What Happens to Itchy & Scratchy in The Simpsons Season 36 Finale? The Simpsons Season 36 finale, “Estranger Things,” actually takes a fairly emotional look at the long running show within a show.

In order to push Bart and ensure his dream of his son becoming a Supreme Court Justice one day, Homer bans Bart from ever seeing the “Itchy & Scratchy” movie.

That episode is the Season 8 classic "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show," which also cemented The Simpsons as the longest-running animated show in history — a feat it still holds to this day.

Parody. And so it was that The Simpsons wound up riffing off of Westworld in their season 6 episode “Itchy and Scratchy Land.” Originally aired on October 2, 1994 (22 years to the day before ...

This show within a show within a show featured a psychopathic mouse, Itchy, who with each episode would mutilate and kill a perpetually terrified cat, Scratchy. "Simpsons" writers loved "Itchy and ...