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The Tracey Ullman Show

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please...there's never been anything like this show. i've been waiting for years. release this on dvd! more people need to understand that julie kavner and dan castellaneta are so much more than simpsons (i don't even watch that show, though, yes, it was born of TTUS). this cast of players exhibited such chemistry and fluidity together. these were tracey's best characters. every facet of entertainment was at its peak: dance, song, comedy, dramatic pathos. the world needs to either learn or remember. this was a kooky, kinetic classic.

Yes this show is probably best remembered as the birth place of The Simpsons, but Tracey is such a comic talent and the thing I remember best about the show was her ability to take a popular song such as the Rolling Stones "Paint it Black" and do a skit about it where she had her kitchen remodeled and in the end, everything was painted black.

I'll be one of the first in line to pick this DVD up if and when it is released. I can see Tracey now in her closing monologe wearing that big pink robe and telling people to "Go home, just go home."

I remember how much I loved the ingenious skits in this series. It was a wonderful mix of comedy, music, and dance. If I had to guess why this show is not being released on DVD I would say it has everything to do with " The Simpsons " lawsuit , and the fact that Tracey came out with another show recentley. So the question is : Does Fox want us to just forget how much better her first series was and be resigned to never being able to enjoy those awesome characters again, because of a silly cartoon that got it's start on her show 20 years ago? Please Fox , and or Tracey, get the red tape worked out and give us your best work to enjoy again and again .

This show is hysterical! My favorite character was Kay, who was always hysterical!

I have been wishing to see this great show come out on DVD for years! So much dreck is released and a truly original and influencial show as this is not. It's a shame.

I remember when FOX first started broadcasting and this was one of it's anchor shows on Sunday nights. I always hated Sunday night knowing I had to go back to work on Monday morning, but having this show on somehow made it a little bit better. For me, this was my generations Carol Burnett. Tracey could do it all - sing, dance and be funny. And it wasn't humor that was dumb downed, it was intelligent and clever humor. It is sad that the biggest thing this series is remembered for is 'The Simpsons' because there was so much more to it. The cast, the writing and the use of music were all woven together into one terrific show.

I don't recall The Tracey Ullman show ever being on DVD, but should be. If it will never happen then I regret losing the tapes I had. I remember sitting in front of the tv cracking up...you just never knew what Tracey was gonna do. And I love how the Simpsons cartoons would come on halfway through the show. Julie Kavner was clearly much more than Rhoda Morgenstern's little sister in the 70s (oops showing my age) and more than the voice behind Marge Simpson. Of course there seems to be no limit on Tracey's talents C'mon...let's get this on DVD already!!!!

No matter how hard I tried to like this show, it hardly made me smile. Unfortunately you had to drone through it just to catch the flash of the Simpsons at the time.

Sketches were the same droll characters over and over, and included WAAAY too much choreographed, off-key singing (Dan Castellanetta and Julie Kavner singing... good!?! Good God!!!) Understand that they have talent, just not in the singing area. Choreography belongs on Broadway instead of clogging up my valuable TV time. Remember Cop Rock? There's a reason why that flopped...