Francesca A Girls Life - Tracey Ullman Show

[@DavidTSmith-jn5bs]

Another classic Francesca installment! Along with being a great comedienne, Tracey is a brilliant actress.

[@coreycox2345]

How did I never watch this show? She is so talented. Shepardess or grazing material? Hahaha.

[@JPFerraccio]

Wonderful to see this again only a few days after thinking about it. It was the first gay included site my grandmother and I ever watched together. We talked about it and that's when I knew my grandmother was even wiser than I thought she was.

[@julieblair7472]

Haven't seen this since I was a middle schooler, I can't believe how well I remember it. I LOVED this show.

[@lavoixdevelours]

Tracey is genuinely so funny. I never fake laughed at her skits. 😂

[@eowyn1964]

Be sure to see Tracey's interviews for the Television Academy. What a talent....

[@inkyguy]

The actor playing Martin, the boyfriend, was only 16 when this was broadcast. It’s amazing that Tracey Ullman was 28. She is so convincing as a teenager that you aren’t even aware of the 12 year age difference.They actually seem the same age.

[@KaraLynnJack]

They do!!

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

My brother actually auditioned for the part of Frannies date & I said u might have to kiss an older woman ( though gawd ,she is more like a teen girl than I ever was as a teenager!)

[@jeprice08]

And remember, folks, this was WAY before social media!

[@Sparkina]

Oh, I love her dress 👗 and her beads! And her jacket 🧥 adds just the right spark⚡️. The 80s were a great time for fashion. (Like the late great David Bowie said, fa-fa-fa-FASHION!!!!!)

[@Satanna.avemaria]

Yeah can’t deny Tracey has an eye for fashion

[@christhornycroft3686]

Part of the joke here is that in the late 80s, Tracey was in her late 20s, pushing 30 and that's typically the age of a lot of actors playing younger teenagers and that's the way it's been since forever. Molly Ringwald was an actual high school age teenager when she did her early John Hughes films, but part of the reason a lot of teen films don't age very well is the target audience grows up and realizes there are a bunch of 20 and 30somethings playing teenagers, where it obviously never bothered them before. Ms. Marvel actually continued the same trope. Bruno looked age appropriate, but when Kamran shows up with his 5 o'clock shadow looking like a male model in his very late 20s, of course Kamala Khan and the female audience lose their minds. Of course, If I saw a guy like him hanging around a school, I'd be asking if he's someone's brother or maybe I should call the police. Not because of his skin tone, but because he looks way too old to be going to school. At least Tracey's make up and her acting makes her seem reasonably like a teenager - in the goofy comedy universe that this sketch creates.

[@christinawilson7312]

My Father 😬would not let me shave my legs 🦵😫until….well, he said at least High School 🏫😕and🦧this was me until Middle School-ish. I had to wear socks 🧦 up 🔝 to my knees😢🥺😩Adolescence is NOT EASY‼️🤸🏼‍♀️

[@reddwood4971]

What reasoning can someone give to make such a weird rule? Was he afraid you’d cut yourself and bleed to death? How strange

[@MrsPatmore289]

"My William." 💜

[@dxmxo9427]

That guy in red adorable awe

[@alexiatr]

hi hi hi hi hi

[@nealwhaley63]

If the kid wants to be a waiter, who are we to stand in his way?

[@dxmxo9427]

People in the 1980s were still pretty closeminded about Lgbtqi people sadly

[@JohnSmith-zv8km]

how many initials does it take to make a minority

[@danroley7850]

her character is a perfect sjw. thanks madtv.

[@dorcasia109]

Dan Roley mad tv?

[@booksteer7057]

SJW?? She strikes you as a shrill, man-hating, virtue signaller?

[@Sugabug75]

This was The Tracey Ullman Show

[@inkyguy]

Dan Roley, you really have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

[@dxmxo9427]

Why is the audience so surprised when the man said he is boy crazy?? It's so primitive

[@HipsterBlood]

Dima Andro it was a first for television - gay parents. As the show went on audiences loved them and rooted for them.

[@dorcasia109]

It was1987. We have come a long way since then.

[@aaronc4899]

@@dorcasia109 Yeah, it was not a fun time to be boy crazy in high school.

[@pigeonlove]

that line is in gay comedy today, snowflake

[@inkyguy]

Aaron C, not if you were a boy. ☹️