History Recap / TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie

** An InUniverse variation occurs with the ''Itchy and Scratchy'' show itself; the series' first cartoon, "That Happy Cat", only featured Scratchy walking across the street and whistling and stretching happily, lacking Itchy and any of the comic violence the series was known for.

* CrazyPrepared: Homer anticipates that Bart might try to see the movie without his permission. He goes to all of Springfield's movie theaters ahead of time and likely pays them to refuse Bart a ticket.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Marge wants Homer to be more firm with Bart. Eventually Homer finally wises up by forbidding Bart to ever watch the movie as punishment for neglecting Maggie, but after two months, Marge notices how extremely depressed Bart is and realizes that Homer has gone a little too far on the punishment, [[ProperplyParanoid though Homer refuses to uplift it for certain good reasons]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Marge wants Homer to be more severe with Bart. When Homer does punish him, Marge eventually thinks he's going too far.

* {{Determinator}}: Homer takes every step necessary to prevent Bart from watching the movie, including telling the movie theater not to sell to him. For extra points, he finally decides to let Bart see the film ''decades'' later.

* GroundedForever: Homer doesn't just stop Bart from seeing the movie on the first day, or even for a few weeks. He forbids Bart from ever, ''ever'' seeing the movie. [[SubvertedTrope He finally lets Bart see the movie when his son has grown up]] and become a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, considering the lesson learned.

* IllPretendIDidntHearThat: Bart say "TV sucks" after Homer tells him that he's free to watch anything he wants on TV after he can't go to the movie. Being an avid TV fan (but sympathizing with Bart's plight), Homer responds: "I know you're upset right now, so I'll ''pretend you didn't say that''!"

* {{Novelization}}: Bart gives up on reading a {{Doorstopper}} by Creator/NormanMailer.

* PetTheDog: To make his not seeing the film a bit easier, Homer says Bart is welcome to watch whatever he likes on TV.

-->'''Bart:''' Boy, time sure flies when you're reading ''[looks at what he's holding]'' THE BIBLE?!! ''[puts the the Bible down as though he has touched something poisonous]''

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bart's negligence while left in charge of Maggie results in her taking a car for a drive and helping people to escape prison.

* CelebrityCameo: The ''Itchy & Scratchy Movie'' also featured several celebrities (who don't use their real names), but viewers can tell.

** If you notice, in this episode, Ralph's father wasn't Chief Wiggum, but rather someone who looks like a bigger version of himself wearing near-identical clothing.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Homer sees Bart smashing mustard packages with a hammer on the carpet while singing Jingle Bells, he tries to assert punishment when the ice cream truck appeared. Later, as they're enjoying their ice cream, Homer asked Bart what he was talking about. Bart lied that Homer was talking about the time he avoided jury duty. Being dumb, he tells Bart how he beat jury duty ("The trick is to say you're [[HatesEveryoneEqually prejudiced against all races]].")

During Parent/Teacher conference night at Springfield Elementary, Mrs. Krabappel lets Homer and Marge in on the destructive and dangerous pranks Bart has been playing (synthesizing a laxative from peas and carrots, replacing the teacher's birth control pills with Tic-Tacs, bringing in a Krusty doll with a switchblade head, and [[GroinAttack sticking lit fireworks down a boy's pants]]) and recommends that Homer and Marge be stricter in their parenting[[note]]because with enough discipline, even a hellion like Bart can be Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. If they fail, the best he can be in life is an overweight male stripper whose adoring female fans boo and throw things at him every night[[/note]], but it proves too much with Bart manipulating Homer...until Homer decides to take the one thing away from Bart that he loves most: seeing the upcoming movie version of ''The Itchy and Scratchy Show''.

* AnimationBump: The WWII-era Itchy and Scratchy short (animated by Greg Vanzo) is appropriately fluid and cartoony, to match the style of animation from that time period.

* GroundedForever: Homer doesn't just stop Bart from seeing the movie on the first day, or even for a few weeks. He forbids Bart from ''ever'' seeing the movie. EVER! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!He finally lets Bart see the movie when his son has grown up and become a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, considering the lesson learned.

* OffModel;
** Lisa when she tells Bart how great the Itchy and Scratchy Movie was, particularly when she says "Creator/DustinHoffman, Music/MichaelJackson..." This could be due to it being one of the earlier episodes animated by Creator/FilmRoman and Creator/RoughDraftStudios.
** Bart [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S04E06/1142190.jpg has a giant hand at one point]].

* GroundedForever: Homer doesn't just stop Bart from seeing the movie on the first day, or even for a few weeks. He forbids Bart from ''ever'' seeing the movie. EVER! He finally lets Bart see the movie when his son has grown up and become a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, considering the lesson learned.

