Episode 22: Itchy & Scratchy & Marge & Dorothy & Rose & Blanche & Sophia & Rhett & Scarlett & Don Cheadle & Butterfly McQueen
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Natalia Castro joins me this week, to discuss Itchy & Scratchy & Marge, which originally aired in the US on December 20, 1990. The episode is funny and everything, with Marge taking on The Itchy & Scratchy Show after its violence influences Maggie to attack Homer with a mallet. But, above all, it is a strangely topical piece of television history...touching upon issues of well-intentioned censorship, which were relevant then and are relevant now - as we see people and corporations desperate to show their awareness of changing mores by engaging in some well-intentioned censorship of their own. Natalia and I spend the better part of an hour reflecting on that reality, how we feel about it and what it all means. And yeah, we do talk about The Simpsons.  Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet Or drop us a line on Discord - https://discord.com/channels/719262099691536474/719262099691536477
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