Was the Tracey Ullman Show the first place you saw the Simpsons?

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

Yes. The Tracy Ullman show was pretty good in its own right.

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driventhin@reddit

Yes it absolutely was a really funny show! Shout out to whoever thought, hey let’s add snippets of a cartoon in the show breaks! 🤣

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Kale_Brecht@reddit

Honestly, at that age, I would watch it solely to catch The Simpson’s shorts.

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Yep! They were just snippets between sketches. I also remember when they aired the first Simpsons Xmas special, which was the first full episode before they started the series. The fact that it’s now starting season 37 makes me feel 100. 👵🏾😢

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BlueProcess@reddit

No, the arcade game was

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dunnkw@reddit

I just read Mel Brooks’ book and he said he has only known two genius’ in his entire life. Alfred Hitchcock and Tracey Ullman.

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GladosPrime@reddit

I used to read Life in Hell which came BEFORE the Simpsons. Good old Akbar and Jeff

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PetMonsterGuy@reddit

I didn’t read them beforehand but I basically got them all during the first season

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Kale_Brecht@reddit

I loved those books. Some of the material in them was pretty risqué compared to The Simpsons.

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PetMonsterGuy@reddit

Yep

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

No, first epsiode I remember was Homer buying a RV, going camping, and ended up becoming Bigfoot.

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ResponsibilityIcy187@reddit

No, I was only 6. I didn’t watch Tracy Ullman. I watched the first episode on Fox where thu got Santa’s Little Helper

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TheGroovyGhoulie@reddit

Yes

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Cold_Story_9145@reddit

Yup! 😊

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Baby_Button_Eyes@reddit

I never watched Tracy Ullman, but I remember watching the first Christmas special in 1989. (I can't remember if I recognized the characters by then tho)

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onwardtomanagua@reddit

Yes

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soopirV@reddit

There wouldn’t have been any way to see them before that, so…yes!

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Impossible_Memory_85@reddit

Yes

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

Yep. It was one of the primary reasons why I watched the show (I was 4).

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superschaap81@reddit

Christmas special for me. Was hooked from there on out. However, my Christian conservative mom picked up a lot of the adult nuanced jokes and said we couldn't watch it anymore. I always managed to find a way to watch it, but it wasn't until I was in my teens that mom's gripe about was lost on the rest of the family who loved it.

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JamesMattDillon@reddit

Yes

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Adventurous-Ice6109@reddit

Yup!

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MNDOOOM@reddit

Twas

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midnight-dour@reddit

I know I saw them on there once but I can’t remember if that was before or after their own show started.

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Witty-Common-1210@reddit

Yes!

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throwawayhbgtop81@reddit

No, it was on too late lol.

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OstrichMean7004@reddit

Nope.

I watched it starting a few episodes after the series premiered. We were in a hotel after moving cross-country in January of 1990 (I was 14). We lived on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere with no reception until the move, so I didn't even know Fox was a thing until we got to that hotel and The Simpsons and Married with Children screwed me up good for the next 35 years.

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JJStray@reddit

I remember my parent watching the Tracy Ulman show

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Burningbeard696@reddit

Nah, we used to rent the VHS tapes, Im from the UK though.

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Minimum-Mention-3673@reddit

Yeah, I remember seeing it being rebroadcast while I was home for lunch. It was a short where Maggie was chasing a butterfly and kept face planting. I found it hilarious and is core memory.

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iill_communication@reddit

Yes sir. Mom was a big Tracy Ullman fan. Caught the first ever episodes totally by accident. Became a Bart fan immediately. Had a “Don’t have a cow, man!” Sticker on my skateboard. Good times

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Spirited_Storage3956@reddit

Yes. Go home!

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Euphoric_Egg_4198@reddit

Yes, I would sneak watch it in my brother’s room because it was on past my bedtime

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NoAnnual3259@reddit

I’m pretty sure I saw the animated Simpsons shorts at the Spike and Mike Festival of Animation as a kid. This must have been about 1989, before the show started.

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villagust2@reddit

Yes. I fought to stay up past bedtime to watch it because of The Simpsons.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

I only saw them on there once or twice before they had their own series.

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SkullyXFile@reddit

My mom was the Tracey Ullman fan. She didn’t like the Simpsons and would act all put out when it played. This of course made me more interested in the shorts. When I learned they were getting their own show I was shocked. That little short they’d play during Tracey Ullman? Weirder things have happened I guess…

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supergooduser@reddit

My Dad fucking LOVED the Tracy Ullman show he would've been about 39 when it debuted.

That weird era when we only had the major networks for content there was this sort of tacit agreement that if there was an element that appealed to kids (child actors, silly characters) then I'd pay attention to those elements.

Tracey Ullman having the Simpsons was a fucking lock.

The show ended up being ritual in my family and we watched the first seven seasons together. My brother and I recorded reruns and had four eight hours vhs tapes with the commercials cut out that we'd watch as essentially season passes.

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whats_for_lunch@reddit

Yuuuup - used to watch the Tracy Ulman show all the time with the family.

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Rare-Treat-2727@reddit

Yep, same!

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

Yes.

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tinook@reddit

Yuuu ... ess.

Oof. Feels like it is not that long ago now that you ask about it

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