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 Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series Reddy", "Huckleberry Hound" and "Yogi Bear" all of which had bridge animation between the cartoons.) available at the time. For example, WGN-Channel 9 in Chicago ran the three segments in a half-hour timeslot under the name "Wally Gator". In New York, WPIX-TV originally used the segments for a local series, "Cartoon Zoo", featuring Milt Moss as host and "Zookeeper", with life-sized cutouts of the characters in "cages" as a backdrop. The package was originally syndicated by Screen Gems, the TV division of Columbia Pictures. The Hanna-Barbera studio was later purchased by Taft Broadcasting Company, which distributed the studio's product first