Itchy is the cartoon mouse from Itchy & Scratchy. He is a serial killer whose favorite victim is Scratchy. He almost always succeeds in killing Scratchy. It seems that there is only one episode where Scratchy defeats him.
History[]
Itchy first appeared in "Itchy the Lucky Mouse in Manhattan Madness", in which only Itchy appears, without Scratchy, and Itchy kills an Irish man and Teddy Roosevelt. This was the very first of many episodes where he would appear.[1]
His ears resemble Mickey Mouse's, his name is like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's and he plays the role of Jerry from Tom and Jerry. In a parody of the view of Jerry as a villain, Itchy is depicted as a serial killer torturing and killing the innocent Scratchy, contrasting Jerry's mutual slapstick relationship with Tom (in most episodes Tom is pranked by Jerry only because he attacked Jerry in the first place).
Itchy & Scratchy Land is an Itchy and Scratchy theme park. It has parades with robots resembling Itchy and Scratchy which are intended to only attack each other.. While on vacation, the Simpsons were attacked by a group of robots when they went berserk until the family realized that flash photography can damage them by scrambling their circuits.[2] It is implied that flash photography is prohibited on the park for this reason.[3] [4]
Itchy and Scratchy also appear in The Simpsons Movie, in a short film that the Simpsons are watching in the movie theater before the actual movie begins. He kills Scratchy by filling a bunch of rockets in his mouth and then explodes him to pieces.[5]
Along with Scratchy, he may be a resident of Springfield as seen in "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder," as they appear together as guests on The Springfield Squares.[6]
"Burning Down the Mouse," seen in "Homer Goes to College," has Scratchy kill Itchy using explosives, grenades and a nuke, though whether or not it succeeded isn't explicitly clear as Benjamin unplugs the television just before the dynamite goes off, with the short only airing once altogether.[7][8]
Itchy, along with Scratchy have also appeared in The Simpsons Ride where they host a safety video that shows the ride rules that the riders must follow.[9]
Appearances[]
- For a full list of both Itchy and Scratchy appearances, please see The Itchy & Scratchy Show
- Simpsons short – "The Bart Simpson Show"
- Simpsons short – "Simpson Xmas"
- Simpsons short – "TV Simpsons"
- Episode – "There's No Disgrace Like Home" First appearance of Itchy in the series
- Episode – "Krusty Gets Busted"
- Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror"
- Episode – "Dead Putting Society"
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
- Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" (voice)
- Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
- Episode – "Old Money"
- Episode – "Lisa's Substitute" (picture)
- Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book" (picture)
- Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
- Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
- Episode – "Homer Defined"
- Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
- Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
- Episode – "Radio Bart"
- Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
- Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
- Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen" (toy; brown)
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
- Episode – "Lisa's First Word" (flashback)
- Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
- Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet"
- Episode – "I Love Lisa"
- Episode – "Duffless" (toy; brown)
- Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" (flashback)
- Episode – "The Front"
- Episode – "Whacking Day"
- Episode – "Marge in Chains"
- Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled" (poster)
- Episode – "Cape Feare"
- Episode – "Homer Goes to College"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" (toy in "Bart Simpson's Dracula")
- Episode – "Bart's Inner Child" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land"
- Episode – "The Springfield Connection" (picture)
- Episode – "The Day the Violence Died"
- Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
- Episode – "In Marge We Trust"
- Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
- – The Simpsons Movie (cameo)
- Episode – "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
- Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
- Episode – "Pay Pal"
- Episode – "The Simpsons Guy" (cameo)
- Episode – "Bart's New Friend"
- Episode – "Peeping Mom" (Night-lamp)
- Episode – "Every Man's Dream"
- Episode – "Lisa with an "S"" (Ad in New York City)
- Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (Old style; flashback)
- Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished"
- Music video – "Deep, Deep Trouble"
- Music video – "Do the Bartman"
- Video game – The Simpsons: Hit and Run
- Video game – The Simpsons Game
- Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out(full character; decorations)
- Commercials – Slaughter is the Best Medicine
- Special – "The Simpsons Ride" (Safety video)
