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"The Great Brawl Of China" is an episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show.

Plot[]

The title card "Chapter 1: A Fateful Day", is shown as kid Scratchy, alongside an old cat (implied to be either his father or grandfather) are working on rice fields.

Dictator Itchy passes by on a horse, and then rudely demands the elder cat give him his hat. The older cat, however, protests, citing he needs it to protect him from the rays of the sun during his work. Itchy, undeterred, proceeded to decapitate the elder cat to take the hat via his sword, leaving Scratchy fuming at the senseless murder. It then cuts to Scratchy, having obviously travelled some distance, ascending the huge amount of steps to the Meow-Lin Monastery. He is on the verge of collapse until he finds the head of the Monastery. It the cuts to the title card "Chapter 2: A New Tomorrow", which features Scratchy and his mentor as shadows in the background training various moves. It then shows Scratchy ascending a mountain with a pole with two buckets filled with his mentor in one bucket and his lover in the other as the watch the sunset after Scratchy collapses upon reaching even ground from exhaustion. It then cuts to the mentor "training" Scratchy in various martial arts moves via a fishing pole with a toy attached to the end and having Scratchy try to catch it with various moves before catching the feather and crushing it. It then shows the master and Scratchy training in the sunset among shadows via dance moves, and then Scratchy taking the Shaolin Aptitude Test, eventually getting a score of "720 punching, 680 kicking, 790 badass" before being declared ready for vengeance. It then shows the title card "Chapter 3: The Final Conflict", where Scratchy arrives at Itchy's castle.

An aged Itchy opens the door, and upon Scratchy removing his hat, beckons him to "enter and die." Itchy, however, turns out to be a coward and is easily overpowered by Scratchy, with Scratchy proceeding to draw his claws to deal a finishing blow but he hestitates. then his master arrives and reminds him the greatest weapon of all is mercy. Scratchy then lets Itchy go, heeding his master's request, and thanking him from being enslaved by revenge. Unfortunately for Scratchy, it was not actually his master, but a mouse resembling a younger Itchy posing as him, with the elder Itchy slicing and dicing him before he and his younger counterpart eat the remains like Chinese food.

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