"Maggie Simpson Margaret ""Maggie"" Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series ""The Simpsons"". She first appeared on television in the ""Tracey Ullman Show"" short ""Good Night"" on April 19, 1987. Maggie was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. She received her first name from Groening's youngest sister. After appearing on ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" for three years, the Simpson family was given their own series on the Fox Broadcasting Company which debuted December 17, 1989. Maggie is the youngest child of Homer and Marge,"
"The Tracey Ullman Show The Tracey Ullman Show is an American television variety show starring Tracey Ullman. It debuted on Fox on April 5, 1987 (the network's second original primetime series to air following ""Married... with Children"") and ran until May 26, 1990. The show was produced by Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television. The show blended sketch comedy with musical numbers and dance routines, choreographed by Paula Abdul, along with animated shorts. The format was conceived by creator and executive producer James L. Brooks, who was looking to showcase the show's multitalented star. Brooks likened the show to"
"1988 at the corner of Fountain and Highland Avenues. The studio soon grew to include six buildings that have become well known in Hollywood — in true Klasky Csupo style, the exterior walls of the buildings are decorated with large murals of its characters. The studio's first big break came in 1987 when James L. Brooks of Gracie Films hired the studio to produce the title sequence for a new comedy series called ""The Tracey Ullman Show"". In addition to the main title, Klasky Csupo was given the opportunity to produce a series of one-minute cartoons which featured a group"
"""The Tracey Ullman Show"" aired in prime time, therefore it was not censored as much as programs intended to air on Saturday mornings. In addition to the show's portrayal of brief nudity and mild language, the series has dealt with mature themes and subjects such as death, gambling addiction, religion and suicide. In 1989, ""The Simpsons"" began airing on Fox Broadcasting Company in prime time, becoming a massive hit among American audiences. In response, ABC, CBS and NBC each developed animated series to air in prime time, but none of the shows were successful. One series, ""Capitol Critters"", focused on"
"Jump Street"". The animation industry had experienced a decline in the 1980s. In 1987, ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" premiered with mild success. During this time, a series of short cartoons originally intended to be bumpers gained a following with young and old audiences, and Fox ordered thirteen episodes of a new animated television series based on these, titled ""The Simpsons"". When ""The Simpsons"" premiered in December 1989, the series was instantly popular. Merchandise featuring the show’s breakout character Bart Simpson has accumulated over US$1 billion in sales. ""The Simpsons"" was the first successful primetime animated series since ""The Flintstones"", paving"
"purchase through iTunes and Amazon Video-on-Demand service in the United States in 2009, but are currently unavailable in either store. The episodes were heavily edited; some combined to make up for lost length due to editing. In 2012, the entire series of 65 episodes could be streamed through Hulu. For the first time, all 15 Character Comedies episodes were made available. Tracey Takes On... Tracey Takes On... is an American sketch comedy series starring Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned after the success of the 1993 comedy special ""Tracey Ullman Takes On New"
"Discovery Kids, later Discovery Family on October 13, 2014) started airing the original episodes of the Transformers G1 Series on the network. The Transformers (TV series) The Transformers is a half-hour American animated robot superhero television series which originally aired from September 17, 1984 to November 11, 1987. The first of many series in the ""Transformers"" franchise, it was based upon Hasbro's ""Transformers"" toy line (itself based upon the ""Diaclone"" and ""Microman"" toy lines originally created by Japanese toy manufacturer Takara) and depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects. Co-produced between Marvel Productions"
"1987. Describing the show proved difficult. Creator Ken Estin dubbed it a ""skitcom"". A variety of diverse original characters were created for her to perform. Extensive makeup, wigs, teeth, and body padding were utilised, sometimes rendering her unrecognisable. One original character created by Ullman back in Britain was uprooted for the series: long-suffering British spinster Kay Clark. A typical episode of ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" consisted of three sketches, one including a song and/or a heavily choreographed dance routine. Brooks was keen on showing off all of Ullman's abilities. ""It’s 'Can you juggle this and keep throwing on more plates?'"
