History Recap / TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand

* JurassicFarce: The episode extensively parodies ''Film/JurassicPark'', particularly in Professor Frink's "chaos theory" explaination and the helicopter that brings the Simpsons to the park, as well as ''Film/Westworld'', which was also written by Michael Crichton.

* OldShame: InUniverse, Roger Meyers' controversial 1938 cartoon ''"Nazi Supermen are Our Superiors"'' is a jab at Creator/WaltDisney's suspected racist and anti-Semitic opinions, which, in reality, were not that much worse than most of the people who lived back then (and also a jab at the real-life Disney works that aren't circulated much due to content: ''Song of the South'', the centaur sequence in ''Fantasia'' with Sunflower, the black centaur; the Donald Duck cartoon ''Der Fuehrer's Face'', the super-dramatic short ''Education for Death''; etc). Also, the Walt Disney Company only made anti-Nazi propaganda cartoons during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Other gags reveal more about Roger Meyers' racist opinions: the park's German [[SecretPolice security guards]] resemble UsefulNotes/TheGestapo a lot and that one of the characters in the Itchy & Scratchy franchise is even revealed to be named [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan Ku Klux Klam]].

** The Itchy & Scratchy cartoon that parodies The Sorcerer's Apprentice shows Scratchy smashing up Itchy with an axe only for smaller mice to multiple. After he smashes them to microscopic size, he inhales them by accident and they start cutting up his organs from the inside.

* IncrediblyLameFun: Marge's idea of an interesting vacation spot is the Highway 9 Bird Sancutary, because she wants to check out their new bird feeder.

* GoofySuit: This episode is one of the few stories where the goofy suit guy gets revenge — Homer is locked up because "I kicked a giant mouse in the butt!", and Bart torments other Itchy-suits by stomping on one's foot and shooting a stink bomb into another's mouth. Later, when the Itchy and Scratchy robots start rampaging through the park, the guy in the mouse costume makes sure that the Simpsons are kicked off the last escape helicopter.

--> '''Krusty''': Kids, you heard the cartoon rat. If you haven't already run to your parents begging to go, do it now. You won't be missing anything funny: I'll just be sitting here reading this grownup's newspaper. ''(laughs; reads a racing form, then looks back towards the camera)'' ''Now!''
* OldShame: InUniverse, Roger Meyers' controversial 1938 cartoon ''"Nazi Supermen are Our Superiors"'' is a jab at Creator/WaltDisney's suspected racist and anti-Semitic opinions, which, in reality, were not that much worse than most of the people who lived back then (and also a jab at the real-life Disney works that aren't circulated much due to content: ''Song of the South'', the centaur sequence in ''Fantasia'' with Sunflower, the black centaur; the Donald Duck cartoon ''Der Furher's Face'', the super-dramatic short ''Education for Death''; etc). Also, the Walt Disney Company only made anti-Nazi propaganda cartoons during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Other gags reveal more about Roger Meyers' racist opinions: the park's German [[SecretPolice security guards]] resemble UsefulNotes/TheGestapo a lot and that one of the characters in the Itchy & Scratchy franchise is even revealed to be named [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan Ku Klux Klam]].

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Bart says in Schwarzenegger-esque voice "Hey mouse... Say cheese." followed quickly by "With a dry, cool wit like that, I could be an action hero." It's played with even further when moments later, Homer [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses emerges from a pile of defeated robots]], saying "Die, bad robots, die!... With a dry, cool wit like that, I could be an action hero."

* OldShame: InUniverse, Roger Meyers' controversial 1938 cartoon ''"Nazi Supermen are Our Superiors"'' is a jab at Creator/WaltDisney's suspected racist and antisemitic opinions, which, in reality, were not that much worse than most of the people who lived back then. Also, the Walt Disney Company only made anti-Nazi propaganda cartoons during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Other gags reveal more about Roger Meyers' racist opinions: the park's German [[SecretPolice security guards]] resemble UsefulNotes/TheGestapo a lot and that one of the characters in the Itchy & Scratchy franchise is even revealed to be named [[UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan Ku Klux Klam]].