The Simpsons: Season One | ||||
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire": | "Bart the Genius": | "Homer's Odyssey": | "There's No Disgrace Like Home": | "Bart the General": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent |
"Moaning Lisa": | "The Call of the Simpsons": | "The Telltale Head": | "Life on the Fast Lane": | "Homer's Night Out": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The Crepes of Wrath": | "Krusty Gets Busted": | "Some Enchanted Evening": | ||
Absent | Minor | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Two | ||||
"Bart Gets an "F"": | "Simpson and Delilah": | "Treehouse of Horror": | "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish": | "Dancin' Homer": |
Minor | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"Dead Putting Society": | "Bart vs. Thanksgiving": | "Bart the Daredevil": | "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge": | "Bart Gets Hit by a Car": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Major | Absent |
"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish": | "The Way We Was": | "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment": | "Principal Charming": | "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?": |
Absent | Absent | Voice only | Absent | Minor |
"Bart's Dog Gets an F": | "Old Money": | "Brush with Greatness": | "Lisa's Substitute": | "The War of the Simpsons": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Three Men and a Comic Book": | "Blood Feud": | |||
Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Three | ||||
"Stark Raving Dad": | "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington": | "When Flanders Failed": | "Bart the Murderer": | "Homer Defined": |
Minor | Absent | Minor | Minor | Minor |
"Like Father, Like Clown": | "Treehouse of Horror II": | "Lisa's Pony": | "Saturdays of Thunder": | "Flaming Moe's": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk": | "I Married Marge": | "Radio Bart": | "Lisa the Greek": | "Homer Alone": |
Minor | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"Bart the Lover": | "Homer at the Bat": | "Separate Vocations": | "Dog of Death": | "Colonel Homer": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Black Widower": | "The Otto Show": | "Bart's Friend Falls in Love": | "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?": | |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Four | ||||
"Kamp Krusty": | "A Streetcar Named Marge": | "Homer the Heretic": | "Lisa the Beauty Queen": | "Treehouse of Horror III": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": | "Marge Gets a Job": | "New Kid on the Block": | "Mr. Plow": | "Lisa's First Word": |
Major | Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"Homer's Triple Bypass": | "Marge vs. the Monorail": | "Selma's Choice": | "Brother from the Same Planet": | "I Love Lisa": |
Cameo | Absent | Absent | Minor | Minor |
"Duffless": | "Last Exit to Springfield": | "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show": | "The Front": | "Whacking Day": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Major | Minor |
"Marge in Chains": | "Krusty Gets Kancelled": | |||
Minor | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Five | ||||
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet": | "Cape Feare": | "Homer Goes to College": | "Rosebud": | "Treehouse of Horror IV": |
Absent | Minor | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"Marge on the Lam": | "Bart's Inner Child": | "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": | "The Last Temptation of Homer": | "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"Homer Loves Flanders": | "Bart Gets an Elephant": | "Burns' Heir": | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent | Cameo |
"Lady Bouvier's Lover": | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": | |||
Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Six | ||||
"Bart of Darkness": | "Lisa's Rival": | "Another Simpsons Clip Show": | "Itchy & Scratchy Land": | "Sideshow Bob Roberts": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Major | Absent |
"Treehouse of Horror V": | "Bart's Girlfriend": | "Lisa on Ice": | "Homer Badman": | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Fear of Flying": | "Homer the Great": | "And Maggie Makes Three": | "Bart's Comet": | "Homie the Clown": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Bart vs. Australia": | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma": | "A Star is Burns": | "Lisa's Wedding": | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"The PTA Disbands": | "'Round Springfield": | "The Springfield Connection": | "Lemon of Troy": | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Seven | ||||
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)": | "Radioactive Man": | "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": | "Bart Sells His Soul": | "Lisa the Vegetarian": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Minor | Minor |