"The Transformers (TV series) The Transformers is a half-hour American animated robot superhero television series which originally aired from September 17, 1984 to November 11, 1987. The first of many series in the ""Transformers"" franchise, it was based upon Hasbro's ""Transformers"" toy line (itself based upon the ""Diaclone"" and ""Microman"" toy lines originally created by Japanese toy manufacturer Takara) and depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects. Co-produced between Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions for first-run syndication, animation for the series was done by Toei Animation in Japan, and later by AKOM in"
"damage although the company denied this and claimed any screen damage was 'user related' and denied warranty claims in Australia. Ben & Jerry's created a ""Simpsons""-themed beer and donut-flavored ice cream, entitled ""Duff & D'oh! Nuts"". Many official or unofficial ""Simpsons"" books such as episode guides have been published. The Simpsons (franchise) The Simpsons is an American animated comedy franchise whose eponymous family consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The Simpsons were created by cartoonist Matt Groening for a series of animated shorts that debuted on ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" on Fox on April 19, 1987. After a"
"the live-action sequences) (13 shows), ""Lassie's Rescue Rangers"" (17 shows), ""The New Adventures of Gilligan"" (24 shows), ""My Favorite Martians"" (16 shows), and former ""Uncle Croc's Block"" segments ""M.U.S.H."" (""""Mangy Unwanted Shabby Heroes""""), ""Fraidy Cat"", and ""Wacky and Packy"" (combined into 18 shows). The cartoon aired with the UK version of Hanna-Barbera's ""Banana Splits"" in the early 1980s, and as of May 2009, the show can be streamed in the US in minisode form on Crackle. The show was structured very much like the then-popular show ""Laugh-In"", with several short segments of one-liner jokes and riddles. This was most shown"
"""I Am What I Am"". The unedited British cut of the special was made available on Hulu in the United States in 2012. The special was nominated for a CableAce Award in 1995 in the category of International Dramatic or Comedy Special or Series/Movie or Miniseries. Tracey Ullman: A Class Act Tracey Ullman: A Class Act is a sketch-comedy special starring Tracey Ullman, along with Michael Palin playing a variety of original characters. It originally aired on ITV; subsequently HBO in the United States on 23 November 1993. ""A Class Act"" skewers the British class system. The show is broken"
"The Lawrenceville Stories The Lawrenceville Stories (also known as The Prodigious Hickey) is a 1987-1989 miniseries, directed by Allan A. Goldstein and Robert Iscove, based on ""The Lawrenceville Stories"" written by Owen Johnson. The series was originally broadcast as episodes of the ""American Playhouse"" anthology television series on Public Broadcasting Service starting on January 26, 1987 (Season 6, Episode 2). It follows the adventures of school prankster Hickey (Zach Galligan) and his rival, The Tennesse Shad (Nicholas Rowe). Lawrenceville prankster Hickey pulls one prank too many and is expelled from school. When he returns he finds that there's a new"
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (initially known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in some European countries due to controversy at the time, and retroactively also known as TMNT 1987 or just TMNT '87) is an American animated television series produced by the studio Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and the French company IDDH. The pilot was shown during the week of December 28, 1987 in syndication as a five-part miniseries (launching on 84 stations and being played twice a day) and the show began its official run on October 1, 1988. Since then the show and franchise has"
"joker in town, The Tennesse Shad, and although they initially are rivals, they soon realize that together they can cause more trouble, so they establish a partnership that they call ""The Firm"" The Lawrenceville Stories The Lawrenceville Stories (also known as The Prodigious Hickey) is a 1987-1989 miniseries, directed by Allan A. Goldstein and Robert Iscove, based on ""The Lawrenceville Stories"" written by Owen Johnson. The series was originally broadcast as episodes of the ""American Playhouse"" anthology television series on Public Broadcasting Service starting on January 26, 1987 (Season 6, Episode 2). It follows the adventures of school prankster Hickey"
"James L. Brooks. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show ""The Tracey Ullman Show"". Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his ""Life in Hell"" characters for the show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, the Simpson family, and named the members after his own parents and sisters—while Bart was an anagram of the word ""brat"". The shorts would be spun off into their own series ""The Simpsons"", which has since aired episodes. In 1997, Groening and former"
