The Itchy & Scratchy Show The Itchy & Scratchy Show The Itchy & Scratchy Show (often shortened as Itchy & Scratchy) is a cartoon and animated television series featured in the American animated television series "The Simpsons". It appears as a part of "The Krusty the Clown Show", watched by Bart Simpson and Lisa Simpson. Itself an animated cartoon, "The Itchy & Scratchy Show" depicts a blue mouse, Itchy (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), who repeatedly kills a black cat Scratchy (voiced by Harry Shearer). The cartoon first appeared in "The Tracey Ullman Show" short "The Bart Simpson Show", which aired November 20, 1988. The cartoon's
The Lighter Side of... "National Lampoon"'s 1971 "Mad" parody, which included a hard-hatted conservative and a longhaired hippie finding their only common ground by choking and beating Berg. Bart Simpson reads "The Lighter Side of... Hippies" in "The Simpsons" episode "Bart of Darkness" and laughs: "They don't care whose toes they step on!" In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", Bart visits "Mad Magazine"s headquarters, where he witnesses Alfred E. Neuman calling for "Kaputnik and Fonebone" (the latter being a regular character in Don Martin's comics). While Neuman is yelling, Kaputnik is walking right behind him. In "Family Guy"'s parody of "",