"Treehouse of Horror VI": | "King-Size Homer": | "Mother Simpson": | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Marge Be Not Proud": | "Team Homer": | "Two Bad Neighbors": | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": | "Bart the Fink": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Lisa The Iconoclast": | "Homer The Smithers": | "The Day The Violence Died": | "A Fish Called Selma": | "Bart on the Road": |
Absent | Absent | Major | Absent | Absent |
"22 Short Films About Springfield": | "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"": | "Much Apu About Nothing": | "Homerpalooza": | "Summer of 4 Ft. 2": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Eight | ||||
"Treehouse of Horror VII": | "You Only Move Twice": | "The Homer They Fall": | "Burns, Baby Burns": | "Bart After Dark": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"A Milhouse Divided": | "Lisa's Date with Density": | "Hurricane Neddy": | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": | "The Springfield Files": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": | "Mountain of Madness": | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": | "Homer's Phobia": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Major | Absent |
"Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The Old Man and the Lisa": | "In Marge We Trust": | "Homer's Enemy": | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson": |
Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Nine | ||||
"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson": | "The Principal and the Pauper": | "Lisa's Sax": | "Treehouse of Horror VIII": | "The Cartridge Family": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Bart Star": | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons": | "Lisa the Skeptic": | "Realty Bites": | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"All Singing, All Dancing": | "Bart Carny": | "The Joy of Sect": | "Das Bus": | "The Last Temptation of Krust": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Dumbbell Indemnity": | "Lisa the Simpson": | "This Little Wiggy": | "Simpson Tide": | "The Trouble with Trillions": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Girly Edition": | "Trash of the Titans": | "King of the Hill": | "Lost Our Lisa": | "Natural Born Kissers": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Ten | ||||
"Lard of the Dance": | "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace": | "Bart the Mother": | "Treehouse of Horror IX": | "When You Dish Upon a Star": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Major | Absent |
"D'oh-in' in the Wind": | "Lisa Gets an "A"": | "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"": | "Mayored to the Mob": | "Viva Ned Flanders": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken": | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday": | "Homer to the Max": | "I'm with Cupid": | "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Make Room for Lisa": | "Maximum Homerdrive": | "Simpsons Bible Stories": | "Mom and Pop Art": | "The Old Man and the "C" Student": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love": | "They Saved Lisa's Brain": | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": | ||
Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Eleven | ||||
"Beyond Blunderdome": | "Brother's Little Helper": | "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?": | "Treehouse of Horror X": | "E-I-E-I-D'oh": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder": | "Eight Misbehavin'": | "Take My Wife, Sleaze": | "Grift of the Magi": | "Little Big Mom": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"Faith Off": | "The Mansion Family": | "Saddlesore Galactica": | "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily": | "Missionary: Impossible": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Pygmoelian": | "Bart to the Future": | "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses": | "Kill the Alligator and Run": | "Last Tap Dance in Springfield": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge": | "Behind the Laughter": | |||
Cameo | Absent |
Gallery[]
- ↑ The Day the Violence Died
- ↑ Itchy & Scratchy Land
- ↑ Itchy & Scratchy Land. Cletus: [upon seeing the park's Robot Parade] Hey, ma. I'm gonna get me a picture of this crazy critter (robot Scratchy). [a picture is taken, which causes the Scratchy robot to short out] Itchy & Scratchy Land Employee: [to Cletus] [chuckles] Uh, no flash photography, please. [The robot walks the other direction, still affected by the flash]
- ↑ Itchy & Scratchy Land. [Homer chucks his camera at the robots of Itchy and Scratchy, which causes those in the direct vicinity of the flash to collapse] Lisa: Dad, the flash must've scrambled their circuits! Homer: What are you, the narrator?! Lisa: [groans in frustration] Just keep taking more pictures!
- ↑ The Simpsons Movie
- ↑ Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
- ↑ Homer Goes to College. [The television is plugged back in. It shows end card of Burning Down the Mouse, in which an explosion is depicted. The end of the theme of The Itchy & Scratchy Show is heard over it. cut to Krusty's audience, cheering. Krusty steps out of the curtain] Krusty: [enthusiastic] WOW! They'll never let us show that again! Not in a million years! [laughs]
- ↑ Homer Goes to College
- ↑ The Simpsons Ride