Steamboat Itchy

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The Itchy & Scratchy Show Episode Information Pun: Steamboat Willie Season: 4 Director: Roger Meyers, Sr.

Steamboat Itchy is a cartoon starring Itchy & Scratchy. Made in 1928, it was the first cartoon to star both irst to show Itchy and Scratchy together.

Plot

It is essentially a parody of Steamboat Willie ending with Itchy (In the Mickey Mouse role) shooting Scratchy's (as Pete's role) legs off at the knees with a Tommy Gun and shoving his head in the furnace. It then ends with an iris in on Scratchy's burned head.

Trivia

• Whilst drawing the Steamboat Itchy sequence, the animators jokingly referred to it as "Steamboat Lawsuit". David Silverman explained that he did not know "why [they] weren't sued because there's a shot right out of Steamboat Willie in [the episode]."