'Itchy & Scratchy' is Bart and Lisa Simpsons' favorite show. Even though it's way more violent than 'The Simpsons' itself, early show writer John Swartzwelder said they got away with it for one reason ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "The Simpsons" never shied away from violence. Indeed, the show arguably benefitted from the controversy caused by depicting a father who ...

Notoriously reclusive "Simpsons" writer John Swartzwelder revealed how the show got around the censors in its early days in an extremely rare interview. Despite his secretive nature, Swartzwelder is a ...

The story follows Homer (Dan Castellaneta), who lands a voicing gig as the surfer dog Poochie as the third character in the already popular "Itchy & Scratchy" on the children's program "Krusty the ...

To paraphrase Marx, sitcoms repeat themselves, first as satire and then as farce. Or maybe just as self-parody. The inciting incident for Marge comes when baby Maggie imitates what she sees on the ...

TV LEGEND: Itchy and Scratchy weren't based on Tom and Jerry, but on the more violent KNOCKOFF of Tom and Jerry, Herman and Katnip. This one is tricky, because the presence of Tom and Jerry is SO ...

While the Simpson family had to wait until 2007 before making the leap to the big screen, Bart and Lisa’s favorite cat-and-mouse team landed their own feature film way back in Season Four of The ...