"The Tracey Ullman Show" was a half hour music/comedy/variety show on FOX starri ng Tracey Ullman herself.

For the most part, the series served as a platform to showcase Ullman's ability to do characters and every show featured various comed y and musical skits. It also occasionally featured various amusing animated shor ts. One series of shorts stood out and soon became the exclusive animated series on the show. That series was called "The Simpsons." The characters in the short s were voiced by the show's cast members (Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardl ey Smith, and Nancy Cartwright) and eventually every episode of Ullman's program would have three Simpsons shorts linked by a common plot such as Bart going to get a haircut. The art slowly changed as well, as the Simpsons seen in the first shorts look like only rough sketches of what the characters eventually became. When "The Tracey Ullman Show" finished a four season run in 1990, "The Simpsons" was reborn as a full-length show and became the driving force behind FOX's grow th into a major network.

Episode Guide: MGO1 - Good Night As Marge and Homer say goodnight to the kids, Bart ponders the workings of the m ind, Lisa fears that bedbugs will eat her, and Maggie is traumatized by Rock-a-B ye-Baby. MG02 - Watching Television Bart and Lisa argue over what to watch on television. The only thing that the pa ir can agree on is that they do not want Maggie to decide what to watch. MG03 - Bart Jumps Homer tries to get Bart to jump into his arms, but when Homer gets distracted as the last minute every time, Bart is left hurt and wounded. MG04 - Babysitting Maggie Bart and Lisa are asked to babysit Maggie but the pair ignore her. Maggie electr ocutes herself, falls down stairs, and chases a butterfly onto the roof. MG05 - The Pacifier Bart and Lisa are sick of hearing Maggie suck on her pacifier, but Maggie has an entire drawer full of them and always has a replacement. MG06 - Burping Contest Despite Marge's objections, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie compete in a contest to see w ho can make the most disgusting burp. Homer comes home & wins. MG07 - Eating Dinner Marge serves the family purple goop for dinner but insists that the family say g race before they eat. SEASON 2 MG08 - Football Bart will win a round of frosty chocolate milkshakes if he can catch one of Home r's long passes. Unfortunately he must stop at the cliff. MG09 - Making Faces Bart, Lisa, and Maggie make a succession of scary faces at one another despite M arge's warning that their facial positions will freeze in place forever. MG10 - Maggie's Brain Bart and Lisa hover over Maggie's crib, wondering what she's thinking. Maggie se

es them first as demons and then as infants whom she towers over. MG11 - Gone Fishin' Bart forgets to pack bologna for his fishing trip with Homer and substitutes wor ms in his sandwich. Bart and Homer take a ride down the rapids. MG12 - House Of Cards Bart's attempts to build a huge house of cards are constantly interrupted by Lis a and Maggie's sucking noises. MG13 - Space Patrol Lisa, Bart, and Maggie play a save-the-earth game. Lisa is space pilot Lisuey, M aggie her sidekick Mageena, and Bart is Bartron the crazed martian robot. MG14 - The Funeral The family attends Uncle Hubert's funeral. Bart is excited to see a dead body fo r the first time but passes out when he glances into the casket. MG15 - Bart And Dad Eat Dinner When the girls go out to the ballet, Homer gives Bart a choice of fish nuggets o f port-a-roni. MG16 - The Perfect Crime Bart sets out to steal cookies, figuring Maggie will take the blame. Instead he eats too many cookies and lays down among the crumbs revealling the evidence. MG17 - Scary Stories Bart tells Lisa and Maggie scary stories in the dark that seem to be coming true . MG18 - Bart's Haircut Bart goes to a barber who does not know how to cut hair and ends up getting scal ped by him. MG19 - Grampa And The Kids Grampa tells Bart, Lisa, and Maggie boring stories about the good old days. Real izing that they are not listening he feigns his own death to recapture their att ention. MG20 - World War III Obsessed with getting ready for the Apocalypse Homer repeatedly awakens the fami ly for nuclear attack drills. MG21 - Skateboarding Bart, Lisa, and Maggie ride the local sidewalks on their skateboards, not always with success. MG22 - The Pagans While driving to church, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie anger their parents by deciding to convert to paganism. MG23 - The Closet Bart hides in the closet to avoid his chores and ends up outsmarting himself by getting locked in. By the time he escapes the family has left for frosty chocola te milkshakes. MG24 - The Aquarium At the aquarium, Bart foolishly risks his life to perform various tricks in the shark tank.

