4 Season
50 Episode
Tracey Takes On... - Season 2 Episode 3 Mothers
One woman playing 20 characters taking on one topic a week.
Ruby thinks she raised her kids well – despite her son being mentally ill and her daughter a morgue thief. Mrs. Nang says it's easier being a grandmother than a mother. She had a tough time raising her daughter. Janie feels bad for treating her mother bad after she has a dream where she is old and her own children treat her the way she's treating her mother. Birdie thinks a shotgun and a rifle are better presents for her son than a minibike. Ruby insults a Hispanic clerk at a store after he wouldn't cash her check, and then uses her great granddaughter (whom she just met and happened to be half black) to benefit in the discussion with the black manager. Her Royal Highness meets Mother Theresa and remembers how funny it was when an Indian nanny of her was eaten by a tiger. Fern and Harry handle the birth of their grandson in their own ways. Chic says he's saving money to bring his mother to America, but emergencies like his brother's hair transplant keep him from raising the needed mone
- Year: 1999
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: HBO
- Keyword: satire, social satire, sketch comedy, multiple characters, comedy, actors playing multiple characters
- Director: Tracey Ullman
- Cast: Tracey Ullman, Adele Givens, George Segal, Danny Woodburn, Michael McKean, Julie Kavner