Editing The Worker & Parasite Show

:'''''Worker and Parasite''' redirects here. For the comic, see [[Presenting Eastern Europe's Favorite Cartoon Cat and Mouse Team: Worker and Parasite!]]''
{{TV Show
|name = The Worker & Parasite Show
|image = [[File:Worker and Parasite.png|250px]]
|genre = Cartoon
|Starring = [[Worker]]<br>[[Parasite]]
|Country of Origin = Eastern Europe
|Channel = [[FOX]]
|First Appearance = "[[Krusty Gets Kancelled]]"
}}

'''''The Worker & Parasite Show''''' (in Russian '''''Рабочий И Паразит''''') was a cartoon. When the popular cartoon ''[[Itchy and Scratchy]]'', featuring a very violent cat and mouse, leaves ''[[The Krusty the Clown Show]]'' for Krusty's new competitor, [[Gabbo]], "Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team, ''Worker and Parasite''," was a cheap replacement. According to the title screen, it was made in 1959.

== History ==
The cartoon opened with some Cyrillic-looking credits, which account for nothing in real Cyrillic. The cartoon itself was quite unintelligible, featuring a crudely drawn cat and mouse chattering incoherently and bouncing around to the tune of random, depressing background music. Worker and Parasite are first seen in a factory (where a wrench and sickle are visible as well); they then move in front of a line of identical, miserable-looking peasants who are lining up for supplies of some sort, and then within a nest of squiggly lines, possibly meant to represent a pit of snakes. The cartoon concludes with an out of tune tone and with the screen reading "ENDUT! HOCH HECH!" Afterwards, Krusty's on-air response (before a vacant studio) was shocked silence, a limp cigarette hanging from his mouth, then promptly saying, "What the hell was ''that''?!"

== Behind the Laughter ==
*''Simpsons'' creator [[Matt Groening]] maintains that their appearance on the show is one of the best parts of the series.
*The title of the cartoon ''Worker and Parasite'' is a reference to social parasitism, which was a crime in the Soviet Union.
*There has been some speculation as to what '''"Endut! Hoch Hech!"''' means. The Season 4 DVD audio commentary for the episode however claims that writer [[John Swartzwelder]] had no intended meaning for the phrase in question.
*''Worker and Parasite'' has not appeared on the show since, but they have made a few appearances in [[Simpsons Comics|Simpsons comic books]], this time speaking somewhat intelligible English.
*In one comic, the duos dialogue is said to be "translated from the [[Slovakia|Slovakian]]."

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Krusty Gets Kancelled}}
*{{bon|Worker and Parasite!}}

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