor & Barry consider a Thelma & Louise situation, Linda gives a farewell concert, Fern and Jobie eat everything in site, Birdie lets her hair down, Sydney gets away from everything, Sheneesha restores order, Chic and Janie have sex

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  4. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 5 - Family
    8.8/10(17 votes)

    #4 - Family

    S1:E5

    Fern says she'll never pressure her daughter to have children. She had and it ruined her life. Virginia Bugge still believes in corporal punishment. Kay is still following her mother's advice not to marry men because they kill you after they do nasty things to your downstairs area. Rayleen says she and her husband aren't ready to have kids yet and make everything possible to make sure that doesn't happen. Sydney thinks being a ""Big Sister"" is a great thing during trials that aren't going well. Chic has a fight with his brother for selling him bad food ‘n drinks. Mrs. Noh uses cheap techniques to make sure her niece wins the ice skating competition. Ruby remembers her large parents. Trevor is asked by his fellow flight attendant friend Leann to father her child after she sees him taking such good care of passenger Janie Pillsworth's children. Trevor doesn't want to betray his partner Barry, but ends up doing Leann the favor. The Rosenthals are looking for a condo. They don't want a fami

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  5. Tracey Takes On... Season 3 Episode 4 - Loss
    8.8/10(12 votes)

    #5 - Loss

    S3:E4

    Main Sketches include: Fern learns that Harry's apparently been eaten by an alligator, Rayleen mourns the death of husband Mitch and Sydney loses in court for the first time.

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  6. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 2 - Charity
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    #6 - Charity

    S1:E2

    Janie Pillsworth reveals she exchanges food for poems with the ATM homeless man because his poems are a sure hit on her magazine. Hope unfortunately can't talk at the moment because she lost her voice doing reading for the blind. Fern decides to throw a fundraiser party for a disease, but Harry gets a call saying their disease I now curable. Fern is upset because next year they'll have to pick an incurable disease. Linda Granger decides to run a documentary about AAAH - Aged Animal Actors Home -, run by Rayleen and Mitch Gibson. Linda introduces several handicapped animals until she realizes her little dog was eaten. Kay Clark decides to help a starving Viet vet offering him work. He ends up stealing her mother's amphetamines – which were really very potent laxatives – to sell on the streets.

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  7. Tracey Takes On... Season 2 Episode 15 - Music
    8.6/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Music

    S2:E15

    Main Sketches include: Sydney defends her client in song, Chic runs after a deadbeat fare and ends up on stage at the opera, Linda sings before a crowd a detention facility and Erin reunites with her old band Wild Child, for a short time.

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  8. Tracey Takes On... Season 4 Episode 6 - Erotica
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    #8 - Erotica

    S4:E6

    Main Sketches include: Janie brings home an arousing sculpture, Chic has an idea for Taxicab Confessions, Linda Granger and Victoria Principal are held against their will by a sultan

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  9. Tracey Takes On... Season 4 Episode 7 - Books
    8.6/10(49 votes)

    #9 - Books

    S4:E7

    Main Sketches include: Linda reads Chekhov, Kay finds love at the library and Fern trys to retrieve her signed ""Valley Of The Dolls"" from a friend who died

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  10. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 1 - Romance
    8.4/10(16 votes)

    #10 - Romance

    S1:E1

    Rayleen says her height-challenged husband maybe a midget, but he's not all small. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning compares love to a donut. Virginia Bugge reveals the identity of her most exciting lover – a horse. Hope fantasizes about a man at a coffee shop while trying to study. Chic says LA women are shallow and are only after money, that's why he came to NY, to become a chick magnet (that's the origin of his name). Fern's husband is at the hospital recovering from a heart attack, and she keeps babbling about the Chinese acrobats they must see and wander about their lives. Professional golfer Midge Dexter and Chris Warner, her ""nutritionist"", go through a tough time on their closeted relationship because Midge doesn't want to go public yet. When Midge makes the final putt Chris kisses her and a few other golfers take the opportunity to do the same. Linda Granger, who's had 4 husbands, asks who needs men afterall.

