Tracey Takes On...

Tracey Takes On...

1996
★★★★☆ 8.5/10
📺 4 Seasons
🎬 50 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Comedy
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 York (1993). Each episode focuses on a specific subject which Ullman and her cast of characters take on through a series of sketches and monologues.

Seasons

Season 1
1996 • 11 Episodes
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.
Season 2
1997 • 16 Episodes
Sydney goes on about how the last men she's been with haven't really satisfied her. Hope imagines her future sex life (she's still a virgin) and worries about obsessing about the guy's penis. Birdie Godsen says sex should be taught at home and shares how she's handling her own her. Linda falls into temptation with the cable guy even though she shouldn't (she's a recovering sexaholic). Fern is tired after spending the night awaked with Harry. Kay says she doesn't know what sex is thanks to so much advice from her mother. That doesn't mean she isn't willing to give it a try sometime. Ruby is working on the set of a porn film and gives the solution for the star's ""wood"" problem. Chic remembers when he became a man and the casaba woman retired after him.
Season 3
1998 • 11 Episodes
Main Sketches include: Sydney presses Kay to marry her client who's on Death Row to save him from the chair, Ruby meets her son's mail order bride, Sheneesha gives some advice to some newlyweds.
Season 4
1999 • 12 Episodes
Main Sketches include: Sydney tries a dating agency, Erin objects to Dusty's going on a date and Linda's limo driver turns out to be an old flame and they have a Titanicesque moment

Crew

Writer/Creator
Allan McKeown, Tracey Ullman, Dick Clement
Producer
Robert Klane, Thomas Schlamme, Dick Clement

Network

HBO

Production

Takes On Productions, Inc.

Keywords

satiresocial satiresketch comedycomedy