List of Itchy & Scratchy Cartoons - Butter Off Dead

Butter Off Dead

Title Pun: Better Off Dead
Simpsons Episode: "Little Girl in the Big Ten"

Year: 2002

Synopsis: In an agricultural setting (probably in a Mennonite society) Itchy runs out of butter. As farmer Scratchy visits farmer Itchy (both of them are dressed like Amish men, complete with beards), Itchy shoves Scratchy into a cow's mouth, and an inside view of the cow shows Scratchy being digested by its four stomachs. Itchy then milks the digested Scratchy out of the cow and pours the milk into a butter churn to create his own "I Can't Believe It's Not Scratchy!" butter. When he spreads this on his toast, Scratchy's eyeballs are seen, and after saying a quick prayer Itchy chomps down on the toast.

Notes: This episode of Itchy & Scratchy is (extremist) commentary on the lives of farmers being gradually eradicated by modern technology. It is also one of three I&S cartoons to be referred to by a production code assigned to a Simpsons episode; it is called "Episode CABF06", the production code for the Simpsons episode "Skinner's Sense of Snow," by the professor who uses it in his class. The other two such episodes, both called out in "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show," are referred to by codes 4F12 (the code for that very episode, in which Poochie leaves the show) and 2F09 (the code for "Homer the Great", which Homer's ex-college roommate Doug uses to point out an otherwise viewed as "silly" continuity error). Another fan at the Android's Dungeon begins to refer to another 4F production line I&S cartoon before Comic Book Guy interrupts him. It is also one of the first episodes to have the infamous Wheeyah! sound.