High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Itchy Scratchy: The Movie" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons` fourth season and first aired on November 3, 1992. The plot follows Bart continually getting in trouble, and how Homer is unable to give him any suitable punishment. Marge gets Homer to agree to make a punishment stick, and he forbids Bart to see the new Itchy Scratchy movie. It was written by John Swartzwelder and was directed by Rich Moore.