The Simpsons: 20 Best Itchy And Scratchy Moments

20. The First Itchy & Scratchy

From: There's No Disgrace Like Home

Itchy and Scratchy were actually two of the first recurring characters on the series to appear - they briefly showed up in one of The Simpsons shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show back in 1988. When the Simpsons family span off into their own show the following year, those biting fighting critters weren't far behind. Their first appearance in the show proper came in The Simpsons' fourth ever episode. 

Itchy and Scratchy, of course, start as they mean to go on. This first cartoon is much more a straight 'Tom And Jerry with added violence' skit than what it developed into, but it's still just as funny.