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  11. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 7 - Vanity
    8.4/10(12 votes)

    #11 - Vanity

    S1:E7

    Chic says he likes to look good for the ladies. Harry buys license plates for Fern that say ""4N"" and she doesn't like it because they sound more like ‘foreign' than ‘Fern'. Virginia Bugge says Americans are vain and think the show is about them. Kay tries to dress up as bridesmaid for a wedding, but her mother has a fake emergency that ruins her plans. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning says vanity is like the colored sprinkles you put on donuts – good show, no taste. Ruby says the men she has worked with are twice as vain as the women. Sydney is obsessed with her new do and even use it to win a case. Trevor tells the story about the time he met a plastic surgeon and when Linda Granger's implants burst in the plane. Janie tries to direct a fashion show from a war zone in Bosnia. Mb>Rayleen doesn't like having to wear breast pads when she has to roll down the stairs. Linda has had a lot of work done. But she'd rather think of it as restoration process.

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  12. Tracey Takes On... Season 2 Episode 11 - Money
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Money

    S2:E11

    Main Sketches include: Chic gets audited, Fern and Harry invest in ostriches and Linda sells recovery dolls on the Family Spending Channel.

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  13. Tracey Takes On... Season 4 Episode 8 - Road Rage
    8.4/10(12 votes)

    #13 - Road Rage

    S4:E8

    All sketches coincide with one another.. Sydney enjoys her new Hummer, Linda flies with Chopper Tim, Ruby is carjacked and becomes a hero, Hope retrieves her first car that had been stolen, Fern and Jobie visit L.A., Midge and Chris are mad at a driver that cut them off Everyone almost collide with one another at the end.

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  14. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 3 - Nostalgia
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #14 - Nostalgia

    S1:E3

    Janie Pillsworth is too busy for nostalgia. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning is nostalgic about TV shows with talking objects/animals. Kay Clark misses the days when there was only one Metamucil flavor. A Russian family misses the old Soviet Union days. Trevor Ayliss feels nostalgic about the swinging 70's, when a bathhouse was more like a ""gay chicken soup with dumplings"". Ruby Romaine talks about ""Safari"", an epic movie which was never finished due to the mysterious death of the recently-hired co-lead. Erin remembers the sixties – a decade she never really lived. Chic misses the disco era.

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  15. Tracey Takes On... Season 3 Episode 10 - Sports
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Sports

    S3:E10

    Main Sketches include: Ruby has a good day at the track and Janie relives her competition with a school rival.

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  16. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 6 - Law
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #16 - Law

    S1:E6

    Mrs. Noh Nang Ning says she once had a problem when a customer ate a finger donut. But it never went too far – no evidence left. Hope says some girls were caught shoplifting, but might be doing it again – a professor's hairpiece has gone missing. Sydney Kross represents an exotic dancer who's suing a vender machine owner because she sat on hot soup. Ruby wants her son to injure himself on purpose so they can make a few bucks on a supermarket. Fern and Harry Rosenthal have a disturbing weekend helping the police bust a suspect drug dealer who turns out to be a secret narcotics agent undercovered.

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  17. Tracey Takes On... Season 2 Episode 4 - Las Vegas
    8.0/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Las Vegas

    S2:E4

    Virginia is frustrated when her flight is diverted from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Just in time as she was arriving from the ""gastronomical desert"" of New Zealand. Linda is excited about performing in Las Vegas once again, but she doesn't hold as much sparks as she did twenty years ago, and looks back on her memories while giving an interview on a bathtub filled with nonfat milk. Ruby is helping a friend cover up scars for a performance and talks about the time she worked on ""Showgirls"". Trevor finds himself alone in the company of the maid of his high-profile German magician friends, and puts on a white tux to catch Linda's act on the Lapland Lounge. Chic gives Tim Bugge passes to an adult show in case he wants fun on his own. Hope is in town working on a paper and is mistaken by a hooker after almost being run over by a drunk. Later, Chic thinks she's a lesbian when she asks him to drive her to a strip club. Tim runs into Fern at a blackjack table on his way to the Lapland Lounge, w

