Now Let Us Never Speak of It Again

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For the theme park, see Itchy & Scratchy Land (Theme Park).

"This truly was the best vacation ever. Now let us never speak of it again."

―Marge Simpson

"Itchy & Scratchy Land" is the fourth episode of Flavour 6 (originally going to be the starting time episode of season six).

Contents

• 1 Synopsis
• 2 Full Story
• three Behind the Laughter
  • 3.1 Production
• iv Reception
• 5 See As well
• vi Citations

Synopsis

The family'southward trip to Itchy & Scratchy Land, the "violent-est place on earth," proves heavenly until the Itchy & Scratchy robots desire to go on the family unit there for existent.

Full Story

The forepart gate at Itchy & Scratchy Land.

Bart and Lisa observe a commercial for the new entertainment park named Itchy and Scratchy Land, and immediately want to visit it. Marge has already booked a family vacation to a bird sanctuary, simply after revealing that the theme park has a identify for adults, Bart and Lisa win their parents over, on the status that they will not embarrass Marge equally on previous holidays. After a long car journeying (from Homer being impulsive and taking a "shortcut"), they accomplish Itchy & Scratchy State parking lot, where they are and so flown to the park past helicopter and told cypher can "possi-blie" go wrong.

Bart and Lisa watch a documentary

Marge is slightly uneasy with the many references to violence at the park, but has an enjoyable time visiting the various violent attractions, which include a parade filled with Itchy and Scratchy robots. Homer and Marge eventually tire out and spend time away from the kids at the nearby "Parents Island" every bit Bart and Lisa go along having fun. Bart and Lisa also visit a movie theater, where a documentary nigh the history of Itchy & Scratchy is being presented, including clips of the quondam Itchy & Scratchy films "Scratchtasia" and "Pinitchio". Although going well, the family unit'due south holiday is ruined when Bart launches a stink bomb onto an actor in an Itchy adapt and is arrested by park security. Homer is also arrested for "boot an Itchy in the barrel." Marge is informed of her son's and husband'southward transgressions and is immediately embarrassed.

Homer fights robots

Meanwhile, Professor Frink, master of the animatronic robots in the park parades, tells the other staff that, according to chaos theory, all the Itchy & Scratchy robots will plow on their masters. This happens seconds after he makes the proclamation, because he forgot to "conduct the one". Bart and Homer are released, with the embarrassed Marge chewing them out. Every bit Homer tries to defend himself, claiming he was a political prisoner, the ability suddenly cuts out beyond the park. Seconds later, a horde of Itchy and Scratchy robots accelerate upon them. Homer has his hair chopped off and Marge laments that they should have gone to the bird sanctuary. However a cut away reveals that the residents of said sanctuary escaped and are attacking the guests, pregnant the Simpsons would take been in trouble no matter where they went.

Dorsum at Itchy and Scratchy Land, the park is immediately evacuated and the family finds the last helicopter about to take off. Unfortunately, amid the people on board are disgruntled staff members, whom Bart and Homer previously heckled. In revenge for pranking them, one of the employees kicks the two men away from the helicopter, which takes off leaving the stranded Simpsons to their fate. The family are presently surrounded past the out of control robots, but Homer angrily stands his basis. Defiantly telling the machines that "Nobody ruins my family vacation - but me, and maybe the boy!" Homer reaches into his pockets and frantically throws everything he can at them. The concluding thing he grabs is his camera. The affect sets the photographic camera off and the flash causes four robots to curt circuit. With Lisa pointing out the robots weakness, Bart grabs a mallet, runs to a photographic camera store and grabs more cameras (only also pauses to steal some collector plates). Armed Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa face downwardly and ultimately defeat the unabridged Itchy & Scratchy army.

With the battle over, Bart and Lisa reverberate that this was their best vacation e'er. Marge is not convinced at first, but once Lisa points out that this holiday gave the family everything they wanted in a vacation, she changes her mind and agrees with them. Nevertheless, she tells the her kids to never to speak of the trip once again, as she is still embarrassed by Homer and Bart's previous actions. Help finally arrives and the Simpsons are personally thanked past Roger Myers Jr. He presents them with two gratuitous lifetime passes despite there beingness five of them. Surveying the carnage, Professor Frink worries nearly what bear upon this will accept on Euro Itchy and Scratchy State. The next scene shows that nobody is coming to the Itchy & Scratchy Land in Europe, much to the receptionist frustration.

Back at the Simpsons' residence, Bart, Lisa and Marge are watching Itchy and Scratchy again. Marge tells her kids that TV violence may be funny, just real violence is no good. Bart tells Marge that it would be funny if someone was watching them doing violence. Lisa agrees and demonstrates by throwing her shoe at Bart. Marge and Lisa both laugh, but once she realizes what she is laughing at Marge sends Lisa to her room.

Behind the Laughter

Production

"Itchy & Scratchy Land", was written by the unabridged writing team merely credited to John Swartzwelder, and was a very difficult episode to produce. Information technology involved creating an entirely new environment, which meant big amount of writing and all new sets.^[1] At the time that the episode was produced, new, more than stringent, censorship laws had been put in place. As a result, the Pull a fast one on network tried to end the writers from including Itchy & Scratchy cartoons in episodes. In response, the writers created this episode, which they chose would be equally violent as possible. The network threatened that if the episode was produced, they would cut the Itchy & Scratchy parts out themselves, merely relented when show-runner David Mirkin threatened to tell the media. The writers nevertheless promised to try not to overdo the violence and in some scenes the violence was cut.^[i]

Although the episode was quite difficult to animate, "Itchy & Scratchy Land" was "a dream come true" for the animators, as they quite enjoyed animating scenes filled with violence and suspense.

Reception

"Scratchtasia" is one of David Mirkin'south favorite Itchy & Scratchy cartoons.^[1] In 2003, Entertainment Weekly fabricated a listing of the Elevation twenty-5 episodes, and placed this episode in seventh identify, saying "When the animatronics attack, the showdown between man and automobile -- okay, Homer and a giant robot mouse -- is an uproarious rebuttal to capitalism run amok." Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood called information technology "an untypical episode, with an particularly thin plot. But anyone that's been to Disneyland will go the point." The episode is number six on MSNBC's top ten The Simpsons episodes list, compiled in 2007.

See Also

• Itchy & Scratchy Land (Theme Park)

Citations

1. ↑ ^{1.0 one.1 i.2} Mirkin, David. (2005). The Simpsons season 6 DVD commentary for the episode "Itchy & Scratchy Land" [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.

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