* YankTheDogsChain: One Scratchy cartoon has him actually wrestle the axe out of Itchy's hands and smash him up in turn. It ends up creating tinier mice with multiple axes, who proceed to go on the rampage. They chop him up frmo

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the end Bart remarks that the violence they were exposed to would be funny to somebody who was watching them.

* BalloonBelly: One of the lands in Itchy and Scratchy Land is "Searing Gas Pain" land whose fgraphic depicts Itchy force-feeding Scratchy chili.

*** Additonally, when she first mentions the sanctuary, she says they have a new bird feeder that looks like a diner. During the scene there the sanctuary is shown to be under attack by the birds, said diner-shaped bird feeder can be seen in the background.

* AndThisIsFor: In the Latin American translation of the episode, the Itchy-suited employee that Bart smoke-bombs earlier in the episode and kicks the Simpsons out of the evacuation helicopter shouts "go to Hell, and this is for Itchy!" as he does so (in the original audio, he says "When you get to Hell, tell 'em Itchy sent ya!").

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Bart whips out his "Li'l Bastard Kit" and fires a smoke bomb at the hapless mascot. He laughs it up... and then ''seconds'' later, a security guard grabs him by the arm, ''handcuffs'' him, and them THROWS HIM INTO A HOLDING CELL (meeting Homer, who got arrested for fighting with a costumed staff member). It gets worse when, after things start going crazy in the park, Bart tries to get on a rescue helicopter... in which is the previously-offended mascot, who tells him to enjoy Hell before he ''kicks him away''.
* ChekhovsGunman: The Itchy-suited employee that Bart smoke-bombs earlier in the episode notices them when the family is racing to get on the last evacuation helicopter left and [[TheDogBitesBack kicks them out]], leaving them to die.

* GoofySuit: This episode is one of the few stories where the goofy suit guy gets revenge — Homer is locked up because "I kicked a giant mouse in the butt!", and Bart torments another Itchy-suit by stomping on their foot and shooting smoke bombs into the mouth. Later, when the Itchy and Scratchy robots start rampaging through the park, the guy in the mouse costume makes sure that the Simpsons are kicked off the last escape helicopter.

** Two Itchy & Scratchy cartoons spoof Disney's ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' (specifically, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment).

* LiarsParadox: Lisa tries to trigger a LogicBomb on the robots by calling this paradox out to them. The robots don't have the capacity to compute this, and thus ignore it. ''Homer'' is the one who gets the LogicBomb.

* CrushKillDestroy: The Itchy and Scratchy robots have a protocol that ensures that they only attack each other; their HUD commands them to "KILL" their opposite number. Inevitably, they malfunction, and the "KILL" command is demanded on human targets.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Invoked by Lisa, as she and Bart calmly watch ''Scratchtasia'', wondering if all the violence has desensitised them. Cue a Scratchybot bursting through the screen, and its head bursting off shooting fake blood everywhere, to no reaction from Bart or Lisa (or indeed anyone in the film's audience).

-->'''Travolta''': Yeah... [[SarcasmMode Looks like]]".

-->'''Travolta''': Yeah..."[[SarcasmMode Looks like]]".

* ItsAllAboutMe: Marge shows several shades of this given that she complains throughout the entire episode about how she's embarassed by Homer and Bart and thinks only of herself (That said, these two do give her cause for embarrassment).

* DisproportionateRestitution: For single handedly neutralising the park's mob of malfunctioning cyborgs, the Simpson family are given two free tickets for a return trip to the park.

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Bart whips out his "Li'l Bastard Kit" and fires a smoke bomb at the hapless mascot. He laughs it up...and then ''seconds'' later, a security guard grabs him by the arm, ''handcuffs'' him, and them THROWS HIM INTO A HOLDING CELL (meeting Homer, who got arrested for fighting with a costumed staff member). It gets worse when, after things start going crazy in the park, Bart tries to get on a rescue helicopter...in which is the previously-offended mascot, who tells him to enjoy Hell before he ''kicks him away''.

** In one of their previous vacations to Amish country, Homer gleefully makes a nuisance of himself to the Amish community, proclaiming "I can be a jerk and no one can stop me!"...at which point a mule kicks him in the ass. ''Hard''.