Marge leads a protest against The Itchy & Scratchy Show after Maggie whacks Homer on the head with a mallet, but viewer interest drops when the Itchy & Scratchy cartoons become Lighter and Softer and Marge gets branded a hypocrite when her anti-TV violence group wants to go after Michaelangelo's David for depicting male frontal nudity but she sees nothing wrong it. Instead; the episode ostracises Bart for enjoying something feminine and the show insults feminism by portraying their side as violent misandrists who are just as sexist as the men they are fighting against. This could have lead to a story about them bonding over the reboot but instead Lisa skips straight to humiliating him over the internet. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. * CriticalDissonance: The episode received favorable reviews by critics especially because of its feminist message while the audience reception was overwhelmingly negative, for reasons being that the show tackled feminism at all or because it did it poorly. * BrokenAesop: Disingenuously supporting feminism for profit is OK, as long as people don't complain about it. This could have lead to a story about them bonding over the reboot but instead Lisa skips straight to humiliating him over the internet. ** The episode had an interesting premise going on, with Bart unexpectedly enjoying a girl's show (one that was also an all-female reboot of his favorite. * MoneyDearBoy: Krusty didn't change the characters to be progressive. * CriticalDissonance: The episode received favorable reviews by critics especially because of its feminist message while the audience reception was overwhelmingly negative, for reasons being. "Homer Loves Flanders" reveals that the only thing Rod and Todd watch are religious cartoons (because Flanders locked out every other channel) and in "Home Sweet Home-Diddly-Dum-Doodly", when they did watch their first episode of. * ShoutOut: The ''Itchy & Scratchy'' episode is a parody of ''Film/PitchPerfect''. When Krusty the Clown announces that Itchy & Scratchy will be portrayed as girls, Bart and the other boys pledge to boycott the cartoon by not watching it. ** Lisa never gets in trouble for uploading the video of Bart online. Then Itchy chops off Scratchy's head and Franklin D. Roosevelt appears, kicking both Hitler and Scratchy in the butt. If they fail, the best he can be in life is an overweight male stripper whose adoring female fans boo and throw things at him every night, but it proves too much with Bart manipulating Homer...until Homer decides to take the one thing away from Bart that he loves most: seeing the upcoming movie version of The Itchy and Scratchy Show. Bart could have gotten a perspective on reboots and Lisa could have tackled Krusty's [[OnlyInItForTheMoney reason for rebooting Itchy and Scratchy]]. Marge demands to know why Homer let this happen and his only retort is to ask how. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. * CriticalDissonance: The episode received favorable reviews by critics especially because of its feminist message while the audience reception was overwhelmingly negative, for reasons being that the show tackled feminism at all or because it did it poorly. * KarmaHoudini: Lisa never gets in trouble for uploading the video of Bart online. Earlier, Bart is pulling up the rug in front of Homer and (after Marge returns from grocery shopping) leaves the house when told to go to his room. * AnAesop: Sometimes the best action is inaction, everything could have been avoided if the boys had just left well enough alone and just ignored the Itchy and Scratchy reboot. ** Lisa never gets in trouble for uploading the video of Bart.

** Lisa's chart of female cartoon characters includes WesternAnimation/BettyBoop.

Instead none of the female cast even have lines outside of the main family and Luanne, the plot is taken over by three guest voiced characters who lack distinctive personalities, aren't named in the episode, lack any redeeming or likable qualities whatsoever and will likely never appear again so there's no significance to them. ** The female version of Itchy & Scratchy could have been used to {{Satire}} that media companies will make "female" reboots of established properties for Good PR rather than put the effort of making original properties with a female. Bart is given the ultimate punishment for failing to keep an eye on Maggie, allowing her to steal the car and drive it into the local prison walls. Or the plot could have involved him mingling with some of the girls who are a severely underused group of characters in their own right, again focusing on bonding over the new I&S. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. If they fail, the best he can be in life is an overweight male stripper whose adoring female fans boo and throw things at him every night, sticking lit fireworks down a nameless boy's pants, The Simpsons S4 E5 "Treehouse of Horror III". As Marge has a horrified reaction to Maggie driving a car, Maggie is actually waving at her. When Krusty the Clown announces that Itchy & Scratchy will be portrayed as girls, Bart and the other boys pledge to boycott the cartoon by not watching it. Bart gets called out for his hypocrisy on the internet, which turns him into a social pariah among the boys at school. ** The scene where Lisa mocks Bart with internet slang so outdated that the satire mentioned about seems timely by comparison. * CriticalDissonance: The episode received favorable reviews by critics especially because of its feminist message while the audience reception was overwhelmingly negative, for reasons being the show tackled feminism at all or because it did it poorly.

** The episode could have explored the very nature of. This could have lead to a story about them bonding over the reboot but instead Lisa skips straight to humiliating him over the internet. In addition, Ned and his sons are among the first people waiting to see the movie. Thus, the negative IMDB rating for the episode is second only to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E22LisaGoesGaga Lisa Goes Gaga]]".

At the end of the episode, 40 years into the future, Bart is now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and he and Homer go see, During the final scene, Homer and Bart's silhouettes as they enter the theater are a reference to. However, it's technically Homer's fault, since he left his car unlocked and the keys in the ignition, and was stupid enough to not put up barricades to stop his mischievous daughter from leaving the house. * WereStillRelevantDammit: : In-Universe, Bart and the other boys react badly at the new all-female Itchy & Scratchy. In the future, Bart openly chuckles at Homer calling Itchy a jerk. * InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Lisa uploads the video of Bart laughing at the female Itchy & Scratchy.