The Itchy & Scratchy episode is a parody of Pitch Perfect. Lisa's chart of female cartoon characters includes Betty Boop, Daria, The Powerpuff Girls and Louise Belcher. The D-Day sequence from Saving Private Ryan is spoofed when the boys are blinded by glitter. Spit Take: Bart spits out his soda when watching the Itchy & Scratchy cartoon. 'Itchy & Scratchy Land' is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' sixth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 2, 1994. Wanting a perfect family vacation, the Simpson family visits Itchy & Scratchy Land. The episode was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Wes Archer. Mar 06, 2020 There was a special unlockable level in the The Simpsons Wrestling where only Itchy and Scratchy are playable. The characters of Itchy and Scratchy also appear in The Simpsons Game, featured in the level Grand Theft Scratchy in the form of pimps and hoodlums.
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Episode - 2F01![]() The Simpsons Wrestling Itchy And Scratchy And FriendsThe Simpsons are going to Itchy and Scratchy Land — a new theme park based on the violent antics of Bart and Lisa's favorite cartoon series.This episode contains examples of:Advertisement:
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The Simpsons: Season 30 Episode 18
The Simpsons, season 30, Episode 18, “Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy” is a major move forward in the series’ recent diversification and assimilation of their modernization. Simpson college wrestling team. Gone are the pointed jabs at the country’s upper management as the show returns to the graffiti tagged neighborhood it all began. The episode itelf begins at KrustyCon, where it’s not weird to find yourself if you’re an adult.
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The place has it all, from Krusty Vape Pens to Sideshow Bob’s Prison Art Gallery. The convention culminates in a panel discussion where Krusty, who hates being there yet gets mad if anyone else talks, and his co-stars take the same old questions from the audience. They kill some time with a gag reel of scenes long time viewers should remember from the series, such as when Fat Tony’s goons came to collect a gambling debt in the middle of a televised performance. Then he drops the bombshell, an all-female reboot of Itchy and Scratchy.
Bart and Lisa’s shared reactions are character building and storytelling. With the same exact words, “oh my god,” they express the exact opposite emotions. Bart can’t believe this is happening. Lisa can’t believe this is happening. He is devastated. She is elated. Krusty knew female power was the right bandwagon to jump on because girls love the way he panders to them. The Powerpuff Girls would never let him get away with that kind of misogyny before their reboot. If fits for Krusty, who would only note the long-changing demographic now, to finally give the audience what his executives says everyone wants. But not everyone likes change.
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Everybody seems to be gender flipping these days, from Captain Marvel to the Ghostbusters to the Frog Boys in the upcoming TV reboot of Lost Boys. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but there is one thing you can count on. Someone is going to hate the very idea of it before it even makes it to the screen, big, small or animated. The boys declare girls aren’t funny, they’re either hot or they are moms, ask the late Jerry Lewis, who argued the fine points of gender in comedy even after taking heat for it. But a female Mr. Magoo is also just too far for some.
The first words we hear in response to the new Itchy and Scratchy is “it’s different.” Nothing different can possibly be good. Especially in something as tried and true as this cartoon couple. The pairing began with the 1928 short film Steamboat Itchy and traditionalists, like Bart and the boys in his clique, are not having it. They stage a boycott. Everyone meets at Bart’s place to turn off the TV at the exact moment the segment airs.
But Bart sees the reboot and laughs, in spite of himself. The episode, which we watch upstairs with Lisa, is a splatter fest. We get dismembered heads as bongos, followed by more beheadings and finally a satisfying conflagration which even engulfs the viewing audience. We can see it’s over-the-top and panders to exactly what a gore-addicted prepubescent is looking for in between whatever it is Krusty does when the cartoon’s not playing.
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