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  18. Tracey Takes On... Season 4 Episode 4 - Hair
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #18 - Hair

    S4:E4

    Main Sketches include: Linda is upset she doesnt have a nude scene in ""Hair"", Trevor recalls getting a Beatle haircut as a youth, Fern's hairdresser dies and Erin has a problem with a cactus

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  19. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 4 - Royalty
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #19 - Royalty

    S1:E4

    Rayleen questions if numbers are the most precise way to identify a royalty. She defends using referable phrases such as ""Henry the Serial Killer"" instead of Henry IV. Fern thinks Steve and Eydie are real royalty. Kay is a victim of a con artist who claimed to be the last son of the King of Albania. But was he really? Ruby doesn't have nice things to say about Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier's marriage. Sydney Kross offers her services to Lady Di. Hope remembers American royalty – Elvis, Larry King, B.B. King, etc. Virginia Bugge and her husband plan a party for Her Royal Highness. The party is a failure and Her Royal Highness only leaves to watch the X-Files. Virginia is devastated, but the Queen's assistant says she loved the party, where she could make everyone miserable – just what she enjoys. Trevor remembers an episode with Princess Diana's entourage. Linda Granger says she'd make everyone cancer-free if she ruled the world.

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  20. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 9 - Health
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #20 - Health

    S1:E9

    Kay hasn't been sick in over 15 years due to all the potions her mother makes her take. Chic thinks it's better to pump chicks than iron. Sydney is forced by her partners to take a vacation and goes to a spa, where she runs into Rayleen, Linda and Janie. Rayleen has slipped on a soap and injured herself. Linda has gotten drunk in public and Janie is having a mud bath. Sydney manages to convince all 3 into starting suits. So much for vacations. Mrs. Nang shows her meditation techniques. Fern and Harry solve a few issues with Boca Raton. She manages to clear out her nose and he solves his backache problem. Ruby has to undergo a mammogram, but isn't worried about breast cancer due to her age.

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  21. Tracey Takes On... Season 4 Episode 5 - Lies
    7.6/10(54 votes)

    #21 - Lies

    S4:E5

    Main Sketches include: Fern and Phyllis discuss their late husbands' infidelities, Sheneesha and Hellura discuss how to respond to deal with cheating boyfriends and Chic tells a lie to get out of a ticket and suffers the consequences

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  22. Tracey Takes On... Season 3 Episode 9 - Culture
    7.5/10(22 votes)

    #22 - Culture

    S3:E9

    Main Sketches include: Hope wants to have sex with a scottish poet, Sydney's method of stress relief: ""Riverdance"" in a woman's restroom, Linda fights against funding cuts for the arts and Sheneesha gets a book deal.

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  23. Tracey Takes On... Season 3 Episode 8 - Man's Best Friend
    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #23 - Man's Best Friend

    S3:E8

    Main Sketches include: Linda and Trevor smuggle a dog onto the plane and Ruby gets some unwanted and rather ""personal"" attention from the neighbor's pitbull.

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  24. Tracey Takes On... Season 3 Episode 3 - Smoking
    6.0/10(68 votes)

    #24 - Smoking

    S3:E3

    Main Sketches include: Kay finds some medicinal marijuana for her mother, Linda tells how her first cigarette started her road of addictions and Ruby can't find a place to smoke.

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  25. Tracey Takes On... Season 1 Episode 8 - Death
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Death

    S1:E8

    Trevor says what he does when a passenger dies in the air. Mrs. Noh Nang Ning says death is like a donut – you are born and die with the same characteristics. Virginia

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Best Episodes Summary

"Hollywood" is the best rated episode of "Tracey Takes On...". It scored 9/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/11/1998. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Hype".