Simpsons’ Itchy & Schatchy was inspired by an old carton

The “Simpson family” did not move away from violence. In fact, the show benefited from the controversy caused by the photography of the father who routinely suffocating his son. The Simpson family was not the typical TV family, and this was the point. The exhibition and the Fox network, which still broadcasts in a completely new generation of the screen, was angered by President George W. Bush at the time, which regretted that American families should be very similar to and “less than that similar to the Simpson family”.

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But even when Bush was pronounced with that unintended mockery, it was too late. The “Simpsons” may have a strong emotional heart and heart rings that affected the masses are more than just a mobile comedy. But it was also, like the actual amulet of display in the early years, Bart Simpson, vulgar and proud of it.

One of the most violent elements in the chain was Bart’s favorite animation, “The Itchy and Schatchy Show”, which formed part of “The Krusty the Clown Show”. This presentation appeared in a display in a mental mouse show, itching, which with each episode will always distort and kill a terrified cat, scratch. I love the book “The Simpson family” “itching and scratching” because it allowed them to break every base on TVAnd viewers liked it because he was hotter in brutal. The joke was immediately clear to anyone who grew up with “Tom and Jerry” and confessed to this sadistic simulation of the beloved MGM animation. But even the lover’s “Simpson” lovers may be surprised to hear that this cat and the legendary mouse were not in fact an inspiration behind “itching and scratch” – at least, not the only inspiration.

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It was created in 1940 by legendary animation Will Hanna and Joe Barrara, Tom and Jerry became very successful, and they have become more famous than creators, to the point that they are now an integral part of pop culture in the twentieth century. The series Tom showed the cat, which, despite his endless desire to capture and kill Jerry, is always frustrated by cunning rodents. In “The Itchy and Schatchy Show”, this dynamic is transferred to extremist levels, where the mouse is depicted as a killer repeatedly repeatedly the cat in increasing ways and sadists. When it is definitely the vast majority of “Simpson” fans, the joke here was clear. This was a silly satirical simulation of “Tom and Jerry”. But it turns out that this is not in fact the full story.

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Mike Reese, a writer and producer of the longest service on “The Simpsons”, wrote a book titled “Springfield Confidential: Be jokes, secrets, and frank lying from lifelong writing for Simpsons,” Who remembers how itching and scratching was with “The Simpsons” from the beginning, when it was launched by Sketch Comedy Series. “The Simpsons” has started life as a series of short pants that would serve as bumps between commercial breaks on “The Tracey Ullman Show” and “The Itchy and Scripchy Show” for the first time in one of these short pants of 1988, entitled “The Bart Simpson Show”. Then the duo and the mouse first appeared in the appropriate “The Simpsons” in the first season episode “There is no shame like the house.” But with Reese noticing, the cat’s and mouse characters were not a satirical simulation of “Tom and Jerry”, and instead it was “inspired by” Hermann and Catneepe “, which is a cheap UV rays of T & J.” UV rays may be a little bit, but “Herman and Katnip” was definitely “Tom and Jerry” Knockoff, which included strict violence of the original.

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Unlike “Tom and Jerry” and its theatrical pants from MGM, “Herman and Katnip” was produced by the famous studios, the first moving department in Paramount. The studio has directed a series of theatrical cartoons that include Herman The Mouse and Katnip The Cat during the 1940s and 1950s. These cartoons were characterized by similar competition between luxury characters, but they took things further than “Tom and Jerry”, which includes more than a vibrant escape more than the original MGM. The old, poor katnip was sent simultaneously to the bottom of the well, before Hermann sent a stick of dynamite after it, besieging the cat underground and turning the well into a temporary grave. Oh, Katnip has already been sent to hell at one point. In these surprisingly violent short articles, they put the seeds “Itching and scratching”, which became at some point as a reflection, when tested, was very violent, which made the audience sick.

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Interestingly, although Mike Reese is unambiguously claiming that “Hermann and Katnib” were an inspiration behind “itching and scratching”, things may be more complicated than that. On the one hand, the director David Silverman supported Rais’s claim Msnbc Interview:

“People (itching and scratching”) says like a crazy Tom and Jerry, “but it is really more than Hermann and Katnib. Hermann and Katnib are happy because he is very bad.

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But in an interview with the old TV guide (across SimpsonsarchiveThe creator Matt Gwwing said that “itching and scratching” was “inspired by all cartoons of the cats and mouse that we created,” which indicates that Tom and Jerry have definitely had their influence. This is logical, because there is no sarcastic simulation cartoon method about the competition between the cat and the mouse has not been able to take some signals from the most cultural example of this famous animated cup in the mid -twentieth century.