"first appeared on television in five animated specials on NBC, airing as follows: The first special starred Ron McLarty, Gabriela Glatzer, Jonathan Lewis, and Pat Lysinger as Papa, Sister, Brother and Mama, respectively. Most reprised their roles in the subsequent specials. From 1985 through 1987, an animated series titled ""The Berenstain Bears Show"" aired as part of CBS' Saturday morning cartoon block. The series was nominated in 1987 for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming; it was also nominated that year for a Humanitas Prize in the category of Non-Prime Time Children's Animated Show. A second"
"""The Tracey Ullman Show"" on April 19, 1987. Another family member, Grampa Simpson, was introduced in the later shorts. Years later, during the early seasons of ""The Simpsons"", when it came time to give Grampa a first name, Groening says he refused to name him after his own grandfather, Abraham Groening, leaving it to other writers to choose a name. By coincidence, they chose Abraham, unaware that it was the name of Groening's grandfather. Although ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" was not a big hit, the popularity of the shorts led to a half-hour spin-off in 1989. A team of production"
"other accoutrements for the characters; so Ullman felt less panicked. She decided to do a send up of the British class system. All new characters were created and she was joined by Monty Python's Michael Palin for each of the show's sketches. """" premiered on 9 January 1993 on ITV. The American cable network HBO became interested in Ullman doing a special for their network with the caveat that she take on a more American subject. She chose New York. The special, ""Tracey Ullman Takes On New York"" debuted on 9 October 1993 and both it and Ullman went on"
"1. This collection features all 13 episodes of the series on DVD for the very first time. The Barkleys The Barkleys is an American animated television series that ran from 1972 to 1973 on NBC and was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. The cartoon - inspired by the CBS sitcom ""All in the Family"" - featured an anthropomorphic dog family consisting of Arnie, a bus driver (voiced by Henry Corden) and his wife Agnes (voiced by Joan Gerber). They had two teenagers, Terry and Roger (voiced by Julie McWhirter and Steve Lewis respectively) and one younger child, Chester (voiced by Gene"
"his own name. The shorts became a part of ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" on April 19, 1987. After three seasons, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and became Fox's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989–90). Since its debut on December 17, 1989, episodes of ""The Simpsons"" have been broadcast. It is the longest-running American sitcom, and the longest-running American scripted primetime television series in terms of seasons and number of episodes. ""The Simpsons Movie"", a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27, 2007, and grossed over"
"reprinted in four volumes the first eleven issues as color trade paperback collections. Palladium's role-playing game brought the Turtles to the attention of licensing agent Mark Freedman and the Turtles phenomenon took off, with the various characters soon appearing on T-shirts, Halloween masks, mugs, and other paraphernalia. A five-part televised cartoon mini-series based on the Turtles debuted in December 1987. The half-hour episodes were produced by Osamu Yoshioka and the animation was directed by Yoshikatsu Kasai from scripts David Wise and Patti Howeth. The mini-series was successful, leading to a full series, with the mini-series forming the first season. The"
"Columbia's ""The Real Ghostbusters"", and Film Roman's ""Garfield and Friends"". Additionally, the Saturday morning continued to see attempts to adapt prime time series for animation, some successfully (""Happy Days"" and its spinoffs, ""Mister T"", """"), others less so (""It's Punky Brewster"", ""The Gary Coleman Show"", ""Little Rosie""). After three decades of resistance, Disney finally entered Saturday morning in 1985 when ""The Gummi Bears"" and ""The Wuzzles"" debuted with significantly more substantial budgets; the first-run syndication success of ""DuckTales"", which premiered in 1987, eventually inspired a whole block of Disney-produced syndicated cartoons which forced competing studios to improve their own production"
"affiliated with Fox in the weeks before the April 1987 launch of its prime time lineup (such as WCGV-TV (channel 24) in Milwaukee and WDRB-TV (channel 41) in Louisville) signed affiliation agreements with the network on the condition that they would not have to carry ""The Late Show"" due to the program's weak ratings. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5, 1987, inaugurating its Sunday night lineup with the premieres of the sitcom ""Married... with Children"" and the sketch comedy series ""The Tracey Ullman Show"". Fox added one new show per week over the next several"
"1990. The series made its debut on September 17, 1983, on NBC, originally under the name ""Alvin and The Chipmunks"", and was animated by Ruby-Spears Enterprises. Beginning with the 1988–89 season, the series was renamed to simply ""The Chipmunks"", and production switched to DiC Enterprises for the remainder of the series' run (with the exception of five episodes produced for the syndication package by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, which aired on NBC in fall 1988 for reasons currently unknown – this was not due to the 1988 Writers Guild of America Strike, which did not affect any animated series). For its final season"
