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If Herman and Katnip lacked anything in personality, they tried to make up for it with action. For "action" read blowing Katnip up; sending Katnip off a cliff; squashing Katnip with a 100-ton weight, and so on. With so much emphasis placed on violence—almost all of it delivered to the cat—it's no surprise that Mike Reiss, a writer on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', [[Word of God|confirmed]] that Herman and Katnip, not Tom and Jerry, were the real inspiration for [[The Itchy and Scratchy Show|Itchy and Scratchy]].
When the series ended, it wasn't so much because the cartoons ran out of steam, as because the studio sold all its ongoing characters to Harvey Comics, which had licensed them for several years. But Herman and Katnip didn't go on to very great success at Harvey. They appeared in the back pages of a lot of comics during the 1950s and early 1960s, and were featured in an occasional issue of ''Harvey Hits'' (a later Harvey title with rotating stars), but never had their own comic book. When other Harvey characters were re-adapted into animated form—even some who, like [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]] and Wendy the Good Little Witch, had never been animated before—''Herman & Katnip'' weren't. Eventually, they faded from view, and are now scarcely remembered.
With that said, in October 2011, a complete DVD set of all their adventures was released.
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