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''[[The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'' is a [[Show Within a Show]] ''Within A Show'' on ''[[The Simpsons]]''<ref>which itself was a Show Within a Show, from ''The Tracy Ullman Show''</ref>. It passes itself off as a cat and mouse chase, based on the old cartoon shorts of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' and ''[[Herman and Katnip]]''. The cartoons are usually aired during ''The Krusty The Klown Show''.
The show was part of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' since the first season, including episodes directly involving the company that makes the cartoons. They even got
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* [[Adolf Hitler]]: Makes a cameo in a 1940s style [[Wartime Cartoon]].
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Especially to the people in "The Simpsons" universe. For us as viewers, the violence is horribly over-the-top and especially unfit for a children's audience.
* [[Art Shift]]: The ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon "Spherical on 34th Street" is animated differently, as is "Worker and Parasite".
* [[Asshole Victim]]: One [[Wartime Cartoon]] featuring them has them [[Enemy Mine|team up against]] [[Nazi Germany]].▼
* [[Auto Cannibalism]]: In one short, Itchy (disguised as a restaurant employee) serves Scratchy his own belly. The unknowing Scratchy's attempt at eating it only results in the bits of it he swallows popping back out of
▲* [[Asshole Victim]]: One [[Wartime Cartoon]] featuring them has them [[Enemy Mine|team up against]] [[Nazi Germany]]
▲* [[Auto Cannibalism]]: In one short, Itchy (disguised as a restaurant employee) serves Scratchy his own belly. The unknowing Scratchy's attempt at eating it only results in the bits of it he swallows popping back out of a hole cut in it.
* [[Bloody Hilarious]]
* [[Cat Stereotype]]: Scratchy plays the unlucky part of the black cat stereotype.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Scratchy.
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]
* [[
* [[Creator's Pet]]: Poochie
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: [[In-
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Scratchy suffers one [[Once an Episode]].
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: There's often a [[Shout-Out]] to another film or cartoon series.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: "Manhattan Madness", a cartoon created entirely by Chester J. Lampwick, only features Itchy and had him visiting Manhattan to attack people. "That Happy Cat", meanwhile, is a solo Scratchy effort by Roger Myers Sr. with [[No Plot, No Problem]] whatsoever. Then Myers stole Itchy and his formula and used them in "Steamboat Itchy", and the rest is history.
* [[Exposed Animal Bellybutton]]
* [[Eye Scream]]: Often.
* [[The Farmer and the Viper]]: In the "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" episode, Scratchy tentatively opens a door and sees a Itchy playing the role of a [[Door Stop Baby]]. Scratchy decides to adopt Itchy, who then breaks a bottle, stabs Scratchy, runs inside Scratchy's house and leaves. Scratchy lies on the ground and exsanguinates, watching his "only son" run off with a TV.
* [[Fur and Loathing]]: Itchy steals Scratchy's skin in one episode, fur and all. When Scratchy gets it back, and tries to put it back on, fur protesters beat him up for wearing his own fur.
* [[Game Show Appearance]]: Itchy and Scratchy appeared on an episode of ''[[The Hollywood Squares|The Springfield Squares]]''.
* [[Gorn]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Itchy, who never
* [[Missing Episode]]: "Burning Down the Mouse", [[A Day in the Limelight]] episode where Scratchy kills Itchy for once.
{{quote|'''Krusty:''' Wow! They'll never let us show that again, not in a million years!}}
* [[The Movie]]: In-story, the show had a movie released in theaters and either had a sequel or
* [[My Brain Is Big]]: Itchy in "Planet of the Aches".
* [[Nice Mice]]: Averted with Itchy.
* [[Overly Long Tongue]]: Scratchy's isn't so much long as it is stretchy; at one point it gets tied to a rocket which reaches the moon before Scratchy even notices.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Poochie. Didn't go without [[Lampshade Hanging]], of course.
* [[Retool]]:
** The first cartoon in 1928, "That Happy Cat" only showed Scratchy walking down the street and whistling. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't a success, and the series only caught on when Itchy and violence were added (read: [[Plagiarism in Fiction|stolen from Chester J. Lampwick]]).
* [[Retraux]]: Itchy and Scratchy are obvious homages to the violent cartoons from [[The Golden Age of Animation]],
* [[Sadist Show]]
* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: Oh, Itchy...
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* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Herman and Katnip]]'', rather than ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''.
* [[Subverted Kids Show]]
* [[Take That]]: In response to Marge Simpson's protests
** Also, the ''I&S'' cartoon at the beginning of ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'' has Itchy nuking the moon with missiles; the [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|most extreme]] option is listed as "accidental bombing", with "accidental" in quotation marks. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Without going into details,]] let's just say this is awfully reminiscent of various similar cases in [[Real Life]] of [[Make It Look Like an Accident|making similar atrocities look accidental.]]
* [[Team Rocket Wins]]: The '[[Missing Episode|lost]]' episode where Scrachy finally gets revenge on Itchy by running him down with a combine harvester.
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Scratchy continues to hang around with Itchy, regardless of the constant attacks.
* [[Wartime Cartoon]]: In one episode, we see a clip of an untitled WWII-era short, where a very [[Tom and Jerry]]-esque Itchy and Scratchy team up to torment and kill [[Hitler]]. Immediately afterwards, Itchy turns on Scratchy and cuts his head off. Then [[FDR]] appears and helps Itchy to kick the bodies.
** Roger Myers, Sr.'s other contribution, "Nazi Supermen are Our Superiors", was not
▲** Roger Myers, Sr.'s other contribution, "Nazi Supermen are Our Superiors", was not liked as well.
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: An in-universe example.
* [[White Gloves]]
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