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Watch an Hour of Twisted “The Itchy & Scratchy Show” Episodes! [Video]
In its heyday, one of the many factors that made “The Simpsons” edgy was “The Itchy & Scratchy Show”, a recurring animated segment featured in Krusty the Clown’s show.
While Bart Simpson’s foul-mouthed rebel brand was the reason many tuned in on a weekly basis, “Itchy & Scratchy” is where the show’s producers pushed the envelope.
A parody of “Tom and Jerry”, the show featured a blue mouse named Itchy who repeatedly kills a black cat known as Scratchy. Being that it was animated, the violence was pushed to hyper extremes and included a wide variety of creative and cartoonish “deaths” from beheadings to electrocution, impalement, and many stabbings. For us horror fans, it was one of the highlights of “The Simpsons”.
Though the cartoon first appeared in “The Tracey Ullman Show” short “The Bart Simpson Show”, which aired November 20, 1988, the cartoon’s first appearance in “The Simpsons” was in the 1990 episode “There’s No Disgrace Like Home”. (Wiki)
Back in 2017, a YouTube user assembled all of the “Itchy & Scratchy” footage and compiled it into one 52-minute long extravaganza of ultraviolence, all accompanied by the many laughs of Bart and Lisa.
Since new episodes of “The Simpsons” are still being produced, the video no longer includes “all” episodes of “Itchy & Scratchy”, but it’s damn near close.
Grab some popcorn, sit back and watch the chaos unfold.
Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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