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The Itchy & Scratchy Show is a segment or "side-show" featured on The Simpsons which usually appears as a portrayal of the fictional Krusty the ClownTV show, watched regularly by Bart and Lisa Simpson and other characters on the animated series. Itself an animated cartoon, The Itchy & Scratchy Show depicts an anthropomorphicbluemouse, Itchy (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) who mutilates an anthropomorphic black cat, Scratchy (voiced by Harry Shearer).They first appeared in the Tracey Ullman Showshort "The Bart Simpson Show", which originally aired November 20, 1988. Their first appearance in the regular series was "There's No Disgrace Like Home".Itchy and Scratchy follow the "cat versus mouse" archetype popularized by Tom and Jerry. In both instances, the cat (Scratchy or Tom) attempts to catch the mouse (Itchy or Jerry) with a disastrous outcome for the cat. Itchy and Scratchy features more gore and injury than its predecessor, in a send-up of the cartoon violence present in the original. >> By WikiPedia
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