Why is itchy and scratchy funny

Example of: Money to Burn. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Account Profile. Sign Out. Both the short and the episode were inspired by real-life network meddling, says Jean. But that was logistically difficult. Our boys Itchy and Scratchy are down on an Amish-like farm when Itchy suddenly finds himself in need of butter.

When Scratchy walks by, Itchy gets the brilliant idea to feed Scratchy to a cow and turn him into a delicious buttery spread. Ben Sherlock is a writer, comedian, and independent filmmaker. He's currently in pre-production on his first feature, and has been for a while because filmmaking is expensive. In the meantime, he's sitting on a mountain of unproduced screenplays.

You can catch him performing standup at odd pubs around the UK that will give him stage time. By Ben Sherlock Published Oct 01, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Later that year, Itchy and Scratchy starred in their first cartoon together entitled " Steamboat Itchy " a parody of. Along with the cartoon shorts, Itchy and Scratchy were featured in a wartime radio series, [2] at least two films - Pinitchio and Scratchtasia , [3] and television commercials for Laramie Cigarettes. According to Comic Book Guy , only bootleg copies are available "because of its frank depiction of sex and narcotic consumption".

These characters parodied the addition of superfluous, two-dimensional characters to TV shows in an effort to draw viewer interest. The show is animated in South Korea. In the episode Bart vs. This of course was rivaled with hate from the former male audience it had and started an all out gender war between the BRA and the BR, each trying to destroy each others episodes.

According to the show's plot, the producers believed the cartoons were getting stale, and needed a new character to reinvigorate the show, despite the objections of one of the show's writers, who "at the risk of sounding pretentious", felt that Itchy and Scratchy comprised "a dramaturgical dyad". A product of marketing department thinking, Poochie was near-universally despised, and was killed off in his second appearance, to the joy of Bart, Lisa and every other person in Springfield, despite Homer's objections.

In spite of this, Poochie has made a few appearances in future episodes, being possibly "revived" and also changing everyone else's minds. The opening theme is short and simple, and is sung by high-pitched chipmunk-like voices. The lyrics:.

And bite! They fight and bite and fight! Fight, fight, fight! Bite, bite, bite!