"up, always wanting the best."" Over the course of four seasons, Tracey Ullman played upwards of 100 characters; some were repeated but not on a weekly basis. The show's supporting cast also had their own characters– usually playing opposite Ullman's, but sometimes in solo sketches of their own. The following is a list of recurring characters performed by Tracey Ullman, Dan Castellanta, Julie Kavner, and Sam McMurray. They are listed in order of appearance. ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" regularly featured short animated cartoons as interstitials in the first three seasons. There was no recurring cartoon during season 4. ""Dr. N!Godatu"""
"he steals the robot and dries up the reservoir of a village of pixies, risking widespread dehydration unless Raggedy Ann can recapture Megamite. 8. The Boogeyman Adventure 9. The Christmas Adventure 10. The Sacred Cat Adventure 11. The Little Chicken Adventure 12. The Warrior Star Adventure 13. The Magic Wings Adventure The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy is an American animated television series that aired on CBS from September 17, 1988 to September 1, 1990. Based on the dolls Raggedy Ann and Andy by Johnny Gruelle, the series was produced directly by"
"The Simpsons (franchise) The Simpsons is an American animated comedy franchise whose eponymous family consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The Simpsons were created by cartoonist Matt Groening for a series of animated shorts that debuted on ""The Tracey Ullman Show"" on Fox on April 19, 1987. After a three-season run, the sketch was developed into ""The Simpsons"", a half-hour prime time show that was an early hit for Fox, becoming the first Fox series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989–1990). The popularity of ""The Simpsons"" has made it a billion-dollar merchandising and"
"boxed sets. In 1987, DIC Entertainment produced an NBC Saturday morning cartoon, ""The New Archies"". This children's television cartoon re-imagined the teenage students of Riverdale High School as pre-teens in junior high. Fourteen episodes of the show were produced, which aired during the show's only season in 1987 and were repeated in 1989. A short-lived Archie Comics series was produced bearing the same title and set in the same universe as the animated series. Reruns of the series ran on The Family Channel's Saturday morning lineup from 1991 to 1993, and on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2002. The cast"
"Tracey Ullman's State of the Union Tracey Ullman's State of the Union is an American sketch-comedy series starring Tracey Ullman. The series was written by Ullman along with Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner. Gail Parent and Craig DiGregorio acted as contributing writers to the series' first season. On May 17, 2010, it was announced that ""State of the Union"" would not be returning for a fourth season. The series takes a satirical view of the day in the life of America, lampooning political, social, and pop culture, with Ullman impersonating and portraying famous and non-famous characters and celebrities. The series' first"
"Tracey Ullman: A Class Act Tracey Ullman: A Class Act is a sketch-comedy special starring Tracey Ullman, along with Michael Palin playing a variety of original characters. It originally aired on ITV; subsequently HBO in the United States on 23 November 1993. ""A Class Act"" skewers the British class system. The show is broken up into three sketches. Ullman, accompanied by ""Monty Python"" alum Michael Palin, play the majority of the show's characters. ""A Class Act"" served as the follow-up to her American HBO comedy special ""Tracey Ullman Takes On New York"", which aired a month prior in 1993 The"
"During this period, the network also aired original animated series – most notably, the 1980s series ""The Smurfs"" and ""Alvin and the Chipmunks"". It also carried animated series adapted from certain live-action NBC series such as ""It's Punky Brewster"" (based on the sitcom ""Punky Brewster""), """" (based on the sitcom ""ALF"") and """" (based on the science fiction drama ""Star Trek""), as well as animated series vehicles for certain NBC prime time stars including Gary Coleman (""The Gary Coleman Show"") and Mr. T (""Mister T""), and original live-action series including the Sid & Marty Krofft-produced ""The Banana Splits"", ""The Bugaloos"""
"influenced her decision to switch networks. Greenblatt was a young development director during her ""Tracey Ullman Show"" days and was enthusiastic to get her over to Showtime. Five episodes were ordered for the first season. ""Tracey Ullman's State of the Union"" debuted on 30 March 2008. The show not only featured original characters, but also celebrity impersonations, something she hadn't done since ""Three of a Kind"". The critical response to ""State of the Union"" was overwhelmingly positive. One critic pointed out a change in Ullman's humour: Ullman commented that the United States is ""now able to laugh at itself more,"""