Reception
In its original broadcast, "Itchy & Scratchy Land" finished 67th in ratings for the week of September 26 - October 2, 1994, with a Nielsen rating of 9.0, equivalent to approximately 8.6 million viewing households. It was the third highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following Beverly Hills, The X-Files and tied with Melrose Place.
"Scratchtasia" is one of David Mirkin's favorite Itchy & Scratchy cartoons. The episode placed seventh in a 2003 Entertainment Weekly list of the top 25 episodes, the authors remarking that, "When the animatronics attack, the showdown between man and machine -- okay, Homer and a giant robot mouse -- is an uproarious rebuttal to capitalism run amok." Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood called it "an untypical episode, with an especially thin plot. But anyone that's been to Disneyland will get the point." The episode is number six on MSNBC's top ten The Simpsons episodes list, compiled in 2007.
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