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Itchy & Scratchy & Marge

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Itchy & Scratchy & Marge

Rating: 3.6 (220 votes)

Plot

After Maggie watches a violent Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, she attacks Homer with a mallet. Realizing that Maggie was influenced by TV, Marge campaigns to eradicate violence in cartoons. Marge stages protests and appears on TV. Eventually the producers give in and ask Marge's help in making the cartoon less violent. The show becomes very lame and ratings plummet. However, when Michelangelo's nude David statue is brought to Springfield, the other parents ask Marge to lead their campaign against it, but Marge likes the statue. She realizes that it is hypocritical to be against one form of free speech and support another.


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Notes

  • Homer's mallet still has the price tag attached.
  • Marge's stationary reads: ''From the Mind of Marge.''
  • The David statue wears jeans when appearing on TV.

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References

  • The scene where Maggie hits Homer over the head is a direct parody of the movie ''Psycho'': the music; Homer pulling the tablecloth (shower curtain in Psycho); the close up on Homer's eye; and the paint running down the drain.
  • When the kids go to play outside, music from Beethoven's 6th Symphony plays a la Disney's ''Fantasia.''
  • In the same scene, some kids whitewash a fence a la Tom Sawyer.

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Vitals

PCode
7F09

Index
2×9

Aired
20 Dec, 1990

Airing (UK)
unknown

Written by
John Swartzwelder

Directed by
Jim Reardon

Starring
Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Harry Shearer

Also Starring
Pamela Hayden
Maggie Roswell

Special Guest Voice
Alex Rocco as Roger Meyers Jr.

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Season 2

  1. Bart Gets an F
  2. Simpson and Delilah
  3. Treehouse of Horror
  4. Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
  5. Dancin' Homer
  6. Dead Putting Society
  7. Bart vs. Thanksgiving
  8. Bart the Daredevil
  9. Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
  10. Bart Gets Hit By A Car
  11. One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
  12. The Way We Was
  13. Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment
  14. Principal Charming
  15. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
  16. Bart's Dog Gets an F
  17. Old Money
  18. Brush with Greatness
  19. Lisa's Substitute
  20. The War of the Simpsons
  21. Three Men and a Comic Book
  22. Blood Feud