The Itchy & Scratchy Show
The Itchy & Scratchy Show is a fictional animated television series which is featured in the animated television series
The Simpsons. It usually appears as a part of
The Krusty the Clown Show, watched regularly by Bart and Lisa Simpson. Itself an animated cartoon,
The Itchy & Scratchy Show depicts an anthropomorphic blue mouse, Itchy, who repeatedly kills an anthropomorphic black cat, Scratchy. The cartoon first appeared in the
Tracey Ullman Show short "The Bart Simpson Show," which originally aired November 20, 1988. The cartoon's first appearance in
The Simpsons was in the 1990 episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home." Typically presented as 15-to-60-second-long cartoons, the show is filled with over-the-top violence.
The Simpsons also occasionally features characters who are involved with the production of
The Itchy & Scratchy Show, including Roger Meyers, Jr., who runs the studio and produces the show.