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.