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.

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.

Yet two of the great Simpsons creations aren't one of the family's neighbours, but their beloved TV icons Itchy (the mouse) and Scratchy (the cat), the stars of a cartoon within a cartoon that is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

TV LEGEND: Itchy and Scratchy weren't based on Tom and Jerry, but on the more violent KNOCKOFF of Tom and Jerry, Herman and Katnip. This one is tricky, because the presence of Tom and Jerry is SO ...