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The Itchy & Scratchy Show is a show within a show in the animated television series The Simpsons. It usually appears as a part of The Krusty the Clown Show, watched regularly by Bart and Lisa Simpson. Itself an animated cartoon, The Itchy & Scratchy Show depicts an anthropomorphic blue mouse, Itchy (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), who repeatedly kills an anthropomorphic black cat, Scratchy (voiced by Harry Shearer). The cartoon first appeared in the Tracey Ullman Show short "The Bart Simpson Show", which originally aired November 20, 1988. The cartoon's first appearance in The Simpsons was in the 1990 episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home". Typically presented as 15-60 second-long cartoons, the show is filled with over-the-top violence. Itchy and Scratchy are based on the cartoons Tom and Jerry and Herman and Katnip, and their names were inspired by "Pixie and Dixie", who were mice on the cartoon show Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks. The cartoons have since become popular among the show's writers and animators and are often added when an episode needs expanding. As the shorts became popular with fans, the writers decided to have full episodes that centered around the production of The Itchy & Scratchy Show and featured multiple shorts.

• ... that the stylized animation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was inspired by rough sketches in school notebooks?
• ... that "Arnold's Christmas", now considered one of the most memorable episodes from the animated series Hey Arnold!, was almost rejected by network executives because it depicted the Vietnam War?
• ... that the Tuca & Bertie episode "The Jelly Lakes" employs a paper-cutout animation that helps to depict abuse in a way that centers the victim's story?
• ... that Encanto's Isabela Madrigal was animated to be aware that she is "always on stage"?
• ... that Bruce Timm created most of the character designs for Batman: The Animated Series?
• ... that the 1937 Fleischer Studios strike in New York City was the first major labor strike in the animation industry?

Terence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 12 feature films, including Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). The only "Python" not born in Britain, he became a naturalised British citizen in 1968. In 2006, he formally renounced his American citizenship.

The episodes of The Simpsons, an American animated sitcom, created by Matt Groening (pictured) for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield, and lampoons American culture, society and television, and many aspects of the human condition. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, substituting Bart for his own name. Since its debut on December 17, 1989, The Simpsons has broadcast 768 episodes. The Simpsons holds several American television longevity records. It is the longest-running prime time animated series and longest-running sitcom in the United States. The series has surpassed Gunsmoke in seasons to claim the spot as the longest-running American prime-time scripted television series.

• ...that Disney characters will regularly appear in 3D on television for the first time in the children's television series Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?
• ...that The Simpsons episode "In the Name of the Grandfather", scheduled to debut on Sky One, will be the first episode of the show to air in Ireland before airing in the United States?
• ...that Bulgarian animator Donyo Donev used deformed speech and interjections as a soundtrack for his films?

Films released

• 1926 – East Is Best (United States)
• 1934 – Shake Your Powder Puff (United States)
• 1944 – First Aiders (United States)
• 1944 – Moving Aweigh (United States)
• 1945 – Flirty Birdy (United States)
• 1950 – Camp Dog (United States)
• 1951 – Tweety's S.O.S. (United States)
• 1962 – The Jet Cage (United States)
• 1998 – Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (direct to video, United States)

Television series and specials

• 1979 – Spider-Woman, an animated television series begins airing on ABC
• 1999 – Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal, a Japanese anime television series finishes airing on Fuji TV
• 2001 – What's with Andy?, an animated television series debuts on Teletoon
• 2006 – Mr. Meaty, an animated television series debuts on Nickelodeon and CBC Television
• 2012 – Ben 10: Omniverse, an animated television series debuts on Cartoon Network

Deaths

• 1995 – John Whitney, American animator, composer, and pioneer in computer animation (b. 1917)