MG25 - Family Portrait Homer gathers the family around for a portrait but the family continually sabota ges his efforts to strike a normal family pose making him angry. MG26 - Bart Hiccups Lisa and Maggie try to help Bart stop hiccuping, resorting to unorthodox methods to cure their brother of the health nuisance. MG27 - The Money Jar Lisa, Bart, and Maggie try to stave off the temptation to steal Marge's money fr om a cookie jar. MG28 - Zoo Story The Simpsons go to the zoo, where Homer and Bart have a close encounter with a f amily of monkeys which resemble the members of the family. MG29 - The Art Museum Marge and Homer take the hids to an art museum. After Bart ogles a nude painting , Marge realizes the children are not mature enough to appreciate fine art. SEASON 3 MG30 - Shut Up Simpsons Grampa, Homer, and the kids persist in arguing until they formally forgive one a nother. Bart's forgiveness comes with strings attached. MG31 - Shoplifting Bart Simpson is busted by the shop keeper when he tries to steal chocolate from the local candy store. MG32 - Home Hypnotism Marge and Homer use hypnosis to try to make Bart, Lisa, and Maggie behave. The c hildren pretend to act like zombies. MG33 - Punching Bag A punching bag with Homer's picture on it inspires Bart, Lisa, and Marge to new heights of boxing prowess. MG34 - Bart The Hero When Bart goes the the candy store for a candy bar he unwittingly foils a robber y attempt and becomes a hero. MG35 - Shell Game Bart tries to hide a cookie he stole from the cookie jar. He covers it with one bowl and then to keep his parents guessing, with three bowls. MG36 - Echo Canyon During a family vacation, the Simpsons stop at Echo Canyon, where everyone froli cs and Bart nearly crunches the family car with a bouldrer. MG37 - Scary Movie Instead of going to see Return Of The Happy Little Elves, a fearless Bart convin ces his sisters to see The Revenge Of The Space Mutants. MG38 - The Bart Simpson Show Homer demands that the kids stop watching their favorite cartoon "Itchy & Scratc hy". Bart turns off the TV, pulls out the tube and gets inside to put on his sho w.

MG39 - The Krusty The Clown Show The kids go to see Krusty The Clown's live TV show. To his great disappointment, Bart discovers his hero is not a real clown but some guy in clown makeup. MG40 - Simpsons Christmas Bart narrates a holiday tale to the strains of "Twas the night before Christmas" which features the Simpsons kids sneaking a peek at their presents. MG41 - Bart's Little Fantasy Prompted by his parents' order to clean up his messy room, Bart tells a tale in which children look and sound like the parents and parents look and sound like c hildren. MG42 - Maggie In Peril (Chapter One) Bart and Lisa do a poor job babysitting for Maggie. Unsupervised, she hops on Ba rt's skateboard and rolls through a sewage pipe to a waterfall. To be continued. .. MG43 - Maggie In Peril - The Thrilling Conclusion Maggie survives her trip over the falls, flies out of the river into a carnival, grabs onto helium balloons an d lands safely back in her playpen. MG44 - Bathtime To make his bath more exciting, Bart mimics Jacques Costeau but leaves the water running and the bathroom floods when Homer comes back to collect him. MG45- Barts Nightmare After devouring too many cookies, Bart has a nightmare in which Homer catches hi m stealing cookies and threatens to punish him for doing so. MG46 - Bart Of The Jungle Homer is incenced as Bart, Lisa, and Maggie who are swinging from trees on makes hift vines made from Homer's neckties. MG47 - Family Therapy Homer tricks the family into going to a psychologist by pretending to take them out for frosty chocolate milkshakes. The psychologist tries to make them laugh. MG48 - TV Simpsons Homer sends Bart outside to fly a kite but it gets tangled in the antenna and di storts the TV picture. Homer climbs onto the roof to restore it.