OT-Favorite "Tracy Ullman" Short

[Cartman]

What is or are some of your favorite Simpsons shorts from the "Tracy Ullman Show?" Of those I have seen, mine include:

Family Therapy
The Aquarium
Family Portrait
Shut Up Simpsons

[Larry T]

Mine include:

Watching Television- I love the way Lisa and Bart literally warp when they're arguing about the channel.

Babysitting Maggie- the funniest scene includes Maggie sticking a fork into an electric socket

Making Faces- Bart: "I call this one 'Dad'". ....Makes me bust out laughing every time.

The Pagans- kids: "Mom, Dad, Look! We're Pagans!!" the chase sequence is as well animated and funny as any Hollywood cartoon.

The Money Jar- goes to show you all the Simpson kids are still Simpsons by nature.

Zoo Story- "Here, monkey monkey money- heh heh heh heh heh" What a great skew-eyed Homer laugh.

The Krusty The Clown Show- The noise Bart makes when Krusty is throttling him is hilarious.

The Dr. N!Godatu shorts aren't all that bad either, especially hearing the Simpsons actors doing those formative voices (like in Fishtank). My favourite one is Scanner... "Isn't this a great machine?"

[The G Man]

Hard to choose. Among the ones I really like:

Goodnight (worthy of being played at Spike & Mike at the time)
World War III
Making Faces
Bart's Haircut
Simpsons Christmas
Bart the Hero
Maggie in Peril
Bart of the Jungle

I have a tape of all 48 of the shorts, but the A/V quality is less than perfect (in fact some of them look completely junky, and I think they might be edited as well). If anyone has better copies and would like to trade, please send me a PM. (I've never seen the Dr. N!Godatu shorts either)

I think it would be really cool if FOX released all of these on DVD with bonus clips of Dan and Julie's other roles on the Ullman show. I would think FOX has the rights ... they did release some of the Simpsons shorts on the "Best of the Simpsons" 12-volume VHS lineup in 1997. AND the first one is on the Season 1 DVD set, so why not? I can see it selling like crazy.

[Nick]

I think it would be really cool if FOX released all of these on DVD with bonus clips of Dan and Julie's other roles on the Ullman show. I would think FOX has the rights ... they did release some of the Simpsons shorts on the "Best of the Simpsons" 12-volume VHS lineup in 1997. AND the first one is on the Season 1 DVD set, so why not? I can see it selling like crazy. I think that FOX could of fit all 48 shorts on the season one DVD, since they had another space (all the shorts together only last an hour or so).

My favourite short is probably "Grampa and the Kids", as it introduced Abe Simpson and it has a funny scene where he fakes his death. I also like "Maggie in Peril", "Gone Fishin'", "The Money Jar", "Zoo Story" and "Family Therapy". The actual show references the shorts a few times, like in the episode "Brother From the Same Planet", Homer does exactly the same thing he does in "Zoo Story", taunting a dolphin (even though it was a gorilla in the original short) with a hot dog but then it steals it. He has simalar crazy eyes from the short as well.

[Cartman]

I think that FOX could of fit all 48 shorts on the season one DVD, since they had another space (all the shorts together only last an hour or so).



That's right because on the last disc, they only put one episode (Some Enchanted Evening).

[speedy fast]

my favorite shorts are good night, The funeral, Shut Up Simpsons and The Bart Simpson Show.

[cbrubaker]

Hmmm...I'd say "The Funeral", "Shut Up Simpsons", "Bart Simpsons Show", "Aquarium", "Haircut", and the one where Homer is making Bart jump off the table, and Homer unsuccessfully captures him.

I was wondering. Does anyone know who directed these shorts?

[Jaime_Weinman]

I believe David Silverman and Wes Archer directed most of the Ullman shorts (and they both went on to do the series).

I personally hope that Fox releases complete season sets of The Tracey Ullman Show. It was a good show that used much of the same talent that went on to do The Simpsons -- Jim Brooks, Sam Simon, Dan Castellanetta, Jay Kogen, Wallace Wolodarsky -- and there isn't enough sketch comedy on DVD.