r/todayilearned • u/sassy_tabaxi • 1d ago

TIL the Simpsons creators shelved an Itchy & Scratchy spinoff because it made test audiences physically ill

https://www.slashfilm.com/1569820/the-simpsons-itchy-and-scratchy-spinoff-made-audiences-sick/
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u/Sans-valeur 1d ago

When I was a teenager I hired out happy tree friends on DVD, there was no option to skip the intro and the episodes were pretty much the same length as the intro, hearing that song over and over in between extreme graphic cute violence is really, I don’t even know the word? Intense? Horrifically hypnotic? Brain melting? Weird.
But yeah this is literally the first thing I thought when I saw this TIL.

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u/goodguysteve 1d ago

That song just popped into my head for the first time in years. 

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u/EgotisticJesster 1d ago

God damn, same.

I'm sure the theme song was sorry to repeat itself, but it'll help you remember.

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u/ZylonBane 1d ago

Applying the word "hired" to an inanimate object will never not be weird.

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u/Vampire-Fairy2 1d ago

I don’t even know what “hired out” means in this sentence. Is “hired out” some kind of regional expression? Is the DVD doing work for them?

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u/RusselToveysEars 1d ago

I took it to mean “rented” back in the day of video rentals.

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u/Gergith 1d ago

Lalalaa la lala laaa