Itchy & Scratchy & Marge

Season 2, Episode 9, Aired
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Marge is fed up with the all the violence on The Itchy & Scratchy Show and decides to do something about it.
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  • Another perfect episode.

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    By jmbsonic555, Oct 17, 2011 Report Abuse
    The episode begins with Marge in the kitchen, preparing Homer's favorite meal: pork chops. An appreciative Homer announces to Marge that he is going to build her a spice rack. Cut to the living room, where the kids are watching Itchy & Scratchy (titled: Hold That Feline). The camera zooms in on Maggie as she absorbs all the cartoon violence. Meanwhile, Homer is out in the garage looking through his "How to" books for directions on a spice rack. A little later as he admires his spice rack that looks like mangled pieces of wood. Maggie is on some stairs behind him and hits Homer over the head with a mallet and runs off. Later, as Homer with a bandaged head lies on the couch, Marge wonders where Maggie would get such and idea. She sets Maggie down in front of the TV, just as another Itchy & Scratchy episode airs (titled: Kitchen Kut-ups). In the episode, Itchy and Scratchy try to smash each other with mallets, and later as Itchy stabs at Scratchy with a knife, Maggie mimics what she sees and picks up a nearby pencil and advances towards Homer, who screams in horror. Marge quickly snatches up Maggie and realizes what has influenced her violent behavior. She turns off the TV and announces that there will be no more cartoon watching in the Simpson home.The next day at school, Milhouse has heard that Bart is banned from watching cartoons, so he invites Bart over to his house to watch them. Back at the house in the living room, Homer calls in sick to work and Marge walks in and wonders why the kids aren't home from school yet. A quick cut reveals Bart and Lisa at separate friends' houses watching Itchy & Scratchy (titled: Messenger of Death). At home an upset Marge is also watching Itchy & Scratchy, but she has a pad of paper in hand and is cataloging the acts of violence that she sees. Homer wonders aloud what she could do to prevent the violence. In answer to his question Marge announces that she is going to write a letter to the people in charge of the Itchy & Scratchy cartoons. She sends her letter to various people: Krusty the Clown, one of the Itchy & Scratchy writers, and to Roger Meyers Jr., the chairman of Itchy & Scratchy Intl. Roger Meyers Jr. sends Marge a letter back, telling her that she is a screwball and that one person cannot make a difference in changing cartoon violence. After reading the letter, an enraged Marge vows to show Roger Meyers Jr. "what one screwball can do."

    Overall, a perfect episode
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  • a good ep

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    By cube2k8, May 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    basicly the kids are watching there cartoon show itchy and scratch when maggie hits homer over the head and then marge sees that and says that enough no more itch and scratch due to the amount of vilence in the show and and what itcauses people to imitate what they see on tv . so marge bans them from watching the show and then marge cant saying anyting about a nude statue even though some people think that is also wrong for kids to see that so marge lets them watch the show again and that was a great epmoreless

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  • marge protests

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    By futuramarama, Apr 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    marge protests the violence on Itchy and Scratchy when maggie hits homer's head, copying something she saw on TV. Soon she forbids bart and lisa from watching. however in the end the whole fight dies down because marge can't object to a sculpture of Michelangelo's Dave {which features some nudity}, so the kids are once again allowed to rewatch their cartoon.

    a good episode on the topic of violence in cartoons, something some people feel strongly about. i thought it was handled very well in this episode, also thought it had nice humor. My overall grade is an easy A+moreless

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  • A terrific episode, and one of my personal favorites!

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    By KingBoo112, Jul 01, 2009 Report Abuse
    Homer tries to build Marge a spice rack. While he is, Maggie sneaks up behind Homer and hits him on the head with a mallet, and looked like the shower scene in psycho lol. Marge has no idea as to what would keep Maggie to be such a maniac, but then notices that, when Maggie sees episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show, a Tom and Jerry rip-off, she's stupid and tries to do things to Homer. Marge believes the Itchy and Scratchy show is poisoning Maggie's mind and trys to take it off the air.Marge forms "Springfieldians for Nonviolence, Understanding, and Helping" and forces the family to protest outside the Itchy & Scratchy Studios. Marge's protest grow and soon more people join the group and even start to get angry at The Krusty the Klown Show, on which Itchy & Scratchy is shown. Marge goes to Kent Brockman's show, Smartline where she confronts Roger Meyers over the violence and suggests that concerned parents send letters to Meyers. Angry letters are sent to the Studio and Roger Meyers concedes defeat, and agrees to get rid of the violence in Itchy & Scratchy. A new cartoon in which Itchy & Scratchy sit on a bench drinking lemonade airs (imagine Tom & Jerry doing that), but Bart, Lisa, and everyone else in town is pissed at the cleaned-up show. A lengthy montage follows, in which the children of Springfield go outside and engage in various wholesome activities and that night Bart and Lisa brag about their various outdoor activities while Marge listens happily.