* SeriousBusiness: The Itchy and Scratchy Movie seems to be just a regular Itchy and Scratchy episode padded out so it could be advertised as a movie (an ad claims that it's "53% new footage"), but it receives critical acclaim on par with Film/TheGodfather, people are lining up for miles to see it (including one guy who fell through an open drawbridge and [[IRegretNothing regretted nothing]]), children see it [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes over and over again]] (with Nelson in particular having seen it ''17'' times) and call it the cultural event of their generation, it gets a novelization by Creator/NormanMailer [[DoorStopper that describes it in ridiculously vivid detail]], both it's release and final showing [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver make the news]], in the future it's considered a more important part of the history of animation than WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast, Bart being the only person in Springfield who hasn't seen it makes him a total outcast who bets his ass beat by ''Milhouse'' (of all people), and Lisa even compares it to the moon landing. [[OnlySaneMan Bart and Homer]] are the only ones to not see it this way (and this is only after 40 years). And, as mentioned before, just over half of the movie is comprised of new footage, if it was ''all'' new footage, people's heads would have probably exploded.

* SeriousBusiness: The Itchy and Scratchy Movie seems to be just a regular Itchy and Scratchy episode padded out so it could be advertised as a movie (an ad claims that it's "53% new footage"), but it receives critical acclaim on par with Film/TheGodfather, people are lining up for miles to see it, [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes children see it over and over again]] and call it the cultural event of their generation, it gets a novelization by Creator/NormanMailer [[DoorStopper that describes it in ridiculously vivid detail]], both it's release and final showing [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver make the news]], in the future it's considered a more important part of the history of animation than WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast and Bart is the only person in Springfield who hasn't seen it making him a total outcast. Lisa even compares it to the moon landing. Subverted with [[OnlySaneMan Bart and Homer]] at the end since at that point in time Bart's matured enough to not see it this way.

** It could also be that discipline should be deliberate and thought-out, and not something done out of anger on the spur of the moment.

** The real life Korean animators who worked on the show did not find this joke funny, and didn't want to animate it.

** Ironically, though, unlike the Michael Jackson Expressway name being blurred out for TV airings in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E19DogOfDeath Dog of Death]]" after the release of the ''Leaving Neverland'' [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CXOfz1YkWeA documentary]], the Michael Jackson line was left intact.

* BloodyHilarious: A billboard for the Itchy and Scratchy Movie is designed to shoot blood over anyone passing by. A newly-wed couple are soaked in blood by it, and are horrified... until they see the billboard, and laugh.

* GroundedForever: Homer doesn't just stop Bart from seeing the movie on the first day, or even for a few weeks. He forbids Bart from ''ever'' seeing the movie. EVER! He finally lets Bart see the movie when his son has grown up and become a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Homer and Marge's rather LiteralMinded interpretation of Edna Krabappel's idea that "with persistent discipline, even the poorest student can end up becoming, oh, say, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court" winds up holding [[RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf exactly true in Bart's case]].

* UpToEleven: Bart is the series' designated "bad boy" but most of his misbehavior is at worst harmless mischief that doesn't result in serious injury... Except in this episode, where it is (like when he made a laxative out of peas and carrots, stole Mrs. Krabappel's birth control pills and replaced them with Tic-Tacs, and stuck fireworks down a kid's pants).

Episode - 9F03\\
First Aired - 11/3/1992

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Bart has been ducking well-deserved punishment for an impressive tally of crimes thanks to Homer's [[PushoverParents lax parenting style]], but when Homer finally puts his foot down, he puts it down so hard that [[{{Determinator}} Bart doesn't get to see the Itchy and Scratchy movie for fifty years]].

* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: Most of Bart's misdeeds throughout the episode are flagrant and range from actively malicious (replacing Edna's birth control) to willfully careless and destructive (breaking Abe's dentures while using them to chew records to pieces), and despite his lack of repentance he doesn't suffer so much as a missed dinner. By contrast, the error that finally nets him an unrelenting punishment, while alarming in its consequences (he watches TV after being told to keep an eye on Maggie, resulting in her driving the family car), comes off as the kind of honest mistake any 10-year-old might make.

* OpeningShoutOut: To the BaitAndSwitch gag of Maggie appearing to drive a car. In this episode, she ''actually'' winds up at the wheel.

* OpeningShoutOut: To the BaitAndSwitch gag of Maggie appearing to drive Marge's car. In this episode, she ''actually'' winds up at the wheel.

* PushoverParents: During a parent-teacher conference, Marge explains to Mrs. Krabappel that she and Homer have a hard time disciplining Bart whenever he does something wrong and are encouraged by her to start being firm about it. Following her advice, they get better at disciplining him, such as when they [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment send him to bed without dinner]] for breaking Grandpa's teeth, and preventing him from seeing ''The Itchy and Scratchy Movie'' when he doesn't watch Maggie and she drives Homer's car.

* SmartBall: Homer is surprisingly thorough in ensuring Bart can't see the movie, ripping up the ticket and keeping watchful eye on him throughout, even being savvy enough to request the theatre staff not to let him in. He even sticks to his approach long after even Marge, who chastised him for his lax parenting earlier, starts to crack.