    Meanwhile, Michelangelo's David goes on a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. and Springfield is one of its scheduled destinations. The members of SNUH try to use Marge to picket the sculpture, insisting that it is offensive and unsuitable. Marge says that she believes that the sculpture is cool. While appearing on Smartline, Marge admits that it's wrong to censor one form of art but not another. Itchy & Scratchy goes back to its old form and Springfield's children turn away from their wholesome activities and return to spending every day indoors watching the violent Itchy & Scratchy cartoons, and they live happily ever after. The Endmoreless

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  • In the end Marge learns an important lesson: Carton Violence always wins. LOL

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    By Iverson82094, Jan 28, 2008 Report Abuse
    After watching a violent Itchy & Scratchy cartoon, Maggie hits Homer over the head with a mallet. Marge realizes she decided to do such a thing because of watching the show. She sends a letter to it's creators which is just mocked and has no effect. Marge protests in front of the studio where the show is produced and soon gains nationwide support. Marge appears on TV and asks parents to send letters to the creators. As ratings plummet, the producers ask Marge for ideas on the new look 'Itchy & Scratchy'. Her ideas turn the show into a boring tame television show, and the ratings hit rock bottom. Subsequently, Michelangelo's nude "David" is exhibited at a museum and other crusaders ask Marge to rally their cause. But Marge finds nothing objectional about the statue. Caught in a dilemma, she realizes that she was wrong for protesting against a form of free speech, and the show is resumed to what it used to be.moreless

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    • Marge's stationery is titled: "From the Mind of Marge" Edit
    • According to this episode Kent Brockman is a local Emmy award winning anchorman. Edit
    • Moe has a sign that says "Bring Back Wagon Train". Edit

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    • The animator in the window who animates Marge in one of the cartoons is a parody of Simpsons' director Rich Moore. Later we see drawings of David Silverman and Wes Archer in the writer's room. Edit
    • Itchy & Scratchy: #1 "Hold That Feline": Itchy lights a fuse of an exploding football and kicks it towards Scratchy. Scratchy catches the football, which explodes on contact. As the helpless cat lays in the crater, several heavy football players dogpile on top of him. #2 "Kitchen Kut-Ups": Itchy and Scratchy smash each other with meat tenderizers. Itchy pins Scratchy down with butcher knives and attempts to stab him as Scratchy wriggles around. Finally, Itchy pins him through the heart. Itchy then chases Scratchy with an electric blender. #3 "Messenger Of Death": Scratchy answers a knock at his door and finds Itchy dressed as a messenger. Itchy fires a bazooka at Scratchy. When the smoke clears, all we see is Scratchy's skull with no flesh. Later, Itchy smashes Scratchy in the back of the head with a sledgehammer, knocking out his eyeballs. As Scratchy looks for them, Itchy hands him two cherry bombs, which Scratchy puts into his sockets. Combing his hair, Scratchy sees the bombs and screams in terror just before they explode. #4 Untitled: Inspired by the Marge-led protests outside I&S Intl., against violent cartoons. Itchy and Scratchy attack each other with clubs. A squirrel with a hairdo and face resembling Marge runs in and, in a whiny voice, implores the feline and rodent to stop fighting. After close-ups of Itchy and Scratchy looking at each other knowingly, they behead the Marge-squirrels by smashing their clubs into the back of her head. #5 "Porch Pals": Accompanied by a slow-tempo, calm version of the I&S theme ("They love and share, they love and share and love. Love, love love, share share share, the 'Itchy and Scratchy Show'"). Here, Itchy, sitting in rocking chairs on the porch, offers to share lemonade with his former foe. Scratchy compliments his one-time antagonist. Otherwise devoid of content, though Marge sees it as conveying positive themes about sharing. Subsequent cartoons feature the cat and mouse dancing to big band-type music, and Scratchy reading Itchy "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" at bedtime. #6 Untitled: Itchy and Scratchy pull out progressively bigger firearms at each other, until Itchy fires. The force hurls a screaming Scratchy into outer space, with a one-way ticket into the sun. Edit
    • Marge forms an advocacy group called SNUH (Springfieldians for Non-violence, Understanding, and Helping). This word has appeared at least twice more in the series: (1) as a nonsense word Homer utters in lieu of an actual promise Lisa's Pony and as a sound-effect graphic flashed on the screen in the '60's TV version of Radioactive Man. Edit

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    • (Homer and Marge visit the Statue of David exhibit) Homer: Well, there he is. Michelangelo's Dave. Marge: Hmm, David. Homer: Oh. Edit
    • (Kent Brockman comments on the Statue of David) Kent: Is it a masterpiece? Or just some guy with his pants down? Edit
    • (Helen Lovejoy and Maude Flanders arrive at Marge's doorstep) Helen: Get dressed, Marge. You've got to lead our protest against this abomination! (Shows Marge a newspaper with the Statue of David on the cover) Marge: Hmm, but that's Michelangelo's David. It's a masterpiece. Helen: (Gasps) It's filth! It graphically portrays parts of the human body which, practical as they may be, are evil. Marge: But I like that statue. Maude: (Gasps) I told you she was soft on full frontal nudity. Edit

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    • Looney Tunes The final Itchy & Scratchy cartoon near the end of the episode with the bigger and bigger guns, seems to be a reference to the 1950 Looney Tunes cartoon The Rabbit of Seville where a similar gag occurred between Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Edit
    • Tom and Jerry Itchy and Scratchy is violent and bloody parody of MGM's Tom and Jerry. Edit
    • Roger Myers Jr.: The screwballs have spoken. This line and the way it's spoken are a parody of a famous line spoken by Richard Nixon after losing the 1960 election. The original line was "The voters have spoken. The bastards." Edit

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